skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vendor confirmed the issue, noting that it exists in "probably all versions" of Dropbear (i.e., v2018.76 and earlier) and that a patch will follow in the next couple of days: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2018q3/002...
Stuff like this is why I have exactly zero faith in the US ever building the type of high speed rail systems that other countries have and we clearly need. These projects are simply to expensive for private entities to undertake alone and federal and local governments can't stay aligned long enough to see anything that last longer than an election period through to it's finish.

Unless someone invents teleportation, what we have currently for transportation infrastructure is probably as good as it will get, with possibly hyper local, minimal improvements.
Recognition Models
It does matter what's efficient because inefficiency in this matter is a burden to society.
Hey, I just wanted to say that this project looks really interesting and useful! This may be the solution to a sticky problem I've been having where a teammate of mine can't get his dev env setup for some reason (Docker isn't really an option IMO).
The conspiracy theory version of why the Venezuela economy is a mess, is that they started selling oil priced in something other than dollars:

https://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-publishes-oil-pric...

The other leaders to risk doing that were Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi.

Selling oil for anything besides dollars is the real line in the sand the US will not let any country cross.
Or required cardiac surgery, unless you're actually dying. Even if you cannot make a meter on an ergometer.
Agreeing with others, I don't particularly trust Venezuela's own cryptocurrency to be an adequate backing for Venezuela's currency. There's still circularity there.

But I'd also add that there's more to backing that just saying "And this currency is backed by that." Go ahead; try it. Scribble some badlogninagain bucks down on some paper and try to get people to accept them for goods and services instead of dollars. When they complain, tell them that your badloginagain-bucks are backed by US dollars and see if that satisfies them. It shouldn't. For badloginagain-bucks to be backed by dollars, you need to be able to produce dollars in exchange for them. That's what a backing is; something you can always exchange the currency for.

Exchanging dollars for people not busting down your door and taking your stuff is certainly more abstract that exchanging it for silver, but it seems to be functional. Exchanging Venezuelan currency for Venezuelan cryptocurrency doesn't seem to be making progress. At this point my faith and credence in that government is quite rationally zero that they won't screw with something under their control, which is, you may note, concretely backed by the rest of the world by the fact that the only assets in the world worth anything are also all the assets not under their control. I'll believe it's pegged to international oil markets when it's actually stabilized the currency and people have demonstrated the ability to convert the newest bolivars into oil concretely at will.
Not everyone has a phone. Not everyone has that app (whatever it is... the airport, the airline, the travel agency), using an app is always harder than looking at the real-time displays especially if your hands are full of luggage.
Whatboutism. It does not make it right, nor should we support it.
NATS Gets Kafka-Like Log API via Liftbridge
Juniors, seniors, and mentors
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> Unfortunately, that release is undistributable (refer to the new "license" file that was added by Intel to the microcode data file pack version 20180807).

> "Intel has been made aware of the issue and pestered by just about everyone, and should get it straightened up soon."

Sounds like someone in the legal department screwed up, and are being slow to respond to the issue (it's been ~2 weeks). This is unfortunate, but, well, legal departments aren't used to being on the critical path to time-sensitive distribution of security vulnerability mitigations, and the time sensitivity may not have been adequately explained to them.
> Is there something like wiki, but for man pages?

yes. it's the source repo for whatever app you want improved man pages on. Everyone can submit changes to it. All the good ones get merged in. It's effectively a wiki curated by the most knowledgeable people on the subject.

um solves a different problem though. It's not trying to make a _common_ man page. It's trying to make a man page that works _for you_. What _you_ need to be highlighted is likely different from what _I_ need to be highlighted.

Personally I don't _want_ a generic wiki man page for stuff. I like the man pages written by the creators of the code (because i know they're correct), combined with my notes highlighting what's important to me.
I have a friend that did large amounts of business with someone in Venezuela. Unfortunately due to the monetary policy the person in Venezuela had to stop doing profitable business with my friend.
Most of us have low tolerance for corporate bullshit, but please don't turn that into a personal attack. That's a low impulse which encourages others to go lower.

Even if you're right, there are plenty of such execs out there, and the presence of one at the top is as much an effect as a cause.
Just wrote a blog post about Augur and its future challenges: https://www.cultivatelabs.com/posts/thoughts-on-augur

I know - just another armchair hack, but I've been running a company that builds/runs prediction markets inside corporations for the past 12 years...
Probably because India is the name in english. It is called Bharat in Hindi, other names in other vernaculars.
It isn't, it was more a metaphor for the fact that he's making arguments way out of his league of understanding.
These addresses have been out there quite a while - certainly more than 5 years, possibly as much as 10, and maybe even 15 in one case.
The best you can get for now:

https://webassembly.studio/

It's from Mozilla iirc.
You should be able to do it on BitMEX. Shorting CBOE Bitcoin futures could also get you part way there.
There are pros and cons to both options. High rises bring exploding population, lack of green areas and noise, congestion and different set of limitations and high prices.

But high home prices in a tech center can bring medium to long term system level benefits, too. They help distribute work options and wealth generation to other cities. If one builds monster high rises to house 20M people in urban SF it might still suck in young smart engineers two decades from today. But if instead you price them out, they might gravitate to other, cheaper cities and help those thrive. It is painful to be priced out of the city where ones job is, but with jobs plentiful it is also an opportunity to look elsewhere. One might end up happier in the end. My 2c.
Sites with Google maps starting to fail
Microsoft’s sassy teenage bot is popping up on podcast talk shows
Presumably gas taxes, which in most states go towards funding road maintenance
What are examples of the small businesses that survived Walmart/Target but are now being killed by Amazon? Small hosting providers maybe.
Interesting that the regulations they're running up against were built to constrain the railroads, since this looks almost identical to the railroad rebates that Standard Oil and other gilded age trusts used to pump up their monopolies at the expense of smaller competitors and regular people. Basically, if you're a big enough customer, you can play service providers (railroads, power companies, municipal governments, etc.) against each other to get absurdly below-market rates and stick the bill to someone with less bargaining power. The railroad regulations were passed after a series of exposés of Standard Oil and other monopolists that took advantage of secret rebates.

More on Standard Oil, rebates, and the breakup of the trust: https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer...

I also recommend Titan, the well-researched John D. Rockefeller, Sr. biography by Ron Chernow.
The cost is socialized but the gains are not.
It's likely that people outside the Northeast believe that their local pizza is, in fact, good, even if it's not made to satisfy Northeastern ideas about how pizza should be.
emacs org mode. with a heavy customization inspired by bernt hansen (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html).
How Detroit Was Late to the Driverless Revolution
I suspect with IT you run into a general trust issue, since IT often operates in an information-privileged environment.

I would love to see better tools and technical infrastructure for requiring authorization to touch sensitive data, so that people in companies can operate with access to "the information you need but no more." Something like that would both protect customer privacy and de-risk hiring at the entry levels.

It would most definitely make getting access to data tougher for lots of people, but as engineers who are often handling customer data, I think it's a generally more responsible (ethics-wise) approach.
They kill competition which enables them to exploit their own workers. Meanwhile, we help them by giving them more business.

https://apnews.com/1d62290004b340feac5c359d59b86823
That seems disingenuous. But, no more disingenuous than the sudden disappearance of other relevant content.

HN should add a forward disclaimer to the documentation acknowledging this practice.
They can’t widen the highways fast enough!

I hear in China they’re building tens of thousands of miles of fast trains. Fast and slow maglev trains, etc.

Wait until there are 500 million Americans. Maybe then we’ll think of better solutions.
Most people in my country think that gambling is basically fine and handguns are a menace to society, so our laws reflect that. It seems bizarre to us that most Americans can legally own a handgun, but can't legally place a $5 bet on a football game. Our attitudes to guns and gambling aren't right or wrong, they're just different.

There are things I could say in this comment that would be a federal felony. No country has absolute freedom of speech. All countries draw a line somewhere. China draws that line in a different place to the US. It's not right or wrong, it's just different.
1. I was responding to test001only putting the blame on Indians.

2. The West claims to be enlightened and progressive. Essentially having a manifest moral destiny.

3. Men have been sexist through most if not all of recorded history, treating women as lessor beings if not property. Does that excuse today's men?
Will this work with non-Guido implementations?
The key could be only on the client side, derived from your password. Ok they could be evil and send it to their server in the next update, we will have to trust them not to do so.
Name one thing that doesn't link profit and energy consumption.
I think it's pretty commonly understood that integrity can include not compromising your values in the face of consequences. Often, the value against lying is fairly weak compared to other values. In fact, contemplating lying to authorities to prevent another's (often unjust) punishment is a pretty common topic in explaining different philosophical systems.

It's really just a variation on the trolley problem.
Heh, 20 years ago $145/sqft got you a custom home w/ vaulted ceilings, imported granite from the Pyrenees Mountains, mud-set features and million dollar views. Todey it doesn't even get you a renovated shack in one of the "gentrifying" 'hoods. Don't know who to thank, the investment banksters or the 'sharing' economy. Perhaps, when the scalea tip past a certain point Glass-Steagal protections will be reimplemented. Preferably, before outright revolt.The Great Recovery is neither for most people in the US(& the world).
Yes, but so what of it? Technology changes, society changes, tradeoffs change and the idea becomes new again, and has legs and that is interesting.
There it annoys me the most. I always know which section of the airport my flight connection is and it’s a 20 minute walk. I rather go there now and sit down with my laptop and work undisturbed.
extremely beneficial extension, you'd be surprised how many marketing emails are tracking when you open the email
And on top of that, not everyone's phone will be charged, and not everyone will have cell service (if traveling internationally).

The mobile apps are great when they work, but still need to be considered a convenience rather than a primary information source.
Hopefully Facebook will die first, but maybe Amazon will be next...
It is sad that in a place with so many developers this would happen. Especially sad to see that attitude prevail even with some developers' comments in there about "now we can't have fora anymore without a large team".

I'm sure that's just one of the costs associated with this, and yet it seems to me it's a clear loss. And what do we gain ?

> Also, GDPR is not restricted to ' EU users'.

I'm sure you can understand why having laws with (even pretend) global reach is a huge, huge problem given the people who make laws. Let's leave the discussion of which countries are or aren't problematic there, but let me just state that the problem is you're unlikely to agree with large dictatorships or religiously run countries' laws. That's why laws shouldn't have global reach.

The big problem police has with the internet in general is that it allows for things to be synchronized, and they can't easily block it. That it allows anything from going out with a lot of people, to protests, vandals ... and, yes, terrorists and I'm sure other criminals too to be as organized as the police is. They can't deal with that is the simple explanation.

But to totally sacrifice free speech for this is entirely out of proportion. This is not a good way to strike a balance and that's why this law needs to be stopped.

Also, the police ... out of the 30+ police services that interpol represents, I assure you, there will be a lot that are outright stupid, yet more that just don't care about the effect of what they do, and one or two that are outright malicious. These people can't be trusted with this power.

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't acknowledge their problem. It definitely exists. But there are better balances to be struck than this. But yes, I see how this is being used against them:

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/swedish-prime-minister-l...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Brussels_bombings#Attacks
Android is very different. You only need to make one file for many different stores, and that file is pretty trivial to install even if it isn't in a store.

Linux doesn't have anything like that traditionally. You have to make a deb, rpm, whatever Gentoo uses, etc. And ./configure && make && make install is laughably unintuitive.
Ruby on Chains – Ethereum Blockchain Through Ruby
This post: https://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2014/08/python-4000....
Ask HN: Any news about StartupSchool.org?
Hey, I applied to Startup School, and the results were due today. Any news about that? Have anyone received an email? Best of luck to all of you!
Generally 3 begets 2 - the universities are mostly there yet no good startup scene.

Most large cities do 1 right.

The thing is, investors around here are either small or risk averse and indeed hiring is harder.
Wow, what did they do to you that you're done with software?
I bet that you do something that's "a burden to society," broadly defined, and aren't willing to give that up.
Fitbit’s Charge 3 adds a better screen, swim tracking, smartwatch-style features
>Late last year, Amazon dangled 12 more in exchange for reduced electricity rates, and AEP exempted it from surcharges other Ohioans must pay. “That’s de facto cost-­shifting,” says Ned Hill, an economist who teaches economic development policy at Ohio State University.

Sounds cut and dry for the Ohio anecdote as well.
The upfront costs of wind or solar are about the same as building a coal or gas turbine power plant and have far less ongoing costs.

Really not sure why people parrot these falsehoods that are easily proven wrong.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/generatorcosts/#total1
>Not everyone has a phone.

Corollary:

A few do have a phone, but it is not a smartphone.
There's a lot of overlap between Korean and Japanese cuisine. Koreans eat sushi, although not as voraciously. They both use the dark sesame and soy sauce. Ramen/ramyun and soba/naengmyun are the same things. Yakiniku is a cuisine that is basically Japanese-style Korean BBQ. I've also seen places in SoCal that just advertised as being Korean-style Vietnamese. I have enjoyed them all when done right :)
Ageism in tech is not about skill or freshness of skills. It's about cost. Younger devs earn less and haven't yet learned that they should ask for increased compensation if they are asked to work significant overtime. They also don't have families so they're more willing to be worked in evenings, weekends, etc.
I think Breezewood would cease to exist if that happened. There's not a lot going on there besides confused drivers trying to figure out why they're not on the interstate any more.
Since this is HP, how about not providing technology to ICE and the Israeli occupation?
Other people kick puppies. Why is it wrong for them to kick puppies too?
> It's like they looked at everything bad about Chocolatey/NPM/pip/AUR and just ran with it.

Basically they did just that. The only "desktop" devs left in Linux land are really cloud devs that dabble in desktop on the side. Damn it, i have been basically told to clam up when i complained about the cloud mentality having no home on the desktop. Because apparently only could mattered because it was the big Linux user case.
Why so many people who need the government hate it
Do shit - do all kinds of shit - go into a shit frenzy if you like! Just stop letting your professional work limit your experiences in programming.

So right now, I'm in the "shit frenzy" phase. I'm building small devices during the weekend using the NodeMCU (ESP8266) microcontroller, designing custom cases for it and then 3D printing it. It's pretty exciting!

I'm also using a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and a couple of modules to track how many times my hamster runs on his wheel, the temperature near his cage and soon I'll set up a Load Cell to weigh his little fat ass daily.

A month ago, I wrote a CLI tool written in Go that allows you to write SQL against Google's Firestore. It gave me a chance to use Antlr to define a custom SQL language and create fun commands like the ability to load a collection from a file.

At night time, I've been working on a course that will teach people with no programming experience how to code. I'm only covering what would be fundamental for getting started. That means I leave out things like recursion and other concepts. When the course is finished, I will publish it online including videos, presentations, homework assignments and more.

I've been programming professionally for over 20 years, and it feels like I just started.

All that fluffy shit being said, there have been points in my life where I thought "How can I continue to keep learning and doing at this pace"? In those moments I paused and reflected on the months surrounding those questions, and I discovered that I wasn't doing shit exciting.

I think you might be a little tired of the stress/ownership of coding and all of the details that are required in building a system. That might be a sign you need a different team.

In regards to younger folks - listen, I get what you go through at times. I use to hate having some old lazy person tell you bullshit. Here's some advice for you.

1. Sometimes older people are just beaten and worn down - because of that, and they'll try to slow you down. Try to listen to their reasoning and determine "is this person full of shit and wants to look good or am I moving too fast and it's hurting me"?

2. Age has not a fucking thing to do with how experienced you are in this industry. I've seen code monkeys who pushed the same key for 15 years. Ask yourself.. is that asshole a senior engineer?

3. Try to find someone who's a) knowledgeable and b) gives a shit about you. Make friends and learn!

4. Remember - one day you'll become that old ass person. So try not to turn into a dick yourself. It's far too easy to grow an ego and shut people down in this industry. 99% of the shit people say is highly subjective, but 1% of the shit is fact. e.g., "This is easier to maintain!" - subjective "This will cause the system to shut down, and me beat your ass" - fact.
The timing seems off on that. That article dates from Sep 2017, at which point the Venezuelan economic crisis had been going for 7 years, and been serious for 4. Inflation was 69% by 2014, well before this announcement.

I think a more likely explanation is that Chavez instituted a number of policies that were extremely friendly to consumers and hostile to producers, with the result that the producers all left, which meant there were no goods for consumers to buy, which sent prices through the roof and instituted a (un)healthy black market.
> To be fair, there's been a sharp decline since Maduro took power. Maybe the current government is simply too corrupt and incompetent.

Given the incentives in place, it is hard to imagine that it could turn out anything but corrupt and incompetent. What reason do Venezuelan officials, aside from personal pride, have to execute their office faithfully and competently? What reason do they have to hire people who execute their offices faithfully (aside from to their boss) and competently?
I don't believe the author of this review is a regular contributor to the Times. I agree with you though, I very much enjoyed this piece.
Please note that an "active user" is an active address( i.e one that has made a bet on the platform) in the past day.

This doesn't take into account users that made a bet in the past( most bets have long term horizons, >4 to 5 months) or users that have a current position but aren't betting anymore or users simply observing the markets( looking at a front end like predictions.global)

Also note that active users is probably not a great metric for this application, as it's not a consumer app/ time sink thing.

Money at stake is much a better metric
As fast as your speed of typing will allow you not to think about typing, i.e. your speed doesn't get in the way of your thought.
A light truck emits at least 200g/km of CO2, up to 1000g/km for a heavier truck. A single truck doing a 20km round trip daily will emit 3 to 15 tons of CO2 per year.

Wind energy is abundant in the Netherlands, and buildings seem to pop up out of nowhere, so neither would be a problem.
Touch typing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Nor is speed. Accuracy counts.
Because zip codes can, in many cases for many historical reasons, strongly correlate with brown and black folks, which are legally protected classes.

As much as you might think you are being clever by just saying "Oh, I'm just excluding AREAS, not people" you are still running afoul of the law since you are effectively using zip codes as a proxy for race. This has been tried before and the courts aren't really fooled by it.

So, no, there is nothing inherently wrong with excluding certain areas from seeing your ad, unless you are using the area exclusion mechanism as a proxy for excluding based on race/sexuality/religion or some other protected status.