skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obvious choice is to sort of skip the crypto entirely. The key fob can hold more than enough 128-bit random numbers to last the life of the car. Think about how much we can put on a little USB device these days. Cross off codes as they are used. This only requires a 1-way signal and a transmit button.

If the car can just ask for a code, without a button being pressed, then you have the problem of a foe tunneling the keyfob signal over a long-distance repeater link. Dealing with that requires timing measurements to measure the distance that the signal has traveled.
Wow, fantastic! This will allow me to drag Google’s sync app for Mac directly into the trash, which I’ve been dying to do for years! Then I can write some kind of program that finds the duplicated medium, small, and thumbnail sizes of all my photos, and the cropped faces, that Google senselessly uploaded from my Aperture/Photos library to the tune of 4 million+ garbage files. This API could make it possible for me to actually get value from Google Photos again.
TB flu and BSE are not parasites.
That's a pretty small volume and a pretty short timespan, all things considered.
For what it's worth, I would enthusiastically agree with all three of those statements, and I have no desire to ever work at a startup. I did once, years ago, and I hated it. Never again.

I'd prefer to work for the most enterprisey company that ever enterprised. I'm pretty happy at the B2B telecom where I work now, even.

(And, yes, I'm agreeing with you and providing a data point in your favor.)
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> in an anarchistic society there is no mechanism to stop those who collectivize to monopolize the fruits of the commons

Sure there is: citizens with guns. In an anarchy, there is no centralized power, so thugs have no advantage in that respect over armed law-abiding citizens. And thugs have a big disadvantage: they do not cooperate in productive endeavors, so they don't accumulate wealth.

> ostracism is no response at all to roving pillagers.

Sure, but it's not the only available response either. See above.
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How about SK rewriting systems? ^_^
Yeah, I got as far as rendering the tab and the notes - but then trying to tie the “tied” notes together... that’ll drive you crazy.
> It seems to me that this argument essentially relies on everyone being an anarchist.

Yes, this is a fair point, and is probably the main reason anarchic societies have not been more common historically. It also doesn't help that pretty much all humans on the planet have now been conditioned for at least some centuries now, if not longer, that a society has to have a government to function, so they can't even conceive the alternative.
Note to self, get biggest guns, most people with guns, dominate society, set up theocracy with me as godhead, assemble harem, make sure sure court jesters are committed ideologues who thought reinventing feudalism was smart.

I mean, really? Thugs don’t work together? That’s basically the history of humanity in the absence of a state, it’s what knighthood and aristocracies were. Thugs, working together to the bare chaotic minimum required to keep the peasants in line.

Edit: How are you going to get the guns? Remember we're imagining an anarchy, where you can't get guns by taking over the military (there isn't any) or the government (there isn't any). You would have to either make them yourself (a productive endeavor, which thugs don't do--see below) or trade for them (which means you would have to have something worth trading, which again requires productive endeavor) or steal them (but how are you going to steal them when you don't have any weapons to begin with, but the people who make the weapons by productive endeavors do?).

Unless your anarchist society has the tech to make all existing guns and weapons evaporate then they’ll be for the taking. If not, without a government my buddies and I can get a warehouse full of CNC machines and mill assault rifles until the go out of fashion. With no oversight, no need for secrecy, weapons are easy to make. Hell, I’d be shocked if quite a few people here couldn’t make their own nuclear pile if no one was there to stop them, and work their way back to nuclear weapons. Even barring that, again, many people here on HN have the information in their heads to make napalm, explosives, and a variety of poisons including nerve agents. The reason they don’t is sanity, society, and international controls. Take that away and it would be trivial to gas your annoying neighbors.

Also, haven’t we already established that thugs can work together? See: all of human history. They just need aligned goals for however long it takes to crush dissent, then turn on each other. Even the Middle Ages has craftsmen and smiths, and they were essentially owned by thugs who used them like a resource.

Basically, as I said in response to another poster downthread, you are imagining an anarchy as just like our society, but with government and governmental law enforcement suddenly removed.

Unless you’re just entertaining a fantasy with no basis in reality and our lives, I’m thinking of anarchy at some time in the future, which means guns, bombs, aircraft carriers, ICBM’s already exist and can’t be wished away. If you propose a gradual turnover then you need every government and member of those governments to agree, sat which point you don’t actually need anarchy anymore, because you’ve already united the world. If you can conjure an anarchistic future not base on absolute fantasy, which doesn’t turn out horribly I’d be amazed.
probably just a joke referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich
It works on the vast majority. We have near 100% coverage for large, established companies covering the majority of American employees; tiny startups is an area where we're continuing to add data sources to deliver the best results possible.
>If I drive a car to work, it sits in a parking garage all the rest of the day. If I take a Lyft, it continues to roam the streets waiting for the next fare.

I argued this in another post, but this is a pipe dream of driverless car aficionados. Your car is never going to be able to compete with fleets. The base operating cost of a driverless car is fuel+maintenance and fleets will always be able to underprice you due to economies of scale. In essence, you will lose money every time you rent out your car. This is also a limiting factor for fleets as well. Too many cars will impact fleet revenues too because if they can't make up fuel and maintenance costs they will also have a operating loss.

Even in the world where this somehow doesn't happen, what's wrong with deploying your capital? If the streets get clogged (like they are today in major municipal centers), people will opt to for mass public transit until some sort of equilibrium is reached (like it does today). When I'm in Hong Kong or New York, sometimes I opt for subways instead of taxis or uber because it may take uber forever to fight through traffic to my destination.
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A 5 character password protects these vehicles.
Check out the TLS SNI exploit. The attack allows embedding CRLF in a TLS payload. The entire handshake leading up to it is ignored by an SMTP server, and the next command is valid SMTP. Meaning that if you ask something to e.g. load an image from, or send a callback to "https://smtp.targetcorp.com<space><CR><LF>...smtp instructions to send mail here...:25/" it'll actually work. As far as I understand this is the TLS handshake so even before any HTTP is done; post, get, whatever. All works.

Good moment to lock down outgoing requests, I guess. At least to port 25 :)
All "space" ie the matter-containing 4d part we live in. There are things before and perhaps outside our universe, brains and such, but that is outside "our universe".
This really ought to be a concern of national export policy, as negotiated by governments. Google got the injuction for US services so they can hide behind US government policy and law as is appropriate.

If the US wants its companies to comply with the standards of Canada, thats a topic for legislation... not something that ought to given by default.
Just to add, being a parasite’s intermediate host is often a raw deal, because the little critter didn’t evolve to give a shit about how quickly and brutally it kills you.
Note - this is only for international flights, where CBP takes your photo anyway.

Data retention period is 14 days for pilot testing, 12 hours for some unspecified "short term", and zero after that.
Please build this. Google's Sync app is terrible. I don't understand their logic - if you have a high res photo on Google Photos, but the original on your PC (Which will be higher quality) it won't overwrite it. You need to delete the cloud version and upload the original. It's stupid - I had a free Photo account with "high res" photo syncing for free, then I moved to a paid account and I have to delete all my photos and re-sync - which doesn't work on Mac, so now I only have 1/2 my photos backed up... So annoying.
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With its unsecured 2025 bonds trading at 83 cents on the dollar and an SEC investigation ongoing, they might have to accept a lot of equity dilution on a raise big enough to keep them operating. 10% dilution in exchange for operating cash that will be promptly burned would add 10% more headwind on their earnings per share. If the market had at least to some extent believed Musk that another raise was unnecessary then that would negatively affect the share price.
> People seem to like to be ruled, so long as they have just enough freedom.

Bread and circuses.
Hey go with Common Lisp :D
Socialism is like love - it does not work on a large scale.
Thank you! I'll provide a full on review ASAP, including landing page if you wish for $2. I'm hoping to manage $100 somehow.

Yes, it's for the servers.
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Let me know if anything else would be needed, I'll do it ASAP!

Thank you.
I made a similar one for personal use — https://www.dffrnt.com/maxculator/

I actually use it more than I thought I would. Some cases where it helped:

• Last year I invested some money in Govt. bonds at 9% interest. The catch was the interest won’t be compounded. Using this app I was able to quickly estimate what an equivalent FD interest would be (about 8%, which is not a good deal given current inflation here in India)

• Estimate the effects of Inflation. Avg. CPI inflation over the past 4 years has been hovering around 5%. Plugging in the numbers (100, 5 and change duration value until result pane shows 200) tells me how much time it takes for me to lose half my money to inflation (just over 14 years)

• Reflect on luxury purchases. I often get tempted to buy the iPhone X and Apple Watch along with an upgrade for my 4 year old MacBook Air. The total cost comes to 200k INR which, while affordable, is still a non-trivial amount. Plugging in the numbers (200k, 8% FD, 3 years of patience), I get 250k at maturity which will allow me to buy all of the above items and still have 50k left (worth 4 years of supplements.)

• Interesting trivia. Plug in 100, 8% FD, and keep changing the duration until the Effective Interest Rate field reaches 100%. This duration, 51 years, shows how long it’d take for the compounding (@8%) to be so large that my money basically doubled each and every year.
While, I understand the sentiment of not liking companies basically reselling open source software. It does restrict the rights of users on what they can do.

However, I have also never consider GPL entirely open source it restricts someones right to not publish changes they make. It's also definitely a reason some people choose not to use the GPL.

If we want to get philosophical the only true open source license is release code to the public domain. No restrictions/requirements at all.

However, there is one big issue with this "Commons Clause". This section here "whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software". Your not allowed to sell services even if you modify it to add some unique features. If those depend substantially on the software. If it just said "entirely" instead also including "substantially". The problem is the word "substantially" is quite vague, and if changes or additions you make can't run without their software which is pretty much any software modifications/modules, scripts ect... that have software licensed under this as a dependency.

Let's say someone licensed an operating system under this license. You develop an application which uses the OS's system calls. Your application does something useful, so you wish to sell it as a service, but because your application can't run without calling those system calls. It may be legally counted as "substantially" deriving value from the licensed software, and you can't sell your own work.

While, I understand some licenses are a compromise of the only license that ensures all freedoms which is public domain. These compromises either tend to try help open source or just ensure that software is free for everyone using it. Since something in public domain can be resold, and the secondary users of that may never know the source code exists. Some just prevent someone else from claiming that they made the software.

However, as I mentioned at the start, I understand why some people do not like the idea of company just taking an open source project and selling it. However, this license goes way too far. It places what I call unreasonable restrictions on the users. It's in need of a major rework.
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How can it be both finite in size, and have no edges?

To me, it would seem that were it finite, there would be a point at which one would look back, and see the galaxy and clusters that compose the universe; forward would be an expanse of nothingness. But if this isn't the case, then how I can keep progressing forward (presumably forever, as I can't hit an edge) through space, encountering galaxy after galaxy, but it is still finite?

Unless this is like RPG games where the edges wrap.
I don't have a FB account but i use uber so that's just not a solution that everybody would easily be able to jump over to.
Since the rest of his comment talks about the pressure of people making partner - it sounds like it's a different law firm.
Yeah, I agree - just a funny coincidence that I was reading about this in Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now.
I've seen them taking up valuable space on a crowded train, acting as if they are owed attention, and aggressively panhandling people who are minding their own business. And there are plenty of accounts of them getting violent and rowdy when confronted. They generally increase stress levels.
This I would like to know more about. Last year I started to get into electronics by creating on my own synth using an Arduino. As a software boffin, it was marvellous to learn about PWM, timers and the MIDI protocol (along with everything else). Obviously, I read up on the various synths over the years to see how they did their sound generation.

Where do you even start with your project? How to you even get to the disassembled code?
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Trump wants Apple to make iPhones in the US. There is just one problem
I've been reading the article hoping to find out a bit more about the actual voice server but the SFU is actually not very deeply explained at all.
Won't this enable hackers to make apps to steal people's images/photos given that many users don't think twice before authorizing apps to collect all the data they want just like we saw recently in case of top trending apps stealing data on Apple Store?
It's C.

If you think being specific about what you want copied, freeing only when you know it's appropriate, and tracking any metadata around that yourself if a problem, don't work in C.

Get it right or risk a memory leak is the name of the game.
You assume the candidate has done a CS degree. I would be quite capable of looking up the algorithmic complexity of an algorithm choosing the correct algorithm (or data structure) accordingly if the need came up in my job (which it does now and then). But I don't know it off the top of my head, because I never did a CS degree, and frankly it's knowledge that's not very useful to memorise because it is very easy to google.
It is more than agism. It is a cover for all kinds of "We cannot tell this person we won't be hiring them because we dont like them as they are a protected class so we need to come up with a creative excuse"
>Are companies offering to pay you to drive people around, with little barrier to entry, in a tough economy where it's getting increasingly difficult to afford living in urban centers, not also an incentive to own a car?

You'd think so, but Uber drivers aren't exactly rolling in money. In fact, if they aren't smart about it (i.e. if they don't know how to pick their routes, their customers, and opportune times where 'surge pricing' is in effect), they'll lose money from fuel costs + wear and tear. Seriously, if you think it's easy to make money driving Uber, try it.

My buddy is a truck mechanic and he sees it all the time. Lots of truckers now are independent contractors who own the truck. Some of those guys will spend as little as possible on a truck, get a couple gigs make some "decent" money. Inevitably they'll go in for maintenance and repairs and get hit with a $15,000 repair bill (or more, there is no upper bound) and watch all their profits evaporate.

>More so, since the problem isn't so much about car ownership, but rather about the number of cars actually on the road at any given time

That's a problem today in major urban centers. Do you know what people do? They take mass transit. I make that decision all the time, and sometimes it's just not worth to grab a cab or an uber because I know it's going to get stuck in traffic and a trip that should take 10 minutes, will take 50 minutes - even when work is willing to pay for my transit.

In a world with unlimited taxi/ride-sharing licenses, an equilibrium will be established, and price will fall. There is no downside. The current medallion system is there to protect capital investment of medallion owners and (to a lesser extent) the income of operators (thought, if they are contractors they make no money anyway).
Here's how it works.

I have the commit bit to the repo backing my blog. You do not. I f you have some serious suggestions, feel free to submit a pull request.

I'll review your PR and decide whether it matches the tone and style of my blog. If it doesn't , regardless of what you see as its merits, it will be rejected.

That state of affairs is not acceptable to most people, and fortunately, there is an alternative route forward: Instead of trying to lecture me about what to write in my own blog, and instead of lecturing me about what I should consider important to mention, and why, YOU CAN WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG POST REFUTING MY POST.

I am not being sarcastic. Great things have transpired in history when two or more people engage in a conversation via essays.

Words are so vague. I don't even know what "hard locked the dev tools" even means!

But if you write your own essay, with your own code illustrating your own ideas. Ah! That clarifies things for me and for everyone else reading.

It has never been easier to publish words. Avail yourself of this opportunity.

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As for bugs and chaos all over the javascript world...

I have been publishing essays on the Internet for fourteen years. Most have been of a highly impractical nature: I save my practical thoughts for my work, and I scratch my "boy this is interesting" itch in my writing.

In all that time, I haven't broken the Internet. No hordes of people rushed out to implement macros in Ruby when I released Ruby.Rewrite.Ruby.

The JavaScript world was not taken over by decorators when I released Method Combinators. My book has an entire chapter on implementing traits in JavaScript. Where are all the traits?

(tumbleweeds)

I write to provoke thought. I think most people grasp that. You should have a little more faith in people.

Some people find these things interesting, even provocative. They may wonder if such a thing makes sense. But few people rush to implement an idea just because of one essay on Hacker News. Typically, they need to see a preponderance of momentum.

An essay from me. A library from someone else. A major framework baking it in. Only then will people bet their projects on it.

Until then, it's nothing more than one person, me, saying "Here's something interesting," and a bunch of other people saying, "indeed," over their coffee breaks.

Then we all go back to work and the world carries on just fine.

Honestly, with the exception of your statement that my trampolines will cause an out-of-memory error, you are not wrong about performance and the fact that practical applications for greenspunning your own trampolines are rare to the point of statistical non-existance.

I sense that everyone agrees with you, they just don't worry that hordes of Eternal September JavaScript n00bs will start swapping iteration for anonymous recursion powered by recursive combinators.
>"Pinterest, by Mr. Silbermann’s design, is the opposite: the web’s last bastion of quaint innocence."

A lot of people would argue that aggregating other people's content and sticking it behind a login wall is neither quaint or innocent.
Have you been to Brazil? Brazilians take the entire day off to go to the bank because it takes that long and processes are so inefficient. I was shocked at how non functional the society is as a whole.

Their national museum just burned down because the country couldn't even allocate funding properly. You expect running a business there is going to be a simple and transparent affair?

This is not a knock on the people themselves. They're smart, caring and competent, but to be honest, the country is a mess.
It possibly depends when you started programming. When I was making those kind of games and such things my environment had a built in shuffle call that worked fine...
All true. But I fail to see how your point about raises happening after price increases refutes the point that inflation destroys (reduces) the value of debt.

Now, true, if you're a worker who owes money, and inflation kills your cash flow (because raises come later than price increases), it may not matter to you that the value of your debt decreased, because the cash flow problem is going to bankrupt you before the debt erosion helps you. But it's still a separate effect.
>Show HN

Is Google so desperate these days that they have to abuse about the only way a small developer can get some exposure on HN these days? And it garnered 25 upvotes, from mostly other Google employees I presume.
FWIW, I think there is a risk-reward trade off involved for many of us that end up going the actuarial route. I was broke coming out of college, without much of a network or pedigree to fall back on and the prospect of a solidly middle-to-upper class income drew me in. No regrets (other than no multimillion dollar startup exit), but I wouldn’t recommend it for most people.
How can it be both finite in size, and have no edges?

Good question, but find me the edge of an idealized balloon. Where is the edge of a sphere? As to why you won’t come back, remember that spacetime is expanding faster an faster, and you can only travel below light speed. Mind you that’s just one possibility. The universe at large could be a lot of different things, but as humans were causally disconnected from anything beyond the shrinking observable universe. Shrinking from our perspective at least, because of the aforementioned expansion and speed limit.