skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes, but not in the way you mean. If you want $100K for a dry cleaners you get a bank loan, the same way people have been doing it for a century.

Equity capital is solely interested in business models that either wow people or fail outright. The reason has to do with risk: most such business ideas have various things that can go wrong, and those risks are generally manageable but not really quantifiable. Basically a VC wants to see "These are the assumptions in our model, and if we build this it will revolutionize X industry, which is currently worth $50B but could be worth a lot more with our product, and that will give you a 50% annualized return on your fund." And they're giving you money to prove out whether those assumptions are actually true, with the expectations that for a good number of startups they won't be and their whole investment will be wasted.
Yep, and Apple, Google and Microsoft aren't helping. Particularly bad these days is the idea of granting apps permissions; for example, if I want to deploy a new Google Drive application for some whiz-bang thing, I almost certainly need to "Grant read and write for all documents." Well, I don't want to do that, so I don't use any Google Drive add-ons ever. Is there a way to restrict privileges by folder? Nope! Same is true for Microsoft Office 365. Apple is trying, but still a long way to go.
As parodied some 5 years ago: https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/press-release-basecamp-val...

Once you make money, it's much harder to come up with outlandish numbers. A dry cleaners has a well-established range for revenue and profit, so it's hard to justify why it would be worth $100 billion.
Thanks. I'll check out what eFMU is.
Very cool idea, I'm curious about how this was built and works.

I'm also curious if you think you'll face any challenges or if Apple will allow this to live on the play store?
5% fee + "Payment processing fees charged by PayPal and Stripe are also applicable."

So a donate button from paypal is equivalent but the creator can save 5%?
As described in a sibling thread, while that contains the damage, that doesn't actually solve the problem - you're still giving malicious code permission to authenticate.
Have you ever worked in a large warehouse?
Wow, Firefox handles it just fine, Chrome just flat out breaks, that's a interesting bug!
The human brain is the best Bayesian model builder that evolution has yet devised. A good place to start assessing its weaknesses is to observe your own brain messing up. This shouldn't be hard to do.
Did the camera help the police catch the people that broke in?
Of course in physical security, for every protection there's always a way for attackers to counter it. But it gets more and more costly each time. What I wanted to say with my comment is that off site backups do have value (compared to say cloud based door locks which don't have any advantage over internet free approaches).

For 1 and 2, ideally you'd avoid WiFi cameras for the reason you stated and use cable based ones and put everything into view.

To 3, actually this happened recently in my country Germany where they stole crown jewels of one of the german states. The alarm system died and allowed for silent entry but the CCTV still worked (no idea why it worked tho, maybe backup power for CCTV only but not for the alarm?). Ideally both your CCTV and alarm system run from some way of backup power.
OT employee here ..

We have some of the largest enterprise software repos around. And we have some of the strongest enterprise relationships around with top tier companies in the world. Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what their talking about.
Literally just installed it and used the defaults. "Must be your settings" means the default settings suck.
The first aspect that you mention is actually not a disagreement but the whole point of his message - the recently popularized demonstrations of "quantum supremacy" did not allow for universal programmability, but instead were more comparable to an experimental setup for a particular problem of how do atoms behave in that setup.

Having a proper quantum computer with enough fully programmable bits to demonstrate quantum supremacy would be valuable, but (as the author states) the meaning of quantum supremacy is tricky, and we currently have achieved "quantum supremacy" only if we use a very limited, "cheating" definition of quantum supremacy.
Agreed. This topic is covered in other sites. Paywall links should be banned from the main link of a post.
My hunch is that they turned down the endpoints that the clients are trying to connect to.
Testing with mocks is generally a bad idea; instead, one should just test using the same dependencies that are used in production (after testing those dependencies, if also part of the project).

This avoids having to introduce the extra interface, having to code the mock, sometimes having to change the mock or tests when changing the code and also lets you catch bugs in the dependencies that the tests on the dependency itself missed and that would otherwise show up in production.

One might have to do some work to partially replicate the production setup in testing and making it fast to start and run, but that's usually less work and gives a much better result.
One really nice thing about YouTube is that you can download your favorite programs there with "youtube-dl". I don't know if that works for the premium stuff though (I doubt it). So if you want to download, for instance, all the Rick Steves episodes and then watch them on your plane flight (where you don't have free internet access, or someplace else where the service isn't fast enough to watch YT), it's easy to do, and impossible with those other services.
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Did you get back your items? Was the person arrested and charged appropriately?

My neighbors have posted many reasonably clear, useful images of break-ins and shared them with the police. It has done no actual good - no items recovered, no perpetrators dissuaded.
> A lot of these articles make it sound like Ring gives unilateral full access to the police, which is just plain and simple FUD.

Actually, we know that a large portion of data obtained by the NSA can be shared with law enforcement[1]. We also know the NSA isn't exactly upfront about how much they collect and that they can basically collect what they wish without reprocusions[2]. We also know that Ring has given access to police and partnered with 630+ departments[3] directly.

Not even close to "plain and simple FUD", as most things it's a bit more nuanced.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/nsa-gets-more...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-united-states-secrets-pa...

[3] https://www.cnet.com/news/ring-gave-police-a-street-level-vi...
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The Qantas Flight 72 incident was quite a bit different, as all AoA sensors were working correctly. The issue was due to corruption on one of the CPU exploiting these AoA sensors value [1]. Though you are entirely correct that there was a design flaw and the incident should not have happened, since these corrupted values ended up overriding the correctly calculated ones from the other ADIRU units.

[1] "The exact nature of the corruption was that the ADIRU CPU erroneously re-labelled the altitude data word so that the binary data that represented 37,012 (the altitude at the time of the incident) would represent an angle of attack of 50.625 degrees." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72#Potential_tri...
When I was at OpenText - there was a new acquisition email at least every quarter. I keep wondering how OpenText keeps acquiring so many companies because the value then was maybe $6 billion and now it's $11.5B (still shy of the $12bil they aimed for some years ago). Best part of working there was when I was out at a social event in SF and I overheard someone who was working for a company getting acquired by OpenText saying quite unpleasant things about OpenText and their strategy. I think she would've killed me if she knew I worked for them. I'm pretty sure OpenText was about to fire everyone and that's why she was so upset. (Strategy of the company AFAIK is to acquire lots of enterprise offerings, integrate the product with their current offering, fire everyone they can, and then sell the product with their current offering in hopes of getting bigger numbers to prop up stock price further)

I expect any consumer facing options to vaporize or be generally unsupported. OpenText is all about that enterprise/government software stuff. (I worked on a project where we were competing with IBM - to give some context)
ICE has changed what it does in the last 20 years as others have pointed out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21706133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21704192

I doubt anyone really thinks ICE in 2003 is actually the same as ICE in 2019. Not anyone who's paying any attention.
That's an nearly impossible metric to pin down. You'd have to ask criminals who would have done something in specific instances whether the cameras dissuaded them from doing it. Good luck with that.

What I can tell you is our cameras have assisted both us and police (via my consent) to identify a group of individuals who were breaking into cars in our neighborhood. Word will eventually get around that my neighborhood has cameras and people who are watching. That's a powerful deterrent.
Yes, there is research about finding out the name behind pseudonymized browsing history data - they had success rates in the area of 90%, despite having far less detailed data than what Avast is collecting.
Because the commenter I responded to said he couldn't understand why anyone would do what I do. There's an implicit question there that I was attempting to answer.

Good point about also owning the phone plan. But since I use Google Voice for everything (personal account) I'm not sure how much of that they can see (in their capacity as owners of my phone service), and like I said, I'm not doing anything interesting. If Google really wants to see my call logs of wife, wife, friend, mother in law, wife, wife, wife, dad, friend, etc. it's not worth thousands of dollars a year and an extra phone in my pocket to prevent it.
>If you reject both, it will only result in more innocent people getting hurt or killed and crimes going unsolved.

I don't see this is true. There is few cameras in Germany and even fewer historically, while there is still pretty strict gun laws and the vast majority of the population does not own a gun. What's not rampant, however, is violent home invasions. Sure, non-violent burglaries are on another card, but that's just stuff, and often insured stuff. Even then, "pro" burglars long adapted to cameras (wear masks) and stuff like fingerprinting (wear gloves). What they didn't fully adapt to yet is that nice little spying device called their own mobile phone.

I guess it depends on where you live. If you live in a place full of irrational tweekers, failed by society, who are out of their mind, looking for a quick score to fuel their drug habit, who don't mind getting extremely violent...

But if you just have "regular" burglars around, they will try to avoid other people, and even if they break in while somebody is at home, they will most often fuck off real quick because a confrontation does not only put the home owner at risk, it also puts THEM at risk (a home homer coming at your burglar ass with a huge kitchen knife is still something you will want to avoid). At least our local burglars will fuck off when they notice somebody is at home.
Pure curiosity, is this based off of Adblock Radio?

https://github.com/adblockradio/adblockradio

I've been curious for a while how hard it would be to proxy my podcast feeds through a local server that stripped ads. As far as I can tell, this stuff has to be done dynamically per-file -- sharing timestamps don't work because ads are dynamically injected during each download.
It really cracks me up that a site complaining about telemetry shows 21 trackers[1] when I visit with privacy badger enabled. I actually suspect there are a couple more, because my current browser is pretty freshly installed so privacy badger is still discovering its trackers list.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/PtpGma2.png
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You first link isn't worth anything. Wikileaks has never revealed sources, so to say they're "obscuring whether... it came from Russia" is ridiculous. He explicitly said it WASN'T Russia, I don't know how he could make it any clearer. Wikileaks has a 100% track record and there's no reason to doubt that statement. And of course evidence about HRC committing crimes benefits Trump, but that has nothing to do with Russia. I don't know why you've even included it.

Also - wow, a journalist meets with other journalists. How damning. Clearly he's a Russian asset. Maybe him being in contact with American news organizations also means he's an American asset and actually working for the CIA.
Well, I concede that it may be even more exaggerated in other American styles, but certainly American IPAs are very much more carbonated than IPAs in Britain that aren't imitating that style.

'Imperial IPA' in Britain denotes a more traditional style - of course it's not regulated, but the one thing you can be certain of is that it won't be in the 'American IPA' style (you can get British made IPAs sold as 'American IPA', i.e. it is meant as a classifier of style, not orgin).

Traditional IPAs are low in carbonation even among British ales, highly hopped (boiled and dry), and 6-9%.

In short, the way you're saying it's used in America doesn't sound wrong to me!

(I believe dry hopping actually originated with the IPA, and its long voyage from London docks to India.)
Maybe. Another interesting paradox about it, as one of my former instructors once pointed out, that it's actually harder to submit a white belt than to submit a blue belt :)

The former one may be more clueless, but offers 100% ferocious defence without attempting any reasonable attacks of his (or her) own.

You can sort of see how progressing to the next step - from white to blue - is an inevitable setback of sorts.

Funnily enough, this phenomenon vaguely makes me think of the "trough of disillusionment / slope of enlightenment" syndrome (the hype cycle)
You set your camera system up yourself. A lot of people aren't going to be willing or able to do that if we are being real. Do you see the average person wiring up a bunch of cameras or troubleshooting networking, configuring a DVR, standing up a web server to view things, setting up off site backups, ensuring their cameras don't go down if power is lost, configuring mobile alerts, etc?

People want a plug and play solution. At least systems from Google and Amazon will probably be reasonably secure so they won't get roped into the next botnet when their owners forget to change default creds.
this is nice - good luck to you and yours - definitely going to give it a listen
So what’s that, a tool to jail people more easily?
>There's only one CEO per company,

Usually, but not always. When I was at Intel, they had two CEOs. They called it "two in a box" for some odd reason.
I was thinking about making exactly this today while listening to 99PI. Decided that I would rather support the makers. I wish that the various apps allowed subscriptions to avoid ads in a given podcast. 99PI is doing a fundraising drive right now. As part of it, they share that 1/10,000 listeners donates. I would be happy to pay 99PI $1 a month for their podcasts if I could skip ads.
Look at Salesforce. They have lite versions etc but they make real money by customizing for enterprises. So I would say why not. I am not an investor but I run a SAAS product that gets customized for clients (not always but for enterprise). Great revenue maker. Once you customize and if it really solves their problem, you also have decent recurring revenue locked in.

So use this as a strength and not weakness in front of investors. You are not an agency who builds whatever for anybody. Those don't scale as they are project oriented. What you have is a product that is customizable. I see dollars if you find the right clients.
Relevant recent article from satire publisher The Onion:
"Horrifying Series Of Unspeakable Actions Result In $39 Crock-Pot Being Delivered To Man Same Day"
https://www.theonion.com/horrifying-series-of-unspeakable-ac...
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Free cheese is always a part of a mouse trap.
The funny thing is that if you want to create an immutable type in Java - no problem, just create a constructor and mark fields as final[1].

In Go - you can't do it like that. You need those getters, preferably an interface (because exported struct allows anybody to create a zero-value) and a factory function.

[1] - assuming their types are also immutable
We were warned not to feed man to the machine, yet that's exactly what we did. I guess everyone that died fighting for this country did so to create a bunch of billionaires and slaves to serve them. Our nation was paid for by the blood of its people, but somehow this debt is always forgotten. The people, by the right of sacrifice, deserve better than this.
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Looks like this may be the corresponding Github repo?

https://github.com/billwadge/pyLucid
Well if it slows you down at all, you'd better report it, or else you're likely to be fired for missing your performance targets.
Nothing was stolen, but if the person keeps doing it and is caught, that's just more evidence against them. Things like this often play out over a long period of time. I'd rather work towards actively deterring people than sit here and think up infinite paranoid scenarios.
Could you create an unbounded loop by scheduling another BPF execution on the end of each program? I imagine something like a WASM runtime that would be split into multiple BPF programs on loops. Which would practically achieve https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet, right?
Me neither, but it doesn't even have to be a conscious choice! Let's you want to implement an in-place algorithm to save memory (which I'm presume was a realistic trade-off to consider back in the early eighties), and your inputs are single bytes for each channel, then your only option is to do saturating arithmetic. Clipping just falls out of that as a side-effect.
The only evidence I have is response rates, and about 12 companies that responded to a man's-name resume that did not respond to an identical resume with a woman's name. I have consulted with a labor lawyer, who told me that this might be actionable if I can get enough women together to also perform this experiment and gather together in a class-action lawsuit. I don't live in a particularly large city, and I believe it's almost impossible without astroturfing.
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> "Wouldn't you expect the default action of SecuROM to ENABLE all installations if the contract goes bad?"

No, because it would probably take all of 5 minutes for pirates to figure out a way to leverage that to bypass the protection.
The aquire and fire strat is business as a whole. You dont need 5 people doing the job of 2 when it comes to convergence.
Zero marginal cost in theory. In reality, you often find enormous cloud costs combined with huge marketing spend.
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Our kids have so much fun with Alexa.

Helping 5-year olds spell words and check math homework, play classical music (learning composers) and dance music, tell stories, etc.

It’s like a fun and useful version of a radio.
> It's incredibly dumb to host 24x7 video surveillance of your home and your comings and goings outside of your home.

"Incredibly dumb" is way out of line. Many people (including me) find having such video available to be extremely useful. Yes, there is a tradeoff involved if you are buying the video capability from a third party instead of rolling your own, but many people find it a tradeoff worth making.
the point is not a sweeping generalization about all women. the point is: statistically, a higher percentage of men like computer science/programming than women.

My experience as a parent and as a person who has learned about parenting is that these types of interests are often innate: i've seen this over and over again. For example, our daughter loved shiny things (before age 2) before any kind of social conditioning could take place.
But it's not like malicious activities could only involve the network. Also, it's possible to obfuscate network activity and hide such things among legitimate traffic.

> It concerns me that one of these sat out there for a year.

Certainly it being open source doesn't guarantee that someone will notice such things, but it raises the probabilities. It could have been like that longer if it were closed source.
That's the central problem, isn't it? Technology only gets more complicated, and we have never bothered much about giving general population effective tools and skills to make informed decisions for themselves.
A well-known company vouches for something, and that's all I'd know if I was buying a ring device.
End to end encryption would solve for the downsides.
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No, it's convenience for privacy. There are plenty of ways to surveil your own home without networking the footage into police databases. It's just that you have to put a little effort in or pay someone else to set it up.
No, I think that this makes sense. Failing open would make the DRM useless if you could trick the client into thinking the contract was expired.

OTOH, SecuROM is also “securing” their software from modifications, so if it were to fail open, it would still at least be working to keep binary integrity and obfuscation working; obviously SecuROM does not want to offer this for free.

In my mind the correct action would be for the developers to release a patch that removes SecuROM. Similar was often done for other games that had CD based authentication; it was often removed years after original release, which makes sense to do after the pirates have long compromised the security. I think it makes just as much sense for online authentication for a game this old.

Aside: I am trying to avoid injecting my personal opinions about DRM here since they aren’t relevant, but just to be clear I am not trying to express sympathy or support for either party. This is amazingly dumb in my opinion.
Are you advocating that people committing burglaries not be punished?
>The real reason to move away from Java is to move towards different software architectures (microservices!)

This is a SpringBoot microservice:

@RestController
public class BasicController {

@RequestMapping(value="/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String get(@PathVariable("id")Integer id) {
return doStuff(id);
}

}

I'm not sure it's any more verbose than the equivalent Ruby on Rails microservice (for example).