skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intuitively it's not clear why there are risks from our work.

Far from it! The very workshop minutes you are citing [1, Appendix 3] directly contradict your point, with participants raising a number of serious concerns about your project:

"Many questions focused on the ethical and philosophical issues associated with the project, including matters of consenting public and responsible science practice. However, only questions relating to the research agenda, like those impacting regulatory consideration and potential ecological effects, are included here.

Ecological interactions:

- How will the impact of the bioluminescence from the plants on wild organisms be tracked across seed destinations? If this can’t be tracked or known ahead of time, then how is the application ready for release?

- How have the interactions of insects with the glowing plant been characterized? Does this have the potential to disrupt pollinators?

- Arabadopsis is frequently used in laboratories specifically because it is easy to grow and is a weedy species. How does this align with comments made regarding the difficulty of growing the plants, and the extreme unlikelihood that the seeds would take root and grow if released outdoors?

- Were any types of biocontrol mechanisms employed or tested in the system? Why was sterility not introduced into the system when it could serve such a purpose?

Determining regulatory coverage:

- Habitats of relevance.

- Tests for characterizing the application: The seed packets will not be regulated because the seeds were created using gene guns, while the DIY maker kits will be regulated because the system will rely on Agrobacterium. Neither can be shipped internationally. However, once these are distributed, how will use be monitored? If the plants are expected to be sent to thousands of individual sites around the country, how are habitats of relevance being determined? Are all of these locations being tracked, characterized, and assessed for specific vulnerabilities in advance of product release? The USDA APHIS test framework is insufficient for this purpose.
How could a model be developed to evaluate such a widely distributed application? What questions would need addressing in order to appropriately characterize the effort?

- Demonstration of impact: Compare the altered plants to other mustards, and assess how well they grow. A series of greenhouse competition assays in a variety of environ- ments would be a good start, and any identified differences could point to areas requiring further study. Also study known pathway interactions up- and downstream. Emphasize the study of the resulting phenotypes, not the genetic modifications."

[1] http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/SYNBIO_res_a...
Because I don't have any desire to prolong a conversation with someone who feels like a possibly poor choice of words on my part renders my entire argument useless.

Choosing to opt out of a discussion is not the same as attempting to prevent others from having one.

Having a discussion with someone whose principle argument is that the discussion shouldn't be had seems like folly to me. Call it unfruitful if you like, but I wasn't attempting to start an argument as much as do my duty and explain the downvote.

We could go on and talk about the hypocrisy of how your attempts to extend the conversation are being made in order to bolster your argument against having one in the first place, but truly, I was not, nor am not trying to be condescending, as much as expressing my outright rejection for the idea that there is ever grounds for preventing an intellectual discussion on the grounds that someone might not like it.
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How do CPU vendors issue a microcode update such that no hacker could make their own malicious update? It's obviously a cryptographically signed update, and the CPU checks that the update is signed by the expected key, but does that mean every CPU is hardcoded to check for a specific key? What happens if that key is compromised? Is every CPU at risk forever at that point, or can the CPU be updated via software to check for a newly issued key? Also, were is the private key stored? Some vault somewhere? How would a CPU vendor know if the key had been surreptitiously copied, and some rogue group was issuing malicious updates to a specific target's CPU?

Is it even advantageous for an attacker to have the capability of issuing microcode updates to a target computer? What sort of attacks could you mount via microcode updates?
Additionally, how would you signal "End of List"?
512k is surely enough... http://www.nux.ro/archive/2014/08/512k_routes_ought_to_be_en...
Amazon pretty explicitly includes unforeseen catastrophic events in their durability estimate. "In addition, Amazon S3 is designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities." I sure hope the loss of two facilities doesn't fall into the "foreseen" category!
Thank you for pointing that out. I hadn't actually noticed after glancing at the pictures that a woman was among the winners.

EDIT - I'm not trying to be funny, her hairstyle makes her look like she has a receding hairline so I thought she was a man.
A recent trip to the UK was enlightening for me. Their roadways have a fraction of the traffic lights and stop signs that we have on the east coast. We need to remove stoplights from lightly trafficked intersections. For heavy use intersections, replace with rotaries. The glut of suburban stop signs need to be replaced with yield signs.
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That was my original thought as well but since cdn.qbaka.net was just a cname to their real cdn it wouldn't have worked. Unless they gave their private ssl key to the cdn provider, which is really not recommended.
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They already have submarines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine
>data entry tasks

On a mobile ?!

> filling out surveys

Selling my privacy you mean ? I guess this will be your biggest source of revenues. People do not seem to mind to sell theirs for a few dimes. But not something I will do easily.

> writing descriptions for online shops

So this would be like 'Do you own one of these machines ?' and then I can pick one and write 'Best dishwasher ever !' to earn an easy dollar ? If so, this is getting morally offensive.
I'm pretty sure they actually dropped the price for the second cheapest production db. If I recall correctly, it used to go from $50 to $200, now it goes to $150.
Communication quality also varies based on team cohesiveness. When I'm working with people I like, I trust that they're being respectful of my time when they communicate with me, and I am less likely to push back on a request that delays my feature but is for the greater good. Employees are also better able to negotiate around features/architectural decisions when they trust each other.

I worked on a team with deep trust issues between the product manager and engineers; PM didn't believe engineers were doing their best/giving fair estimates, engineers didn't believe the PM was asking for features that would lead us to success in the market. This lack of trust meant a big fight every sprint, and a lot of productivity lost to arguments and the ensuing distraction. Sample size of one, but the PM never had lunch with engineers or otherwise engaged with them socially. I can't prove it, but I suspect things would have gone a lot smoother if we'd all been friends.

tldr: Off-topic communication can still be good communication (in moderation) because it helps develop/maintain high quality relationships between the people you work with.
Essentially the exact same issues everyone else faces, which are covered exhaustively here: http://www.stevemcconnell.com/rd.htm

I'm going to single one out though: tweaking: making changes without adequate anticipation of the effects, or without the theoretical backing to expect that it will be correct. When you have a well structured high level understanding you can make changes knowing approximately what the effect will be and converge on the solution. Without that you end up thrashing around and making changes at random. If you take a random walk you're probably not going anywhere fast.

When you are dealing with a well designed and executed system, then tweaking actually seems productive, because you begin from a good place in the solution space, when you explore the "local neighbourhood", then the modifications still produce a functional piece of software and it might actually be better in some ways that you care about.

When you are making something new, tweaking gets you nowhere.

EDIT: Here is a foolproof process to get me to automatically disregard all your future ideas:

1. Find some parameters that were chosen with theoretical justifications and a real analysis of historical data.

2. Modify one of the parameters based on some flimsy rationale.

3. Run some quick tests that are obviously designed specifically to confirm your expectations, declare victory and act like you've solved something.
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I caught one Lyft last week where I said "wait, did I get you through Uber or Lyft?" because the driver had an Uber sticker in the window. He kind of smiled and was the quietest Lyft driver I've ever had.

So how many drivers are doing both? How could either service know? Maybe by seeing a drive go unavailable for short periods and become available again from a different location.

I had one driver that just drove in the mornings, between dropping the kids off at school and when it was time to start work. That's an ideal time to have a driver but if you hit him with higher commissions than a full-time driver, he's not going to be happy.
There are at least two other Matthias Wermkes that I ran into while searching around.

Without tracing which pages are filtered it's hard to say who requested it. I get the message no matter which keywords I add to try to isolate one of them.
For All The Hype, Does Israel's Iron Dome Even Work?
I think you're focused on the motor, when that's the least important part of the equation. As you point out with the BMW i3, the source of the electricity is important. In battery mode, it is actually more efficient (27 kW-hrs/100 mi) than the Model S (35 kW-hrs/100 mi), but that's obviously not true when the range extender kicks in.
This is not a tech rivarly at all. This is a car-service rivalry.
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Since we stopped arguing about absolutes, what kind of numbers are we talking about?
How big is the effect size? Does it suffer from diminishing return? I.e. is it enough to have about n women to hear all ideas worth hearing from the womanly perspective? Or perhaps it is not an amount but a proportion?
We gave up on them entirely.
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You're probably thinking of this:

https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-python-ruby-and-javascript-...
Cost of attendance rises slightly every year (say 3%). Delaying college means you come in later in the appreciation cycle; your total cost is substantially higher.

Gap years are, unfortunately, a privilege for students who are so wealthy that doesn't matter or so poor that they're on full rides anyway. For a middle class student, it's just throwing away money.
I think they are mostly undocumented, but here is some research I found online: http://inertiawar.com/microcode/

I'm guessing the private RSA keys are extremely well guarded, probably stored in a HSM that only allows signing, not key extraction, so that the keys cannot even be revealed to Intel.

On the other hand, who knows. There's certainly been cases of code signing keys on the loose (Adobe, etc) and even a compromised HSM host (Fedora, someone managed to sign compromised openssh .rpms)
Why I Chose to Learn iOS Instead of Web Development
I don't much care about your feelings, nor was I commenting on them.

But that's exactly the problem, bro! It's a good thing to care about other people's feelings.
Agreed. Perhaps a mod could change the link?
I think the implication is that you do mining via whonix/TOR and then use those funds. And then as you aquire more computers you use those to generate more bitcoins for more VPSs.
Usually the mistake is talking too much. Jeremy Hammond (Stratfor hack) had really good technical opsec but made the mistake of talking about his IRL exploits to Sabu which led the FBI to connect his online identity to his IRL political activism. Had he kept his mouth shut he probably would have never been caught.
I love this. There is too much conservative behaviour at the expense of innovation. Things break, let's be prepared, let's upgrade, let's not worry about 100% up time and start actually building something bigger.
The details of proposals vary.

Generally the idea is a "compromise" whereby funding increases in exchange for regulation.

I suspect in reality, given the current political climate, it will be "regulation, or we'll blindly slash funding"
None of that changes the fact that increased exposure to UV will have net-positive benefits in regards to vitamin D intake. If you apply sunblock you just have to spend more time outside in order to absorb more vitamin D via UV.
On the other hand, for Engineering some Cambridge colleges positively encourage deferred entry; no College discourages it [1].

[1] http://www3.eng.cam.ac.uk/admissions/guide/otherfactors.html
If you are the author/developer, can you point to an about page ? or may be you can explain what encryption you use.

Just thinking about how can I use this.
Ask HN: What's your favorite command-line tool for working with data?
About a year ago, I wrote a blog post about command-line tools for data science [1]. Thanks to HN, I received a lot of valuable comments and pointers to other great command-line tools! In the past 10 months, I have been writing a book titled Data Science at the Command Line [2]. Ever since that blog post, I've been discovering new tools. On the one hand, that's quite frustrating because it's difficult to keep up and include everything in the book. On the other hand, it's fantastic to see that the command line is still very popular!

In order to gain a better overview of what's available, I thought it'd be nice to ask on HN what your favorite tools are to work with data. Many new tools have been developed in the past year, but your favorite one may just be 10 years old. You may think that I'm too late with this question because the book is already finished, but fortunately the book also discusses the underlying concepts which haven't changed too much in the past forty years.

I'm very much looking forward to hearing about your favorite command-line tools. Bonus points if you reply in CSV format "command,url,reason\n", so I can easily scrape the comments :)

Thanks!

PS. For those who are interested, next Wednesday, I'll be doing a webcast about this topic [3], where I might share the outcome of this discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412190

[2] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032823.do

[3] http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3115
I don't see why you think Dickinson is an unrelated example. He was never accused of any misconduct beyond wearing sunglasses while disagreeing with feminists.

The fact is that feminists have power in our society and the tech industry is relatively weak. We provide a great source of symbolic victories for them.
PSA: Get off your high horse
read title
And here is how you casually reveal your misogyny.
Some of it weren't in it for the profit. One of our cars was stolen some years ago, and found the next day a few miles away. I believe that it was some dirtbags who wanted to get home without hailing a taxi or walking.
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Sure, why not? I stand fully behind all my statements and see no need to hide behind pseudonyms. If you have a problem with fully disclosing my perspective by posting my dental degree, as is customary with healthcare professionals when signing their names, then you should probably seek therapy for your inferiority complex. Anyone secure, and confident with the position they present, should have no problem with it.

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>extend the conversation

The original conversation is not the one being extended. And who chose to take a leap away from the original conversation? You did. Your entire comment: invalid.
I've used both and definitely favor Lyft. Every driver I've had has been super friendly and personable. Makes me want to start driving for them on weekends.
If that's not enough African Wild Dogs have an incredible 80% hunting success rate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycaon_pictus#Hunting_and_diet
I know people that grew up there. I believe them. Thats all I can say.
How I Discovered Yo’s Upcoming Revenue Model
It's pretty straightforward, especially for us hackers: Just check out their .ipa file and see the BuySoundsController.nib in there :)

We don't know for sure yet whether this will indeed be included, or how important a role it will be playing in terms of their revenue, but I thought it was interesting enough to share so there you go :)
Ah yep, it was the Defcon video I saw which mentioned it, never saw the C# code. Badass.
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It's pretty straightforward, especially for us hackers: Just check out their .ipa file and see the BuySoundsController.nib in there :)

We don't know for sure yet whether this will indeed be included, or how important a role it will be playing in terms of their revenue, but I thought it was interesting enough to share so there you go :)
I still use MH-E + nmh in Emacs on Linux, and I had phantasies of using it with IMAP and the GNU version of nmh, but I've never really seen someone say it works. Anyone?
BTW, the links to message are serial number represented by hex. It is pretty easy to view other message simply by enumerating backwards.

Random ids will be open to everybody, but at least will be little difficult to brute-force.
No but they do often hold up a mirror to reality and debate real issues for example the office, yes minister and MASH.
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Funny he doesn't mention inbloom, in which in invested 100-170 Million [0][1]

[0]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/...

[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/03/student-database-ga...
True. I wonder if anyone has made a google results diffing tool yet. There must be one out there somewhere already, though whether it would show up on google results is another matter.
Something I wanted to ask for a long time:

> Many of the T100′s components are American made and sourced. It’s assembled in the USA. We’re proud of that.

Is that "made in the USA" thing really such a big selling point in the US? Because to me as an European that really is a little alienating. A "made in the US" logo - ok. But pointing out the proudness in marketing materials? Strange.
No, that's not evidence against the hypothesis, as the hypothesis is not "companies with little diversity cannot appeal to diverse audiences".

The hypothesis is "diverse viewpoints can help better understand and meet the needs of diverse audiences".
Are you referring to Joux here? Is the math for that really complicated? (I haven't tried to implement it.)

Later: I just read Ferguson, with the linear algebra.
Which is a great new other feature of USB Power Delivery: peripherals can provide bus power. This way you might have an external USB monitor (USB A/V you were announced 2011: where the _hell_ are you?!) that also provides power.

For a while it seemed like DisplayPort or DockPort might be the one cable to rule them all... USB PD seriously changes the footing of the game. Alas, USB A/V (encoded video to an output device) being completely absent is seriously damning USB's chance to be that one cable.
Putting my tinfoil hat on for a moment, these are the exact types of attacks that China and the US are alleged to have executed. I would trust Intel to lock down security on microcode updates (which is exactly why you can't find the answers to any of the questions you asked), but I would also trust that state actors (i.e. spies backed by a trillion dollar economy) have the resources to break any security that any one company could dream up.

I would guess that the first layer of protection comes from limiting the scope of microcode updates. Perhaps there's a semiconductor engineer out there who knows more?
Sure, it says they account for that right there in their FAQ, so I guess I don't understand your point.

If you think events like the world being destroyed by a meteorite, the Sun dying, or a zombie apocalypse should factor in to their 9's reliability percentage, it shouldn't.
That's how we rationalized it. :)
Same issue here with 10.9 and Chrome 36.

Get 4h45m with Chrome versus 6h30m with Safari doing the same tasks daily on a 2011 MBP i7.

Not overly bothered as I work right next to a power socket all day every day but it's an interesting statistic.
http://cdn.thedroidguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/USB-pl...

Source article actually relevant to topic: http://thedroidguy.com/2014/04/next-generation-usb-type-c-ca...
This is also relevant, someone implemented early-binding virtual method tables in Python and benchmarked the performance speedup: http://legacy.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/paper...
I don't think he was trying to put words in your mouth like that, but either way...
There is some logic, yes.

Is it possible that YC affiliates with higher-caliber VCs that are less prone to this behaviour?

Is it possible that "super rare" occurrences and "mostly unreported" occurrences are both very low numbers, to the point that YC can expect not to have any incidents?

I think the answers to both could be yes, but I don't know if anyone has numbers to support anything. Anecdotal evidence from often anonymous founders indicates that there is a problem, but I honestly don't know how out-of-control it is.

Either way, good on Sam and Jessica for addressing the issue.
>'The end result was that you were constantly getting immediate feedback about how well you understand the material...It really removed the stress of the class and gave me an opportunity to focus on the material itself, instead of worrying about how I would do on the tests.'

Interestingly, this is exactly what I like so much about the best MOOCs I've completed. Assigned exercises typically allow multiple attempts and provide immediate feedback during and after completion.

This is in stark contrast to my local University experience where everything is single attempt with the exception of papers where a single draft submission might be allowed.

Needless to say, I find the former far superior for learning.
I dropped this into another HN thread, so I'll just put it here:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-...

Takeaways: a) 512K routes isn't necessarily a hardware limitation, it's the default TCAM allocation for IPv4 and B) most people most of the time don't need their routers to take a full BGP feeds worth of routes - and I hope those that do aren't running 6500's in Q3 2014 ;)
Context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown
Given that Intel processors largely run the servers that the modern world runs on, I would expect that the NSA/CIA has done a full security audit of their microcode processes. The US government is nothing if not thorough about these types of potential security issues.
"...hoisting two big all-white American flags".
That's a funny slip of the pen.
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By building something bigger, are you referring to larger BGP routing tables?
This kills the site, so here's the Google cache link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:andybro...
ruined my morning at work, ugh
This would be unmanned and cost a fraction
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Looks a lot like what we did for OpenROV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q4CirrIgWo