skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that it's legal, do you think they will abide by the regulations, or is it just a symbolic move that will have an intangible effect on the actual business? It's hard to tell if a company operating largely outside the law will go inside of it now that it is just an inconvenience to comply instead of impossible.
Ha, E stand for nginx, how silly of me.
Most modern smartphones are bootloader locked. Circumventing those locks is arguably violating the anti-circumvention bits of the DMCA. Therefore, to install another OS, you have to break the law.

Worth mentioning is that it's illegal in the same way breaking the speed limit by 1MPH is illegal, i.e. technically against the law, but your chances for ending up in trouble for doing it are nil.
The lesson is don't cling to a technically or intellectually elegant architecture if it's falling over in the real world.
I'm getting a 404, and the domain home says the user hasn't published a book yet. Has it been taken down for good?
SGX includes microcode-based crypto which allows an enclave to both sign and encrypt things using keys based on a hash of the contents of the enclave and some master private key locked away in the CPU. I haven't looked into exactly how this works (although I'd love to defeat it some day when it's released...), but it can't be emulated in software unless you manage to extract the private key.

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/article/41393...
The cited SGX analysis was written by a Qubes/Xen developer:

"Intel SGX is essentially a new mode of execution on the CPU, a new memory protection semantic, plus a couple of new instructions to manage this all. So, you create an enclave by filling its protected pages with desired code, then you lock it down, measure the code there, and if everything's fine, you ask the processor to start executing the code inside the enclave. Since now on, no entity, including the kernel (ring 0) or hypervisor (ring “-1”), or SMM (ring “-2”) or AMT (ring “-3”), has no right to read nor write the memory pages belonging to the enclave."
I've got 12 cards in my wallet right now. Passbook accepts one of them. I'm unaware of any equivalents that would work with even a majority of them.
Big Pharma Giant Takes on the Government – The Alliance for Natural Health USA
> Large scale power plants (coal, nuclear, even gas to some extent) run at a very steady output

I wonder if we could do the same with legacy power plants as they do with solar thermal - shove some of the excess heat into molten salt heat storage when renewables are reaching their maximum output, then use that as a finer throttling mechanism. That would mean you wouldn't have to run the coal plants as heavily non-stop. It could buy us some time as we figure out how best to store the energy from photovoltaics and wind (it's pretty much solved for solar thermal).
If you removed all subsidies, the situation would change less than you might think. The biggest difference would be nuclear going out of the game. Solar right now is competitive on retail price of electricity, which is all you need for rooftop solar to make sense.
Please do allow other sites to use HN logins. Then the community could develop useful sister services.

For example, a site where HN members can upvote and rate different development tools, libraries, IDEs, management tools, etc. All with backlinks to HN discussions. It's a great community and there are many ways we could share knowledge and experience.
Of course since processors are out of order and superscalar reducing instructions isn't always a worthy goal either. You might end up with less instructions but less things happening in parallel. And then of course you have to balance this with the cache efficiency of having to look at less instructions to complete a task.

Basically, optimization at this level is really hard.
Here's the latest news, blog posts and tweets about the Panda 4.1 update.﻿
A Week Drinking the Black Blood of the Earth, the Gnarliest Coffee on the Market
Wow, I didn't see this coming.
A wonderful, albeit dense, read that touches on Extropianism among many other things is Techgnosis

http://www.amazon.com/TechGnosis-Myth-Magic-Mysticism-Inform...
Ethos of the piece: PR doesn’t stand for press release. Please appreciate that the P in
stands for public not publicity or propaganda or publishing. This is about public relations. But perhaps even that doesn’t quite capture the essence of the importance or PR. PR symbolizes People and Relationships.
I would like to defend the "everybody can code" movement a bit. First of all, I'm sure we both support the idea of giving everyone the opportunity to learn coding. Along with that, however, I want to point out that the movement is not intended to make everyone a programmer. Not every child will become a programmer, and I think everyone recognizes that. The point of the movement is that a basic understanding of programming is becoming necessary for many jobs, and that even a basic idea of how to code can get one person a job over another person with no experience. The movement is about raising the baseline coding knowledge above 0, not about making everyone into a programmer.
...ski mountains do their snowmaking at night because the power is the greatest expense...

Well, also, it's usually colder at night, which also helps the snowmaking. b^)
I'm genuinely curious whether new homes will start wiring lighting for DC to accommodate all these new LED bulbs? I just don't have a good sense whether its more efficient to transform AC to DC at a central hub in the home to distribute to all rooms, or more efficient to do it at the bulb itself.
I was rewatching Resnais' "L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad" and I had forgotten that this game figures. I looked it up and was surprised at the winning strategy.
Well it's worked for many years for Microsoft too.

Adobe, do it as well I think, though they're close to a monopoly with Photoshop.

Have people become so accustomed to using your software that it's easier for them to pay for it than to transition to another company's products or indeed to go with FOSS alternatives.

It's the drug dealer model: first hit is free.
please come and visit michigan.
Not illegal but not legal.
> Man, I wish I'd kept my Extropy magazines. I ditched them in a move about 15 years ago.

Well, for what it's worth, here's the archives I have been collecting. I also have other extropians-related files, but this is somewhat of a "I don't know what I have" issue, so it will just take some more poking and prodding for me to categorize and upload the rest.

extropians: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/extropians/

cypherpunks: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/cypherpunks/cypherpunks-199209-1...

> but I've lost track of whatever group is on the broader picture of extreme technological ambition.

Mostly it's the same groups, except not where you first found them. For example, the cypherpunks and cryptography mailing lists haven't degraded as terribly as extropy-chat/extropians.

There is a transhumanism/biohacking channel on irc.freenode.net ##hplusroadmap which has logs here http://gnusha.org/logs/ since 2008. (Disclaimer, I am the resident optroll.)

... and there's a bitcoin/cryptography wizardry channel on the same server in #bitcoin-wizards (but also #bitcoin is reasonable), logs can be found here: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizards/ In general, I would recommend #bitcoin for most messages.

As for the rest of the cryptocurrency world, that's a little more difficult to explain and keep track of...

You know, the weird thing is that looking back on the extropians, they weren't really all that ambitious. Sure, they would talk about DNA or something, but did any of them ever bother to spend a few hours in a molecular biology lab? And what about software, how many of them (who didn't already code) bother to pick up code slinging to advance their interests? That's not to say that they were unskilled-- many of them were extremely skilled, but they sort of showed up like that, and didn't move the needle. Oh well, different times.
Vectorization shifts the performance tradeoffs in the storage model. As a practical matter, users design their applications around the performance tradeoffs of database engines, so you really can't change your storage model without alienating users.

There are roughly four different storage models in databases, with their own acronyms: NSM (pure row structured storage), DSM (sorted columnar structured storage), PAX (like DSM but where a row is stored within a single page), VSM (array structured individual columns where every element in a row has the same index). PAX and VSM are hybrid storage models. All four are used in real commercial systems. Vector storage models (VSM) are extremely good for real-time workloads; they sacrifice a little bit of insert performance for a major improvement in query performance relative to NSM, but their insert/append performance is much better than DSM or (to a lesser extent) PAX.

The reason vector models are extremely efficient in terms of query processing boil down to a few facts. First, a column can be streamed into the CPU as a sequential memory scan, which is very efficient. Second, constraints on multiple columns can be trivially parallelized. Third, searches across multiple columns/attributes can usually be constructed as a bitmap per column, and then composed as simple AND/OR operations over those bitmaps, which is extremely fast. Fourth, individual columns in this model are amenable to the use of vector instructions for evaluation in the CPU, saving even more clock cycles.

There is no ideal storage model, it really depends on the workload. Some sophisticated databases will change the storage model to adapt to the likely access patterns, such as NSM (great for a page with a lot of inserts) to PAX or VSM (great for queries when a page is unlikely to change much).
> you can't keep power as inventory

Sure you can. Using compressed air, springs, pumped water and other such simple techniques. It just takes additional investments that haven't been worth it. Maybe this is changing.
There are, but Objective-C was unique at the time in terms of being object-oriented and late binding and compiled to machine code and interfacing efficiently with C code.

IMO these features made it more productive than C++ or Pascal for developing GUI-based applications.
Oh! Taking that a step further, what if you mmap'd an empty file first, say 1MB of zeroes. Then, just start writing closures to it, one after another. When you hit 1MB, use mremap to add another 1MB. And just keep going! The pagefile would become a fossil record of the webserver's access history. The earlier in the file, the older the request, and the less likely it would ever be mapped into physical RAM ever again. On a 64-bit machine with a modern hard drive, you could probably go forever :)
Yeah I was looking forward to reading them, I guess this is best for now: https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/
I looked it up and am wrong as of 2010 when the Registrar of Copyright of the Library of Congress ruled that, in fact, it was legal to jailbreak iPhones and other smartphones. Apologies, I will remove the comment above.
Like ham sandwiches?

unregulated ≠ illegal
Or you could just URLencode the serialized closure, and sign that URL. Now as long as the page exists, the closure exists!
Notes: http://jonalmeida.com/posts/2014/10/07/htsas-lec05/
hmm.. I said I was staff/admin and it said I would get an email within a week. Would lying and saying I'm a student have gotten me immediate access?
Yeah looks like that was the argument that held up until just a few years ago. I remember it being 'illegal' (like breaking the speed limit) at that time. As of 2010 it appears to have changed. Note that it IS illegal to modify a phone so that it connects to a carrier it wasn't 'intended' to connect to.
yep, I only got a 25% discount--none of the freebies.
damn.
Presumably regulating them is the first step towards fining them for non-compliance.
I think Peter is mistaken as to why science goes about inventing things with little financial gain. There are some people that don't want money (who would have thought?), but find more value in the research. It's fair to say that on the other hand, there are those who also want some sort of financial gain, so there should be a way for them to go about this.

> "If people at Twitter make billions of dollars, it must be that Twitter is worth far more than what Einstein did."

Do people actually follow this thinking? Can someone give a better example of how this supposedly works?
Let's not forget the widening gap between "advanced user" and "developer", created by schemes like code signing, forced app-store distribution models, and the gradual removal of "only developers will need them" features from software. While there are arguably security benefits to such closed ecosystems, it also makes it much harder for users to be in control of their computers - which includes modifying and writing new software for them.

Compared to a PC today, the original IBM PC/XT/AT was amazingly open. All versions of DOS came with a basic debugger, which could also be used to write short Asm programs. I remember these being popularly published in the computing magazines of the time, and there was a general attitude of openness around that.

Perhaps the average user today doesn't care, but what astounds me is how much freedom we've given up in pursuit of security and safety. We seem to have gone down a path (or the corporations have led us down one) in which we're lead to believe that having responsibility and freedom is a bad thing, and that we'd be happier - blissfully ignorant - if we let these corporations (and governments) take over for us.
Some complete tangents into the data presentation/slicing of this article.

Figure 3 is a horrible graph, a perfect illustration of why scatterplots suck! Asians completely overwhelm everything else due solely to the fact that they were plotted last and because of the huge space filling dots. Not to mention that because of all the overlap, density is nearly invisible.

Secondly, the "Asian" category is clearly nonsensical here, given that highly exclusive Asian domains were indiatimes.com and baidu.com. It should have taken the author about a second to recognize that maybe this category is overly broad.
Thats actually not worth mentioning.

Speeding by 1mph isn't a practical or useful law to enforce. Creating a new OS and breaking the boot loader would require a group of people working together in some organized form, which would make it practical to target, and it'd probably be financially threatening to a larger company, which would make it useful to enforce.

In 2014, companies are the political and cultural entities in our society, and a law like this kills off a class of entity.
Finding the right version of the source code is definitely a challenge. However, it's a solvable one. What you're suggesting is actually what ExceptError does. It indexes all versions of each library, and uses context from the entire stack-trace, including line-numbers, method-names, etc, to find the exact match.

Agree that IDE is the best way, especially when it comes to Java, but it's not always possible. For example you may be debugging distributed systems in production.
So, Intel plans to embed a key, signed by some well known root key, in each CPU. I might have skipped over a step or two here, but basically the idea is that only Intel would have the necessary signing key to be able to spoof attestations?

Whoever wants to run their code in the enclave would send over a sort of bootloader, which would be responsible for acquiring the signed attestation from the CPU and sending it back. If the signature is good, then the actual code to be run in the enclave can be uploaded.

Something about this feels wrong... but then again if Intel wanted to backdoor its CPUs we'd all be screwed anyway, so it's hard to see how this feature could hurt.

If applications want anti-virus to be able to get at their data, then they'll just have to provide an explicit interface to do that.

If this becomes widely deployed, that root key would be pretty valuable!
These regulations appear to mostly apply to the individuals who choose to rent out their property. Airbnb itself dodged the one big item that would have impacted them directly, which was an idea that Airbnb should be on the hook for $25 million in "back taxes."
A journalist will freely quote you and misrepresent your statement regardless of any copyright license.
Coconut2D unified HTML5, iOS and Android game development
They fall in a grey area if anything.
It's not compatible with any country outside of those suffering from hyperinflation. The problem with Bitcoin is its speculative element. I understand it can't keep its bold claims implementing a currency board, but if Bitcoin was tied to the dollar, billions would be using it already.
Thank you for the changes. I appreciate very much not seeing "Expired link" these days :)
Mercedes is making good strides with driverless vehicles but they should make sure to take have precautionary measures in place for driver's that could be reckless.
In other words, the product doesn't actually exist. This is a very Kickstarter-esque way to (1) assess demand and (2) generate revenue.
Entrepreneur porn is fine, but remember that it’s just porn
I heard an exec from Green Mountain on a radio program a few weeks ago (unfortunately this doesn't seem available without extortionate fees: http://www.humanmedia.org/catalog/program.php?products_id=29... ), and she claimed that the power sold back to the grid had enabled them to delay and/or avoid capital improvements. That is, power produced near where it's used doesn't have to travel as far. She portrayed the "disincentive" as a good thing.
That has almost nothing to do with the quality of the tap water. At least in the USA, I don't remember exactly when it happened, but there was a time when individual bottled waters basically didn't exist. Well, it existed, but there wasn't walls of the stuff at every grocery and convenience store.
Related: "Drowning in Light" from a few weeks ago: http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/drowning-in-light https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344769

It makes the compelling argument that people are addicted to light. "Tsao calculates that, as a result, light represents a constant fraction of per capita gross domestic product (GDP) over time; the world has been spending 0.72 percent of its GDP for light for 300 years now. If there are other energy markets that show a constant percentage of GDP expenditure over time, Tsao doesn’t know of them."
I had to check if it was april fools.

No way you could make something as thin as a real credit card do all this in 2015 and have a battery, etc.

Maybe by 2020, but not yet.
The sad thing is he played over two days. They just watched for two days. I suppose because they had no rules against his strategy.
I live in NYC and think that something like this here would only solve one of the major problems we have with Airbnb. If it is enforced, the 90-day cap should be enough to keep apartments from being taken off the market during a housing crisis so they can be used as full-time hotels. That is really important, because it is the more affordable apartments that are most vulnerable to this, since they don't usually have a doorman or a landlord that is likely to care that much.

The problem it doesn't solve, however, is the fact that hotel guests shouldn't be staying in apartment buildings unattended by a host anyway. It creates terrible problems for people who are actually trying to live there, since Airbnb guests will treat your building like a hotel. I would much prefer that a host always be required to be present if the rental in question is an apartment.
Comcast got me fired after billing dispute, says California man
Went on your Way
Of course it is fake. You can't do this with today's technology, or next years, at least not for $150

Go look at the actual thinness of a credit card.

The battery would have to be 90% of the surface area even with e-ink.
If it is your poker table, in your home, with your cards, then it is your responsibility to ensure that they are fair.

There is a rule in poker: "it is the player's responsibility to protect his hand".
That thought occurred to me as well. Circadian phase delay already seems to be a problem re: the increasing brightness of our computing devices, almost all using LEDs.

New phones, tablets, TV's, etc. should come with a warning to keep them "dimmed down" in the evening, or better, keep use to a minimum late in the day. Sure, I know, the odds are about zilch people would actually heed such advice, but it ought to be out there anyway.

Another thing is the the relatively low CRI. For many purposes (industrial, medical, artistic) the spectral output of bright LEDs is far less than ideal. LEDs will probably get closer to "full-spectrum" over time, and no doubt will easily beat the discontinuous spectrum of fluorescent lamps.

LEDs now just need to get cheap enough, and really need to work with existing dimmer controllers.
I just sprinted and re-created this in AngularJS as well.

Took me 2 hours from start to finish.

Demo: https://hn-ng.firebaseapp.com/

Source: https://github.com/hswolff/hn-ng
placebo paradoxon- different teams - different conclusions :)

I agree with this:

"It is evident that placebo effects are real and that they have therapeutic potential. Laboratory evidence supports the existence of numerous placebo mechanisms and effects in both healthy volunteers and patients with a variety of medical conditions. Furthermore, clinically relevant evidence demonstrates that placebo effects can have meaningful therapeutic effects, by virtue of magnitude and duration, in different patient populations. Although substantial progress has been made in understanding placebo effects, considerable scientific work remains to be done in both laboratory experiments and translational clinical trial research,
---> with the ultimate aim of harnessing placebo effects to improve patient care."

Damien G Finniss,corresponding author Ted J Kaptchuk, Franklin Miller, and Fabrizio Benedetti

"Placebo Effects: Biological, Clinical and Ethical Advances"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2832199/
It doesn't sound like they have a realistic plan to enforce the 90 day limit. This strange right of action for 5 year old non-profits, that can only seek an injunction and can only go after some subset of violators does not seem like it will be very useful.

They should have created a private right of action sounding in nuisance, with damages available, and open to any affected party. And maybe a loser pays provision.
They should be requiring that Airbnb help them enforce it. Airbnb could easily require you to input a permit number when you create a listing then keep track of the number of days you are renting without a host present in order to make sure you don't go over it. They should also be reporting your rental income to the state for tax purposes.
I wonder, what the purpose of this article was. It looks like that it wasn't sharing of hands-on knowledge.
Thiel isn't saying that scientists don't want to make money, but that there is an attitude shared by many of them that making money is somehow wrong. Thiel believes that this attitude is just cover for the fact that so few scientists are able to make money from their discoveries even if they want to.

You should go back and listen again to what Thiel said, this isn't something he believes. He is describing society's reaction to technological innovation. Steve Jobs, Apple and the iPhone are good examples. Is iPhone the greatest invention of the 21st century? Did Jobs create more value than Einstein? You would think so just going by the media attention they have received.
Nice time to makes some awesome data charts like most common subjects, etc...
...if you aren't angling for a buyout in a few months anyway.