skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure he's thinking painkillers are classed as psychiatric drugs, which if they were would mean he was correct.

But on your point, personally I think abuse of benzodiazepines is more likely to lead to a drug like Heroin than psychedelics are. The whole concept of "gateway drugs" hasn't been proven, but the effect of benzos is a lot closer to heroin than psychedelics (anyone who has actually tried heroin might correct me on this...), so would imagine a stronger cross-over (even if not due to a gateway effect, simply down to the fact that anyone who likes downers is likely to try other downers).
Did Feynman have the idea of building small remote control arms and using those to build smaller remote control arms, and so on, until you could work in the nano scale? Has anyone ever pursued that idea?
Is surviving on 20-minute naps bad for you?
> German ID cards are only for physical residents of Germany.

No. If you're a German citizen you can get a German ID card, even if you never set foot in Germany. See for instance http://www.brasil.diplo.de/Vertretung/brasilien/pt/Konsulars... (in Portuguese, instructions on how to get a German ID card for Brazilian residents).
Hypertension EDiary App for Novartis
Analysis: World Bitcoin Meetups: Tehran to Curaçao: Bitcoin from the Grassroots
Sure, but I've got about as much money in my bank account (as opposed to cash) and nobody has ever asked me to prove it wasn't gained illicitly if I wanted it back. I've got friends with boats, I've owned cars, and currently living in a house owned by my SO. None of us has been targeted just for having those things.

While I'm sure that they wouldn't hesitate to seize those assets if any of us were charged with some sort of drug offense, it doesn't come close to the way cash is treated. In this case and in others, the mere possession of a large sum of cash can be grounds for suspicion and seizure. It's like you don't really have a right to keep your money unless it's accessed via some plastic card or routing number.
High end GPUs can have up to 12GB of ram now, which I have to admit is starting to get reasonable. Just a few more doublings and you've got what high end render machines have, which I understand is in the range of 64GB to 128GB. Although I've heard that some simulation oriented machines have 256GB to 512GB.
30 problems/week, 10/lecture would actually make calculus enjoyable, you could stretch out, and spend 20-30 minutes on some of the more challenging problems without freaking out.
I feel like this is a pattern with Google - Good Web APIs, but the translation to Android is rife with issues. :(
I really like the idea of these 0 lines of code websites, but mostly for more static sites. As you can tell with this site, it's already suffering from lag in a bunch of places, which might be hard to fix. Disclaimer: I have never used bubble.is, but similar products
So, it lets you prototype apps. That is awesome.

Too bad all those engineers are going to be farmers by 2020 though. Because when your prototype gets popular, I doubt Bubble.is can handle all the things that actually make your app run at scale (the deployments, maintenance, database, etc management programming that is really what makes apps like Twitter run .. not just the tiny html/css/js stack that the client plays with).
The article quotes Michael Bloomberg as saying "If we can find a bunch of billionaires around the world to move here, that would be a godsend". But is attracting billionaires to your city a good thing? I can imagine it would be if they paid their taxes and contributed to the local economy, not just themselves but via their companies and personnel. But the article suggests in many cases they don't, i.e. they pay lower taxes and barely visit let alone invest outside the property market.
> Those tax rates - 20% VAT and 33% social taxes - are not friendly.

If selling in Europe (common tax area), VAT is mandatory at the point of sale. If the seller is outside Europe (common tax area) and purchaser in Europe (common tax area), the receiver of goods or services is liable to need to pay the tax, and buyers don't like tax/price surprises at point of import or use.

As for social taxes... if there are no Estonia resident employees this doesn't seem an issue.

For bank account - this seems like a headache - for banks as much as anyone, as they have to provide anti-money lending screening, which means 'know your customer' which means a physical visit from the customer. I'm sure Estonia has branches of HSBC, Citi, or other international networks, and they're working on, for example, allowing you to walk into a HSBC/Citi/etc located near where you are, and do the KYC from there. For me, this is the deal-breaker. If opening a bank account can happen without need to visit Estonia, then I'd try this, otherwise, without being able to receive or make payment, it is a nice idea but not in my use-case.
All hail SirMolly for his bbqs of awesomeness!
Well, actually making games requires that much power. I work at a games studio, run an 8-core(16-thread) Xeon + 64GB of ram + 1TB SSD and everything I do daily is just sloooow. Running the game in debug mode uses up all my ram, compilation times are between 20-40 minutes for the whole project even when using distributed build systems, and that 1TB SSD is not helping that much if it's nearly full all the time. If we could have our workstations upgraded to something like 16-core Xeons + 256GB of ram it would be a godsend.
It is possible that there are commodity consulting firms that focus on low-price for some lines of service like HR manuals. Systems consulting for telcoms is another sort of animal.

The customer will save significantly if their operational costs are reduced or their operational benefits are increased. On any worthwhile business project, these will dwarf the pricing delta among consultants. To put it another way, let the client make their money from running their business. Handing the client your profit is a bad idea.

In the engineering equivalent of the CAP theorem [1] better and faster are what matters for any project worth doing.

[1] Fast, cheap, good: pick two.
And FM radio can handle frequencies well beyond that.
Also, I've seen a few things recently talking about how as it continues to get easier engineering-wise to build consumer sites/apps quickly and scale them to big audiences, design becomes an even more important differentiator. This facebook launch is an interesting counter example to that idea in that they'll own much of the design and UI.
The Myth of Globalization in Consumer Tech
Might be a tiny bit exaggerated, losing 1% of your subs is no joke... but it wasn't the edge of apocalypse. Eve had 50k users around the time of this event in April 2005. Losing 500 players isn't exactly the end of the world. In fact, despite subs cancelled, the amount of subs never dropped during that time and grew to 100k before year's end.

I know there's a bit more context to it but this is just another hyperbolic title to an otherwise fun and interesting article :-/
I've been trying to get friends and family to switch to Telegram from iMessage and WhatsApp. Their native apps are great platform, speed is awesome, and, above all, it's a platform-agnostic system. I highly recommend it.
If I were amazon, I would have done an audit of the hyperv software and removed the floppy driver code entirely if unused for precisely this reason. This strikes me as a basic, "no-brainer" hardening step for my billion dollar(s) hosting business.
A Shodan Primer
How is it bad that large providers have an opportunity to patch before the vulnerability is released to the wild?

Maybe next you'll insist that everyone's prevented from patching for a week after disclosure so that smaller companies that don't have the resources to react immediately are not unfairly left behind?
We should not define people in terms of what they are "not" or lump them into a group of who they are different from ("minority"). So no, if you are white you can be just that.

Maybe it doesn't have as much play outside the U.S. but the term PoC seems to work well here. For the whole semantic argument I'll point to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color .
And the alternative?
You didn't read much of the page :)

To quote:

"For many of the affected virtualization products, a virtual floppy drive is added to new virtual machines by default. And on Xen and QEMU, even if the administrator explicitly disables the virtual floppy drive, an unrelated bug causes the vulnerable FDC code to remain active and exploitable by attackers."
I would be more concerned about the consequences of not complying than the probability.
My last home server was a core i7 with 16gb of non-ecc. I noticed some PostgreSQL corruption, which was odd to me. Then I noticed the most of my compressed backups failed to decompress all the way, due to some corruption. It'd make a backup just fine but they couldn't verify. It had been going on silently for weeks or maybe months before I noticed. Turned out to be a bad memory chip. I have a Xeon with ecc now.
I'm saying that the HN comments have a TLDR at the bottom, because everyone downvotes it
Let's say there is an installed base of 2 billion personal computers, let's say 10% of those are Macs, that's 200 million, 10% of those would have to have MacKeeper installed to hit 20m users.
If you expand this kind of math to the entire day of a typical person, you'd realize that we all should just donate everything we have, live as cheaply as possible and spend every minute not dedicated to sustaining our bodies on helping the poor, hungry and sick. And yes, if everyone did just that, we'd probably solve all problems within a year.

Unfortunately, humans not only just can't coordinate like this (coordination problems are a very sad thing in my book) - they can't mentally endure it. That's why I like the idea of Giving What We Can[0] - just dedicate 10% or more of your income to helping the poor and feel discharged of your basic moral obligation to them. 10% may sound like not much, but people can't handle 100% dedication, and it's better to have them all at 10% than not at all.

[0] - https://www.givingwhatwecan.org
> I'm pretty sure he's thinking painkillers are classed as psychiatric drugs, which if they were would mean he was correct.

Yes, you are correct. My bad.
You're right; that was poor wording. At the link they talk the "crypto algorithms" not cryptosystems that they combine.
Yes, name a tv show where the man is the idiot and the woman the smart or normal one (all of them). Name a sitcom where the man is smart and the woman an idiot (none of them, and 'Married with children' doesn't count, they were all idiots. Of course I'm not advocating portraying women as idiots).
No, it's not good for the writers, nor is it good for the readers.

Facebook has set a trap, and is baiting readers and writers with some short term gains. At the long term, the only party that this is good for is Facebook itself.

That said, it's doomed to happen, sooner or later. I really don't know what to think about those initiatives anymore. Maybe what's important is that we keep an open internet, not that we keep the Internet open.
The Anatomy of a High Converting Blog
Show HN: DIY Camps
Just this morning I've been reading yet another book on US railroad history, and collecting copies of historical documents about railroad corporations. With an eye toward eventually (someday (tm)) writing a book about it myself.

All because of an interest created by Railroad Tycoon many years ago.
> All of which is to get to the advice, value based pricing is empirical. The only way to establish the right value is by raising your prices.

Thanks for advice. In the past, I have managed to raise rates from one gig to the other, and I am confident that there is room left upwards. What sounds so intriguing by the posts like patio11 and others though, is that they seem to be able to correlate their service with hard metrics: be that conversions on a website, ad spend, whatever. Maybe I am misreading that.

While I am confident to again and again be able to negotiate my rates, it would have hoped to find an idea on how to use hard facts rather than the current negotiation dance.
Or perhaps they're using a custom-compiled Xen without the vulnerable floppy disk emulation.
Good post, but since learning how to be kind isn't on Google's list of things you need to know before becoming an engineer, it's not an important skill. Right, HN?
It's Visual Basic for the web then?

EDIT: To clarify that, I don't mean that in a nasty, snarky way. VB drove a lot of business software and got huge numbers of people writing software, many of whom weren't employed as developers.
Yes that is what I meant. A confusion on my part.
Exactly, but entirely visual, no Basic
Ask HN: How to find startups hiring people from overseas?
I have always thought I was a good programmer. I was the best in my school, I started studying algebraic topology at 19, I have 5 years professional experience in some deep low-level stuff (media encoding primarily). I have even been invited to Google Zurich once.

I was wrong, I am just an average one. I am just a "gloomy" Russian with some strange degree. I have been dreamed of leaving my country for years, and as I imagine, there are two major ways to do so: to get a job offer from a huge company (e.g. Amazon) or from a startup.

Huge companies do not mind all the work permit procedures, they pay a lot, but they also demand a lot, and I am honestly not good enough for them yet. Mid-sized companies do not usually bother themselves with foreign employees at all. But some small companies do indeed.

How can one find such employers who cannot afford to pay a lot, but who can hire people from overseas? Or even sponsor a Greed Card a few years later if we are talking about the U.S. I do not care about the money. I just need to be relocated, I cannot stand this anymore.
Lemme just give my actual Twitter login details to some guy I've never heard of.
Yes, because most people will not erase their printed logo and they get advertisement. If they notice that most people erase the logo, then they could just stop giving away the bag.
> I'd rather spend my time reading content on an interface that I don't have to fight against (e.g. full screen overlay ads with a tiny x to close)

RSS readers solved this problem a long time ago.
In a TV show in which people are portrayed as unusually smart (not merely normal), most of them will be male.
BitTorrent's P2P messaging launches
So how secure is Telegram?
You should clarify what you mean by "extinct".

No one speaks Old English, which became Middle then modern English. But the language changed over time, so there was no one point where it went "extinct."

So, is FORTRAN 66 "extinct"? What about Python-0.9? If so, then K&R C is dying.

It is not the case that there are so many programming languages because "they all do some things better than others". The BASIC interpreter I did in BASIC was a lousy language. But it was fun to write.

Languages also exist for reasons that have little to do with quality. Javascript got its start, and oddities, because of internal political reasons at Netscape. What it does "better" is it's in web browsers, but that's a post-hoc justification, as every popular language is in use in part because people use.

It is hard to know what the future will bring. Perhaps when the Great AI awakens in 2355 there will be no computer languages as the Great AI will do all the work for us.

But until then, no, I see little likelihood of a grand unification. Excel, for example, is a very specialized programming language with its own IDE that is unlike, say, Java and Java development environments. It's so different that most people don't even recognize Excel as a programming language.
I have an Intel Core i7 4930K with simple auto-overclocking, its pretty sweet. I would suggest for software development, you can stick with the high end Core i7s that are usually priced around $500 - $800 per CPU.

If I was to buy a new CPU today, I'd buy this one:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5930K...

I also have quad channel OC memory on my motherboard, the quad channel part is actually significant in terms of compile speed (and the OC part isn't I found out.)
The missing reset of the fifo is in one of the handlers defined at http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=hw/block/fdc.c;hb=2...

fdctrl_stop_transfer() might be one of the incriminated functions.
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Thought provoking indeed.
> any statement of the form if X then Y is true if X is false

This is indeed precisely what I meant by "anything (Y) follows from a false statement (X)"—although maybe "everything follows from a false statement" sounds better. This is precisely why an inconsistent logic can prove everything.

This principle is sometimes also called ex falso quodlibet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_falso_quodlibet). Of course, giving it another name doesn't make it any more (or less) true, but it may make it sound more familiar and less dodgy! I know I muffed up the first statement pretty badly, which doesn't inspire confidence; but, as a mathematician, I'm pretty sure about this one. :-)
It makes sense for the ones that require mass mobilization and mass education to fix. This vulnerability isn't quite that... there are relatively fewer people managing VM infrastructure, and this only affects certain types of VMs.

That said, it's really hard to market security companies in ways that represent the hard work that they do, in ways that are not all snake oil and spin. So it's hard to blame folks for trying to turn excellent security investigative work into self-promotional opportunities.

(Edits: clarity and trying not to sound judgmental of the parent comment)
How Germs Might Shape the Future of Architecture
Sustainable kettle brews up a Kickstarter storm
They use Xen, not Hyper-V and yes they already remove/replace large portions of Xen.
Failure modes of science fiction
"Design as differentiator" is the problem. There is an optimal way to design for readability, and all that "differentiation" usually does is making things worse and worse, because "we have to be different!".
Here's some advice: stop reading/believing everything you read on the Internet/see in movies and come over for a visit. Distorting your perceptions with solely sensationalist articles (though not saying this one is)/pop culture only does yourself a disservice.
Why don't you like this trend? I don't see the harm.

Also, the FAQ explains a lot; including the details of how the vulnerability works.
Just type any old crap in the registration box and you'll be able to see the authenticated user view.
This actually looks really useful.
WhatsApp was first, that's all
OpenBSD made some good progress back in 5.5 (May, 2014)

http://www.openbsd.org/55.html

o time_t is now 64 bits on all platforms.
o From OpenBSD 5.5 onwards, OpenBSD is year 2038 ready
o The entire source tree (kernel, libraries, and userland
programs) has been carefully
and comprehensively audited to support 64-bit time_t.
o Userland programs that were changed include arp(8),
bgpd(8), calendar(8), cron(8), find(1),
fsck_ffs(8), ifconfig(8), ksh(1), ld(1), ld.so(1),
netstat(1), pfctl(8), ping(8), rtadvd(8), ssh(1),
tar(1), tmux(1), top(1), and many others, including
games!
o Removed time_t from network, on-disk, and database
formats.
o Removed as many (time_t) casts as possible.
o Format strings were converted to use %lld and (long
long) casts.
o Uses of timeval were converted to timespec where
possible.
o Parts of the system that could not use 64-bit
time_t were converted to use unsigned 32-bit instead,
so they are good till the year 2106.
o Numerous ports throughout the ports tree received
time_t fixes.
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> I'm most interested in seeing how jitsu and unikernels can turn the tables

The useful aspect about the MirageOS unikernels is that they use the pure Xen PV interface, which has almost no dependency on qemu. No floppy or block/net emulation, timers through the direct Xen shared_info page, and generally as "native" to x86 as Xen permits.
How Chirp enables easy data transfers using nothing but sound
There's not a massive difference. These are people who speak (for the most part) the same language, have (for the most part) the same religion (Christianity), live a few miles from each others, listen to the same music, watch the same tv shows and read similar books at home and school. Sorry, but for outsiders, you are the same people and for the most part, they'd be right to think so. People are not that different, especially people who have so much in common as the inhabitants of the UK, get over yourself, you're not that special.

I'm sure you don't know and care that southern Peruvians from Arequipa like to be called Arequipaños and wouldn't like being mistaken with Northern Peruvian from the Jungle etc. Thing is they're the same to any outsider.
It 100% isn't about popularity, it's about usability.

I tried to get my friends on Tox, but ultimately had to get them on Telegram because it was the only app that was truly 100% cross-platform.
Some Things Can't Be Wireframed
No need -- just submit them all!
It seems like it might be useful for the same kinds of scenarios something like Access is -- basically, end users making small internal tools.
Their PV domains are not affected anyway. Quite possibly they are running qemu in stub domains for HVM as well, rather than on dom0, but you may well be right about the floppy code too.
It reminds me of all those people saying wysiwyg editors would kill the need to know HTML. Really, they made it possible for developers to work on more complicated and exciting projects. Uncle Phil wants help with his flower store website? He'll be happy with WordPress.com or SquareSpace.com and you can continue working on your stuff without being a bad nephew.
I'm not sure how useful it is to pass judgment over whether other people are wasting their time. If I'm doing something that's fulfilling to me, is that really a waste?

Besides, we really don't need most people to spend their time feeding the homeless or building shelters. It takes money, not work, to feed and house people. Our economy can easily sustain enough food for everyone and enough homes for everyone without anyone (including poor people) having to work any harder.

The fact that we're not feeding and housing everyone isn't really a reflection of how hard we're working.
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This may very well be a cool product - I like the idea of people being able to build things without code (how do they architect a DB?).

Of course, as a lot of people are pointing out, this approach doesn't scale very well. To be fair, neither did the original Twitter, and it was built on Rails. They're different levels of scale, but if all you really need is a proof of concept this could solve the "How do I find a CTO so we can build a quick app and see if anyone cares?" problem.

I'd be careful pitching it (yet) as a "we'll never need engineers again" product, as I don't think that's the case; it is incredibly slow, and it errored out for me three times (http://take.ms/iwa9W). I still haven't been able to get in.
Just added the license file.
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
I think, i know what you did there Oo
If someone wants 16k, they can wait the 30min it takes me to go to the bank and get a cashiers check.
Is this meant to be a link to the doodle? https://g.co/doodle/3p3jdj

If so, as a geophysicist, I approve! :)
They laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Einstein, and they laughed at Bozo the Clown.
is only me having a slow experience? The concept is actually very interesting, it really makes it very easy to build websites for small businesses.
Why this woman dropped out of Temple’s computer science program
I never went to the bbqs being young and poor when I was in bob but damm was I jealous about not being there. Sitting in IRC as people were there was fun tho

Anyway I logging out, even a thread about eve is taking up my frigging day.