skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tons of uses for this "little" features. Profit sharing, revenue splits, forced savings, etc...
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Let's not forget the companies that not just caved to Hollywood, but actively promoted their ideas at W3C and so on (see EME, etc).

They share the blame, too. They can't all just throw their hands up in the air and say "they made us do it".
Of note, Vance is also the legal genius who decided to carry water for Goldman Sachs, doggedly pursuing the prosecution of Sergey Aleynikov (familiar to those who read Michael Lewis' Flash Boys book) even after his federal case had been completely thrown out. He's also responsible for the Dominique Strauss-Kahn debacle.

Hopefully he'll get some actual opposition in an election soon, he's an embarrassment to the city at this point.
QR codes and such I imagine will fade as more applications support live OCR. Its only a matter of time before phones will ship with the native app using text detection to make hyperlinks clickable from the camera app. There's already text grabber and the like on iOS/Android. This seems like a stop-gap. It's cool but I just can't see using it.
> In summary, we believe that AI has great potential to benefit humanity in many ways, and that the goal of the field should be to do so. Starting a military AI arms race is a bad idea, and should be prevented by a ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control.

Why only ban offensive autonomous weapons? Why not ban them all? How is offensive different from defensive in this context?
A great book along these lines is Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business by Chet Richards.

Boyd was a fighter pilot who invented the concept of the "OODA Loop." Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. The competitor who can do this faster generally wins...not just by moving faster, but by disorienting opponents, and thus disrupting their OODA loops.

There's more to it than just pushing for speed. If you're doing a poor job of understanding the situation, for example, pushing ahead with fast decisions won't help you.

A lot of what Richards writes about is building a business capable of fast, effective OODA loops.
Considering that perspective, the irony of the name "Stagefright" is not lost.
It's a very interesting architecture that I've heard about on paper for a while now but never seen on silicon. Have they done anything with it on ASIC/FPGA or is it vaporware for now?

Talking exotic, look at No Instruction Set Computing (NISC) which was at least prototyped and published synthesis/compilers:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080302041756/http://www.ics.uc...

Really interesting stuff. Reminded me of Tensillica's tools that create a custom processor for your application. Need to accelerate your Hadoop, etc application? Run most of it on Intel CPU with an onboard FPGA & NISC tools doing the critical path. Intel's Altera acquisition might make something like that achievable in future.

Note: Used archive because their site is having a configuration error.
There are no laws requiring this, since if there was, all banks would provide it, but not all do. Those who do are few of the big traditional banks, but mostly newer disruptive banks, such as those started by retail chains.

"every single customer that comes in requires services from a human..."

That's only if there are physical branches! I'm almost starting to think you think I'm making stuff up. So let me explain (this is Sweden by the way):

Many banks here don't have physical offices at all, or just provide banking services through existing infrastructure (some large retail chains, for example IKEA and our largest grocery chain). All banks, but especially the large commercial banks with physical branches charge huge fees for the manual transactions (paying a bill in a physical branch can be $5-$15), as to discourage manual service. Only elderly people use manual bank services these days and physical branches closed in large numbers starting 15 years ago, since most banking moved to the Internet. I haven't used a manual banking service (paid a bill, cashed a check, deposited cash...) in ten years.

I'm not sure what the marginal costs of audits, insurances and so on are for our banks, but apparently lower than the expected income from a customer. You know how McDonalds sell you a $1 item at a loss just to get you in the door (a "loss leader")? - this could well be a case of that, and that would make a lot of sense. As everyone is always paid salary to a bank account here, I imagine the average customer can be pretty attractive; Everyone with a legal employment of any kind will have money in their accounts. The bank just needs to believe that the expected income of a new customer is greater than the marginal costs. I do believe banks here have very nearly zero marginal cost for a customer that opens an account themselves using electronic ID, and never uses a physical branch. I also think the expected future profit from a customer can be pretty big because of how the economy works with high employment and all salaries paid to bank accounts.
I'm just here so I don't get fined
Hey YCF - I'm more active on reddit in r/startups and r/entrepreneur under the name cityscout
But cgroups do not provide isolation, just better resource management.
> I don't want to anyone to build autonomous weapons, but I don't want anyone to build nuclear weapons or any other weapons of war either

FWIW, all of the scientists involved in creating the first nuclear weapons immediately after the first detonation began pushing for a ban on further nuclear armament, and since then all wars have been fought with conventional weapons.

I've been reading about the nuclear arms race and it is terrifying how often we came to destroying ourselves. I have possibly never seen greater evidence that there may be a god.
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It's surprising you're getting a fullness response from consuming sugar, given how poor and short lived of an energy source it is. Typically sugar leaves people feeling a lot less full, which leads to craving more, and comes with an energy crash shortly thereafter.

Maybe try using artificial sweeteners and supplementing your diet with more fiber and or protein at the point you consume the artificial sweetener, both of which will fill you up (or should) drastically more than sugar. That might compensate for the sensation you're getting regarding removing sugar.
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If the results of taxpayer (not government, no such thing, it's our money) funded research is hidden behind paywalls and made difficult to use freely through patents the net effect is that we are bound to repeat many mistakes or waste a lot of time and money reinventing wheels invented and patented using our own money.
This is exactly the problem though - everything about the concept of "applying whatever charges that may stick" sounds predatory.

Being thrown charges until something sticks is akin to being interrogated until something / anything damning is found against you - an inquisition.

It's not shifting perceived risk, it's shifting real risk. If you're not charged for something, you're probably (right? correct me if I'm wrong?) not going to get convicted for it. If you /are/ charged for something, there's a chance you're going to get convicted for it.

Terrible things don't mostly happen because people are monsters, they happen because people are apathetic to others' problems and value their own convenience and gain above all else.
Not too far off.

There's your discovery layer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia

C&C:
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2pmmfu/using_the_blo...

Persistence Layer:
https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

Dissemination Layer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol

Sprinkle in some AES and public / private keys for verification and you're done.

Sequential list isn't needed.

(well, all the robust & stealthy large systems engineering together with the low level exploit knowledge is probably a little too much for one person to pull it off, but for a Hacking Team or nation sized actor it's quite doable)
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The link between real sugar and diabetes is very strong and well-studied, so any effect of artificial sweeteners on the incidence of diabetes would have to be a lot more definite before "replace sugar with artificial substitutes" would be bad advice. (Even if "eliminate sugar and don't replace it" might be better from a purely health-oriented standpoint.)
What is the telecom law, if any, on text message delivery? It seems like the first network to announce "we block all stage fright export messages before they hit your phone" would win a huge PR coup (and they'd be able to do so much faster than trying to prep updates for every device they ever sold).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954686
It's a confusing solution for a problem that does not exist, which is how to use a pen to draw readable shapes, a problem many of us learned how to solve in elementary school.[0]

[0] http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/lette...
Is KVM vulnerable or just Xen?
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But you also have to compare PPP, cost of living, and unemployment rates.

Australia's PPP adjusted minimum wage is 10.50 USD.

It's very possible that Australia's min doesn't hurt employment and it would in the USA.

It's also plausible that Australia's recent increase in employment (while US is hitting post 2008 lows) is partially caused by too high of a minimum wage.
Why can't Google force vendors and carriers in the Play license terms to open source their kernel and flashing technology so XDA and friends can take care of updates?

That would be the cheapest solution.

edit: added benefit, everyone is free to load on his device whatever he chooses. Google should have gone that path way earlier.
An interesting innovation which only was used in the IA-64 simulators apparently, was the neural branch predictor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predictor#Neural_branch...
> Don't want to bring politics here

Then you shouldn't have; but you chose to.

[Edit] Your comment says nothing about Dr. AK, but instead focuses on other people and other issues that IMHO have no relevance to this thread.
That would be cool; they'd have to interact with the meshtag database in order to retrieve the data. I can dream though!
The bot can call home to ask if/when more infections are desired, so the attack can elastically adapt to remain viable and not overwhelm the resources it needs.
Ha! Why would anyone buy one, or a sequel to it, now that it is made by the company that required an internet connection to use their mouse?
All artificial sweeteners are not created equal.

Check out erythritol, it's superior to most of the others:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythritol
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954686.
An autonomous ballistic missile defense system would have a lot less impact than an AI that had control of a few missiles. I do agree that there still could be some danger though.
it actually requires approval before it is shown to others ;) making it seem like it was listed when u submit it is a "feel good" thing. of course, if users figure out the quoteid of the specific submission, it is still publicly available. its all in the name of fun :)
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I much prefer QR Codes as there is nothing to buy and their embedded data makes them standalone. Meshtags seem more like a graphical version of bitly or tinyurl.
Is there a way to see if one is "owned"? Could we run a command or view a menu that would list an extra binary? Could we try to exploit ourselves in some way, like visiting a special website?
I also dislike drinking "plain old water", but cold water with a little fresh lemon squeezed into it is delicious. Also try taking fruit juice and watering it down by 2/3. At this point I can't even drink straight-up fruit juice any more; it's too syrupy.
I developed one of the fullscreen ads called out in the article - imagine how annoyed I am by seeing it 100 times a day!
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What's the best URL for this story? It has been posted many times already.
But I wonder how much resistance you would get from the military, veterans, military families, and so on who make the argument that for every robot we make a human soldier doesn't have to be put at risk.

On the other hand, do soldiers really want to defend themselves against flying, high-speed IEDs with target-recognition software? I mean, I've seen malfunctioning drones move so fast that I lose sight of them. Does anybody really want to see one of these things come over a compound wall carrying a payload of high explosives, and software for identifying groups of human targets and dodging defensive fire?

Once you start an arms race, and once several big powers do the R&D, this would not be an easily controlled technology.
qemu-kvm is vulnerable too.
Very true. And I steered away from squares due to the "swastika effect". Also because the information is slightly more dense with a system based on triangles - 6 bits at a given vertex versus 4 bits.
Well yes, I don't expect a tiny fraction of a Newton of force to get them into orbit, but I meant more as a way to test whether the anomalous force is usable for spaceflight.

After all, it will either sit there and do nothing or it will move.
Have you heard of elian script? This reminds me a bit of it. Also, elian script is fairly easy to write once you get the hang of it, if you were very good at it it could be faster than the latin alphabet, as it takes less movements per character.
Yeah, I was also a huge Google Reader fan for those reasons. But Google couldn't leave it alone or admit that it was its own social network with its own identity and unique character. Then they killed it. It was one of their products I used every day on the desktop, to get my news.

It seems there's something missing from BigCo's understanding of how social networks operate.
Have you heard of elian script? This reminds me a bit of it.
Shareholders only work when they both:
Know what it is they own.
Care about the long-term health of the company.

The 401k could probably be blamed for the majority of the issues in the US. You have a chunk of your money removed from every paycheck, it goes to a magical place, and you make money that you will not see again until retirement. That's how it works for 99% of the public based on my experiences talking with friends/colleagues etc. The "magical place" is a blowhard whose sole goal is to maximize HIS profit, which means short-term gains that he can charge exorbitant fees for.

The average American doesn't seem to know/care/want to know/care about where that money is going, as long as they see a positive return every quarter. And that's just bad for everyone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9952559
99.99% of the time when "new physics" is invoked, it amounts to crookery or kookery. Nobody wants to see that, because it takes energy to disprove even the obviously flawed claims, and the energy is taken away from more promising endeavors, that are usually less appealing to the public.

"Free Energy" is very appealing, so is "10x better batteries", "10x more flash storage", "momentum-defying space thruster", and so on. These modern-day fairy tales are gaining press simply because people want them to be true, not because they actually show a path for progress.

Similarly, a promise of a "miracle cure" is very appealing to the public, and so it may seem cynical to downplay any such claim right away, but it has absolutely nothing to do with actual advances in medicine.
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Two things.

1. Not all engineers are equal. The level of engineering talent you need for this type of work is relatively high. Let's keep it that way.

2. This isn't directed at you in particular, but this line of thinking pisses me off. People should act based on their principals, even if you aren't guaranteed success. If it's something you believe in, you can resist, and resist peacefully. Education and awareness is key to this resistance. Culture is ours to shape together, and even if the prevailing culture makes derailing autonomous weaponry hard, let's not give up just yet.
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I don't really see how Instacart can be considered "infrastructure", at best it's a marketplace-driven service. There are lots of examples of private infrastructure - e.g. the internet - which don't suffer the various problems described, and all the examples cited still rely on actual infrastructure to exist..
The quote seems to be in regards to commercially funded Scientists, and the Scientific community, not the abstract concept of science itself.
> It was a collision with mortality because the people I knew never talked about death as a part of life.

In the tech scene there is a particular aversion to facing up to the realities of life. People tend to think that waiting for technology to improve will take care of all of life's problems and death is just another one of those, so if they just hold out long enough death will surely not happen to them.
I agree totally with your whole comment. I just find that the common case, hardware or software, often has something to do with a class of security, reliability, or maintenance issues I'm trying to counter. RISC optimizations like register windows didn't hurt me much.

Plus, some specializations were quite helpful. Alpha's PALcode had more uses than I can remember. PA-RISC and Itanium had advanced memory and page protections. Intel's segments were useful to its credit as they're way more efficient than address space or paged protection. So, some structures I don't mind if they provide benefit without holding back improvements.
As others have commented here, this is also exactly why I am not an organ doner. There are cases where people have went into cardiac arrest, where their heart stopped and everything, only to wake up and make a full recovery. "Is he dead?" is not always a well defined state with a binary True/False answer. The fact that this article is pushing for harvesting organs before death, and people who actually think this way, only serves to turn me off to it even more so.

Call me selfish, antithetical to society, or whatever. If I really was in a state where there was no chance I could recover, I would gladly give my organs to help save someone else. As it is, I don't think a random E.R. doctor should make that determination based on a note found in my wallet.
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Ask HN: How would you setup your infrastructure from scratch?
I'm working with a very early stage startup and have been helping out with the infrastructure & deployment side of things. We are gaining some traction and I want to get our technology stack setup right from the onset.

If you had to build a tech stack to support your developers and you had very few constraints how would you do it? How would you structure your deployment process and infrastructure? Containers? VMs? Paas?

I'd like to avoid heavyweight deployment frameworks but also want to use the right tools for the job.

Our current stack is simple. It's a Meteor JS application behind an nginx proxy. We have a Staging and Production environment and are using dploy.io for continuous deployment on Staging branches.

I'm trying to gain perspective here from others who have been in this situation and have some lessons learned around growing a web service from scratch.
Why is this not a Google+-post?!
Why should we use it if even google isn't using it?

But maybe they tried signing up but failed getting a custom G+-url.
We see that you registered google@gmail.com, but we can't let you use google.com/+google, why don't you use google.com/+google1425 and youtube.com/c/12868126nvesfz1761, which you can change to youtube.com/c/google6823_xw once you reach 500 subscribers.
Yes, but they still manage to sidestep the issue by printing information based on "serving sizes". Yes, Doritos, I clearly meant to eat this medium-sized bag in four sittings!

We should sit down and figure out a way to show nutritional information without these cheap tricks. For example, you have to show the nutritional information per unit of wrapping. That way, a bag can't be thought of as four servings, one bag = one serving.
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When you have such a huge application (steam) how can you afford to Fuzz everything? Also to setup fuzzing for every parts of your applications
》I have possibly never seen greater evidence that there may be a god.

Or that human beings are predominantly good people who, when given the big red button, refuse to become destroyers of worlds?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936693, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9937153.
Elaborate?

Drone command-and-control facilities would surely be protected from a lone gunman, more-so, how would guns & self-defense protect against a targeted agent taking down someone important? (who presumably already has defense which already needs to be circumvented).

I'm failing to see the common area between targeted spec-ops style missions (and protection against those) and home/civil defense.
A problem I see with this is recognition. A QR code can be printed onto a piece of paper with no further information attached, and even some less-techy people will know what to do with it, because it's clearly a QR code. These drawings are pretty ambiguous, and unless it catches on with the less-techy crowd you'd have to add an attached note "Go download the Meshtag app to read this!", which would probably not happen too often.

They are however, much prettier than regular QR codes. :)
If you bother to read the second link I posted, you'll see that cgroups does both (some) isolation and resource management. It's a layered scheme however and you absolutely should be using SELinux which is where the really comprehensive confinement happens.
Well thanks for the info. I unfortunately clearly didn't pay attention to the fact it required side loading when I heard about it. So yeah, no more support (if it means no more store) will suck more than I thought for Ouya owners.
Please don't bring generic ideological tangents into already-controversial topics. Any vector that runs through the points "minimum wage studies", "American self-centeredness", and "gun control" is guaranteed not to lead to substantive discussion.

The OP may be wrong, but it's hardly absurd. Let's stick to the substance.
> the data is not encoded in the drawing itself,

if that's true then it doesn't really solve anything. The other obvious issue is how people are going to remember complex shapes like that. What about using a combination of 3 basic shapes instead (triangle,square,circle).

Yet the idea is still quite interesting. The OP is definitely on something here.
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It's disappointing this article only addressed cancer risk but avoided artificial sweeteners' possible impact on gut bacteria.[1][2] I quit Diet Coke cold turkey after reading several of these studies. I won't extrapolate from my personal experiences -- I really do wish there were more studies about gut bacteria's impact on our health -- but I've felt better after avoiding artificial sweeteners and adding probiotic foods to my diet like greek yogurt and kombucha.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7521/full/nature1...

[2] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweeten...