skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the product in question is Wind River Linux, a product of a subsidiary of Intel.

Here's the forum post on backporting an EFI fix:

https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3713

And products with Wind River Linux prominently mentions GRSecurity advertisements:

https://www.google.com/search?q=wind+river+linux+grsecurity

Edit: It looks like I wasn't the only one to find this. I'll keep this post at the top for other people to reply to.
Especially for $0
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You guys should really expand on what 'gratifies intellectual curiosity' means, in the guidelines. Stuff like this article is interesting, but all too often people claim how they are really intellectually gratified by an article calling Trump a doody-head troglodyte or some such thing.

I would suggest that one such metric is if you learned something interesting from an article, rather than having the article simply confirm your own beliefs.
Please please do an ARM release for the raspberry pi :D
> Microsoft actually did release a version of NT that was a true microkernel,

You mean Windows NT 3.1 and 3.5, right? I used those intensively, and it worked really well.

> but they quickly realized that it is not a practical approach..

With Windows NT 4.0 they left the original design and moved everything including the graphics into the kernel. But that was not because the original approach was not practical or did not work. It was because Windows 95. The wanted Win32 to be API compatible with that crap (desktop 'gadgets' and such) and that's why they did it. I remember hating NT 4.0 because it was so much less stable than the original versions.
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There are two orthogonal cases: consultant and employee. The contractor case is simpler because clients who won't pay your regular fee are almost never good clients and because someone who is paying for services with equity after being funded is creating a mess for someone [and from a tax perspective perhaps you]. On top of that, the cash value of equity as payment should be discounted according to both opportunity cost - those hours could be spent with a full rate client - and because any potential payment is well into the future (aka "the time value of money") and because the probability that the shares can ever be liquidated at or above their value in the previous round is less than 1.0. So the sensible thing to do is just require the cash and don't waste time fooling with the valuation.

As an employee, you can ask for the valuation, but it doesn't mean anything. Small equity in closely held companies is only as valuable as the people in control have the good will to make it [this also applies to the contractor situation]. Well it might mean something if you have the cash laying around to actually exercise the options when they vest...e.g. the 5% options you get at a $10,000,000 valuation require $500,000 to exercise if you leave after the vesting.

To put it another way, the value that matters is that of the options not the company and the value of the options should be assumed to be zero...or maybe $1.00 like a lottery ticket in a lottery where nobody has to win.

Good luck.
One thing you don't see as much in the data minjng world, but should, is developing euqations for modeling various business phenomena. This is a bit different from regular statisitcal and machine learning approaches since it lets you ask 'what if' questions and get some idea of what might happen.
git LFS comes to mind. https://git-lfs.github.com/
Linus should've helped. But they don't want to merge patches to the kernel. Use OpenBSD.
Sure, but I wouldn't mind holding 7% - dilution of Airbnb, Dropbox, Teespring and Zenefits. You can give that to me on paper.
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>Both Julia and Python are easier to work with interactively than C and Fortran.

Especially considering the people this is targeted at have a weak programming background.
Ah, I guess I missed that. Thanks.
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What would you do if they kept you for the month?
There's also an RT documentary on her https://www.rt.com/shows/documentary/189060-agafia-siberia-o...

It has more of a natural feel to the documentary style.
This phenomenon can be seen on Hacker News from time to time, when people mistake what they personally like for "HN worthy" material, and what they personally don't as trash which didn't deserve the upvotes. The karma system and moderation policies here are designed to maximize the exposure of popular comments and users at expense of general conversation, in the name of reducing noise and improving signal, but of course, what 'signal' and 'noise' are, are somewhat (but not entirely) subjective.

Hacker News' actual guideline is "Anything that good hackers would find interesting." What is a "good" hacker? It doesn't elaborate, but whatever arbitrary measure you use will still guarantee that some set of good hackers will disagree about their interests compared to others, and feel entitled to the correctness of their own opinion.

I think that most consumers gravitate towards what they want, and feel comfortable with, and consider that "quality." Brad Frost's inclusion of 24 hour news networks and "jargon" in the bullshit list with spam, dark patterns and outright fraud, seems to me to be basically the same thing. He doesn't see the value in them, so clearly there is no value to be found.
Thanks for explaining. That's certainly a very different way of working from anything I've ever encountered. I don't know enough about mainframes to even wonder how things are done, it simply isn't part of my world at all.

I come from a personal computing background, where it really doesn't make sense to talk about "developing on exactly the same hardware it's going to run on" because you cannot know in advance what that is going to be. The kind of thing you are talking about makes even less sense in the embedded world, where cross-compilation is the rule and the target machines are likely not capable of self-hosting a toolchain at all.
I forgot to address this in my earlier comment, but you don't worry about the plasma escaping -- it is very delicate, generally orders of magnitude less dense than air. Rather, keeping it alive is the difficult part. If the plasma hits the wall of a fusion device in an uncontrolled manner, it will dump all its energy into it. If the plasma picks up too many impurities, it will radiate energy away in the form of bremsstrahlung. It is hard to keep the ions hot enough to fuse while there are many phenomena conspiring against you.
"launchd clubs UNIX's 'keep it simple' philosophy like a baby harp seal'...Hint: the world has changed!"

Yeah -- Unix completely dominated essentially every market niche, utterly annihilating all competing philosophies so hard you'd think it was drilling for oil.
Very. The core committers have a direction in which they'll take FreeBSD, but compared to say OpenBSD, it's a very open community. Colin who posts here frequently is pretty influential in the community as I recall.

I'm horribly disappointed in the way that Apple seems to give back barely anything to the community. Google and Facebook's github is populated with dozens of projects. Granted, some are in a state of disrepair, others are incredibly useful. E.g., the state of open source static analysis is on par with Coverity at this point for our 300k line C++ project. I'm a bit of a tinfoil privacy nut, but thanks Google and Facebook, you guys rule!
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Can we as a society stop ripping off open source developers?

Companies that do are essentially stealing from artisans to build infrastructure to defraud the poor so they can horde wealth.
Of course, even trustworthy apps have security problems that can expose your whole server -- Wordpress being a common culprit. But apps like Wordpress and Etherpad on Sandstorm has been basically unaffected by upstream security bugs. See: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/developing/security-prac...
New Zealand has to have the funniest one. It's just Twinkle Twinkle Little Star played a bit slower.
Worrying or thinking about burnout would condition me to inevitably burnout. It doesn't really even enter my mind, because I know it will just make me and the business weaker. I simply look at it like: I want a successful business that gives me freedom to do what I want. Bootstrapped, staying small, and making money is the path towards that for me. I've been going 100% for 4 years, so I think if I were to ever burnout then that would have happened already. I take "workcations" somewhat regularly.
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> But they don't want to merge patches to the kernel.

To be clear, the 'they' in that sentence are the authors of GRSecurity, not the kernel developers.
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The best benefit of having conversations upfront is that there is a sound first response - another conversation - when some undesirable behavior happens...whether it's one that was discussed specifically or not.
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I'm looking to partner with 1-2 small but rapidly growing Greater Boston Area tech startups. I'd offer my services pro bono in exchange for beta testing some of my new business processes. Please comment or email me at jen at jen bunk dot com if you're interested (or know someone who is).

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Apple publish and give back heaps to the open source community.

http://opensource.apple.com/release/os-x-10103/

.. they're just not fanboys about it.
VICE has made a documentary about Agafia who is still alive and is still living in the wilderness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68

It's quite amazing that some one at 72 who grew up malnourished and without access to modern medicine can still be in a good enough shape to survive in one of the harshest environments man has ever lived.
So what sort of performance improvements have been made?
Is Mach now in the same bracket as other, newer microkernels?
Installing Node.js on Plesk 12
There's no parallel Mach kernel running. It's just Mach IPC shimmed as an FD type.
A vector with four rows and one column is a four-dimensional vector. A one-dimensional vector can be described with a single number, a 1x1 matrix if you like.
Its also the leading indicator of your companies financial heath. Typicaly "designers" get cut before engineers. IF they fire the designers and the UX people, odds are your next.
Because it would simply be nice to see something different once in a while. Don't get me wrong, I like Linux... I'm just a bit bored with it.
They run the open source technology center (http://01.org). Even if their actual goal is exploitation, why would they even blink at 5 figures a year to sponsor this group vs. giving their lawyers something to do and risking exposure like this?
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If you commit a large binary file and iterate on it a bunch you'll notice that your repo size explodes. That's why there have been multiple efforts (e.g. git-annex, Git Large File Storage) to improve performance with large binary files (by essentially taking the files out of the repo).
It would only be eight minutes away if we also had warp capability.
Companies rely on the consent of employees and the consent of customers. Many governments are not so nice about this. The dictatorships of companies are ones that people voluntarily subject themselves to. That is consent - to maintain otherwise is dadaist absurdity.

Beyond that, how do you define "society as a whole"? Where do you draw the line? Is Joe's Local Coffee Shack accountable to random fishermen in Indonesia? Is WalMart? To what extent should a country that you are neither a citizen of or a resident of be accountable to you? How is this different from shareholders and non-shareholders?

Governments are not required to try. Many don't. Publicly traded firms pretty universally are required to provide a degree of transparency to everyone. They also provide greater transparency to shareholders and are very directly accountable to shareholders... who can and have organized takeovers of companies.

Perhaps you say "accountable" and mean "I, personally, have power over whatever organization is convenient"?
Privacy advocates may still envision a world where most people keep their personal servers in data centers as a sort of snooper's Disneyland, because a global adversary could just trawl the whole machine room and get everyone's data.

Physically, this is true. But politically, a well-designed personal server ecosystem is more robust than it looks against this attack.

The key is, as Kenton points out, server mobility. The server that's your whole network identity has to be able to migrate easily, even automatically, between hosts public and private.

One way to think about how mobility makes a personal server more private -- even against a global adversary -- is the epidemiological concept of "herd immunity."

For any global network, the percentage of users who demand absolute privacy is small. It works better to host your machine in the cloud. But the costs and pain points of closet hosting are acceptable for this specialty market.

What's not acceptable is a situation in which the pro-privacy users form a small isolated network which can only talk to itself, losing on Metcalfe's law. Instead they need to be externally indistinguishable from normal users. Moreover, they need to be able to switch back and forth from absolute to relative privacy -- cloaking and uncloaking, as it were.

Normal users care only about relative privacy, ie, security against all non-sovereign adversaries. Excellent relative privacy is available from an ordinary data center. "Linode hacks" happen, but less and less often.

But actually, just as the privacy-conscious users can blend into the herd of normal users, the normal users benefit from the small minority of privacy-conscious users.

Any global adversary has to assume that anyone with something to hide has probably hid it already. So cost-effectiveness concerns decrease the adversary's motivation to search in data centers. Why would anyone with anything to hide, not hide it at home? Home searches are much more difficult.

Moreover, most people computing at home probably have nothing at all to hide -- they are just normal people who care about privacy. So as long as they stick up for their digital rights, the global adversary remains politically quite weak.
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One site I went to didn't manage their databases well, so I got a like from someone who said "My hobbies are NULL".
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Hm. The first transaction sent was in block 141,525, and the site says 6,800 blocks per round... but block 148,325 has passed without payout, so I guess I skimmed and missed something :/
Thank you, I missed that. So the value proposition lies in the sandboxing, and being open source.
Democracy is tyranny of the majority.
no one ever said there was. There's just a statistically higher likelihood of being privileged if one is white.
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I like that line about how the Oculus' audio quality is on par with $250 headphones. What a deal!
I just installed Sandstorm yesterday and I like what I see so far -- hope I get some time to submit some pull requests. It's looking like a great option for smaller companies that want to stick to free (libre) software.

One feature that I think would be cool is if there was a way to associate a custom subdomain with a grain rather than the auto-generated stuff like "xh37vmw0h5276mj7h5eh.blah.company.com". Being able to host at "docs.company.com" makes link sharing a lot nicer for everyone!
After you acquire a certificate, it's pretty tricky getting the configuration correct. I don't know about Apache, but in Nginx there are a lot of settings to set so that you deliver that fastest https experience. There's a video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxD-G0YjiU. I'm dealing with this issue right now, where I have https setup, but it isn't running optimally.
Thanks! Spread the word! There are lots of decentralized applications that need to be built.
> The US stock market is ... a financial center for earth

This is true currently. But again, there's no reason to assume this will continue forever.

> If we talk about civilization at this point in time then its the global civilization of earth we are talking about.

Nice idea, but I'm unconvinced. What does "the global civilization of earth" even mean? The world always seems more connected than the day before. Of course, in 1914 it seemed more connected than ever before. In 1939 too. Yet our global civilization split apart at the seams and we were thrown into two of the most devastating wars ever. And both hugely impacted the economies of the nations involved. The U.S. has been at war almost continuously for the last 25 years. With whom? The global civilization of Earth?

Even if you restrict your perspective to purely economic matters, to a "global economy," this seems dubious. If we truly have a global economy, it's one disproportionately controlled by a single nation -- a situation many nations are probably unsatisfied with, but currently unable to change.

So you've reached the conclusion that other nations are now content to sit back and let the U.S. run the global economy forever. Where's the evidence? Just because no other country has been able to challenge the U.S.'s dominance over the world economy in the past 50 years, doesn't mean they've accepted this as the natural state of affairs.
> Damit, I don't want to move to OpenBSD.

Why not? OpenBSD's awesome.
It would be, except they're not adopting Mach.
I was part of the indiegogo campaign to get the lantern [1] off the ground. I've heard very few updates from them since the campaign ended; here's hoping they still pull it off!

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-d...
Waze would inform you, (assuming enough nearby users) but not in any special way. You'd just see a cop ahead.

By the way, if you aren't using Waze on trips of any significant length, I highly recommend it. It's good for more than just cop-spotting. You'll also know when a semi loses a tire in the road.
Yeah, you can support Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2K, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows CE, Windows with single simple exe file, while Linux users needs to execute complex commands, such as "yum install package", to install install software which will perfectly match their environment only.
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Not personally. I like being able to make my own hardware decisions. But I'm probably weird :)
Hi There!

I'm going out on a ledge and attempting my first side business and would love your feedback!

Here's the premise:

In 5 minutes, mail out a personalized gift and 30-second video to someone you care about.

Thoughts anyone? :-)
See MaidSafe.[0]

It's what you describe. They're working on it, hopefully to be released some time this year. You upload something, it gets distributed to random nodes on the SAFE network. Minimum of 4 live copies of your data, and if any of them get taken down, another copy is immediately created on another machine. This completely eliminates the need for hosted servers for most types of apps. You can upload any files, including javascript, which means you can essentially run entire SPA and other applications using this network.

[0] http://maidsafe.net
Agree with all of that.

A related and somewhat more tangible point: Having the majority datacenter users using the _same platform_ with the _same apps_ as the pro-privacy users means that the pro-privacy users will have a much better selection of apps to choose from. Whereas today, non-SaaS apps are rather neglected due to their inability to reach a large userbase, but those non-SaaS apps are the only things the privacy-critical users can use.
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how does this have 420 points after 8 hours...yet is on the 4th page?
What's the indication that the forum user in question there is a Verifone employee? That doesn't seem to be obvious in the forum post.
OMG, I was just wondering about if RFID works to scan cat's ID microchips!
dammit that was depressing!
Make KSC into a project your city can build, and all the money it spends goes into your city's economy.
> Valve supports Ubuntu

Actually they're advertising Linux as SteamOS these days which is essentially Debian.
>That's nonsense. The fascist Japanese government hoped for a cessation of hostilities because it was their only chance to stay in power and perhaps to fight again.

If that's what you're taught in US school, maybe invest in some history books. Preferably European ones, so they don't spread patriotic BS.
Are you confused as to what comment thread you are replying to? XD

From the OP of this conversation:

> Why isn't this "ransom" language used when businesspeople threaten to move their business elsewhere, fire people, etc.?
Very fascinating read and completely in line with my experience as a gamer. For a while it was ok to look at the "what's new" list on steam every week or so and see if there was something interesting. Nowadays there's 10+ new games per day and it's become impossible to figure out if there's actually anything good in there without considerable time investment.

Interestingly the thing that will inevitably need to happen to solve this problem is something Steam is already doing: Improve the tools to filter out things one doesn't care about. Steam allows hiding games, games have tags, and there's a suggestion queue that feeds partly off the user's preferences and partly off of what's new and popular. This means occasionally one can go through that queue, see a list of new or obscure things one might be interested in, and use the tags to quickly decide whether a game has elements one wants or does not want; and then mark it for later, or hide it.

Whenever i interact with other shops (PSN, GOG, Google Play Store, iTunes, etc.) it is a massive pain point that these do not allow filtering things that i do not care for.

Music and TV stores are even worse in that department, and i've seen my parents look at stuff like Amazon Fire Instant Video, which on paper is an amazing offering, and discard it offhand because the first 20 things it offered were stuff they had no interest in, and there was no way to make them go away.

Fascinatingly, i've already seen the software where this evolution will lead to. It exists in the form of taggable image board like https://github.com/r888888888/danbooru They accept tags from the users and are very liberal in allowing users what tags to apply, with some moderation. On bigger boards the content tends to have astounding amounts of tags in surprising detail. At the same time users can use tags to create lists of things they might like, or directly hide things they might dislike.

Steam is moving in that direction, and as the amount of content, both existing and newly-created, becomes evermore massive it seems inevitable that software will end up in that domain.
That appears to be open source software that Apple is using (and is required to publish the source for, under that software's license) -- not software Apple has written and is releasing.
Totally uninteresting.
Page doesn't really say what it does. Can't it climb the great firewall?