skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I suppose that the vast majority of closed source DBs do not follow this shared nothing architecture either.
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I agree. If/when anyone starts building programs people care about in rust/go/etc - there will be vulnerabilities.

Suggesting that throwing thousands of lines worth of virtual machine behind a piece of code will solve security problems is shortsighted.
"Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours."
However, in the same sentence he's described as 'very competent'.
Is government compelling these companies to hand over data? Or is it voluntary?

If government forced me to hand over data on users, I wouldn't want to be held liable for that. So, I'm not sure why people are complaining to companies about it? Do they expect companies to break laws?

People forget that government is always the highest power of the land. You are forced to do what government decides it wants to do.

Take your issues up with government, not me.
Most likely this is some bullshit pissing contest with 0 innocent parties.

Pissing contests do not usually include one willing and one unwilling participant. Shred's note is not just an emotional appeal because if they did steal ideas, it is an open invitation for Smule to state what they are.
Federalism and the 10th amendment exist for a reason. If you want to do anything about this, support a candidate in support of strong state's rights.
The Germans signed an armistice because they were beaten. By mid 1918 they didn't have the capacity to keep fighting. The allies accepted surrender in 1918 because fighting to total victory would have been costly for them as well.

The destabilization started in 1918 because of the economic impact of the war, and the hopelessness of it.
Companies have to operate within the parameters of the law.

I don't get this. Are people expecting companies to break the law? Is this data hand-off voluntary?
1 GB = 1000 MB
Is this data handoff forced or is it voluntary?
If the shared information is only for IDS alert sharing where any irrelevant information to cyber security is removed, then why do they need immunity from privacy and antitrust laws?

Surely companies in the US can today report to the police if someone gain illegal access to servers, do a DDOS, or sends fishing/malware to them. If the police then involve the FBI with the case while requesting relevant customer information, what laws would the company break from complying?
When talking about 'users', is their a (legal) difference between US and non-US citizens here?
Can you post a screenshot? "Updated" can mean different things in this context. For the issue to be resolved, Microsoft also has to update the signing certificate itself, which it hasn't done for the last 15 months.

Edit: Confirmed! Blog post updated.
Brilliant - I am starting to draft the regulations as a test of the viability (please see http://blog.paul-Brian.com) but the one I really want to try is the GPL version of privacy law.

"You can have my data if these conditions apply".

Love it
Yeah, I was wondering about that. It looks like you guys have done some brilliant work with the storage engine, but reimplementing all the distributed logic is another (possibly bigger) project.
I'm not even arguing that Oakland as a whole is dangerous; it's specific blocks in the good/high-traffic areas, and then large areas (Oakland is huge geographically) which are bad-but-no-one-goes-there. There's some street crime on top of that, but not actually much more than similar areas in SF. Way more than, say, Salt Lake City, though.

Most of the serious crime in Oakland is in places you won't accidentally go (although there's a sketch area a few blocks away from downtown, and on the other shore of Lake Merritt), by and against poor people, often one or more involved in gangs/drug entrepreneurship/whatever. Same as most cities.
Based on what I'm reading, they don't require sharing of the information, they just give companies sweeping immunity to do plenty of illegal things while doing so. The government sort of incentivizes this behavior. The problem is, companies are now lobbying to get this pushed through, so yeah, that's the fault of both the corporate and government players involved.
A direct link might work better: https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/raw/master/talks...
Participation in this program is voluntary. Section 8 of the bill prohibits this act from being construed to permit the federal government to require an entity to provide information to the federal government. Here's the money quote:

(i) No Liability For Non-Participation.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed to subject any entity to liability for choosing not to engage in the voluntary activities authorized in this Act.

Reading through the bill, it seems like this is a well-intentioned attempt to promote data sharing between corporations and security agencies in the event of a widespread cyberattack. There are definite use cases for a law like this. For example, if both Lockheed Martin and Boeing are hit by a cyberattack, under this bill they are allowed to coordinate and mitigate the attack using data from both parties. But the enormous flaw in this bill is that there are only vague restrictions on the type of data allowed to be shared. These restrictions are so vague that an unscrupulous company could send all their customers' private data to the government under the context of this law.

The US needs reform on its cybersecurity defense and this bill is a step towards change. But with the potential for abuse this bill is a huge step backwards. Hopefully there are other ways to improve US cybersecurity defense without compromising civil liberties.

You can find a copy of the bill, including a short summary of each section, at the link below:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/754
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Have you watched 'Halt and catch fire'?

The first or second episode sets up a legal battle, and the main character basically points out his company's staff lawyer to the opposition and says something to the effect of "We pay him $X, you can put hundreds of lawyers on this suit, we'll just have him."
However high they may be on the heirarchy, they do not have the power of force.
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Embedded world is weird. Changing hardware design is difficult and costly by itself and manufacture process is limited by real world constraints, therefore the largest "part of why you would pick chip A over chip B" is availability, both long-term and short-term: will I be able to source the chip in 5 years? how easy it would be to change delivery schedule if my manufacture schedule changes?.
Oh, and ARM looks like a solution until you have to battery operate it.

Cost of the software in embedded systems is quite often low compared to hardware costs. I ballpark lower limit for part cost at $10. I ballpark software development cost at $100k/y or $50/h. Let's say it is reasonable to get software done in a man-year. At 1M units of projected sales, software cost is at 1% of hardware cost (not project cost). At such ballpark estimate software engineers' opinion is only treated as a humble request.

Of course this varies from project to project. Increasing portion of embedded systems are mostly software. Portion of projects have hard-realtime requirements. Here software engineers are benevolent dictators. But that is by no means a general case.
I must have missed the bit where how this simpler new world will get rid of ad-clicking bots is explained.
OK WTF? So why is this a problem?

Doesn't this just mean companies don't have to hand-off private data to government?

Isn't that the exact opposite thing people are complaining about?
As a note, this is why they sing the song, Oh He's a Jolly Good Fellow in a lot of movies instead of Happy Birthday.
Yes, this is a terrible list. Part of it is the delivery. Most points need more explanation than just "because I say so". If your point is to educate, then don't use aggressive language like "you are already making excuses for doing it wrong"; otherwise, you're just saying "you're doing it wrong, dummy", which by itself is nonconstructive.
I like the petition, I dislike the lack of sources. Please put sources for your claims, if they "began publicly lobbying Congress to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA)" then you sure have a source. Put it there! I guess this is the letter in question:

http://www.bsa.org/~/media/Files/Policy/data/09142015CongLea...
What's the thing you want to point out? That Google does unit conversions? That they make a distinction between GB and GiB?
I do not understand the rationale, a government program fails disastrously creating literally the opposite effect desired. And the suggestion is to have _more_ of said program?
While It is great to see iPhone 6S A9 closing in on the Desktop performance. I dont think this is a fair comparison.

The A9x in iPad Pro, should make a better comparison. Which i think will beat even the current Macbook / Macbook Air.

Next year will mark a decade of OSX switched to x86. So may be 2016 WWDC they will announce the switch to ARM?
Black hodie, check

Mirrorshades, check

Hackers living in the margins of an orwellian society, check

And all I wanted was a flying car.
"The following companies just betrayed billions of people." According to that picture Google is still my friend. :)
It's nothing surprising. I hope we are all aware the controlling few are slowly but surely putting their agenda of total control to action. I've seen an attitude of some Rockefeler fellow in the movie Zeitgeist, who stated when asked what is their (rich people that control the world) goal, why do they grab more even though their families have more money that we could guess:
"Well, out final goal, is to implant a chip i every human being. That chip will be radio controlled. And when we don't like that person anymore, we push the button and the person die."
Now, this may sound cruel, but I agree with this guy. The smart, rich and capable people should have this kind of "swift justice contoll" of other people because most of people that I know, waste their lives. When you give an average person the freedom and power, most of them will not know what to do with it, and they would end up in corruption of the soul. They would turn bad, looking for hedonistics. Maybe, my country is just above average filled with "I don't know how to productively use my God given blesdings and learned skills" kind of people.
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They companies don't have to, but they decide to do it anyway. That's why people complained.

Did you even read the original link, or anything anyone posted in the thread so far?
my reasoning was that people prefer to read things in the browser over downloading them. afaik there is no way of achieving this only client side without installing a plugin.
Land may be cheaper, but probably not higher yielding. When your buying land your essentially buying rainfall. We could easily find and buy xx'000 acres of really cheap land, but it if only gets 200-300mm of rain every year, your not going to be seeing serious yields. The other thing to remember is that irrigation is impossible for a lot of West Australian farmland.
If you work at one of these companies, and chances are some of fellow HN users are, please think how you would like the future to be - not only in terms of your product but also in terms of policy, freedom and privacy.

Thank you.
I don't think so, and if any, it's worse if you're non-US. The main purposes of those bills is to allow things already used on non-US citizens (when the traffic goes through US).
Lenovo collects usage data on ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs
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Thanks for the replies, what about the source of the data ?
Nice table, it provides a good overview of what is available. I would suggest also to add the protocol (S3, Swift,...) used and coverage by libs/languages.

I also created a PR to add support for Exoscale.
> Except for the German government, of course.

What do you mean?
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Yes, SystemTap is much better nowadays, but people are still spooked from the panics of years ago. (And I'm partly to blame, as I wrote about its panics in 2011.)

SystemTap has a grammar and extensive tapsets, so one interesting possibility would be for SystemTap to use eBPF as a backend: compile to eBPF bytecode. You'd then get safety, a grammar, and all the tapsets, which include many tracing odds and ends that you sometimes run into, which SystemTap has solved years ago.

Although at times I think the tapsets have gone too far, and become too big and untested (one of the reasons I started writing lightweight tools https://github.com/brendangregg/systemtap-lwtools).
> the effect would be the same as if the attacker just prevented you from receiving new updates.

True, but it might be slightly less visible because you'd get an "update" instead of a failure. Also, I wonder if anyone has actually tested that scenario?

I'd like to believe that's true and that should be true, but I'd also have to actually test it before trusting it to be true.
> Companies have to operate within the parameters of the law.

This does not seem to apply in the context where companies are lobbying for / supporting new laws.
Stewart Lee handled this beautifully in his 90's Comedian show when Joe Pasquale stole some of his material. He made a joke Pasquale couldn't steal, which involved, among other things, vomiting into the gaping anus of Christ.
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I'd like you to define "succeed" and, indeed, "it", so that you're making a testable claim here. Do you mean the present Bitcoin blockchain, or something else?
Legally, I mean. What's the precedent?
How so? The fundamental flaw was using timestamps.
Hopefully not too off-topic but is there a reason some people refer to the new spec as Ecmascript 2015 or ES2015 vs Ecmascript 6 or ES6? I was a bit confused and had to look it up, and had never heard of previous specs being referred to as ES2011 or ES2009.
I can almost guarantee that the people that maintain TOR won't be happy to see something like this, since their lives are spent maintaining a tool that can give people anonymity.
That means the payer is getting something else besides the right to use the patent. So whatever product or service the payee is providing, they have to continue providing it even though their patent is invalid. That doesnt seem like such a problem, except for the fact that when the contract was drafted, there may have been less competition for the service the payee offered.
Since you are obviously very smart and read the original link, can you point out where a company like Apple "decide to do it anyway?"

Show me an example where they violated their users EULA.
I'm actually one of the few people who seems to be scared of google, and probably rightly so- so far it's just been paranoia that "they have all this data" on me and so many others.

yet continually they seem to be actually fighting for privacy.

I admire that, but they're still an insanely large target, and, even if they don't share that information now- you can bet they're tracking/logging it... it's their business model.
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"Mow, this may sound cruel, but I agree with this guy. The smart, rich and capable people should have this kind of "swift justice contoll" of other people because most of people that I know, waste their lives."

I know that personal attacks are not allowed in comments, but what on earth were you thinking when you wrote this comment?
My company's blog does this for related products that we don't personally sell in our online shop. It's good to the tune for $10k/year without trying much, but you have to get good at writing the copy into real blog posts, not just random spam. It works pretty well. Conversion rate post-click of about 8.5% this month.
Foreign persons have no rights in the eyes of US law in regards to privacy.
Getting immunity will eventually make them as bad as the carriers once they form "relationships" with the government, or when they want to win some big fat government contracts.

Microsoft already "needs" to win multiple contracts with the government, and Apple is supposed to "win" Apple Pay integration with federal services.

If all the data requests would be legal then they shouldn't need immunity, should they? This is 90% of the way the encryption backdoor the government has been requesting. That's why it's "backing down" on that.

Much like what Microsoft has already been doing years before this [1], the NSA will get Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and others' zero-days ~3-12 months before they are patched, as part of the "cyber-threat sharing" program. That's as good as having dozens of backdoors in tech companies' software that billions of people are using.

Michael Hayden, who formerly directed the National Security Agency and the CIA, described the attention paid to important company partners: “If I were the director and had a relationship with a company who was doing things that were not just directed by law but were also valuable to the defense of the Republic, I would go out of my way to thank them and give them a sense as to why this is necessary and useful.”

This is how they are thanking them, by giving them immunity.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-14/u-s-agenci...
I guess if we’re returning to a simpler age then all ads are display ads & rates are set by guesstimating website reach using old school methods: things like actually going out and surveying your target audience to see how many of them actually read the site in question.

If the new normal is “We've sold our customer’s privacy and personal data to the highest bidder and yet we’re still wasting 50% of our ad spend & have allowed a faceless Silicon Valley company to insert itself in between us and our customers.” then the old way of doing things suddenly looks quite attractive by comparison.
What exactly would be an "illegal behavior"?

Some companies already have legal contracts with you to protect your private data. Are you implying they can break those contracts?

I need actual scenarios written out, preferably based on an actual example EULA being violated. Not "maybe something scary might possibly happen in the future."
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I just want to thank Google and Facebook for not being part of this. "Don't be Evil" still means something for some of you, history will remember.
In this case, the URL alone is enough to tell you that it’s probably worth reading.
"This is incredibly bad"

It is? Please explain why other people should be prepared to go to gaol or businesses should pay heavy fines to protect my personal information from legal(1) government requests? Particularly when I apparently don't care enough about the privacy of said information to the point that I allow it to be stored in the US, where apparently these sorts of shenanigans go on?

Edit: (because I'm being downvoted to death, which I don't think the comment deserves)

These companies agree that our data should be private and protected. They are not prepared to take heavy penalties to protect those rights. Anger should not be directed at these companies, but rather at the completely fucked up US government approach to privacy. At the end of the day, whether these companies fight and get fined out of existence, or comply, the government will still end up getting your data. That's the problem, and it's the US government that has betrayed people, not the companies listed by this stupid site.

1. I'm personally dubious as to the legality of these orders, but for now the US judiciary don't seem to be opposing the executive on this one, at least for the time being, so hey, I guess it's legal...
Nice image! I'm a big fan of Guillaume Nery, the french free diver (4 word records). Actually Constant weight divers are allowed to use fins (monofins most of the time), although they use it only to get to ~30m deep, after that point, the pressure is such that the volume of the body decreases and Archimedes thrust is no longer sufficient to compensate for the weight... so the diver can descend without any mouvement... It's very impressive to see (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d4a_1244462128).

Funny to read about this a few days after Guillaume Nery's accident: a line was set to the wrong depth causing the diverto dive to -139m/456ft instead of -129m/-423ft that he had announced the night before...
I demanded a clause in my last employment contract stipulating that I retained the ability to use methods developed for later employment but the system as a whole is the property of my employer. Protects both parties. I can't steal his product. He can't prevent me from doing math.
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So the surveillance-as-a-business-model people are getting their Letter of Marque.
This is amazing. I blame the successful completion of my classes in post secondary and high school thanks to Khan Academy. In retrospect, I could've done better by staying at home watching khan academy and using mooc and open source than going to most of my classes.

School does kinda resemble prison [1].

[1]:
http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
That's been my response to the recent slew of "start-ups you've never heard of going under".
I don't see anything in the bill that would allow a company to actually break their EULA with you.
"As clean and direct as any other modern language ..."

LOL

Honestly I needed to read the C++98 code to understand the modern one. Yes, C++ has advanced but the inherited waste is obvious.

Do other modern languages still operate with pointers?

http://words.steveklabnik.com/pointers-in-rust-a-guide
In the spec [1], they published the dictionary used in hexadecimal form. Can someone explain why there are so many 6's in the data?

For comparison here's a chart of hex character and approximate [2] number of occurrences.

(0 - 15k)
(1 - 10k)
(2 - 19k)
(3 - 14k)
(4 - 15k)
(5 - 16k)
(6 - 62k)
(7 - 32k)
(8 - 10k)
(9 - 11k)
(a - 11k)
(b - 7k)
(c - 8k)
(d - 12k)
(e - 20k)
(f - 9k)

[1]: http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-alakuijala-brotli-05.txt
[2]: counted with find-in-page, didn't bother to only search the dict
That's good feedback, and I'll think about a way of prefacing these open-ended questions with an explanation.
This looks like the same story as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10261397, so we're going to provisionally treat it as a duplicate. If that's wrong, we can restore it.

Edit: Ok, we'll restore it, but with a less inflammatory title that is taken from the article's top paragraph. If someone suggests a better title we can change it again.
The demand for dirt cheap genius programmers will never be met.

That said, if you're prepared to pay, there is no shortage.
The whole point of providing immunity is that previous contracts such as privacy policies become null and void in this context... I'm pretty sure you didn't read the link...
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Are there any other languages with similar things like this?
Thank you for this talk.

Especially the part about fighting against the tobacco industry. It really made me realize that this is a fight that can be won. I honestly thought this was a lost battle.

It will, however, be a more subtle battle as the advertising industry (Big Ads ?) cannot be linked to something as clearly detremental as lung cancer and will be quick to point out that the technology developped can help fight terrorism (a winning buzzword bingo if ther's ever been one) by identifying behavior on the internet, including so-called dangerous ones.