skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel's TXT partially mitigates the desktop version of this attack by setting a nonvolatile bit indicating that the memory state is sensitive. On clean shutdown, the bit is cleared. On dirty shutdown, firmware clears RAM on boot (and the memory controller won't let that step get skipped).

Android could do a simpler version by unconditionally clearing RAM on boot in the bootloader.
I read this entire article thinking it was overly elaborate satire, but there was no punch line at the end, and the links are actually valid.

The TP pool memo[1] in Neal Stephenson Snow Crash seems sane by comparison.

[1] http://soquoted.blogspot.com/2006/03/memo-from-fedland.html
For the extra complication of making a mixed HTTP and HTTPS site, what benefit are you gaining?
You have coverage, but having care is a little different. For each of those features, do you have local providers who are willing to take on new patients and provide that care at the offered reimbursement rates? In much of CA, the answer is no.
Yep, for some people. It depends on your genes. There's some discussion of it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1524881
I was supposed to see it's a girl. Lol
I'm not going to rehash PG's entire article. Feel free to address all of the arguments in it so we can avoid an endless, unconstructive merry-go-round.
Lunch rush: Fastest apps yet deliver premade meals in minutes
Perhaps. I find Modafinil makes me slightly obsessive about anything. If I take it while procrastinating then I get really caught up in procrastination tasks. If I take it and force myself to start working straight away, great forces come to my aid.
Sweet. Does anyone happen to know if there is something similar for gnome-based environments on Linux ?
Bill Gates made some bold predictions for the internet 20 years ago
As an European living in the US, the US health system is so utterly broken and asinine, it's not even funny.

You take a non-free market (I get sick, I need help - no choice involved) and apply seemingly free market logic to it. The result is a disaster, tada.

Single payer, all the way, everyday. Add private, optional insurance on top to allow well-off people to get private rooms, etc. But no one should worry about going bankrupt over medical bills, ever.

And yes, Austria is living proof that such a system can exist, with awesome results. Including electronic health records, the e-card etc. - all sci-fi ideas that US super genius companies like Google, MS, a myriad of startups cannot create.
Dell Computers Has Been Hacked
Did you read the screenshot? That's exactly what Amazon says it needs data tracking for.

(For those who haven't read the article: The author only discovered this because they have CyanogenMod and a permissions blocker installed and in use. Most people wouldn't be told they were being tracked.)
Why are they being attacked so much?
by law, emergency care has to be provided without regard to the patient's proof of ability to pay.

This is part of why so many emergency rooms close.
Sounds like you have a sensitivity to caffeine? I find it works best with a cup or two of coffee. Also, 200mg seems high. I can get a decent effect from 50mg, and a big one from 100mg
> What is the advantage of using degrees (e.g. "30 degrees") versus radians (π/6)?

Integer math.
Modafinil is an OTC drug here (India). Most Ayurvedic 'smart herbs' are also very easily available (Brahmi, Ashwagandha, etc.)

I've tried them all in various combinations and doses. Doesn't really work for me. Modafinil gives me bad headaches by the evening, and combining it with, say, Brahmi or Ashwagandha makes me feel nauseous after a few hours.

Maybe there is a nootropic cocktail that works, but I can't figure out which one. In the meantime, building better habits through good 'ol willpower seems to yield better results.
I'd be against high precision location tracking being required but city/country level wouldn't bother me.
She would likely correctly identify restrictive zoning as the culprit, and recommend its elimination.
Have you tried cannabis?
A Look Under the Hood–and the Flaps–of the Anatomical Fugitive Sheets Collection
See also https://github.com/HackPlan/quark-shell-mac :)
In case you made the mistake of choosing a directory with thousands of files as the plugin directory and BitBar getting stuck forever, do this from terminal to reset it:

defaults delete com.matryer.BitBar
Could you elaborate on why you think it's a bad idea, beyond "chemicals are bad"?
And allow more immigration, and streamline the immigration process to reduce costs for employers.
Committing commented out code clutters the codebase, clutters the commit history, degrades the searchability of the commit history, and is usually a big middle finger to your teammates by saying "this thing I use for debugging belongs in the main branch." Not knowing how to efficiently use the Git API is a fault of the committer, not an excuse to clutter the code. A comment with the exact command to run such as "// To see how this blah blah blah, run `git show 049fa0293f:path/to/file.elm`", as suggested, makes this a moot point anyway.
I had similar problems sleeping. Somehow, Vitamin D supplements helped a lot. Don't really know why.
Back when I was doing hobbyist iOS development (2009-ish) I asked Apple developer support about this, and they said it does. Worst part is it doesn't matter if you use a built-in system library like NSURLSession. Simply accessing an HTTPS URL from inside your app triggers this requirement.

Some people say the paperwork is easy to fill out yourself, but I was a college student and the legalese scared the crap out of me. And there was no way I could afford to consult a lawyer for a hobby project.

My only choice was to use plaintext HTTP for my app (which I wasn't willing to do for this particular app), or to restrict the app to the US and Canada, which doesn't require a government filing. I hated doing it, but I went with option two.

Edit: fixed typo.
Not really. The Mac keeps on going. I lost interest and stopped looking. I bought a nice carbon road bike instead. Much better investment for me. All those components I can adjust, swap and upgrade for the life of the bike. Jobs wanted using a computer to be like riding a bike. Here we are in 2016 and I can still upgrade a bike. No hope with the shit the computer industry is making.

At one stage I thought I should put business Dell's way because they made an effort shipping some XPS-13 with Ubuntu but they were limited to 8GB. I had that in 2009. What is the point?

The nail in the coffin for an upgrade was when I bought a Chromebook to play with. I realised I could just about live with a machine that only had a terminal and browser. I moved local dev to VPS and I can scale that however I want, whenever I want. No concerns about soldered in RAM there. The Chromebook was a bit flakey so I went back to the Mac, deleted a heap of virtual machines and containers and apps and I pretty much live in Chrome and iTerm2 now and feel less pressure to change than I did two years ago.
Am I the only one who thinks their site is bloated and slow? I mean, it works but it's not that pleasant to use.
Magic to start charging $100 an hour for SMS-based delivery service
All about Waterfall Project Management
iOS Developer Resources: Newsletters and Mailing Lists
Link to paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.3773v3.pdf
This is what I'm wondering? Since Christmas, it's been consistent. According to their main status page, they've identified over 30 different attacks. WTF.
"... to secure these rights, Governments are instituted ..."
No it does not. It only requires usage tracking to pay the developer for time used.
why view sleep as an unconcious act?

sure if you force yourself to stop breathing eventually your body will shut down and force you to breathe

but you are also capable of taking control of your breaths, determine their length, frequency, potency

sleep is the same

learn to control it

if those 2-4 hours are undesired, while waiting for your body to wrestle control back from you, then they are wasted, or worse, time.. unless you argue those 2-4 hours are actually meditation time for you
Web apps know when and how often you use them, too. As long as Amazon Underground tells you in its TOS I don't see a lot of difference.
That cannot possibly be true. I guarantee you virtually every REST app in the store uses HTTPS and none of them went through all of this. In the latest version of iOS you can't even load HTTP by default and must use HTTPS unless you put a special exception in your Info.plist. Everybody uses HTTPS, and nobody has to go through any of this.

So either you asked the wrong question, misinterpreted the answer, or you simply talked to someone who didn't understand your question or otherwise just didn't know themselves.
I've heard a number of people suggest that taking a break for physical exercise really helps. I also found that when I started taking the train to/from work the "break" of being on the train helped trigger the habit of switching out of work "mode".

Given my typical new year's resolution I'll have to try the physical activity trick as well :-)
The argument is that technology creates income equality but you can't stop texhnology. It does this because it acts as a multiplier for creating wealth. Technology encapsulated in the form of a for profit company does this because the metric that values the impact is stock and this stock can be exchanged for dollars. Stock itself also allows another lever on top of actual revenues. This is magnified by network effects.

Taxes may mitigate the conversion of wealth into currency. For example in the US, this has a big negative impact on stock option holders when they buy their options at a strike price lower than the current valuation. At this point you have to pony up cash to the IRS even if they newly acquired stock is illiquid. As such many people may not exercise because they can't afford them and the taxes. this is a form on inequality as well... and the options return to the company.

Raising taxes could mitigate inequality but various perks or bank guaranteed loans could be arranged to circumvent the loss of benefits associated with taxing wealth (as seen in the past).

In addition Stock ownership allows the public participation in wealth generation so taxing theconversion to currency is likely negative and would be a driver of increased inequality since only the rich would buy stock (more so than now?).

So that's one side of the argument.
Instead of paying teachers a livable wage, we will meddle with the housing market and cause everyone else's rents to go up! HOOOORAY!
Fair enough. Yes, PG is arguing that reducing income inequality is bad.

He did not address the hypothetical notion that there is a goldilocks zone of 'just enough' inequality, either side of which is suboptimal (due to the 'systemic destabilization' or some other deleterious effect of inequality having a dampening effect on productivity that exceeds inequality's positive effects on productivity after some level), and none of the critiques brought up such an argument either, so I didn't feel the need to address that.
> When I first started reading about American health care being a foreigner I saw a persistent argument that in single-payer system "people will die in lines".

This is one of the reasons I really wish international travel was within the reach of more Americans. So more people could observe and experience these other systems - not having to be told about them secondhand by commentators with their own agendas. Not just healthcare, either. Just knowing a bit about how other people live their lives and how things work in other countries is enormously enlightening.

That trip to Europe was one of the most pivotal experiences of my life so far. I learned so much about the rest of the world that coming back to the US after spending a few weeks overseas, everything looked completely different to me. It ignited a lifelong love of travel - one that I hope to share with my daughter as soon as she's old enough to accompany us.

> Yet here in the United States the lines in medical institutions are greater than anything I've seen abroad, open slot for appointment with a doctor in one month is a usual deal.

I live in a mid-sized city. If I need to see a routine general practice doctor for a typical problem (coughs, etc.) I can usually be seen the same day, but I'll probably have to wait a 2-4 hours depending on when I go.

But if I need to see a specialist (allergist, dermatologist, sleep doctor, etc) and it's not a life-or-death emergency, it's usually a 6-week wait for an opening. My only other option is to drive 2 hours away to the next (bigger) city that has a medical school and a large concentration of doctors. Sometimes you can get an appointment in a few days if you're willing to drive.

> And why can't I buy antibiotics without a prescription. Don't I have a right to heal myself?

As someone who suffers from recurrent throat infections at least once a year, YES. Some people in the survivalist and "prepper" communities say you can take "fish antibiotics" but I've never been willing to risk my health over stuff I read on the Internet from questionable sources.
This should be somewhere in the documentation if it's not already.
Not everything that "just uses HTTPS" necessarily needs ERN. Here's "note 4" which exempts a lot of apps: http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption/...

A big part of our app was "sending, receiving, and storing information", so we weren't sure this exemption would apply to us. So, we did the ERN anyway, and it took a couple of days calendar time, and a couple of hours of working time, IIRC.

By the way, nowhere does it say that using HTTPS is fine if you just use Apple's APIs and frameworks. I don't think it's relevant here.
Sebastian McKenzie (creator of Babel) 2015 year in review
Wasn't there a change of ownership a few years ago? If so, I'd also tend to a wait-and-see attitude until it's clear what changed and what didn't.
Sorta half-true. There are a lot of WISP's where users only get IPv6 addresses. The WISP runs 4to6 CGN devices for the IPv4 only sites.

Greenfield IPv6-only ISP's are new now, but will be much more common in the future. Comcast kicked this idea around (at either NANOG or the @Scale conference) of not giving end users v4 addresses at all and doing 4to6 NAT in the cloud within 2-3 years.

Despite its overwhelming usage, IPv4 is already a second class citizen.
Not disagreeing but is there a link that describes what's tracked and will always users see this? They definitely mention usage tracking in the developer documentation. Maybe I'm missing it but I can't see a mention of usage tracking for their main Underground links, just that apps are free:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1003016...

https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=rw_tiny?_encoding=UTF8&node=953...
I've done just that, in fact. That lasts exactly until they start remembering in greater detail how things _actually_ were, without all the unfounded nostalgia. And things were pretty fucking harsh even by the modest standards of today's Russia, both economically and politically.
'Game of Thrones' Writer George R.R. Martin Reveals He Uses Ancient Computer
Yes, if the function breaks, do we care what some code did in the same situation that was removed 30 years ago?

I mean, let's look at it like this: does the author of the removed code have a vote in what should happen, through the comment? If it's so important, why was it removed?

How do we even know that the new code did something wrong? We do not know that in relation to the old function; we know that in relation to some modern criterion. Maybe it completely bombs (irrelevant that the old code didn't bomb, or whether or not it did), or that returns some result someone doesn't like (without regard for what the old code did), or that violates some documentation.

We can decide today what the code should do, and fix it, or its specification or both.
Can you solve it? Complete the equation 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 = 2016
Yes.[1]

The HQ drone takes off as a quadrotor on electric power, then transitions to gasoline-powered airplane mode. The quadrotors stop parallel to the fuselage, for minimum drag. Once airborne, it can stay up for 5-15 hours. This is most useful when you want to launch from a truck or boat and go searching for something.

[1] https://latitudeengineering.com/
The idea of taxing bonuses so heavily is an idea that should die in a fire.

that said, the IRS should cap bonuses to some level - such that the bonuses in the finance industry are eliminated.
I know The Man in the High Castle is relevant right now and a common "what if" scenario, but I'm actually more interested in a North America where the US never purchased Lousiana or went further west. Or if the South won the Civil War.
I've been using https://github.com/jaredks/rumps for this sort of thing.
> No, you don't.

Functions defined in modules in Erlang are different from closures. Here is a example:

-module(e).
-compile(export_all).
f()-> 1.
g()-> fun ()-> 1 end.

$ erl
> c(e).

> erlang:fun_info(fun e:f/0).
[{module,e},{name,f},{arity,0},{env,[]},{type,external}]

> erlang:fun_info(e:g()).
[{pid,<0.42.0>},
{module,e},
{new_index,0},
{new_uniq,<<136,230,191,77,132,145,66,52,216,215,111,24,
18,188,4,169>>},
{index,0},
{uniq,71775738},
{name,'-g/0-fun-0-'},
{arity,0},
{env,[]},
{type,local}]

To get info on e:f it has to be become a closure-like object, but if you see internally it is still represented differently than a closure.

> Closures in those are also a direct consequence of lexical scoping.

Not sure what you mean a direct consequence. Are you saying that closures follow scoping rules? The point was that it doesn't necessarily follow that they have to be implemented as object instances in object oriented languages, or function pointers, or functions (say like in Erlang).
My individual/family plan has gone up by about $1000/year for the past two years. AND our deductible has increased as well! Not too thrilled with the ACA - it's becoming less and less affordable as time goes on.
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I don't think it matters where the encryption capability comes from.

The iTunes Connect FAQ says: “If your app uses, accesses, implements or incorporates industry standard encryption algorithms other than those listed as exemptions under question 2, you need to submit for an ERN authorization. Examples of standard encryption are: AES, SSL, https.”

There are a lot of exemptions, but only using Apple's HTTPS is not one.
Thank you! It is definitely a misinterpretation. Apple makes https mandatory now and there is no way every developer would have to go through this process.
In short, when the posterior is arrived at as the average of a bunch of other distributions, as in Bayesian Model Averaging, it is absolutely fine to say that the posterior is itself an average (it is the average of a bunch of other distributions). So a posterior can be both a distribution and also an average.

This is why I don't agree with your claim, "The posterior is not remotely like idea averaging." It's exactly like averaging when you're talking about model averaging and I think model averaging is a very useful and good analogue to idea averaging in cases where there is not genuine mutual exclusivity between ideas.
Posit: Europe will be slow to adopt IPv6 because Europe isn't growing at all (population). They're "OK" with what they have now in terms of IPv4.

Posit: the rest of the world continues growing and adopts IPv6.

Europe is left behind by stick-in-the-mud ISP's. We're already starting to see this [0]. The exception in Europe is Germany, mainly due to DT.

Discuss.

[0] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...
Another vote for rumps.
> There is a lot of emphasis on non-realistic graphics

Yes, I've seen this a lot on mobile especially and also with things like "Job Simulator". What I'm confused about is everyone (especially on /r/oculus) being very adamant about needing a GTX 970+ for VR.

My ~$200 GTX 760 can consistently run Team Fortress 2 at upwards of 200 frames per second, and TF2 looks fine to me.

I'm sure many people will appreciate having games for VR that take advantage of their fancy hardware, but why scare people away with such high requirements? Can't the industry tighten its belt a little for the first round and live with the fact that VR games won't look quite as good as their 2D counterparts? Surely even a $700 gaming PC would deliver a better experience than GearVR, which is already quite good.
Magic will now charge $100 per hour
Imagine you don't swim, yet you consult with an active swimmer, a professional swimmer, and a scientist who studies swimming and they all say you can swim. Do you jump in the deep end?

I wouldn't. And what OP said is absolutely true when it comes to nootropics. Moda should not be taken lightly. Start with the basics and work your way up.
That just makes it easier to skip reading.
I'm far from an expert on this area, but I know there are exemptions many apps can qualify for. The most notable of these is that the encryption is limited to authentication [1].

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2135081/does-my-applicati...
Crypto may be one of the fields where you need tight control over speed of execution to alleviate timing attacks. The mere presence of a GC can be exploited.
Getting that enforced isn't easy

How is that even possible? How does the state mandate that some random provider step in and subsidize higher payments to providers in order to encourage them to take on more new patients?
Polymer doesn't work on IE9, much less IE8; banks pay the company I work for millions to produce software that works on the browser they have today.
Faraday Future unveils its concept vehicle
I suspect that he was still "on" modafinil from the day prior as well. 24 hours seems like an awfully short time for your brain to restore itself.
The most impressive part of this, to me, is that the writer shows wisdom and temperament far beyond his age.
Agreed, it's probably no more trustworthy than WP/Blogger. However, it is more trustworthy than Buzzfeed or CorporateBlogger.com. Ostensibly, the average Medium post should be better because writers aren't paid (and hence there's no structural incentive to churn out 10x linkbait posts a day or to fill a post with sales copy).
Truth is, it doesn't fucking matter. People are still building jQuery apps. The key is solving real world problems with nicely designed solutions. Doesn't matter what you do it in, how you do it. Just solve a problem.
Great guide. If you are into these sort of guides of how to deal with the US government I have written a couple for the W8-BEN-E form [1] (you need this if you have any US customers) and also for registering to do business with the US government [2]. These are biased towards Australians, but they should be helpful for others too.

1. http://www.tillett.info/2015/06/20/how-to-complete-w-8ben-e-...

2. http://www.tillett.info/2015/12/01/how-to-register-an-austra...
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There are still bugs in network vendor hardware. That said, you shouldn't let that stop you from deploying IPv6[0]. It's mainly little things like you can't address a serial link as /127 (Hello HP). You should allocate a /64, but address it /127.

There's a major bug on A10 load balancers where the ICMP "too big" message is ignored for virtual servers. There is currently no fix. If you run A10, you can't run IPv6.

[0] Unless you run A10 gear.
It passed constitutional muster because the Supreme Court (specifically the Chief Justice) is unwilling to wade into this particular political morass. This was not the first decision which has been made by post-hoc rationalization because of magnitude, political significance, side effects, and judges' policy preferences, but it is one of the most notable.
AMD Reveals Polaris GPU Architecture: 4th Gen GCN to Arrive in Mid-2016