skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like something else. In the outlook case their servers they seem to use the connection as a stream (which is actually valid, although not really supported by browsers outside of the event-stream class), where the server only writes little chunks of data of a time. But the server there not hindered from writing by a slow client - it simply has not more data to write at that point of time.
So Tim Sweeney apparently is fine with Apple, Google, Sony and Nintendo controlling their eco-systems, only Microsoft cannot do it.
What are you bloging about?
Yes, that is not a useful way of looking at the issue.

Noone cares about the "null message".
Great example of first-order thinking that animates so much seemingly progressive policy. College graduates earn more == produce hordes more college graduates!
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I'm not sure the northeast, particularly any part of Massachusetts, is the best place to talk about the housing market. You will still have basically all the upward pressure on prices that you do in Boston et al with the exception of the large population.

If you look at a place without the statewide tax climate of a MA/NY/CA it's easy if not trivial to find ~$100k houses that are practically mansions.
Hopefully the market reacts accordingly.

It can be hard to gauge public opinion from the HN echo chamber, but the apple case is causing national awareness of this important issue. The real question is: will consumers make decisions in the next 6, 12, 24 months based on the information they hear about these devices? I'd like to say yes, but i suspect the answer is no.
Does constant time mean constant power usage and constant EM emission? It seems like those would be separate problems.
It seems strange to be so vocal about it with such a weak argument. The three points he says it needs are: 1. Being able to install from the web. 2. Being able to integrate with other stores. 3. Not locking it down in the future.

According to Microsoft, 2 was always possible, 1 was fixed in November (it was previously possible but required bypassing some things), so that leaves only 3, promising to never lock it down in the future.

This idea that Microsoft could lock down its platform in the future is nothing new, and part of the nature of having a proprietary platform. It really isn't up to them to fix this problem. It's up to developers to make their software available on free and open platforms where they know that no future lockdown is possible.
It seems that GCC6 does some more optimizations here: https://goo.gl/Y6W5q1
A really good strategy which is unfornately not very common. For one part because of the topic of the article, but for the second part because many companies seem to think that their employees will be hired away by their competitors at the first opportunity, which basically says that they do not trust themselves to be good enough to retain their employees .. but if these companies do not trust themselves how can their customers trust them?
Ah, I thought it was doing "cargo test" to see if the compiled code had a functional regression. But that would be challenging to investigate regressions (especially in the face of unstable tests).
Thats right.
That seems like a deep (but possibly unintentional) misunderstanding. There are, of course, situations where you find someone who doesn't work with you nor are you friends with, and repeatedly tell them that you like their clothes, and they clearly aren't taking it as a compliment, and you persist, and that is unequivocally harassment. Technically, that consists of "telling a coworker that you like their clothes", but that's not what makes it harassment.

Of course, someone who didn't have a solid grasp of what harassment is (or worse, wanted to convince themselves that their harassment didn't count) would portray it that way.

Consider the following paragraph:

"Facebook has 0 tolerance policy on many fronts. For instance, on security: using an account you're not authorized to use can be reported as a security incident, said the training video. And so, a lot of security auditing which, paradoxically, is strongly encouraged among employees, is a terminable offense."
How is the opposite true? I have no economic background, and am genuinely curious.
I worked at IBM in the '90s and again in the early 2000s. (Yeah, I'm not bright.) I worked on three major projects (i.e. things that had newspaper articles at the time and Wikipedia entries today) and relatively minor one (cough, cough, AACS). None of the projects shipped. One had hard technical problems, but those paled in comparison to the management problems. In the final case, the entire division disappeared in the reorganization.

IBM has had no idea what it was doing since the '80s, at least.

Amusing note about the product lines in storage: the second project was using some very nice early PowerPC hardware for development machines (codenamed "sandlefoot"). Turns out that there was a warehouse full of them somewhere because they got as far as medium scale production and never shipped.
I've written this article with one simple idea in mind – give for reading to everyone asking me to explain how IntelliJ IDEA is compared to other IDEs. Just now I've also realized that I can use it to explain what we're doing at JetBrains.
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Tell me the difference between this service and Google Geocoding, OpenCage, or OpenStreetMap?
Silly question based on my layman's understanding of the attack:

Can you impede the extraction process simply by having your phone/tablet/laptop generate interference while the decryption process is happening? For instance, if your laptop is simultaneously playing music through its speakers, would the analysis still let them definitively pick out the signing key?
I think what he means is: More people hava a college degree. That means more people are in competition to get "white collar" jobs. More competition on the "white collar"-job market, creates incentives to lower the cost per person (There is a bigger share of people willing to be paid less than a generation before). Therefore the average salary per person drops.
Almost completely off-topic, but this is somewhat hilarious to me to be reading a couple hours after I watched this week's episode of Gotham.
I think it's a different story when it's been there from the beginning and developers choose to join your platform versus leveraging your huge already captured market.
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A language with generics, e.g. OCaml, Haskell, Scala or F#. Once complexity reaches a certain level that's one of the tools you need to manage it.
Other IDEs just dropped the ball. There is 13 years old pull request to enable language support for languages such as Groovy or Scala:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36939

You can fork Idea on Github and send pull requests...
The Apple hardware perspective is mostly just a gimmick. The side-channel leaks are a direct result of the ARM IP core (also not Apple proprietary). This is arguably old news, people have been attacking ARM based mobile devices for years now.

It would be far more interesting to see if they could attack the Apple crypto hardware accelerators which AFAIK are hardened against these types of attack (as is the Apple CommonCrypto framework as of IOS 9). Apple seems to have ramped up their side-channel game in recent years.
Water cooling.
yeah I don't comment / post much I mostly lurk.
Can you cite your "no problem at all"? That statement is just wrong, if the hardware shipped with Win8/8.1/10 pre installed.

Such devices come with a locked down UEFI, the "legacy" BIOS is deactivated and often hidden behind shortcuts that one has to press during boot. Also it depends if you bought a business or consumer hardware.
The article wasn't particularly great but the title sticks in my mind: a little slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept.
Hopefully this reminds people, especially if you are working in your first job at some all encompassing place like amazon, google, facebook, whatever, that they don't love you. Maybe they give you food, a phone, a ride to work, but you have to have your own life outside work. Keep your resume up to date. Even awesome google is not a place that everyone stays at forever.
Apple used to have a bug where they'd report PIN failure before writing that failure to nonvolatile storage. Somebody took advantage of this by building a box that cut power before the write could be performed, allowing a brute force attack:

https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/iphone-pin-pass-cod...

The proposal here is similar, just using a different technique to prevent the write.

There isn't any nonvolatile storage besides the flash memory, so if you can reset that then the software has no way of knowing what happened before.
That's what the well-typed check I mentioned before is, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/31474
Super helpful. I hadn't thought of that use case for @autoclosure but that makes a ton of sense.
Another issue worth noting is getting past the set requirements to be evaluated by a human. I'm 30, without a college education, and worked for Apple retail as a 'Genius' for 5 years. That meant enough at the time to get me a job at Hulu with the expectation of upward mobility. Unfortunately, Hulu's executives made poor decisions and the type of work I was doing was unbearable. After leaving, I've been unable to find a job due to my application submissions missing a key component to even be considered; a college degree. Now, no one cares I worked for Apple like they used to.
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An ad-free-web would mean a inevitable sponsored-content-web. The first was easy to manage. We need to start thinking about Add-ons that can detect sponsored-content.
Too late by then.

There's a good documentary about this period called Falling Down, by the way.
Yeah, bypassing procedure was my thought. This sentence says a lot:

> If a week prior, I had typed a few different keystrokes, I would never have been in that room.

So I doubt it was something like "Looked at a users private information"
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We both know that will never happen. I'm just being realistic here.
What do you want them to do? Create an open alternative? They tried that and failed. Implement thunderbolt? Sorry, that's Intel proprietary, no can do.

It's not just a matter of license fees. AFAICT, Intel won't even let anybody else create chips for cables or peripherals, let alone host chips.
> There's no obvious way to search within a directory.

On OSX at least: CMD+SHIFT+F brings up the Find dialog. Scope defaults to Whole Project (ALT+H) but you can change it to Directory (ALT+O) which seems to default to the directory of the currently selected file. (Or maybe Scope actually defaults to the last one you used.)

I'm wondering what version of IDEA you tried that wasn't this way?

I don't run into compiler issues too often, but I also don't use shapeless or scalaz so I wouldn't be surprised if more complex type signatures give IDEA trouble. I have noticed a drastic improvement with the Scala support since IDEA 13 or so.
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I picked chromosomes and genes mostly because they are at least involved in the creation of the human brain, which was a bit hastily written. I agree that it makes for a poor prediction to determine who is going to have a tendency for mood swings.

Gender, to the degree that gender is not about culture, is quite far down the list of predictors, and even further down on the list would be hormones.
Apple, Google, Sony and Nintendo started with closed ecosystems. Keeping them closed maintains the status quo. Microsoft presided over a relatively open ecosystem (the PC). Moving that from open to closed could be rightly perceived as a loss of something some people would like to keep.

I don't see the hypocrisy here.
> Many companies do PIPs (performance improvement plans)

Isn't this a first signal when one should start looking for a new job asap?
The work on the failsafe dam has actually started a few years ago but it got only 40% finished due to political tensions. It's not done and it wouldn't be able to hold anything as it currently is.
Using govendor with my stuff and a shared GOPATH. I haven't noticed an issue, I wonder what makes it a nightmare for you?
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Is it generally accepted that lower federal reserve interest rates increase employment? If so, what's the mechanism?
I suggest that you read about melatonin and its possible side effects, e.g. at https://examine.com/supplements/Melatonin/ that has a very thorough writeup.
Doesn't that argument boil down to "we've done it that way in the past, so it must be continued in the future"?
> Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE

To be fair, most Java IDEs suck. Eclipse's usability is the worst I've seen in any IDE and, surprisingly, one of the most popular.
I'll definitely be using gcc 6 in the next post in the series. I just use whatever is the latest version of each available on Matt Godbolt's Compiler Explorer,and unfortunately when I was working on this post, 6 wasn't out yet.
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It seems weird to target them because their services can be abused for illegal purposes like terrorism. One can use Bic pens also for terrorist purposes, but I don't recall people setting up bic watch websites.

And on http://www.crimeflare.com/cfs.html you can see he accepts payments through Paypal, why rally against CloudFlare but don't mind getting money through Paypal?

The Silicon Valley is the opium of the people quote just makes it feel all in all very goofy, combined with the nineties website, comic sans and under construction gifs just seem to lack.
I'm surprised that there isn't more awareness of the problem. Hopefully the Flint publicity will help. looks like there is advice online but I've never heard anyone mention it despite living in an area with lots of old houses.

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/hea...

>>>> For your child:

> Have your child's blood lead level tested at age 1 and 2. Children from 3 to 6 years of age should have their blood tested, if they have not been tested before and:
They live in or regularly visit a house built before 1950,
They live in or regularly visit a house built before 1978 with on-going or recent renovations or remodeling
They have a sibling or playmate who has or did have lead poisoning
Parents, you're doing better than you think
What I find quite strange is why no Android device seems to use a dedicated hardware encryption module to reduce overhead like iPhones have had since the 3GS. Even security-focused devices like the Blackphone are crippled by the lack of crypto acceleration (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/09/paranoid-android-redu...). In comparison, iDevices are screaming fast even when fully encrypted (take a look at the storage numbers here http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-i...).
Administered hormones are not equivalent to natural hormones (which is a significant problem with HRT).

And those quotes are not quite "hormones (within natural occurring levels) have very minimal effect on emotion".

"the impact of estrogen on emotion varies"

And another quote from the study you quoted (Effects of testosterone on mood, aggression, and sexual behavior in young men: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over study):

"Increased circulating T was associated with significant increases in anger-hostility from baseline (mean score = 7.48) to wk 2 (mean score = 10.71)"

7.48 to 10.71 doesn't seem like a very minimal change.

----

Since you quoted WebMD (perhaps a useful summary) I will as well:

"It's clear that estrogen is closely linked with women's emotional well-being. Depression and anxiety affect women in their estrogen-producing years more often than men or postmenopausal women. Estrogen is also linked to mood disruptions that occur only in women -- premenstrual syndrome, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and postpartum depression."

And from another article:

"Declining estrogen levels associated with menopause can cause more than those pesky hot flashes. They can also make a woman feel like she is in a constant state of PMS (premenstrual syndrome). Unfortunately, these emotional changes are a normal part of menopause."

"Some of the emotional changes experienced by women undergoing perimenopause or menopause can include: Irritability, Feelings of sadness, Lack of motivation, Anxiety, Aggressiveness, Difficulty concentrating, Fatigue, Mood changes, and Tension."

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Perhaps we can agree.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by regulative, but I agree that emotions are complicated and hormones are not the only influence, nor is the relationship a simple cause and effect.

On the other hand, there's significant evidence that hormones do effect emotion, including perhaps the most striking example which I somehow forgot earlier: puberty. And their prenatal effect on the structure of the brain.

Would you agree hormones do effect emotions, but aren't the only factor, and the relationship is complicated, unpredictable, and varies between individuals?
underrated comment :)

But just to really dogfood it, Watson should drive itself to work, too, not just hang out in server room :)
We've evaluated it and it was the best we could have bought. We've decided not to use it because they didn't provide perpetual licensing.
quite funny... german version: http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/diverses/du-schwaetzer/st...
Tell HN: Using Skype Number for business. TL;DR: bad idea
I was shopping for voip number for my saas business, and decided to give it a try to Skype Number - good rates for getting a local number, I already use Skype, why not?

Bad idea.

- quality of calls is horrible (even my voicemail message is not possible to hear, also every second recording is not possible to hear)
- if you have your Skype turned on both on desktop and phone, calls do not always go through to phone
- when you do forwarding of calls to your phone you are loosing a chance to have your Skype Number voicemail message played
- of course, there is no way to call Skype support to either request refund or ask questions.

I think I will give it a try to ringcentral.com, which was recommended in one of HN post.
> This week I got a cold. I'm not sure which social network I mentioned it on or what search I made, but the ads I see everywhere now are for NyQuil. This isn't the ad network knowing I'm actively searching the web for a web monitoring product and showing me pingdom ads. The ad network knows I'm sick and what my illness is.

The ad network knows you searched for, or included in a status update, "cold", or "sneeze" or some other combination of keywords that Proctor & Gamble paid to have associated with NyQuil.

Genuine question: Why is this a problem? I prefer to receive adverts that are about something I might actually want.

When I've been browsing things on Amazon and then, for some reason, browse without ad-blocking, I start to receive adverts about things I was looking at but didn't purchase. I think that's much better than, say, receiving a page full of obnoxious animated adverts for some Clash of Clans rip-off.
Well its the same thing. You have an unfulfilled need and did something online to try and solve it, so a company targeted you and are displaying their solution in ads. Illness or any other product, the process doesn't change.
I was drawing parallels; Cloudflare's open support for all websites is meritorious in the same way that freedom of speech and religion are meritorious. The temptation to regulate it has consequences which are analogous to limiting speech or religion.

And no, it wouldn't dictate what you could say or believe, but it can help you say it. And if you need to say something that a powerful entity doesn't want said, they can protect you from DDoS and other attacks.

It's one thing to advocate that entities not make certain kinds of speech - by all means, please advocate away! But CloudFlare is an assistant to speech, not just an advocate. The moment you start making rules and decisions about what you enable, you open yourself up to the human possibility of making wrong rules and decisions. And that means it's better to not make the rules in the first place. "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" and all that.
When every company hires only "the best" (top 1%), what are the rest of us (99%) suppose to do?
To put this in context, "Hire the Best" means: adopt an incredibly risk tolerant nature, initiate an incredibly risky business venture, and then tolerate zero risk in your hiring decisions.
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They are highly correlated.

The best way to achieve constant time is making your code paths data independent, that is, it always execute the same instructions, whatever the data. This code will also use constant power and have constant EM emission. (Except for low level optimizations in hardware, that may break any of those characteristics.)
I am perfectly capable of curating my own games. The last thing I want is Valve to get in morality politics and decide what is and isn't "good for the children" or whatever else crap.

They should allow you to subscribe to curators and see only approved games, maybe, but Valve themselves should absolutely not be censoring the site.
Strangely everytime I mention Hillary he leaves the room.
Yes, you are correct. What I meant is that the casinos are forbidden from asking you to stop playing or to leave the casino based on counting cards. It's really in the casino's best interest though, because there are more people who think they can count cards than there are people who can do it effectively.
You can skip straight to the list of all possible answers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jqUwc57abydPctxqjyFB...

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What you're doing is charge people as much as possible by not giving the option of perpetual licensing. That's what you're doing.
Neural Networks and the Backpropagation Algorithm, Explained
Valid question. You shift the burden from being a cryptography related problem to signal processing related problem.
Also, "more productive" means fewer people are needed to do the same amount of work, so labor prices are being pushed down from the demand side too (as long as the total work being done doesn't keep pace, i.e. low growth).
How about if you don't have a job you still deserve a basic income? Ultimately that's the future.

There are going to be too few jobs for people going forward. There's no point in makework. Just give each person a basic income.
One of my co-workers has a 5K iMac and definitely has this issue. I will have to test more carefully to see if this is also affecting me. Does not really matter because after reading this I am definitely moving to IntelliJ.
I always take issue with the idea that people should just make themselves more "valuable" to get a job.

While it sounds like a good idea in principle, it ignores the fact that without a job many people simply won't have the resources to make themselves more valuable.

It creates a catch 22 situation, and the people it effects the most also happen to be the people who will struggle the most to break out of that situation.