skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks to me more like the Hunt Brothers' attempts to corner the silver market from 1970-1980, and the fallout thereafter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday#/media/File:Si...
Firefox's mobile version is kind of crap. It's one of the few places where they could do with copying Chrome a bit more than they currently are.
Indeed. Here's how the author of the article thinks AMD might skate:

Also not immediately obvious is where this falls under the Intel/AMD x86 cross-licensing agreement. AMD has of course done their own research.... In the meantime and at first glance, because this is a joint venture, it would appear that AMD is in the clear here as they aren’t giving the technology to another business, but rather are using it as part of a new line of products they are developing, albeit in conjunction with an outside firm.
Works pretty well. There are some npm packages that don't work with windows. [subst]( https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp...) solves the path issue. Also with bash on windows in the future it shouldn't be any issue.
A good advice and concrete recommendations. This is why I love HN. Thank you.
Fortunately Bitcoin is immune to such things /s
This reminds me so much of Native American communities in America. Loss of culture, feelings of no hope, no jobs, no opportunities, it's one of the worst feelings to have. When there's nothing else to do, and no hope of things getting better, suicide seems like the easy option.

Very good article.
My guess is it's probably because of the US anti terrorist funding law.
Why not send a few SmartMedia cards, a Zip Disk, or a few 3½-inch floppies?
Intelligence and Bremermann's limit are pretty unrelated. Most people have what they consider to be intelligence and self-awareness with a system that uses a lot fewer atoms than are contained in this universe. The worry, with non-human intelligences, maybe trying to bootstrap themselves to be able to take advantage of this universe's computational capacity, is with what a person once apocryphally said: "The machine does not love or hate you, but you are made of atoms it can use for other things.”
What? I said objecting to the name is childish. That doesn't mean I think everything should have whimsical names, and I really don't know how you interpreted that from what I said?
Normally I would agree with you, I often chide people for inventing problems to solve. But it is a little different when it isn't a hypothetical as much as an inevitable future occurrence.

As for refrigerators, I am just as worried about people trying to fly drones around my house as I am about people flying drones around planes, yes. I have it on good authority that anyone with the funds can purchase access to 3D drone-generated map of my city, my house included. A gentleman here in town who replaces windows doesn't bother to measure them anymore; he just uses the drone photos.
Compare to the period 1970-1980 when the Hunt brothers tried to corner the silver market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday#/media/File:Si...
Interesting how "folks" is replacing "people" even in headlines/journalism.
According to this article, those license terms were mutual, and Intel has already been selling its Atom IP to Rockchip and others.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/227059-amd-announces-ne...

Also, another thing that everyone points out when there's a discussion about AMD being acquired, is that "Intel wouldn't allow it" because of that clause in the license agreement. I think that argument makes no sense.

The only reason Intel hasn't completely crushed AMD so far (which it could've done by keeping prices low until it eliminated AMD) in the market, is because it doesn't want to remain a monopoly in the PC market. You think Google has it bad in the EU right now? It would be far worse for Intel (which already got fined $1.5 billion in the EU for anti-competitive practices against AMD).

The second reason why it doesn't make sense is that AMD owns the 64-bit ISA rights. I'm guessing Intel would still need that to operate in all markets except IoT...

So to end that argument once and for all - of course Intel would allow AMD to be acquired, one way or another. Worst case scenario, whoever acquires AMD would have to pay slightly higher royalties to Intel for the next 5 years.

Getting back on point, as the ExtremeTech post mentions, it's likely this is only IP that AMD alone owns anyway.
Or 350,000 people to declare themselves as Jedi Knights in the 2001 census.
> Windows accepts / just as well as the preferred \

So someone can (naively) concatenate paths with / and fs.readFile() and require() etc will still work?

I'm on npm v3 right now anyway for the dedupe and better shrinkwrap features so no need for extra work.
I know exactly what Ethereum is. I'm wondering why OP assumes that Microsoft is working on "some kind of Ethereum project"
Ask HN: What font do you use to print sensitive passwords?
From time to time I have to assign complex passwords and give hard copies to users. Notepad font routinely confuses them. They mistake a lowercase l for a 1, etc. Which font is clearest?
The title is a little misleading. Obviously the hijackers were mostly from Saudi. The document shows how those people were directly connected with government.

However in Saudi a ton of people work for the government so it isn't surprising they had connections to Saudi government.
Catholic here so I have the same position on euthanasia. The thing is, there is an alternative: good palliative care, which revolves around good pain management and promoting the best quality of life in the end days. The US hasn't been very good at that type of care but there are some improvements, and more and more are getting into it.

The irony, is that sometimes, someone in palliative care might live longer than someone being actively treated. Here[1] is an extreme example. Less extreme examples ocurr every day as people undergo tests and treatments which end up precipitating the general condition of the person. 70 years old and heart arteries fully blocked and only auxiliary perfusion? DON'T go get a stress test, you already know the outcome and no significant difference will be occur in treatment.

Ask any health professional how they want to die, and almost none of them will want to "do everything possible to treat". They've seen it and it sucks: doing chest compressions, thus breaking ribs of frail elders, all because their children refuse to see them let go; seeing people with tubes up every orifice and yet still in pain, away from loved ones and surrounded by strangers… no thanks!

Public Service Announcement: if you don't have any yet, make some Adcanced Directives to document what should be done to you should you become incapacitated. You can always revise them on a yearly basis.

St Robert Bellarmine wrote "The Art of Dying Well"; for non-Catholics there are other similar writings about how to live a full life without pretending that death will never happen.

[1] A terminal phase Greek cancer patient leaves NY to die in peace in his Greek island and outlives all his doctors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-...
I highly doubt they care about the specific ISA in this case. The simple fact is, at this point, the only players with proven high-IPC, high-performance CPU designs are Intel(x86), AMD(x86), and IBM(POWER/POWERPC), and that is highly unlikely to change in the near future. IBM already has a licensing deal for POWER in China, and has been moving towards that with OpenPOWER for a long time. Intel would never contemplate such a thing, but AMD is desperate enough at this juncture to try it, even though it could cannibalize their core business in the future.
This happens with airports a lot. Some really wonderful and generous old pilot or aviation engineer dies, so the field gets renamed in honor of the person. But aviators still refer to the field by it's traditional name. It's not a slight against the honored dead; rather, it's just out of habit and the fact that it's tremendously easier to remember "$CITY_NAME Airport" than it is "$GUY_WHO_DIED Field".
SmartOS has the LX brand; in other words, SmartOS can look like a Linux kernel if it wants to. I've used Ubuntu on SmartOS, and it worked flawlessly.
Are there any open source Packer build configurations or anything else that can be used to reproduce the base boxes from scratch? I wouldn't usually run a base box that I can't also see/use the automated build scripts for.

For my own boxes (e.g. https://github.com/geerlingguy/packer-ubuntu-1604), I make sure to prominently link to Packer configs licensed under the MIT license (based on Chef's Bento project (https://github.com/chef/bento)).
Code Connected got me interested in programming again.

http://hintjens.com/blog:30
I didn't think that Uber and drivers got to decide that. I thought it was up to the IRS.
> It's just a name. Names are almost always boring.

Not everyone feels this way. Names can be important and in the arts are particularly relished/valued and interpreted, to the extent that noms-de-plume and other forms of pseudonym are popular.

A formalist account of names sees them as dumb labels, and in computing you can get away with that. But it's not whole story because it doesn't consider the emotional side.
As another node developer, I left Windows ~2y ago for Linux. node and it's ecosystem were already well supported on Windows back then.

Development-wise, I can't remember a single issue with node (file-watching even worked quite well). Working with Docker however wasn't nice. But I believe that changed in the meanwhile?

As a side-note: Ubuntu/Linux came a long way. I went back-and-forth between both a few times during the last ~10y. Things that scared me (window management being a big one) are a pleasure to work with in Ubuntu nowadays.
I use Node on Windows regularly as I have a client whose stack is mostly based on .NET, but they recently started using Node as well.

I use Visual Studio Code. Atom also works well. I was told that Visual Studio should also work, but apparently I'm simply not clever enough to figure out how to make it do what I want it to do.

Path length is definitely an issue; I check out all git repos directly under C:\b\ which is usually enough to work around path length issues. Path separators usually just work as Windows is rather good at translating / to \, but still it's good practice to use path.join / path.resolve rather than "hardcoding" separators.

Getting node-gyp working is black magic and it requires the recital of arcane incantations, but it's doable. However, some node-gyp modules are not very well tested on Windows and fail all sorts of weird ways. For example (and this might have been fixed since then, haven't checked in a while) the "pg-native" module (native driver for PostgreSQL) builds on Windows, but crashes when you're trying to use it. Fortunately, many native modules have JavaScript-only alternatives that you can use on Windows.

Npm works well, but due to how file locking works on Windows (you can't delete (unlink) open files), you can't always run npm update while your application is running.

Generally speaking, once you have a solid initial setup, things tend to work well. I don't run Node on Windows in production, but it performs well for development purposes.
Which specific native modules have been a prob?
While I upvoted you, it is still possible to pivot to another industry. Nintendo after all started out by selling playing cards.
I use OSX at work and GNU/Linux and Windows at home. The only issue I've had are native modules but with msys2 I've usually been able to solve them 90% of the time.
برنامج تغيير الصوت أثناء المكالمات للاندرويد والأيفون Voice Changer
But they don't lack the stamina/strength. It's just more difficult for them. The possibility is still there.

Same with addicts. I know a handful. Yes, it's tremendously difficult for them to quit with the drugs, but it's still possible. It's their decision to make. Any doctor or person at a rehab facility will tell you, they have the ability to do it but it's just more difficult for them than for me.

So comparing it to completely not having the ability to do it is a defeatist attitude. The ability is there.
Finally someone who understands the pain of a developer,I like the last part where you mentioned about the raise, I like that image though
States could probably change the 2 party system by eliminating the preferential access that the parties have to the ballot.

Imagine if the national conventions were deciding which of the many already balloted candidates to endorse, rather than a media circus driving national attention to a smaller and smaller number of candidates that are then placed on state ballots by the parties months after an independent would have had to finished submitting ballot petitions.

It would still be a circus, but it wouldn't be a circus where the choices are filtered through a few thousand people. I suppose it would be necessary to again make the first loser the Vice President, but that shouldn't really hurt anything.
If I ran a news organization I'd use the old name on principle but I know what would happen. Companies would start to pay me to use the "proper name." It's the next step after product placement.
except so much messier, it's more like code and data in the sense that self-modifying machine code is.
> Clinton has said she can be trusted to spurn her donors on critical issues, noting that President Barack Obama was tough on Wall Street

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Can anyone tell me what this does?
This looks like a configuration files in JSON, but why do these setting make it work in docker? If my docker image size is different, which parameter in this would I change?
>And as a non-mac user I would really appreciate a OS X VM.

AFAIK that is a no-no according to the EULA, at least that was the case a couple of years ago.
They could change it back to Sears Tower.
Out of curiosity do you live in the US?
This is the country of the author who gave us ship names such as Gunboat Diplomat, You'll Thank Me Later, and (my personal favorite) I Blame Your Mother. You'd think the NERC would understand that it's all in good fun and would have the grace to use the name chosen by us unwashed masses. I mean, it's irreverent, but it isn't obscene, so who cares?
So the thing is, if you're doing Node development on Windows, you're not going to be running in production on a Windows box, right? So use Vagrant or Docker or some other "run in a virtual Linux environment" thing, which will make your dev machine match your server environment more closely.
I lost a brother who has two girls. They were very young when it happened. It was a sudden death. Gone in less than a day. You never get an answer to the why. The Lego analogy works because it tells the child that life ends. It doesn't explain why. Just the fact. And that's ok. Why did my brother die? Everyday I ask myself that very same question and have yet come to an answer. His daughters have asked me why too. I never answer and hug them. Life is but a gift. It's not logical. But makes sense in a way. Worth living and worth dying for.

Only thing I can come up with is to wish everybody health and a long life.
Are you implying that if animals treated each other better, we would be obliged to do so as well? Are animals now our role models? I thought it was the other way around, that we valued our unique human cultures with our ideas of ethics and reciprocity over our primitive instincts for survival. If it's the case that we should be emulating animals, maybe we should rethink this whole civilization thing.
Compromise is the essence of democracy. In that spirit, I suggest the following:
A serious official name, for example the HMS Stephen Hawking.
The people's choice, hand-painted in comic sans.
I'm making an analogy to tech policy. Of course we had people with coding experience managing tech policy. Similarly, we want people with banking experience managing banking policy.
huh, today I learned wired.com is a jerk about adblockers. guess they won't be getting my pageviews anymore.
Can't we do both?

Our track record on cures rather than palliative treatments is abysmal. So yes, let's research disease and cures. Let's consider quality of life and the wishes of those involved above all. A greater element of the system not squarely focussed on profit would be helpful.

For many forms of cancer we actually have one of the few exceptions. Survival rates from cancers are far higher than twenty or thirty years ago. Often healthy survival at that with full remission.

For those unlucky enough to have a terminal condition (and regardless of progress there will always be some), or riddled with chronic conditions and infirmity, let's allow them to pass with dignity, when and how they choose.

My dog had a better experience than my father. My father knew his time had come and didn't want his last six months of bedridden suffering. He didn't want it for his family, especially wife, either. Neither my father nor I believed in a life after, and accepted this was it, so there was no bullshit of "going to a better place".

I also want more acceptance of death and better treatment and consideration of those dying. We can't yet abolish it.
B:\_purgatory>mkdir hello
B:\_purgatory>echo "test" > hello/world

B:\_purgatory>node
> var fs = require("fs")
undefined
> fs.readFileSync("hello/world")
<Buffer 22 74 65 73 74 22 20 0d 0a>

As for require, iirc "/" is part of the spec and gets normalized to the OS standards afterwards
Maybe because they read about the Microsoft partnership with Consensys and their Blockchain tools on Azure, but as far as I can tell Microsoft only provides hosting and some Marketing there.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/microsoft-brings-ethere...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/545806/microsoft-bets-tha...
Show HN: A Chrome extension to indicate if a site is live or local
So are these IPOs LC, GPRO AND LNKD ever going to recover?
Pretty much ever since this place got a large influx of users it hasn't been as good with the content posted
I use GoSquared — the service is great and support is second to none.
I do think the need part comes into play when you take into consideration resource constraints. If we end up poisoning the Earth beyond its ability to support life with rising demand for meat, we might need to stop.
That fight was lost a long time ago.
Could totally make a browser extension to automatically convert the text on a page, like the "On the cloud => in my butt" one.
Can't say any of this is surprising...or even interesting. Big shock: companies that have enough money to pay a quarter of a million dollars to have Hillary Clinton speak also have lobbied the government. I think its pretty comical that people seriously think that these companies are buying real favors from the Secretary of State for only $225,000. Hillary doesn't need the money that badly, and if she really were selling favors, you can bet they'd be more than $225,000!

That said, this is a lesson in why public officials should be concerned about the appearance of impropriety, and not just substantive impropriety. The former can still do a lot of damage (both to yourself, and to faith in government) whether you've done anything else wrong or not. It doesn't look good to public officials to be giving paid speeches while they are still in office.
I agree and think the only way they made this deal is if AMD showed that Zen is better than any of the other alternatives. That probably isn't saying much since most of the alternatives are pretty bad, but they probably don't have another Bulldozer on their hands either.
I think the problem is that people think Agile is a magic potion to fix dysfunctional teams and it isn't. Agile only works if your team works well together. There's any of number of ways for the team or the PO or the customers to make sure a project fails, whether you're operating in an Agile way or not.

We switched to SCRUM last year at work and things have been amazing. My tune may change over time, but when we stick to the system we've developed things are great. 80% of our time is about getting work done. We focus on one project at a time and we deliver high quality code.

But there's more ways to make things fail than there are to make it succeed, and Agile is not a solution to people being terrible.
Understood. I've used Linux desktops on and off since the 90s. Not discounting your experience, but my own is that every time I think everything is fixed, it isn't:

- My last Linux desktop was purchased for hardware that had 100% OSS drivers: even then compositing on an external display wouldn't work.

- The Windows machine I'm looking at has a version sold with Ubuntu. It's still pretty awful according to HN users.

I speak a lot, I need to be able to plug into every projector 100% of the time.
Can't we just have one popular article about science that isn't sold as a story about a small upstart group of researchers overturning those antiquated ways of thinking? It's so painful and divorced from reality.
Look into fonts optimized for source code, like https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+Pro

If you have control over how the passwords look, you maybe also could adjust their generation to avoid hard-to-distinguish sequences.
My company, my school, and just about every person I know uses Office 365 for their business email. Tons of people pay for email.
I agree, the question is not "Should we work on it or death is OK?" but "What are we doing to solve this problem?". For example there are people doing amateurish experiments on rodents, other people tinkering with ML and so on.

Of course I "accept" death as a fact of life that happens to almost everyone by default. But note that saying that death is a fact of life is a bit wrong because there is a handful of exceptions, 100s of rich people that opted for cryopreservation. They have a small chance of coming back later in some form. Most people in the world don't (because 80k$ is a too big sum for them).
Calls to Ban Effective Encryption Continue Despite Data Breach Crisis
Confessions of a Terrorist http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,480226,...
I wonder if this is like rfid chips that were only supposed to work up to a couple feet away but special equipment can now read them far away.

TSA doing brainprint scans someday shudder
With the majority of users moving towards mobile, I really think this is an issue, and I've been consciously building projects as lean as possible. Removing bloated jquery libraries was a big one. With native calls like
document.querySelectorAll
document.querySelector
I've found I can 90% get by without it. For the rest, using something like vue.js, and I've taken care of all the dom manipulation, data binding, etc.
There's two things we British excel at, silliness and pedantry.

So it's no suprise that the best objection I've heard to the name so far is that it's stupid because the vessel is clearly a SHIP, not a BOAT.
The Android Administration - Google’s Close Relationship w/ the White House
Do you think that regulation by the SEC has any adverse impact on innovation in the IPO market? I remember reading that during the Google IPO, the SEC was often unhappy with the unusual circumstances and that the Google founders thought that the regulations, such as the quiet period, were outdated.
Do more Ansible (overview, tutorial)