skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Angkor is a fascinating place and well worth a visit - dozens of beautiful temples, most of which were hidden by the jungle until the 19th century. Angkor Wat, the biggest one, is particularly impressive. Very good place to appreciate that empires come and go.

While it was known that Angkor was the capital of a vast empire around the 12th century, the news here is that large parts of that empire may now be rediscovered.
Semi-hijacking your question to mention the other side of the pond too, which many people do not seem to know about and I run into this issue quite regularly.

While the laptop situation is indeed pretty bad (the X200 is probably as best as you can get here), for people looking for a modern workstation, AMD's current FX processor lineup is still free from this trash. Past the 2013 designs (Family 16h [1]) AMD includes their own equivalent of Intel's ME called PSP [2], so presumably the upcoming Zen is going to be heavily backdoored too.

Now, you can still buy an 8-core/4 GHz+ AMD Vishera [3] generation (which is the "current" FX), add a motherboard with ECC support (in a stark contrast to Intel, all AMD FX processors fully support ECC memory and for example ASUS sells a number of AMD motherboards with ECC support) and build yourself a workstation that will easily last for another decade, possibly longer (you can always buy a motherboard or two of your favourite model as a backup for the times when they finally disappear from the market). All FX processors are factory unlocked [4] and can be pushed much farther past their design specs with decent cooling, adding another bit to their possible usefulness over the long term.

Some more (random) reading on the subject of avoiding AMD PSP and Intel ME:

http://hollaforums.com/thread/557954/technology/uncorrectabl...

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_CPU_microarchitect...

[2] - https://libreboot.org/faq/#amd

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_FX_microprocessors...

[4] - http://www.techpowerup.com/153445/amd-unlocked-fx-processors...
I read somewhere ME (or other similar Intel technology) uses another MAC (it is off by one) not to interfere with main OS traffic. If it is really so you can setup MAC filtering on your router to block ME traffic.

But I might be wrong. For example this 2008 year document [1] says it uses same IP and MAC address as OS and filters packets by port number.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20080219044745/http://softwarecom...
Also motivation can vary heavily by conditions. In some cases, the difference between strong motivation and utter lack of it can be structure that lets you start and maintain a feedback loop of positive feelings.
Maybe a shared spreadsheet ?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wUt5G0Kst8g5P0ftQqXk...

ps: First time I create and share a google sheet, so far I added the 3 that asked, sorry for the delay.
I've gone down that path; it was a big pain—Apple just doesn't bother to make drivers for what most hypervisors consider "generic" hardware. You basically need to do the same stuff Hackintosh builders do, to your VM, to get even some of the features working.

By contrast, you can just create an OSX VM in VMWare Fusion in OSX and then copy it over to VMWare Workstation on Windows (or an ESXi server, or whatever else) and it'll work fine after being convinced[1] that it's allowed to try.

[1] http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/339-unlocker/
And yet in New Zealand, Uber is instructing its drivers to ignore the legal requirements for commercial passenger transport, which boil down to a background check, a license endorsement, and a more frequent warrent of fitness check.

Uber is opposed in principle to even the most minimal safety legislation.
Seemed it was an opinion. Trump, a well known and documented public figure, has certainly had a much of his life documented in media as an entertainer, author and business executive.I think there is enough evidence to make a claim (either way) about public figures & their temperment without knowing them personally.
Well done for turning an unrelated issue into a C++ rant!
Bandwidth-Efficient BVH Layout for Incremental Hardware Traversal
We will be fixing it. It was a bug in Material Design Lite and we need to upgrade.
> In terms of the impact on the number of vulnerabilities, eliminating C and C++ would go way further than eliminating black box "security" hardware, just because the huge amount of C and C++ code, much of it written hastily and committed the moment it "runs on my machine", presents a much larger attack surface than the black box hardware + software system. But of course the FSF will never recommend ditching C and C++.

This is missing the point you can and do have control over the C code which runs on your machine; the same cannot be said for ME. The comparison is entirely disingenuous.
It's available from Stanford directly.

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...
The language of the cockpit is technical, obscure – and irresistibly romantic
1. No
2. Not much.

The thing is this: Even if most people are sociopaths, it isn't an issue. What the media labels as a sociopath doesn't match the clinical definition. Even a clinical diagnosis only comes about if the person is having life problems or is hurting other folks, and most won't do that because it would hurt themselves or hamper their goals. The same really goes for hearing voices - it isn't a problem so long as you can deal with it, they are positive and go about life in a fairly normal fashion - but if you can't, you should probably seek help. In addition, a lot of people will self-label if it is a popular thing to be. For reference, suddenly lots of people fall into the autism spectrum, many have ADHD, gluten intolerance, etc without a doctor's actual diagnosis. A "hunch". It is probably normal to feel a bit abnormal because we only see a glimpse of what goes on in other's heads.

... as long as you can sufficiently lavel someone a sociopath, it becomes within your rights to deny them freedoms and torture or kill them.

Not really, nor is this any different from someone schizophrenic or bipolar or any number of diseases. Society is only bothered with those that are violent and outright hurt folks. But it is the same with rapists, child molesters, etc, and there are many contributing factors. So long as we have a society that is generally well-educated and can sort out the difference between reality and fantasy, oddities and normalities, it really doesn't matter much. (whether we have that is debatable and another topic altogether).
I think the point is that they didn't.
Google's motto is still "Don't be evil". Alphabet (Google's parent company) adopted "Do the right thing" as its own, but Google's is still in effect.

To answer the question of why "Do the right thing", it is in my opinion to support actions that they deem "right" or "good" which otherwise aren't strictly required for their operations. For example their support of gay marriage.
The bill of rights is amazing and everything is an anti-pattern. The bill of rights explicitly says what you are allowed to never have done to you. Where as most laws try to prevent specific things. I am not saying law is black and white, but it is certainly difficult to understand, simplicity is important.

> If you made TPP a concise document with 5-10 specific objectives they would all be litigated for decades to decide on the very same special cases that are detailed in the 2,000 page agreement.

I started reading the TPP today, but I didn't get far enough to form an opinion, although I suspect that would be ideal. In a world changing as fast as ours having an agreement span 3 decades seems laughable.
Today you're one of the lucky 10,000! https://blog.kaspersky.com/blackhat-jeep-cherokee-hack-expla...

short version: you hop onto an outward-facing wireless channel (in this case either wifi or cell), and then find the weak point where the industrial control system (ICS) and user network are very close to one another. Once you're on the ICS, systems are often low on verification/authentication, so there's a decent chance that you can do things like accelerating into a brick wall.
> Studies done across 8 people are given the same authorial credibility as studies done across 8 million protons

The number alone doesn't tell us how reliable the conclusions are.

This doesn't necessarily invalidate your point, though.
The most likely reason that nobody seems to be out there is the great filter. The author asks if our civilisation will last millenia or millions of years - but I think a more apt scale would be decades or centuries.

It just seems pretty obvious that we have an ever increasing set of opportunities to extinct ourselves, and therefore the probability of a civilisation ending disaster only grows.

All the aliens either blew themselves up, starved, or are the kind of incredibly boring, mind-numblingly conservative people you wouldn't invite to a local cluster cocktail party.

Oh, either that or civilisations tend to disappear up their own simhole.
The default password is "admin".
I don't think it's true at all that it's easy to get a cab in Singapore.

If you're in the downtown area anytime close to rush hour it's practically impossible to get a cab without reserving one in advance (which costs extra), or waiting in line at a designated "taxi stand" for an unacceptably long time.

Personally I think that part of the reason the government no longer allows street hails downtown (even for cabs) is an acknowledgment of this problem.
> This is a video game, not real life.

Games and play is not only human. If you observe puppies and kitties playing, you'll find out that they are mimicking hunting moves, fights, etc., all things they'll do "seriously" in their adult life in order to survive and reproduce.

Kids games are no different. IRL games and video games are no different, except that anonymity allows people to abuse others more.
Ah, yes a visa with definite end date would be likely.
> Yes, some people have chosen to run their own mail servers for some reason and those people might conceivably get a bit more spam for a while.

Once your email is out there, there's no going back.

Email addresses are personally identifiable information, and revealing a relationship between a business and a person is potentially very dangerous.

For example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36247186
Intel remote management with support for using the wireless card is something that got me quite terrified when I first tried on my T420. Basically, no recent intel laptop can ever be secured, unless you physically remove the wireless and wired network card.

Intel has a jolly video demoing how to pwn a machine remotely (framed in the positive light of taking control and fixing a boot problem by the it service desk):

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/remote-support/remote...

This is for 6th generation+ cpus, but the systems in older cpus are also quite powerful. And can't really be protected beyond using a password/passphrase. I'm not sure (and probably no-one knows) if there's also a golden key/backdoor.

(I wonder if the video is actually narrated by
Zach Woods (Donald 'Jared' Dunn from Silicon Valley) - or if it just sounds a bit like that).

At any rate, if watching that jolly video doesn't fill you with fear, I'd say you're not sufficiently paranoid.
It's a reference to 21 million - Bitcoin's issuance limit
The legal system is not applied by computers, but by humans. That's why laws don't have to be written in a way that pre-defines every possible edge case - you can let judges make a common sense judgment call about it later.

For example you could have a rule that anybody who makes a work available "in good faith" in the belief that it is a scientific paper out of copyright is not liable to damages. Then all edge cases would be cleared in the context of take-down requests, which is not very high stakes...
Does anyone know if 21 has solved the transaction fee problem for micropayments with btc?
Confirming what the other poster said with definitely-current info, NSA employees and other IC are certainly allowed cell phones, but they don't go very far into the buildings, if at all.
Thanks for the very comprehensive answer!

Peopleware is already on my mailing list and I've just added Moral Mazes too.

Would you say, then, that corporations who switch to open plan offices are just acting irrationally? They think they're going to get a benefit out of it but actually it's a net negative?
More Fallout from the LinkedIn Breach in New Targeted Attacks on Banking
I would be more than happy to pay up to $200-$250 (note: close to half of my monthly salary) to get a yearly access to Coursera courses and not having to pay any additional money to them what so ever.

Now that I think about it, I would like to see that as an option.
Does anyone here know of an automated solution to get a faithful save of a whole course?
As I recall it coursera-dl doesn't capture quizzes and forum, for instance.
There are already similar laws in the UK and other countries.

See this recent example, where a sexual health centre accidentally leaked a list of 800 people who had attended HIV clinics.

They ended up with a £180,000 fine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36247186
What a disingenuous title. It should say "Why an F1 car is more energy efficient than an electric car running on coal and oil grid power".

I get all of my electricity from a nuclear power plant, so if I had an electric car the title statement would at least be false for me. For people on solar, the title doesn't make any practical sense, as less efficient solar panels aren't causing any extra pollution (except during their initial construction).
The scope of this agreement is a problem in and of itself. By stapling together what should actually have been tens or hundreds of smaller agreements the authors of the TPP are ensuring that both support and opposition to the treaty from the broad population are under-informed positions based on ideology. If this were anything else than an anti-democratic power grab, they would break the treaty down into pieces, around which we could have a meaningful and accessible discussion.
And 4000 hours of free time later, You've got a job :P!
Wait a few years :)
GPON isn't used everywhere, but it's used a lot, yes. Still, getting 2.5Gbps, exclusively, with low latency isn't possible with the other connections (yet?).
Phillies VS. Nationals, Saturday, June 11th, Las Vegas Sports Betting
Well the title wasn't "MS universally cured". It's significant progress towards a cure. And curing 3% of a disease that afflicts millions of people is still tens of thousands of lives saved.
There is a reason that Toyota completely dominates in most Of Africa - their cars just last and last in harsh environments. In addition, the mechanics are simple and not overly electronic in nature, meaning that the car can be relatively easily maintained without needing highly specialised equipment.
How much does it cost (in terms of money and carbon footprint) to prepare the fuel and engine for a F1 car compared to that of a modern power plant?
For the moment, you still can, in a certain way. I've just made another lengthier comment about it elsewhere in the thread [1], before noticing yours which sadly got buried at the very bottom.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11882626
I believe this might have been the study where 25%(?) of the patients were killed by the treatment. As a result, this is only indicated for the very severe RRMS (relapsing-remitting, not related to Stallman) cases.

I'm sure HN can correct me if I'm wrong, but the point to make is that this isn't a cure.
I was just in Mitzpe Ramon, IL with my family on a moonless weekend night. It is supposed to be the darkest point in Israel. The viewing was fairly good that night.

And yet my kids were disappointed upon seeing the Milky Way. They'd expected it to look like what they've seen in pictures, like shown in this NPR article on the subject:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/10/481545778/...

I'd even forewarned them not to expect the night sky to look like it does in photos they've seen of it. :-(
Unless you regularly buy kilos from your dealer, those records aren't exactly plea-bargaining material.
Nope. US citizen, but used to work for a company that had offices in Canada, and over a couple-year period also went to three tech-related conferences held in Canada, so I got a pretty significant dose of CBSA's loving embrace.
SQLite is probably one of the most backwards compatibility conscious projects I know. They even will continue to support version 3 and 4 in parallel.

I don't think compatibility between browsers is very prominent in the minds of browser vendors tbh, considering how many browsers fail to implement specifications correctly.

I think it's pretty clear why people opposed SQL. All this happened in the midst of the NoSQL hype. Where everybody was bashing SQL in favour of key Value stores and document databases (which turned out to have far more constraints than people assumed) (I made the same mistake back then). And especially Web developers have a tendency to go for the newest shiniest of trends (bazillion Web frameworks anyone).

I try to see a silver lining in this though. With the spec deprecated, and sqlite 3 being long term supported, WebSQL is probably the most compatible, complete and stable of any of the HTML5 specs.
And as long as the browsers I care about support it (safari, chrome and Opera) not having the spec change with every trend and and hype is not a liabilit but an asset.
Encouraging.

Your page for Roger Peng's R Programming book also contains a link to Lulu for those who prefer print.

Does following that link bypass your system or are you collecting some kind of fee for that? I'm assuming Dr Peng gets a reasonable chunk of coffee money from Lulu directly as usual.

Cheers
Man, I read this comment and thought "wow, I didn't realize Serbia had such close ties to Russia still, that Putin could just do something like this". Glad to see I wasn't that wrong.
Cooper is the label for performance variants
If you're bothered by societal attitudes regarding sociopaths (and not simply because it's effecting your success at personal gain), you're probably not a sociopath in the classic sense.

If you feel some kind of kinship with other sociopaths, you're probably not a sociopath.

There are other phenomenon related to empathy. For example it was recently discovered that some people lack conscious awareness of empathy. In these cases physiological and psychological responses to empathic emotions are clearly present (e.g. various stress responses), but the person doesn't consciously understand why the response is occurring (or even always that it's occurring) or its relation to a social interaction. Some people on the so-called autistic spectrum seem to suffer from this; their mirror neurons are present and functioning, they're just not plugged into everything correctly.

Some people lack episodic memories. They remember the birth of their child, for example, in the same way they remember that 10 * 10 == 100; as a fact, not as a lived experience imbued with an emotional dimension. Arguably this might imply that their experience of the world is more superficial than others, perhaps similar in some respects to a sociopath's experience of the world.

The role of sex in relationships is incredibly rich and complex. Arguably people who are asexual or otherwise less motivated or responsive to sexual passions might feel more disconnected emotionally in some respects than other people.

And just because you _think_ you wouldn't be emotionally stirred by events normatively considered "shocking" (like the injury of a small child, or especially your own child) doesn't mean you wouldn't actually be stirred in reality. We all consciously and unconsciously disassociate from the world, especially when technology intermediates. But you can't compare that to being physically present and involved. It's why it makes little sense to believe that, e.g., playing violent video games would strongly relate to a tendency to real-life violent behavior.
Rant: You think Apple has neglected its developers? The chrome webstore is worse
Rant: You think Apple has neglected its developers? The chrome webstore is worse

A few months ago I've submitted my first chrome extension to the chrome webstore. It wasn't an immediate success like I might have wished it to be, but it was a "scratch" your own problem kind of product and I was satisfied. I acquired some users, some were active some were not and I kept adding features that I felt were lacking. It was a side project I enjoyed immensely.

Then around a month ago I started my long and unresolved dispute with the chrome webstore team.
As it would seem, another developer has registered a trademark for the same name I was using for my product. Notice that when I submitted my add-on this trademark wasn't yet registered. Without any notice my add-on was removed from the chrome webstore. Even after I removed all references to the old product name, any visuals or textual content that might somehow be affiliated with the previous name were also removed. I kept submitting my add-on for approval, but every time my "review process" was denied without a single reason. Sometimes I received a general automatic email that directed me to the chrome extension developer policy and sometimes I didn't receive any email at all. All attempts to contact anyone at the team went unanswered.

Although this is a rant, if any of you had encountered this kind of treatment before I'd love to hear what you did about it.
Unlike iOS you don't need to update your OS to get updates in Android. And iOS leaves many of he new features on older devices anyway. So the Android fragmentation although a problem is not as a big a problem that it is made out to be.
Though I wish Samsung would start using its power and it does have some with the carriers to stop them from putting in their bloat as system apps. And it should start producing world phones instead of the hundred models they have for each carrier and country.
Trade was a thing for thousands of years before the rise of corporations.
> Why is the most expensive BMW listed less than the average cost of BMW?

“In order to estimate annual maintenance costs, we found the amount spent on every two oil changes (as oil changes are generally done every six months).”

The oil change interval on a BMW 328i (F30, the current model) is 10000 miles or 1 year, whichever comes first. For the model from ten years ago (E90), it's as indicated by the engine (with a starting interval of 30000 km, ~18000 miles) or every two years[0]. Hence, the total cost for oil changes will be a lot lower than estimated, and the actual repairs needed in that interval do not make up for that.

[0] http://workshop-manuals.com/bmw/3_series_e90/328i_n51_sal/1_...
I'm a huge fan of f1 but I think this article is a bit disingenuous. f1 engines are hundreds of times more expensive than normal engines, and they are only designed to run for a few hours before needing to be replaced completely.
You just don't get it. I can afford to pay for a MOOC and I would consider it, but there are millions of people who can't afford it.

Coursera's about page used to say this:
"committed to making the best education in the world freely available to any person who seeks it".

Now they have removed every instance of the word "free"
https://www.coursera.org/about/

Nothing wrong with being a for-profit company, but they went from optional paid certificates to deleting old MOOCs and making new ones exclusive for those willing to pay, every day their monetization tactics get more aggressive.

Also check this video from 3 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUO3Pk0nOCM
Am I missing something, or did you not mention the actual location of "the best city in the US"?