skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to derail this conversation further but as far as software patents go I've been wondering for a while why somebody doesn't try this defense:

In order to have a valid patent you need to share a sufficiently detailed design in the patent application. What constitutes a sufficiently detailed design? One that a current professional in the field could produce with no further input from the patent holder and secondly one that if given to two different implementers results in the practically the same widget. If either of these aren't true, the patent holder has essentially not held up the spirit of the law in so far as patents are meant to contribute back to the public.

I'm on mobile now, so I'll stop there but I think you get the idea. For software the practical implication is that you need to submit your source code or pseudo code as part of a valid application,because much like a mechanical blueprint that is the design for software. Not:
Input--->block diagram--->output.
With that level of spec I could patent strong AI. I know some software patents are more sophisticated than that but I think most fail the test above.

I honestly don't know if this has been tried before and shot down or what. Can anyone comment on that?

Also as far as that goes, if the patent holder were to share their code in this fashion, and it passed all the other requirements then I wouldn't really have a problem with it.
I'm pretty sure that, for the last few generations of Intel CPUs, the ME is not optional on any (non-Atom) model.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3anjgm/on_the_librem...
https://puri.sm/posts/petition-for-intel-to-release-an-me-le...

> All recent Intel systems (made in the last 8 or 9 years) has this. The ME will never be freed
New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns
In ships a portion of the waste heat from the engine is also used to pre-heat the fuel tank and lines to make it easier to pump, as heavy bunker oil is extremely thick at 'room' temperature.
Science isn't a problem or a solution, it's the search for the truth.
Absolutely, if not here at HN, there are multiple subreddits at reddit.com that will help you find some contacts that are local to you.

Please PM me if you need help with it.
...if you're in the US. Unfortunately most countries do not have the idea of fair use.
I'm not following that logic. Using salted password hashing would not prevent them from checking your new password against the previous hash.
The problem is that the AR-15 isn't practically different from a smaller hunting rifle, too small for larger game like deer or elk... more useful for the likes of coyote or mountain lion threats.

In the end, the background checks people are asking for wouldn't have stopped the Orlando shooting, and short of a total ban including the police, government, govt security contractors, and even off-base military with tight armory controls would have likely stopped this, even then it would have probably been a bomb instead.

There is no reason that a cop needs a gun that doesn't apply to someone in their own home. Guns are lethal force. The end, we can go on about specifics but murder is already illegal, so are a lot of other things that people do. Maybe we should also ban all criminals (not just felons) from voting? Would that be sane? Not really.

In the end, you can't have any hope of stopping crazy short of China-like lock down, spying and personal invasion of privacy. Not to mention deleting the past from society.

I'd much rather have the personal freedom and liberties that the constitution ensures. It isn't about what I need... in the end, I'm against most gov't restrictions. Banning guns makes about as much sense as banning marijuana... It takes away personal freedom and choice for the illusion of safety.

BTW, I don't own a gun... my father worked for the police for about two decades, and my mother still does. I have friends and relatives that have guns, hunt, etc.

The AR-15 isn't an assault rifle... it's just scary looking.
I have had close friends killed by grossly incompetent diagnosticians, and seen numerous botched and often superfluous surgeries. Completely anecdotal, but evidently typical of rural environs.
Almost makes you want to get a Lemote Laptop like Richard Stallman.
Or, y'know, Paris. Or Brussels. Or Paris, the time before. Or Paris, the time before that. Or Madrid. Or London. Or...
Microsoft has good PaaS story when it comes to .NET stack. Especially product Azure App Service[1].All though it can technically host nodejs,java etc ,it still is based on IIS and windows stack. Joyent has more native offering for nodejs which could have been Paas for nodejs(Azure App Service for nodejs )

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/web/
There's also the problem that you can't grow a raidz vdev by adding disks. I can just imagine Apple support trying to explain that one.
One thing that would put a dent in the number of mass shootings today
I run a summer program that teaches kids to code, and I find that the kids who come into our classes are legitimately motivated to learn computer science. One of the key focuses of my program is to have them be creative with code, like building games with Java, solving problems with Python, or constructing Arduino robots from off-the-shelf materials. A lot of these kids would not discover their passion for technology without taking a structured class that introduces it to them in a fun way and encourages them to be creative.

That being said, there are some programs that are simply horrible at introducing these ideas to kids. There are large summer camp organizations spread across many locations that have over-commercialized the summer camp business, who have become skilled at leaving parents oblivious to the true level of education their kids are receiving. A kid who loves Minecraft will be thrilled by the brief exposure to Java code while modding it, followed by hours of playing Minecraft on rented computers (something they can easily do on their own at home).

In my particular niche of summer education, there are countless programs that do an absolute disservice to kids trying to learn something outside of their normal schoolwork during the summer. They are placated by simple copy-and-paste coding, drag-and-drop blocks that they could easily discover on their own, and the trivial blinking of LEDs. Becoming a maker requires a commitment to learning on the part of students, and an organization willing to accept the challenge of teaching it.
Fixing the Culture of InfoSec Presentations
I have no question someone can build a 4 pound engine that outputs 3 HP or an 11 pound engine that outputs 7 HP. The only question is how long, and how much gas it'll burn.

For an even more extreme example, a Top Fuel dragster engine can make over 10000HP and weighs less than 500lb, but has a lifetime measured in seconds and fuel efficiency better measured in GPM instead of MPG.
Congratulations. I hope Samsung nurtures the technical excellence at Joyent.

Please, please continue to develop your public cloud offerings. Having options other that the myopic, me-too, feature-matching, monoculture that is AWS/GCE/Azure is incredibly important.

That said, for my use profile, you guys need to work on your price competitiveness. Hopefully Samsung will inject the necessary cash for economies-of-scale.
I can walk around a bad part of town at 2am, but if I get shot, I'm still going to be mad at the shooter.

A mix of laziness, apathy and habit lead me to reuse that password on many sites. But I have 5+ email addresses, tons of shopping accounts, multiple banks, brokers, airlines, hotels, etc. I do use more secure passwords for other sites.

I really can't be bothered into using a password manager, so what's the alternative besides reusing passwords?
> It's a blog category of hundreds of posts of Twitter users stating just that, usually in rather crude terms.

You can find hundreds of Twitter posts saying just about anything; we could justify any behavior on that basis.

> Or just read this thread.

I skimmed and read a large part of this discussion, and I don't see any comments of that sort. Maybe there are some but there can't be very many.
Does anyone really still feel that Chrom(ium) is "your browser" anymore? It is just Google's way to exert their dominance on web standards and make paternal and self-serving decisions, all in the name of helping the "average" user.

As for extensions to allow customization, where's the extension that gives me back page actions (icons in the URL bar)? I know all the folks at Google are using shiny MBPs with billion-pixel displays, but I don't really like having 10 icons on the right of my URL bar just to show various status pages. :(
> Interpreters are slow pretty much for that reason. Having to chase pointers.

Here's a test I did on the Raspberry Pi 3 (with source so anyone can repeat it on more Intel-y hardware): https://gist.github.com/LnxPrgr3/31eaf5648a9956f5c576f70d876...

Calls through a function pointer are technically more expensive, but it's a factor of ~1.1, not 10-100.

Interpreters are slow because they chase pointers and otherwise branch in a manner the CPU can't predict. Calling the same function through the same pointer over and over again isn't that.
Until about a year ago it was single-player with a tacked-on social component, but there's now co-op and a competitive ranking mode with prizes for the top 1% of players (and mostly irrelevant prizes for lower buckets).

If you stay out of the ranking dungeons it's hard to argue that a hack negatively impacts other players, but making the game easier does means you're less likely to pay them money to progress faster.
Well done guys on staying solvent longer than the market could stay irrational!
The real question is what the firmware can be convinced to do remotely. Probably most of the things in here.[1] Remote management is supposed to be listening on TCP ports TCP 623 for HTTP and 664 for HTTPS.

[1] http://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/...
By the same note, I don't see a handgun as being particularly less destructive in this instance... non-hollowpoint ammo fired into a crowd is more dangerous than full-jacket bullets... more deadly to those hit, but less to the people behind them.

For me it's all about personal freedom. And since most people think the police and military are the only ones that should be allowed guns... I can't think of a reason, outside military training, that anyone in the police or military should have a gun that doesn't apply to someone being attacked in their own home.
I find people freaking out about this extremely strange.

AMT is Intel's equivalent of IPMI. It is a non-standard implementation of it, and does not follow any of the relevant specifications. It does not integrate into most server management platforms.

AMT costs extra. Most mobos do not have it enabled as you have to pay Intel's tax on it, even if some of the hardware to enable it is in every northbridge.

A motherboard must implement it to be available. Most of the motherboards we own don't have it enabled. You cannot "break into it" if AMT isn't available on your motherboard to begin with.

Not all ME chips can run it due to Intel's requirements.

Now, is the ME chip a threat? Possibly, not not as much as your cell phone's baseband modem is. The baseband modem can talk to outside networks, ME can't unless it is paired with a NIC it can talk to (Intel does not require mobos that have this; and generally, motherboards meant for AMT ship Intel NICs, but not always).

Without AMT, the only thing the ME does is implement management functions that allow you to actually boot and use the machine.

In the article, it says "Personally, I would like if my ME only did the most basic task it was designed for, set up the bus clocks, and then shut off," except it is kept running so you can properly sleep and wake up your machine, and also be able to change CPU frequencies at run time (IE, idle the cpu), and also provide access to the sensors on the motherboard.

In addition, the ME handles Intel Smart Connect, which is also not available on all boards (Apple uses this to implement Power Nap). It also requires licensing, the same way AMT does, and may mobo manufs simply don't want to license it.

ME does not connect to the network if it doesn't have a payload that is able to do so (AMT, Smart Connect).

The reason people don't understand what ME is for is because all of the basic tasks the ME does used to be done by lots of custom hardware, much of it not provided by Intel and different on every board, and somewhat a bit of a driver nightmare.

I don't like standing up for Intel, but anti-ME articles that continually bring up AMT as if all computers have it is FUD. Very few computers have AMT, very few computers implement this OOB access, very few computers can implement AMT even if Intel let you purchase licensing for it after purchasing the hardware.

I'm not saying that ME is not a security hazard (it can be in some cases), but it isn't some ultra awesome NSA backdoor bullshit. Your phone, however, does have the NSA backdoor.
Single player, although it probably leaderboards. More importantly it has pay-to-progress options, which these cheats would make redundant (which is probably what the company is angry about).
Tbh "startup execution" doesn't make much sense alone, unless it's f.e. followed by "a marketing strategy"
Also, are there any other threads where people have asked similar questions? I have searched HN and found a few, but if you know of any, please do share.
If the compiler isn't preventing CPU reordering, then it has been impossible pre-2011 to use volatile for its original purpose, communicating with memory-mapped device registers. That sounds like a broken compiler to me.
I'm really confused here, they'll disable autocomplete on almost any setting apart from "off"?

If the problem is the web designers why isn't this just pushing the problem into the future where the top stack overflow answer is autocomplete="nochrome"
or similar?

And what should I put to work cross browser? If chrome adds autocomplete when it's off and doesn't when it's set to a weird value, do other browsers do the opposite?
But you only need to look at the first militia act to see that by "militia" they mean every able bodied man of age, and they should have a firearm of their own.
VC's make bets on future. A bet that cannabis will be decriminalized and all the objections you raise will simply go away, seems like a sound assumption.
I deplore his stance on this issue, but he makes quite a few interesting points.

Not even remotely able to tip the balance towards "private gun ownership is good", in my opinion, but definitely a high quality submission. Thanks!
Even then, they could just as easily be brought in through mexico or other means as conversion of other arms here.
An object's refcount being decremented is not an unpredictable time for a pause. If you never allocate or release objects on your audio worker thread, it will never be paused for GC, as the person I was replying to implied could happen.
DLang. Golang. FreePascal. All 3 for speed of both compiling and running. And some good language and library features too.
Congrats Bryan!!!
Definitely russian. His/her smileys don't have eyes.

:) vs )
Wow, a startup that's actually shipping product.
Demolition of Moscow 'workers' villages' raises fears for avant garde heritage
I worked with two project managers from their US team STA (Samsung Technologies America). One was OK. The other one was a fucking psychopath. I'm talking about needlessly and viciously backstabbing all in range. Totally unbelievable. Never seen anything like it, and god help me I hope I never see it again.

Later, I visited their HQ in Korea and met some of their Indian and Korean development teams. They were competent but the work culture was toxic. People were expected to attend 11PM daily review meetings where the issues list was painfully re-read pointlessly and nothing at all was achieved. Koreans were expected to live in numbered company compounds, catch a numbered company bus and ascend to a numbered floor in a numbered company skyscraper after an airport security style physical check. Smoking allowed strictly twice per day in a designated corner of the compound. All movement is tracked. Psychotic Confucian management style. I honestly thought to myself: if this is a vision of the future, I want no part of it.
>Now, is the ME chip a threat? Possibly, not not as much as your cell phone's baseband modem is. The baseband modem can talk to outside networks, ME can't unless it is paired with a NIC it can talk to (Intel does not require mobos that have this; and generally, motherboards meant for AMT ship Intel NICs, but not always).

The last ~dozen regular (gigabyte/asus/asrock/...) desktop PC motherboards i've seen have all used intel NICs for ethernet.
OP isn't blaming the victim. Op is playing with fire, KNOWS IT, and is surprised when they get burned.

Right now there are many solutions for password management. Free and open source, free and closed source, paid and closed source, enterprise. You name it! "Good password hygiene" is fairly ubiquitous amongst people on this site.

With that said, credential management[0] is coming. Google and Apple want to kill LastPass, 1password, and all these companies, and they definitely will AFAICT.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/credential-management-1/
WHAT?  New app connects straight women with gay best friends
> Congratulations. I hope Samsung nurtures the technical excellence at Joyent.

I'm sure they will. They are a top contributor to open source:

http://linuxcontrib-inn.rhcloud.com/
Arriving at the same solution independently probably just adds to its merit. It's a good solution IMHO.
Among the files made public is one named ‘big-donors-list’/

Under a tab named ‘Not Met With’ and a heading called ‘Obama Billionaires’ appears the name “Charles Koch”.

Obviously, this may indicate that Koch raised funds for Obama in some capacity and that Clinton would like to reprise that relationship. Obviously, that makes no sense.
FSF Launches “A Quick Guide to GPLv3”
The entire git is gold... For example, valid construct:

var ಠ_ಠ = eval;

Bookmarked!
A Quick Guide to GPLv3
Yeah, occasionally I get a bit frustrated by this topic and it shows in the tone of my comments. Hopefully it illustrates the point, though, that there's a need for nuance and understanding on both sides.
But would a glock 10 with a 15 round magazine in the Orlando context really have resulted in that much of a difference? You can always swap out magazines as one empties, and he could have just carried twice as many in with him.

He also, if I understand correctly (there's a lot of bs posts flying around) that he had passed gov't background checks that would have allowed him firearm access even if most of the population was banned from owning.
Having access to the plaintext traffic of 5% of all web sites on the internet makes them a huge target for anyone from hackers to nation states/intelligence agencies and what not. I have a lot of faith in their security team, but this level of concentration is not healthy for the internet as a whole.

There's a huge difference between having access to the plaintext of encrypted connections and merely seeing connection metadata, as would be the case with "traditional" DDoS mitigation services that do not act as a proxy. Reverse proxies are certainly not the only way to handle large-scale DDoS attacks, though I would agree that, leaving aside the privacy concerns, those services are hardly competitive in comparison to CloudFlare, especially on price and UX.
Also Python, because VHLL, batteries included, and community.
It is also interesting because Charles Koch is listed as a donor to Obama... scratching my head there.
Cantrill advocated the fact that CDDL was copyleft as a good thing[1] (it's a bad license overall, but the point is the same) specifically mentioning that the fact that Oracle couldn't use new DTrace and ZFS improvements from the community was a good thing. I agree (though I much prefer the GPL).

So actually all of Cantrill's worries with Oracle exist with Node.js's license. I am sad when I see large free software projects licensed under MIT, we are doing ourselves a disservice by allowing proprietary software to take advantage of the free software we've developed.

[1] It's part of his Fork Yeah! talk about the fork that is illumos.
As stated in the article, some researchers have managed to unpack it, and it can now be dissembled.

You can't (and hpefully won't) be able to execute your own code there.

There are 2 good reasons for this:

1) As per the article, to actually prevent ring -3 malware. The implemented signature is the best way to do this. If we could run our own "libre" code there, so could the attacker.

2) I bet this firmware controlls stuff like wether your CPU is "really" a Core i3 or Core i7, how many cores are activated, etc. Basically, its reasonable to assume that the silicon is the same, but what you pay determines the actual "unlocked" performance.
Enterprise console software is likely needed to interface with the chip. And this software is probably priced like most enterprise software.
Throttling and peering (or not peering) are not the same thing. You said they were. You were/are wrong.

This ruling upholds the FCC's prohibition on throttling content.

If throttling and (not) peering are the same thing, then Comcast would be forced to peer with Netflix for free. They couldn't not do it.
Therefore, you are arguing that Netflix will be able to peer with Comcast for free, even if you aren't actually saying those words.

This is untrue. Netflix is not going to be able to peer with Comcast for free. You were and are wrong.

No strawman, just you trying very hard not to be wrong.
They should have just referenced it.
2016: Giant meteor hitting the Trump vs Hilary debate and wiping out them and their fervent supporters is our only chance of surviving.
https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/

If you want to avoid the ME specifically, some other not-100%-libre options you might consider are the TALOS (high performance) or the ODROID C2 (low cost)
I'm only aware of one current-production motherboard which meets that criteria, and even then it is a bit older - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157...

You could use this in the mITX case of your choice based on the other hardware you need to fit.

Intel previously made one similar, but it has been EOL'd. http://ark.intel.com/products/67346/

Very narrow use case, indeed. :-/
First, I'm not a firearm owner, but a libertarian, in favor of less government and more personal liberty all around type...

As to the police state, that's the point... there's no partial ban that shouldn't apply to the police as the police have no reason to use a firearm that shouldn't apply to someone in their own home.
What happened to Dean Kamen's Sterling engine?

Here's one link from 2013-
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/nrg-energy-deplo...
The topic was McDonald's being used as community centers in poor neighborhoods.
No, you're right. Just complaining about right wing thuggery in general :-)
Any complications to usage actually make guns more dangerous, not less. There's a reason the glock is as popular with police and military personnel as it is.
First time I hear about wps office, why do you prefer it over libreoffice? mobile support?
I'm pretty sure Nixon wouldn't even cut it as a Democrat today. Too liberal. "Start what? Environmental Protection Agency? Are you kidding..."
If you really want this, you can probably have it, and you needn't go anywhere near as far as murder to get it. I know of quite a few people who make a living through various types of contracting (software and mechanical engineering in the cases of two personal friends who do this) and take off a few months each year to travel and relax. It won't maximize your cash flow, but it could maximize your happiness if that's what would truly do it for you. I suggest that you seriously look into it and consider if that would give you more fulfillment :)