skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's multiple, none definitive (the cool thing about writing a giant tome is that somebody has to write a giant tome back). I've just picked up on them as I discuss his work online on various venues, which I feel panders very obviously to well-off westerners seeking reassurance.

Here's r/AskHistorians describing his laughable characterization of the An Lushan rebellion (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/svsej/what_d...)

There's another that dismantles his use of an ancient human corpse found carrying "weapons" to suggest that there had been a murder.

Yet another discusses sloppy research where me mis-portrays some joke minor journal as representative of an academic field and makes broad generalizations based on it.

One day I'll collect my own compendium. In the meantime, if you're curious, just scour reddit or something.
This proposal is moot. Whether or not it's a good idea, the EU is technically unable to effectively regulate bitcoin. Sure, you can place rules on exchanges, but since anyone with bitcoin can send it to any other person, identified only by one of an infinite number of wallet IDs, the EU will never be able to stop peer-to-peer bitcoin sales.
Simply use MongoDB with its default settings, and you're good to go with the next Snap-whatever product you want to build.
Looks really nice. I've been meaning to move to todo.txt[1] for a while now, would you say that todolist is better?

1 - http://todotxt.com/
If you're a business that's commonly listed on 'prohibited businesses' lists[1], you might want it. That phrase sounds nefarious, but as an example porn sites are often prohibited. People might want to buy porn anonymously.

If you need to send a bunch of money to someone in the Philippines, your only easy choice is an expensive wire transfer through Western Union or similar. My bank will do it for a small fixed-fee, but only because I've had an account with them for almost a decade. You don't need a verified history and strong identity to use bitcoin.

If you don't give out your personal information when buying something, then when their site later gets hacked by the Chinese your name and address won't be sold on underground trading sites. That is, even if you trust the government and banks with your personal information, you don't necessarily trust every little ecommerce site.

[1] https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses
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Chemical antibiotics are currently the best and most developed tool we have for bacterial infection, but other options are being explored, including defensins[1,2,3] (antimicrobial peptides) and—as mentioned in the article—phage therapy[4,5,6,7] (viruses that infect and replicate within a bacterium). Like many of our current antibiotics, they have their origins in nature. As therapeutics, they're far off, and would have to be characterized and go through the usual clinical trial process to be evaluated for efficacy and safety. Specificity is an issue for phages, and delivery is a challenges for both. One novel application is a defensin-based chewing gum being developed by the US military to combat the bacteria responsible for dental plaque[8,9].

1. http://www.nature.com/nri/journal/v3/n9/full/nri1180.html

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensin

3. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/biot.200700148/ab...

4. http://www.nature.com/news/phage-therapy-gets-revitalized-1....

5. https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Cure-Future-Phage-Therapy/d...

7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

8. http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/zero-dark-cavity

9. http://www.usaisr.amedd.army.mil/news/news_stories/2014_FEB/...
His Twitter tagline is: "... aka Cr4sh, unethical hacker". He put "unethical" in his own damn profile, I don't think he deserves the benefit of doubt.
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That's true, but it's got to be a trade-off and a balance of risk, because "Performance over everything" makes no sense at all: the most performant thing to do is to store no data and return no data.

And even with that trade-off, I'd argue that there's a level of correctness that should be non-negotiable. Missing data might be OK, but corrupting data on the way in is bad, and failing to process everything might be OK (eventual consistency and all that) but you should meet your published guarantees and you shouldn't corrupt your results.

So I would argue for correctness over performance, with the caveat that "correct" has a technical meaning specific to the project.
"If you can't immediately point out the flaws in this software, it must not have any."
So, literally every vendor? Can you think of a single example of a vendor not running UEFI code from others, not running either Qualcomm's kernels for ARM chips, nor distributing Intel's ME firmaware, nor distributing AMD's TPM firmware?

I don't think there's a single OEM that knows what they're actually running – if there is, SAMSUNG would likely be it, because they have a chance at actually doing everything in-house.
All very true. Part of the reason why the effort flagged was that suddenly there were these high-quality machines with a BSD userland around. Un/fortunately (depending on your perspective), Apple haven't put a tonne of effort into keeping that side of things as up to date as they might, so improving the desktop experience on FreeBSD again.

Up until 7.0 came out, the desktop experience was pretty decent, and things like audio and video (anecdote ahead) worked out of the box better than Linux. After that, things started to slip in comparison.

The work put into PC-BSD has helped with the out-of-the-box experience, assuming your have the right hardware, but it's good to see more effort being put into improving the general driver situation. I certainly wouldn't be at all against ditching Ubuntu and switching back to FreeBSD as my desktop OS.
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"Down for the Count", for example, surveys the approaches to GC in its introduction: https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~steveb/downloads/pdf/rc-ismm-...

Note that reference counting has been considered a form of GC since the 1960s.
> I once had the very interesting experience of developing an in-place update for a mid-1980s-vintage spacecraft instrument: the magnetometer on the Galileo spacecraft.

Sigh. Reading this at the start of my workday is not doing wonders to my morale.

Only tangentially related to the article, but since you are commenting here, I'd like to thank you for the "Lisping at JPL". I've read it several times, which caused me to start collecting all the info I could get on the Remote Agent. I couldn't find that much though. Surely such a project should have generated way more research papers than it did? Since it doesn't seem to be used anymore, where's the source code? It feels like it was killed with fire.

I wonder if current generation spacecraft now have something even half as powerful as the DS1 REPL...
It's only been a few days since disclosure. No PC manufacturers these days knows every single line of code they get from their vendors - if they did, there wouldn't need to outsource it in the first place.
NaCl/libsodium solve a low-level problem that even very few talented engineers with years of software security experience can be expected to get right on their own.

Using these features should still be done under the guidance of someone who knows what they're doing. There's a larger number of developers who can use libsodium than there are developers who could replace it on their own.

In a sense, NaCl/libsodium can be viewed as a "replacement for expertise" that is so rare it's nigh-nonexistent. (To wit: these libraries were created by multiple authors.) Rather, it places the capability to build solid application-layer crypto into the hands of mere mortals.

That doesn't obviate the need for good mortals. :)
> No, but it's reasonable to wonder why sauce for the goose isn't sauce for the gander in this case.

Simple. Because politicians transfer from the legislative branch to the executive branch. They (generally) don't entered the armed forces. If they did, I'm sure they'd make sure they have equal protections there as well.
Alternatively, the businesses owners in their distract want more work and are willing to donate to get it. Thus, it has nothing to do with voters only corruption.

Remember, government jobs or private jobs are the same to voters. However contractor jobs also means profit from taxpayer money for someone else.
I just grabbed one and starting using it upside-down. By the time anyone told me it was wrong, it already felt more natural to use it that way.
Don't presume to speak for me.

> You have to ask yourself what a typical young European thinks of Anders Brevik. The ones I know think he was right on the money. As you probably know he wrote a manifesto which is a sort of prognosis/prediction rant. Since he disseminated that and killed the children on the island he has become very popular on the radical European right, a sort of terrorist version of Nostradamus.

> the contempt they have for the portion of the left which they see as traitorous and treasonous.

And the profound ignorance you have here of history would be funny if it wasn't so pathetically sad.

I'd recommend picking up a history book and educate yourself on what happens when far-right exremists start picking out groups of people among their own countrymen to label as 'enemies' or 'traitors'. It's a diversionary tactic meant advance an agenda of those seeking power that is almost certainly not in your interest or mine.

It was a tactic of the Nazis, of Stalin's Soviets, of the Khmer Rouge. Get a fucking grip.
Solaris has its own form of completion ports too, I believe. https://web.archive.org/web/20110719052845/http://developers...

NT's IOCP is good, sensible model overall having used it some recently. It's mildly put off by some "gotchas" (like async calls occasionally returning synchronously if there's nothing else on the queue, so you have to be careful with send, recv, etc), but the actual design is good. Thread pools being a convenient, native API in Vista+ is also a bonus.
While true, no company would offer bitcoin transactions without tracking for fear of asset seizure. Governments still have power in the physical world.

So if you want Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency) to have wide legitimate adoption, you have to play by the rules. Governments basically exist for the purpose of enacting economic regulation; so to pretend they don't have a right to do so is a little silly.
What are Alice and Bob talking about, anyway, that's so damned important?
I had the same impression. I then imagined some marketing douchebag trying to sell the C-level suits on the idea of a "Three Inch Punch of Productivity".
> Please note the big difference to GPG though: both Alicia AND Bobby have to enter the passphrase for their secret key! That's the way CURVE25519 works: you encrypt a message using your secret key and the recipients public key and the recipient does the opposite, he uses his secret key and your public key to actually decrypt the message.

Forgive my ignorance, but I assume that this is to ensure that the message is from Alicia. How is this different from signing + encrypting a message in PGP?
It's closer to a shock tactic than to any new-age/spiritual "put life into perspective" thing.*

Actually, things like "Est" often used shock tactics, and were deliberately traumatic. (Though only slightly in the vast scheme of things.)
Probably Apple, too - they prefer to implement things in-house wherever possible.
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> no company would offer bitcoin transactions without tracking for fear of asset seizure.

No company within the EU perhaps, but that doesn't mean you can't just send the money to a russian exchange like BTC-e who really doesn't care what the source is and accepts things like webmoney, libertyreserve, etc. Which are trivial to get into if you know what you're doing.
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Well, the hard part is dealing with fraud, not letting fraud compromise your payouts, and giving value to both the publishers and advertisers in the meantime.
I'm sure the NSA has other ways of bypassing security of the proprietary firmware (likely even through the front door), so this single exploit doesn't really add to that threat.

What it hopefully does do is cast a little ray of light on this suite of user-hostile firmware, helping us expunge this long present software muck that, for example, allows such interdiction attacks to be so easy.
Somehow, I think we'll regret this. Running low-level programs in the browser hasn't gone well in the past.
We got rid of Flash. We got rid of Java applets. Now this. Especially since the use cases are weak. Even WebGL doesn't get used much. Yes, you can do (cool thing) in the browser. But that will be rare.

Has the first WebAssembly exploit come out yet?
Just because it's impossible to effectively regulate in all circumstances doesn't mean that it cannot be effectively regulated in many or most circumstances.

You can compare this to most laws - people have the capability to break the law, but sufficient enforcement reduces the incentives to do so to the extent that for many classes of crime the number of people who commit them is pretty small.

In particular, if all businesses dealing with bitcoins are required to KYC and large transfers are tracked and prosecuted where possible, then there probably would not be a huge amount of anonymous transfer.
> Do you think any of the firmware in your system comes from your OEM and is secure?

No, of course not. But I'm surprised that Lenovo would tacitly admit this.
I tried updating my post but because this post was flagged away it seems to have duplicated somewhere else: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037507 -- This article explains it a bit, it's also light on the details. If you read the Judicial Watch testimony of her staffers, a lot of them touch on this.
How about the old M.A.S.H theme song?
Summer time is decided as the EU level:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:320...

But as the UK is apparently leaving the EU, staying on BST will be possible...

[EDIT, typo: US -> UK]
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As an example. Information you want to be available to ex. researchers but not possible to identify.
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idk much but this i will have to say based on what i have noticed
windows is like an ultra modern machine gun with users who have no idea of what they can do with their machines while on the other hand and this is not entirely true, linux is like a old rusty single shot vintage gun, sure it wont work all the time but the guy running it has way more control and way more dangerous than the average windows user.
I think the best way to deal with that is to use a CSS processor (I prefer Sass). You can make a "mixin" (or whatever term your processor prefers) that accepts a selector and styles it. Still readable, still no JS required (if you want to go that route), and you can document the heck out of it. "Oh no, more tooling". Yeah, more tooling.
Possibly.

Of course, I lived in Texas until about 8 years ago, when I moved to AL.
It seems it would be just as tyrannical to apply the law as it is written and not as it is intended.

Here is a law intended to keep vital secrets out of the hands of enemies who might do harm to the national interest. And you want to apply it, broadly, to government officials who are trying to do their job.

I don't think Rice or Powell intended to do any harm, or wanted to give any secrets out to any enemy. I also think the likelihood that their use of non-government servers on a tiny number of emails really caused such an issue.

Yet you are advocating to end their careers, put them behind bars, subject them to years of trouble.

Doesn't something seem off here?

(I am putting aside Hillary for now because she is just such an emotionally supercharged example at the moment that it is hard to talk about her and just discuss the facts, so I am using the other two as examples).
Just to inject some facts, the LCS rather optimistically handles 6 separate missions, and one of them is replacing 70 OHP-class frigates from forty or so years ago. The LCS ship count is down to 40 and still dropping.

The "doesn't work" bit is because they're too cheaply made and try to do six missions. If it costs $1 to build a CPU and you offer a 75 cent contract for a six core processor, you're gonna get a brick in a box not a working CPU. They're in damage control now, what is the strategy that minimizes bad press WRT spending money upfront or on repairs...

Another interesting fact is "all" new ship classes are clunkers for the first couple ships and first couple years. It would be newsworthy if the LCS worked perfectly outta the box. Because that would be an indication things were over spec'd and contracts were padded increasing the bill higher than it should be, so we'd be showered with reports of the new ripoff being overbuilt and padded for profit. There is no way for the Navy to win on any possible scenario of new ship classes. So I wouldn't read much into the journalist complaining, it doesn't mean anything substantial.

There is the true fact that if you try to replace an auto mechanic's $10K toolchest with a swiss army knife, that might be engineering-possible but you'll have to blow $100K and it might not work as well as dedicated tools. The idea itself of "saving money" by running six different missions using 40 multipurpose ships to replace 70 ships in itself might be a pretty dumb strategy but the only way to find out seems to be to try.

Its interesting to consider a 2010s OHP frigate. A little architectural fine tuning, call it the OHP-II, the cost savings would be staggering so buy 60 of them for less money than the 30 or so LCS we're likely to end up with... Of course you'd be stuck with a cold war mission core design. It might very well be that a post cold war littoral mission is just simply going to cost more money than bluewater cold war missions. Post cold war should in theory nationwide be cheaper, that doesn't mean all possible missions magically will become cheaper.
Thank you for sharing this. A beautiful, evocative passage that captures the emotion of the conflict.
> Sure. In 2014. Not in 1969.

The LM computer on Apollo 14 had to be updated in flight in order to bypass a faulty abort switch.[1] The patch was applied by radioing the instructions to the crew and having them enter it manually.

[1] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html
(Full disclosure, I work at a database company) Their performance is pretty impressive, but you can get over 30X their speed (30M ops/sec) by caching - see https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2... .

And this can be done without compromising the storage or integrity of the data. The Observable pattern lets you update caches while you perform writes so the data stays correct, reflecting what is on disk. If caches don't exist then you pull from disk (slow) and write to the caches.
> In particular, if all businesses dealing with bitcoins are required to KYC and large transfers are tracked and prosecuted where possible, then there probably would not be a huge amount of anonymous transfer.

Or, more likely, a huge number of bitcoin businesses will go where these laws don't exist and interact with other services to get in.

I've managed to avoid any exchange that follows KYC practices with no issue so far.
Numberpad on a laptop is a deal breaker for me, too.
They released Mac bindings for Xamarin Forms recently. Not a stretch to imagine unified UI for desktops.
There seems to be a world of difference between the way people are calling for prosecution for HRC and for her predecessors.
This bit of folk/medical wisdom has been around for a few decades, but for the life of me I can't understand the logic - beyond the notion that merely being asymptomatic doesn't mean you've killed all the bugs.

How this can possibly contribute to the spread of antibiotic resistance is mystifying to me, as is the basis of this advice - is there ANY evidence that patients not completing their drug courses causes resistance?
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>Whether or not you like the dialect's origin story, it's here. Hundreds of thousands of African American children are raised with it as their first language.

Yeah, but what we're pushing under the carpet is that they were forced, by racism, to be raised with it as their first language.

>Pullum, in this piece, doesn't care. All he's saying is that when considering AAVE, we should at least understand what it is.

In the essay he basically collects its syntactic and lexicographical differences, to prove that it's "a whole other language".

That it may be, what's of interest to me is its standing as a language in general (and its historical roots and development), not whether it has coherent rules and thus it cannot be said to be just "mistaken english". That I can give him, but it's far from the real essence of the matter.
I had no idea. I was listening to this on the radio this morning. I was not sure if they were narrating a science fiction work like a movie or if it was real news.
Fair enough. But you use your own address and name to deliver stuff from the internet. Where is the anonymity in that? Or i am missing something?

Also... you get your cash from CC and transfer it to BTC, you pay someone else, you encourage money laundering because that seller doesn't have to pay any tax for that.

For me the most important factor is where the cash is going. IF we all switch to bitcoin and government can't keep track of the money, big criminals, bit corps will never pay any taxes, and how we are going to have free schools, free medical care, police, etc? Am I over thinking this?

Privacy is important but either we have to find a way to change the economy as it is, or regulate BTC properly.

Just because someone has a fetish and wants to keep it "anonymous" is not enough for me.
Done - thanks.
It also says at the bottom:

Remote is possible though it has our preference to have someone in the office.
TheRegister is speculating this could be a 3rd party backdoor that has been snuck into several vendor's BIOses - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/04/lenovo_scrambling_to...
I'm singularly unimpressed with his coverage of LG, starting with:

"and LG show some of its execs the door after the 'flagship G5 smartphone failed to generate sales.'"

followed by "And it's not because Dell and LG didn't make good hardware."

"And while the LG G5 was expensive, and came with high-priced "friends" (the name LG gave to the modules that attached to the device), it was a flagship device from a company that had the courage to innovate."

But not, as it turns out, necessarily make reliable hardware, and definitely not servicing the problems well when they screw up, which is the true test here. I came that close to buying their previous flagship G4 a few months ago until I noticed that they'd screwed up a connector so the phones would go into a boot loop, and did not handle the repair situation well, like many companies like them.

If I was an LG higher up, beyond firing some executives, I'd be seriously considering either spending the $$$$$$$$ it will take to be world class as a stand alone vendor, shift to OEM mode like the Nexus 5X they build for Google I got instead (Project Fi's discount made that really compelling), or exiting the market altogether, you can't be good at everything.
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That's going to get complicated for network interactions and legislative bodies. Two examples come to mind.

First is the FCC vs WIFI channel selection in firmware. They want the choice to interfere be removed from the user in this occasion.

Second is cell carriers are not wild about unknown basebands conversing with their networks. In theory the network should defend against bad phones but they'd rather not test that.