skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there is in general nothing to authenticate the hardware owner in contrast with the usual OS users/admins - that the model consider corrupted, and because it is designed to msot of the time prevent modification by even admins (allowing only modifications signed by the hardware manufacturer), if a security hole is discovered and exploited it is not very easy to revert the system in a good state; it can even become completely impossible if the malware patches the security hole after having exploited it. So it can then sit there, unremovable, and with ultra-privileges. The situation is similar to infected android: because of the security model it is not supposed to happen (most of the time, there are often "bugs" even in the informal model), but because software are full of security holes once one is exploited it is less easy to remove the infection than it can be on a PC.

This is for this reason that the security community consider the Intel Management Engine a huge security risk, and the situation is only marginally better with x86 firmware using such "security" features.
Soon you'll be able to Cast tabs from Chrome without an extension
I found this a very frustrating read as well. The tone of the book was over-confident and in my mind the author really goes to no attempt to explain his reasoning.

I only made it as far as the probability section. I gave up after failing to understand his logic. Something about students enrolled in computer science, if Google is indicative.
How would Obama know how to speak aave when he grew up in a white family and, from what I understand, didn't socialize much with black people (at least only dated white women) until his mid 20s?
I'm sure Sergei Brin, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, and Jimmy Wales would be interested in hearing how their Montessori educations prevented them from competing in today's society.
Congrats on both the wedding and a rather slick announcement page. Very nice!
That's adorable, and also pretty cool. Congrats! :)
but than again: sample size 1, if people get freaked out by one accident than a lesson in statistics is what they deserve
There also were mining operations at enormous scale (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_on_the_first_day_of_th...)

About a year later, the battle of Messines (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_in_the_Battle_of_Messi... ) saw larger mines, some of which with over 40,000 kg of explosives.

Five of them weren't detonated. One of those exploded in 1955 after a lightning strike. Most likely, four others are still lying below ground. It's anybody's guess whether they still are dangerous and might detonate one day.
God says...
Ecuadorian's diuretic's Assyrian coquetting permeate COBOL's almanacs panegyric's workbench aboard deadest filet's freakiest Gounod ayes orphan Katrina Kara's sunsets snaky Akiva incubator tightest appointments operators hallucinate passwords Lebanese Brittany's than hearer listing
Ultra HD 4K TV refresh rates
I've never considered an association between intergenerational conflict and it's typical blanket statements, as being in line with interracial and sexist prejudice.

Though now you've brought it to my attention. Intergenerational conflict really is just another form of bigotry, why isn't is condemned publicly as such?
I'm never motivated to work. All these "tricks" work once or twice and then I go back to zero motivation.
While I love Tom Scott's videos, Andrew Appel (CS Prof. at Princeton) has a much better explanation[1] of the history of voting and why electronic voting is a terrible idea.

We have hundreds of years of experience learning how to secure paper ballots. Complexity creates attack surface, and usually fails to provide all of the security features provided by a simple paper ballot that is hand counted in view of all parties.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQCqIbBBeM
Threejs plugin for revealjs
committing felony. it's a github pun meta isn't it.
Why do some OLEDs have Motion Blur?
Interesting fact, I do remember reading they were trying to make a last minute siege near by the end of the year.
Shameless plug that is directly related to the question: if you want a fairly detailed look at the two side by side, I've been comparing them as I work through learning both over the last 10 months. http://www.chriskrycho.com/rust-and-swift.html

I think, because of the automatic reference counting, that your overall sense is roughly right—Swift is a little higher-level than Rust—but their overall ability to write many kinds of applications will be similar (Apple platform applications being the big exceptions for obvious reasons).
The idiosyncrasies of AAVE can be --- and in this essay are --- plotted against those of many other dialects of English, and, generalized, against even more of the world's great languages. Here again you dismiss it as "makeshift" and its study as "faux-progressive". But whatever it is you think about the dialect, it exists. Millions of people speak it. It is no stranger or less comprehensible than other English dialects whose existence we somehow manage to accept without moral judgement.

Perhaps you, like several other commenters on this thread, believe the point of the essay is that AAVE should be nurtured, or even spread to students not acquainted with it. Nobody is making that argument. The closest the essay comes to a moral judgement about AAVE is in pointing out that if AAVE-aware educational strategies produce better outcomes for learning Standard English, our ignorance and prejudice shouldn't prevent use from creating those outcomes.

But most of the essay is spent making fun of people who feel they understand AAVE well enough to dismiss it. It's a funny piece, by an universally respected authority. You should read it again with an open mind!
Formas de ganar dinero desde casa es fácil si usted sigue estos pasos
The great majority of WW I troops were drafted. Moralizing from a base of total ignorance doesn't advance a cause.
This is awesome!! I'd resorted simplynoise in two tabs to combine brown noise with rain/thunder. Any chance of adding brown noise down the road? I find white noise a bit harsh to listen to for long periods, but the constant noise component is a must for masking people talking nearby. I love your other sounds! Rain & thunder works, but I've had too much and want some variety, this is great!
Is Canonical the Victim of High Expectations?
Internet Voting? Really? (Andrew Appel)
FBI/NSA got resources? Took me about 1h to recover my own passcode wiped iPhone
This is really cool. It reminds me of what happened to me when I turned 15 and my family was first able to afford a computer and an internet connection. I basically started teaching myself all kinds of stuff (e.g., physics, mathematics, philosophy, etc.). Self-directed learning can take you really far, but it isn't right for everyone: mostly individuals who can truly direct themselves and have the kinds of interests that are condusive to broad understanding and knowledge.

The problem I had with the educational system in my time (about 20 years ago) is computer knowledge wasn't taken seriously, so I missed out on having some guidance to push me towards my ultimate interest - electronics, computers, programming, things in tech. Of course, I still like knowing about a lot of other things, but school really doesn't grab your interests. Ideally, it should be setup so students can capitalize on areas of interest.

On second thought, if computer and tech knowledge had been made available to me early on, I probably wouldn't have had the life course in the educational system that I did. Depressing to think about.

Best of luck and I hope it is legitimately successful for the students.
Title reminds me of https://mises.org/library/children-and-rights. (Do not endorse).
Good choice in marrying the girl, but just dating Polymer. I wouldn't wed myself to Polymer, considering how fickle Google is.

Nice job on the site and best wishes to you and your bride.
I'm not really looking for someone like Rackspace. I want someone that lets me easily spin up capacity on demand at pretty low cost.

I love compute engine. I run a bunch of nodes on it, but unfortunately it doesn't do nested virtualization. I specifically want to run some virtual box workloads and some other stuff that needs light weight virtualization.

I've found a couple virtual server providers that offer nested Virtualization, but not entirely sure how it works. They were also crazy expensive.
Surely, you're joking.

> How do you determine how much paint you'd need to paint a wall without basic geometry?

You guess, and if you're short, you buy more. If you're over, you use it on the next job of throw it out.

> How about figuring out what angles and lengths to cut materials?

There are lots of methods. You can lay it out and mark it on the ground before making cuts. You can build forms and templates out of scrap or cardboard via eyeballing and adjustment.

Math can save some time, but you can usually get by without it.
Surely, you're joking.

> How do you determine how much paint you'd need to paint a wall without basic geometry?

You guess, and if you're short, you buy more. If you're over, you use it on the next job of throw it out.

> How about figuring out what angles and lengths to cut materials?

There are lots of methods. You can lay it out and mark it on the ground before making cuts. You can build forms and templates out of scrap or cardboard via eyeballing and adjustment.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling. out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
It's you who keep changing the terms of the argument to slide out from underneath straightforward rebuttals to your argument. I don't think this commenter did anything to deserve snark.

I also don't think you do your your argument, whatever it may be at this point, any favors by comparing AAVE and Navajo to Klingon.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12031259
Interview with Raph Levien about Xi, Rust, data structures, and hacking history
Definitely yes.

So, I have an iphone 6s -- and I use Siri a _lot_. Mostly I use it when I'm talking to friends or family... e.g. today someone told me he didn't know any of Dylan's songs... and I went "oh, well let me tell you of some!"

Usually when you're talking to someone, and you spend half the time on your device suddenly disconnected from the person you're talking to, that makes things tough. Generally one should optimize for a friction-free experience. Generally, that means trying to do whatever in the least amount of steps.

When Apple refuses to open up siri, it makes things really difficult.

I mean really, this is from direct personal experience. My decision to quit spotify recently was literally this. (another was driving -- I need to go hands-free and least-steps there too for my own sake)
Government and non-profits alike: people shoot for mediocrity and avoid taking risks. This is how you avoid getting fired. This is what happens when incentives & accountability are misaligned with your organization's supposed goals.

There's also a culture of not recognizing or admitting failure; they're spun into success stories. This means people don't learn from mistakes and keep repeating them.

Smaller teams are weeded out very early. The barriers to entry for working with government and non-profits are high, demanding all kind of certifications and processes to be implemented.

If you don't have teams to build excruciatingly detailed (and inaccurate) proposals (complete with 100 slides presentations), jump through the hoops of procurement and fill up the deluge of paper associated with tracking every single hour working on the contract, you won't land the big contracts.

Personally, I threw the towel in. Enterprise pays more, is more loyal and while procurement can still be a PITA, the overall organization is clearly aligned behind growth and revenue. If you help them do that, you can circumvent or negotiate things.
I think we are largely in agreement on the surface. The problem is that they are attributing the "positive" results to statistical error, when it isn't due to that.

The stats are working just fine and correctly telling us the null hypothesis is false. The problem is with the crappy null hypothesis, not the stats.
My grandparents live in Wilmington. Open bar? See you at the reception!
My understanding is that if you have a country, you get to have a language (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgish_language)

Therefore the argument 'How come X is a language while Y is not' doesn't make sense if X has their own country and Y does not.
America: The First Startup
"but that's still only in fairly niche cases, only one bit, and is an implementation detail more than a fundamental aspect of the language."

Ok, but isn't the question of whether or not something is done at compile or runtime always an implementation detail? The fact that Rust figures out at compile time whether or not to insert the deallocation functions is super awesome, but it doesn't actually change the semantics of the language relative to if has to check flags or reference counts etc.

This is different, to my mind, from static/dynamic typing because they have very different semantics. Early versions of Java used a VM which was dynamically typed, and PyPy converts python code to machine code that doesn't check types (if I'm lucky). So the distinction really isn't whether or not the decision is made at runtime.

But really, I only objected in this thread because the claim was made that Swing and Rust were very different because Swing had GC and Rust didn't which seemed to be overemphasizing the differences here.
Many soldiers are volunteers. You're clearly trying to present one side of an arguement only.

Any while I dont believe soldiers suffering is funny, I do feel some nations hero worship soldiers ad nauseum. And further even with severe punishments for people refusing conscription cases, I admire a man like Ali who went to prison over his conviction not to go to war, over someone willing to support a killing machine that they dont believe in because of a few years in gaol. We almost always have a choice.

Also I appreciate someone in this (or any) discussion presenting an alternate view. And I like to think HN will remain a place where we can have open minded discussion without pushing clearly limited consideration retorts.
Duopolies seem to be the natural outcome of any free markets (in the best case - in the worst case we get monopolies).
I don't see your proposed mechanism of action.
Why .io Is a Lousy Domain for Your Tech Startup
You must be one awesome boss
> Just what kind of absurd anti-feminist conspiracy theories have you been reading?

Eric Raymond's post on the subject here - http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907 - clearly accuses the Ada Initiative of framing technology leaders for sexual assault. I chose to Listen and Believe him. What's the problem?

> Are you honestly suggesting that this many of Applebaums colleagues are evil conspirators hell-bent on destroying an innocent man's life?

No, I think there something to these allegations. But the problem is the environment has been salted and soured so much recently that when a high profile person accuses someone of a sexual assault that took place years ago, my automatic reaction is that they're lying. That's why I want to see due process including cross-examination and lengthy jail terms if he's guilty.

> I think you could do with some Occam's Razor

Ok, how about this then? Three separate women accuse a media personality of sexual assault. He is tried. On the stand it turns out each one of the women was lying - he had proof that it was consensual. I was 100% convinced before the trial he would be convicted. I mean come on: three separate witnesses? Each with a similar story? Occam's Razor right? Nope.

> a moment to think about your attitude towards sexual assault and power.

I think it's extremely healthy: someone accused of any crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty as part of a due process.
Nice! Is the parallax on the Our Story page part of Polymer?
Yeah, it's pretty frustrating. I tried getting my own data from an fMRI study, but was told that the signed paperwork specifically disallowed this sort of thing. Not even my doctor could request it. The only option I have is to completely withdrawal myself from the study, but that would be a pretty dick move. The other option is to wait until next year when the study's wrapped and then request it. Though, I'm not even sure if that'll get me the actual data..
In the car business though, it's a pre-requisite to paying the bills, and a positive step along a complicated path to getting them paid.
I find it a bit counterintuitive that I can't query such a system interactively and ask questions of it about a proof.

Is it safe to say that the architecture in this paper captures MML syntax and the "bounds" within which the software operates?
This gets to the heart of what has bugged me for awhile RE: that somehow human vision operates at 25-30fps.

I notice a difference between 25fps and 60fps. And even a difference between 48fps and 60fps as per the page. If human vision was somehow capped at 30fps, why am I noticing a difference?
> What you're talking about is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and it is not certain at all.

Yes, I am. The weak variation of the hypothesis. Coming from a computing background, it's difficult to convince myself that it's the case that the structure of a language (whether artificial or natural) doesn't encourage or discourage specific ways to represent meaning.
3001SQ – Space Colonisation game with Programmable Spacecraft
Yeah I used Polymer on a production site a year ago. The amount of Google components I had to fork and edit to make them work correctly in all the browsers I had to support was maddening. I think many of the issues I ran into have been addressed but it just soured me on the whole thing (especially since I was never able to get vulcanize to work properly on our mildly complex projext; it had major issues).

Site looks great regardless. That's one of the great things about Polymer.
Agreed. Civil litigation works on the principle that finding out the truth is what really matters, and has all sorts of stern features like discovery, who's nastiness is mitigated by rules, like not discussing on open court trade secrets (well, absent winning a procedural fight to allow such disclosure).
Yes it is! Here's the component: https://github.com/caleblloyd/polymer-wedding/blob/master/sr...
Without kids you have opportunities to network, work on side projects and collaborate as well, etc.
I'd work on my SEO if I were you guys. That's the second time I'm trying to Google your team, and even with the name I struggled to find your website.
Just to clarify, and god I hope this tedious subthread is detached and hurled with great force towards the bottom of the thread, but PTSD and sorrow are very different things. I have friendly and familial connections to PTSD and am familiar with what a PTSD episode can be. It is nothing at all like sadness or hurt feelings. It can be closer to seizure behavior than anything like that.

And, of course, nobody I've known with PTSD has been in combat.

Thanks for taking the time to slap back the toxic, ignorant comments that sparked this subthread. Would that for every one of you, we had ten people more willing to use the flag button on comments.
I imagine that people were largely indifferent to the loss of a child in "ye olden times" because it was expected, and they hardened themselves to the probability. Childhood mortality was atrocious back in the day.
I might recommend you check out React Standalone if you're interested in Web Components but want to use something familiar (if you're familiar with React that is!). I'm using it right now so I can build an SDK that works both "natively" in a React environment and in vanilla JS + Angular, etc.
Does anyone know offhand how airburst shells were fused in those days? The only way that I can think that it could have been done, would be to have a very accurate timer detonate the shell. But then you have to know the flight time, and that would have changed whenever the gun was aimed at a different spot. Was the gun capable of setting the shell's timer automatically, based on it's firing angle? Did someone compensate for elevation difference? Or, was there a guy with a slide rule tweaking a knob on each shell just before firing?
My way of expressing the same thing would be something like this (I'm not sure if it is an improvement, though):

Old methods are not automatically bad because you don't understand them or why they are used. New methods are not automatically good.

If you want to change something, try to prove both that your change isn't worse in any important way and that is notably better in some meaningful way. Understanding where the original method came from helps you prove the right things.
As far as I can tell, my great-grandfather's older brother committed suicide with his own infantry rifle rather than go over the top of the trenches again.

The report from the military court of enquiry makes for some sobering reading - the statements of his platoon mates make it sound like he'd already been mentally ill for weeks.
The website wasn't that good.
Everyone's grumpy about our (USA) elections, which use a terrible voting system (winner takes all), and then cynically conclude that all democracy is bad news. Because people are stupid. And can't be trusted to do the right thing. Because reasons.

How do you currently choose new hires? Decide to ship (go/no go)? Probably something like Roman Evaluation.

How do you triage defects or choose features? Probably something like Approval Voting.
Looking at the wikipedia page, it looks like a crude form of bayes nets. I'm talking about testing all possible causal structures, and seeing which ones fit the data the best.
If I hadn't originally read one of your AAVE comments attached to a subthread started by a race troll, I'd probably have clued in much earlier about what you were saying. It sucks how easily a single toxic comment can skew an entire thread.

Sorry I made discussing this so tedious for you!
If you believe that the majority of papers in the field are not incorrect, what are the assumptions behind your estimation of the numbers?
I've seen it here on HN many times as an excuse for ageism - we can't hire older people, they want more money and more time off.
Of course you can't learn everything, but you can keep your curiosity alive and keep questioning reality, and search for explanations. To me, it's not about learning the whole corpus of human knowledge.
It's by far my biggest complaint. There are even issues where one control panel does one set of features and the settings window does a whole different set.

I also had a sticky problem where it was convinced I had a Canadian French keyboard even after deleting it from both keyboard control panels. I ended up having to solve that with a registry modification.