skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO UEFI is an overly complex solution that seems to be optimised for multibooting in various complex ways, a use-case that is probably extremely rare; how many "average users" do you know which have more than one OS natively installed on their machine? And of those, how many have more than two? Especially in this era of VMs, multibooting is becoming increasingly rare.

On the other hand, BIOS boot is optimised for the overwhelmingly common case of one OS; select a boot device, load its first sector into memory, and jump to it. The BIOS does not need to know at all about filesystems, partitioning, or other things which are more at the OS level, which I think is a good application of the principle of "separation of concerns"; UEFI however seems to have become much of an OS itself, with all the associated complexity and increased failure modes of such. Two memorable incidents:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11008449

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5139055

There is no BIOS specification. BIOS is a de facto standard – it works the way it worked on actual IBM PCs, in the 1980s. That’s kind of one of the reasons UEFI exists.

It's more like a collection of specifications, but you can find much of the important ones here and much of the API is in the IBM PC/AT Technical Reference:

http://cs.dartmouth.edu/~bx/blog/resources/bios.html

The particularly relevant one for this article is here:

http://www.phoenix.com/resources/specs-bbs101.pdf

(Note the URL and the date of the document.)

The design doesn’t provide a standard way of booting from anything except disks. We’re not going to really talk about that in this article, but just be aware it’s another advantage of UEFI booting: it provides a standard way for booting from, for instance, a remote server.

Network booting in the BIOS world is almost always done through PXE.
The server is a dedicate machine located in a professional colo. I am not going to be able to put a dial-up into that server.

The problem is getting into China from outside - not to the server once inside the Great Firewall.
That is not at all what drop shipping is.

Drop shipping is a supply chain management method in which the retailer does not keep goods in stock but instead transfers customer orders and shipment details to either the manufacturer, another retailer, or a wholesaler, who then ships the goods directly to the customer
The article reports this regarding the source of the predictions:

"It's worth noting that Lichtman's predictions use very different methods than pollsters and data-based prognosticators. Some statisticians take issue with the structure of his system, a set of 13 true/false questions, saying that the binary nature of his keys leads to what's called “overfitting,” which is basically creating a system that fits the data but has little statistical significance. But Lichtman counters by saying that the system has correctly predicted every election since 1984 (specifically, his predictions have picked the next president correctly in all of those elections but 2000, when he picked Al Gore, who won the popular vote). And Lichtman has his own criticism of data-based predictions.

"“Polls are not predictors,” he said Friday in an email. “They are snapshots that simulate an election. They are abused and misused as predictors. Even the analysis of polls by Nate Silver and others which claimed a probable Clinton victory with from more than 70 percent to 99 percent certainty are mere compilations that are no better than the underlying polls.”

"And he has particular disdain for prediction systems that assign a likelihood of winning.

"“For all his acclaim, Nate Silver is only a clerk, not a scientific analyst,” Lichtman said."

There is no source for the impeachment prediction; that may be pure, but possibly well grounded, cynicism.

The "keys" on which the prediction is based can be found in: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/12/th...
China roughly outmatches SK by 4:1 across the board, but China has to worry about more than just SK. They have to be concerned about India, Vietnam, Russia, Japan, SK, and of course the US. China has been on an incredible spending spree and upgraded a lot of their equipment, but there not as well trained as other modern militaries. This is changing, but not something that can be done overnight.
Climate Trumps Everything, No Matter Who Is President
Right now it seems to show an SHA1 hash encoded in hex, which is very inconvenient because ssh-keygen displays either MD5 in hex or SHA256 in base64. It should at least tell the user what hash algo was used, I found that out by trial and error.
Humans are bad at determining facts. That is a fact.

Consider the irony of refuting that statement. Yes the word "fact" has a definition, but that doesn't mean humans can or will obey that definition. In early 2003 the NY Times reported Iraq had WMD, so that was a fact, right? How long would it take me to find a Facebook employee who would tell me it's a "fact" that vaccines cause autism?

Anyone who claims they can differentiate facts from opinion and truth from fiction without bias, is the last person that should have that responsibility.
Flat colours in a 3x3 matrix? It's as if computers were meant to handle and manipulate data like that.
Was about to post empathy myself. It's of very high importance on my list and it's incredible how early it can start to develop (see it in my toddler son already). Although I think in a normal loving household, empathy will probably develop naturally. I would imagine a child without empathy lived a troubled childhood.
GrubHub CEO Matthew M. Maloney Sells 14,491 Shares of Stock
They are very very close. The differences are minute at this point. Unless you are doing some heavy relational algebra, it will be hard to distinguish real world results for simple queries.

In the end I chose Solr because it comes with 'ecosystem' of semi-related projects that you can pull on (spark, ambari, etc etc).

On a sidenote, I'm personally more comfortable with forkable sourcebases, than singular companies with paid plugins. I've been too long in this industry and have seen all kinds of dirty tricks pulled off.
I see what you're saying.

Would it be fair to compare this to saying "I think architecture was better in the ancient times, when low-paid craftmen fashioned each stone by hand"? If I said this, I don't think it should be assumed that I'm in favour of eliminating living wages for laborers.

I agree with you on your last point. I don't think Thiel is too concerned with people misunderstanding him, and he certainly could be more specific.
So they spend weeks developing the exploits and when they present it the headline is that it took 4 or 60 seconds? They even used the phrase "breached Adobe Flash with a flick of the finger" as if anyone could hack it with a finger gesture.
Why don't you ask a lawyer?
@sama Sam Altman, can you explain your reasoning for banning a company that merely wrote something on Twitter, but you allowed Jumpcut from S16 who actually went into the streets and filmed street harassment (forcefully kissing women without permission, massaging them without permission, and "motor-boating" them as an incentive for charity) with their brand Simple Pickup?

Here are links proving my point: http://www.dailydot.com/irl/simple-pickup-youtube-sexual-ass...

http://www.dailycal.org/2012/02/29/youtube-pickup-artists-co...

Here's the petition to remove their YouTube channel -> www.change.org/p/youtube-com-end-street-harassment-remove-simple-pickup-s-youtube-channel-13bef5b3-1dcc-4f8a-be88-ef3f69cc7e1c

They are still making money with their Project Go program which shows their instructor Willy molesting a woman without her knowing she was being filmed.

Seems like this type of harassment is an embodiment of what you would disagree with.

Or were you just not aware of this?
>Collectively the readers here could form the bedrock of a powerful resistance to what will very clearly be an abominable and destructive regime.

No. Your hypnosis will soon wear off, give it a couple of months. This is exactly why nobody talks about this on HN.
"At 3am last night, after tense negotiations with Putin and Jinping regarding the current nuclear stalemate, the president tweeted..."
It's also fair to say the media has gone into full-blown self flagellation these past few days about the job they did holding Trump to account. Whether it will go back to business as usual in two weeks remains to be seen.
Show HN: Did Donald do it? Tracking Trump's promises
I already use a professional provider in China to colo the server. The issue in not the server (it works well within China) or the colo, but connecting to it securely from outside China via ssh.

I can’t just hand over the running of this server to a Chinese team since it is not a webserver, but the relatively complex backend for the custom processing of genetic data.
He sells a lot of his stock the day before elections, then sends out that horrible email, and plummets the value of the stock.

The SEC is going to crucify this guy.
Wow bud, sorry to have insulted your favourite company.

They did in fact participate in PRISM, sorry to get you so worked up.
I think this is a more correct case to apply.

The Feist case was about the expense accrued in aggregating the information and the incentive issues that arise if those efforts are not protected.

The NBA case was about the division of rights between the competition organizer and those attempting to report on it. Specifically, are the reporters required to delay their reporting efforts when the only information being reported generated by the event is factual.

If I understand correctly, this ruling doesn't preclude the event organizers from banning all electronic communication devices from the premises. It just prevents them from pursuing any civil penalties from those that report on the event.
Sorry, I turned on my TV 1 minute after that was displayed.

This issue is called "contract formation", and any HN reader who's shipped licensed software or had a website with terms of service should be aware that showing something that a user may or may not have seen is the worst possible way to try to form a contract. That's why creating an account on almost all websites has a checkbox that the user has to check, with text that you're agreeing to certain terms.
Feds Can Unlock Most Devices They Need to Get Into, FBI Admits
I'm uvpoting this post pour encourager les autres, so we can talk about it and mock you^W^Wdiscuss it and posts like it in one place.

>As I write this, none of the top 30 links pertain to the massive emergency engulfing Y Combinator's home country, which will have rippling negative effects around the world.

What "massive emergency"? What "negative effects"? Every four years the losing voters will say that it's the end of the world, and yet here we are, going through the same tired shit yet again.

> Collectively the readers here could form the bedrock of a powerful resistance to what will very clearly be an abominable and destructive regime.

First, the people here are entrepreneurs and many of them would be the first to sell software to run trains to the camps if it meant turning a buck. The people here are the sort whose businesses collect the data that would used by a fascist state. The people here are the type to laugh at the enslavement of the poor by the service industry. I would count on them not one goddamned bit.

Second, looking past the silly rhetoric and bluster, how can we claim the "very cleary...an abominable and destructive regime" bit? What, like the excessive assassinations via drones Obama carried out? Or the bombings of countries the US conducted under Clinton? Or the comically large fuckup of military adventurism under Bush II? You gotta do better if you want to sound credible.

> What does it mean that we as a community are silent about perhaps the most important turning point in society so far in most of our lifetimes?

More important than 9/11 and the Patriot Act? More important than the fall of the Berlin Wall? More important than the release of Netscape and IE? More important than Facebook and Twitter and Paypal?

Do you even read what you're saying? Your alarm is only matched by your ignorance.
Some friends of mine run a science fiction site. A reasonably serious one - they've been nominated for a Hugo several times. They have WordPress and some email accounts. They do grumble about the website, but it's nowhere near their biggest problem. You are definitely overthinking this.
There are plenty of places to hear alarmist talk. HN is not the place for that.

Bookmark your sense of alarm. Your sense of impending doom. Remember your feelings today, then get on with life. Come back in a year or two. How will your perception today compare with reality two years from now? (I have a prediction . . . .)

This is said by someone who has watched the sky fall and people throw hissy fits since the 1968 Nixon victory.
The first and third ones were clearly mean-spirited, but the second one seems like it's in-bounds for society as a whole ("coward", while obviously impolite, can't possibly be worse than "racist", which is apparently an in-bounds part of political conversation). Not an insane request to abide by either: if they are literally asking for it, naming and shaming seems opt-in-able.
This is excellent. I would also add a source to each item so people can see more context on what was said at the time.
I think some of the most important skills are team work, communication, helping others, and recognizing the resources they have beyond themselves. You list is much focused on the individual rather than the team or a society.
You realise that Singapore, Britain, most of Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zealand are also stable democracies?

Many of them notably more stable, in fact.
Apropos, to anyone who wants to watch the live moves, with expert commentary, they are here (this is the defendant from the Reuters story):

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/chess24-win-moscow-case-ann...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkTCNuQ2mGfW6-SpHpaze_g (direct link to livestream)

If you're looking for live computer engine lines, Steinar Gunderson offers that here, with 38 cores running Stockfish:

http://analysis.sesse.net/

As well as PGN files (live-updated):

http://pgn.sesse.net/
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Building xnu for OS X 10.11 El Capitan – (question)
in this url it shows instructions to build XNU kernel on elcapitan OS ( http://shantonu.blogspot.pt/2015/12/building-xnu-for-os-x-1011-el-capitan.html )
my question is:
is it possible to compile kernel on macbook Pro in order to optimize peformance and security? i know that is possible to disable some drivers aka kexts which can make system more faster, but what other things can be done? as for security features is is possible for eg. to disable MIC/CAM??
thanks in advance..
Good idea. For the time being let's say it is all legal. I'd like to know thoughts in general about the idea.
Mark Blyth is a professor who predicted Brexit and Trump's victory. If you want a global perspective on these things, Mark Blyth is a very interesting person to listen to.
>America was founded on immigration and has always been a country of immigrants.

From Europe.

It's not like the US started out as some mix of every idea/race/culture from every corner of the earth. Every country has people who originally came from somewhere and an identity grows from that. It's disingenuous to claim that Arab immigrants would assimilate as well as the Germans and the British did.
Ah, well now you're changing the subject. If you're granting that the issue is sexual assault and not bad language we can talk about that. Saying he would like to commit sexual assault would be disqualifying on its own, but in any case what he actually said was that it was something he does "whenever I meet a beautiful woman." So, I guess the better comparison would be if you said "when my kids talk back I beat the shit out of them."
Does it still require a wildcard TLS cert if you want to use over https?
Blockchain Startup Everex Aims for Financial Inclusion
How to Run Gluster on a Raspberry Pi with Docker
>> If I could become a US citizen for free (and I can't, by the way), would you drop your objection?

Other than the application costs, I think it is more or less free to become a US citizen.

>> I'm using the words protectionists like yourself have commonly used.

Noted
The definition of employee had nothing to do with my point. Rather, I was saying that just because someone is in a purely "owner and manager" position doesn't make them a bad person for wanting some (or all) of the profits. The profits are what's left after you pay out what's necessary to run the (company, housing, whatever) and, as owner, you get to decide who/what that money goes to. As long as you're paying the people that do the work for you (and it doesn't matter AT ALL if they're employees, contractors, or other) a fair amount, you're doing fine in my book.

> Why, you are a benevolent renter, aren't you?
To some extent yes. I believe my landlord charges me enough to cover what it costs him to pay for/maintain the place I live, plus some amount for the risk he takes on in owning it (major repairs, etc), plus some amount of profit that I find reasonable. Not all landlords set <some amount of profit> at unreasonable levels.
I'm pretty sure this is a machine generated article.
What horrible email?
Thats interesting. I've booted UEFI machines using PXE and judging from the PXE ROM versions displayed, the PXE code hasn't changed much, on my boxes at least.

I would agree that UEFI is an OS of its' own. But thats the whole point isn't it? That way writing drivers for peripherals can be done in C, etc.

I have a BIOS machine I cant boot using my SD card for example, which I need to do. I imagine writing (or porting) a driver for UEFI to interface with that SD card reader would be an order of magnitude simpler than doing the same by modifying my BIOS (which I've seriously considered doing).
> Canon isn't going anywhere with DSLRs. Nikon? No. Sony? Seems their foray into interchangeable lens cameras has grown, not receded.

The facts - sales volumes and profitability - don't actually agree with you.
And Cloudera, and DataStax Enterprise, and IBM something, and Adobe Experience Manager that don't wave Solr flag about unless you explicitly look and therefore don't show up in the easy stats. And Drupal, and Typo3, and.....
Looks interesting but it took me a minute to realize that you don't actually need to register to see the site's content. For some reason, the page ignores keyboard navigation (page down/up, arrow keys down/up, space bar) in Firefox (only) so, on my laptop, the page looks like it has no content except the register button.

Also, the page uses a background image blur that is supported by Firefox and Chrome, but not IE or Edge.
The Southern Strategy
Same query but changing "apache solr" to "solr" shows much less difference :
https://www.google.fr/trends/explore?q=elasticsearch,solr,lu...
I wouldn't contemplate it, except that I'm looking at migrating a Rails/Postgrep app to GKE, and containerizing PG seems like the lowest-friction path. Are there better alternatives for getting to GKE, or is GKE a bad fit for this scenario?
It's an interesting story, but I don't think it passes the sniff test.

First of all, the article states "not everyone on the list loses their vote", but doesn't say how many people on the 'purge list' did lose their vote.

Secondly, over half of eligible voters didn't vote. So do we divide those numbers on the purge list in half? Actually, it says the purge list was targeted at minorities, what % of those minorities turned out to vote?

Lastly, just because you were potentially eligible to vote, doesn't mean you would have voted for Clinton.

If these items where taken into account in the "crosscheck in action" section, should divide by two for likely to vote and * 0.52 for Clinton as popular vote - it "might" look more like

Trump victory margin in Michigan: 13,107

Michigan Crosscheck purge list* : 116,979

Trump victory margin in Arizona: 85,257

Arizona Crosscheck purge list: 70,414

Trump victory margin in North Carolina: 177,008

North Carolina Crosscheck purge list: 153,242

Pretty simplistic, but WOW, I even surprised myself with those numbers...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12930300
The "escalating so fast" lost the qualifier, which does change the meaning.
Still probably would argue that it's worth it.
While I live in India and negative actions on H1B will undoubtedly affect my country, I've struggled to understand how American citizens have tolerated the gaming of H1B for so long.

Since H1B is supposed to be for hiring people with skills in short supply in the US, a reasonable solution would be to award the visas in descending order of pay on the philosophy that a market should value skills in short supply more. A lottery based system in contrast seems to be designed to be gamed by whichever company can stuff applications.
An email saying that people who supported Trump, or some of his worst platform positions should leave because there isn't room for them to work there.
It looks like these exploits require either shell access or installing an app that contains the exploit code.

Apart from the Flash vulnerability, did any of the exploits use Chrome to gain all permissions on the Pixel? That would be scary, because the user would just have to be served Javascript containing malicious code or visit an affected website.

Why isn't Linux or the BSDs usually included in these pawn competitions?
A NN must have written this.
It is true that unless you are only in USA for 30 days of the year, you will still have to pay income tax in USA. I've been in Asia this year, working as remote freelancer and because I had to come back for about 6 weeks to deal with some business stuff, I won't be able to claim the foreign income tax excludion. I'll also have to pay the ACA penalty (still cheaper) because I cancelled my health insurance after leaving USA. But living in Asia has been a great experience and I would recommend it. However, time zones between here and west coast are weird. I'm either waking up at 5am or staying up til 12am if I have to do a call.
Price manipulation aside (from his election comments), why is this news?

The amounts are peanuts. The article references $113K stakes owned by financial firms as if they mean something. That small scale of money doesn't even qualify as a rounding error.
Thank you! That was my goal. I banged my head so much against the wall trying to understand the process, even though it should have been conceptually simple. If there are other topics (not necessarily computer-related) that you feel might benefit from a short explanation as well, feel free to let me know, and if I know about them I'd love to write about them.
Why is this article on a baseball news site? I'm so confused.
I was going to say mobile apps. Winds looks great--I just usually use RSS readers on my Android device.

Also, distributed sync would be awesome (i.e., without a centralized server, using something like syncthing or whatever), but that's just a dream.
Is there anything like Kibana for Solr?
It's not news. It's algorithmically generated spam.
More specifically, Plan 9 devised the plumber framework for copy+paste and similar IPC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumber_(program)
http://www.mostlymaths.net/2013/04/just-as-mario-using-plan9...
Personally, I'm mostly tired of it already. Is this the "most important turning point in society...of our lifetimes?"

I think that may be overly dramatic. There have been many things which have had a dramatic effect on society in our lifetime, both positive and negative. I don't want to give Donald Trump the satisfaction of being a member of that club.

Living well is the best thing you can do, no matter who is president. That doesn't mean living high on the hog, that means doing well, being good, helping others. Nobody can stop us from doing that.
I just found it online. Still the content is real, the CEO did in fact sell off his stock before dropping the price.