skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0000:7c00 (segment 0, offset 0x7c00) and 07c0:0000 (segment 0x7c0, offset 0) are at the same physical address of 0x00007c00, so the processor will see the same bytes each way. The latter's more useful in 16-bit mode, though, as it allows you to use offsets 0x0000 to 0xffff to access the 64kB of data starting at physical address 0x00007c00.

So typically the first thing you do on entry to the boot sector is to do a far jump to change code segments. But you don't have to; if you're immediately switching to 32-bit mode it may not be worth it.

Here's my boot sector --- everyone's written one. Mine's intended to load and run raw tiny mode executables on floppy.

https://github.com/davidgiven/ack/blob/default/plat/pc86/boo...
Also CERN is currently offline for the winter which gets most of its power from France imports.
Our dogs loves drives so much that they refuses to leave the vehicle
Why Empathy Is Bad
Please don't post grandiose claims about large groups of people. They're unsubstantive, often uncivil, and usually provoke worse.
VPNs for Beginners – What You Need to Know
There's something I've always wondered about.. what do you do if you upload your journal submission to arxiv but it's later rejected? That possibility has always been a deterrent to submitting to arxiv for me. Seems to me this discussion assumes arxiv uploads will be accepted to some journal eventually..
2017 Lenovo ThinkPads Will Get Precision Touchpad and More
I recently flew a regional airline that had strict policies about bag weight (20 pounds or something). They had scales for luggage right there. Then I thought to myself: the difference between my weight and anyone a few inches taller — regardless of fat — could be way more than 20 pounds, especially given some muscle. It makes little sense to inconvenience people by checking bags that are slightly over-weight, while standing next to someone that is probably twice the difference.

Maybe, then, a rule for bags is also based on the distribution of weight in the overhead bins, as well as the difficulty of knowing exactly where the heavy bags would be. People are easy to identify and move, bags probably need to be more uniform. Plus, it would encourage relatively small bags (to help with the space issue).
Never said to re-implement SMTP. Just stating that I've been on shared servers where PHP mail() blocks and had to job-out SMTP for responsiveness. If I've encountered it, I'm sure others have as well.

As for the jobber, it was using the same PHP mail() function, it's just that the jobber runs async and does not have a time limit imposed on it.

If you have control over your php.ini to where you can set agent parameters to be non-blocking, then yes, that would be ideal.
Unfortunately, that assumes that "you" have that choice.

Individually, I'm sure you can rip out, mutilate, deface, damage or what have you to devices that report fine-grained time-series data. But the moment you go anywhere else, you're being recorded, watched, monitored, measured, and recorded.

It's already being done, and it's way past time that we do have that discussion. Because without string and stark dialogue, we'll end up with "We're not doing anything wrong, so why should we care?" kind of responses. Or worse yet, people won't understand what something like accurate TS data from power input can lead to.[0]

And as an addition on the above comment, I also wrote a CPU-bound facial recognition app. I wrote it initially for a convention that we have for our hackerspace every year... But it took me a week to do in my spare time, using open source libs (OpenCV, QT). This stuff is just getting more ubiquitous.[1]

[0]: http://www.hennebert.org/download/publications/isspa-2012-ma... MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES FOR ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CLASSIFICATION

[1]: https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho
I suggest a thought experiment: take a few random projects you have or plan to work on, go to [1] and search for the kind of packages you need and see what's missing. It's getting better all the time, and you'll find most straightforward projects are totally doable in Rust.

[1] https://crates.io/
>A true hero would create an organization that spent their own money on research and development and then give out the results for free. This takes real sacrifice.

Seeing as the man is dead as a direct result of his allegedly false heroics, I can't help but disagree with the implication in the latter portion of your statment.

Death is widely agreed upon as a very real sacrifice.
SecureDrop
Not eating beef will not reduce your "carbon emmisions" (except for transport etc, which would presumably be substituted). They will reduce your "greenhouse gas emissions" though.
Benchmark GAME :)
Why Brotli adoption is so low among websites
> Your feeling

that wasn't a feeling. it is a fact that rent seeking is a market inefficiency.

> there are many scholars that have written alternative views on the subject

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority
Medium command-line client with the ability to publish local markdown files
Sample size: three (and counting). It's an awful problem, mobile or laptop/desktop: My greatest gripe is that I may think page is fully loaded, click to highlight text and - boom! I'm sent of to some page of video or advertising through a link that abruptly displaces the target I aimed at.
Hey! I'm just a bit opposed to having logging libraries in libraries that I'm using. I mean, if they're only needed for debug builds of the library I'm fine with that, but if I already have a logging library, bringing another into my project would be a bit unnecessary. Thanks for the reply!
Then this map is irrelevant. Winds blowing out of a country with high CO2 emission actually don't mean anything, since there is not actually high CO2 emission there, they import it from elesewhere.
Its still in the works. I have a github repo with the build https://github.com/nojvek/RasberryPiSelfDrivingCar

I want to mount the structure sensor from occipital which gives depth info and be able to build a map of my house. Still a lot of things need to be done but I have ideas on how to make it work.
Sedlec Ossuary
The Princess of an Unworthy Galaxy
more like, "FreeBSD launders stolen bitcoins"
Haha more than 15/256 babies forced to live in duplexes and other multifamily housing.
So where's your public outcry to give him asylum? Sorry, what you claim to be the public perception, and the actions of your populace are completely misaligned. If the two prevailing mindsets were he's a hero and I don't care, then the he's a hero would be making a lot more noise, and the "I don't care" would probably give them half-hearted support just because they don't have a horse in the race and could therefore be easily convinced.
I think the answer to that is extending slander and libel laws. If someone is spreading information about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring she should be able to sue for damages. I think that's the right way because people spreading those rumors are the one doing the damage not the people who run a platform which allows for sharing of information.
And if you're so inclined you can pop over to Jura and have a nosey around the cottage Orwell wrote most of 1984 in :-) It's quite a pretty spot too :-)

https://flic.kr/p/kkwkuk
Exactly my thoughts. Cognitive stagnation, inflexibility, absence of basic planning and analysis, religious frames they put themselves in etc etc all these are the factors that don't allow these individuals to break class levels up or even stay on the same level.
They are clearly used so they can’t be a failure.

Perhaps it won’t be long before we see emojis sprinkled throughout printed books (perhaps similar to TV shows popping up texting bubbles). If these icons have value as a way to express something in an interesting way, they probably belong in literature too.
> I love C, I really don't see what the fuss is about about 'replacing' it really. It's a sharp tool, requiring care and attention.

You just answered your own question: most people don't apply sufficient care and attention. So should we leave sharp tools lying around and encourage their use knowing they're going to be abused and cause serious problems?
This info would be a lot easier to process if the images were juxtaposed and you had a slider to move through the years.

That way you could visually track how a particular item evolved.
You can tour the joint RO/RS Iron Gates dam. Is's ratger impressive although at least Russia, China and Canada/US have bigger hydropower stations.
Not sure how good option nuclear is with the recent experience with Olkiluoto 3. Probably safe yes, but maybe too expensive?
A small minority of programmers may believe a small minority of those things, but that's all.

Oh, the author is a "Seasoned CSS developer". Quite possibly associates with different programmers than some of us...
Draw.io extension for Google docs.
Building Your Imagination- Why Children Love Making Dens and Tents?
Distributed Locks with Consul and Golang
> AFAIK, there is no far-left fake news website with the same revenue or audience numbers as the far-right has right now.

Why is this a competition you want to win? Seems like a race to the bottom.

> I'm advocating that ordinary journalistic standards should apply to anything which markets itself as journalism.

There are no universal "journalistic standards". There are standard to which specific outlets hold themselves to and that's great, but that's hardly an argument to holding others to the same standard.

I have no expectation that The Sun holds itself to the same standard as The New York Times and frankly, I wouldn't want them to.
>I'm trying to appeal to the people who build the systems and brainstorm ways to do that, not really rally the end-users to this particular cause.

The people that "build the systems" are paid for by those corporations who make money by tracking you. Who exactly do you think is going to:
A. Fund this new decentralized non-tracking utopia.
B. Convince users already embedded in existing systems to switch to something less functional in order to not be tracked?

EVERY project that's tried what you're describing has failed miserably because end-users just don't care. Can you cite even ONE example of a competing system that has focused on privacy that has garnered what can be considered even a modicum of success against an already entrenched player?
I agree completely. I feel what is needed is an UDP version of WebSockets. That's all I wish we had.
How does it work exactly?
CO2 from rotting plants is not a problem, as that is basically "current" not "fossilized" carbon that is being released.
Looks like ~1% of US high school students had stats in 1990 and only ~11% in 2009. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=97
Network Storage
Here’s North Korea’s Totalitarian Android Tablet
This point and the few exceptions to it are addressed in the footnotes. I was skeptical too, particularly of the claim that the lisp family tree is rooted in Fortran, but the claims seem to be pretty well researched.
Up until about 3 month or so I've been using mainly Evernote - but for me the app has started to be old, laggy and it's a lot of clutter.

Since then I tried a few different tiny apps but none of them seemed to do the trick until I started using Microsoft's OneNote.
I was a bit skeptical at first but I found OneNote to be such a great way to take notes, tag, organise all of it in different folders and for sure there are other features I'll discover down the road.

Also - for 2017 I want to also start taking notes on paper - the old fashioned way.
How Signal Is Evading Censorship
Obama Family Voted Most Desirable Neighbors for 2017;Justin Bieber Named Worst
Of course. The part I still can't get my head around is where the language feature that'd relieve me of the need to vet a library, or worse write socket code by hand like some kind of barbarian, isn't compiled in for non-Windows platforms, because reasons.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead (disputed, but still catchy)

What would be your alternative strategy for positive change? Is desire for change a desire for power, and thus corrupting? How is an individual supposed to make their voice heard?
Sounds like you've got a Damien story behind this comment. Would you like to share?
Of course: there's a cult that spreads the false belief that CO2 emission and eating beef are correlated.
Some people in the cult are probably paid to spread this myth, while the majority of them they are just simple persons believing in the power of individuals, "one person can change the world" and other similar bullshit.
So you are one of those sites that reject email addresses with "+" in it?
Likely because PHP has to run things while the end user is waiting for a page to download. They rely on sendmail so that the mail can be queued, versus hanging while the email is sent. PHPmailer can be configured in the way you're describing, but it then has this issue.
> not to mention that stores in the U.S. use some 100 billion plastic bags every year

It is amazing how many people still do not use reusable tote bags.

If your like me and you forget to bring them or put them back into the car one way to remember is to put them on your coat rack or next to your master grocery list (ie a pad of paper you fill out during the week).

Even if I forget the bags I will often buy a new tote bag at the store.... in practice the more bags I have the less I seem to forget them (ie spares in the car).

I'm incredibly lazy so I have to imagine many others can do it.
Can you elaborate on what you're looking for at the interview stage to determine a company has this mindset? I've seen it after a few weeks at an org but figuring that out earlier would be helpful.
"Metro Vancouver" is not Vancouver, though. People there are the equivalent (from my NY perspective) of the people upstate, Jersey, and CT - they can have their cars if they want, but we shouldn't accommodate them here in Manhattan.
This had a major thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13263894, so by the usual standard this is a dupe, unless it contains significant new information. Since both articles are lifted from The Information's paywalled original, I'm guessing that's unlikely.
The Amazon Echo records data from all of its users, not just the murderers. It's creeping close to bulk monitoring.
NVMe and NVMs: What to Expect
>Do you think that you are doing public works in giving strangers the gift of your physical presence on a shared rail cart?

Not at all, but in my experience if you probe into why people avoid public transit, it's usually some variation on "I don't want to be near those people". I've literally heard those words verbatim from more than one person.

I spoke with a former coworker who has a practically door-to-door bus trip to work with a 20m headway (that I used to take, it was very fast and convenient, never had problems with other passengers). They chose to drive to the edge of the city where they could park w/ their permit, and then walk a pretty significant distance to work, just to avoid the bus.

It's a lower-class stigma, the bus is "for poor people" so people won't take the bus even when it's objectively the best option. If the "way you want to live" is going to great lengths to avoid people you think are beneath you (not saying this is you, but I've absolutely met people like this), that's pretty much the definition of a snob.
New holiday report shows Apple leading phone activations
One of the criticisms of the Microsoft Surface Studio a few months ago was that it used a hybrid drive rather than a big SSD. This suggests why Microsoft might have chosen that direction for its hardware's architectural roadmap. It's the kind of customer that would have early access to Intel's pipeline via quid pro quo.
If we are all God's children, why would I need to make my voice any louder than anyone else's?
Creators of the Paranormal
Dr Donald Henderson: The most significant death of 2016 you didn't hear about
> FORTRAN’s conflation of functions (an algebraic concept) and subroutines (a programming construct) persists to this day in nearly every piece of software, and causes no end of problems

I'm not really sure what the author's point is here. I think "subroutine" is a more descriptive name than the more commonly-used "function," but I'm not aware of any problems this has caused.
If your point is a philosophical one about the nature of knowledge then we have gone far afield of the comment you were responding to. The leader of Breitbart has publicly announced a strategy to change the United States' political and governmental norms. He is now arguably the most powerful figure in the Trump administration, which has already begun pursuing that strategy. Breitbart's actions in other countries are consistent with that strategy.

True, maybe the deepest motive for Bannon's stated strategy is that he wants to angrily reject his father's scorn and through world domination (or at least world destabilization) finally earn his love and thus be able to love himself. But that's not really the subject at hand.

"Fake News" is just rebranded propaganda. Systematically trying to convince the public of lies is bad, regardless of motive. But we can also see clearly the first order motives of the people behind most of this current wave of propaganda even if we can't follow a chain of causality back to the deepest motives of human nature.
Browser vendors should show a security warning when encountering this behavior. Default configurations of all software must be to disallow. The burden should be on the enterprise to configure their client devices to allow MITM.
I'm sure Nasim is talking about perception and not 'reality.' As the saying goes "perception is reality," I think you'll find that objective reality is not very important in the domain of culture.
Good to know. I'm only familiar with it in a computing context.
Eric Schmidt did not mention murder in his quote.
Not only that, but attackers will learn to mimic behavior/usage as necessary to complete the task. Data analysis will continue to be a useful tool, but few firms understand 'AI' enough to properly employ it in the first place and I doubt there are any which are prepared for adversarial input and other attacks that go after their 'AI' as the first step in embeddding.
My Personal Hero: Priyamvada Natarajan on Martin Schwarzchild (and Mr. Carter)
If I see a tree branch snap off the tree, I can reliably predict that branch will hit the ground below a short time thereafter. Just saying.
I have a 5.5 X 8.5 moleskin I always keep in my bag.

When I read, I get ideas and wrote them down. Maybe they're related to the book or a project I'm working on, or maybe they're unrelated. Books I remember I want to buy, an email to send to someone, a new test I want to run - all over the map.

I also try to wrote down my thoughts in the morning and at the end of the day in this psuedo-journal. Things I'm thinking about, what happened that day, etc...
"used her mother's thumb to unlock a phone and open the Amazon app as mom napped on the couch"

Or she made it up.....
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13245970
Do you really have 0 microphones in your house? What about speakers, those are basically microphones too?

If you have access to the main OS it's also relatively easy to verify that the secretly recorded audio data isn't being uploaded anywhere, unless these devices have some secret radio equipment in them.
Note to self (and eli_gottleib): never afflict the comfortable (read: wealthy technocrats or wealthy technocrats-in-training) with the truth!
Well then, I look forward to your argument supporting the use of Brainfuck or programming raw Turing tapes. Can't get much simpler than those options by your metric!
Wirecutter's recommendation for overall best TV is pretty dumb as far as TVs go:

http://m.thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-tv

No apps, no tuner, excellent picture quality, great range, etc.
I think the parent comments are a separate issue from concerns about the NSA. Most people would agree that warrantless access to all data everywhere is a bad thing (smart water meter or not).

In this case, there are traditional limitations on law enforcement (requirement of a warrant) and a specific crime that has been committed.

In my opinion, using a warrant to get the data from the water usage device is no more problematic than using a warrant to search the house.
Wirecutter's recommendation for overall best TV is pretty dumb as far as TVs go:

m.thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-tv/

No apps, no tuner, excellent picture quality, great range, etc.
That isn't the journalist speaking. That's a quote from a local pastor. The journalist is simply reporting what is happening, not proposing solutions.

Another person quoted in the article correctly identified the housing supply issue. "For all that, Hernandez-Goff thinks the systemic problems – housing shortages, wage stagnation, inequality – are beyond her." Since she doesn't have the political clout to solve that issue, she offers some short term first aid. "She wants to open a school parking lot to cars and RVs at night, so families with children can sleep without being disturbed; she thinks lack of sleep and stress are contributing to her district’s low test scores. And she would like to install washing machines in schools for those without homes."
No one making "very good money" (I assume >= $100k) needs to live with roommates in NYC. You can easily afford a 1br on that, and in a trendy neighborhood too, e.g. Williamsburg. And once you have a partner to move in with, you can easily afford a giant 1br or a 2br if you want that.
"Reputationism" might be a good way to describe a system with "no skin in the game". I agree that a world where nobody has skin in the game is bad.

And yet, who do we admire in Silicon Valley? "Thought leaders". Guys like Ben Thompson of Stratechery, VCs with blogs, Elad Gil, etc.

I'm very torn about this. On one hand, the whole enterprise of being famous without taking any risk feels so dirty, and yet, it's so effective in today's world.

Who in their right mind would want to be a military leader, small-business owner, or elected politician, when you could be a VC, investment banker, journalist, or mid-level corporate executive? All of the upside, none of the risk! It feels "rational" in a way to want to have no skin in the game.

It was Taleb himself who said in the bed of Procrustes (another of his books) something like, "it's the sign of the loser to lament human nature without any attempt to exploit or profit from it". Does that apply here?

Another thought: is reputationism inevitable?

Taleb is a hardcore empiricist -- someone who values experience and firsthand knowledge over all. The problem is that we live in a global world, where knowledge, products, and ideas flow all over the place, and we can't have firsthand knowledge of all of it. So we rely on words, symbols, brands, and other "experts" to help us make sense of all of it. Perhaps inevitable, but it does take my smugness down a peg or two when thinking about medieval peasants consulting the local priest for advice. Maybe these reputationists today are the modern capitalist priestly class?