skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read (unfortunately unsure where) that microkernels do have one fundamental issue: having servers do All The Things and then just making a kernel to dispatch calls to those servers horribly falls down if the messaging/dispatch implementation is single-threaded.

And it inevitably always is, since if you're generalizing all system operations onto a single bus, that bus would either need to support some generic form of contextualization hinting or have some kind of theorem-solver-inspired system to determine what requests have no dependencies. I don't suspect Minix incorporates either approach...

The problem I see is the need to put "these are audio frames" in a different queue than "here are filesystem request packets". (Ideally the filesystem queue would itself allow further sharding, since most filesystems are multithreaded now.)

Writing such a generalized queue sounds like a rather fun exercise to me.

That said, if any such implementations are out there or there are any counter-arguments to make to this, I'd love to hear them. I mean, AFAIK Mach is a microkernel, so it's clearly solved some of this.
Is there a point to your relativism? I can hold that Russia is partly to blame, and should be punished for enabling a minority of Americans to elect a highly damaging president, AND I can hold that the US is heavy-handed in, for example, managing "democracy" in Turkey and that leads to problems.
What's up with all the green accounts in this thread.
I doubt that the average CIA, FBI, and NSA worker is a democrat so I'm less skeptical then I would be if they released a report on say Edward Snowden.
> This seems kind of like saying "everyone should use their computer the same way I do".

People do have that attitude from time to time, in this case i'd phrase it more like "no one seems to use their computer the way i want to, so i wrote some software"
How do you sell your photos, if you don't mind?
You can always tell those who have little to contribute when they fall back on the "there is no evidence" line. It's a declassified report. The sources and methods that the US intelligence community uses is never going to be made public nor does anyone reasonably expect it to be.

So instead of complaining about evidence. Assume that the Obama administration is not trying to make their last big story before leaving a lie and refute the motives etc.
Wow, I love this being trotted out every single time.

Unless the latest macbook and the latest phone are released at exactly the same time, this was always going to happen.

They could have added 2 cables, which is a huge waste since most people only need one.

Or they could have kept a shitty USB-A port on the macbook, which is not progressive enough for Apple.
A synonym of 'propaganda' is 'information'.
From my experience of having worked in many large multi national corporations , it is not unusual to find many mini applications running out of someone's desktop tucked away under the table or in a cupboard somewhere. They seem to largely cater to automation tasks that someone in the business had asked a developer to develop or something a developer had developed that has become the norm. I still see a lot of excel macros and spreadsheet consolidation "applications" that have graduated from the cottage industries within the organisation.
Having said that they never ever tend to be business critical. They dont run the business. These are the types of stuff that will make a few business operations folks lives easier. They are not meant to run the business.
Any large business that has an application that is responsible for revenue to the tune of millions would definitely be audited frequently. If and big If this is true , the controls and oversight process is horrendous in this case
Unfortunately there isn't any new evidence here.

First, there's no doubt that RT is Russian propaganda. That's not news, and I'm unsure why it's in this kind of report. Paid russian internet trolls is an old accusation too. I think it's probably true but I don't see any concrete evidence in this report.

The real question here centers on the emails: did some Russian intelligence agency leak the DNC emails to wikileaks? The report asserts that this occurred, but again offers no concrete evidence. Instead it focuses on establishing motive.

We do have concrete evidence (published by crowdstrike) that Russian intel hacked the DNC. But we don't have concrete evidence linking the leaked emails to that hack.

I'm trying to remain objective here. I don't think it's unlikely that Russian intelligence was the source of the emails. I just don't see anything new here to conclusively prove that assertion.

Maybe I'm being too picky about what constitutes concrete evidence.
It's a question of scope though. The parent to your post is trying to scope the risk to "the risk of losing $1 million", not "the risk of financial hardship." If you can both get on the same page with respect to this, then you won't be talking past each other.
Exactly! How many bigco's have a terminal emulator incorporated into a product? If you're just using this to run tmux, vim, etc. the AGPL's strengthened sharing provisions aren't going to affect you at all :-)
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The "EPA" is actually a perfect "analogy".

We need an IPA (perhaps a different name...). We need someone that will set "standards" for a minimum baseline of "security" to ensure the health of the internet, and dole out fines based on violations.

However they need to be VERY careful. With something like freon it's a physical "thing" that can be regulated. We don't want to regulate "ideas" or even code, that to me seems like a very dangerous thing.

But you are right, we need something that will protect the "health of the internet" like we protect the health of our environment.
That was the Bush administration that messed with the evidence there and wildly overstated their case. If you think that Obama is doing something similar here then present some evidence.
I wouldn't even allow port 80 incoming from the internet. Even if the web interface appears to have authentication on it, there may be vulnerable CGIs.
They left a telnet interface wide open--do you trust them to write a secure website?
I highly doubt it will be. And this is coming from an owner of a GTX 1080 and HTC Vive. There are some really awesome games and experiences, but there is nothing that I really want to keep going back to. No Rocket League or Minecraft (Well, there is vivecraft, but minecraft in VR just isn't that much more appealing to me than the vanilla game.) PSVR might get some stuff but for now it seems like most large companies are just putting their toes in the water by giving out small tech demos.

VR needs a couple of things, and they aren't going to happen in less than a year. First and most importantly, cheaper and better hardware. Daydream is nice, but at most it is good for 360 video and some cheap games. Get some head tracking in there somehow and then it becomes interesting. Also, it needs something like the oculus touch controllers or vive controllers so you can actually use your hands for things.

Secondly, an actual killer app. Some kind of game that only works in VR. Something that you want to keep coming back to.

Lastly - simplicity. Daydream is simple but too limited. The vive has all the features but setting up lighthouses is a pain unless you can permanently mount them. Also being tethered to your computer sucks (A solution for that is on the way, but it will only add to the cost.) Headsets are still bulky and uncomfortable to wear for long periods.

My point I guess is that Apple's typical timing with things would put them entering the market in 2018 at the earliest. This is like the early Windows Phone/PalmOS days before the iPhone (But I doubt Apple will be the one releasing the "iPhone" of VR.)
Contrived example, but one that probably accounts for a LOT of the !importants are utility classes, say .bold. If you put on that class you want to be sure it's getting applied, regardless of the styles which may come before or after it.
I didn't want to say this or bring this up, but I've noticed from a while that when you click on some of the accounts, you'll note a number of them are less than two years old, and have no description. Some are even less than half a year old, yet have >1000 points, and no shares, just that from comment upvotes.

I have a throwaway as the anonymous accounts on HN seem to be called that I use for example, not for trolling of course because I care about this community, but I hardly ever use it and it has probably less than 50 points due to that. How can a 150 day account accrue 10 points per day?
All about that flexbox. Web design went from enigmatic version of Buckaroo to Tetris with just the square and straight tetrominos.

Easy.
> continuing to operate a failed enterprise with no intention, let alone hope, of actually turning it into a successful business sounds like fraud if you're doing it with other people's money.

How is this not "heads I win, tails you lose"?

The investor exchanged $ for % of the company. At the time of the $ for % trade, the founder probably had every intention of succeeding beyond everyone's wildest dreams. The seller's intent was never fraudulent, and buyer's remorse isn't fraud.

More to the point, keeping the company in-tact for as long as possible in hope of an aqui-hire is a justifiable end-game for a company in failure mode. If the VC wanted control over the failure mode end-game, they should've written that into the "$ for %" contract.

PG even has an essay encouraging founders to adopt this mindset: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html "Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!"

If the founder legitimately believes that the company will go under and there's no chance of an aqui-hire or similar out, then maybe possibly it's fraud. But calling it fraud when a business fails and a founder makes a judgement call to "not stop typing"? Seems like "I get your money if you win, and sue you if you lose".
Where does the report mention hacking? I did a ctfl F but was not able to find anything.
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I think it's really hard right now to know exactly what information to trust.
Very profitable? Their stock flatlined for a decade while it's peers sky rocketed.
> If Americans can agree on anything, let it be that foreign parties must stay out of our elections.

I'm not agreeing to that in any way, and the US doesn't feel the same way about any other election in the world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/10/13...
(It's "Philips", BTW, not "Phillips".)
I mean, I went from being super mad about lightning to really appreciating it. It plugs in exactly right every time and doesn't take up 50% of the width of the bottom of my phone.

And I recently went from "kinda upset about the headphone jack" to "oh man, these airpods are infinitely better", so...

Oh, and I also checked out the 13" Mac Pro in-store. I was a very upset Mac Air aficionado, but I could see myself using the base-level 13" Mac Pro.

I'm not mad anymore about these things, I've just come around.
> But I'm not necessarily thinking of a standalone "free certificate company" but maybe more of a "bonus" to some other product or service.

This is what I expect we'll see more of, rather than a second (and perhaps slightly different) Let's Encrypt. Major cloud providers will probably add their own variants of what Amazon offers with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM); more CDNs will start offering one-click SSL (like Cloudflare); "traditional" web hosting providers and control panel vendors will (hopefully) support SSL by default (like cPanel with AutoSSL, which supports Comodo and Let's Encrypt).
Well, he says the source code lives "on his computer" and he "owns the patent for it". That implies that he patented the source code, which you cannot do. You can copyright source code, I think, but you can't patent the actual code.

This story is sort of fake on the face of it. He said in the story that they used to hire a vendor to take care of what his program did, which implies prior art. And if the company is really losing millions of dollars a week, well, last I checked, it's a lot cheaper to hire lawyers, get a temporary injunction, stop the bleeding, and invalidate the patent.
> compare for example a gas boiler in a house vs a CCGT in a powerplant

One makes hot water (~100% efficiency based on LHV), the other makes electricity (~50% effciency). What's your point?
I didn't say that. I said the VC is putting more skin in the game. Sucks for both, but were paid quite well for what we do and can walk away whenever we like.
Because the point of a business is the make a return on an investment. If it's clear that a return is not possible then the business serves no purpose and should be shut down in an orderly manner including appropriate severance for employees.
Your comment is correct, but not the way you seem to think it is ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tcP9SLKEG4

Given the right conditions, carbon+oxygen is carbon+oxygen, usually resulting in a combustion.
I guess I hadn't followed as closely as I thought I had.

I'll delete this silly rant.
No. Here's Hillary's official YouTube channel[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLRYsOHrkk5qcIhtq033bLQ
(NB - I wasn't dissing Fedora. I was just registering how far back these issues went.)
It wasn't any better. I feel like it's not very clear what we do, it may be a case of us having trouble unlearning about our product so we can describe it better.
Remote work is not a perk nor is it a privilege only a certain class of people should feel entitled to.

Commuting has become absolutely insane. Mandating people to sit around in an office for a condsiderable amount of their time regardless of if they produce anything of value is equally insane.

Remote work is a solution to many current societal problems (not the least of which is pollution).
Dividends. I think that system (reward investors for funding profitable companies) was healthier than today where shares exist only to be flipped and prices have no connection to performance other than speculators' psychology.
Just did some googling on this. For the most part, there doesn't seem to be much research on inheritance & personality disorders, which is odd because 'does money make us happy' is one of the biggest questions in sociology. I did find this paper however, which is full of tangential information:

https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfile...
You don't necessarily have to buy lightning headphones (I wouldn't) or stop using the audio jack. Audiophiles have already been using lightning to audio jack DACs, even when the iPhone still had a jack port, for superior audio quality. You can also connect your jack headphones to a clip-on bluetooth DAC.

So nothing wrong with the audio jack, it's just that exporting it from the phone usually makes for a better user experience. Ultimately earphones should not be tied to a device but thought of as tied to your head and be able to switch between your devices seamlessly.
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In that an "objective news source" is a complete fiction, yes. Propaganda outlets exist.
Hardly proof that CTR did not systematically downvote pro-trump and promote pro-hillary content and comments.
Or you live in the other 90% of the world, who can't believe how disconnected from reality the US government is.
Depends on the definition of wrong! CloudFlare is a bit of an HN darling thanks to their employees' active contributions and submitting every technical post on their blog. Free distributed DNS and potential DDoS protection is also a tempting offer.

To privacy-conscious users: CloudFlare is the man-in-the-middle for more and more of the Internet, potentially tracking at Google-like levels.

CloudFlare may: ... Add script to your pages to, for example, add services, Apps, or perform additional performance tracking. (Unfortunately this is opt-out rather than opt-in.)

https://www.cloudflare.com/terms

To Tor users: CloudFlare implements a captcha to protect servers from malicious traffic; the implementation has caused tremendous annoyance in the past and the company may have been slow to address this problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7977780 (example complaint, 3 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388560 (9 months ago, from cloudflare)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11404770 (the tor project response)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12122268 (6 months ago, additional discussion of tor vs. captcha)

To DDoS victims: CloudFlare protects several DDoS vendors while gaining business protecting DDoS victims, citing free speech.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/spreading-the-ddos-disea...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7242377

To CloudFlare customers: CloudFlare has a "target on its back" and has faltered against DDoS in the past, causing outages for all of its customers. AFAIK: It's been a while.

To CloudFlare freeloaders like me: CloudFlare doesn't have much incenctive to protect its free-tier users from DDoS.

Related: Akami stopped helping DDoS'd pro-bono client Brian Krebs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12561928
How am I dangerously wrong? C'mon don't throw that out there and then not back it up.
Isn't that how most foreign policy works? The WoMD fiasco was a problem for sure, but the solution to that is to elect officials we can trust. When the White House says the CIA has come to them with evidence that must be acted on, the White House can't turn to the populous and ask if there is enough evidence to act. They need to have the autonomy to act as they see fit.
I built my own SaaS tool to track my hours I worked when I used to do freelancing. I can create various tasks under the client's project and then log my hours.

I can then create reports to see how much time I spent on each task for each of my clients. Or even better, I can take those hours and create an invoice out of all my uninvoiced hours and email it right to my clients.
those media give a lot of space to political opposition in places like China or Russia.

Political opposition is suppressed or effectively banned in those countries so its activities are newsworthy. RT does not report on the Russian opposition much or engage in direct criticism of the regime. It's qualitatively different from the BBC and even the VOA.
I played around with one waiting for my flight and was tempted to get one then and there as I heard my friends praise it and it felt nicer than my 2014 MBP.
Are you suggesting that if one assessment is inaccurate then we can never trust them again? It's undoubtedly not even the same sources or investigators as this report.
In addition to openftp4[1] (where some folks already discovered their own server[2]), I recently published c4[3], one of the more exhaustive list of public facing IP cams that use the default password. Many of them can even be controlled remotely. The majority of them is vulnerable against simple Perl exploits.

[1] - http://git.io/ftp

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/53cor1/someone_ju...

[3] - https://github.com/turbo/c4
I really feel like it's harder to know what to believe and who to trust than I remember it ever being.

Are there any good resources about how to vet truth in whitewash propaganda situations?
Even if you wanted to, you can't really use them right now. Mozilla, Google, and Apple untrusted their (recently issued) certs.
I think they could- but the problem is, the more up to date your pipeline gets, the more the amount of work necessary grows. You cant have just one high-poly-well textured unit. You need to remodel and re-texture all the Units.
Same goes for all GFX- like for example adding CC like cloud-shaders for the map- you then need the shaders on the units.
Its one huge mountain of work avalanching into your project, once you breach the dam.

You can avoid part of this by using procedural units- but that easily gets out of hand, making the units non-distinctive or physical impossible.

The best option actually is player involvment, as the players build the units. But that is tough to balance.
Oh, almost forgot:
RTS Game made by some Zero-K Devs on the side
http://www.istrolid.com/
Yeah, and I'm also hoping they will gravitate toward more "standard" interfaces like you touched on at the end there.

With the help of Let's Encrypt and through some cooperation, we could make easily "pluggable" SSL cert providers where you can choose who you want with the click of a button.
Just because "argument from authority" was put on some internet list of biases doesn't mean it can not, at times, serve as a useful heuristic.

There's also a difference between "argument from authority" and "argument from a position of known knowledge". Example: radio ad says "Buy milk! We need milk". Will you give it the same credence as your spouse saying the same thing?
I think it would be nice to move toward having a lot of medium-sized nonprofit CAs instead of a handful of crappy commercial ones, which is the current situation.

"Too big to fail" is the problem with the current CA system, and today's well-run TBTFCA is tomorrow's global security crisis.
Most well-funded large startups offer salaries close to market rate. Sure there is the risk that the equity can end up worth $0, but the salaries can easily be >$100,000. Even if theranos employees took a pay cut to work there (compared working at an established company), I am sure they derived extra value from the perks of working there and from working on a mission they believed in (or at least they thought they believed in...).
It's strange to me to see Hillary Clinton compared to Trump as equivalent in terms of honesty. I don't buy that. In fact, I would rate Trump and people like Elizabeth Holmes as being far more dishonest than your everyday politician or average person. I tend to think of them as being pathological liars, and I don't put Clinton or most other politicians in the same league as Trump. Maybe I shouldn't have used Trump as an example, even though I think he's the clearest example today, because of the incredibly divisive and polarizing elections we've experienced. Some people can't seem to see or think straight when it comes to Trump or Clinton.

I'm sure you can show me Clinton's lies, but I have to wonder if you can do the same with Trump. And I have to wonder if you even think Trump is more honest than Clinton.
Terminal emulators tend to prefer fixed-width fonts so you don't really have to worry about those too much.
The fact that Tim's compensation is tied to sales goals says all you need to know about Apple as a company.

The idea presented here by Steve about what happens when sales people run the company is becoming more and more true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBma82g3Uag
Thanks! It's still a stretch to say that "Clinton paid trolls" since PACs (hybrid-PACs?) offer a layer of indirection.
How is this different from existing multitenacy gems like `apartment`?
thats proof right there they didn't think their methods were going to work, so maybe they didn't intend to "hack" the election in the first place ?
At some point you need to trust the government to make the right decisions. Or to at least not lie about these things. If Facebook was hacked and lost data, would we expect Facebook to release a detailed report showing the evidence of hacking? I understand the desire to see evidence, but we have to trust our elected officials to make the right decisions and our intelligence agencies be honest about what they've discovered. If we demand consensus by the American anytime an issue like this comes up, nothing will ever happen.
Using Let's Encrypt with IIS on Windows
Right, the other 90% of the world saw how ridiculous the election was with all its focus on email scandals and fake news, then can read Trump's Tweets and see how even further disconnected from reality the US government is about to be.
Your comment isn't a contradiction to what the parent comment said. They said stay out of United States elections, not the elections of other nations.