skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.doe.carleton.ca/~jknight/97.478/97.478_02F/Peterv...

I do FPGA design as part of my job. This is the most concise document I've found that covers everything you need to know to get started. Many verilog books just focus on the language. This short pdf focuses on how to use the language to do hardware design, which is what most people actually want to learn.
It's being called a Muslim ban because Trump called for a Muslim ban, shifted the definition many times, and then issued this order with similar justification and overlapping provisions to many versions (though not identical to any version) of the Muslim ban.

It neither effects all Muslims nor (since it includes a temporary complete ban on all refugees) only Muslims, but it's still overtly targeted first and foremost at Muslims.
How would you like Mozilla to be financed?
Or even "wʊstʃə".
I used to make my babysitter play while I watched, because I was astounded she could do so well on hard. Now I play on X-Treme and see if I can make it to the end.
Guess I should have RTFM.

Well written.
The analogy would work if IP "theft" was anything like actual theft, ie, if the company actually lost anything that could be recovered by "repossessing" the software.

A closer analogy - and still not exactly, since the owner would still have actually lost the car - would be if the police came and burned it down just so that you couldn't use it.
Good luck with that, as we do check these things before we allow folks to get to the servers. IBM has been doing this for a fair bit and we aren't exactly blind idiots.

It would be interesting where I am since you skip local crime and go straight to federal offense. Kept me away from booze in high school since its not minor in possessions, its federal bootlegging. I can only imagine what trying to enter a server room nets a person.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
I was just referring to the current state of affairs.

Of course, one can beat MacOS at its polished GUI game. But it requires coordination. A single distro can do it. I expected Ubuntu to follow this path.

With so much fragmentation it's not easy though. X11 vs Wayland, GNOME vs KDE, a myriad of desktop systems, etc.

However, fragmentation comes from the bazaar model that makes Linux so resilient. I would never trade this for a bit of polish.

Also, as a programmer, I prefer simple CLI applications that compose well than GUI silos. That's why the current situation does not bother me much.
First 3D observation of nanomachines working inside cells
Being able to type quickly and accurately is enjoyable. It lets my brain stay focused on what I'm writing rather than how I'm writing it. No context switches necessary, no mistake every 10th key; typing should be fluid and easy. I highly recommend improving your keyboard skills if you struggle with touch typing.

That said I agree that "Typing Practice for Programmers" on "SpeedCoder.net" is a little silly. Just learn to use a keyboard (and learn to spell, that helps too).
Link to the SpaceX site one star of slashdot:

http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop
I think the point is comparing stats of violence across demographics in the US, in particular comparing Muslims with other groups. Replacing whites with Christians will likely provide similar results for stats within the United States. I think it's reasonable to compare threats if that's a motivating criteria for supporting the ban.

There are a lot of orthogonal issues involved in the discussion of immigration, its effects on society, violence, identifying direct and indirect causes. And they touch on a lot of sensitive topics. So much of the discussion gets politicized and shrill. It's difficult to trust each other enough to have the nuanced discussion that's required.

Look at the language being used in this thread. Are people legitimately trying to understand each other? Or telling each other what the truth is? How subtle are the points being made? How much of it is expressed in absolute, general terms?

'battlebot is claiming that Islam, a violent ideology, is harming American citizens, and that there have been many attacks, and that they're fine with the Muslim ban.

'mozumber is claiming that most violent attacks in the US are perpetrated by white gun owners.

'jakeogh (you) are claiming further upthread it's not a Muslim ban

'lifeformed is claiming it's a crypto Muslim ban Trump is trying to slip in.

One could roughly put the four of you into two groups in terms of who each is arguing against (note, not who they agree with) Yet I really don't see any of you talking with each other, trying to find some understanding of each other, if not agreement. There doesn't appear to be any faith that the others may actually be rational people who have different values and reasons for their positions, even if they don't agree. No attempt to honestly understand another's position.

And I'm probably misunderstanding all of you, to boot!
Xapo's blog post (who are the firm referenced by Reuters) about it: https://blog.xapo.com/xapo-regulatory-status-in-switzerland/
I'm awful at typing. My friends make fun of my rapid chicken-pecking.

I shrug and say I don't type enough to mind.
We had 3 hard drives (the legendary IBM DeathStars) from the same production batch fail within hours of each other. Part of me was like "Yeah! Awesome quality control!" and a larger part was like "Oh shit." We ended up losing the array and had to restore from backup.
It's an accurate statement: in fact, as your knowledge increases, the odds of a given event may fluctuate back and forth!

Consider a card placed face down in front of you, randomly selected from a deck. Now you're allowed to turn over cards one at a time from the rest of the deck, and asked what the probability is that the face-down card is the ace of spades after every reveal. If the selected card isn't the ace of spades, the chances that it might be increase with every new reveal - until suddenly they become zero, when the ace of spades is revealed.
So is this a legitimate step closer to having the hyperloop or is it more of a hiring/PR stunt for SpaceX?

Has anyone confirmed that the hyperloop could survive a seismic event?
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Personally, I find this "turn to anger" a little hollow/self-serving. Nothing Trump has done so far is in any way out of line with what he was saying on the campaign trail - the only people who are surprised by his actions are the people who took a "he's not being serious, it's just talk" view when evaluating his speeches. I wish SV companies and executives could have had this "turn to anger" back when it mattered and helped avert this when it was easiest to do so - before the election.
You can usually get stats on turnout as both % of registered voters and % of voting age population. Neither of those is exactly % of legally-eligible population, but together they bracket it.
All designed around Vendor Lockin, then putting the screws to business with various and complex licensing

CAL's for example would never be possible with out Vendor Lockin, What kind of extortion scheme do you have to have to sell a server licence then charge for every thing that wants to connect to the server.....
Great question. Without a doubt, my favourite is the Burrows-Wheeler transform (as used by bzip2)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n7NPk5lwbI
Had a friend unplug the UPS to test it while I was still configuring the new machine. "Can't really be sure unless you test it"
I would rather people hid these stories than flagged them.

I understand why people are flagging them, they tend to bring out the worst in HN, but it's probably best to reserve flagging for truly bad threads, and hide the threads you simply don't feel the desire to engage with.
I'd tune that a bit and guess that the price of non-Stratus hardware fell through the floor.

In the mid-90s, data centers full of commodity hardware would have been cost prohibitive.
Is Cinnamon not stable? I've had good luck with it, and very much prefer it to the others.
If you use the Minimal CD for installing ubuntu (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD) you can pick a metapackage along the way that may be more to your liking. I dont know what exactly you dont want from a standard xubuntu install but there is an xfce "minimal" metapackage in the ecosystem which may help you install only what you need from the start
Exactly this. "Do it better" is contagious.
But it will not have a real keyboard, new macbooks having replaced it with a bizarre hybrid (3/4 of a keyboard + a tiny screen aka 'touch bar').

So it will be entirely useless for touch typists, ie. most developers.

I like macOS, but my current MB Pro will be my last.
I would rather prefer a tool that trains me to use my editor/ide more effectively.
It's not by their own power, there's a pusher vehicle bringing them up to speed.
Ask HN: How do I escape the echo chamber?
I know my social feed is an echo chamber. I have tried to cultivate a varied group of friends so that I get to see alternative points of view, but it's not working. How can I see a wider variety of opinions in my social feed?
>>> Do you generally hold that when an employee is put in an uncomfortable position by a superior, they can't complain if they could've just gone to HR and hoped that they would be receptive?

What I'm contending is that there is absolutely no evidence any employees were made uncomfortable by what happened. And moreover since I know I at least would much rather receive a poach offer than not from my manager, it's hard for you to make a blanket statement that these anti-poaching rules are somehow to protect employees.

I'm not suggesting that Tesla colluded to keep wages down. My point is that many C-level executives and investors see their dynamic with their employees as antagonistic (i.e. 0-sum-game). Without the opportunity to get bought by other companies the competitiveness of the market is undermined, and employees get paid below their value. Preventing poaching does exactly that.
Probably this gem: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

> In the real world, threat models are much simpler (see Figure 1). Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US"

> Threat:
Organized criminals breaking into your email account and sending spam using your identity

Solution:

Strong passwords + common sense (don’t click on unsolicited herbal Viagra ads that result in keyloggers and sorrow)

> Threat: The Mossad doing Mossad things with your email account

Solution

* Magical amulets?

* Fake your own death, move into a submarine?

* YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON
This is an important distinction. Another one is that just because you aren't deploying to production regularly doesn't mean you aren't deploying to other environments.
> TUIs are great for experienced users, but are terrible for inexperienced users.

For most users in a professional setting, they will spend far more time as an experienced user than they will as an inexperienced user. Why optimize to the first 6 months or so of a persons job, when they might work there for years, or even decades?
That's what vast majority of my feedback has said. Stays up until OS upgrade. Whereas, my research on VMS side indicated they do clusters that support rolling upgrades of the individual machines to not affect application. Might be around that remaining limitation of AS/400 uptime if they have software for that. Do they? Or are customers forced to upgrade to mainframe with Sysplex?
Ah, I almost figured out what the variable power supply was for :)

So searching "CPU glitching" didn't do much, but "CPU voltage glitching" found me lots of results.

I realize all you need is a variable voltage supply, and maybe (?) something to easily inject voltage +/- pulses (within a given voltage limit) and that a lot of glitching stuff is probably unnecessary, but it might be useful for learning.

And yeah, making (often lateral) connections between disparate pieces of information is often what makes the difference. I think it's mostly about exposure to a given field to get really good at that. Guess I should get started :) ...soon.
Indeed. The fundamental truth about communication is that you want at least one person to be able to read it. That person might be undercover, or get turned (just now thousands of (new) people can be threatened with deportation, for example).

Doesn't mean one shouldn't organise, just be aware that all communication have risks.
The problem is that PRISM has conflated two separate things, and it is unclear how much of that conflation occurred at the NSA and how much outside.

Apple was (and is) compliant in the "release customer details with a court order" thing, which it seems is part of the PRISM data.

However, there was a second part, where the NSA got bulk access to communications without a court order. It is unclear which companies were complicit in this part. We know Google wasn't (because the NSA slide decks show how they had to intercept Google's inter and intra-data center links which were unencrypted at the time - and Google undertook a crash program to fix that).

Apple's statements are pretty clear: they say they only release information with a court order. That means they weren't complicit in bulk collection - but they may have been hacked at the time like Google was.
A few other alternative search engines:

Searx : https://searx.me

Searx Instances : https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances

Ecosia : https://www.ecosia.org

DeuSu : https://deusu.org

Also staying on topic, anyone remember Cuil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil
It's legal for them to disable the software but not for them to prevent the user from using the hardware. It depends on how literal the "bricking" really is but if they made it impossible to load up (say) cyanogenmod then they could be up for a big destruction of property lawsuit.
Are you suggesting those homeless people will move to a new city if they can't get safe syringes or injections in Seattle?
any recommendation encryption for linux?
That's one way of looking at. Another way of looking at is that Microsoft derives material value from MVP contributions, and rewards them with trinkets. Or are MVPs sometimes awarded stock?

Maybe the MVP program partly explains Microsoft's decades-old policy of ignoring standards and promulgating proprietary technology to commoditize the public domain. How to add some tweak to .Net is in the domain of acceptable discourse. When to support C11 or Posix, not so much.

It's been a few years since I had to deal with Microsoft's development environment. If you're taking suggestions, I think it would be nice if F1 once more showed the function's documentation instead of searching the Web. Intelligent development of the development environment never would have subordinated a useful albeit rickety documentation technology to a mindless webby one, no matter the marketing imperatives.
Hollow, maybe. Too little too late, probably. Self-serving??
Study Finds Uber Doesn’t Put Taxi Drivers Out of Work But Does Drive Down Pay
Does anyone know if there is a considerable difference between https://startpage.com/ and https://eu.startpage.com/ ?
Sort of off topic, but relevant.. my fear about iOS call blocking apps might be coming true. Now that there's TrueCaller, Mr Number, Hiya, etc, there are islands of data and I doubt that they're sharing with each other. This is just letting more and more stuff slip by.

i'm almost at the point where I wish that Apple had their own huge gargantuan database of reported spam numbers. Or that they would have licensed Oomas or nomorobo (even though they're a paid service) or something.
Urge President Trump to give scientists a seat at the table
What was the tech sector supposed to do? Go campaign in Wisconsin for Hillary?

Tech was already shoveling tons of money into her campaign. Bezos-owned Washington Post was about as Anti-Trump as a news organization can be.
If you're interested in Akka.NET, you may also be interested in Hopac:

https://github.com/Hopac/Hopac

https://github.com/Hopac/Hopac/blob/master/Docs/Programming....

http://t0yv0.blogspot.com/2014/03/concurrent-ml-and-hopac.ht...

https://neoeinstein.github.io/blog/2016/04-08-hopac-getting-...
> A pod just got 94km/hr top speed.

Why is that impressive?
All talk no action. This is the definition of 'for show'. If they wanted, the ultra rich valley billionaires and companies could affect real change by leveraging their power.

But these are the same companies and people who tacitly approved of Trump and did nothing to stop his election, or even try to educate people.

I'm looking at Google, who are now trying to woo Republicans !
That's still 10 days upon acknowledgment of the vulnerability.
And if the story sounds hard to believe, the Nature blog entry from 2011:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/04/lab_sabotage_deemed_res...

"Nature releases exclusive surveillance tapes, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act in Michigan."
The answer to this is trivial: find people with dissenting opinions and put them in your feed.

Apple fan? Find a pro-Android site. I'm an increasingly adamant progressive, but I make sure to read r/the_donald (if only to scan their vile talking points). I make sure to read twitter feeds of people deeply critical not only of Silicon Valley, but of capitialism entirely.

But be aware that lots of people engage in deliberately manipulative behavior in social networks these days. You need to be extremely critical of everything you read as you widen your social network, until you can safely weed out the bad actors you may have introduced.
> The parent's goal is not to embrace change, is to get back to having the same things they liked and worked for them on the new platform.

I think that's understood. It's just that trying to make Linux behave like OS X might end up being more painful than just embracing change. That doesn't mean they shouldn't try, I guess, but it's something to keep in mind.
I understand the motivation behind your suggestion. I don't see it being ultimately workable.

Discussions tend to spill over across threads. If there's a population that tends to discuss politics, they're not necessarily going to keep the political discussions in the political threads, nor should they be expected to. And people have different definitions of what constitutes political.

And if this lends itself to allowing more heated debate (because the political threads are expected to be isolated in some way), that same heated debate form will likewise spill over into other threads.
decent aerodynamics?
I don't like Trump's policies any more than anyone else here, but I think that it's wrong for companies to play a role in politics. A company like Google was created by its shareholders with the purpose of making money by providing Internet search services. Taking political positions would subvert the goal for which Google was created.

If some of Google's shareholders want to pursue political goals instead of providing search services, they can take their money out of Google shares and start a PAC. This is precisely the reason why Sergey Brin said that he does not represent Google when he was at the protest at SFO yesterday.
Agreed - but also consider 'multiple points of redundancy'.

If you have your service spread across 10K servers, well, it doesn't matter if some go down.

Instead of making them all 100% super fault-tolerant for a crazy expensive unit price, you can make them relatively cheap and replace them when they fail.
Reading a biography of Houdini a few years ago, I realized how much of his magic was based on what we would today call "hacking." For example: he studied the various handcuff and lockmakers' pruducts, and would then determine ahead of time which models were used by a particular police department. He then would know exactly what kind master keys to hide on (or in) his body in order to escape from any jail cell.
1Password has a WiFi sync option that syncs your passwords between your computer and phone when they're both connected to the same WiFi network. I've been doing it Mac --> Android for quite some time and never had any issues.
My suggestion would be to start at the high level, and work your way down putting emphasis on things that aren't going to change or change much--that way, when you change things the docs won't become as wildly out of date as quickly.

So, document things like "What are the big conceptual pieces of my project?", "How does data flow around?", "If a user sees <X>, what's behind it?".

Then, if you feel it needful, dig down into function-level and deeper stuff.
Yes. This is a pretty standard thought experiment to demonstrate the concept of anthropogenic probability, where we apply the anthropoid principle to Bayesian (or other) probability.

The two answers come from two different assumptions: the self-sampling assumption or the self-indication assumption. These are effectively two different models for the hypothetical world described in the thought experiment, and without the thought experimenter telling you which model to use (i.e. how you were sampled in the thought experiment), there's not a whole lot you can do other than choose your favorite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sampling_assumption

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-indication_assumption

These terms come from Nick Bostrom, but I prefer Scott Aaronson's description:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec17.html
And with n feature flags, aren't there also n! permutations to test, that is, each combination of enabled/disabled? If you say no, because you just test features as they get manually enabled, why can't you do the same by manually selecting branches to be merged?
A huge lock-in for Oracle is packages. Packages make it easy to organize functions/procedures into groups (one package per group, within the same schema).

Oracle is the only db that supports packages. Packages make migrating away very difficult. However...I don't think companies will want to migrate without package support anyhow...

The alternative to packages are schemas. One schema for every group of objects. Personally, no thanks. I cannot live without packages.
I tend to be in a liberal bubble chamber. What I do is bookmark conservative websites in a bookmark folder and then periodically open all tabs into a new window to read. My conservative sites of choice for what it's worth are The American Conservative, National Review, The Spectator, The Federalist, The Weekly Standard and then a couple of religious sites for good measure, The National Catholic Review and Commentary (Conservative Jewish.)
Politics can impact revenue. Do you not think the oil companies strongly support and play politics with Republicans?
Keep practicing. I've used an ergodox for about 4 years with the Norman layout. I am still proficient at qwerty on laptop style keyboards.

Though I'm not a musician I assume it is similar to playing two different instruments.
I never seen any malware installing ddg as the default page, but I've seen many installing startpage. Also commercial softwares with default checkbox. I cleaned one just some days ago on my girl's laptop.

Sorry, I have no way to know if you are a victim or a bad actor in the matter, but I choose to ban you from anything I touch. And I know every geeks around me do the same.

If you are indeed a victim, I'm sorry for you and hope you'll find a way to get your legitimacy back. Right now it's very bad.