skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been waiting for this to be released. I suppose everyone has been.

Capabilities. Like fine grain locks, these are very powerful and very hard to get right. That's the lesson from Hydra, the 432, .... No, it's not a hard mechanism for the microkernel to get right; it's a hard policy for the application programmer to get right. However, that's probably more of an opportunity rather than meant as a criticism. Our tools are massively more evolved than they were in the 70s. It'll be interesting to see what happens with capabilities.

C++. Oh lord. Why are you writing a microkernel in C++? If there was anything they learned from L4 (Xen, Linux, ...) it is that C is sufficient. Why do you want to implement something small with something that is large? This one is a real head scratcher.

Provably secure. They did this with the SEL4 microkernel so this is a doable thing. If they're going to hang their hat on security (capabilities, microkernel, ...) there's no excuse for not having done this already and delivered a provably secure microkernel out of the box.
Flavor: Ubuntu Desktop; perhaps server
Headline: Organize bash startup files like run-parts (but sourced)
Description: See https://github.com/wd5gnr/bashrc -- basically .bashrc just sources stuff out of .bash.d. Extra points if you do like the link and allow for user-specific and machine-specific and even os-specific files. This allows you to keep one set of bash startups maintained (e.g., under git) for all your logins. Extra bonus points if you have a smarter way to sync across boxes than the link does.
The Middle East may only provide 12% of our (US) oil, but they have a massive role in global oil production and reserves. A strong, negative, impact to the region would have global effects on oil prices.
Is there a reason not to use Flutter? From what I've seen of Flutter it seems like a very competent cross platform UI toolkit. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they announced that you can start using Dart/Flutter to write cross platform Android/iOS apps at I/O 2017.
And Facebook hires one of the lead researchers? And Zuckerberg is preparing his assets for a possible entry into politics?

I wonder what Peter Thiel really gave Donald Trump for him to end up in such a great position as he has. Is it possible, oh dear, that a) Thiel knew where Trump stood far better then any polls could, because he had Facebook Data and b) He might have shared what he knew with the campaign?

On top of that, what if he made the decision to simply share a lot more data with the Trump campaign. Data like, I don't know, mailing adresses, television show preferences? Pieces helpful when you have to triangulate massive advertising buys that could swing an election. There's been plenty of reports that people who work at Facebook are allowed a lot of latitude with personal information. Why wouldn't Thiel use this to get the most powerful man in the world to be his personal friend?

And now, it's leaking out that the Russians had troll farms specifically targeting Michigan, Penn. How could Facebook not notice this?
Wikileaks is controlled by humans who have a pretty dubious track record of seeking truth, when immediate personal benefit is also an option.

Assange is essentially a prisoner of the US. Withholding data regarding other players (does anyone really believe Russia and China are any less hackable?) in order to undermine US is very much in his interests.

Not to say the US isn't deserving some pushback. Just saying there are very specific human interests in play as well.
Economics. The have a monopoly on this data. If they sell the raw data, they are necessarily equipping a competitor. Or they can sell the high level insights that will presumably have a larger profit margin.
LUKS.
For a while I had a Linux machine running just to use bitchX; in '96 IIRC. :D
A lot of these new buildings are in less desirable neighborhoods. SOMA is desirable from a convenience to freeways and work standpoint, but it does not have the charm of the more established neighborhoods. I wonder if some of the glut is simply that the new housing is in areas where high end renters don't want to live.
https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Marble Framework

> The source code shows that Marble has test examples not just in English but also in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi. This would permit a forensic attribution double game, for example by pretending that the spoken language of the malware creator was not American English, but Chinese, but then showing attempts to conceal the use of Chinese, drawing forensic investigators even more strongly to the wrong conclusion

There's no evidence the CIA has ever done this. This is pure conjecture based on the fact that there's demo code showing that the library supports Unicode.

They're pretty obviously trying to push the idea that attribution of hacks (such as the DNC hack) can be really easily spoofed, and you shouldn't trust them. And it's working:

https://www.rt.com/news/382940-wikileaks-vault7-marble-frame...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/-wikileaks-vault-7-m...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4367746/WikiLeaks-sa...
Bad idea!

This is when the police may belatedly show up in all their glory and detain you with the device in your possession, and you'll have a hard time explaining that you're not part of a skimming gang.

The other possibility is that the skimmers may be watching and once they see you're taking their device, they may decide to recover it, beat you up, or even call the police on you claiming that you're the criminal.

If you see something like this, the best course of action is to leave it alone and discreetly report it to the police.
The security of Chrome was inspired by OP Web Browser and SFI schemes. Clever but actuslly weaker than predecessors to boost speed.
Flavor: xubuntu 16.04

Headline: stop the ressources hungryness

Description : I have an old laptop with 4 gig of ram. I don't plan on changing it. I switched to xubuntu because Ubuntu is somewhat slow even when idling because of multiples packages that want to integrates the desktop with the internet (which i don't care for as I use google apps on the web). It mostly just slows my pc down (looking at you evolution-data-server and many others).

I understand that it's hard to have a balance between ease of use and performance, but I think you would do well to think about it. Not everyone has money to upgrade pcs regularly.

Role/affiliation : hobbyist / Ubuntu user for the last ten years
"The country is founded on the double standard," Carlin said. "We were founded on a very basic double standard. This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free ... in order to continue owning their black African people ... so they can wipe out the rest of the red Indian people ... and move West and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people."
Eliezer Yudkowsky Massimo Pigliucci Debate on AI
You make open source drivers sound like a bad thing.
YC is started by a married couple.
Neither are other engineers (in the US).

There are certifications (e.g. PE) but you can get a job with or without them.
Not that I'm aware of, although the site still says it's a technical preview.
I would argue there is no such thing as illegal texting. There is the illegal sharing of information, which takes the issue right back to the perp, not to an app.

Why didn't the political motivated demand to ban all TOYOTA trucks after ISIS was seen parading in hundreds of them unchallenged though the Middle East?

It is not the app, the truck, the gun. It's people.
Thank you, dang. Last thing I want to do is rain on someones parade. Startups are hard enough already.
Can you point out where its described in NanoCore as "24/7 keylogging" as opposed to a feature that can be enabled when needed (in the case of theft or suspected misdeeds for instance). If not, you're building a strawman.
Here's the link to the primary article. Must read for all, it's eye opening.

http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2014_Fall_McPher...
My previous 2 laptop were MacBook Pros - running windows. Good hardware is good hardware. (Then new MBPs weren't suited to my needs so I'm currently using a new Dell XPS15.)
I don't disagree with you at all. The competition between GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket spurs creativity and is a good thing.

However, let's not fool ourselves: services like Codeplex, Google Code, or Sourceforge, that are not updated or providing new value, are going to be left behind and abandoned. In other words, their continued service wasn't providing any value, to their users or "competitors", because they weren't evolving.

I would rather people put their open source project on a code hosting service that is someone's priority, not just one that exists and is useless.
So you're being uptight about getting sources from others.

Care to back up the assertion that "secret attacks on every computer on the planet" are literally taking place?
Nicer to read is pretty subjective, but I'll tell you why I've switched 2 projects from Python and Ruby: speed. Our systems just had too much to crunch through, and the global interpreter lock pretty much killed us. We switched over to Clojure in 2009 and never looked back. In the early days, we had to wrap a lot of Java, but it's been several years since that was necessary. Currently, Clojure + Kafka + Apache Storm is the scaleability trifecta.

One final comment, which is often tragically overlooked, in my opinion: ease of deployment. Package management and deployment often sucks in other languages (especially in Ruby). By contrast, Leiningen is a SWEET dependency management tool, and the built-on-Java approach leaves you with a jar that you scp and you're done.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop Mate

HEADLINE: FIX Human Interface Devices - Touchpad, Touchpoint, Bluetooth Mice, Wired Mice

DESCRIPTION: I have a thinkpad. It has 2 built in mice like HIDs (the rubber knob "touchpoint" and a touchpad) plus I have a trackball for the office and tiny bluetooth mouse to travel. In order to set the prefs on sensitivity and acceleration for all these devices I need to do some fuzzing with xinput in the profile. Just recently, xinput changed and broke my prefs. I would love if ubuntu made it easy to just plug in a mouse, make some changes to the sensitivity, and not overwrite your touchpoint / other mice settings in the process
The solution is: Do not FAX or use phone lines to transmit data.

Practically though there isn't a 'good enough' standard from an end user perspective. The very things that make FAX a poor security standard make it user friendly.

* Fire and forget
* 'Just works'
* Short, simple destination identifier
* No real crypto or other security.

A real solution would be for everyone to use (good) key-based SFTP transfers. This isn't that hard to setup (once you've done it once) but it IS difficult to have end users use such software.

The next best thing is FTPS, but that has account management issues (since if you were doing client certs, which are an option here as well, you'd just use SFTP).

What makes both of those harder are the lack of integration in to the existing infrastructure (clinics/hospitals don't have, E.G., WinSCP / FileZilla and/or another SFTP client already setup and in their whitelist of allowed software) and having end user accounts.

Ah also, SFTP has the benefit of transferring time-stamps correctly. FTP, even wrapped in a TLS connection, still doesn't have a standards approved way of transmitting file time-stamps.
You obviously can't read.

The XPS is an expensive, luxury-or-business grade item. It attracts fees and taxes everywhere it goes.

I'm suggesting, for the hard-of-comprehending among us[1], Ubuntu throw it's weight behind a model that is:

a) widely available from walk-in retail stores in countries that are not the US

b) less than $600 in the US

[1] That's you BTW
(disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team.)

You can use Flutter today to write an app that runs on iOS and Android. :)
I would be interested in seeing more places try posting limits. It's easy for someone to shoot off hundreds of thoughtless messages, but it takes time and effort to make a single thoughtful post. A minority trying to do the former is going to inundate those doing the latter. And for those (probably most of us) who do a bit of both, it's likely that our less thoughtful and more rapid fire output is going to dwarf our thoughtful output (just because the latter requires so much more time and effort).

Even in the cases where someone provides a lot of thoughtful output, a minority of active users can often drown out the majority of visitors. It would be interesting to see what kinds of communities would develop if there were efforts to encourage more even output.
Oh ok. It does make sense now that Im past the initial shock of the post. This might produce a good initial buzz on social media.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: I just want simple things to work
DESCRIPTION:
- after an update cups is broken
- can I have 3 monitors without jerking around with vi?
- battery performance sucks
- random waking up of my laptop after suspending it
- one needs a degree to enable bluetooth
- after 10y of various linux distros I'm considering switching to Windows for my primary dev env
ROLE: Freelance full stack engineer
SBCL and SBCL.

http://www.sbcl.org/
It seems that functionality is provided by plugins though? You can see in the menu that he has at least "MultiCore" and "Nanonana" installed. I think the default version of the program does not come with these, e.g. here is a forum thread about someone asking how to disable the camera light and getting pointed to a plugin:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RGNVD_...
But, if you have to restart running services anyway, what is the problem with just rebooting anyway? I don't get this.
I'm not that familiar with Clojure but I found the following example that seems more real world-esque than the 4clojure.com resource posted below:

https://adambard.com/blog/PHP-ruby-python-clojure-webapps-by...
I think according to HN, anything is solvable using a neural network
Cash-hub
This is key, I think. Codeplex feels like abandonware to me. All the important Microsoft projects have migrated to GitHub, where all the active development is happening. Perhaps this also screws over some people who wish to stay on Codeplex, but I can imagine it was just a cost to Microsoft. No use in having something which only costs you money lingering around.
If they wanted it to look more real, they should point their DNS at 74.81.170.110
This is a smaller, more niche market though. Not just the "fax" or "online fax", but specifically "fax API" slice. There are not many players.
I hope high schools like that keep getting sued.

Also really glad I'm not in high school anymore.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386599,00.asp
How many children do you have? And how many times have they caused threatening letters from ISP's to be sent to your house for downloading copyrighted material? How many times have you intercepted drugs in your mailbox that were bought off the internet? How many times have you had to worry that one of these days their social activities were going to catch up with them finally and get them into real trouble?

For the record to all those that replied, I never actually spied on my children through a web cam hack. I said in my comment that I had been frustrated enough in my life that had I read this article then I may have considered it.

And, no, children living in my home using my internet connection are not entitled to the same level of privacy that you and I are. Just as they are not entitled to drink, drive, vote or join the military. They need boundaries and guidance. To the extent that they are doing well in school and socially and leave me little room to worry I'd guess they enjoy more freedom than most of their friends. When they abuse that trust the reins get drawn in and you can darn well bet I'm going to do everything I can to make sure they don't get into further trouble.

And less you draw any conclusions about the twenty-something I mentioned, I was speaking about when she was a teenager and living at home, I didn't try to block or monitor her habits once she became a well rounded adult who looks back on her own behaviour now that she's also a parent a bit sheepishly.
My card was once copied - but not at an ATM but from a self-service pay terminal inside a large mall. Like this one: http://www.blattus.de/oldies/scans/2012/lesegeraet.jpg

Apparently some criminals broke into the mall, and manipulated all terminals to record and wirelessly transmit the card information. The skimming devices were not visible from the outside, since they were mounted on the inside of the terminals. Therefore they haven't been found for multiple months - until finally money was withdrawn with cloned cards. In my case it was around 100€ that were withdrawn somewhere in India. Fortunately my bank immediately detected it, locked the card and notified me and also gave me my money back later. When I reported it to the police I learned that thousands of people where affected. Since that point of time the mall has locks and anti-tempering seals around all card reader terminals.
Someone please provide context, what happened in the last week that I missed?
This is a case where the German legislation did surpass US laws in stupidity. In Germany there is the so called Hackerparagraph § 202c which provides for the procurement and distribution of access codes to access protected data, as well as the production and use of tools which are useful for this purpose as a criminal offense.

I am astonished by the amount of comments here who do believe that this kind of legal proceeding against software tools would help to improve security. Do you really want to live in a world where you have to hide a nmap CD somewhere in your backyard. And no, that is not another situation, as it impossible to draw a line.
Here's a source that say's that 16% of U.S. oil imports come from the Middle East.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6
> touchy-freely Bay Area stuff

I don't think those beliefs are exclusive to the Bay Area, nor would I describe those topics as "touchy-freely [sic]".
Do Millennial Men Want Stay-At-Home Wives?
> And as more and more ads are viewed and not clicked, (there's probably some adtech term for this) the price per view is going to go down, which will encourage more clickbait, which will drive the value of an impression down, etc.

If that is true, the problem will solve itself eventually.

As someone with more experience than most advertisers when it comes to native ads (i.e. outbrain, taboola, revcontent, etc...) I can assure you that clicks and impression costs are going up, not down. As people learn what works and the competition gets fiercer, the costs go up.

The race to the bottom you fear is actually, a race to the bottom of what advertisers can afford to continue advertising. Right now, Native ads are dominated by supplements, which is essentially snake oil salesmen, and also some casino, and other either mass appeal or shady enterprises. Most legit businesses are priced out of the game...Paid Search and Paid Social have done a good job keeping out these low quality advertisers...

Essentially, the race to the bottom of creating clickbait that you are pointing out, is actually a race to the top. A race to the highest margin, most mass appeal advertisers.

If you really think about publisher incentives, they are more likely to create clickbait when the value of clicks goes up, not goes down. At some point of time when prices drop, it becomes easier to make money in other areas...so why bother.

Edit: corrected spelling on a word
I think it comes down to two things:

1 - CodePlex was a more elegant repo for a more civilized age and hasn't really kept pace with the features people want.

2 - Microsoft doesn't really benefit from keeping it open anymore and MS is realizing they can reap many of the benefits of collaboration without all the overhead by just using Github.

Github has the marketshare, but there are other options. Gitlab for example seems to be moving in the right direction and I'm excited to see what they do in the next two years or so.
My understanding of "blunt" would have been a straight statement of facts. Statements like "I think we'll survive" and "maybe you can search for him" ain't it.
Its modern rendering pipeline would suggest it has uses for far more than the embedded OS market.
This is a good point.

You know Sturgeon's Law? Something along the lines of "90% of science fiction is crap, because 90% of everything is crap?"

Well, if you more or less agree with that, there is just so much more of everything that there is so much more crap.

Another commenter expressed this as a signal-to-noise ratio problem. It is that, but it is also that O(N) is bad news for very large values of N.
Agreed, but selling software you wrote to a person while knowing they intend to commit a crime with it on the other hand...

Not sure that happened here but I don't have a problem with that being illegal.
There isn't consensus on the 5 cents per page part. Some think it is closer to 3. If that's true, generally, I'm concerned if a competitor launches at less than half my price.

Even if it is 5 cents, that's a 30% discount, which seems significant.
Doesn't matter that much. A disruption of the Gulf's flow would still cause every single producer and importer out there to change where they route the product, and the price spike would affect affairs stateside.

That is why the Carter Doctrine has never been withdrawn.
You have a very cynical view of analysis of executive orders!

I think it's totally fine to classify EOs in one bucket for half mast flag memorials and EOs like Nixon's establishment of the EPA in another bucket.
Didn't a NN extract pins from Wi-Fi signal strength?
Lots of focus in the comments here, on the Unions aspect of this post, but Sam leads with how it's "tech companies" who have the power and responsibility to change things. And then follows up saying that unions might be a good way to make companies beholden to popular belief.

This is mostly bullshit. Instead of putting the honus on the executives and VC's who define the growth-first business models, it's somehow the responsibility of their employees to wield the power of a tech company responsibly? To shape the direction of a company?

Maybe in a round-about way, Sam is saying that unions are the only way to responsibly limit the power of tech companies' leadership. But make no mistake, the responsibility for the power of technology falls directly in the laps of a company's leaders.
>Do you want to live in a world where you have to get the government's approval before writing code

I'm not saying it would be a good idea but there is a very clear comparison here to building permits.

For example, you may want to remodel some part of your house and remove/replace some walls. To do this, you must get the governments approval.
I enter my pins with at all least three fingers touching the keypad at once (with only one finger doing the pressing) for an extra layer of obfuscation.

Many banks also allow multiple accounts under the same umbrella. It then becomes possible to maintain a shallow petty cash account with a dedicated debit card (the other cards stay at home without activation).
The same Carnegie who, with his wealthy pals, bought a damn, turned it into a private sporting club, and failed to maintain it, causing a flood that killed 2200 people.

https://www.nps.gov/jofl/learn/historyculture/andrew-carnegi...

I'd prefer we have this organization than the noblesse oblige of rich industrialists.
For Microsoft, they are all under the same Microsoft account. So I guess these big boys have special contracts.
I imagine most of these companies are using GitHub Enterprise, which costs plenty of money.
MORE RUST PLEASE! :D
... for now.

A promise by a for-profit company is hilariously useless unless they bake it into a contract. The leadership have an obligation to shareholders to break promises if it improves profitability.
Where do you get it for $10? Amazon sells it for $40, verizon for $70