skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So it equally makes no sense for China to forbid itself from using their own exploits? As long as they can't be sure America isn't benefiting from them, they'd better keep up with the arms race.

Correct. Same goes for any nation. Since there's no way to be sure that other nations aren't developing zero-day exploits, not developing exploits of your own does nothing more than put you at a disadvantage.

> Or do you consider America to be special and that it deserves these powers more than other countries?

Yes. I know this seems to be a rather unpopular opinion with the HN crowd these days, but the US absolutely deserves to have better military capabilities than nations like Syria or China. (As for Germany, I'd also be mostly okay with them possessing exploits; as they're a democratic nation who I generally trust to act in the best interests of their citizens. I cannot say the same for Syria or China.)

> But really, why not nobody? Exploits are offensive weapons, not defensive ones.

That'd be great, but unfortunately it's not a realistic option. So long as one nation possesses and benefits from zero-day exploits (even secretly) then it makes no strategic sense for any other nation to intentionally put themselves at a disadvantage by not developing exploits of their own.
I volunteered to as a parent governor at my local primary school. Now I'm 3/4s the way through my teacher training year -- new Comp Sci teacher in the making.
With regards to unroll.me, does it really matter? Once you grant access to your mail, they archive your entire inbox. The damage is already done.
> I previously had -Ccodegen-units=8 in RUSTFLAGS because it speeds up compile times. ... the resulting rustc was about 5–10% slower. So I’ve stopped using it now.

...why is this the case?
One thing that was surprising when I read that article was that a major academic source on LSD microdosing, Fadiman, is not aware of any blinded experiments on LSD microdosing.

On the negative comments about Gwern's experiment, which failed to demonstrate any positive results, Gwern writes:

> The comments on my LSD microdosing experiment bring this out in dramatic relief: everyone is eager to find some flaw, no matter how improbable, which will let them dismiss the results completely and not update in the slightest bit. Will any of them do a better experiment to improve the claimed fatal flaw? Hell no! I can’t even except Fadiman here. While he didn’t give me any of the bullshit a lot of people did, I asked him before I posted it whether he or anyone else had attempted to replicate my experiment. No one had. To emphasize that: Fadiman is a trained psychologist who appreciates the need for systematic data collection + randomization + blinding with easy access to LSD who is keenly interested in microdosing inasmuch as he has done microdosing for decades while publicly professing its value, who understands & admires my procedure and has had at least half a year to replicate my experiment himself - and has not done so!
Seems nowadays we need a kind of "remove.me" service to quickly remove your account from certain services.
You wouldn't think there could possibly be a placebo effect for lsd, but if you've ever bought fake acid, it can take a surprisingly long amount of time to realize that nothing is going to happen, and you can trick yourself into thinking things feel a little bit trippy. If you aren't expecting much of an effect to begin with, I can totally see it.
>as long as "an arbiter" doesn't become "the arbiter"

Well, it being "the closest thing to a public utility" as I wrote, means for billions of people it will be THE arbiter -- or at least an arbiter they'd have to deal with.
> "Isn't this basically an issue of "no american qualified to do the job" "at the price the market is willing to pay for that job"?"

It's called global labor arbitrage. The intent of the H1-B visa law is not to drive down STEM wage rates or replace Americans with lower wage immigrants, but rather to fill jobs for which no American is qualified.

It has been abused.

> "but it just seems to me 'fixing' the H1B issue wouldn't really bring jobs back to the US."

H1-B are immigrants working in America so by fixing the H1-B visa issue fewer H1-B immigrants will be working in the US and more Americans will be doing the work. I feel that those cases like Disney, Southern California Edison, Univ California San Francisco and Abbott Laboratories all cases where H1-B Visa workers were used to replace Americans in America should have the Visas cancelled the the firms prohibited from using H1-B directly or indirectly for 10 years.

Many US firms have tried to offshore computer programming and in many cases found that it does not work. Penny wise, pound foolish.
Quite the opposite he is proposing people decide for themselves absent any "workshops". You are the one who thinks that people will benefit from Googles instruction on how to decide what is hate speech, frankly I think anyone should be able to say anything. If you decide that its hateful content then you can stop reading it at that point.
Amazon Forms Team to Focus on Driverless Technology
Nice work. What host are you using? I'm re-writing http://www.csvformatting.com from Elm front-end only to a Phoenix app and wasn't sure where to host (probably will do something like Digital Ocean)
There is a lot of reason why you can prefer a linked-list over an array, even with the hardware changing they are still a lot more efficient in some cases :

* In multi-threaded context insertion and deletion can be done lock-free which is not the case for arrays ;

* For intrusive list, insertion and deletion can't fail due to memory allocation ;

* If you do only insertion at the tail and removal at the head these operation need only a pointer change which is more efficient than an array ;

* Merging two list is only one pointer operation ;

* Intrusive list have better memory allocation properties ;

* ...

If you look at the usage of linked-list in the kernel you will see that they are used for reasons.

The problem is that, on new hardware, linked list should be used in less cases that in the past and some people have generalized this to linked-list should never be used. This is false, if you care about performances you should keep thinking and testing what is the best data-structure in different cases. If you don't care about performances, you should use an abstraction who implement what you need and don't car about the underlying data-structure.
Most of the under-developed world on a daily basis walks by people dying of hunger and curable diseases. You really think offensive YouTube content is causing serious social damage?
My main volunteer effort is Walkstarter ( https://www.walkstarter.org ) a free platform to help public schools raise money more efficiently through walkathon fundraisers. I built, support, fund and maintain the platform and my goal is to have it in use by every U.S. public school.

The platform is on track to hit $1 million in funds raised in the next 30-45 days. It's very gratifying to work on code and features that result in a tangible benefit -- increased funding for education. It has taught me a great deal about the vast disparities in education funding between affluent school districts in the Bay Area versus struggling school districts in other parts of the country. It is sad that we spend so much more on weapons than education.

Soon, I will launch GoalStarter, a variant of Walkstarter for schools that have all kinds of other -athons for fundraising such as Spellathon, Musicathon etc. I am also working on integrating RFID tags so when kids walk laps, the arduous task of recording laps walked per kid can be automated.
I had forgotten about Golf. One of my favorites video games! Awesome stuff this is.
If we don't believe discussion is constructive then this whole site is pointless.

I do quite a bit of work on improving the safety of various code, both professionally and in my side projects. The techniques I advocate are those that I've found effective. But I can't do everything on my own, unless you're offering to pay my contracting rate for me to work on a new kernel.
Article is gone... Irony perhaps?
They don't get it. Their cardinal sin was not failing to disclose how they use your data, although that certainly is a grave sin too. Their cardinal sin was selling their users' e-mails.

Yeah, if they were going to sell your Lyft receipts to Uber, they should have been very clear that this was what they were doing. But that's secondary to the fact that they never should have been doing that in the first place.

I think this bit sums it up perfectly:

"I can't stress enough the importance of your privacy. We never, ever release personal data about you. All data is completely anonymous and related to purchases only."

They care so much about your privacy that they only sell info about the stuff you buy, which is definitely not personal in any way, somehow.

We'll tell Uber about that time you went to visit your girlfriend, and we'll sell info about that weird t-shirt you bought, but your privacy is totally important. Yup.

Edit: I should probably clarify, I'm sure they do get it, but they don't care and want to keep selling your data, so they'll pretend like the failure to disclose was the big problem.
Show HN: Realtime multiplayer beat production online
Almost any insertion requires a scan.
I'm glad you agree that you have a choice in your vote.

Now, pick.
> If you don't like it because it requires you to learn a workflow you are unfamiliar with, don't use it.

Unrelated to the technical side (which I haven't investigated in much depth yet as a third party to this discussion), I don't like it because of the patent license, which AFAICR is a valid concern for a non-trivial number of large firms.

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS
Been working on this in my spare time for months - hope you like it! I'm open to any bugs/features/ideas :)
This secret hospital was recently declassified by the Hungarian government
Best Cryptocurrency Exchanges: The Ultimate Guide
Because their lawyers probably advised against saying certain things in case of a lawsuit
It breaks the code into smaller modules that are processed independently, thus limiting the scope of optimizations to those modules.
More important than any of the sibling arguments is that we're talking about a socket control block. I don't control where it is allocated or freed, so I can't dictate its location in memory.

Even if I did control it, there are probably several lists a socket might be a part of. Storing the socket in a dynamic array will only work for one of those lists. It's similar to a sparse database index - you can only have one of them. The rest of the lists have to be linked.

Not to mention, when items are shuffled around in a dynamic array, you lose the ability to have a consistent pointer to them.
A Look Inside China's Unregistered Churches
If only more people knew this about how government actually worked.

They would complain less, and be more appreciative of the people that actually choose to run for public office.
I know nothing about music but it looks interesting :) congratulations on shipping!
If we're being honest here, I don't think most world leaders are quite as blindly caught up in our significance as the majority of humanity. If anything, world leaders play the game and understand that it's all a house of cards.

Meanwhile, the people who lack personal agency moan and thrash about wondering why we're still so ignorant, even though we're in the middle of the Great Peace, prosperity on a global level is rising rapidly, and our ability to explore the stars is just beginning.
Are you sure? I just Googled a bunch of German wind turbines and I'm not seeing any poles made out of concrete. Do you have photos you can share?

Concrete doesn't seem like the right material for this job.
Can you elaborate on why you're not sure on giving the recommendation to programs like the Peace Corps?
I would love to have devops in my company. We either have to deal with IT who lacks even the most basic understanding of what developers need or the developers have to set up tools on the side which leads to badly run systems because nobody has time. It would be great to have a few people who can focus on setting up systems and keeping them running. It makes no difference if this on AWS or somewhere else. Integrating different tools requires a lot of skills.
>Are you suggesting that we just throw up out hands and say "there's really no point trying to determine what is a fact, these days?"

I'm saying it's not Google's job to determine what is a fact.

Was a reporter denying WMDs in 2003 a fact or "false news"?

Was Garry Web [1] a writer of facts or a fake news spreader?

The answers were much less clear at the time, and the established press and media/internet overlords would have labeled both fake news and be done with it...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
The differences are subtle with small dosages, and there might be a substantial placebo effect.

But as a personal summary, LSD makes me smile and I feel like a better person. On it, I find myself preferring good life choices and productivity. Amphetamine gives me endless focus and nervousness-flavored mental energy, similar to too much coffee. As a bonus: Modafinil makes me almost angrily opposed to distraction and slacking off.
Whoever launches the contract decides how it's structured, then everybody else decides whether it's worth buying in.
I cited Snowden's own documents.

According to Snowden's documents, the NSA used email envelope metadata where at least one side was a foreigner to build a connection graph, similar to pen register metadata collection. It didn't look at the contents, which it would have to do in order to be wiretapping. That program (STELLARWIND, which operated behind the Internet companies' backs, not PRISM, which operated via court orders on specific accounts) ended before Snowden even leaked it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/27/ns...

Let's recap. You claimed that PRISM is mass wiretapping. It isn't. You claimed that the NSA is mass wiretapping Verizon and AT&T. It isn't. Let's stick to your original claims and see them through to completion. Do you admit you were wrong about PRISM and the telcos?
I've worked for a company that's given pretty much the same two hour on-site test for years, and several times the people in charge of the hiring decisions have forgotten how to do parts of it (it's an open office, I've heard them admit it to the candidates).

It amazes me how they rejected so many people on this test over the years (seems to be over 90% rejections), when they can't keep it straight themselves. Granted they were always busy on other things, but still. Even I barely passed the test.

That being said, they left you alone for two hours while you work on it, sitting in the same environment where other devs are working, which I found much better than some other interviews, the worst of which was coding a full project on a laptop for a platform I haven't worked on professionally in over a year and was a bit rusty on, while one person stared at me from across a desk and a second person stood behind me and looked down at the screen over my shoulder.
Social networks should also tackle how their recommendation algorithm might be influencing the "information bubble" of citizens (or at least be gamed in order to do so).

For example in France, during an election campaign, official media must strive to share equally the "speaking time" between candidates. And while social networks, with subsidiaries in France, have a more and more prominent role in the information bubble of citizens, they currently ignore this regulation in their automated recommendations.

I experienced it myself some days ago, while looking for some videos about French candidates on youtube, I was persistently recommended some videos for a specific candidate by youtube's recommendation algorithm.

I was apparently not the only one to notice that, as some people even conducted automated tests [1] :

"Mélenchon, Le Pen and Asselineau make up nearly 60 percent of the candidates that are mentioned in the titles of the most recommended videos. It is particularly surprising for Asselineau to be recommended so much because he received less than 1 percent of voter preferences in the latest polls.

Perhaps predictably, each of these three candidates is the top recommended candidate when searching for their name. However, we have found that starting from a search of any other candidate, these three candidates are still the most recommended"

Theses 3 candidates are highly active on social networks, but also pro-frexit and often categorized as populist.

[1] http://algotransparency.org/en/presse.html
Or the classic... "Reviewer #1: Nice paper, but seems authors have missed this recently published work by TotallyNotReviewer1 et al. which could add..."
The latest Amazon Ubuntu 16.04 AMI comes with ixgbevf version 2.12.1-k, while the Enhanced Networking documentation [1] suggests installing version 2.16.4.

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/sriov-net...
I am traveling in West Africa right now, and the same applies to this part of the world.

This place is very, very different from that portrayed by the Western Media.

I was sitting in the Nigerian Embassy waiting for a visa, and an American tv show was on.. NCIS or something, and they had these American "heros" over in some African hell-hole saving the world.. of course they get attacked and then work hard to survive and find their way to some place. People are being dragged out of cars, men smashed in the face by the butt end of AK47s, women thrown to the ground. People's eyes show pure hatred - enough to actually scare me, even though I was just watching TV.

The show was set in Mali, they were supposedly in Bamako.

The kicker?

I was sitting in Bamako that very moment, having spent over a month there already, walking around every day, on my own, perfectly safe and happy. I even walked around at night multiple times. People would say hello and invite me into their homes.

The reality is that I met hundreds and hundreds of the kindest, friendliest and happiest people I have ever met in Bamako, yet millions of Americans are seeing realistic looking images that it's a complete hell hole.

I have driven through more than 500 road blocks in 10 countries in West Africa, and I have never, ever seen anything remotely scary or threatening. Not even once.

It's simply not true. It's fake.

When Africans see super heros flying around New York saving us from Aliens they know it's not real. When Americans see African Hell holes on TV, they have no idea it's not real. They are being lied to en-mass and have no idea.

(if it makes any difference, I'm white, and driving a not-cheap Jeep around Africa)
I see a lot of people claiming that certain things will now be untrustworthy.

As if human voice imitators have not existed and could not be paid for prior to this. For $5 you can get Stewie Griffin [0] or Barack Obama [1] to say whatever you want them to say. Any audio-only messages of well known figures should already be considered "compromised" and untrustworthy. Even without the technology to impersonate them.

This should be more concerning for "normal people". It isn't that you can no longer trust an audio-only recording of Obama, but that you may not longer be certain an audio recording is from your best friend. (E: Once the technology improves a bit more of course.)

[0] https://www.fiverr.com/joe_stevens/talk-like-stewie-griffin-...

[1] https://www.fiverr.com/celebimpression/do-a-custom-barack-ob...
Eat more, or more caloricly dense, foods. I find I feel best using mostly fats, rather than carbs, on a high calorie diet. Seems to help joints and workout recovery too. Most hormones are synthisized from fats, so it may be related.

Also, paradoxically, working out will regulate your appitite and might help you eat a bit more, and store it in a way your body prefers.
I'm genuinely curious why people are insisting on assassinating this company/CEO's reputation.

Selling anonymized user data is legal. In certain markets (like this one), any company that does NOT sell your data (and therefore charges their users), will be out-competed by companies that do.

Assuming there is a price to your online privacy (which most ppl clearly believe since they use Google) and the value this product brings to market exceeds that price threshhold, we're better off for it.

It seems to me the way to enact change is through legislation/regulation. And, anger towards any specific actor in this under-regulated field is misdirected.
The death of the smartphone is closer than you think.  what comes next
My oldest is four and I feel this way about everything. They accidentally ask really tough questions constantly. There's no need to go to space for the tough stuff.

This morning: "How to people know there's grass?"

I managed to appease her with a crappy explanation of how sight works (just saying "we see it" didn't fly—we were in the car or I wouldn't have tried being so lazy) but hot damn there's a lot going on there. Like, about 1/3 of philosophy and some good chunks of physics/optics, (neuro-)biology, psychology, chemistry, et c. I'm way too dumb for this job!
Sure, and I think "an arbiter they'd have to deal with" is unavoidable. As a provider of filtered information, how could they not be?
same. I compare all windows tiling solutions to i3, and they all come up short significantly.
Ten ASMR sound patterns to experience well-being
I never realised they hired so many people out of prison - Bumps them up quite a lot in my books, will try and consider them in future for more things!
The podcast Reply All covered this in an episode last year:
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/44-shine-on-you-crazy-goldma...

Obviously not scientific, but great anecdotal discussion.
>being an actual hacker.

And GITS is not? I relate more with the Laughing Man than whatever the hell happens in SEL. You know the girl is dead and her spirit lives in a computer, right? SEL has more to do with spirituality than technology while GITS is almost exclusively tech and politics focused.

I had a chance to see the new movie a week ago and was pretty blown away by the levels of future-shock I experienced. I think they did a wonderful job building off the anime and manga to re-build the GITS world in live action. The first half of that movie had me enthralled at how good of a job was done here. I really think from set-design, costume, and setting perspectives this movie on par with visual feasts from the 70s/80s like Bladerunner, Dune, Star Wars, or Alien.

Story-wise its a poorly paced and milquetoast origin story that we've seen a million times. If this production had a more daring script I think we'd see the wisdom of trying to bring it to the big screen as live action. "Mindfuck" anime like SEL really isn't going to translate well, and trippy mindfuck stories have been beaten to death by now and are just another tiresome trope. Worse, it would have even less of an anticipated audience thus budget which would force the production into cheesy B-movie territory. Its also a non-existent franchise while GITS is an established fan favorite and for fairly valid reasons including a focus on the realpolitik of power, terrorism, technology, cybercrime, etc which a lot of other tech-oriented stories simply get wrong and lean far too often on a simplistic 'right vs wrong' moralism.
GMO is not inherently unsafe, nor is it inherently safe. Plants can be engineered to produce additional nutrients and better withstand drought, but they can also be engineered with insecticidal proteins that may be harmful to humans. This is perfectly analogous to pharmaceuticals. If someone said "ban all pharmaceuticals", we'd agree that they're crazy, but the correct response is not "pharmaceuticals are perfectly safe". Some pharmaceuticals are perfectly safe. Some are deadly poisons. GMOs need to go through an evaluation process before being approved for the open market.