skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a philosophy department, and they (like many of the social sciences) have pretty precise ideas what "modern" means. The 1950s is probably the latest decade that they could put into the "modern" bucket.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history which calls 1945-and-later "contemporary history".
Just an FYI: the newest version of ipython allows you to tab complete keys
In Rust, 'unsafe code' is really 'partially compiler check exempt'. It does not mean the code is unsafe. You can manually verify the 'unsafe' parts.

It is very unfortunately named.
Try and squeeze discord into a 400x400 window (or something similarly small and out of the way) to put in the corner of your screen. Mission impossible.

Squeeze an IRC client into 400x400, and you'll still have plenty of room to read what's going on.

IRC sample (it's not 400x400, but you should get the idea):

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/smuxi-0...

Discord sample for comparison:

http://static.filehorse.com/screenshots-mac/messaging-and-ch...

I think there's a lot that could be done to make Discord more desktop real estate friendly. It's one semi-dealbreaker for me too. I can't have one single chat app require almost one whole new monitor.
Boil your eggs in parallel in BASH
(The hashmap that is used in the winning rust benchmarksgame entry is 100% safe, fwiw)

> When you start looking through Rust libraries, "unsafe" turns up way too often.

You keep making this claim without substantiation. Yes, there is some level of unnecessary unsafe, but certainly not "way too often". I recall going through all the crates in my .cargo and finding very little unnecessary unsafe, and showing you the audit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280347

Please stop throwing around this claim without substantiation.
http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2016/adderall-misuse...

Edit: good article about the subject in general https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/generation-adder...
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Seems like a pretty broad brush statement from a publication that frequently chastises others for stereotyping.
Amazon Cognito and Vendor Lock-In
This thread reminds me why I don't use Python anymore
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IMO it's good that it's scarier than it actually is :)

http://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/stable/nomicon/ is the documentation for unsafe. I do plan on improving it heavily, but I'm very busy right now, and I'd like to wait for some of the unsafe semantics stuff to be pinned down so that I can go in full depth when I write this.
Consumers in China do know iOS and iPhone are better. As I mentioned in another comment, it's just very hard for an outsider to get into China market as a service provider.
Under capitalism the people at the very bottom have it much better than they ever have had it, just like the rest of the population. And things continue to improve.

In fact it's plausible that as automation picks up it's the people at the bottom who will stand to gain the most.
This is incorrect. The management engine is used for a wide variety of tasks, from DRM to providing a TPM to anti-theft code. The AMT functionality (which is where this vulnerability is) is intended for remote management of laptops and workstations. It's usually not present on anything but low-end servers.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine
Black Hat Briefings 2009 - researchers show that the implementation of the Computrace/LoJack agent embedded in the BIOS has vulnerabilities and that this "available control of the anti-theft agent allows a highly dangerous form of BIOS-enhanced rootkit that can bypass all chipset or installation restrictions and reutilize many existing features offered in this kind of software."

Black Hat 2014 - Kaspersky demonstrates local and remote exploitation of first-stage CompuTrace agent (small agent, it is used only to install full version of rootkit after activation of LoJack or after reinstallation of Windows)

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-14/materials/us-14-Kamlyuk-...

Holy hell.
So goes eating a whole plant based vegan diet. https://www.forksoverknives.com/science-says-about-diet-and-...
I think Scratch 3 is being built on top of Blocky with Google's help. No more Flash - yay!
This is probably the best examination that I (individually) been given on the topic, it makes a lot of sense and with my limited exposure to certain aspects of economic theory, I don't have much to disagree with.

This is the root of my 'head-tilt' at certain arguments against the topic of late stage capitalism. As I mentioned in another comment, I'm often seeing memes and groups that poke sticks at participants and individuals who exist within this late stage versus the systems that enable and provide a continuance for some of the issues that cause people to have a problem with where we are.
^ IF == Intermittent Fasting
Most data scientists don’t have formal data science training. Most of the ones that go through our free fellowship (https://www.thedataincubator.com/fellowship.html - warning, I work at TDI) have STEM backgrounds and still land data science jobs at places like LinkedIn, EBay, Amazon, Capital One, Facebook, etc …
If you're wondering why there is so much negativity toward Ethereum on Hacker News, the answer is likely to be 1 of 7 things. The individual making the remark is 1) brainwashed by the Bitcoin or Altcoin propaganda machine, 2) trying to prop up their personal crypto portfolio, 3) a shill and/or troll paid to astroturf social media, 4) bitter or jealous for not getting in at the beginning, 5) afraid of Ethereum and what it might do to their industry or career, 6) angry that their existing skillset will be devalued or obsoleted by decentralized technologies, and/or 7) largely ignorant.

Honestly, the criticism I read on these threads just reeks of desperation and stupidity. The same misinformed talking points are repeated over and over again, continuing a kind of misguided and most likely financially-motivated crusade against Ethereum. The Hacker News community has been at it for over 2 years now. And yet, Ethereum continues to prove itself. It continues to innovate and grow. It continues to attract more users, penetrate new markets, and realize its vision for a more decentralized internet. It's starting to look more and more like the so-called skeptics on here are just too arrogant to admit they were wrong, too disdainful to simply give the Ethereum project the credit it deserves and just too pretentious to recognize they don't know what they're even talking about. Seriously - get over yourself.
You do not know how to do legal research, which is a large part of why you aren't finding anything.

18 U.S.C. 1001 is a great place to start, but doesn't necessarily tell you what the current interpretation of the law is. To determine what that is, you need to determine which cases are leading and how they were interpreted, then you need to go back and apply it to the facts. This is a weaker offence, but seems more likely to stick if raised.

From there you can move into RICO specific issues at 18 U.S.C. 1961-1968 (emphasis on 1961-1963). From 1961 you can find the offenses that trigger RICO. Check out section 1510 specifically. I think the RICO link here is weak, but I haven't gone through all the case law.

Spoilation is another good jumping-off point for understanding the relevant principles.

The concern with any of these one-off avenues, though, is that they're individually non-comprehensive. Note that the terms in each of these three segments are different despite the fact that they're talking about subtle variations on the same thing.
Unfortunately, a "management engine" with some degree of control over the CPU is necessary for, well, management. As in remote management, which is something that big corps with thousands of machines want, and the more control it gives the better.

The code itself is as secret as the code of any proprietary Windows-based remote administration tool they could supply as a poor man's substitute if the ME didn't exist. It's just how this industry works.

This doesn't indicate that there is anything "bad" going on. What is bad is that Intel, being the cheap bastards they are, combined this remote management and DRM, virtualization, TPM, CPU initialization and hell knows what else into one blob running on one MCU with no way to separate and disable the unneeded/unwanted/buggy/vulnerable garbage from actually useful functionality. And that such critical part is closed to third party scrutiny.
Oh. Goody.
I am grateful for capitalism, from which I have benefited mightily.

I just don't think it's the end state. It's a stop. The next stop is anarcho-syndicalism, which is much easier with good information tech.

It probably won't be the last stop either, but I expect I'll have to be told by the younger generation what makes sense next, as my brain had been formed in capitalism.
In the peak of my "strenuous exercise" and "age" graph, I was taking about 12 advil a day, with Zantac. Eventually that, combined with a bit too much drinking (0-3 drinks a day), culminated in a messed up stomach. But I easily can go 2-4 advil a day without a problem. I avoid it, these days, and typically take 1 or 2 every day or two.

In the military, "Vitamin M" (800mg of motrin/ibuprofen, about 4 advil) used to be heavily given for about anything multiple times per day!
I only worry about the drugs they have you take prior to increase your blood cell production
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted here, I must say I broadly agree with you. Certainly on the "mass cooperation and altruism" part.

What I'd like to know, is: "Is democracy suited to solving issues like climate change" ? It seems to me, that, solutions to climate change mostly mean a reduction in consumption & energy use (at least in the interim), and, what politicians will be voted in on those policies?
I would actually hope for the opposite. If your application needs unsafe code, it would be better for that code to be isolated into a "blessed" (i.e. widely vetted by those with the relevant expertise) library with a safe interface, rather than rolling your own.
Making comparisons to antiquity is useless because we didn't have any mechanism for ruining the planet. Now we have all of the tools necessary to make that happen in a few hours through action (nuclear weapons) or a few decades through inaction (climate change).

And your comparison to the 1980s is even more nonsensical considering we came very close to doom a number of times in the 50-60 years you cite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident
I like it. What do you think of a recommendation engine which tries to recommend movies based on patterns of happiness and sadness?
Where do you live that a coffee costs $5

That really wasn't the point, Captain Pedantic.

But since you asked, a double tall latte at Starbucks here in Seattle costs me about four bucks. Add some sprinkles and syrup, I don't see five dollars being outside the bounds of reality.
But people are using it.
> What you linked to talks about Uber drivers (not Uber corporate) breaking the law. Remember, there is a clear difference. Part of Uber's agreement with drivers is that driver's must obey local laws. The drivers are responsible for operating within the bounds of the law, not Uber.

Yeah, and if Uber had drivers breaking the law and making money for Uber it would be pretty naive to assume that a company like Uber doesn't know that this money was made in areas where Uber was not allowed to operate or illegal. That too, we are talking about a company which is an expert on location tracking. I don't think such an argument could even remotely fly in a decent court of law.
Talking about simply accessible products, anybody has knowledge about cannabinoids (specifically cannabidiol, not THC) ?

I've dug as deep as I could from someone out of a lab and found tons of evidence, but the issue is that doctors have each a different point of view on it. So far I got:

- it's innocuous but help opioids for pain
- it's potentially antitumoral but human studies are lacking [0]
- it's been studied and discarded because useless [1]
- cannabis derivatives are toxic [2]
- what's cannibidiol ? oh USA use that, Europe lags behind, I'll see

[0] mice model with human cancer lines showed regression, look for pierre yves desprez or sean mcallister on pubmed, youtube has a talk where some patients reported IRM visible regression on stage IV cancer

[1] renowned oncologist opinion, yet so many research on cannabidiol still going ? odd

[2] so far I've yet to find more than one paper listing toxicity (except one talking about accidental overdose on that one hypersensitive person that used her daughter's provider)

I'll take any info just in case.
> No disk access

AMT doesn't provide raw disk access either

> no dma

It's connected to PCI. What makes you so sure that it has no DMA access?

> Not the same thing at all

Indeed - iLo is pretty good, but the implementations provided by other vendors have an even worse track record than AMT does.
The difference to a conventional rocket is that you have more fuel left at 28 km up. A vertical launch rocket with this kind of engine would also have much of the same benefit. And with none of the extra weight, complexity, and cost of wings, landing gear etc. And that first stage could be reusable based on the SpaceX model.

So why not use the extra fuel to increase payload or have a reusable second stage? This could reduce costs for conventional launch companies, and make Skylon less viable.

The projections would have to make assumptions about development costs. That seems rather hard to predict with any accuracy. Especially considering how revolutionary every part of the craft would need to be.
Devil's advocate: if the place was bad enough, you could save potential hires a lot of time and pain.
> Chinese people want the Apple brand they don't care about iOS

These kind of statements are ridiculous.

(1) There is no evidence. (2) It assumes all of the Chinese think and act the same. (3) It assumes brand is the only decisioning metric when design and implementation can equally be important.

> If iOS was the status symbol it would get pirated and installed elsewhere

The look & feel of iPhones and iOS has been pirated and reimplemented on Android since day 1. You can goto MBK in Bangkok or Shenzhen in China and buy dozens of different models. Guess what ? They are nasty and buggy as hell and so don't sell.
You are thinking in linear terms. Humanity's historical energy use definitely doesn't look linear, more like exponential - https://gailtheactuary.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/world-ene...

I imagine that if we were able to tap into deep geothermal energy the continuing exponential growth would eventually pass some sort of geothermal limit point.
Instead of asking new hires, he should be asking the people who are leaving. They have nothing to lose.
Beginner question: what would make a crate non-statically-checkable?
A legit fear, but it could be a positive.

When you consider, for example, the Zika virus and it's effect on the human brain, perhaps - on the other hand - we have a virus to thank for making homo sapiens more intelligent than our then "competition"?

Bacteria, could be a positive well.

Of course it's a roll of the dice either way. C'est la evolution.
It's also possible that the heart benefits outweigh the side effects. A lot of medicine is just saying "this sucks but if you don't do it you'll die" and prescribing the least bad option.
What changes do Microservices bring to operations?
tl;dr in China, WeChat is the Operating System and Platform and iOS is becoming "firmware".
Yes, but the few exemptions means that you can effectively do basically anything. If you needed unsafe {} for something that block definitely needs more scrutiny and if possible should be avoided.
In a way, we did evolve to acquire the brainpower —and invent the tooling and the methods— with which we managed to discover the vaccines and cures to effectively eradicate the diseases.
I don't see why not, though I wouldn't consider that to be an example of a difficult to diagnose problem in the same vein as lazy evaluation.
My tablet doesn't do much more these days than serve as an e-reader. I use it to read books, Pocket articles, and RSS feeds, primarily. I very occasionally use it to watch some downloaded videos as well, either on a plane or at the gym. But otherwise, there's little on it I do that I couldn't probably do on a Kindle or a Kobo.

Nonetheless, I'm not convinced that this is really a problem, assuming you didn't pay an arm and a leg for yours. I paid somewhere between $200-$300 for my 2013 Nexus 7, it's held up for about four years now, and I still use the thing regularly.

Tablets sales are down in part, I imagine, because nearly everyone who wants a tablet already has one, and if the one you bought was above a certain threshold (i.e. Not Crap), you can comfortably use the thing for several years without needing to upgrade. Manufacturers need to realize that tablets are not phones, particularly as phones get bigger and more useful; people aren't going to upgrade their tablets every two years. Nor should they.

Case in point, I'm fine with the stock OS on it at the moment, but when I decide I no longer want to use it as is, I have at least three other OS's I could potentially load onto it, such as:

- MaruOS (http://maruos.com/#/)

- Kali Nethunter (https://www.kali.org/kali-linux-nethunter/)

- LineageOS
Sure, but the Mona Lisa gained notoriety for other reasons.

My point with these comments isn't to exactly win people over to this idea. This is an idea I felt like 'fleshing out' with a conversation on HN. I'm not entirely sold on it myself. I can't shake this feeling that not every engineering example needs to be preserved for the ages.
Descartes’s brain had a bulging frontal cortex
Guess what burns easily? Most textiles. Maybe that's what they were hinting at?
There is no Windows-hosted web interface, the web interface is provided by AMT. LMS is for accessing AMT from the local machine (AMT is listening to the network hardware, so trying to connect to the web UI locally won't work - the OS will shortcut the network hardware)
Specifically for the 80s, this incident that was declassified much later illustrates how one could be expecting doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

This one happened in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

The difference now is that we feel potentially doomed by inaction as opposed to reckless action, even though one could think of our environmental damage as the result of many compounded actions without awareness of their result.
Sorry, perhaps I phrased it poorly.

I certainly see the benefit in the server world (eg, managing a data center) and even in the corporate one (eg, managing a lot of workstations), and didn't mean to imply that everyone thought it was a negative. (Though, even in that space, some people do because of the closed source nature where they don't have full control of the system.)

Rather, I meant that everyone who was serious about security was aware that it was there and included it in their threat modeling. It's not worse than other remote management technologies (and may be better, depending on your needs and trade-offs).

However, for certain systems, there's never a need for the remote management capabilities, and hence represents a threat for which there's no upside when included. (I would argue most consumer systems fall under this.)

There are of course, a range of opinions depending on ideological bent, and my main point was that there was a discussion about it happening.
Earth's radiation scales as a cube of the radius. Our energy usage is growing exponentially. You can apply big-O analysis to this problem ;)
I´m not sure. The world modern is used to name specific periods of time. Example, modern history--> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history

Maybe a historian named this period as such in the history of computing.
> "How wild is it that it took less than 10 years for a platform spanning killer-app to emerge in the largest smartphone market in the world?"

It's not that wild considering that the iPhone hasn't even existed for quite a decade yet and Android has been around for an even shorter time.
Flash is going away sometime:
https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_3.0
I've never given this argument any respect, and I'm not going to start now. Saying that being fucked over might provide a little bit of benefit is no excuse for fucking people over in the first place.
Updates: I don't know what to tell you. I am running patch version February 5 2017 (While being fully updated).

The Priv was the last device to be assembled by Blackberry. The first device to not be assembled by blackberry was the next phone (DTek50)
My experience is that people tend not to be against many of the fundamental ideas of capitalism; tit for tat for example is a strategy that we're biologically wired up to favour. This is purely anecdotal, but when I've asked people who identify as being anti-capitalist, their objections are ones specific to our current system, and perhaps not capitalism in a general sense.
I feel exactly the same way after switching away from top-tier Android. Never going back.
That's a good point about Slack being B2B. Thinking about B2B lockin, Slack has lockin to the degree that businesses are heavily invested in its unique features rather than just benefiting from improved communication.

Maybe fax machines make a better technical comparison. Email replaced their intra-company use in a few years. What kept them in use is that they are customer facing. Similarly, Skype and such replaced copper telephone lines for internal conference calls and in many businesses cell phones replaced landlines for intracompany communication and the phone system exists because it is customer facing.
Magic Leap, the company who has been repeatedly panned on HN for providing a cool demo idea, with no actual product or research?

The "2 million mirrors" in the Avegant Glyph is roughly equivalent to 1080p; about the same resolution as the Occulus and Vive. The tech is also an adaptation of the same DLP technology that's been in use in TVs and projectors for decades.
I'm getting old (36) but I don't write about tech enough. Time to start a blog :)
There's a reason iPhone is the single greatest selling electronic device in history

That reason might be that, despite its lack of a physical keyboard, the iPhone has enough other outstanding features that users are willing to put up with a shitacular on-screen keyboard with autocorrect that seems to get worse with the passage of time. Or at least that's my reason for continuing to own one.
I was assuming many thin sheets of foil, each separated by several pieces of paper might be more subtle, than say a slab of lead. Subtle masking vs completely hiding something else under it.
Pipelines, branch prediction and caching are not part of the C runtime. And unlike Haskell, C makes it easy to look at the assembly for a piece of code, evaluate it for the machine it's running on, and fix these problems when they come up. C is not generally adding additional burdens, especially not ones that a higher-level language like Haskell won't also be adding to a far greater degree.
I don't think they're targeting it much but the niche that tablets seem to fill is kid distraction for parents.
The world has access to phones from Xiaomi and Huawei.

If they were equal to iPhones they would be selling out in Ireland, Australia, Cambodia - everywhere. Guess what ? They aren't equal to iPhones.