skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The next attack probably would be on remote execution hole on intel chips
I've had dynamic content reach front page of HN and same thing: node (single threaded without the cluster module) handles it just fine.
You can either pay very expensive official Ford garages forever, or go to unofficial ones, which is basically reverse engineering. The thing is, for experienced car mechanics, 'reverse engineering' some mechanical part and replacing/repairing it is quite doable. If some CPU burns out in some system, they can't do anything but replace whole unit.

So no, you aren't getting better support from Ford, it's just not as complex system to hack yourself.

As for agreeing, yes we all did when clicking on that Agree button during installation. Already forgot that part? Why do people assume legal contracts should be normally fiercely enforceable, but when it comes to M$ they should just work forever, outside of their contract that we all agreed upon? Even though they in fact offer paid patching?
In an age of tired truth
> With the driverless model I see those expenses increasing, as without a chaperon passengers are more likely to eat, drink, puke, and in general misbehave (source: I've been inside some BART and LA Metro cars).

You're anonymous in a metro, you won't be in a driverless car. They can charge you for the clean-up.
How to think about today’s larger than life tech moguls
Rotation-lock the iPad in landscape mode. Lie on your side, tuck your upper arm under your pillow, rest one narrow side of the iPad on the bed, and hold the opposite side with that arm's hand.

Now your arm won't get tired, because it's no longer fighting gravity, and while you will drop the iPad when you fall asleep, it won't hit your face unless you're a lot more nearsighted than my -3.5 diopters. (That's a lot - ~20/120 in old money.) It'll also land face down if you hold it with a slight tilt toward you, which helps prevent the screen light from interfering with sleep any more than it already will because you're watching it in bed.
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The Yandex offering, as far as I can tell, is the best open source TSDB.
Which are todays pioneering startups using blockchain technology?
Which "blockchain startups" do you consider being among the top 20 worldwide, not based on current revenue but on disruption oriented business models?
Have you tried getting out and focusing on building your professional network? Go to meetups and meet people. Contribute to existing OSS projects and earn respect from the other maintainers. Reach out to people in your local industry and ask to buy them a coffee.

It takes work and time, but that's how you get a network.
This spherical chess board uses magnets to change up the game – The Verge
The mini2 is a really nice iPad. I think it's at a similar sweetspot in the power/support curve that the Ipad2/mini1 was at -- something that's going to be usable for a good long time. (They sold something with the guts of the ipad2 for something like 4 years)

My mini2 has been used solidly for 2 years, I'm only looking to upgrade because the ipad2 the kids use has taken a beating and needs replaced.
Should you pay the WannaCry ransom?
Studies have shown that you're a smug, sanctimonious asshole.
Cephalocon 2017 is cancelled
The figure on the first page reminds me of SICM
Ask HN: What's rationale for air miles being based on miles rather than dollars?
Why weren't frequent flyer rewards based on dollars spent right from the beginning? For decades an economy class passenger who spent $400 and a first class passenger who spent $10,000 on the same long-distance flight both got the same 5000 mile award.

I benefited from this greatly in the 1990's and 2000's because I always bought cheap seats. (I realize that most airlines have now corrected this anomaly, but only in the last couple years.)

It seems like common sense that you'd want to reward big spenders, not the vacation travelers. Casinos reward customers according to their spending and not for how long they stay.

So why did airlines make a strange decision to reward "distance"?
Technically the military is in charge, who report to the elected officials. But a battle between politicians and an intelligence//counterintelligence agency seems one sided.
Before SO, you had to visit blogs, forums and "programming resources" websites of vastly varying quality. Most of the examples were poorly formatted and not very elaborately explained. Most forums were run by well-knit communities and had a somewhat hostile attitude to newcomers asking a single question.

This is not an issue in SO – if you write a well-formatted and clear question that may also be beneficial to other people, no one is going to look down on you for having 1 reputation point. You can also find reliable answers to common problems, since these posts become very popular and have strong peer review. An answer at the top with a few hundred upvotes is pretty much "copy-paste safe" :-)

The negative side is that people become too lazy and stop bothering with reading long documentation and articles, which can, IMO, help you build the big picture better, in case you can afford the time.
Totally unrelated to Gassee's main point, but of note in a tangential way: The best place to find AAAA batteries, like those the Surface Stylus takes, is inside 9V batteries, which are all but universally composed of six AAAAs wired in series to reach the specified voltage and packed in a metal can.

Of course, getting the metal can open in an airport, especially on the "secure" side where you'll have been relieved of any personal toolkit you might ordinarily carry, is a separate consideration - but in a real pinch, a house or car key will probably do, because all you really need to manage is to pry out the top bulkhead with the terminals. If you can do that, you can get the batteries out, twist them off their solder tabs, and use them.
Searching with Redis
Microsoft says governments should stop 'hoarding' security vulnerabilities
The iPad marked for >= 9.7" actually grew last quarter. This article has a graph where the ipad mini is split out as a separate component of the graph. Big phones have eat up a lot og the ipad mini market, but there is still a big market for bigger ipads.

https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2017/3/29/apple-is-pushing...

Diagram is about 2/3 down the page.
Does this include OpenBSD?
But then you're back to square one : that data is much less detailed than what waymo gets.
A case study of designing a trophy for engineers – Boldport
Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
Books were good. you'd get a book for a mature library or programming language, not incomplete pipe-dreams. those were the days.
ARM adds 328 to UK headcount
(W)ine (I)s (N)ot an (E)mulator
I wonder if inputting the code is a recorded data point in the back box, rather than relying on a voice recording from the flight deck?
Honestly, every time that a discussion on mathematics comes up in HN I feel the same way: people seem to think that mathematicians are some kind of elitist people that don't know how to explain concepts, and that mathematics would be like coding (note: projecting everything into the tech world is not the best way to understand the world) if it weren't because mathematicians don't explain things well. But the reality is way different:

* We know that teaching mathematics is difficult. But, contrary to what most people think, there is no magic pill to solve it. Motivation and intuition are important, yes, but so are definitions and formality. Also, even when giving them to the students, they might not be useful: sometimes each person needs a different motivation of a concept, sometimes the intuition relies on more advanced concepts... Furthermore, things don't usually click the first time you are exposed to them, but only after you have worked with them for some time. Don't think that just because you are given a motivation and intuition behind the concepts everything is just going to become easy to understand. Even motivations and intuitions need work to be understood.

* The mathematics people study in high school and first-year engineering courses is very different from the mathematics that mathematicians study. Funnily enough, most mathematicians I know don't like the approach of mathematics as a tool for other disciplines, mainly because it focuses on things that are hardly interesting (here's the 123th trick for how to solve this weird integral that we are teaching you only because you will need it to solve some engineering equation) and avoids proofs that, despite being hard, most of the time helps understanding the concepts.

* Related to the last points, an important number of math books are written not for laypersons but for mathematicians. They go straight to the point, avoid long motivations/intuitions that are not specially useful and assume familiarity with a lot of concepts. Sometimes they are written as reference books for people that already know the ideas. That, of course, makes them hardly approachable by non-mathematicians, but there are already books that do that. Just because a book or a way to teach math is not of your liking does not mean it needs to be changed.

* Not all mathematical concepts need to have a direct application. Sometimes, things are studied just because they seem interesting or beautiful. Searching for motivation needlessly in these cases tends to be a waste of time. It's like reading a novel or solving a puzzle: you don't need to know "why", just enjoy it. If you're lucky applications can appear later, but there's nothing wrong if they don't.
> You mean bundle and forcefully install MS patches? This would require reboot which AFAIK can't be done without user's action (if not using undocumented APIs).

Considering you're using a vulnerability to forcefully inoculate systems, and you gained admin if not Ring0 privileges, you could trivially "reboot" the box by just crashing it, no APIs required. You could even be nice and check if there are applications with open files, or schedule it only when the user has been idle for a while, and only do it during the usual hours of inactivity (Windows 10 even has a control panel section to choose them).

Or, you could just open a dialog box, masquerade as a legitimate update and ask for user consent. You are an important security update after all, just a fairly unconventional one.
> If it just works out that women outnumber men in the former group, and the gender discrimination does a huge amount of work in selecting for the most efficient candidates to keep in the shelter, I'm in favor of the discrimination.

The way to do this is to discriminate, not on gender, but on being "basically a functioning member of society who nonetheless isn't on their feet".

There are many people who think discrimination is wrong, except when it is discrimination against those they deem (wrongly) to be dominant groups in society, such as men or white people, in which case discrimination is OK. This needs to be fought against.
It's more akin to manufacturing portable arms factories, that can also replicate themselves.

Lose one and you're SOL.
Fair enough, edited it out.
A Neuralink dystopian fairy tale
First time I've heard of Cage. Given the entirely reasonable reasons Mr Rabbani gave for non-compliance I hope he wins his case. He is surely in the right?

The awful treatment of non-white UK citizens at our borders is another problem again, quite possibly due in part to the institutional racism that still exists in our police forces.
If you really want to do it:

1) Store the result of Date.now() somewhere when the app starts

2) Have an interval to check the difference between Date.now() and the timestamp you stored in 1)

3) If the difference is over a certain threshold, force a page reload

(or schedule a page reload for when the user is in a "safe" state)

Or you could probably poll an endpoint / listen to a websocket and trigger the reloading by flipping a switch or sending a message. It won't be a client-only solution, though.
Wine is not an isolation layer. You can disable the Z: drive but the applications running in Wine still have about the same access a normal application has.
"The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe"
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602344/the-extraordinary-...
Saying men are treated as disposable is an ideological talking point, but treating white men as de facto wrong and privileged in all respects[1] is completely fine. In fact, bonus points for introducing race when the topic is gender!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340050
I bought iPad 3, it was good at its time. Now it's laggy but I don't want to buy another one, it's waste of money. So it's only natural that sells are slowed, people who wanted to buy one already did it, and not everyone wants to replace working device every few years.

The only thing that I could desire is if Apple would revive iOS 6 and allow downgrading. It's awesome OS, much better than following releases for iPad 3. But, I guess, it won't happen.
> Share of homelessness due to an abusive relationship + share of homelessness due to drugs + share of homelessness for all other reasons = 1.

No, because someone can be homeless for multiple reasons.
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Free software is defined by the FSFs list of freedoms and MIT licence certainly provides those freedoms.
Is it a program written by humans and have parts that accept user input or network input? then yes.
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I don't know how many of you have kids, but the iPad is a revolution for kids. They can literally start using it independently from age 2. I think most families will have at least one in the house.

They also have a very long service life. That's probably a big reason why the growth rate doesn't compare well to the iPhone. The upgrade cycle is like 5-6 years, not 1-2.

I've thought a lot about Steve Jobs' "cars vs trucks" analogy.[1] Personally I don't use the iPad much anymore, owing to the narrowing of the gap between my bigger phone and slimmer, all-flash Macbook. But although I work in tech I don't see my Mac as just a "truck". I prefer it for web browsing, email, writing, etc., all "car-like" things. If you had a car and a truck in the garage you probably wouldn't pick the truck to drive the kids to school.. but that's what I do with my Mac, metaphorically speaking.

So I would expand the analogy slightly. If iPads are cars and desktop computers are trucks, then Macbooks are the SUVs. Still a very appealing choice for regular non-industrial users who just want a bit more capability.

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20130109/steve-jobs-was-right-tablets-...
(In reality, you should ask yourself why your users are behaving like that: don't they shut down their computer ever? Don't they like updates? That's pretty odd behaviour)
Literally.

Usage #2: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
> Something sounds very wrong

How can it be wrong to simply have 100 GB of data that you need to operate on? If that's how much data you have then that's how much you have.
Probably enough price drop to beat competitors and attract most of the market share, and still have a higher profit, which would be a win-win except for competitors
This is why lectures are so important compared to a text book.

In a lecture you try and emphasis how some things are important - while other things you can hand wave away. A textbook can't do that.
> Why is it that anytime a women's cause comes up, someone always has to chime in with "but what about men"?

Because there are many people who think that discrimination against women is bad, but discrimination against men is OK. These people should be fought against.
This is the one thing i dont like from single sign on solutions.
"They arent doing that."

I'd strongly advise to add an "alledgedly" there.
Now, Qualcomm certainly is no saint when it comes to patent infighting/strongarming/abuse/(your moniker of choice), the accusations are quite strong and I don't think I'll shed a tear should they bear fruit.
But FRAND is a fickle mistress. There is no simple predetermined way of how to declare something as FRAND, and it's certainly not up to one party to unilaterally declare something FRAND or not. When push comes to shove, it's still a matter of negotiation and - should that fail - a matter of the courts.

Apple themselves should know best - after all, they had a long clinch with Nokia about that matter. Ironically, while their claim was the same (that the opponent's terms were unfair), the actions were completely opposite.
Back then, it was Nokia who asked the court to defining the FRAND licencing terms after rounds and rounds of fruitless negotiation...it never came to that, of course, since they finally settled out of court shortly afterwards (with a previously unthinkable cross-licensing deal nonetheless).
Yeah this was back in 2010-ish.

I explored a lot of distributed file systems, was really looking for something that would share files across the cluster once generated by one node. NFS, Ceph, GlusterFS, GridFS, some others.
So, I was about to write that it sounds confusing, but it kinda sounds more confused.

Do all interviews to the Economist sounds like that? I mean, spending time on anecdotes, evading the questions or failing to understand them, insisting that an expression is original, repeating empty words, etc?
Ya and like the unoptimized solution for WaveNet when DeepMind published it. But hey they published so it's cool!
Missing funtamentals are a thing though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental
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Microsoft takes aim at the NSA for the NHS attack
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Second big cyber attack expected today
You can point back to the 2004 benefits overhaul [0], the famous Towels story [1], low compensation rates compared to Google, Amazon and Facebook [2]. Just go over minimsft.blogspot.com posts at the time.

Add to this the lack of vision and direction, catastrophic acquisitions, dismal flagship product releases. At the time there were running jokes about the Inbox filling up with "After 15 years, is time to send that email" subject lines...

[0] http://old.seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2001938654_microsoft26.html
[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-brings-back-the-towels-5000148135/
[2] http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/03/internal-microsoft-compensation.html
The US is doomed and we are all going down with it.
Whoops, I broke Mastodon/StatusNet
Didn't they?

My understanding is this happened:

* Microsoft writes codes with bugs

* NSA writes exploits for said bugs and a worm based on them

* ShadowBrokers leak the NSA exploits and worm

* Random hackers take the NSA worm and combine it with a ransomware payload

So the NSA wrote the exploits and by not reporting the vulnerabilities they found they exposed the public to others finding the vulns or their findings and/or exploits leaking.
Thats not the right way. Just follow the money.
> Putting varnish in front of any web server will help more.

This has been my goto implementation because it can be rapidly deployed. Shameful plug: I've built Cachoid [0] for this very reason. It's a Varnish as a service platform and you can get up and running within 10 seconds.

[0] https://www.cachoid.com
The mass implies both many pages and/or high quality heavier paper, both of which are more expensive.
if MRI would be sensible enough to read memories and thoughts, how long would you think it would take before there would be a law allowing them to dump your brain at an airport...? The sad part is - the only defense is dying of old age or accident before this miracle of science is developed...
I had the opposite European experience. They seem to do pretty fine and talk constructively during the conferences I've attended where I listened to them, and I'm a regular donor to them, but, as a donor, I have to point this out:

Their communication with the donors is almost non-existential. Waited for like two weeks to receive an answer for them, had to ping them after two weeks, they've replied, but failed to answer my questions, which I pointed out and never received an answer, then they've sent me a t-shirt to a wrong country (got the address right, missed the country completely and I have no clue how that happened), so I had to ping them again and let them know that they've fucked up the country while sending me a package, to which they didn't reply, but a couple of days later sent me another email in which they claim to have sent another package to the right country. Meanwhile, my initial questions remain unanswered for about two or three months now and all I get from them is "another donation successfully charged" emails.
Keep in mind those pipes were usually built with taxpayer dollars (sorry for poor source but I feel this is common knowledge)

https://www.quora.com/Who-funded-and-built-the-infrastructur...
> The usual complaint of web developers is that they're endlessly drawn to new things

I'm referring to a new way of constructing software, using a transactional database at the core and defining every event as a transaction between two parties. Today engineers usually think of the platform as a distribution medium for data, aka. client-server. In the BC world refining this so that any party can take on any role, aka. decentralized/distributed is challenging. I'm trying to explain that this go far beyond a new JS framework or (no-)sql database, in the BC environment the engineer must be able to define and code business rules.

> Since those [p2p] products all failed

I don't think p2p failed because of technology, but rather because mgmt/industry wanted to keep control. See e.g Spotify or Skype as examples, there are many other interests at play than pure technological.

> tax evasion (value added tax and in some case corp. tax)

I agree with your view, but if you examine today's platform economies this is exactly what they have done to a large extent. They give away "free" services only to cash in on your personal data from a near tax free country setup. Examples are FB, Google, Apple, Amazon..
Posting from a throwaway for obvious reasons, but the place where I work still hasn't applied these patches after I warned their IT dept about the NSA vulns a month ago... luckily I'm at least able to apply the patch to my own system manually. If it hits us I'm pretty sure we're screwed on the order of a few thousand systems.
Why is Techcrunch writing about this?
Constant, uniform stimuli for extended periods of time can produce weird effects on the mind. Think about stuff like sensory deprivation, staring at oneself in a mirror, anechoic chambers... And if someone can find a given sound soothing it's not out of this world to think that another sound could have the opposite effect.
> particularly your apparent denial of genuine disadvantages experienced by women

Yes, women do get worse outcomes than men, on average, for some measures. For example men earn more.

It is also true that women get better outcomes than men, on average, for other measures. For example women live longer.

(It is apposite that feminists/SJWs think the first issue is something that needs to be solved, but the second issue isn't).

However, the thing we are talking about is homelessness. Men are more likely to be homeless than women. Men have, in your words, a "genuine disadvantage" in this measure.

> We are not coming after you, don't be afraid.

You personally might not be, but SJWs in general want a world where white men heve less rights than people who do not have these characteristics. This needs to be fought against.
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