skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed.

The problem I have is that with the same mindset I should be able to say that about GCHQ/MI5/MI6 (intelligence services of my own country) but I cannot in all good conscience support a lot of what they do.

It seems like they exist more to protect the interests of the landed elite, the wealthy, privileged and powerful than they do to protect the nation and its people. The latter is just misdirection.
Don't do more than one at the same time - its how you get no results for any.
I suspect he means that without of the success of the iPhone and then the iPad the emphasis in Windows 8 of having a "touch" interface might not have been there.
Nokia fits in a bigger picture of large European tech firms which stumbled over the last 20 year, sold off and shut down divisions before radically restructuring and reemerging as a smaller but more nimble companies. What is very worrying however that unlike in the US, which had similar scenarios with HP and IBM, hardly anything close to new giants of the likes of Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon appeared during that timeframe in the EU
IOMMUs are designed to prevent peripherals accessing all of memory, so you don't need to disable DMA.

If a device did manage to escape the confines of the IOMMU somehow, then it would likely just get the encrypted pages, which would be garbage without the keys to decrypt them.
Thanks for a great reply! Binary edited is written on the white board from the picture in the article.
>Can you manage a tech company without understanding technology?

Yes. You just need to understand people, markets, and processes.

Any deep technology insight will be irrelevant -- the right advisors from your stuff (which you'll know who they are, since, as we said above, you can understand people -- including when they are full of shit or not), can explain it to you "like you are five".

Taleb makes a similar point described here that extends beyond the domains in the story:

One of the most successful traders to ever buy and sell green lumber – which is freshly cut wood – actually had no idea what he was trading. He spent his entire career trading green lumber career believing the product was just wood painted green, and not newly cut trees. His ignorance of the product had no impact on his ability to make money trading it. The term “Green Lumber Fallacy” was coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his excellent book ‘Antifragile’, where he outlined a second similar situation: a star Swiss Franc trader who’s inability to locate Switzerland on the map didn’t hinder his ability to make money trading its currency.

https://www.pinnacle.com/en/betting-articles/betting-psychol...
Maybe you (subconsciously?) keep going for the same type of girls?
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Fair enough, I misunderstood your post it seems.
Are you doing this for money, or for learning maybe? I think defining your goal is really important in order to work toward it.

I'm doing projects for learning, so I only care about adding new useless features that are technically interesting to me, without a time limit.
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It's a fundamentally flawed metric and not really indicative of the top 1 million sites or anything else, all it shows is people who have that cr*p toolbar installed, and that's usually just actual website owners who should know better.
Perhaps, just as browsers have started to take steps to show insecure HTTP as actually insecure, rather than just an absence of security indications, it might make sense to introduce such measures for other features as well. For instance, perhaps browsers could phase in requirements for the most critical security features (e.g. secureonly cookies) to be marked as secure at all, and some of the features (such as CSP) to be marked as EV.
Yeah cause having an IA always on, connected to you entire house, to turn off the light is definitely easier than a switch.
I'd never seen the paper on Porcaro's drumming (or indeed really found anything as deep as this, I've done everything with my own very simple analysis), and it's fantastically detailed and looks very interesting. I'm a music tech teacher and producer, and this is an ideal bit of information for me to take in to help teach people how to make their sequencing more convincing. Thanks for posting it.
OK, I see. For the record, USB devices can't simply request the host controller to read or write whatever they want, as it was the case with FireWire and Thunderbolt, which is why people say that "USB doesn't have DMA". The controller will only do DMA to/from OS-specified USB buffers.

This SE post says something about DMA in USB 3.1, but I couldn't quickly find any confirmation that something has changed in version 3.1 in that regard. I didn't follow this standard closely, though.

However, 3.x controllers usually run firmware blobs of unknown quality and if a device manages to pwn this firmware then it may turn out to be able to access other memory. I think that's what the poster was worried about.

I don't think it's possible to "disable USB DMA". At least in case of 1.x/2.0 controllers most of the communication between OS and controller happens through RAM data structures and nothing would work without DMA.

The right solution is of course IOMMU.
Reminds me of this tweet-video, which illustrates well the banality of a lot of """exciting""" movie-like gameplay:

https://twitter.com/robotduck/status/759529875992698880
This is why people should move to things like OpenNIC or to a DNS-less address scheme like the ones used in namecoin/tor/i2p. The ICANN scammers should be stopped.
>a restricted subset of JavaScript

This actually isn't the case. Browsers provide a virtual machine which can run assembly code with web assembly, its that simple, nothing about it necessitates javascript except that its the interface to the DOM, in the future it could very well be possible to have a new script tag type which is ASM and requires zero javascript or javascript runtime.
I think you have it backwards. PG's writing was popular before YC was popular, and it certainly wasn't popular because of Viaweb. It was popular because he's a very good writer, expressing interesting ideas with an uncommon clarity and concision.

He came to give a talk at my university when YC was just getting started, and while I was a junior there, about how we could start a startup, rather than going to big companies and working for others. This was very eye opening and exciting, and it was completely independent of his previous achievements - I had never heard of him before that talk, and I had never heard of his startup.
Electricity demand is lower at night, so they can use the excess electricity at that time to pump the water, and release it during the day to provide extra power during peak periods.
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Its inevitable that all of those who want to replace javascript will push facilities into the web assembly spec to remove javascript from the equation.
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First part of the "Implementation" section: they thought it was too large and slow for their compiler speed goals.

https://golang.org/doc/faq#Implementation
I always mixed in lim x->0 sin(x)/x.
This is a 2006 article which was cited by 600 or so papers.
I find this paper extremely interesting and I did a quick search on author's name, and a recent paper (2017) which has the same author [0] says:

"We conclude that over an 8-week intervention period, the protein intake distribution pattern in mixed meals does not play an important role in determining anabolic response, muscle strength, or functional outcomes."

Biology is hard!

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28318687
Even if someone doesn't work in the public sector, they depend on the widespread acceptance of major tenets of 'big government' ideology for their union perks.

Unions only have power because the law forces employers to negotiate exclusively with them once a bargaining unit votes to unionize. Without this type of legislation, which thoroughly violates property rights, employers would boot all unions, including the NewsGuild, to the curb.

>But even if it were true, I don't think federal workers and journalists have nearly the same power as large corporations

Are you sure that's true? Have you added up all of the compensation of unionized workers to see what it adds up to? And what about numbers? Money is very important, but having numbers helps too.
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This is HN, link to the actual paper
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/6/e1700564.full
and to the researchers own site
https://tepetelegrams.wordpress.com/
There is ZERO reason to link to some site regurgitating a press release, even if it is the Guardian.
I agree, thank you for the clarification and additional examples!
Surprised to find this not mentioned in the article and buried in comments. It's the first thing that comes to my mind as not merely a benefit, but an essential role played by the named returns.
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This seems a similar model to the .sucks TLD. They offered domains to company owners for $2500 before offering them to the public.
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Casual browsing of Jay's Twitter suggests he might be behind it. Also from:

http://www.dnsfan.com/2015/11/hammer-nails-and-feedback.html

> ICANN's core values are creativity, innovation, and respect the flow of information. The .Feedback registry is innovating and following those core values by allowing transparency with an independent review system that can be operated by anyone willing to sponsor a name. The .Feedback domain is different from all the other registries. It is human nature to fear change and innovation, this registry doesn't want to be in the business of selling just DNS domains like every other registry. We want to innovate!

(Innovation my ass...)

Also2, this seems to be the official page for the operation:

http://www.nic.feedback/

EDIT: Jay seems to be a big fish in the industry, so this is somewhat surprising.
I haven't met a single taxi driver in Shenzen who understood English so that is the same across the border from my experience.

I agree with the bank account. When I worked in HK, opening a bank account was problematic. But that has been in other countries as well I worked from because I rarely had a permanent job, mostly doing contracts.
Looks like Subresource Integrity not yet supported on iOS or Edge but I suppose the users running Chrome/Firefox benefit from better security by proactively picking a browser.
>'Would you rather live in a society where everyone has a right to medical care regardless of their social standing or financial wherewithal, but some people will die because of bureaucratic incompetence or because the person who could've saved them has no incentive to?'

That is delusional. As a doctor in a single payer country, I can categorically say that the quality of living of myself and my colleagues is excellent. In fact, for those not from privileged backgrounds (many, as we have relatively affordable tertiary education) not having a quarter to a half a million of debt" graduation actually means we are better off.

So there's that, then there's the fact that I aggregate, the level of care in Australia, or the uk, or Japan, or Germany, is actually substantially better than that I the US.

Inform yourself sir.
Interesting! Do you plan to share your findings?
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I'm not sure which ORMs you worked with (any?), but that's not how they work. You don't pull the whole table to filter it in your code. Any non-toy ORM is perfectly capable of filtering on a known attribute or relation of a class on the db side.

There's some irony in the fact you're making fun of devs who don't want to learn SQL, while you don't understand ORM...
Sad that the writer (calling herself investigative journalist - https://twitter.com/manisha_bot ) of the flawed article does not even mention the amended article in her twitter account.
So much of institutional investor's money that all inevitable mistakes and gliches could be quickly and quetly (and costly) fixed.
This feels very similar to Trustpilot in my opinion. The format and description of the company (in the first person) is extremely similar. The only difference is branding. Trustpilot don't have a domain looking like the company, but companies can pay to take control of their brand on the platform.
See the thread here[0] for info on who's likely behind it. It seems to be operating since at least 2015 already.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14669058
> You can't properly price the service into your economic activity if it's forced onto you.

Couldn't agree more. The ONLY way to price AT ALL is through willful participation. With government services, this is not the case and that explains why they're often exorbitantly priced and suck at the same time; two components that are mutually exclusive in a laissez-faire environment.
For me getting a home insurance for my rental apartment in Sweden, Länsförsäkringar in my region (They're split up in regions) was the cheapest one at the time I was looking.
So is this being treated as a civil matter? To me this seems more like the kind of thing the prosecutor's office should pursue.
But isn't that what OP was asking for?
Well on one hand you will definitely increase the number of ways to do DOM manipulation, but on the other isolated communities could move at different paces. I think its hard to say if the dominate mode of ui web dev will slow down, I've definitely experienced this fatigue, its a huge issue. Some how the unix way of small composable parts which work well needs to find its way to the browser.
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see comments above from another hn user talking about his experience in Chengdu.

I live close to the Nanjing Rd west in Shanghai, buy yourself a ticket to visit those shopping malls on that road, then you can continue to lecture me why should people living in tier-1 cities should continue to go to HK to waste time and money.
Yes, you are correct. Doing var return MyStruct {} at the beginning of the function would do exactly the same thing as naming return value.
I'm married with two kids. I did my personal project for two years while I was commuting on the train in the mornings. (too tired in the evenings generally).
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Honestly, quite a poor write-up. Bold claims in the beginning, but then too many meaningless words and too little technical details.
My personal project has been running for about 2.5 years now. Still nowhere near finished. :-)
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This is my first npm package, my main purpose was to learn Node, then I thought it might be helpful to somebody.

Feedback is appreciated!
“story“ only conflicts with game possibilities when you don't accept player created stories. Players will stumble through movie-like stories handed to them, but the stories they tell friends are more often about dynamic interactions within a framework (“i made my first house in minecraft over a period of weeks and then accidentally blew it up“).
Is design (software product design to be specific) progressive?
The only thing left to argue about is the question of scale.
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Is anyone experimenting with using WebAssembly in non-web contexts? Could be great for cross-platform native apps, microcontrollers, etc.
I wonder how Ryzen CPUs will fare in laptops especially around Linux compatibility.
1. So then you accept that cryptocurrency is better for international transfers in the developed world? Your point about the developing world is really reaching as well: large areas of the developing world have widespread internet access, and there are a growing number of ways to exchange between fiat and crypto in the developing world.

2. It's not free in the US..

3. People can receive cryptocurrency in commercial exchange. It's not just through purchasing it with fiat.

There are certainly areas where crypto has advantages to fiat, and more advantages could emerge as its liquidity increases. I'm really not sure why you're going to such lengths to insist it has no purpose and advantages.
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Help: I haven't had an idea for a project in a long time. It might be because of the shitty job I have but I really can't find one even to bear my daily work. Advice on how to get them back?
The idea that the American system is pulling the rest of the world up by its bootstraps is in my belief absurd.

Copied from earlier comments by me:

let's go through a quick run-down of the 'major' pharmaceutical companies of the world, and where they are headquartered.

Company Revenue (USD) Headquarters

Novartis 53.6 Bn Switzerland

Roche 47.8 Bn Switzerland

Sanofi 36.9 Bn France

GSK 34.9 Bn UK

AstraZeneca 26 Bn UK/Sweden

Bayer 43.4 bn Germany

Baxter 15.3bn US

Pfizer 49 Bn US

Merck 42.23 Bn US

BMS 18.8 bn US

So, 4 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies by revenue are headquartered in the US. By Revenue, those 4 account for 125.3 Bn out of a pie of 367.9 Bn; or 34%.

It is not easy to get a list of the number of drugs under clinical trial, or the number of drugs that were recently brought to market by various manufacturers; and, as a side matter, a number of the more innovative drugs brought to market recently were all developed by small pharmaceutical companies (Boceprevir, Telaprevir, Imatinib, Ipilumimab) that were later acquired by the big boys.

So a small pharma company did the innovating, usually funded by a university or the product of particuarly profound insights by PhD students; turned into successful drugs; run through to the stage 3 trial stage and then, once all the development costs are done and dusted, acquired for a discount price of the predicted future revenue stream
So tell me, where are all the drugs being developed by america? I would say the rest of the world is more than pulling it's weight.

In fact, given rough population parity between the European first world and the United states, it could in fact be argued that the United states is not pulling it's weight.
But men, those sidewalks and bridges are expensive ! And all my drivers know the shortcuts on ropes and will have to learn the whole map again if we use the road. Plus our unicycle have wheels shapes for ropes, not side roads, it would take us a lot of time and resource to do that. The whole industry is stuck in that case, and the market has a huge inertia you know.

You just can't use sidewalks and bridges right now instead of ropes. It's just not pragmatic.
That's exactly how I work (web development) and I am really happy with it so far.
First, I am playing with a throw-away code to understand how I want it to be.
Then, I write some tests based on the acquired understanding and then finally working code. I can even copy-paste some parts of the throw-away code if they were correct initially.

I see my designs being damaged by tests sometimes, though but in tolerable amounts, and I am happy to compromise.
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Other parts of the world are, too :-)
Could you elaborate? TBH I don't know much about incompatibilities CPUs can cause in Linux world.
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There has never been anything special about nanjing lu. Surely shanghai has something better than that? That is like going to Wangfujing in Beijing to shop....only if you are a tourist.

The nice thing about HK is the diversity of shops. I almost feel like I'm back in the states, I can find things that I'd only find on Taobao in china. Not to mention the lower taxes make it on par with the states for pricing on electronics.

Just the savings on a MBP alone will pay for your plane ticket and a night in a reasonable hotel. I'm really baffled why you think shopping in the mainland is "better" than that when the prices are fixed much higher than HK.
I get it. I only started programming precisely when the first iphone came out, and I started tinkering a few years before. Even so I long for this sense of wonder that existed when everything was hard, or at least required some thought and ingenuity.

I know the raspberry pie and stuff are a way to do that, but it feels so artificial and fake.

(No, this comment really has no other point but to evoke diffuse nostalgic feelings.)
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I don't get this. Is this the list of countries with fastest internet connections? In that case, your website data is wrong.

Afaik, various sources from early 2017 says that South Korea currently have the fastest network connection availability, while your website says it's in New York.

Also, no Romania in Europe list while it definitely have +/- same network connection like Latvia which is also in top 5.
There is a tradeoff between development speed and execution speed. For web apps, development speed is usually the most important of the two and the language ironing away the most technical details tends to be a strong choice.

Roughly speaking, C is further from the metal than assembly (and WASM) for obvious reasons; Java is further from the metal than C (or Rust) due to having garbage collection, and Javascript is slightly further from the metal than Java due to abstracting away threads (the gap was far wider before Java got lambdas). LISP, of course is off the scale due to abstracting away readability ;)

On a serious note, though, I don't see the advantage that Java or Flash or Silverlight would bring to web apps unless they bring greater development speed.

But I do see WASM as an excellent future supplement to JS-based apps, for optimizing time consuming parts of the code.
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For the luxury brands, it's the same boring LV-style stores repeated in each luxury mall. They are also priced 1.5-2X more than HK because of China's VAT and extra luxury taxes.

I lived in china for 10 years, and yes, it was much better 10 years ago, at least the air was much cleaner then. I don't see what that has to do with the current situation though, and westerners who didn't live in china always thought shopping in china was great because they could always get knockoffs at the silk market.
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This is demonstrably false on a huge number of conditions: type 1 diabetes, arthritis (knee and hip replacements), childhood vaccinations, antibiotics- you are being disingenuous to the advances over even the last 50 years here.
We recently released a thin wrapper around matplotlib that makes it easier to do live plots [1] (since matplotlib has a few gotchas). We use it in a fair number of projects internally, since it makes it easier to monitor performance of various models as they are trained, which shortens the code-test loop.

[1] https://github.com/IGITUGraz/live-plotter
Raspberry pi and similar are not fake if you actually want something of this form factor (not full PC size, and not a smartphone you would build into the wall...) to run some particular job in your house or elsewhere.
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The crippling debt is caused by not refactoring, not lack of testing. Admittedly testing will make the refactoring easier, but thats not the root of the problem.