skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case anyone is wondering what the "hidden instructions" he found are, many of them are documented elsewhere:

0f0d/0-7 were all prefetch instructions, but probably behave like NOPs if not supported
0f18/0-7 are HINT_NOPs
0f{1a-1f} are also HINT_NOPs
0fae is a bunch of assorted instructions (FXSAVE, FXRSTOR, LDMXCSR, etc.)
dbe0 is FNENI
dbe1 is FNDISI
df{c0-c7} are x87 ops
f1 is ICEBP
c0,c1,d0,d1,d2,d3 groups have a few aliases (SAL/SHL)
f6/1 and f/1 are aliases of f6/0 and f7/0
0f0f are 3DNow instructions and it wouldn't surprise me if there were many aliases there
0fa7 was briefly used for the IBTS instruction on the very earliest 386s and then CMPXCHG for the very earliest 486s
(http://datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/x86/486/Intel486.htm)
perhaps VIA continued to use it for a CMPXCHG alias

IMHO the 1-byte opcode map has basically been completely explored and documented, perhaps with the exception of some of the x87 stuff. It's the 2-byte (0F xx) ones where things start to get really interesting.
India's Traffic Is So Bad It's Changing the Cars People Buy
As a contractor, building 3D simulations for the military. It was for man-in-the-loop simulators where we simulated various kinds of ground vehicles and an assortment of sensors (IR, visual, I^2) and our simulation entity had to interact with and/or engage other man-in-the-loop as well as computer-controlled simulation entities.

Had to quit because I was moving out of the area.
My take is most people are worrying too much. I see lawsuits against big tech corp either comes from patent trolls or other competitors at the same scale. Being careful and prepare for future "do evil" is great. The only reason we can't trust patent license is because patent trolls are ruining the whole patent system, and the clauses in many patent licenses are too complicated to be trusted IMO.
Alt currency is an option for open source project. I think GitCoin is on these lines
> I imagine young employees would be happy (I did a bunch of short-term contracts myself), but once you have a mortgage and kids, it's nice to be a little more certain about your new job, before quitting your old one.

And just to make this really explicit - this means that a company with this hiring practice would have a very hard time hiring experienced competent engineers. If I were looking for a job, I'd have lots of options, and I would not waste time on a company that demanded this.
Canadian poet laureate Pierre DesRuisseaux accused of plagiarizing
They already do, to an extent. Most public libraries allow you to verify your residence by showing a piece of mail delivered to you.
A lot of evil in the world has stemmed from people not worrying. I am glad our community is worrying.
My Mom used to buy groceries every two weeks.

You eat the perishable stuff the first week, and the less perishable stuff the second week. Strawberries on day 1, oranges on day 13. Fresh bread on day 4, homemade biscuits on day 12. String beans on day 6, cabbage on day 11.

One of the nice benefits is you really work through everything by the end of week 2, so you don't have random crap sitting in your fridge for a month.
Doesn't detract from the fact that his information design is A+.
The online identity verification questions were wrong for me, too. However, the in-person verification was very easy. The instructions said to bring a photo ID and proof of residence, like a lease.
Exactly. The 5 boroughs of NYC are really 5 counties anywhere else. And people commute to NYC from NJ and CT sometimes, too.
I'd like to extend the 'DMV' / existing government licencing system with a standard digital signature (PKI); which would be applied to the OpenPGP / X.509 / etc public key you provide asserting "I own this" in a standard key-party manor (send the signature encrypted so that only the private key can decode it).

It would also be useful if you could provide multiple keys and associate them with one or more databases: 'full identity' (public listing with name) or key ages (probably 18, 21, and whatever social security/etc ages are).

The latter thing would allow for sites that require 'adult' access without forcing them to request credit cards (not always of age) or personal ID. It might not even be part of the standard flow, but merely as part of establishing an adult is involved if there's a dispute.

PS: 'adult' also implies 'able to sign contract' (such as accept Terms of Service). Financial sites would obviously require the full legal name key.
Indeed. I seems to me that all of this noice is due to programmers thinking they understand basic law. They don’t.

Most developers don’t understand basic copyright, let alone licenses and grants.
Sounds like expert-level trolling ;)
Did nobody notice the lady at 00:40 and the bizarre gestures she is asked to do during the demonstration?
robots can ignore your /robots.txt.
When I was working as a lighting director at my university.

It was mostly student staffed, but probably one of the best, most professional crews I've ever worked with in a technical production capacity. The equipment was also pretty top notch. It was probably one of the better-equipped venues in Los Angeles.

My coworkers/fellow students and I were pretty dedicated. A lot of us worked full time on top of taking a full course load because we loved what we did. We also socialized a lot and partied together a lot. Most of the friends that I still retain post-college are those folks.

I've really been missing and seeking out that kind of tightness among a group of coworkers ever since. I don't think I'll ever find a dynamic like that ever again, and that's okay. People in the "real world" have their families to go home to and other social lives.
Even though Facebook's points are valid from their perspective, I think that they are setting a bad precedent which can be utilized by all the powerful corps if this picks up steam!

Is this the only way to stop a patent troll? Or does FB want others to think harder before suing?
> To my knowledge, Facebook has never proactively sued anyone for infringing its patents.

Past performance is not an indicator of future outcomes.
It's not so much about tax rates and I haven't looked into it too deeply - although I'm sure the big companies hire the best accountants to use every loophole in existence.

I am referring to this:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/02/apples-cash-hoard-swells-to-...

Companies should not be allowed to simply hang on to 250 billion dollars.

Imagine what could be done in science, infrastructure, services etc if 10% of that money went towards those things.

There's a great Peter Thiel clip about this that sums it up very well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q26XIKtwXQ
This is fundamentally wrong and you don’t understand the license. Stop spreading FUD
> which I think of as the killer app for OO

Was this written in a book somewhere? I keep hearing it from people, but nobody's able to really explain why. OO is terrible for GUIs IMHO.
Can you please explain with regard to bee saddles?
...that wouldn't even be necessary if they didn't try to mine the marrow out of you.
Some might say that this is a function of government -- that is, the collective will of society forcing corporations and/or individuals to take into account otherwise hidden externalities. Though this is a somewhat contentious view, it makes sense to me.
Ranking the 9 Best (And Only) Female Owners in Sports
IOTA blockchain security
The threat model is "antagonist creates colliding image which is CP, claims original unviewable file was CP."

So you, the protagonist, have an encrypted volume full of the names and addresses of people helping evacuate Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe / blockade the construction of a new mine which was approved through bribery and corruption. The antagonist claims you are a CPer and produces a list of known hashes on files on your disk, and a sample of really awful images that conveniently have the same hashes.

So the end game is either bust your information out to assist prosecution of the anti-government activists, or land you in the slammer as a CPer thus dragging your cause into the mud.
I lost a five thousand dollar watch today, by never buying it.
Is "furthermore" scientific jargon? I thought it is just a professional version of "moreover". Like, I would say "moreover" to a friend, but write "furthermore" in a letter.
I'll still beat anyone w an infix calc.
I regret that I am unqualified to comment on bee saddles.
You're likely going to be shut down by GitHub. They have a special section in their ToS that prohibits advertising.

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#k-...

> Short version: We do not generally prohibit use of GitHub for advertising. However, we expect our users to follow certain limitations, so GitHub does not become a spam haven. No one wants that.
That assumes a zero sum game, which is not how the world actually works.

Which is why China could go from $1.x trillion to $11.x trillion in GDP in just ~17 years, while the US - the world's largest economy - simultaneously still managed to add $8+ trillion to its GDP.

Global and local economic growth makes it possible to absorb slack labor. Which is why we have 7+ billion people on earth, while simultaneously the global median income has been rising for decades nearly non-stop, the global median living standard is at an all-time high, and famines are at an all-time low.

If it worked in any regard as a zero sum game, most of those people would be dead or never would have existed in the first place.
How can you tell if Apple is using React for their documentation page?
He's not called "Cyrus the Virus" for nothing. (Take that as good or bad depending on which side of the fence you stand.)
Why concentrate on share of GDP? Isn't it more relevant how many people are starving? How many people are literate? How long people are living and what the quality of their life is? I don't think share of GDP is a proxy for any of those. Perhaps median wage is though at PPP. The trends there are not great, but not as dire as this (IMHO false) picture implies.
Whoever said it, the quote about digging with spoons instead of shovels and backhoes comes to mind.

Productivity is the root of economic surplus. It's the lodestone of the economy. If we stop increasing productivity, the pie stops growing. Productivity is the reason the poor today live better than a king or emperor of old.
The OLED screen could also mean a noticeable boost.

As Steve Trouten-Smith has been digging into things on Twitter he has said it doesn't look like a big.LITTLE style configuration.

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/90696042504829747...

and

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/90699098650456883...
> One or two good PRs is enough for me to give you commit bit on my repos. This has never yet resulted in abuse, and has brought in a many helpful co-maintainers.

In addition, I find it's helpful to identify the really keen contributors and ask them privately see if they want to take on more responsibilities.
Glad this got flagged, but I wonder how many other blockchains get tested before they do their ICOs..
With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold
The company is Surge, LLC (https://www.surgeforward.com), and they offer developers for hire. It is 1099 contract work with at least 40 hours a week guaranteed.
I don't think that's an apt comparison. Generally the assumption is that when the economy grows, the amount of jobs/employment rate grows. This scenario runs counter to that assumption.
Do you not recall the number of foreign Hilary supporters pushing on social media and chat rooms?
I'm fascinated by this term "going out". I haven't been able to find anything on it. Do you happen to have any leads or care for discussion?
Hey look, it's every bootstrap website ever
Six Things I Learned Building the Harvey.Geocod.io Twitter Rescue Requests Map
The GP is right. Apple has decided to call the updates to the current phones the 8 and 8+ instead of going with the 7S monikers.

The new phone that's even better is the X as you said.
https://quickrep.vn This is a website of our company, its size is quite small with 10 employees. However, we often talk to each other a lot about work and life. Everyone is quite friendly and fun!
It might make sense to separate SF from San Jose, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to separate San Jose from the south bay - San Jose borders some of these cities on 2-3 sides.
They may have just changed what you double tap to one of the other buttons.

Or maybe they've improved the battery life enough that it can always be sensing for a payment terminal so you don't have to double tap to initiate the process, just something to confirm.
Taxi Medallions, Once a Safe Investment, Now Drag Owners into Debt
It's not a new software, but version 1.19.1 is a new release. http://nes.goondocks.se/anesfiles/anespro_v1.19.lha
‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Are Reported Killed in Brazil
Most unfortunate. I did have the pleasure of seeing him when he came to Villanova University to accept an award from the Franklin Institute.

https://www.fi.edu/laureates/lotfi-zadeh
An elliptic curve key is probably memorizable (a 256-bit number essentially) but is not quantum-resistant. For quantum-resistant schemes you might be able to memorize a 256-bit seed for a key generation algorithm. You can look at bitcoin "brain wallets" as precedent - they basically translate these random seeds into a memorizable phrase.

That being said, people are unlikely to bother memorizing a 256-bit key, and even if they do they'll just type it into a shady form in a phishing email anyway. Better to just put it on a smartcard chip - it's proven technology that's been rolled out in other nations already.
> though I think if the costs drop, it at least part of the time means the demand is not being met by some other competitor

Massively false, in fact you've got it exactly backwards. See: very well recorded 50 years of industrial revolution era history.

The price of consumer goods, and the cost of producing them, dropped aggressively for decades during that time. It was not due to the lack of competition (demand not being met by another company); competition was the reason for it. Specifically, competition competes the margin away.

Input costs and end consumer prices would rise if the demand were being left unfilled by other companies (ie if the market were, for some reason, totally or partially devoid of competition), until competition arrived again. The lack of competition tends to inflate costs across the entire supply chain.
That's only for the US. How do you think it looks for India and China? What about in terms of Big Macs?
This is actually how it works. The lender gets to pick the scoring model they want to used based on the raw data provided by the credit bureaus. The credit scores you see on e.g. creditkarma are just one of the many models in use; they're all pretty similar in practice, but vary by a few points depending on what they emphasize.
I think this is a bit of an oversimplification. I’m seeing some of these appear on sandpile.org, it does look like a lot of them are vestigial/legacy things. But, I think the implied meaning of “documented” for the presentation is “documented by the manufacturer”. Just because some of these have been reverse engineered by others doesn’t really make them “documented”, at least, not in the spirit of what the project is trying to find. He also points out that some of these (0f0d, 0f18, etc) were added to the documentation in the last year - the concern is that they were hidden for years and years before that. 0f0f and 0fa7 look like the most interesting to me - 0f0f is probably 3Dnow, but I can’t find any information on the gaps in the 3Dnow set; he says in the presentation 0fa7 is the via padlock instructions, I can’t find any references on the gaps in that range either.
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This is an advertisement for AITP with a click bait title. The content is just a tutorial of their product. It's not hard data.
> You're right that code is read many more times than it's written. That doesn't argue against abstraction — it argues for it. But it argues for choosing the right abstractions, and that's where I feel like we do a poor job as an industry.

Completely agree with this point. My go-to example of why abstraction should be used to increase readability is street directions. Imagine somebody asks you for directions to a restaurant, and consider how different your answer would be depending on how well the other person knows the city. If they are a tourist, you might need to give them very detailed directions, down to the level of "go forward X blocks, turn left, continue for Y blocks", etc. Conversely if they are a native, the directions could simply be "It's right next to Z". Obviously the latter directions are useless to the tourist but the former are far from ideal for the native -- it's just way to verbose, easy to forget and easy to get confused by. Understand your audience.
He says at the end he found a new f00f bug though
> This is not the direction we want to go!

Erm, what do you mean "we"? ;)

While I agree with you on all other points you mentioned, it's pretty clear to me that the voting public are _perfectly_ okay with the authority of both private and public surveillance, so long as it satisfies one or more of the following criteria:

* Reduces, or is thought to reduce, the cost of credit to the individual concerned. ("I'm okay with it, if it means I can trivially get access to credit because my credit score is good.")

* Prevents, or is thought to prevent, the risk of terrorist action or harm to children.

* Is limited to "others" (poor people, immigrants, other races, etc.).
>They have a special section in their ToS that prohibits advertising

Ehm, your quote does not quite support your statement:

>We do not generally prohibit use of GitHub for advertising
Whether you read article or not it is quite clear the Robots will eradicate a lot of working force though not very soon for delivering products but even that after some time considering the development of drones.
Okay, I picked up where you left off.

> It is complete and utter nonsense that people find it hard to garner female and minority applications through traditional channels...We aren’t getting hired, and aren’t being paid well, because of unconscious biases.

Support for this comes from a large number of (not listed) medium.com posts.

Then we launch into James Damore.

> Or, for shits and giggles, check out the Google Manifesto, and see that some milquetoast gish galloping member of /r/IAmVerySmart decided to ram his face into Google’s hiring practices and get himself fired over crying about diversity hurting hiring practices.

After complaining "tons of writers just here on medium.com...discredited with a hand-wave", the author in the next breath dismisses Damore and his citations of Wikipedia, research articles, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, etc. [1] with a hand-wave.

> There is no biological basis to be found for any of this Google Manifesto garbage.

Tear that 10-page manifesto apart you want, but take more than one sentence. "This is BS because I say so."

And I stopped there.

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
Login.gov encryption is badly designed
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This is unintuitive to me. Source?

(I can understand why we might not be able to build a Turing machine because we don't have infinite tape, etc, but if a program never halts but merely needs finite space, how do you prove that, in general?)
Passwords in your javascript app is a crazy idea - the user goes through auth anyway, why not store their credentials there?
I think both of your "extremes" are flawed, but for a lack of time I'll just add the big one you missed entirely:

0) Companies funding the full development of large OSS projects. Examples: MySQL, Postgres, nginx, Chrome, Tensorflow, React, (Most of) Linux, Redis etc. etc.
<not a lawyer>
In particular my reading is that the BSD license alone gives anyone an irrevocable right to use, modify and redistribute the software providing only the conditions in that license are met.

So one can either ignore the PATENTS file altogether or to formally fork the repo while omitting this file and it would be as if that file never existed.

Facebooks' (et al.) claim that these two files together constitute the governing license should be challenged as fraudulent - if they want to relicense react under a new license that contains terms regarding patents they can do so but the last revision before that would still be BSD licensed and the community can fork it.
</still not a lawyer>
Someone did that, back in 2003! It looks like its changed over time (and its security certificate is recently expired).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bountysource
I'm not endorsing the work done by the student, I just thought it was relevant to the discussion. I agree completely that they probably haven't addressed all of the requirements or gone through the rigorous testing and verification required. Not to mention that when things go wrong you want somebody you can hold accountable.
Well, there's a lot more reasons to go to NYC than to go to Menlo park.

I don't think the same would apply in the opposite direction -- few people would say "I live in Menlo Park and I'd sooner come hang out with you in NYC than in SF"
It works here because the expression is simple. You only have four variables on the stack (maybe more in later models that I'm not aware of) and for those, you are screwed if you just push things on the stack in reading order:

2 * (3 + (4 + (5 + (6 + 7))

The only way to process this is to determine the most nested expression and start there:

6 7 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 *

... you get the idea.

Expand this expression with multiple deeply nested parens and the limitations of RPN become very obvious.
> Our economic system ensures that those things will not help the great mass of people in our society.

If that were actually true, why do the most productive economies nearly universally have the highest median incomes? That includes the US, which has nearly the world's highest median & disposable income levels. If it worked as you're implying, the US would have a terrible median income.

In fact, our economic system - and variations of free market economics broadly - is precisely the reason so many do so well. That's true in all developed nations on the planet, from the US to Canada to Scandinavian countries to Japan to Australia to Germany to Switzerland. To the extent a nation lacks such, is the extent to which they suffer poverty at the median vs developed nations.

Most of those same high median income nations that have taken aggressive advantage of free'ish market economics, are able to provide robust healthcare systems and social safety nets, precisely because of the glorious abundance the system makes possible.
I want to clarify context here because I'm not sure you read this thread much less the article: Treatment from natural stem cells is old news, a while ago we discovered how to convert specialized cells into artificial stem cells then into (other) specialized cells, and now this research demonstrates converting between specialized cells without an intermediary "blank slate" stem cell.

No one is dismissing religiously inspired ethical arguments "out of hand" - religions have some time-tested philosophical/ethical answers - but a post like

> Or maybe also people who have religious views about stem cell research?

requires a bit more meat to be taken seriously.

You know religions don't talk about stem cells. As you said, it's about interpretations... and we're not mind readers, we don't know what yours is. Communicate your specific concerns and reasoning if you want people to follow your logic.

Otherwise, the immediate assumption is that you're suggesting the bible literally says "don't mess with stem cells" - which is funny.