skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less of an issue, but it still could be an issue.

Deployed Maven artifiacts from Central are to required to be signed with a PGP key and are only supposed to come from approved hosts. I don't know how strictly that is enforced and how hard it is to become a host, but at least there is some kind of process.

Maven Central also doesn’t allow the removal of artifacts after they've been published, and every artifact requires a unique version and name. And the names are namespaced. So you don't have the issues that you see with npm, where someone can pull a package and break everything people are using, and then some third party can come in and publish anything under the exact same name.

Is this model perfectly secure? No, you still have to trust that the artifact was signed by a non-malicious person from a host that was not compromised.
Ah my mistake, that was from badcede's article at the top.
We had fleets of electric trucks in the UK back in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
How Equifax Got Hacked
I would appreciate you pointing out specific practices you think I have wrong, and what the right ones are for those issues.
You learn branch prediction in most CS, CE or EE programs.
> High confidence, about very specific things. Not all the things, i.e. the goalposts.

I'm not being mean, but honestly have a hard time understanding you. Can you explain what you mean in full sentences?
Don't Let Them Paste Passwords
Perhaps I'm overly paranoid. A public PC could be infected with god-knows-what malware that siphons off whatever that text is entered or rendered in a page or on the screen.
Unless you connect from that server to others.
AWS to host DOD most sensitive data
The Father of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed
I, personally, criticize it because I consider it to be abuse. The individuals hired for these kinds of conditions are typically underpaid and overworked, and come out of it burnt out and hating their profession.

EA did this, and were successfully sued for it. The consequences for their actions were greater than just being sued, however; an entire generation or two of game developers were burnt out on their passion and moved away from the gaming industry.
But a nurse is a nurse whether male or female, it's not directly comparable. And since when is the term "actress" not a thing?
Being able to easily block autoplay video is what I've missed most about flash. I have blocked the CDNs that many news sites use to play videos, but some always get through. I'm just disappointed that we'll have to wait until Jan for this.
"I use Patreon on a lot, and I don't have any expectation that they are doing it for free."

That's not really the criticism you're responding to though. It's not "People will be upset Patreon makes money", it is "people will be upset that Patreon will have to take SO MUCH MONEY from people giving it to others to justify their valuation."
As a plain-text editor fan, I use Org mode in Emacs for Tree-based documentation and blogging.
Both Anaconda (for Python, https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/packages/pkg-docs) and Microsoft (for R, https://mran.microsoft.com/) have "reviewed and audited" collections of packages for their languages. That's part of what you pay for when you buy support for the open source tools.
Which stock trading firms do you use? Most I've seen are 5-10$ per trade and small % for currency exchange transactions. Paying 10-15% for a stock trade could easily cost $10s of 1000 in commisions which is clearly not the case. Also for small trading Robinhood has free trades.
Creator of BC here. If you click on a brand (outside of a swatch, which will just copy the color to your clipboard), that expands the row. If there is URL the data was sourced from, a "Source URL" link will display there. Looks like Adobe was added before we were doing that, but if you expand a brand like 500px, you'll see it.
Mercury is also real damn small. Just a tiny bit bigger than Earth's moon.
Let's talk data vis for a minute. The three values are sequential, so there's no need for tic-tac bar charts on every item. There's also no need for two colors in the same chart, that's just more cognitive load. Something like this is crying out for a heat map, so you can quickly scan.

Here's my take after some quick hacking: https://i.imgur.com/w4AkvQb.png
Landing page looks really nice but I couldn't see any pricing.

I couldn't see any reason that this wouldn't sell.
The Silicon Valley Backlash Is Heating Up
That is after all what we're talking about here.
The other option is they are looking for people who are comfortable getting less than 8 hours of sleep a night. This is also not healthy, but can be done.
By far the most interesting part of this post is the update with newer compilers. Intel's compiler, in particular, makes an awesome optimization.

Edit: The update is not new, either. Just the part that I found interesting. Apologies for any confusion.
Conda users: Here's a script that runs this check against each environment:

https://gist.github.com/osteele/198b50a2a208e5bc7e5fb8d010cf...
Yeah, that was a screw up by me. :(
We offer free real-time forex streams ( polygon.io ). We are required to charge for equities because the actual exchanges charge us fees per use. Otherwise I would love it to all be free.
Efficient Calendar
This was on an ARM926 running a quite large code base. The ARM926 TLB has only 64 entries, which is not much when running an OS with 4 kB pages. So that's quite an extreme (and old...) case, but interesting when dealing with rather small CPU with not so small context. The MMU has a performance cost to keep in mind.

A server is very different. Still, a blog on transparent huge pages on Linux [1] shows an example where a high load JVM application server spends over 10% of its time doing page walk: "Yes, you see it right! More than 10% of CPU cycles were spent doing the page table walking.". So there's a massively bigger TLB, but also the server run much larger application with a large footprint. In the end, for some apps the MMU overhead can be significant in the server space.

In a unikernel, there's a single address space used and no isolation. You could map it with only huge pages, and dramatically reduce TLB misses even for a large footprint application (assuming a server running mostly such unikernels, as another regular OS apps could trash the TLB otherwise I guess). Now, I'm not sure there's any such large footprint application running an a unikernel yet, but it may be a possible gain for unikernels on principle.

[1] https://alexandrnikitin.github.io/blog/transparent-hugepages...
Ethical considerations and actual productivity hits aside - unless properly paid, the company is opening itself up for lawsuits. EA was sued for working salaried workers beyond 50 hours a week.
An 8% decline is not a "collapse." Also, this could be considered a feature, not a bug, that crops can be produced with less fertilizer, that zinc and iron is still in the soil for the following years. Nutritionists always say that eating a balanced diet provides people with far more of the essential minerals and vitamins than we actually need.

So an alternative headline: "Climate change allows crops to be produced more abundantly and with less fertilizer and added micronutrients, while retaining more than 90% of their nutrients"
That's Medium for you.
That’s the format a bot uses to mention a user. But, yeah, the wording is confusing.
This is a really tool. I've always been meaning to create a list of all the works that use BrandColors or are derived from it. If I ever get around to doing that, I'll make sure to include this.
My guess is this is being called out because it's symptomatic of a toxic valley culture that clearly values workaholism, to the detriment of people's mental and physical health.

Couple that with a broader obsession in the US corporate workplace for increased productivity at all costs, and I can see why people would see this as beyond the pale.

So, yes, taken as a single point, you're right, simply don't apply. As part of a larger trend in tech workplaces, it's a worrying symptom of a deeper dysfunction.
> Fundamentally companies are not obligated to give you their services for free, which seems to be what you're demanding?

No, what I demand is that there must be a right to due process in an independent court of law for services deemed essential for modern social life. Right now, an underpaid person, who does nothing but watch the most vile content imaginable, can close my account because he has no time to properly assess art, political commentary or historically significant imagery (Napalm Girl), and I have no way at all to actually talk to a human to appeal - even if I'm a real customer who has paid for both Twitter and FB ads. All I have (at least for FB) is a "reply" box but no matter what you type in there you get canned responses back but definitely no human.
This is mostly inspired by linux piping
If we find life on Enceladus that looks just like Earth life, the null hypothesis is that it came from Earth. That won't change, whether we crash a probe there or not. Finding extant life anywhere beyond Earth would still be a paradigm-shattering discovery, even if we must assume it arrived from Earth on a probe or ejecta.

The probe we send to test for life must, of course, be completely sterile to ensure it's not detecting its own hitchhikers.
Fun fact nulis means writing in indonesian
The thing is, Postgres has grown to where it is without being commercially maintained. So the open-source ecosystem is proven for Postgres.

Whereas RethinkDB was primarily developed by one company, then open-sourced. I hope that the RethinkDB project is successful, but it's reasonable to suggest that the future of Postgres is 'safer' at the current time.
There are many of these for car names: Chevy Nova (no va), and Mazda Miata sounding phonetically similar to mierda in Spanish.
Google takes more than 30% on YouTube earnings, it's actually 45%.
To Pledge Allegiance
The evidence pointing to Russia involvement in hacking the United States election is way more certain than the lack of evidence for an alternative scenario the drive-by downvoters are giving. :)

It's not like the United States or other countries have never been involved in similar hacking shenanigans. I mean, for instance: there is some interesting circumstantial evidence tying Stuxnet to United States and/or Israel intelligence agencies. "Officially", there is no proof tying Stuxnet to anything, that has been de-classified for now at least. But several intelligence intelligence agencies in Europe and the Middle East have concluded that Stuxnet is a US / Israel product.

Likewise, there is a lot of interesting circumstantial evidence typing Russia to the election hacking. Again, nothing 100% "certain" that is de-classified. But a lot of intelligence agencies have reached this conclusion. Added to this, I haven't seen any good counter-explanations.

Beyond mere intelligence agencies reaching this conclusion, there has been a lot of US government action related to this issue (in that Russian diplomats were expelled and sanctions were applied in part due to the election hacking). If all of that was for some illusion or show, that frankly would be strange to me.

"You never know", of course. But the probability of Russians being involved in the hacking seems very high.
"irc is dumb! every server requires a different nick, wth?"
See also: PackageKit.
My point is that Tesla can lose money on every sale. Other companies don't have that luxury, and so need salespeople.
Quite a bit of negativity in the comments here. I liked the article. Typically I rely on code samples in articles like this, but I found the paragraph descriptions very readable.
> Acid3, in particular, contains some controversial tests and no longer reflects the consensus of the Web standards it purports to test, especially when it comes to issues affecting mobile browsers.

Does this imply that the standards have changed on how some features are to be implemented? Or has the correct behavior simply never been specified precisely enough? Or does this simply mean that some of the features that Acid3 tests simply don't make much sense on mobile browsers?
This is insane. Whoa.
Chelsea Manning’s Fellowship Withdrawn by Harvard After Criticism
> When I was a kid, when you behaved like that, you got a beating or you got confined to your room (without entertainment/X-box/etc.) for a few days, and it was over.

Unless, of course, the beatings failed to address the underlying issue and instead saddled you with problems that persist well into adulthood, and possibly affect the way you raise your own children, merely perpetuating a cycle of an Old Testament approach to problemsolving.

But hey, I'm not a doctor.
> You're right, it has been. It doesn't always have to be, though; computers (technology) are supposed to make our lives better, not worse.

At least in the cases the author describes, I'm not sure why this would be true. Especially once you consider that, over time, less skilled tellers get hired to fill the position of essentially trusting the computer to do most of the heavy lifting.

Why, for example, would a manager keep granting the same power to the teller to use their own discretion, especially in cases where their discretion contradicts the recommendations of the computer system? The potential to gracefully handle edge cases comes at the much greater risk of the unskilled teller screwing up and costing the bank money.
I second FreeBSD, it's what I'd use if Linux were not available. Maybe look into other BSDs like NetBSD or OpenBSD.

NetBSD even runs on a toaster if you have any lying around :-)
https://www.embeddedarm.com/blog/netbsd-toaster-powered-by-t...
Harvest: wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate research
Meet the Remarkable Man with Half a Body
Both are open source, distributed ( must pay for influxdb ) databases. If you setup Cassandra's schemas correctly it can be good for time series. Influx is more suited to time series, however it's not 100% free and open source.
This is my industry. I don't want to companies to start expecting a minimum of 70 hours of work for 40 hours of pay. Until they start adding "one-and-a-half compensation for overtime" to these job, I will always see this as a thinly veiled attempt to extract free labor from their employees without paying for it. Companies openly engaging in that kind of behavior worries me, and unless you own a business, it should worry you too.
That explains the $12k referral bonus here https://www.ref10.com/
There is no pricing page because we haven't identified the market yet (as we wrote above). Thanks.
On that note about language there's this talk, which covers language's role in the blue/green distinction, phonemes with L/R, and persistent sense of cardinal directions:

http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/oct/26/how-language-shapes...
Normal rate is 40 hours/wk. New rate is (e.g.) 80 hrs per week, so the pay should reflect that. 80/40 or 2/1 or 2x the rate.
The gif doesn't give much information, I analyse each frame, and it is this image, distorted (no hidden content)
http://hpics.li/17e2301

I tried to do an image search and it seems to be Original Content.

So what do you think , it is going to be a new Raspberry Pi?
Updated to $12,000 now
> Another also well-known "issue" is that many modern x86 clock up or down depending on core temperate (I think this behavior can at least partly controlled by the firmware (UEFI)).

From what I've read, current Intel processors simply can't be set to run at a single constant frequency.
I'd need to be convinced that they had a really interesting problem, one that would keep me awake at night. I'd also need to be convinced they understand the idea that "anything we can solve by throwing money at the problem isn't a real problem". Real problems can't be solved by money and problems that can be solved by money aren't real.

You'll find at a job that a 70% productive day is outstanding. Time not lost to meetings, travel, etc. is rare. Working from home helps because it extends the work time and minimizes the interruptions. My years working from home were the most productive.

As for the 70 hours thing, I work 7 days a week. Since I have no outside constraints the term 'day' gets a bit blurry; sleep happens when it happens, eating happens between keystrokes, etc. In fact, I'm "on vacation" this week at the Outer Banks but reading a PhD thesis. My wife can't understand why I brought "work" to a beach resort. She works in medicine so this really is "escape time from work" for her.

Interesting work is its own motivation. We seem to have lost that idea somewhere. Her work is not interesting so she needs to escape. Mine is interesting and I consider not working as "lost time".

Andrew has the possibility of "interesting work" but I'm going to bet they screw it up with things like "required sensitivity training", meetings, "required plans and schedules", "interviewing new employees", "friday lunch gatherings", skip-level interviews, open-plan floor office space, investor presentations, morning standups, on-call phone coverage, skype meetings, slack interruptions, agile card games, progress reports, company security protocols, random phone calls, trip reports, trip refund paperwork, employee ratings, changing goals, offsite meetings, time tracking, parking issues, pair programming, etc. All of which are examples of time-sinks I've experienced on the job. I can't spend 3 weeks absorbing a relevant PhD thesis "between meetings". I can't write really difficult programs without huge blocks of uninterrupted time.
You can't use the Python implementation to get insight into what's happening with a C++ implementation, because the overhead of operations in Python may mask a real effect that can be seen in C++.
It's possible that it is not locality of position but locality of pose. Perhaps the diplomat would only hear the sound while lying horizontal, but the exact position of the bed didn't matter. It might have something to do with contamination with an ototoxic substance (such as gentamycin) and blood flow to the inner ear.
....maybe....we hope....privacy issues notwithstanding.
Integrating Thor Tools into the Emerging AV1 Video Codec
I've used this from the days of it [1] being in Test Pilot (an add-on for experimental features) [2] and really loved the idea. Usually I'd use a couple of different browsers or shuttle between normal and private browsing/incognito modes for using multiple logins on services (from a privacy standpoint, I don't like linking accounts together on any service, like for example how Google allows users to do).

I did provide feedback to the developers on the following:

1. Opening new tabs should have better intelligence about which container a user wants to go with.

2. Improving the look of the tab bar for better tab visibility and clarity on which tab was the current one.

3. Detailed and clear documentation on how containers work across normal windows and private windows, because I certainly wouldn't want to use something believing that it's providing me isolation while it does not in certain scenarios. In my limited knowledge, the behavior of different browsers, in keeping cookies/storage isolated, in private/inprivate/incognito mode varies when it comes to multiple windows, multiple tabs and closing windows/tabs. That is already not clear enough (to me) that I don't open more than one private/inprivate/incognito window at the same time.

I would love for this to get into Firefox main instead of being an extension!

[1]: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers

[2]: https://testpilot.firefox.com/
I know. I just use one of the available monospace fonts on whatever OS I'm using (there's always at least one). I'm just too lazy/apathetic to bother with installing one of these things.
Eye in the Sky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_in_the_Sky_(2015_film)
Text-only Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.tty...

Facebook page (no account required): https://www.facebook.com/ttyplus/
If you can't trust the package author at all then you shouldn't use their package.
No ether, no magic, no extra dimensions, just radiation. Check out http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae175.cfm for an explanation of how it can pass through walls and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether if you want to know why we know there isn't an aether/ether and how things work without it.
It might not matter for the simple case of searching through a list, but in general it makes a lot of sense to sort your data so that you improve cache locality on traversal. See for example how Frank McSherry uses Hilbert curves in graph processing: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015...
Actually I came up with the name by using google translate. I've put in related words like writing/ideas/thinking/etc, and then scrolled through translations until I've stumbled upon a cool sounding one =)
There was a TV movie starring Daniel Radcliffe made about this called 'The Gamechangers' [1]. The movie was awful, but it featured the legal dispute and the activism over the 'hot coffee' mod/easter egg front and centre.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4590930/
Are they structured as a payfac? If they are facilitating $100M in payments they probably pull in a couple million in revenue just from processing (assuming they charge for processing, I'm not sure)
Of course, I won't apply. I guess that's common sense.

But I think this trend needs to be called out and discussed. I want to have the possibility of working healthy hours like I currently do at my current workplace for many more years to come. But if this trend becomes pervasive in the industry, I would lose this possibility.
I should have tried this when I took Regression Analysis.
> If we find life on Enceladus that looks just like Earth life, the null hypothesis is that it came from Earth.

Sure, and ruling that out is easier if we can say for certain we didn't crash an old space probe nearby.
I prefer living wage, non-gmo tautology free facts.
My wife's a teacher. Parents are insane. Schools/admin don't push back much.

If you're lucky they're just up your ass—"Why does my kid still have a 0 for this assignment in the online gradebook? They turned in their late paper at 10am and it's 3pm now and you should have gotten to it in your 1 hour plan time, and you should have returned my stupid call that I never should have made, nevermind you have literally 100 other kids to worry about and you send weekly updates on all kinds of stuff that I don't read". That kind of crap.

If you're not lucky they're the sort that loudly accuses every teacher their kid has of racism every year within the first month of school.
I'm surprised you got such a high (11%) boost. I would not expect branch prediction issues from your code to have much of an effect in Python because the Python interpreter itself naturally introduces 10x as many branches under the hood as the code it interprets.
They have a nice playground which lets you try different fonts. Give it a go: http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/playground.html (click once on the fonts dropdown then use the down arrow to compare them quickly)
The Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine Project
Certainly there could be other pathways to cancer. We know there are lots of things that contribute to cancer other than ionizing radiation.

For example, improperly functioning immune system can lead to cancer. It could be there is a pathway using EM not well understood.
This project appears to have been abandoned. I note that there have been no updates since 2012, and that PuTTY has had several security updates since then. I'd be cautious.
Wow, nightly is really impressive. Some operations like opening videos are crazily fast, almost feels native.

One conspicuous absence is that there's no way to save a web app to desktop, I use that a lot with Chromium on Linux.
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