skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the fact that the NSA doesn't like ME on their machines either is evidence that they put ME on the machines in the first place? Those two things are unrelated at best.

The NSA gets to dictate to Intel what it wants in the chips because the US government is an absolutely huge customer. Hell, Intel has an entire subsidiary devoted to selling chips to the federal government (https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/08/30/intel-f...). And if the NSA says computers must meet these standards to be able to interact with classified data, well then Intel better make it possible for their chips to meet those standards or they stand to lose a lot of money. That's why they get a special kill switch for ME.

Which isn't to say that the NSA could use that influence to inject a backdoor. They can't refuse to certify a computer for handling classified information because the manufacturer didn't do something to their other computers.
'And nothing of value was lost'
I interpret that to mean that the NSA said "Add this and give only us a way to turn it off"
Right, but "off by default" is different from "not included in this build".
Or maybe just slum it and buy a new Touareg as an extra utility beater.
But currency as a concept isn't useless yet because we aren't post-scarcity yet.

Yes, we are post-informational-scarcity (marginal cost of creating a new copy of existing digital information is zero). But we are not post-material-scarcity.

And that matters because authors need to make money in order to purchase scarce material goods.

I am not defending the various stupidities of the current copyright laws in the US, but the basic concept of "fake" prohibitions on unlimited copying still makes sense.
10/10, would eat the universe and turn myself into paperclips again.
Thanks for the reply, wow you could sell it as a separate product, looks very impressive! I like the contextual videos and the fluent integration with the rest of the interface. Great work!
I was actually not very good at debate but very good at reading fast, from rapping along to songs on the radio. I only did one year of debate but won several rounds by simply "spreading" so many arguments that the other team could not keep up. In one tournament, I read 7 "disads" in one speech (normal would be 2) and came very close to losing consciousness near the end, stopping 30 seconds early. In the next session, for my own health, I simply read at a conversational pace, and while we lost that round, the judge said he was sick of people reading fast and awarded me a perfect score on an individual basis.

I was overall terrible at debate but that was a bit of fun, even if it wasn't anything that should be called "debate."
Marijuana acts as a hallucinogen for some people, so I think that's what's happening with you.
Setting up node app with SSL on a DigitalOcean droplet
I won't downvote you, but a lack of government is pretty much anarchy. That's just the beginning.

See, you too want your fellow citizen to be educated. Their education leads to greater individual prosperity and that enables your greater prosperity.

Why is prosperity important? It affords one the chance to maximize the value of their liberties.

So, you could say that wanting food servers to wash their hands after going to the bathroom is governing - and you'd be right. There needs to be some form of governing because we humans don't do well without it at scale.

No, really, we suck at it. A good example is pedestrian traffic in crowds. We are too busy trying to get out the door to realize that we are unable to see the people in front can't open the doors to let us all out.

Fortunately, the government has usually mandated those types of doors open out, or sideways.

Is there too much governing? Absolutely. Those are authoritarian states and they come in many forms. The question is not all or nothing, but where we draw the lines and what we protect.

No, I won't downvote you - but I'm happy to hear you out and engage in a productive dialogue with you. We don't even have to agree with each other.
Much of the Mill is not new; we don't bother filing those parts. Much that is not new is very good, and was abandoned for reasons unrelated to the actual merits. The first compiler I ever wrote was for the Burroughs B6500, which in 1970 had better security than any current commercial architecture. That compiler is still in use.

Security in architecture is the history of a race to the bottom, driven by newbie customers not knowing there was such a thing and the economics of chip-making. We may hope that there are fewer newbies now. That leaves economics. To a large extent the Mill has been an effort to make old ideas economically viable to today's customers.
I wrote a few responses, then I deleted each one. The more I think about it, the more I realise that there really isn't any low hanging fruit in hospitality.

A few examples:

Food truck: a proper food truck can be ran quite well, but so, so many are ran badly. If you are just reselling prepackaged food to labourers, at first you can make a good sale, but anyone making their own(at a good quality point), can undercut you. (Side note: yes, you can undercut prepackaged food if you control the production from start to finish, the difficult point is quality and consistency).

Cafe: good coffee, good food and a good price point will get you a stable customer base - but this isn't low ha ginger fruit, you will be there 12+ hours per day and using your own time to offset wages.

Bistro(low end restaurant): high output and middling quality will get you a high turnover, but again, you are at a huge risk of being cut out by a slightly higher price point and exceptionally better quality restaurant (or even a one chef show, I've seen that before - more later).

High end restaurant: you need exceptional quality, which means(ibitaly) high turnover until you find the right staff, then paying more than your competition for those staff members (I have many times sniped good chef's from other restaurants). Also you need an amazing head chef to do this - many will say they can, very very few can actually follow through with this.

Goverent contacts (or private) for such as hospitals: good luck, to beat their rates you need to hire under current min wage and/or cut corners somewhere - it's a race to the bottom, as quality is never a consideration compared to the books.

As for cleverness, I have seen that work. Infact the best example is a small restaurant I saw once(and spent a lot of time talking to the owner), it was a 30 seat, one sitting restaurant with a set menu.

You had to book two days in advance, the chef/owner purchased everything that day and they charged quite a lot.

Imho this is how restaurants should be, and he was quite successful (for someone who only worked 3 days a week in his retirement). But that's not low hanging fruit, he was a 40 year experienced chef who has probably forgotten more about food than I'll ever hope to know.

Long winded I know, but I hope that gives you an idea about trying to be clever in an industry that is probably one of the most cutthroat around.
Seinfeld's motto guiding the series was "no hugging, no learning". It was set up to be a foil to the sitcoms of the day, which were morally authoritative and each episode was there to teach us a lesson.

There's only one somewhat-serious moment in the entire series, and it's when Jerry tells Elaine he doesn't want to get back together.

It's really brilliant and stands the test of time so well. But yes, definitely nihilistic.
thank you - probably not coincidentally, I'm interested in synthesizers and electronic music history :)
A Concise History of the Quartz Revolution
Trump’s DOJ tries to rebrand weakened encryption as “responsible encryption”
The Red Cross President Urges Tech Industry Not to Be Neutral About Cyberwarfare
The Prophet of Germany's New Right
Perhaps our best bet would be the European Union, as they have to put up with all this backdoored stuff the US is selling them.

EDIT: Hah, jknz beat me to it.
> Gerrymandering: states are precisely "cracked and packed" to maximize the number of expected majority-red districts in a state and minimize the number of majority-blue.

This definition of gerrymandering makes it sound like only Republicans do it, but in fact both major parties do it. For example https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/how-dee...
Hmm... initial data scanning seems limited. Only amount, vendor and invoice number. PO number strikes me as a key missing field but was hoping for full Invoice scanning.
Maybe I'm way off but would Scratch or Node Red be the right kind of examples?
Not with randomized methods (which you should almost always use IMO).
I think that assumption is fundamentally wrong -- that you have to tread softly around diversity or else it might be scared away. People who lack confidence are a liability, and honestly I'd rather leave a headcount unfilled than hire a baby bird who won't ever leave the nest. Maybe Google has the resources to cultivate candidates who make the company look better but I can't justify hiring people lacking important skills (e.g. basic confidence in their skills and experience).
I was actually surprised about the "alienates women and people of color" references. I couldn't find anything in the first job descriptions that was relating to gender, etc.

They were just more focused on personal growth in the second description. Rightfully so! But maybe I didn't get some subtle clues (just European). :-)
I found him in some tabroom results for LD and public forum-so he definitely competed at least a little in the events he criticizes-but I agree it seems a tad deceptive.

I feel bad attacking his credentials-I am sure he was a fine debater. This article is of course...quite silly. Comparing children reading foucault and baudrillard or cass sunstein and talking quickly about nuclear proliferation with "the kind of language currently poisoning our public sphere" is not even wrong.
Thanks for sharing! These brought back memories.
> Those switches went away, but the underlying issues remained. The new method was some firmware that did a bunch of pre-boot configuration. That was refined over the years and now today there's an entire computer running it's own OS that manages all this stuff.

I'm really impressed about how people manage to self-convince themselves so much about something they don't know about to the point they can explain their imaginary tech stack with such aplomb.

The ME is not needed to do PnP conf (or whatever it has been renamed too those days), and to the best of my knowledge is not used to do that and has never been.

ACPI/EFI & their friend are sufficiently hosted on the CPU, and can run platform code at so called negative privilege level at runtime. I expect those computers with ME disabled to run as well as if ME would not have been disabled, including if you add or remove an extension card.

However you are right about remote management (that's the main advertised application of ME) and probably DRM stuff.
Android market share in Europe is around 75%. When you have a monopoly market share, you get treated differently, as Microsoft found.

Otherwise, Google wasn't found guilty of anything to do with software or apps. It was found guilty of abusing its monopoly market power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the expense of rivals.

I think we all expect Google to deliver honest and fair search results. When it delivers results that favor its own properties, users are being cheated.
> Makes me sad about the current quality of our children’s literature.

there are thousands of excellent books for children now, some with exquisite illustration.

Here's a twitter hashtag with some good examples: https://twitter.com/hashtag/favekidsbookart?src=hash

The UK has a prize for excellent illustration - the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway.php

Here's the 2017 shortlist: http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway-current-shortl...

Previous winners are listed here: http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/archive.php
> Yep, I wouldn’t want these folks as neighbors.

Which folks? The ones who dress funny and have tattoos? We don't want you as neighbors either. The difference is that I don't call the cops when I don't like the way my neighbors dress.
We store all visited domains (when not in incognito mode), minus a couple hardcoded categories like adult sites. We want to show you charts that reference your overall browsing habits during the review periods, and our settings panel gives you knobs to recategorize urls from your history, rather than sticking to our initial buckets.

As we mentioned in the privacy policy, we don't store your email address or any identifier that you'd typically associate with your account. We very much do not want it to be possible to tie a history back to a person.

Thoughts?
> Also, as someone approaching middle-age, I would be taking my classes more seriously than many students 10 years younger than me.

Son, this isn't Animal House. Even at mid-tier universities, most students in engineering programs have been working hard their entire lives. Do you have the stamina to pound Red Bull for consecutive all-nighters? These kids do. Some of them have been amped on Adderall to eke out minimum GPA improvements since 10th grade. Engineering students are machines.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
I think Bubble is great and we need more people experimenting with visual programming!

We have been working on a visual tool[0] for ourselves and the development speed gains are incredible. Hopefully, there will be more non-text based programming environments.

[0] https://github.com/UgnisSoftware/ugnis
I hope you're joking about the whole stressful thing there.

If you own the business, of course it's going to be stressful, on top of that, you are talking about a sect of hospitality that hires untrained and junior staff with sharp objects, hot surfaces and dangerous chemicles. There isn't much about that, that I can consider not stressful haha
Nope. Basically every vendor is doing the same thing.
> Only problem is that you have to explicitly enable the use of custom CA certs in your app, so it won't work with Google apps as you say.

Or any other app doing nefarious things.

Enabling apps to ignore user-installed certs is flat-out evil an inexcusable.
Good night, and good news
Taking care of business in Sweden
I guess only time will tell. The thing I respect about Charlie is that he seems completely aware of the difference between being a guiding hand vs. totalitarian ruler with absolute power. He's mentioned numerous times that Litecoin is not "his" although people are free to ask him directly of his intention. Even in the little ways he articulates himself as the "benevolent dictator," as well as publicly speaking to the negatives that come with that is something that is refreshing. Not only does he have the right individual background to lead LTC to great things (whatever that actually ends up being), he has the right relations with people/stakeholders in different communities to make it happen as well.
Don’t forget this includes insurance, mechanical work, registration, detailing when switching between cars. It also lets you use an SUV for a trip, a sports car for a date, or the sedan as needed. Flexibility always costs more. Hard-coded (single car) vs Configurable (multi-car)… what’s easier?
The EU has one very strong negotiation point: ASML. Without that company, Intel wouldn't even be able to produce their CPUs.
Nah because AMD ships something similar with its processors as well. There was an effort to get AMD to open source its management coprocessor which could have given AMD a competitive advantage but they resisted, which has really fueled the conspiracy theories that some outside organization is responsible for this industry-wide stubbornness.
We had a good one recently where / got bind mounted to be used as a container rootfs in a quick and dirty test, then we decided to `rm -rf` the directory containing the bind mount. A clever way to get around pesky --no-preserve-root not being the default.
The biggest performance difference in terms of RAW computing power will be a discrete GPU. But only for some (embarrassingly parallel) workloads and not for others. Everything else will make a marginal difference -- with the possible exception of RAM for memory constrained workloads that are swapping virtual memory to 'disk'.
Input – One place for your most important work
A true classic.
Step 1. Don't.
Step 2. No seriously, just don't.

If you cold email me I'll make sure you're reported to the various anti-spam organizations. Unsolicited "cold" emails (aka spam) are always a dumb idea.
Seems better than Slack, i.e. more focused around work vs casual discussion.

Not sure if it's better than Quip.

One thing I'd like to see (though I'm not sure there's a big market for it) is software like this enforcing extreme focus like http://blog.idonethis.com/manager-focus-peter-thiel-paypal/
> The moment you finally meet someone interested in discussing one of these things, its going to be immediately apparent the basis of your knowledge is a brief article/book or a weekend watching videos on youtube.

no one is saying one should read a short intro and pretend to be all-knowing - they're for breadth not depth.

not very many people are such assholes that they'll be upset at someone for being passingly familiar with something they're expert in - if both people are good conversationalists a productive conversation can still be had (wherein the expert explains and the listener, since they've already been introduced to the basic terms, listens in an engaged way).
Globally, we are pretty much post-scarce on anything anyone "requires to live".

The struggle will be to find out how all the rest gets divided when controlling distribution of the right to live is no longer a bargaining position and discovering if we can still provide for everyone without servitude.
Yeah, but check about:support, it'll say not ready
That's interesting, but further reinforces the article's point that the whole endeavor is a pointless exercise.

Being able to impress "flow judges" has zero bearing at being able to persuade anyone else. Which it would seem would be the one useful thing you would want to come out of a debating community.

If we need a new format, I suggest an "Obama" debate style. The man clearly understood the policies and their implications, but spoke in a way that moved people deeply at an emotional level, and came away inspired instead of pissed off at their enemies. God, that seems like such a long, long time ago.
hmmmm, "No Credit Card Required" you can sign in with Github! Just give us access to all your private repositories!

Ummm, no. That's just rude.
It’s not clear that’s true. Leases don’t typically cover other costs like insurance. Also this seems like it might not have the 2 to 3 year long commitments, which can really really drive down the apparent, if not actual cost of a lease.
Easily get the user's Apple ID password, just by asking
First off, I completely agree. This really should be something you can disable, because often times it isn't used and it increases attack surface.

You can control that bit, as shown here: http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html . Of course, that method isn't documented or officially supported by Intel, and you could brick your machine if you mess up, so that's not exactly what you meant. I think Intel definitely should document it and provide official support. As to why they don't currently, I have some guesses. The first is general lack of interest: it costs money for them to support this new feature for everyone and make sure it plays nicely with everyone's setup, and maybe there isn't enough customer demand for the feature. The second is money: I wouldn't be surprised if they sell their chips to the government with the bit already set in firmware at a markup. Making that easily available to everyone means less money.
Really tired of this argument. Do you really expect to do software development with little to no investment in software and hardware? Even if you are just developing for Android you need to buy a PC and an Android device. If you want to test Android software on a PC be prepared to spend money to get a machine powerful enough to run Android emulators at a tolerable speed.
Sad to hear about racism on Nextdoor, but I am not surprised. I am an admin (Nextdoor calls this a "lead") on my neighborhood's Nextdoor and I have seen and promptly deleted several racist posts over the year that I have been an admin. It is up to the admins to apply the rules for their neighborhoods. If you can prove that your admins are passive and not enforcing Nextdoor's rules, they will act and remove lead privileges from the bad admins.
Does anyone here know how to get DK2 working in Windows 10? I tried via the Rift CV 1.0 installer and it didn't seem to work at all.
"Like Guitar Hero But For Arguing"
It is not being wasted.

It is being paid for, and then goes back to the earth.

It is not like it is being contaniminated with mercury.
You can buy Intex Aquafish on Sailfish OS.
IMHO (not speaking for skyport, of which I am an employee, but using us as an example) there is a huge mismatch between how technical people (on hacker news and elsewhere) perceive and _hypothetically_ value security and how enterprises value security that is the source of your unhappiness/surprise.

We sell an x86 server where the management engine is unreachable; there is no path from the external network to the ME. I can tell you point blank that most enterprise customers are unaware of even hypothetical issues there or for that matter with IPMI implementations. We stopped using this as an early feature in our customer conversations because they just couldn't care less about it until they hand you off to their deeper technical team (if they even have one, which is not as often as you'd think if you have not realized that security in enterprise datacenters is almost always an afterthought). Otherwise it just doesn't come up very often.

Until high-volume customers take a concern, no amount of outrage or paranoia is going to make any difference. You might as well be outraged that, for example, implementations of some BIOSes are so poor that the measured boot (hashes to TPM) don't cover all of the configuration items or vendors fail to correctly lock down their firmware flash or update path. This is pretty common and you don't hear about it because most people can't make measured boot work and generally don't even try.

Security, in general, appears to be mostly viewed as optional. Obviously I think getting this right is important, in our case for other reasons, but in and of itself people generally view security as an expensive vitamin.
iOS market share in the UK is generally over 40% and has approached 50%.

http://uk.kantar.com/tech/mobile/2017/april-great-britain-sm...
Yeah, most likely, IME was developed for a completely legitimate purpose of administering PCs without special software.
As someone who has been a web developer since the 90's, this topic brings me back to ~2005 when Google Analytics launched. I thought it was absolutely insane that people would just stick someone else's JavaScript in their pages (and especially on e-commerce sites!).

Today it's perfectly normal. I don't have exact numbers but at least 50% of all sites pull in third party code. It really is bizarre to me that this became the norm.
Bubble is such a great tool, and you really put a lot of attention to the details. I really enjoyed trying it.

My question is: So one big strength of textual languages vs visual tools(and DSL's) is expressivity - visual languages are limited to their specific domains, while you can use, say, python to build complete systems.

Do you see this distinction remaining ? or we'll have some way to build multi-domain systems visually ?
Debate teaches you how to think. Spreading ensures that nobody else will learn any of this from listening to you.
I detest the phrase 'brogrammer' so damn much.
Henry James and St. Augustine on the front page at the same time? Digging the literary flavor, HN.