skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, your comment is as good a place as any to put this. There's a ton of allegations about ME being a backdoor for the NSA or some other government entity, but very little in the way of good evidence, at least that I've seen. Many proponents seem to provide circumstantial evidence or simple accusations as opposed to what I would consider substantial evidence.

Here's some examples of solid evidence

- Leaked documents either from Intel or the NSA documenting the NSA pressing Intel to provide backdoors, and Intel accepting

- One of the APT groups believed to be associated with the US government is found using an ME vulnerability in the wild, before the vulnerability became publicly known

- Refusal or extreme reluctance on the part of Intel to fix a discovered vulnerability

- A vulnerability which is clearly intentional, like having ME automatically execute any shell script sent over the network signed with a particular certificate or something.

Examples of circumstantial, but still quite compelling evidence:

- A vulnerability which appears intentional, as in it doesn't require any buffer overflow or shell code injection or abuse of certain registers, but rather seems to be a part of normal operations.

- Intel pushes a change to fix an ME vulnerability, but that change simultaneously introduces another vulnerability.

- Evidence that Intel, while giving the US government the ability to disable ME, refuses to give such an ability to other large customers (Google, Amazon, other governments, etc.), for any amount of money.

Seriously, if someone comes forward with evidence like the above, I'm completely open to accepting the possibility Intel ME is an active backdoor for the US government.
Are they actually selling laptops without IME? It seems to me like they have published how it can be removed, not that they are selling products with IME disabled.
We get events in and trigger other events in the system. So basic SOA with a message broker in the middle.

Our REST stuff with quite minimal traffic is done with Clojure.
I do embedded dev, and I need very little RAM for the embedded compilation environment and even doing large circuit designs.

But I regret getting 8GB on this 13" MBP. Between Electron apps and the browser with dozens of tabs open, it sucks up all the memory. A quick look at current usage: 7GB for Safari, 4GB for Atom, 1.5GB for Slack.

My home machine with 16GB was fine.
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Maybe one day I'm jumping the IDE train, but now it's Emacs with racer.
Why aren't warehouses located at or near rail stations?
In fairness, this isn't unique to Apple devices. Most people I know turn off Windows UAC controls for exactly this reason. I'm sure the same is true of Android or any other devices too.
"Will automation put end to the European hand writer?" Unfortuantly since Gutenberg's book pressing automation Europe lives in misery.
Discrete.
> But how many resources were required to built these panels

You manufacture things like that near (nearly) free energy sources like rivers.
It is possible to get zip archive with slightly better compression rate using 7zip instead zip command:

7za a -tzip -mpass=15 -mfb=257 -ba -bd app.zip app
> The US is 61% non-Hispanic white, which is not a single ethnicity

The idea that "non-Hispanic white american" is not a distinct ethnic identity (usually just "White American" or even "American", with Hispanics viewed as non-White , actual ancestry aside, outside of bureaucratic systems and foreign in ethnicity) despite recognition of distinct national origin, is somewhat dubious. Its true that some of those national origins historically were viewed more as distinct ethnicities and even treated as just as non-"White American" as Blacks (or, perhaps more germane to the point, White Hispanics) are now, but while the national identities persist, that treatment has largely changed. I mean, sure there is a time when by virtue of his mere name Bill O'Reilly would be a reviled enemy of the nativist defenders of White American identity, rather than in a position to be an icon of nativism. But that time is long past.
- Most 2D games I've played use their own engine.

- Why would a framework be necessary?

- QB64 provides a graphics API, a wrapper around SDL and OpenGL.

- QBasic isn't that quirky, and QB64 looks like it pretty massively expanded the language. QBasic itself allowed for struct types, a limited dynamic memory allocation, and the standard flow control structures.

The author apparently modified QB64's use of SDL/OpenGL to handle some scaling differently.

It's impressive as a solo game project and interesting for the nostalgic connections. I respect anyone who can get through a project like this on their own, but it just doesn't seem that unusual.
The best entry level porsche is second hand. I got my first porsche like that. It had porsche warranty for 2 years and it costed 2/3 of the retail price. I love every moment driving it. The best part of owning a porsche is the sentimental value and the experience. Here you drop one, and only get the experience. I wonder how that will play out.
Vulkan has been a consideration from the earliest architecturing steps done in WebRender. So, the internal pipelines are all set up to be mapped to Vulkan's pipelines.

It's actually OpenGL which fits less into the architecture, but it's still easier to just bundle WebRender's pipelines all together and then throw that into OpenGL.
>As far as wear and tear on the highway: that's what weigh stations are for.

That doesn't create a system where trucks pay taxes roughly proportional to the damage they do.
Just a reminder for anyone who values the Internet Archive as much as I do: it's easy to set up an automatic monthly donation.

If IA were a SaaS, they could easily charge more than my modest contribution and I would gladly pay it.

If you only know IA from the Wayback Machine, take a look at the other things they offer and you will find something of interest. I was delighted recently to find that they had digitized my BYTE Magazine articles from the '80s!

Of more general interest, IA has the entire Prelinger Archives, including all the wonderful Jam Handy films and A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire:

https://archive.org/details/TripDownMarketStreetrBeforeTheFi...

If you previously saw the original version with the ending that is out of frame sync, this one is cleaned up so you can watch it from beginning to end. Look for the gentleman with the windblown beard when they stop at the Ferry Building.
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At least trucks are carrying something we all need, unlike cars.
The feature is sometimes also available over the Internet btw. Here is an overview of publicly-accessible Intel Active Management services:

https://www.shodan.io/report/PuIRbQpt
I'm not at all sure that that was the point of the article, and if I felt like being trite I could list a slew of reasons for debate to exist that are mostly independent of how closely the activity mirrors actual or ideal political discourse.

But, for what it's worth, high school debate programs are more properly speech and debate programs. Tournaments do include indirectly-competitive events such as oratory, in which competitors give a ten-minute freeform speech and the rhetorical qualities you seem to value are encouraged and rewarded. Debate is just one aspect of the activity.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVF...

The linear algebra series from 3blue1brown has some great explanations and visualizations for thinking about linear transforms.
> extracurricular

I don't understand what you're trying to say :( Do you mean it should be required curriculum? Or just an activity? (If the latter, FWIW football and board games club are also extracurricular. The term really just means "something done in association with school but outside the classroom" these days.)

> I don't think the quality of argumentation matters if ordinary people can't keep up with it.

The goal is to educate the student.

Also, students learn to present slowly and persuasively, then speed that up. It's not like they're talking quickly day 1. Many top policy debaters also do well in e.g., extemporaneous speaking, which is much more presentation-oriented. It's not an either-or.

I've found that debate formats which emphasize persuasion/rhetoric tend to only teach persuasion/rhetoric, whereas formats that emphasize evidence and logic (even o the exclusion of rhetoric) tend to teach all three. (Just not always at the same time.)

> but at the cost of significant extra work

IME the extra work to move fast, once you have the basics, is not all that significant. Plus, smart beats fast.
Vive and Rift are pushed almost exclusively as gaming platforms. Hence, Mac support is meaningless.
The ones Wanting to get you will also have all of that.
As I sit on the tarmac waiting to take off for Oculus Connect 4 -- by a large margin, yes. The small minority is 3d modelling and videoconferencing applications.
"Badly written Electron apps!" - FTFY
What do you think of portfolio123.com?

I'm looking to get my feet wet in quant stuff, but the high price is scaring me off. Right now I'm running simple momentum models on macro index ETFs using Yahoo data (monthly trades).
But is it worth it? Read it again...
Intel doesn't have to ship IME-less chips. All it has to do is provide a way for users[1] to disable features that compromise their security but Intel doesn't, for whatever reason.

[1] I'm aware that a "High Assurance Program" bit exists that disables most functions of the IME but you can't expect the average consumer (or even the majority of technically-inclined consumers) to own an SPI flash programmer and to be willing and able to use one on their motherboard. Furthermore, researchers believe that setting this bit would cause any computer with the Verified Boot fuses set (i.e. pretty much any recent laptop) to fail to boot[2].

[2] https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/53#issuecomment-3...
We know that Intel CPUs have IME and AMD CPUs have PSP, but is anything known about VIA processors (https://www.viatech.com/en/silicon/processors/) and boards (https://www.viatech.com/en/boards/)? Are there any other producers of x86-64 CPUs?
> If you have a simple order like "A medium #3", then its an order of magnitude faster to order through a person.

This is a user interface [fixable] problem, not some inherent defect in kiosks. You should be able to walk up to the kiosk, tap #3, wave your NFC payment at it, and walk away with a hamburger. Today's "Tap. Tap. Scroll, Scroll. Tap. Back. Tap. Tap checkout. Tap Ok. Insert credit card in this other machine. Tap confirm. Sign. Remove card. Tap done." mess is merely incompetent product design.
I agree with you saying

"I wonder if the very high failure rate in the restaurant biz has anything to do with this."

It's a massive reason of failure. Next biggest I would say is the inability to realistically calculate costs over time compared to dynamic income. Eg overspending on staff at bad times, the. I spending when required
Having almost been seriously injured or killed by truckers more times than I'd like, I fucking hope so.
Exactly. We could feed, house, and care for everyone, if we wanted to. The main problem is that we're still stuck on the agricultural notion that the moral right to live must be purchased through labor or capital.
There will always be trade-offs so disagreements are to be expected. My interest is largely in what models work best for a given system, specifically Redshift. What data models have you seen in use? Are the schemas dimensionally modeled or are they flat tables?

Where have you run into limitations with dimensional modeling? Is it a lack of engineering resources on the customer side or is the approach limited in some fundamental way?

Thanks for sharing your invaluable experience. I look forward to part two!
> Most of the rich became that way by engaging in unethical/immoral acts.

Citation?
I don't think anyone's seriously suggesting that everyone should get everything they want. Everyone should be entitled to a small apartment reasonably near their preferred location, clothes, food, medical care, and a small stipend for necessaries, without having to prove their worthiness through labor. If you want an apartment in Venice, or a New York penthouse, or a Lamborghini? Then you need to get a job.

I feel like this could work really well for artists. Live on UBI, produce as much as you like, and put it on the internet. If people like it, and you want more money to play with, start a Patreon or similar. Everybody wins.
Amazing how back of house would like a share of the tips, isn't it -.-

Side note over though, the owner was in over his head by the looks of it
"No." means: I don't care if you identify as Apache Helicopter and feel disrespected for being called "guy". This planet has some real issues we need to solve. But that is not one of them.

You can be called "guy" AND be awesome.
Ditto. I got as far as doing some basic 3D graphics in it (rotating spheres and such), an Asteroids clone, and arpeggiating chords for "harmony" from the PC speaker, but nothing quite like this.

Then again, this was written in QB64, which can do things that would've been wildly impractical in QBasic itself.
I remember reading the damage a vehicle does is roughly proportional to the fourth power of its weight.
If you want some context, I highly recommend this clear, engaging, in-depth run-through of Scholasticism, the leading Medieval philosophy which was Augustine's legacy.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Scholasticism

(If you get a paywall, pull up the link in a search engine and open it from there.)

You might be thinking: Scholasticism, Augustine, Britannica ... cannot possibly be engaging. I recommend the Enlightenment approach: Try it for yourself.
Using the 'N' word in a debate competition? besides that it has more the allure of a verbal seizure ... as you said tragic.
Does any system (modern or not) actually use `\r` for anything? Because I'm not aware of it being used alone. I'm not even sure why software today still differentiates between the two instead of treating any of `\r`, `\n`, `\r\n` as a single line break. I can maybe see it being useful eg in word processor to differentiate manual line break from paragraph break, but that's not a plain text format; in the vast majority of cases, treating them as the same character in parsers shouldn't* cause any issues.

* shouldn't ≠ doesn't
Loving it so far, thanks intent team
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Economies of scale doesn't explain why there isn't an option to disable the IME.
> They haven't featured left wing groups since the 70s.

The Times They Are A-changin':

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/01/antifa-charlottesvi...

> Most "lone wolf" mass shooters are on the far right;

The former deadliest shooter, Omar Mateen was a registered Democrat.

> it's not the left wing who are perpetrating violence in the US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/01/...

Is BLM a right-wing group? What's more astonishing here is that the media is A-OK with left-wing violence. They try to portray them as some kind of freedom fighters.
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> On the other hand, it's unhealthy to surround yourself with yes-men.

Agreed.

> I wager you take criticism better than that sentence indicates, though.

I think constructive criticism is extremely important and solicit it. It's a good way to discover mistakes or better options.
Does this "we" include yourself, personally?

How many have you fed, housed and cared for this past month, and is it completely with no strings attached (no capital or labor of any kind expected from them --- only from yourself?)

Or if not, what is the blocker?
How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets
I wonder if a car rental company could pull this off. $100/month gets you 10 car days or some such. Would be a no brainer in some situations.
I know, right. And yet you see so many people starting restaurants because they think it's easy. I can't imagine the mess if I tried to start a software company haha.
Isn't it only other JavaScript interpreters/JITs specifically it forbids?
Oh man, it seems like every bill is $0.01 to $0.03 out, but whenever I chase it up I end up in a rabbit hole of documentation and administration
good one!! haha never thought of that
They were for me, by far. What other expenses are there?
> That doesn't explain why it's extracurricular.

There is a not-insignificant additional participation cost and time outside the regular school day to participate; that being said, in some schools speech/debate has (at least historically) been "curricular" in that it satisfies core English requirements, rather than being either a pure elective or exclusively extracurricular activity.

> In a nutshell, I don't think the quality of argumentation matters if ordinary people can't keep up with it.

Quality of argumentation doesn't count in debate if the audience can't keep up with it (either in "real life" or high school debate). "Ordinary people" are an abstract concept; the audience always consists of actual people, who vary from any particular concept of "ordinary" in different ways.
My guess is that it can prove an advantage if you associate it with proper musical education. Without the necessary education, I suspect it would be more of a distraction, where you try to match things that are totally alien to your listeners while neglecting the basics.

As for drug-induced synesthesia, the idea would be the same. It can give you ideas, but most of them are likely to only make sense in your own world. It means that unless you really have too much experience with your drugs, the bulk of the work has to be done on a clear head, with a solid musical foundation.
Decentralized Cloud enables users to easily transfer large files of any format
Just chiming in that the artists can eventually learn. I got out, but you are 100% correct.

It's an absolute fools game, and I hope that my children don't follow my footsteps in that regard.
Handy website that curates the latest drone and rc flying videos on YouTube
You should take a look at this post from Android Police: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/10/google-nerfing-home-...

Apparently there's a feature in the Google Home Mini that allows you to long press on the speaker to bypass the hot word detection ("Ok/hey Google"). Apparently there was a bug on this feature and random sounds could activate the listening of the Home, so it was recording data all day long.
Trouble gaining streamers for streaming platform
I created a streaming platform called WatchBuddie that is based around social viewing. So the main concept is that a streamer can stream themselves watching a show, movie or sport and the viewer can watch along with them and get their reactions and commentary. Viewers can also subscribe to the streamer at a monthly cost and donate to the streamer directly from the site to support the streamer. My problem is that I am having trouble getting streamers to stream on the site. Would it be a good idea to pay people to stream on the platform at first to gain some traction and bring more people to the site? Thanks for all the help and advice.

The site can be found here: https://watchbuddie.com
That's rather specifically not the same attack.

One uses the normal OAuth flow and mis-represents a valid application identity in order to get the user to grant permissions normally. The other flow, that the grandparent refers to, redirects users to a phishing domain and steals credentials.
Secure Voice Calls: Now with Threema Work
Now you can also make secure voice calls with Threema, the secure chatting app.

[Disclaimer: I feel like I should make a little bit free advertisement for this chatting (and now phone) app, which originated from Switzerland. It has >3 MM installs in German speaking countries and I am a happy user. It has little recognition in the English speaking world. Unfortunately]
What is the DOJ going to say when China, Russia, and every other country wants access to phones or is their position that its ok for the USA but not ok for everyone else?

Apple will have to agree or withdraw from those countries or break faith with users. What do Apple shareholders think about that?
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I stand corrected, it doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

I can find old rpms and deb files with rm aliased in /etc/skel/.bashrc or /etc/skel/profile/aliases.sh, but the most recent I found is in a bash 3.2 package, so this practice seems to have stopped quite a few years ago.
> There are plenty of poor places with people starving

No, actually there's not. Starvation is mostly linked to conflict zones nowadays. In normal conditions starvation is pretty much a problem from the past. Look at the WHO report on poverty and how things have clearly improved since, let's say the 70s or 80s.
Purism Meets Its $1.5M Goal for the Librem 5 Smartphone
That’s not really just a recording of the champions is it? It’s a selective edit of bits of the debate with a news interview with the winners. it’s intentionally jarring. Do you have a link to the actual recording? The owner of the clip you linked to removed his link to the actual debate recording after the poster of the original recording asked that this be taken down.
Given there are two prompts that the document is trying to do something "different", and the second tells you explicitly it's trying to run an executable and provides a path, is this realistically exploitable?
What exactly makes the code look like it's 2009? And what was wrong with the
code that was written in 2009?
Think about how much you value your time and how doing that will affect your happiness.
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Just tried it with the Nightly by setting gfx.webrender.enabled to true in about:config. Wow, that thing flies. It's seriously amazing. And so far no bugs or visual inconsistencies I could detect. Firefox is really making great progress on this front!
Maybe it is a business opportunity for a system builder -- disable IME, eat bricking risk (minimal if you set up a rigorous process), then sell the end system to the consumer.

I would gladly buy one
> What is the DOJ going to say when China, Russia, and every other country wants access to phones

I suspect that the people that are in support of this are perfectly fine with every government being authoritarian and surveilling everything within its own borders. (Of course, they want their own covert operations to be immune to that, but they aren't concerned with following local law, anyway, so that's not an issue.)
Hmmm, this stumped me for a while. Your argument makes complete sense, but then why do I need drivers for my OS to access the NIC, when it should be able to use the same API exposed to BIOS? So I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment

It's fairly light on details, but my interpretation is that for a NIC to support PXE boot it has to have firmware that exposes a standardized API so that the boot loader can functions as a DHCP client and a TFTP client. As far as I can tell, the NIC doesn't have to provide some standardized method for general access, just those two things. The NIC could even have a completely different, completely separate API that it expects the OS to use, and just has some firmware that acts as a shim to expose to the boot loader the PXE client API.

Assuming this is true, Intel ME could access the NIC using the PXE boot API, but this only gives it the ability to act as a DHCP client and TFTP client, not arbitrary networking operations.

I could be completely wrong about that, though. This is, at best, an educated guess.