skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you find it similarly useful the day after someone else decided to re-image all your machines and then change BIOS password settings to further prevent you from fixing the problem? How about if they then decided to send you a ransom notice that you could regain access to your infrastructure for a particular sum of money? Stuff like this is real and happens all over the world. Businesses would rather not publically admit that they've been owned, either: it's spectacularly bad press.

Fortunately, most of the security vulnerabilities that have been abused in this sort of way in the past are patched quickly. But what if it was impossible to patch systems because the vulnerability is baked into firmware? That's the horrifying case that we have here. If exploiting this software (and exploits HAVE ALREADY been published, so it's really just a matter of weaponisation at this point) becomes common, then many sysadmins will be in the unenviable position where someone who can download instructions from the Internet can cause immense damage to their systems and network on any given day.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Imagining how these systems are very, very likely already being used to conduct digital espionage is similarly disturbing. It's easy to think that "no one would want to conduct espionage against my tiny company in ${small town}", but unfortunately the reality is quite different. https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/economic-espionage has some reasonably interesting information about the sort of shenanigans that are routinely undertaken - unfortunately this is just a small example as many instances are not publically discussed.
... apple clearly evades tax in all markets in europe

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-3702_en.htm
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How Cloudflare uses lava lamps to encrypt the Internet
They are probably market neutral. For as many dollars they are long, they are short an equal amount. Therefore it doesn't matter what the market is doing. It matters that their longs outperform their shorts.
I really hate investment firms that operate entirely on financial trickery instead of actually sound business activities that increase productivity.

I still think there's a problem with retail, but adding the above seems like salting the earth you're trying to grow a diverse farm in.
Make sure you read the article and don't just come here to comment: there's an important point that this isn't (just) due to Amazon and overbuilding, but because a lot of these troubled chains-- even the ones that are still profitable!-- are loaded up on debt from leveraged private equity buyouts. Once again, PE accomplishes nothing except stripping healthy companies to sell their organs.
He didn't say all. He said his.
In this video Steve, co founder of Reddit, mentions some tips, steps they did, like own account creation and submitting links on the fly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=zmeDzx4SUME
Optimizing Swift build times
The article is mis-addressed. If the goal is to change something and not just pointlessly grandstand, it should be addressed to the lawmakers who wrote the laws that make this legal. Nobody should be required to pay more taxes than the laws tell them to. Anything else is frivolous and arbitrary.
Very nice graphs to illustrate and support the points.

First I like how there is no piechart, but box charts (easier to read). Then the 2nd path of job recovery in time since 2008 show a more recent divergence of retail job.

Finally, it is the first time I see how GIS maps can be supplemented by stacked rectangular graphs for each state where the trend in time is shown. I spotted something going on in New England on the choropleth, but the graph nailed it.

Very inspiring to read, especially for the graphs.
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But if they search "ruby gems" their results for gemstones will include programming results. So instead they need to search for "ruby gems gemstone", but then some clever person names their ruby library gemstone and they need to add more qualifiers and so on.
Like what? All those use cases are easily covered and better done by scalable relational systems. Time series is just a narrow subset application.
Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk to Slow Down Speeding Cars
The EU corporate tax regime was specifically set up (by Fritz Bolkerstein) to tax companies where they are registered, not where they nebulously "provide services", something you can't define and nor can the EU. That's exactly because the EU was meant to encourage businesses to move around the continent and set up wherever was more convenient for them.

Of course in recent years the EU got cold feet on the whole "four freedoms". Services never really happened. Capital is a joke - France and Germany ban foreign investments all the time and Greece had capital controls within recent memory. It's only migration the EU is really, really keen on, probably because that's the one that suits their political objectives the best.
I don't know. I'm certainly in favor of median income growth even if it's concurrent with growing inequality!
Usage share of Internet Explorer vs. the rest (2017)
I'm currently checking the state of the art of javascript date pickers, but then I come across the page "Usage share of web browsers" on wikipedia. I decided for my current web project to NOT add any javascript date picker because the usage share of IE nowadays is meaningless and that is the only browser (desktop or mobile) that is not compatible with HTML input type: date.

Check out my open source project: https://github.com/violet-guru/Kynodontas
2009, apparently. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_April_Jokes#...

There was a small backlash about this a couple of years back when someone suggested dropping i686 support in the forums.

Apparently no one even noticed this time.
Hold on, how is that at all different from an REIT? Equity REITs also generate income from rents/occupancy and are required to distribute at least 90% of that income in the form of dividends to shareholders.

The big difference is you get to choose to sell or not with a REIT but not with Fundrise.

(not to mention occupancy and rental rates are affected during a housing crash)
Looks interesting. Why would I use PageDash over something like Evernote or Pocket?
Optimistically, it means that workers will be freed up to do things that are more important. Cynically, all you (a generic programmer type) really need is food, lodging, a laptop, an internet connection, so anyone not producing or repairing those things are superfluous to you, which is actually the majority of humanity (even if you include infrastructure and supply chain). "Humanity" itself becomes a wasteful, carbon-emitting luxury you allow yourself for sentimental reasons.

Or you can be sentimental for practical reasons:

"Eliminating the middleman is never as simple as it sounds. ‘Bout 50% of the human race is middlemen, and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated."

-Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)
What license could he have used that would have prevented the thing Intel did?

Lets pretend we've rewound the clock and MINIX is GPL licensed. Intel decides they want to write a low-level system that controls their hardware that the user can't modify.

They decide to base it on MINIX, so they start from MINIX, and at various points lets assume they customize MINIX's code to make it do what they want (this is questionable, since it seems like many of the things they wanted got published upstream when they asked Tanenbaum to make those changes). At some point, they think "let's also add a backdoor for ourselves/NSA/whatever", so they write a separate daemon to run on their little embedded system to do that.

Per the GPL, they publish sources for their modified MINIX, and every person who runs Intel hardware gets a copy of the source for MINIX, but not for the separate daemon, which Intel doesn't need to GPL. The chip doesn't need to allow users to replace or change the install Intel is baking onto it.

Now users know they're running MINIX, where they didn't before. They still can't see what custom code runs in the daemon Intel wrote, nor can they change or disable the running MINIX install.

What has been improved in this case by Tanenbaum hypothetically changing his licensing choice?
You've been here long enough to know we don't carry ourselves this way here. If you take issue with what he says then refute it in an academic way; save this garbage for IRC.
String matching (KMP algorithm)
Suing directors for negligence is not easy at all. It's hard to imagine a shareholder lawsuit that basically says: "As a director you didn't guide management to move operations to Jersey, so we want you to pay us $100 million"... It's even harder to imagine a US court being friendly to such a case.

The greatest example of board negligence in this industry (that I can think of) in recent years would be when Hewlett-Packard's board hired Léo Apotheker as CEO in 2010. The board members had never met the man and his career had been on a different continent, yet they didn't even interview him in person before giving him the job!

Apotheker spent $10.2 billion to buy a British company named Autonomy. Soon after he was fired. Only a year later, HP was forced to write down $8.8 billion of Autonomy's purchase price.

That enormous loss was directly the fault of HP's board for hiring such a terrible CEO and letting him do the terrible deal. But shareholders didn't have any recourse; the best they could do is vote on a new board.
How is that hypocritical? Individuals try to minimize their taxes. So do companies. Except a company isn't actually benefitting because a country is just a collective.

Do you have a child? Do you not deduct that child in your taxes? What about a mortgage? Donations to charity? Etc. etc.
The critical mission is to deliver as much business functionality as possible within the business constraints.

The business constraints often include cost. They also may be arbitrarily far from 100% uptime.
But blocking icon fonts makes the web less usable for you.
End of Life of Skype for Linux 4.3
to take your statement a step further than just retail, I'll say that the entire economy is effectively largely dependent on people spending money. Which is why trickle-down economics has been not working at all for at least a few decades and yet somehow this is still the resoning for tax plans.

the idea being that the 1% who has 90% of the country's wealth needs a little more to create jobs (from thin air)

whereas the truth is that people spending money is what will create jobs

it's such a shame
Yes, but what changed is the popularity of investments that track indices (whether they be index funds or ETFs). Loads of ETF investors haven't witnessed a crash, and it's going to be interesting to see how they react.
Police and roads aren't services provided to Apple. They're services provided to you. I've never once seen a corporation travelling down a road - has anyone else?

The only government services corporations specifically use re legal services like courts and patent offices. Those have fees attached and in the USA the PTO is actually a profit center, so tax is irrelevant.

There's no moral argument for taxing artificial social constructs like corporations.
The general idea of using lots of small visualizations broken up across some dimension like that is called "small multiples".

I agree, the geographic arrangement is a really nice innovation on the idea.
Excellent work. I can now close all those browser tabs I've had open in the background for weeks, just so I don't lose the page.
Currently using both Chrome and Firefox, for me it's quite common that Chrome completely dies no freezing just completely and instantly dying. Maybe at most once every other week but it never really happens with Firefox (maybe once or twice per year).
> The creator had the option to choose a license that could have prevented this exact situation

So, since any piece of code can potentially end up in a monitoring, surveillance system, the only logical conclusion is we must kill BSD licensing.

> and is perfectly happy with Intel's usage

Not really:

> Many people (including me) don't like the idea of an all-powerful management engine in there at all (since it is a possible security hole and a dangerous idea in the first place), but that is Intel's business decision and a separate issue from the code it runs.
Facebook: send nudes and we'll protect you against revenge porn
Pretty much yes, they do it because they think they can get away with it (and I would say they do get away with it for the most part).
It's certainly not illegal, at least in terms of social media. There's no contract/obligation/whatnot that a username be mappable to a single distinct human.

I wouldn't really consider it unethical in the reddit case either, but I could imagine opinions vary.
I know it’s not the main point you’re making, but gas prices near me (north east USA) absolutely did drop a lot when oil plummeted.
Simple Banking Security Tip: Verbal Passwords
Kinesis is designed to be consumed, it's not a long-term data store. It's good for quickly shuffling data with some guarantees, and then you stream/batch process it in semi-realtime after the fact.
Yes, lowered inequality is a good metric for success but it's very popular these days for it to be sold as a complete solution in itself. The problem with pure redistribution as a model for increasing wealth in developing countries, or stagnant wealthy ones, is that you can only take someones money and give it to another person once. You can't transfer a wealthy persons ability to generate wealth to another person or country.

A long term reduction in poverty and a more balanced relative income ratios has to come through self-sustainable economic development in the middle, and upward mobility from the bottom. Wealth transfer is just a temporary fix, an initial boost - but it is not an adequate endgame... as many pure socialist countries quickly learned after the glow of the early days wore off. Redistribution as a primary policy is also increasingly difficult to pull off via central policy, given global marketplace, technology's impact on finance, and the growth of countries which act as tax havens.

There is plenty of indifference in practice towards legitimately taxing the wealthy but it's been a hot topic globally for a while now and I fear this obsession has been a large distraction from figuring out how to help the middle/bottom develop their own jobs and businesses. To push up their wages and salaries as the primary goal, not just increasing the tax base for better government services and reduced tax burden on the middle.
So a person has a moral burden but a group of people don't?

As long as Citizen's United is a thing, the companies have a moral burden to go along with their supposed freedoms of speech.
Retail jobs are already a dead end and this news doesn't make things any brighter. The structure of having space that many people go to during the day with ample parking seems sound enough...

Is there some kind of job that actually needs to be done that wouldn't better be filled by automation? If not, maybe light automation (local 3D printing and final assembly) could move to such spaces.
It is general market dynamics that at times stores will have things that don't sell. Whether or not "you" find them useful or not is a different story, sometimes a store will be doing well selling things you might find useless, simply because you are not the target market.

The confluence of events that the article alludes to are that many retail stores went through a period of consolidation and buyout through leveraged debt. As anyone with big credit card bills understands, it sucks when you're spending a huge chunk of your income just to pay interest on your credit cards. (or in these stores cases their junk bonds).

This massive debt load is forcing changes faster than what one might see organically and as a result there is a lot of turmoil in the retail business.
Retail is the prime example of middleman business. The middleman businesses don't produce anything by themselves and attempt to extract profits via information asymmetry and/or some value adds such as geographically closer availability. Eventually both of these should be done by machines. Throughout the history technology has been killing off middleman businesses such as travel agents, insurance agents, stock brokers and so on. Retail is not an exception and I would expect most middleman businesses to be extinct eventually.
Are we seeing different charts? Mine is sorted by the percent change (over 2007 to 2017), not geography. Has Rhode Island at the top left, Alaska on middle-right, etc.
Why does the Per Adult National Wealth line for France stop in 2010?
> Redis streams aren’t exciting for their innovativeness, but rather than they bring building a unified log architecture within reach of a small and/or inexpensive app. Kafka is infamously difficult to configure and get running, and is expensive to operate once you do. Pricing for a small Kafka cluster on Heroku costs $100 a month and climbs steeply from there. It’s temping to think you can do it more cheaply yourself, but after factoring in server and personnel costs along with the time it takes to build working expertise in the system, it’ll cost more.

This. Precisely this. Redis Streams, if done right, will be a killer feature. Redis is already pretty much omnipresent and has a great managed cloud story (e.g. Elasticache). And it's cheap.
What do you mean by "depends on which average"? As far as I know, average is another word for mean, and median is the middle value, unrelated to mean.
Am curious how the profitability part is calculated. Seems like annuity payments or interest/payback on the loan is ignored? If these chains were profitable after counting in debt, there would be no debt - right?
Here is my favorite way to archive a repo:

ssh user@rsync.net "git clone git://github.com/LabAdvComp/UDR.git github/udr"

Any repos/projects that are important to me get mirrored to my personal rsync.net account every time I use them.

Sometimes repos disappear, or get taken down ...
I think they still want things, just happen to be more "experience" related, which are more expensive. International travel, expensive restaurants, "off the beaten" path type adventures, performances etc are all in vogue, and all are good for displaying status on Snapchat and Facebook. A $50 toy isn't good for that, and the younger kids probably find more enjoyment in using phones or with video games.
accounting for liquidity is hard
> You can use a free license that doesn't allow Intel to do what they have done.

Would Linux's GPLv2 have prevented this circumstance? The kernel community has refused to adopt GPLv3 which would have prevented any "tivoization" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Ver...
I think I came up with one way to kickstart a site like that here: https://engineered.at/

It's an HN/Reddit-like front end to essentially an RSS aggregator. Granted, traffic is still pretty low and I haven't had time to hack on this a bit, but it does technically solve the chicken and egg problem of needing content for a community that is meant to produce content.

I've always thought you could set something up like this to make it easier to find links to post to more "pure" content sites like Reddit from the onset of the community until traction is found.
This reminds me of the HN discussion[1] about the JSON license which states "shall be used for Good, not Evil". Commenters in general where not pleased with that. I'm assuming a more restrictive license would have also been a point of criticism.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693108
For emacs users, the Wilfred/remacs[1] project may be equally interesting.

It is an ambitious fork of emacs, written in rust.

[1] https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs
They fake it 'till they make it.
China: UCLA teammates facing 3-10 years in prison if convicted of shoplifting
Tee hee, do iPhones teleport all the way from China into your hand then?
I thought you could disable the headers with an extension or simply by running Chrome behind the --no-referers flag. Has this changed?
They're aggregators. There's value in going to a single shop to buy everything instead of going to 200 individual suppliers for your weekly shopping.
TL;DR: Designers making drama over a font weight change nobody but them will notice.

It's an inconvenience for sure, but claims about "drastic changes" and "websites looking completely different" are essentially nit picking.

Also, if a slight change in font weight breaks your website, your design / HTML / CSS is wrong. The web is elastic.
We just upgraded one of GitLab's Prometheus servers (we have HA redundant servers).

We saw a better than 10x reduction in CPU use.

https://imgur.com/3aJtYu9

This server doesn't take any query load, but it does take the same ingestion load as the others.

(The long down time in the middle is waiting for rm -rf on the old data dir.)
I'm surprised it's banned there... how could Snapchat possibly be threatening to the Chinese government? Are selfy videos really danger to the party? Were the keyword filters not effective?
Which ones do you have to be an accredited investor to invest in?
32-bit KDB is free
Yes, but regular German companies have a very hard time getting rid of any employees, whereas for small-sized companies there is much more flexibility. So you get all drawbacks of US startups, but 0 shot at becoming rich.
Even with high consumer confidence, retail is dying. The middle class no longer has the same spending habits as it did for the past 60 years. Its fair to say that retail malls and outlets as we know them might not exist in the next 15-20 years. Why would somebody walk into a Macys and buy and item when you can order it of Amazon and have it delivered the same day for %20 cheaper?
I really, really want VSCode's Vim mode to be based on Neovim (they already do some kind of Neovim integration.) I wish I had more time during my weekends to collaborate on such a thing.
FBI Hacked into 120 Countries in Child Porn Probe, Including Russia
Tell you what. Next time the market is down over 20% I'll tweet how much my fundrise and realtymogul quarterly distributions have gone down. @baccredited
My kids, no, but that will be a hilarious birthday present for my brother.
Taxpayer incentives to build datacenters are a good example of poor decision making by governments, and poor allocation of tax money. Seems like an argument to drop corporation taxes rather than increase them.
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Extract:

What they face now bears little resemblance to the legal system of the United States. The three men could be detained for more than a month without American-style bail before local prosecutors even decide whether to press charges, according to William Nee, a Hong Kong-based researcher of the Chinese court system for Amnesty International.

Nee said it is not uncommon for a defendant to wait 30-37 days before being officially indicted. Among those indicted, Chinese prosecutors enjoy a 99.2 percent conviction rate, according to Nee’s research.

While it is unknown exactly what the players are being detained for, Chinese law calls for a fine and between three to 10 years in prison for anyone convicted of "robbing public or private property using force, coercion, or other methods."
Aggregation, filtering, sorting, recommendations could be best handled by machines. All businesses specializing in this using human efforts are at grave risk.