skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm somewhat reminded of Jack Tramiel's pricing scheme in the mid-late 80s with Commodore. Great, popular machines beating everyone on price until they couldn't afford to anymore. They didn't capture the market and they failed.
It happened more than a year ago[1]. It doesn't remove ME entirely, but drastically reduces the attack surface in the currently accessible ring - the GitHub project has more details. Ultimately, the network-enabled bits that keep getting exploited are removed.

[1]: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
I'd be interested to see if google responds to this with something for Firebase and GCE. The browser based editor for Google Apps Script isn't too bad, so they might be able to expand on that.
Every taxi company on earth would buy this immediately.
Probably not, but in a chroot it might.
Best Buy. I worked as a Geek Squad agent and she worked in CD/DVDs. Found out we had similar taste in music and I won her over with my long hair and shitty rock band. 10 years ago next summer.
There are quite a few budget smartphones out there for under $90, without even touching the used market. Could the software run on an Android device?
Is it obvious? That is the kind of arrogance people accuse tech people of having.

The whole point is we DON'T want people to just hold onto a currency. If everyone stops spending their USD and just saves them, the economy will collapse. Think about all the businesses that will go under because no one is buying anything. I could go on but really this is economics 101.
You mean AMD PSP. And I don't think it has received the same attention as ME, even though it's more or less the same backdoor. Which they minitruthfuly advertise as For Your Own Safety:

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/s...
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I can't give a full report, I strongly suggest that your try. But we are currently evaluating nanobox to see if we made the move from a another provider and for now it is very satisfying. Really easy to use and setup, very nice dashboard for monitoring your apps . Logs are present and easy to access but generally we prefer to use alternate/external solutions for log tracking (not related to nanobox) but it gives a good start if you can't externalize them. Deployment are as fast as other providers we tested. Deployments run on both local and server side, I will need more deployment to give a complete speed feedback. Scaling has never been easier. Honestly I really like the product and the team behind is very present on their slack channel to get you up and ready. So far so good.
Sadly, their crowdfunding campaign was spoiled by the fact that they were launching almost simultaneously with GPD Win, Onda, Chuwi, and Chiron Sigma
Messy??

Clumsy fingers won't change the fact that a flash image is read (flashrom -r), modified (mecleaner) then written (flashrom -w)

Running a given distribution or another won't change that process. If anything, I could understand using statically linked binaries.
Advice for finding an IP Lawyer
How do I find a good IP/Employment lawyer that represents software engineers. I have some outstanding issues with a former employer that owes me wages for my work and refuses to pay.
I built a lot of great software and technology that I would like to get paid for or lay claim to.

Any suggestions/advice?
They charge brands for special promotional filters.

They charge publisher brands to appear in Discover.

They charge users for geofilters for their own events (https://www.snapchat.com/geofilters).
So, this is the transition plan. Is there anywhere where we can find what progress has been made on the plan? As far as I can tell, it is only a plan at the moment?

I also like the idea of a transition plan, but is there anywhere a proposed timeframe, for phasing out the non "post-transition" modes of operation? That is, as an organisation, is there anything that we can do with this now towards our future planning?
The PSP on AMD processors has not been disabled yet.
While I disagree with the GP and believe this project is interesting, I can also empathize with his disappointment and sympathize with his original expectation.

The use of the word miniaturization in the title was a poor choice. The audience of this article is not users, but hackers. In that context, the word miniaturization takes on a different connotation (if not meaning). The title therefore is a poor and misleading descriptor of the events that occurred (as evidenced by the GP's expectation and subsequent disappointment).
It would be interesting if you could share your workflow/scripts.

Especially how did you implement SKR03 (guess you use that) into your hledger account hierarchy, and how do you generate e.g monthly VAT reports, or yearly VAT and trade tax reports.
On the contrary, it's security done right!

There was no evidence of issues, yet they will still have a look to make sure of it.
One area they really target is the scientific market, which has more diversity in compilers (see also, Cray, Portland Group etc). icc/ifort/icpc still produce some of the fastest numerical code on Intel hardware and tend to support some of the more exotic and cutting edge features first.

They also package it as part of an ecosystem, with MKL, TBB, Advisor, VTune etc that help with high performance code. So it's not just compiler optimizations, it's a whole suite of tools.
Scraping Reddit domains with Python
If you’re writing a kernel, you’ll almost certainly be using “-nostdlib” (or your compiler’s equivalent) so unique_ptr, etc. won’t be there. You could however write your own unique_ptr that allocates via whatever allocator you write for your kernel. See [1] for a decent overview of what using C++ in a kernel entails.

[1]: http://wiki.osdev.org/C%2B%2B
I was looking for an easy explanation so I can be prepared to learn and study it.
Met her back in elementary school...Started long distance in college, got married last year and still long distance...
Thank you! That single integer "1099" clarified the whole thing for me! Of bloody course Coinbase is providing a service just like, say, Schwab does for stock accounts. And part of that service ought to be a nice, neat, verifiable year-end statement, "trading through us this year, you made/lost $X in taxable capital gains."

My 1099s from several Schwab accounts are the basis for much of my tax return each year and I am quite grateful for the way Schwab abstracts so much complicated accounting into a single statement that both I and the IRS can trust without question.

Is there a BTC exchange that DOES provide 1099-type statements?
We are actually using this in prod. It's been pretty good, and has enabled the mingling of quite a few different frameworks. Angular, React, and Ember can live together!
> Well, for $1000 I can get a Surface Book 1 and run Ubuntu on it, and it's absolutely perfect.

Are you referring to installing Ubuntu on the WSL, or actually wiping out Win10 and installing Ubuntu natively?

Because to my knowledge, Linux support on the Surface/Pro/Book line is still wobbly at best. I've seen some people running Arch, but problems with battery life and sleep mode abound. I can't imagine the Surface Book's detachable base in tablet mode would be working yet.
Crazy how different the approach here is from AWS Deeplens!
Blockchain =! Internet

Proponents of bitcoin as well as skeptics love to compare bitcoin to the internet. A skeptic will say "bitcoin is in a bubble, it has to burst because the dot com bubble did". Then a supporter will rebut saying "early internet companies also bubbled, but afterwords the amount of growth far exceeded the initial bubble."

Frankly I don't think any of this is relevant.
Blockchain is very impressive technology that solves the really tricky infrastructural problem of creating large secure systems. But unless your life involves building these systems, or you are unfortunate enough to live in a region without access to (or operating outside of for legal reasons) existing stable systems, blockchain will have have no noticeable impact on your life.
Remember, the internet connected everyone in the world together. The blockchain makes large systems easier to secure.
When comparing history to the present, pay attention to the differences, not just the similarities.

On that note I'm going to bring in some more historical context that may also be questionably relevant, but at least is less spoken of.
Many people today are still adjusting to the culture shock caused by the internet and computer technology in general. As this area is finally starting to settle somewhat (how many huge companies came up in 2000s vs 2010s?), everyone seems to be hunting for the next big thing. Is it virtual reality? Artificial intelligence? Self driving cars? Blockchain? Some kind of biotech? Investors are dumping money into all kinds of new ideas, hoping for them to change the world.
And that's a good thing.
But the last 20 years made innovation an expectation, so don't expect another internet just because it feels due.
In the wild 18 months prior to Tinder reaching tge tipping point (at a local beer garden).

Some people tell us we're "lucky" to have met offline, but I really think that's a pretty antiquated view and wouldn't have cared one photon if we'd met on a dating app.

Been together about 5 years. Only thing that enhances the quality of our relationship is measured honesty.
That is... Overly optimistic at best. You're assuming every taxi company on Earth:

* Thinks they have a logistics problem in the first place.

* Thinks that software can solve that problem.

* Are in the market for software to solve that problem.

* Think that Uber's software is the software that would solve that problem the best.

That's a hell of a lot of assumptions, each of which is fairly easy to pick apart.
Announcing FreeRTOS Kernel Version 10
Ask HN: What does your company spend too much money on?
Kernel code does not operate at "incredible speed". This guy doesn't know what he is talking about.
Here's a more balanced take: https://www.thebalance.com/trump-s-tax-plan-how-it-affects-y...
But he's right - most of the properties of the blockchain are not novel. Distributed consensus is the novelty, which is part of the problem with people talking hyper-enthusiastically about applications that either don't require, or don't allow it.
What you are describing is an ancient economic law known as Gresham's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law . It states that bad money drives out good because people hold onto good and spend bad. Bad is really normative saying more valuable is good and less is bad. So deflationary (up in value is good) and inflationary is bad (down in value).

Frankly your argument is incoherent. If something is bad for the economy its bad for individuals. If the economy goes down most people starve.

You also seem to argue that people hold onto more of a currency than another that currency "wins" but the currency that "wins" is the one in circulation. If by "win" we mean the currency that survives, then the one that survives is the one in circulation. Again this is all eco 101.
I see what you’re trying to do here and like it conceptually. (Although I’m not sure how it compares to existing venues such as Quora, etc.) Very long way to go in making it interesting/useful from a product perspective and attracting an audience though, basically just a splash page currently.
If you think bitcoin is a good currency, imagine what happens if you were to have any debts denominated in bitcoin.

E.g. your bitcoin denominated student loans suddenly cost the equivalent of millions or billions of dollars to pay back. Good speculative vehicles and good currencies are not identical sets.
Google sheets has a vastly inferior performance and feature set, trying to chalk that up as "psychological / political reasons" is pure spin.
> So they have about a year of runway right now.

I think that assumes their burn rate will not increase. Which, historically, is not the case. At their current increase of burn, assuming it is linear, they're probably looking at less than a year. Maybe even as little as 9 months.
Misconduct by Google leadership has lead to a hostile climate internally
I mean I think there could actually be value in a twitter aggregator for topics you're interested in (no idea why Twitter hasn't done something like that). But I agree.
I think you’ve missed large segments of Linux’s user base; you’ve definitely missed Android devices using MIPS processors.
Great answers. I'd just like to add https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync as an additional solution for bank statement import.

> I don't. After a while I found it's not worth the effort. I rarely make financial decisions based on how much I spent on beers and sandwiches, so most of these little things are just subsumed in Expenses:Cash.

Agree completely - when keeping track of expenses, it is only worth tracking the numbers that matter to you. If it won't effect your decisions, don't bother tracking.
- Practice or experiment with new types of warfare.

- Develop resources in countries of interest.

- Demonstrate that they can.

- Provide a credible threat without a symmetrically proportionate/appropriate response.

On the other side of the coin, they might try to take credit even if they don't deserve it, or we might decide to respond via non-symmetrical but proportionate alternatives.
It's more of a linked-list of Merkle trees.
Farmers unions exist. Police and fire brigade unions exist. Manufacturers unions exist.

Did you know that unions have been illegal in various countries at various points of time? People still unionised and fought to have it made legal.

It isn’t always easy, but any worker can unionise. You seem to be confusing possibility with activity.
Drawing implicit and explicit relations with organized content and relations to people is a key path for every domain in the coming future. This is a great read and research and has high prospects
You can, but the whole thing is built on ease of use, and you don't get ease of use if you have to manually encrypt your selfies.
Mate, what's stopping you from installing Debian on any of their systems?
Board games are back, thanks to lessons designers learned from computer games
One-On-One: Arm's CTO Mike Muller
That seems reasonable considering the costs of living in the valley. As evidenced before, the standard comp is around 120M for a high level manager in a big tech company (bonus paid by google to Levandowski before he left).

4M looks like a normal package for a middle employee.

The fact that two qualified employees, a lawyer and a security constant, getting a similar sum should hint that it is common.
One of the references is amusing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3445694/

>When asked why his tattoo conflicted with his wishes to be resuscitated, he explained that he had lost a bet playing poker with fellow ancillary hospital staffers while inebriated in his younger years; the loser had to tattoo “D.N.R.” across his chest. [...] It was suggested that he consider tattoo removal to circumvent future confusion about his code status. He stated he did not think anyone would take his tattoo seriously and declined tattoo removal.
A mutual friend introduced us because she was interested in volunteering to mentor kids, and I was already doing it.

I knew because it just felt obvious. Can't really say it any other way.

Married 7 years next spring. I'd say through everything, the most important thing is, no matter how unpleasant it gets, keep communicating. Like someone else said, don't bottle things up and let resentment grow. Talk it out. Text it out, whatever it takes.

And yes, you have to put energy into making it work. You were after all two completely separate people for decades, whose lives have now merged in the most intimate way.
Except... Growth.

The (buzzword warning) hyper-growth startup model is in essence 2X revenue, 1.5X costs. Repeat until inevitably profitable - and I say inevitably because with enough time, 2X revenue, 1.5X costs gets to profitable. The only variable there is having a long enough runway.

Uber seem, from the financial data I have seen, to be sticking to that playbook down to the 3rd decimal place (exaggeration for effect). When Uber does turn the profitability corner, it will be at a level well over a billion a quarter.

Sure it's a risk, but if any company was setup to be huge, had followed almost all the meta-rules on growth and looked to be hitting those growth targets, it is certainly Uber.
> System76 will automatically deliver updated firmware with a disabled ME

Having the ability to automatically push new firmware of your own creation to customers' machines is more power than you ought to want. My security threat model as a System76 customer shouldn't have to include you (perhaps with you being hacked or coerced) pushing me malware that's undetectable to my OS after it's been installed.

Please reconsider this feature (of automatic firmware updates). Firmware updates are rare enough that it should be fine for them to be explicitly opt-in. It's great to want to make Intel's firmware more secure. But replacing Intel as a possible attack vector with yourselves is strictly worse for the machine's security.
Excellent point.

The truth is we have not had any real deflationary currencies compete against state issued currencies. Even commodity monies like gold and silver aren't deflationary since the existing in-ground resource base is still very large and can continue to be mined for millions of years.

Crypto, on the other hand, will eventually stop creating new coins based on programming. It is essentially the ultimate deflationary currency.

From the end-user stand point, the currency of choice is always going to be deflationary. The end-user has absolutely nothing to gain by using an inflationary currency. The benefits of the inflationary currency is that is encourages people to get rid of their currency as fast as possible because it is losing value. That doesn't benefit the end-user. It benefits businesses and the people those businesses employ. The inflationary currency ideals are mostly based on the socialist ideas that we need to spend our money as fast as possible to "move the economy forward" but that does not benefit the user of the money. It benefits other people.

I believe that most people are self-interested and will do actions that maximize their benefit in most situations. Thus, it is easy to see that users will prefer to keep their money in deflationary currency rather than inflationary. Will it seize up the entire economy? My theory is no it won't and it will have the side effect of encouraging people to wisely spend their money. People will only buy stuff they really want or need rather than this idea of "I better buy it right now before the price goes up (due to inflation)".
A shoo in for the Oscars in 2017. Amazing title and article.
Dude that elitest crap you're spouting is exactly what killed Solaris.

Repeat after me: I read the manual pages and it's still crap.

Your best source of documentation is the oracle documents they don't map 1:1 to SmartOS. Wanna learn about network topologies in SmartOS. Here's the 425 pages Oracle document that provides a tiny intro to how you "could" "maybe" get started [1]

When I asked Joyent in 2013 for information needed to improve the wifi stack there was exactly zero interest.

SmartOS supports docker images in a really interesting manner. But again it's half baked. It may work fine in the Joyent UI but that's meaningless. This is what a normal person has to do to get it running [2]

Judging by the way you talk I really seriously doubt you have any meaningful architecture running on SmartOS that's self managed. If you want to set up a small private cloud that's SmartOS based you're better off trying Danube cloud, but who knows how long that's going to last [3]

Compare that to AWS, you have a proper fully documented VPC tool that's Cloudformation, you have a whole bunch of recipes, you have tooling around working around the nasties of CloudFormation. It's just not attractive.

You're the zealot here. If I may ask, have you ever contributed to illumos codebase in any way yet?

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/pdf/821-1458.pdf

[2]: https://blog.jasper.la/docker-on-smartos-the-harder-way/

[3]: https://docs.danubecloud.org/user-guide/esdc/index.html
So Uber cash in bank will run thru end of 2018 .

That is exact time 2019 January google Waymo will be having driver less full autonomous Ride hailing service at least in 10 US Cities in limited routes of each city to begin with ( as Phonix driver less service is LIVE at this time).

Unless Uber driver less technology is ready for deployment for real world Ride hailing service by 2019 January (even in small limited routes in those 10 cities), Uber is in big trouble !!!!!

I think this Uber 30% lowered valuation is result of this two factors of perceived RISK that is

a) running out of money in one year

b) driver less technology readiness by 2019 for real world use
> All the code that you need in order to support smart pointers, templates, move/copy semantics, exceptions and so on.

smart pointers are their own classes, and exceptions would certainly be disabled in kernel-mode, sure, but for the rest ? which additional code ? there's no magic behind templates and move semantics, and no run-time impact. It's purely a compile-time feature.
The issue in finance is the speed of change in demands. No formalized system platform with proper change control can keep up. The ability to play with data, the ability to break your work is valuable in end user computing and the type of thing that is hard to recreate in a formal financial system that must pass internal and external audits.

edit: I entire a whole.
I agree they aren't the dream company, but I do think they are helping us all. Here's a good response from them regarding the Clevo rebranding:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5umefi/system76_refr...
Yes, and this also brings other benefits. 1) They don't need to provide proof, as they tweet the answer from their official account. 2) They keep the engagement with their audiences in their established channels (I plan to add youtube in future too).
It was always something people could turn off, and they were very open about the feature existing. This wasn't the cross-site ad tracking that's probably more severe on every website you go to.
There are a few file sharing applications that do interesting things with trust-less, decentralized systems, without any sort of mining or mining rewards.

Mining allows for high value transactions in a low trust environment, but lower value transactions are very possible without that.

IMO Tit for Tat is a much more interesting form of consensus building as it can be very low resource. But it's really all about the goals not the protocol.
One huge reason why Finance pros in general, and Fund Managers, Brokers, Traders in particular, love Microsoft Excel is because all your formulas and calculations update almost instantly (unless you explicitly disable this feature).

So they can apply their business and process knowledge to create tables and formulas, pull data from various sources, and create something that is self-contained, stored locally (inside the lan, security reasons), is blazing fast, and helps them make money and generate profits for the company.

I've seen very sophisticated OMSs (Order Management Systems) built completely using excel workbooks, with 1 sheet containing orders and formula's to pull realtime pricing from bloomberg, reuters, another sheet for pre-trade analysis, another for the actual trades, and a summary sheet with pivot tables and charts to show the trade progress and summary.

As and when the last_price changes, the formulas update, so the trader is looking at a real-time view of his situation.

The same excel workbook that let's the traders do their job would take months / years to convert to a web app, and even then, the speed may not match up.

I know devs hate Excel, in part, because you are the "IT guy" they call (been there many times) when the spreadsheet gets out of hand, or slows down, or keeps crashing excel after a certain inflection point.