skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they have an incompetent management department that decided that no open sourcing ME is a good idea. Marketing is may also be incompetent at picking up the pieces after the bugs were discovered.

> 95% speculation. The last 5% comes from exercising basic pattern recognition.

No, it's all speculation because pattern recognition is not evidence, as applied here. Like, is it possible that I am an NSA agent trying to persuade you that you are safe and shouldn't worry about ME? Of course it's possible. But do you have any evidence of that? No.

"Well, in the past the NSA has asked big companies for backdoors into their products" is a true statement with evidence. "That implies that in this case there is a 5% chance that is exactly what's happening" is 100% speculation because again there is no evidence. If you can find any, I am all ears because honestly I am not a fan of Intel, Intel ME, the NSA, government spying, big corporations taking advantage of consumers, or a number of other things I imagine you and I agree on. But I think I am being rational when I say that chances are this is a stupid bug or number of bugs, plus bad old school thinking on the part of the management team, and not a deliberate NSA feature.

Here is my bit of speculation: if the NSA asked Intel to include a backdoor, wouldn't they both have done a better job of creating it? Why introduce a bug when you can include whatever code you want in a closed source firmware? You can literally add any kind of C&C mechanism you want because nobody can see what you are doing and nobody would ever know. Is the NSA that stupid to to ask for a bug that can be found and exploited? Is Intel not able to offer a better technical solution? Wouldn't it be to both of their benefits to do this right from the start? Also, why only approach Intel and not AMD? AMD is not as popular but surely has enough market share to warrant spying on.
Speaking of PIA, I've noticed I get a 403 from Hacker News if I try to connect from my usual endpoint. Does HN have a no-VPN policy? Or they just block abusive domains?
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Not that simple though,

Courts favour giving custody to Women. The men who do get custody generally have to have more of their affairs in order (job, housing, stability). So its not surprise when a man gets custody he is in a better financial position.
You are allowed to post covers on YouTube, which requires a performance license payment.

Covers are a compulsory license, so there is no way to disallow a cover from being posted if the license fees are paid.
I don’t disagree. However, when I’m buying call options for a particular incident, I’m picking Equifax in this case, which was the context, and hence the singling out of one company amongst the three.
Prediction: AWS Aurora will win this award for 2018.
Show HN: Cixl – a minimal, decently typed scripting language
Fun fact: it also gets less tasty. Many Dubliners can tell if a pub is popular by whether a pint tastes fresh.
Chisel has better type safety than Verilog yet it's much less verbose than VHDL. Verilog is the industrial language of choice at most ASIC shops, and there are things like VerilogAMS (mixed signal) and SystemVerilog (validation) that will keep it entrenched for a long time. If you didn't have to care about ecosystem, my amateur opinion is that Chisel > VHDL > SystemVerilog > Verilog.

I wasn't sure how seriously to take Chisel until I saw the RISC-V BOOM definition https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-boom. It's clean, succinct, and I think Chisel is quite viable.

It's also a testament to the symbolic nature of Scala. It holds together pretty well in JVM, ScalaJS, Chisel, and scala-native. Scala as a language is remarkably simple at the core, which Odersky does a good job of showing in his book, even though there are a lot of library features on top that make it complex and a more difficult language in general use. In this way of having a cute core, it is very unlike C++.
The first Maps API dropped in 2008. No one company has figured out ads on geo APIS. Not Google. Not FB, MSFT, or anyone else has figured out how to put ads on geo apis. I think its safe to say its never going to happen.
De-anonymising public Australian Medicare data [pdf]
I was at a classmates house in college and his Chinese-born grandmother spent most of her life in Jamaica, she spoke english with a very interesting Chinese-Jamaican accent and made us delicious Jamaican food with a Chinese touch. I wish there were more opportunities to try these authentic fusion cuisine and not the nonsense places we have all over town that try to cater to everyone with some uninspired mish-mash of south east asian flavors.
Not really sure why hn likes to make ux as bad as possible. I'm on mobile, this page is garbage.

I can't filter by location, tech etc...

I would love to apply and look around these jobs, but I won't. Sad.
Many Disney stories (including Snow White) are copied from earlier works by authors unaffiliated with Disney.
Your comment does nothing except reveal how you have zero understanding about the ocean or how far science has come attempting to understand it.
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Am I missing something here? The website states that it will "Identify devices across browsers and websites — without cookies." When visiting the site in Chrome it calculated a unique device ID for me. Out of curiosity, I then visited the site using Firefox. The calculated device ID was different.
Sure... but it's also important to point out that while cattle "should" eat grass and can eat silage... 78% of beef in America comes from feedlot cattle[1]. On feedlots, the cattle are fed grains, not grass/silage... grains that we humans can easily eat like soy, corn, and barley [2].

1. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/nil-zacharias/its-time-to-end...

2. http://www.goodfoodworld.com/2012/01/grass-fed-vs-feedlot-be...
By "DevOps tools", I wasn't thinking in terms of `sed`, `awk`, etc. I was thinking in terms of Consul and Vault. Docker and Kubernetes, etc.

The major pillars of DevOps today are long-running processes, very complex pieces of infrastructure. Which might play into the strengths of the JVM, if the packaging and deployment story simplifies and becomes more competitive with Go.

Sure, "shell one liner" utilities might (?) be best served by native compilation. But DevOps is not merely another word for sysadmin.
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Use "Find in page"
New App: The Fitness Alarm Clock
Reduce number of syscalls by using sendmmsg()/recvmmsg() to batch together multiple packets per syscall?
I don't know why companies didn't start with chicken in the first place. A lab-grown steak? Yeah, good luck competing against the real thing (and as a vegetarian, I hope they do). But chicken? I grew up on chicken before factory farming, and then as an adult wondered why I didn't like chicken much anymore. It occurred to me that factory farming has bred all the taste out of it, in exchange for other features. (And I'm open to the idea that my tastes just changed, and chicken is just as delicious as it always was.)

In summary, in the case of chicken it might not be as hard to beat the "real thing". (Though in my book, the "real thing" picks through grass for its food and spends its days running around a barnyard. That might be hard to compete with.)
'Stand on Zanzibar' is absolutely eerie in how good it predicted the future. In the non-fiction department, Zbigniew Brezinski's "The Technetronic Era" is also disturbingly prescient.
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https://jobsortio.herokuapp.com takes all the submissions, sorts by technology, and filters by location

There is logic to minimize false positives/negatives. For example, it does a pretty good job distinguishing between (c, c++, obj-c), (java, javascript), and (react, react native).

If you type "remote" in the location textbox, it will only show submissions that are available remotely.
Yes, but they don't have the "don't be evil" motto, or executives claiming some vague moral superiority to rest of the corporate world in "making the world a better place".
I just spent a day learning about Docker and Kubernetes and then Micro-Services and wondered just that: "is this for me?"

So, thank you for your timely post! =).
Lol. Was already very happy with my ryzen 1800 bought a couple months ago. Even more happy today.
Fun anecdote: My German teacher in high school, Frau Chen, a six foot tall German lady, was married to Chinese Jamaican man. He spoke with a thick Jamaican accent. I always wondered what that household was like.
EFF DES cracker (1998)
What is this for? For manual testers to run through the list and execute the tests? As a spec for automated test authoring? I'm curious why you need this. Don't have a solution to suggest right now but we're considering adding tools for manual testers to Tesults in the future and I'd be interested in understanding what this is useful for.
I am not tech savvy enough to make this work, but they do provide this to help people query it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519
I think the dark-haired guy's left hand is holding the laptop, with his elbow in the water. Or maybe it's the blonde's left hand.

I wonder what software he's showing off!
>HTML is close to this ideal

HTML is anything but ideal. In fact, it's the core of the problem where Web applications are concerned. HTML and its kin (particularly CSS) were designed for content-oriented Web pages, not Web applications.

Continuing to devise Web-app frameworks that are predicated upon developers wrangling HTML for controls and CSS for layout will lead to more iterations of frustration; only to perhaps slightly lesser degrees. It doesn't matter if you write JS that renders it or templates. It's the same problem.

What's needed is a component-framework with proper tooling (including IDEs) for layout and design. We've solved this with Swing and even Visual Basic. So, for the life of me, I still can't figure out why we haven't moved in this direction full-on for Web frameworks. If the issue is that HTML and CSS are standards with broad support, then I concur: but compose the app via a proper GUI and let the tooling generate the HTML/CSS.

It's odd: we use Webpack, Browserify, etc. for full on Web-app builds, along with various cross-compilers for JS. But, at the end of the day, we're still writing HTML-based templates (or JS) and CSS.

This is generally an unpopular view on HN. But, I can nearly guarantee that the next truly meaningful advancement in frameworks will be via a component-oriented approach that abandons direct manipulation of Web standards like HTML/CSS altogether.
I've heard you can schedule big sales all the time and then regularly cancel them unless something goes wrong. Apparently there is no rule against insider canceling.
Yes, there is such thing as the "spirit of the law" vs the "letter of the law". OJ got away with murder but that doesn't make him any less guilty.
There was a place called Dos Chopstix in Pflugerville (just north of Austin). When I first saw it it seemed like the stupidest thing ever.

Then I looked up the menu and it looked pretty good. I never wound up going before it closed, after just 1 year in business, so it may not have been so great after all.

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As a side note, Austin also has Chi'lantro, which has awesome Kimchi Fries, and some other food that is kind of hit or miss.

I think the key to a Fusion Restaurant is having a small, unique menu, not just "some stuff" from each cuisine.
There is no law that says you must set up Bermuda, Dutch and Irish subsidiaries, and use your IP to shuffle profits, or other methods, to evade tax in territories where that revenue is earned. Most companies aren't wealthy enough to do this; and in fact they don't do it. Many of them are public corporations. Their shareholders don't sue or demand such actions.
Postgres and Redis are looking at a 20-25% performance hit.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-41...
What a fluff piece. Strong sign ups driven by 100,000 bonus points doesn't prove anything much regarding the card's ability to retain its users. They gloss over the actual outcomes of the bank's efforts to reduce attrition, then provide very little in the way of what they're actual going to do differently with their retail banking division.
Curious how those of you who knew about buddybuild heard about it? Seems I hear about companies for the first time when they are either acquired or shutdown.
#TaxNeutrality
Hey Rich, your hackernews clone doesn't perform all that well globally

https://testmysite.io/5a4c2cdf819876444fa127b5/hn.svelte.tec...

I really like Svelte! But I don't even serve my content from Express middleware anymore due to the above problem.

I just feel like you're under-estimating a developer's resourcefulness to make the content that actually is static a static page, and also over-estimating the number of new, traditional client/server web apps (at least by people who are probably in your target audience).

Static performance is hard to beat especially globally and there's a clear performance degradation once you get away from the epicenter. Believe it or not Svelte.technology's landing page actually performs noticeably more poorly coast to coast in the US (>2x worse to load in California than NY--150ms vs 500ms).

I'm not saying give up or anything, just saying it might be a good idea to talk to more JAMStack people :)
Yes, but I'm a person, Google is not. Government runs (ostensibly) for the benefit of the people, so people get to have a say in it.
I was at a party with a mid tier VC partner as he described a hotel off sandhill where there was a set night of the week where the women at the bar were all prostitutes. You'd buy one a necklace at the jewelry shop around the corner, give her the jewelry and receipt, and take her up to your room. Afterwards she'd return it for cash (minus a small "restocking" fee).

He seemed bewildered by the whole scene, but was very matter of fact about it/I don't think he was bullshitting. This stuff is definitely happening in a regular and organized way, albeit well above my pay grade.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16052821
There is no agenda. I am simply asking since you indicated that men often have a choice when it comes to homelessness and asked you whether you believed the same applied to women when it came to the top.

But I can now see that it's really a fruitless discussion as you seem to be more interested in preaching rather than debating and so I will leat you get on with it.
As an aside, I'm sad to see downvotes being used as a "I disagree with this post" (a la reddit) instead of a moderation tool to punish offtopic/rulebreaking, as they were intended.
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Murdering the drug abusing population would be frowned upon by anyone with a sense of morality.

You're absolutely correct though that it would be a "final solution" in the "War on Drugs" but implementing it would face a horrendous backlash; although there are quite a few of the population who would support it.

I would consider anyone who is ok with murdering citizens who take drugs as completely out of connection with the reality of drug use/abuse.
Why Does Netflix See My Facebook Picture?
What is your favorite notation for merge boundaries?
Simulating a fair coin with a biased coin
Simple Robots for Weekend Projects (2017)
You're wrong. There are such things as tax loopholes; and this fact is acknowledged by lawmakers, lawyers, tax experts, corporations.

People don't like judgment so they say we're keeping with the law. Yes, they are, but by abusing tax loopholes.

Corporations have come up with a lot of banned phrases; and encouraged phrasing to hide the true nature and psychological, social, and material impact of their actions.

Where does it say in the tax code to go set up Bermuda corporations and launder revenue earned in various territories through Ireland and Netherlands to avoid taxation in those territories?
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I'm not an American, so I don't know. How much of Equifax's business and value was driven by credit checks and anything else having to do with SSNs? Because if the whole SSN system had a $14 billion value, which was then destroyed by Equifax's negligence, and Equifax had the majority of its business doing this stuff, wouldn't that make Equifax bankrupt? So either Equifax makes a lot of money doing other stuff, or the $14 billion in value wasn't destroyed by Equifax's negligence. I imagine it's the latter, that SSN is still being used for everything because oil tankers can't change their momentum so quickly. If you meant that SSNs can safely be predicted to be not used for identification a decade or two from now, who's to say this was the catalyst? Any system eventually gets revamped, even government systems, especially if they were already broken in the first place. There are many examples worldwide of ID systems and laws changing all the time. In fact, I just read that majority of states are supposed to require Americans to use a passport for flying now. The Real ID Act? Just a bunch of states were too slow to get it done, so they've been given an extension, but even in the US, there's work being done to revamp identification in some areas. I'm not saying that it's good or bad, I'm saying that it seems to happen eventually. Why wouldn't SSN also change up even if Equifax never happened?
Content and presentation both change, and together. That's how it's always been for every type of media. How much space you have on the newspaper determines what your article's title is, but what the title is also determines how much space you have.
A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using
Electric car range is affected by extreme cold, but at least the cars can start
definition of loophole: legal tax condition I don't approve of.
Thread-suspending contended mutexes are already extremely slow. If you have a heavily-contended mutex you already have a major performance bug. If this is the kick in the pants you need to go fix it that's arguably a good thing ;)

Note that mutex contention does not itself mean immediately falling back to futex - commonly you'll spinloop first and hope that resolves your contention (fast), then fall back to futex (slow)