skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All ripple accounts require 20 xrp which cannot be moved so this is an impossibility to begin with

Xrp holders have some function in the network, I forgot

And you could name the price for anyone else that wanted xrp or to use the network

Although I would say Ripple’s XRP is not the settlement solution Id be looking for, I wouldnt say owning 99.999% of them makes it worthless

Owning all of a commodity doesnt make it worthless, even when that commodity is a unique collection of cryptographic signatures
>I fail to see how wanting to preserve your race is racism. I like my own people and want to see them continue. It doesn't mean I literally hate and oppose other peoples.

As soon as you value people based on their race ("your people" are worth more than others) you are in racist territory.

>And I really do think you underestimate the cultural aspect of it. If they were brown skinned but otherwise culturally indistinguishable from Europeans, I think far fewer people would care.

In Germany the most racism takes place in regions where nearly no immigrants/refugees live. The people are just afraid and do not try to find out if "they" are that different after all (spoiler alert: they are not)

>Labeling your opponents "racists" is just a convenient way of dismissing their concerns.

This is true and i dont want to dismiss anybodies opinion but if you talk about banning a whole race/religion from entering your country (trump) or refuse to help refugees from certain reasons (german afd in the article) and discredit them at every opportunity you are by definition a racist.
So... from reading the page linked (admitting my ignorance)... I really wonder how useful this is? Not to be rude, or to talk ill of the work, it’s far better than I could do... but!

With the release of other ahead of time compilers/VMs/features for the JVM/Java9, I cannot fathom this produces a small enough payload for a web app over a mobile connection.

Im probably totally missing something; could someone educate me on practical or even useful but novel applications of this?
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Does Geekbench test for TLB flushes at syscalls or whatever other kind of "mitigation" they introduced in 10.13.2 ? Where can we see true benchmarks of performance comparison between previous and current version in regards to this bug ? Isn't Apple being really nasty by exploiting the lack of knowledge of the general public ?

I am no expert in any way but would like to know how did they "mitigated" this without a serious performance hit.
Weren't applets also cached?

To be honest, I think that hate of applets comes from a time when 56kbps download speeds were considered very high, the average CPU had 1 core at 200 Mhz and the average webpage weighed 20k and executed 5-10 lines of Javascript.

I haven't used applets in the time, but if the user experience would be improved (nice looking UI, respecting modern UX conventions, etc.), I imagine your average applet from circa 1999 would run circles around Gmail, for example :)
I note in passing that the AMD processor manual is explicit that all reads are checked against the privilege bit before being issued.

It’s this protection that means that AMD processors are not subject to meltdown.

All CPU manufacturers appear to have been caught on the hop by Spectre (branch prediction history side channels).
Apple: all iOS and Mac devices are vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre chip bugs
Someone is going to owe a lot of taxes?
Ripple is for people that don't have a clue what any of those words mean. I see people all around me investing in Ripple, because 'it's the next Bitcoin.' These people haven't invested in or even paid attention to crypto or any other market in their lives, but now they're experts because they did 'research' over the weekend.
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It's only trivial if you're planning to repaint your walls/put new wallpaper. Punch a hole, reseal. Then repaint or wallpaper.

Doing it without redoing your hole is much more challenging.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and helped launch this).

While I appreciate the sentiment, there are certainly things some people prefer about Spot. For example, you basically get up to 4 minutes notice compared to the 30 seconds I chose (see the other thread). Similarly, until this change we didn't offer preemptible VMs with GPUs attached.

You're right about the complexity of Spot. Preemptible (and Azure's copy, Low-Priority VMs) is all about a fair, predictable price. Not everyone hates markets, but the number of companies and customers burned by the Spot market gave us the conviction to push for a simpler, fixed price.

Again, thanks for the praise (but there are pros and cons!).
> IME the next place is likely to be not much different and you can quickly be labelled a job hopper

I guess the suck it up part means staying long enough to avoid that.
An old colleague of mine hated the word "awesome" because, in his words, "it's a word js-kiddies use to exaggerate their little accomplishments".

Guess how he reacted when someone used the phrase "isomorphic js"...
For competitive markets to remain competitive, actors must receive the right disincentives. Intel reaped decades of competitive advantage by forgoing security for performance. As you said, they decided that the cost of mitigating these known vulnerabilities wasn't worth the benefit. Now it has come to light, and without due punishment, that math will skew even further toward exploitation over safety in the future.
> The thesis statement here is value itself is an arbitrary concept and is such because we say it is.

Depending on how you view the world, this can seem like pretty much a very obvious statement. Before mankind there was no "value". We invented it, and it evolved with us. At some point it even became self-referential ("I am valuable now because I become even more valuable later").
Can you explain the Yasumitsu Shigeta reference? I tried Googling but I don't get it.
I said it before and say it again. These things you call cryptocurrencies can be anything you want but currencies. Who ever claims the contrary has no clue about how a currency works.

If you claim this is a highly speculative asset, then yeah, you are right. But if you really want to call this a currency, you have to convince a government to use it as an official currency. No central bank in this world will accept to use a currency that is out of its control, that can't depreciate or appreciate at will.
Nitpick... crypto currencies are fiat currencies (if they're currencies at all, rather than commododites)

Edit: Fiat just means its value is driven by supply/demand rather than being backed by something like gold.
> A nazi posed no threat when they were being accepted in Germany, until suddenly

That is not historically accurate at all. The nazis rose to a measure of acceptance in Germany in large part because of political violence on the left.
That is correct but we are not talking in the context of the emulation circles.
More precisely the electromagnetic waves on the waveguides of the motherboard (bus) move around 2/3 as fast as electromagnetic waves in vacuum. Not as fundamentally separated as one would imagine.
I just read a critical analysis about Ripple [1] then saw this thread on HN. I quote the conclusion

"XRP is 100% premined, Ripple holds 60% of the supply, controls which nodes are selected as “trustworthy” to confirm transactions, while they have paid nothing to create those tokens that people are so willingly buying at $4+ per piece and thereby make the creators insanely rich. Let us call it what it really is, digital fiat, the renewed version of the debt-based traditional fiat system, leveraged by latest technology – which eventually has nothing to do with cryptocurrency whatsoever."

[1] https://cryptoyoda1338.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/the-truth-ab...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075911
I think you are confusing security and safety. Security is about dealing with malicious attackers, while safety is about making sure random events and mistakes won't kill you.

Your example with the brakes is about safety, i.e. making sure the car won't kill you during normal operation. Normally, unless their CPUs start bursting into flames, this is not a problem for Intel.

The problem here is about security. A car analogy would be that to start your car, you need a code and that code can be found by measuring how long it takes to process the input, making life easier for thieves.

As for liability, I don't think you can be liable in court if you didn't plan for something that wasn't known at the time and isn't trivial.
I work in the morning from 0700/0800 to 1600/1700, I find that a mid-afternoon session perks up so I can crank out a few more hours. I could stay longer than that at work of course, but it would be of little benefit to anyone as I'd be effectively useless.
You could make the case (not made in the article) that social policy is increasingly being shaped to favour _ownership_ over _contribution_. Interest rates are kept low, residential investment property is taxed favourably, agricultural land is heavily subsidised, planning/zoning is unreasonably tough, and so on.

The market doesn't can't correct because the working classes are losing their ability to afford property whilst ever-richer property owners are heavily incentivised to continually expand their portfolios.
Thank you for your answer.

That could be constructed as racist hate crime by party "supporters" (not even members), and could have nothing to do with the party itself. On the other hand, since it align with the party's ideology, it can be said that the FN has a part in it.

But I don't see how it shows that the FN has murdered any politicians, which was what I was asking about
The type of investor behavior described here is emblematic of a bubble :

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/crypto-cr...
As an end-user, I'd rather download and use high quality desktop application than use webapp. First of all, this means no Electron/js/html webapp bundled as desktop, but a real native executable.
yeah bithumb is insane. I'm scared to assume how much money involved and why nobody is trying to/cant arbitrage this. It's like complete noncence at this point. Whole different price universe. And i can't belive that it is some random korean dude that can't register on bitfinex or some other exchange and buy the coin he wants with 30-60% discount.
Everybody always thinks their stuff is important, so (almost) nobody would actually choose to use your (ii) option.
if i have 20 ripple but can't spend them - how is that different from having 0 ripple?
> Streaming data from the internet improves performance? That makes no sense.

The streaming part improves performance over loading the whole data in advance. I think that's what they mean.
None in the x64 architecture. x86 chips before the Pentium Pro don't have it. Itanium apparently doesn't either.
Yeah, also it's not about new computers. It's a huge portion of all existing computers. Even my 10 years old Core 2 Duo laptop will get slower after I update it (I'm not too happy about it).
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Yeah ripple is a token not a currency they can generate new ripple at will but since the founder has a large stake he has an incentive to not flood the market. But ripple is not the future it's a stopgap running on centralized servers it's not revolutionary like etherium
Personally, I have turned it on.

The highly experimental language dates back for several years (I think there's been a patch to revise the wording). This mode is already launched for all extension content since mid 2017, so it is well exercised. I no longer consider it highly experimental. The things that we know don't with are listed on the originally linked page; memory usage surprised us by not being a worse regression than it was.

The TLDR of site isolation is that the same origin policy is enforced at a process boundary, rather than relying on the rendering engine to keep the JavaScript contexts within a process (say, evil.com and its bank.com iframe) from accessing each other's memory. With site isolation on, we put the subframe in it's own process; the parent process can't, for example, read cookies for the child process's origin.

This relates to the novel CPU vulnerabilities because, to quote the blog post today, "The primary ramification of Variant 1 is that it is difficult for a system to run untrusted code within a process and restrict what memory within the process the untrusted code can access."

Site isolation was designed as a defense in depth against the type of renderer compromise that would give an attacker arbitrary code execution in the renderer process. Variant 1 gives attackers something weaker than that, so the protection works.
The point isn't demonstrating anything; the point is making continuing to run the system as-is untenable. If every large corporate publisher on YouTube is suddenly having takedown claims filed against them, the system isn't going to stay the same for long.
Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off $24m in stock
What makes a government legit? People support it.

What makes Uber legit? People support it.

Although I guess a government doesn't need the support of the people to maintain legitimacy, it just needs to be able to maintain a monopoly on violence. And if Uber had a monopoly on the taxi industry maybe it wouldn't need the people's support either.
> But if you really want to call this a currency, you have to convince a government to use it as an official currency

Since when does a currency have to come from a government? People used representative money in forms of IOUs before those were formally issued by governments. Sure, we've moved to government-issued fiat since, because it solved a coordination problem (how do you ensure the value of money doesn't unpredictably change), but that's just one possible solution now.
Their sentence as such is correct, but only half the truth. You can not change the behavior of the system using this specific attack. It is only an information leak.

BUT you might be able use the privileged information you might gain to launch another "active" attack using another method. This will have to be specific to what data you found and if there is an attack surface for it.
By law, women in Germany can now find out what their male peers are earning
Ironically, isn't your analogy a literal thing?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41367214
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Think of a hardware wallet as of a credit card. You will have some mechanism protecting it from being used when you're not next to it (password/pin); you will have some cold recovery option if you lose it (like a long passphrase stored in a safe deposit box).

But, like a credit card, the send/receive operations are performed on a secure, limited scope system (rather than an easily-compromised PC)
Good solution! Openresty could create the JWT and add it to the forwarding headers, although the user would still need a cookie to maintain session with the proxy.

Only disadvantage I could see would be performance.
Given the quality of text (or the requirement to zoom) I'm not sure what the fuss is about. It looks abysmal, and having to zoom all the time is a habit I am glad we got rid of due to higher resolutions. Though still existing on mobile devices it is also user-friendlier to zoom there, and the reason for the feature is the device is more mobile.

You could already run a browser in a framebuffer for ages. Which means you're not bound to X11. My friend, X11 hater (he was former Amiga user), just used CLI and a CLI web browser (well, he used Emacs) but sometimes he did need GUI and that was his solution. We're talking end of '90s/begin of '00s here during a time where X didn't even compositing.

If you want to run X11 over SSH, that's also possible, e.g. via NX Server. Another route could be SDN plus (Free)RDP. Mosh is great for latency, tho can't be used for SSH over Tor due to UDP.
See here for all the tradeoffs involved in current brain imaging technology: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

Long story short, if you want a real time interface that also has high spatial resolution, you need to get invasive (and increase the number of electrodes by a lot)
The market depth is a more interesting metric than volume. As you say wash trades, or just short-term speculative trades, inflate volume without actually impacting the size of the market.
Looked into both Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM) and invested more into Stellar because of...

- the much better scaling than traditional coins (semi-central structure)

- the track record of the founder Jed

- the fuller feature set including the creation of new tokens like ETH but easier

- the recent announcement like IBMs partnering and stress tests, Kin moving to Stellar, Signal's founder creating his coin on Stellar

- Stellar's lower market cap, so there's still room above

I think Ripple is also good but has a different focus and since the original founder of Ripple left to Stellar, I am a bit more into Stellar.
> We have repos for everything, and use issues for things most people would write an email about.

I really like this.

When it comes to productivity in the enterprise I'm quite fascinated by the intersections of communication immediacy versus persistence. We like things that are immediate when we speak, but like things that are persistent when we're digging around years later.

A searchable per-theme repo with searchable issues and dialog sounds like a dream. I dunno if github has this built-in, but their integration API is very nice so having direct email integration and notifications or even local notification clients should be highly solvable.
You're (and most likely all downvoters) completely missing the point.

I never said that opensource software is not affected, I said "not being affected as a user". Because opensource software, being peer-reviewed, will never try to exploit a CPU bug. Opensource software is, by default, non-malicious.
Intel PR monkeys are trying to take AMD down with them, let's make this clear:

For the 3 bugs, the biggest one only affect Intel CPUs, for bug 2 and 3:

AMD bug only affects THE SAME PROCESS, unlike Intel, which allows exploits to cross processes:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...

"As shown, AMD was only vulnerable to "the ability to read data inside mis-speculated execution within the same process, without crossing any privilege boundaries."
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8
Ripple is not Bitcoin competitor because Ripple is not a cryptocurrency.
Huh. I really enjoyed Sarkeesian's "Tropes vs. Women in Video Games", and found it quite educational in how it applied feminist theory to an analysis of video games.

That makes me someone who cares about feminist theory.

"With the exception of other feminists, more or less the entire world completely ignores feminist theory"

There are a large number of feminists. This is somewhat like saying "except for people who have heard of Manchester United, the rest of the world completely ignores soccer."

I'm a feminist. Patrick Stewart is a feminist. Many people - men and women - identify as feminists. Even more believe in feminist principles like gender equality in the workplace, but don't identify as feminists because of generations of opposition using false characterizations, slurs like "feminazi", and pointing to extreme positions as being the standard for feminism.

In fact, the article points out "only roughly one in five Americans and fewer than one in ten Britons identifies as a feminist", so that means 20% of the US would have interest in feminist theory. Hardly something to reject at the academic level.

"It is true that gender studies, which conceptually encompasses feminist theory, maintains almost no representation within the one thousand most significant academic journals"

The highest-ranked religious studies journal appears to be "Sociology of Religion", http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=1212 , which is ranked much lower than "Gender and Society".

If the logic of looking toward journal ranking were meaningful, then it would also mean we should get rid of religious studies.

Really it means that there are a lot of different academic fields, and they can't all be in the top 1000.

"feminist theory bears almost every hallmark characteristic of the un-care-about-able:" followed by a list of reasons

Let's suppose that's a reasonable list - something I don't believe because I don't agree with the interpretation that “patriarchy,” “hegemonic masculinity,” “rape culture,” and “hegemonic femininity” are conspiracy theories.

How many other fields would also be on that list?

Most of the social sciences, no?

Philosophy?

Economics?

History?
How were we meant to figure this out, through necromancy or something. There is no information indicating Sierra has been patched or is due to be patched.
Imagine you are now the only person who has to be satisfied with the confidence you feel in map products.

Otherwise you equally weight everything giving nobody any preference other than no data and no location.

Now you realize that everyone has disabled maps until you switch them on because you rely on API location information.

However the five years since you began enforcing privacy has allowed everyone to reach parity.. partly because nobody is piggy backing the others.

I can't think of the way I could trade off the what next situation I just described: get everyone using power hungry chips to get you a chance at the bad guy
.. how does it work if you balance the players?
Uncanny Valley (2016)
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From a quick Google search, I find mainly two kinds of definitions of "transpile".

The first is a generic "translating from one source programming language to another, producing translated source code in the other language". This is basically compiling, except that it excludes "non-source" languages from the output.

The second, which looks more rigorous to me, is "taking source code written in one language and transforming into another language that has a similar level of abstraction" (found for example here: https://www.stevefenton.co.uk/2012/11/compiling-vs-transpili...).

Both are totally unnecessary because if you mention or know the source and target languages of your compiler, then you already know if it fits those definitions or not.

For example, "Transpile Java Bytecode to WebAssembly" adds exactly zero information to "Compile Java Bytecode to WebAssembly", because the word "transpile" only carries information about the relation between the languages you are processing and that is an already-known variable. As it is every time I see this word.
The saddest thing about Travis Kalanick's story is that he was ousted because his greedy investors were afraid they wouldn't see a 20x return on their investment, and not because of the ponzi-scheme fundamentals or ethical compromises that appear in tech rags every week. He was ousted by Benchmark, not by law enforcement. He's walking away with over a billion, rather than a go-to-jail card.
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