skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eliminating legislation against municipal broadband is certainly a good thing. But I'm curious why some enterprising residents haven't created a company to do what a Public Open Access Network would do: build out the infrastructure, and lease it to anyone wanting to provide internet service to the covered area.

There's nothing requiring only the municipalities themselves to do that, right?
MacOS Kernel Flaw Could Allow Full-System Compromise
The prime example of this to me is a completely silly path a nerve takes in a Giraffe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Evid...

Evolution does not care at all about fixing waste, unless that waste harms the individual's ability to procreate.
Yep, seems to me they put much work into the statement "the exploits do not have the potential to corrupt, modify or delete data.".

Which leaves open if (that?) reading of data is possible. And as this is not explicitly denied, we have to fear this is exactly what is possible.
There's also Utopia in Utah. It's not all sunshine and roses but it's pretty good.

http://www.utopianet.org
Amazon sent me an email this morning (Jan 3, 2018) to say I have a bill but I had already cancelled my free account. I can't see what I owe (hopefully zero dollars) because my account is now non-existent.

One tiny Ubuntu instance I barely used and then put on standby. Then terminated.

Ugh :(
Report: Intel Processors Made in the Last 10yrs Might Have Massive Security Flaw
I lean heavily towards the libertarian side of things, but it didn't take that long for me to come to the conclusion that unless "we" (as a society) were going to let people die in the streets from curable diseases, we are all going to pay for everyone's health insurance, in some way/shape/form anyway.

I still believe a more open market would be a "better" solution, with a tight safety net to maintain standards across economic levels, but as that is unlikely, fixing the glaring issues with the ACA seems like a good starting point.
It's local governments, not the federal government. In theory there is a concern that a municipal ISP could outcompete commercial ISPs due to lower cost of capital and such, but it's not clear if that has ever happened.
People who need to get absolutely the most bang for the buck have no ties to any given supplier. Cray deployed one of the first Opteron-based supercomputers.

Intel got lots of datacenter business simply by having a better (as in "better suited to our demands") product than anyone else in the segment. AMD has a short time window to make some large sales. They have until Intel ships a microcode fix or a new line of processors.
2017 VR Industry Predictions, Revisited
It will make things better, but I don't think it can solve anything outright. Grade separation, which provides load balancing and a sort of fail-over route, is the real deal.
Did I just find the Cure for Cancer? [July 2017]
That's correct and it is a fair way to see it. However, Intel dragging two of its main competitors name into the limelight is a rather uncool move.
You didn't answer the question though. There are a few dozen linux smartphone projects. Why not join one of them and make it better. By making his own phone OS he is duplicating the work that all those other projects are doing instead of moving a head.

I'm not saying he is wrong for doing this - I know of many competing projects, but nothing more. Maybe there is a good reason not to join them. However my guess is not invented here which holds us back.
Nothing is wrong with gender neutrality. However, referring to one’s child in gender neutral form is not (that) common.

Gender neutrality is there to avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender, in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles for which one gender is more suited than another [0]. That is hardly the case when referring to one’s own child. Hence my follow-up assumption in the same comment that it might be for privacy reasons.

The first statement in that comment on gender neutrality was led by the media taking the whole gender neutrality thing a bit too far nowadays. Some sources just follow the hype instead of looking at the argument for using it as stated above. That is my own opinion though and might be a deluded view on media articles i came across that went into the “did you just assume my gender” mode for stories where gender was totally irrelevant.

I do realize the first sentence of my comment was a phrased a bit provoking because of the whole media thing. Sorry if that offended you and provoked you into this question (comment). Hope this answer helps to show I was not here to fight gender neutrality as a whole.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality
> even when a horrible defect is exposed

Are you sure AMD parts have no horrible defects of their own?
Why did you decide to have 5 kids in that kind of environment?
Uber is sued over payment for mobile ads it called fraudulent
Pandora?
Intel should now recall the affected CPUs and ship new fixed CPUs without Intel "ME" for Management Engine, another well known open flaw.

In the end, hardware and software devs in the 1970s were right. Operating systems like MULTICS and computers like PDP-11 got it right. MULTICS supported 16 rings and has many advanced features that almost everyone forgot and never implemented in newer OS - shame on all of us!

Intel CPUs barely support more than 2.5 rings (if you count the VT that just blowed up). Also operating systems need to now focus on supporting more rings too. Just 2 rings aka kernel and usermode (and VT supervisor as third) is NOT enough in 2018.
DIY. Build your own network. Why does the municipality have to get involved (beyond permitting and approvals...)?
What kind of computer or TV setup would one have today in order to enjoy the full quality of such videos? my recently-bought TV is 4K.

I'd love to enjoy the 2020 Olympics in glorious 8K... [1]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/youll-probably-never...
Is this the 3-part BBC documentary - "The Code"?
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Addendum for anyone still reading:

- Intel issued a press release saying they planned to announce this next week after more vendors had patched their shit, which lends me more cause to believe that the Xen bug might be the same one [1]

- Intel claims in the same PR that "many types of computing devices — with many different vendors’ processors" are affected, so I'll be curious to see whether non-Intel platforms fall into the umbrella soon

- macOS implemented partial mitigations in 10.13.2 and apparently has some novel ones coming up in 10.13.3 [2]

- someone reasonably respected claims to have a private PoC of this bug leaking kernel memory [3]

- ARM64 has KPTI patches that aren't in Linus's tree yet [4] [6] ([6] is just a link showing the patches from 4 aren't in Linus's tree as of this writing)

- all the other free operating systems appear to have been left out of the embargoed party (until recently, in FBSD's case), so who knows when they'll have mitigations ready [5]

- So far, Microsoft appears to have only patched Windows 10, so it's unknown whether they intend to backport fixes to 7 or possibly attempt to use this as another crowbar to get people off of XP 2.0

- Update: Microsoft is pushing an OOB update later today that will auto-apply to Win10 but not be forced to auto-apply on 7 and 8 until Tuesday, so that's nice [7]

[1] - https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-r...

[2] - https://twitter.com/aionescu/status/948609809540046849

[3] - https://twitter.com/brainsmoke/status/948561799875502080

[4] - https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10095827/

[5] - https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2018-Ja...

[6] - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

[7] - https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16846784/microsoft-process...
RSA Cryptography Explained by a 16 Year Old [video]
It isn't, mainly because it solves classical physics, i.e. Newtons equations. In contrast, your linked paper discusses numerical relativity, that's an approach to solve Einstein's general relativistic theory of gravity. While nowadays we do have a mathematically kind-of-similar formulation (an initial value formulation of a partial differential equation system which can be solved with similar techniques as classical mechanics -- so indeed with similar techniques as the "physics engines" refered here to), the bleeding edge research is at another scale. We use high performance computers to solve a large and complex system of equations (typically several MB of source code defining the system) in very large computational domains which take GB-PB of main memory on thousands of computers.

It may be worth saying that numerical relativity played a key part in the last Nobel prize for the detection of gravitational waves.

Nevertheless it's nice to refer to this analogy.
In all honesty - why is this seen as such a bad thing. So many well off people engage in this sexualised fantasy behaviour who are monied / well off.

I would expect a bit more from a Bloomberg presenter but then again superficiality is clearly what she needs to sell her book.

This is honestly nothing new at all unless you're a prude
This can be read as a theoretical analysis of a basic income guarantee.

>>> Equalizing Mechanisms. There are essentially two classes of mechanisms that can reduce inequality: suppression of dominance ... or lifting the majority out of the sticky state close to zero .... Starting with the latter, a small additive influx is a powerful antidote to the stickiness effect. ... In society, savings from income represent an additive contribution to wealth. Adding such a flux to our minimal model of wealth allows more households to gain wealth, thus populating the middle class and regularly breaking episodes of dominance by the previously dominant households

Also, full pdf with methods and details: http://www.pnas.org/content/114/50/13154.full.pdf?with-ds=ye...
Interesting, I'm not familiar with it. Still have to do this every week though? And I assume it only works over a USB connection, not over wifi?
I don't mind those features in and of themselves, and I see their value; it's Apple's paternalistic attitude that bothers me. I've used Macs for my entire life and always felt I still had a semblance of control over the hardware and software that I bought, but that feeling of control is going away.
It's a little funny that mankind gets to use a full-fledged infinite-tape Turing machine in order to compute arbitrarily large computations, since no such machine would fit in our universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_computation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcomputational_problem
> There are a lot of times you trust everything running on your box and don't need to take the perf hit.

This is true.

> Intel (and possibly other archs/families) found a perf win that ends up having security implications. A perf nonetheless. If you're willing to bet on your userspace not reading kernel pages, does Intel have a feature for you!

This I'm more skeptical of. My best guess is that this is something that saves nanoseconds, but the mitigation is massively more expensive than simply not having the feature.
There's a reason we put bindings on books - to protect them - I know what some of my older math books from the '80s look like, and if they'd been spine in, they'd be dead - to me this translates to 'books are things and I don't give a damn about their actual contents' I think I might seriously walk out of someone's house if I saw this.
It's surprisingly feasible (in some areas) to start an ISP on your own using wireless equipment. I've been working with companies doing that for about 15 years and recently started writing http://startyourownisp.com to help people interested in getting started.
This on the expensive side, super bright, much brighter than needed: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0192503GE I rigged this as a stand (ugly, but it works): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074T8QYZ6

This one is much cheaper and almost as bright, certainly bright enough: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0777HZ4T4 Separate stand: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073FJC7G3 Looks much better than the other one.

I measured LUX for both of them, they are both up to their specs.
exactly. loyalty in employer’s eyes is to work as much as possible for as little as possible and not leave. if you require more from employer it can be interpreted as disloyalty. on yhe other hand, when employer fires employee, it’s just business.
Whether the satirical Twitter account should be shut down or not ... satire's not very effective per Malcolm Gladwell's "Revisionist History" podcast at [0] (automated lossy transcript at [1]) ... targets of the satire often find the satire humorous themselves, and can find enough "truth" in exaggerated viewpoints to reinforce those views rather than call them into question.

[0] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/10-the-satire-paradox
[1] https://blog.simonsays.ai/satire-paradox-with-malcolm-gladwe...
How are these any different from say Bitcoin?
internet should use the water model. You can get a decent internet speed provided by the state just like tap water and if you need a faster internet, you can pay as you go just like you'd buy bottled water. What's your opinion?
That is basically what happened with Hulu. The service is owned by the major content providers, such as Fox and CBS, and all of the televised content is almost completely exclusive on Hulu now, as opposed to being on Netflix. As more and more shows started to get pulled from Netflix, Netflix had to rely on original shows to make sure that they have a full catalog of streaming content. They paid over $6 billion dollars in creating new shows for 2017.

Unfortunately for music, the exclusivity has started to show up in some cases. Artists that own the Tidal service don't allow any of their music on competing services, and Apple has been signing contracts with musicians to have new content show up on their service several months in advance before it does on other services (like Jay Z and Kanye).
That "bug" or "flaw" sentence is very carefully worded. It's like:

bool bug = true;
bool flaw = true;
bool uniqueToIntel = false;

bool reportsAreTrue = (bug || flaw) && uniqueToIntel;

// reportsAreTrue == false!
Quite possibly, but it still a bad omen for Intel. This sounds a lot worse than a slightly off division.
Heh, I still can't believe they have "outlawed racism". That's like outlawing any other political opinion. How is that possible?
(July 2017)

He never mentioned his medical state in his subsequent 5 months of postings.
I would love an IDE that unrolls subroutine calls inline as a view mode.
As an engineer who accepted an offer from Spotify in 2011, worked there until last year, and am still holding on to a good portion of my grant... it's mixed.

From both my experience and that of folks I've spoken with, the last year or two has been quite good for us. That said, you're probably much better off financially if you accepted an offer from a FAANG-type company around the same time and stuck with them.
If your workload has no code that's untrusted, you can safely skip this patch or disable it on boot. If not, at 2000+ physical machines, it may be worth to move some of that into kernel modules that would collapse a couple syscalls into a single higher level one.
I've never been to Costco. I didn't realize they had eyewear. I'll make sure to remember that when/if I revisit membership consideration(usually the cost of membership isn't worth it for me as a single person with no kids or family to support).
What I meant by this is that JS relies on a browser with an interpreter. If we use one without an interpreter then JS is nothing but text. I guess one could claim that this text is "part of the web". The point is that it is the users choice whether to run the it through an interpreter. Sometimes they might want to do that (maybe offline), other times they might not. Most times I do not need to run JS to get what I am after (e.g., text, documents, videos, etc.). There is just no need to run all these third party scripts to read some text or download a file for offline viewing. I may read the JS though. In that sense, yes, it is "part of the web". It just isnt the content part that users care about.
Mm, if something is subtly funny, it's usually welcome.

One of my favorite jokes of all time was pg's nickb april fools prank: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151109#152361

Probably worth putting together a list of HN moments... There were so many.
It’s true that highly skilled government workers are underpaid. But non-highly-skilled government workers are overpaid. Both groups get pensions, and there are a lot more of the second group.
Since it makes people fear for their lives.
The NetzDG in its current form is a disgrace for the state of law. I think an improvement in this area would be needed, but the NetzDG law is mind-boggingly stupid and inaccurately formulated.
There are not saying it explicitly, which they should.
His story sounds like it's more about integrating society with the idea of children.
Do you have Google Play Services on your LineageOS device? It's amazing what Google can push via that these days. ;)

As a note, for non-rooted users, it's common for Android vendors to push mandatory updates. Both my last Android phone and tablet before I left the platform were pending 'mandatory' updates where I had to kill a process after booting to prevent them from executing.
Salesforce and Amazon are desperate to stop using Oracle database software
Does Go have a comparable tool that is as widely adopted as Bundler is?
Whether or not speech is effective at achieving its ultimate goal is an entirely irrelevant issue here. "Hate Speech" is extremely ineffective at promoting hate, but here we are.
> because reading was not a common accomplishment

This isn't true, not even in his lifetime. In 1870, the illiteracy rate among whites was 11%. It dropped even lower after that. 89% seems pretty "common" to me.

Blacks were much higher, but slavery had only just ended. That group hit 11% about 1947.

https://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/lit_history.asp
This is the "standard" advice. However, I recently heard something that does the exact opposite.

Make a list of nontangibles. As a reference, look up the benefits people get (by law) in countries like Sweden, France, Denmark, etc. Stuff like minimum 4-5 weeks vacation, 6 months paid medical leave when you have a kid, etc.

Then ask for one or two of them. Don't be a jerk about it. Just say it would be really important for you to have it. Mildly make it a problematic point (i.e. don't say "yes" to the offer - just keep asking).

They most likely are not going to give you them (in the US). Since these are hard to give, but not unreasonable (so many countries give them), they will not get offended. After a few back and forths, they may come to you and say "Look, I'm sorry we cannot give you X, but would you be willing to accept an increase in pay as a substitute?"

So don't ask for a salary and settle for vacation (unless that's what you really want). Ask for a lot of vacation, and settle for more money.
Ethereum is different from Bitcoin in that it uses simple account balances, which are easier to deal with in smart contracts. To prevent replay attacks, each account has a nonce, which is included in the transaction.

You can check the blockchain for the current nonce of an account, but if you sent from the same account simultaneously from two devices, both transactions would get the same nonce and one would fail.
I do, actually. Mostly because I use older console that have been reverse engineered enough for this to be possible…
If that's your desire you are free to buy an NVIDIA Shield for your game console, an Android for your smart phone, any computer, a well known easily hackable router, etc.

Vote with your dollars.
If you think modern American conservatism is still based around the Hoover Institute or National Review or anything William Buckley would have appreciated, I have some bad news for you.

Here you can see that almost half of "consistent conservatives" get the majority of their political info from Fox News:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/26/5-facts-abou...

Now Fox News is being replaced by Breitbart and dozens of conservative Internet sites, which leads to stats like these:

* Two-thirds of Trump supporters think Obama is a Muslim
* Over half of Trump supporters think Obama was born outside of the US
* 27% of Trump supporters believe that vaccines cause autism

Source: https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/poll-two-thirds-trump...

So, forgive me for not believing what you call "a joke."
Racism is not a political opinion. Political opinions are along the lines of "are my taxes too high" or "do we spend more on parks or on police".

A belief in the inferiority of another race isn't political, it's something else. I don't know what, but discriminatory and bigoted beliefs don't belong in political discussions or any discussions about how we govern ourselves or organize society.
Sorry, not buying it. You don't grow to 60 million paying subs on a generic product that has little more than a first mover advantage. Their subscriber count grew 50% from Sep 16 through Jul 17 alone when everyone was competing aggressively. It grew a ton after Apple Music came out. It grew a ton after Google Music came out. It grew a ton after Amazon Music came out.

Maybe, just maybe, Spotify is actually really great and customers love it.

This reminds me of people debating Apple vs Android circa 2012.
This is exactly the moral dilemma with free speech vs hate speech.

Do you use fascist techniques like criminalizing speech to stop the spread of fascist ideas? Or do you simply hope fascist ideas don't take hold?

The former is a scary slippery slope but Germany doesn't have a great track record with the latter.
Are we presuming this is the Intel patch being applied?
Warning self-promotion: https://github.com/hemerajs/hemera
From what I remember of working with a non-profit, there are limits to "gift-in-kind" donations. Apple sells the license at $99, but they can probably only claim $50 or so since that's what the actual "cost" of an iOS developer is.

So in your example, yes, Bob could only deduct the cost of the pencils, not his inflated "value".
for those who don't want to log in,

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people pay for Bitcoin
GitHub Enterprise Cloud . $21U/M
Bitbucket Cloud Premium $5 U/M

https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing?tab=host-in-the-cloud
https://github.com/pricing
Racism does not have to be about "the inferiority of another race". Racism can be "I don't think it's good for the economy that so many people from outside are coming" or "this culture is completely incompatible with ours and I don't want these people here". It's a pretty lax word. By outlawing "racism" you're outlawing discourse.
To provide a historical context, once upon a time, Ruby and Rails community didn't have Bundler.

But that didn't stop early adopters to build libraries and push Rails to where it is right now.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/radio-still-beats-digit...
That's an interesting thought although in the case I was talking about all I can say, sadly, is I don't know. As outsiders we certainly didn't have any visibility. I suppose - working for different companies, mind - I've encountered enough of the whiff of low grade nepotism to imagine that on a larger scale that kind of thing does go on from time to time.
You don't have a right to threaten people. Racism had clear threatening implications.
It seems to me that jokes are ok, just not spamming the same old jokes, as you might on Reddit.