skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand, the "catch" (trade-off) is the "will distribute only free apps".

As an example I would think that a University teacher would release his/her app with the classroom material thus free app, mainly for the students - no point charging as the whole effort is not a "for profit".

Same for various orgs/NGOs who would need to reach out to provide news (e.g. United Nations).

This for me (who pays the $99) is honorable and shows that apple does indeed separate the for-profit efforts from the non-profit efforts.
From the submitted piece,

"For a delayed rider wondering whom to blame, it’s tempting to begin with the people you can see, the 7,000 or so men and women — track cleaners, inspectors, flaggers and other orange-vested M.T.A. employees — charged with preventing these incidents and keeping the trains moving. ...

No matter how diligent they may be, 7,000-odd orange-vested maintenance workers are simply not enough to keep the deteriorating system — with its 665 miles of passenger-carrying track, enough to reach all the way to Indianapolis — on schedule. All the real problems must begin elsewhere, further up the chain of command.

The rest of the piece is an argument against the "obvious" explanation and for more systems-based explanation.
A lot of people are forgetting that security prompts look like this to ordinary users https://i.imgur.com/H0uVqFer.jpg

”But they had to allow installation first” is no defense.
If you look at the broad scope of history, health care is useless or worse. 1950 onwards is a major anomaly in nearly every area. We’re in that anomaly, so looking to earlier eras for lessons in things they didn’t have and wouldn’t have imagined is pointless.
I think there is a transition from a focus on consumption to a focus on creation.

At least in my city (Phoenix), there are plenty of arts-focused, small parties happening in warehouses, art galleries, etc.
this is a denial from PR and a poor one at that.
"an industry that fully rewards job hopping and has a wholly broken promotion/retention eco-system"

If it's broken, it's broken by design.

Industry leaders are not stupid. If they let people leave it's because they don't care enough to do what it takes to keep them.
My problem with government intervention isn't the "inefficiency" myth. Like most large complex entities referred to in the aggregate abstract, they do some things well and some poorly.

My concern with gov't action is the second and third order effects. Governments are implemented primarily by bureaucrats, whose primary incentive is to maintain their job. Any policy that gets implemented poorly (inefficiently), tends to continue because of the employees personal incentives.

This suggests, to me, that governments (as they are in America today) should not be experimenting. Culling the losers is super important for exploration, and probably the thing our local/state/federal gov't is worst at.

(If a company makes repeatedly poor decisions, they will tend towards insolvency/change in management.)
A critical intel flaw breaks basic security for most computers
There's no cryptographic use in finding a largest prime. It's far larger than any prime used in a practical system and doesn't contribute any mathematical knowledge about primes.

It's mostly just running an algorithm for long enough to pay off.
When I selected the double spring and pulled back the outer mass, as I let go the distance between the two masses went negative. This caused a runaway effect, sending system energy towards infinity.

Cute but the models are not very robust
Yellowstone supervolcano.
I'm on mobile at the moment, but I think there is more than just one paper suggesting that Vitamin D RDI is too low, even if they don't explicitly call for raising the official level?

I can dig for links when I'm back at a Desktop.
Wasn't DirectX developed at more or less this time?
What about iHeart? They do own half the physical radio stations in the country which is still how people find new music, you know.
Really great company from what I know, glad to see them get acquired in a positive fashion. I'm also based out of Pittsburgh and have met some of their team members over the years, seems like a solid business with a strong product/service.
The relevant thing is not that's a prime (it's pretty trivial to find one), but a Mersenne Prime

Primality testing is not trivial at those number sizes
It was a joke referencing the login vulnerability that was disclosed on twitter a couple of months ago.
The Cashless Society Has Arrived– Only It’s in China
> the US has been engaged in two simultaneous occupations of outright hostile foreign countries literally on the other side of the world for a decade

And spying on the entire world, including its own citizens, etc.

Even if you believe the US should play world police, and demand a group of people with a totally different culture and history pay by it's rules, there are plenty of significant areas where we are clearly wasting significant amounts of tax dollars, all under the umbrella of "defense". Instead, Congress overwhelmingly decided, after Trump asked for a $20 billion increase, to have a $100 billion increase.

> We're getting what we're paying for

I don't buy that. We are paying an unfathomable about * 5.

There is extremely significant and obvious waste. Even what is not "waste" does not clearly help taxpayers in any way. Very significant portions are clearly to the detriment of taxpayers.
If done well, it will actually help startup culture. How many Americans want to start their own business but can’t afford to lose the health insurance they get with their corporate job?
It comes across as fairly defensive. Presumably the statement was hastily put together, but it's not really the tone you want to strike when you have a lot of worried customers wondering what is going on.

> Intel believes its products are the most secure in the world and that, with the support of its partners, the current solutions to this issue provide the best possible security for its customers.

A rather bizarre statement of nothingness, and also an odd thing to say in a statement that just named AMD and ARM.

> Contrary to some reports, any performance impacts are workload-dependent, and, for the average computer user, should not be significant and will be mitigated over time.

It's interesting to note what it doesn't say – as it would seem to imply that for some workloads the performance impact will be significant.
> What is the alternative for more introverted people? Stay home?

Come on now. There's literally FUCKTONS of stuff to do on your own. I had this existential crisis when I realized how shitty Vancouver nightlife is and that it was never going to get better.

Here's a list of stuff that I'm working on alone, even in the most boring city in the world. It's a combination of high adrenaline activities with quiet solitude mixed in.

- Ride a motorcycle

- Ride a seaplane

- Ride a regular plane

- Ride a boat and do stuff on it

- Snowboard & Ski

- Play jazz piano at a bar/cafe (bore other people to death!)

- Buy a cheap island, attempt PrimitiveTechnology or Proenneke. Bring kindle
Mathematical research interrupted by a war
It's a completely unrelated bug. This DragonFlyBSD commit message does a pretty good job of explaining it: http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2017-August/...
Yes, i don't think the original content strategy will work out for streaming sites the way it has for netflix and amazon. I'm not willing to open one app to listen to one album and then another app to listen to a different album. I'll use the service that has all the music i want to listen to. Whether that's piracy or youtube playlists or spotify. If any streaming service starts getting too many exclusives, it's going to just kill the entire streaming market.

From my perspective, all the streaming services should be working together to create a healthy marketplace for independent music, and providing every opportunity they can for musicians to avoid signing a big-four contract. If Warner and Sony, and UMG get their act together and create a joint venture streaming service that's the exclusive host of the content they own, Spotify, Google Music, and Apple Music are screwed.
Please just don't. It isn't worth the pain and risk just to have a little faster system. Maybe you don't care about this patch, but you will need others that are dependent on it.

Just patch.
CPU speed hasn't followed Moore's law since 2003ish. (Number of transistors is still following Moore's law, but that doesn't necessarily directly help you when your program is suddenly 3-30% slower.)
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could buy the latest Xeons at a 30% discount? ;-)
>Opera is an awesome browser which very few people use.

I thought well of it, until it got acquired by the Chinese. How has it been since?
> Intel believes its products are the most secure in the world

https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...
> I think the idea that we are spending too much of our wealth on education and healthcare is... wrong.[...]I don't think spending 17% of our GDP on healthcare is a problem (assuming we're receiving good benefits from that, which I think we are)

You're missing a dimension to both of these numbers: Outcome. The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other country — but not with better health outcomes [0].

"The US stands out as an outlier: it spends far more on health than any other country, yet the life expectancy of the American population is not longer, but actually shorter than in other countries that spend far less." [1]

[0]http://beta.latimes.com/nation/la-na-healthcare-comparison-2...

[1]https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-...
They probably need that income to pay their debts. Becoming a doctor is not cheap.
New YouTube video claims be the only footage of Redwing Shot “Yuma” nuclear test
"When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result"

-Marshall McLuhan

There is an element of truth to those anxieties. New forms of media create new spatial relationships that are often destructive to previous forms.

So in a sense, new media can be highly destructive of the way people have perceived reality their whole lives:

>As I read and contemplated the subject, behold! that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment and sting my soul to unutterable anguish. As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity. I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.

-Frederick Douglass on learning how to read as a slave (which was illegal)
Could you elaborate on what do you mean by that?

It's possible to use OpenPGP in instant messaging [0] and it works fine (transparent encryption and decryption in a client) although there are newer solutions more suited to IM [1].

[0]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0027.html

[1]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html
Maybe we're better off loading the dice so that they pursue other lines of work. They may be good at being government workers. They may want to be government workers. It may be better for society over all if we do not give them preferential treatment in some roles but do in others.

This question obviously only applies to a subset of veterans. There's a civilian analog to many military jobs and the military's training and experience in those fields can stand on its own without preferential treatment for the most part.

A combat veteran may make a good post office manager or a good cop but it's probably better off for everyone if he's only given preferential treatment in the latter role.
Depends on the org, and the rate. For high rates for specialists (well in excess of $250/hr), this is true (contractor sees 30-40%). For lower-end shops and lower rates (think your Robert Half, your Randstads), the contractor tends to take 50-60% of the bill rate.

My sources are VPs from some of the large contingency recruiters, founders of some mid-range consulting shops (~500 person headcount), and having to help run a smaller consulting shop (~20 employees) in the past before going fully independent.
Oh man the hoops I had to jump through to get full admin control over windows 10. I understand the necessity of hiding power options but that was excessive.
If HTML is good enough:

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/

Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.
But Plaid doesn't offer banking services, just balance and transaction data from traditional banks (as well as some other services like authentication). Used their API for a side project and recommend it.

Dwolla is another player in this space. https://www.dwolla.com/
I'd be curious to know which media reports Intel actually finds inaccurate. I'm sure there are some out there, but I suspect most reports aren't inaccurate in ways that significantly deviate from the overall message that Intel's products have a relatively serious security flaw. Making a blanket statement that implies all the reporting is inaccurate is very disingenuous.

Dragging AMD's and ARM's names into this is completely inexplicable to me however.
"A 30% performance hit means a 30% cost increase."

Just wanna point out that a 30% performance hit means a 43% cost increase.
I don't. I just get annoyed when people simply downvote instead of commenting when I point out a fact that in the Netherlands it's safer to let a 13 year old ride the train than where I live.
Is the current plan actually for mass transit or just point-to-point rather exclusive transit?

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/12/what-elon-mus... was doing the rounds a few weeks ago
GIMPS[tartup]
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-r...
Vitamin D is fat-soluble and can be stored in body fat. Supplements in the higher range are meant to be taken once a week or once a month. Supplements in the 400-1000IU range are meant to be taken daily.
Every OECD country except the United States and, at one point, Mexico—though they may now, too—has universal healthcare largely driven by government mandates, though the systems may be either direct government programs, mandated private insurance, or a combination.
You're confusing iTunes with Apple Music. iTunes Music was where you bought songs and albums. Apple Music is a streaming service just like Spotify where you pay monthly to have access to all of the music.
That's why they're the dominant player. Because even when a horrible defect is exposed people still desire the product over the competition.
Even then and if they don't care about their own safety, they should patch for the rest of us. Who knows how long until their unpatched system will get pwned from some other vulnerability and end up in some botnet just spreading the pain.
Dang, way to rub it in, downvoters.
You may be confusing where profits can be made and who makes them vs. where capital is deployed.

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/10/trade-deficit-capital-in...

http://topforeignstocks.com/2009/06/13/the-top-net-capital-i...

It has to do with the balance of payments. US entities do invest and make profits overseas. However, investments into the US (including loans to the US Treasury, for example) happen in larger amounts than investments from the US into other countries. Regardless of where profits are made or who made them, people prefer to put their money in the US.
Er, no.. what? There's a lot of non-speculative information in that reddit post..
The bug seems to be about the processor leaving speculatively read privileged data in some of the caches, even if execution failed [1].

If so, clearing all caches upon a failed privilege check sounds like something within the capabilities of microcode
and without unreasonable performance penalties.

Unfortunately, that would not explain the complex in-kernel fix...

[1] https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/Ep26AoA...

EDIT: what remains in cache is not "speculatively read privileged data" but more "unprivileged data whose address is correlated to speculatively read privileged data". Retrieving later such address allows one to infer what the privileged data was. Still, the point about clearing all caches as countermeasure holds...
California is doing well economically? No it's not.
The problem with that is it creates a war for exclusives. If their competitors start doing the same thing, spotify will just end up losing a lot of their content.

and personally, unless spotify continues to have the vast majority of the music i want to listen to, i won't continue being a subscriber.
One thing I haven’t seen in the comments is the pressure and expectation that you are supposed to be an excellent student and get into a good school and/or get scholarships. The pressure and work pushed onto kids from a young age is staggering.

I graduated HS in 2006. I feel like I was on the early-ish side of “must get very good grades, have multiple extra curriculars, and get into a good school.” I had 4-6 hours of homework a night after sitting in school all day and having a 2-2.5 hour sports practice or a game (which was even more of a time commitment). I was often up until midnight or later and waking up at 6:15-6:30 on weekdays. Weekends were used for more practices and more homework. Even when classmates would party, it would be exceedingly rare. I would often only hang out with friends 3-5 times a month for no more than 2-3 hours. I simply didn’t have the time.

I don’t buy that the homework time is the same. I think the amount of homework that kids get is absolutely insane. When I would (rarely) miss school becaus I was sick, I realized how little I actually missed during the day; I was basically fine if I got my homework done.

If a boss told me in order to get a promotion (college) to a midlevel manager position I would have to work for 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, spend 2-3 hours 6 days a week for a mandatory but not mandatory activity (sports, band, plays, etc) to make my resume look better, spend another 4-6 hours after work and activities preparing for the next day, and and finally spend another 10-16 hours on the weekend learning more about my job I would be job hunting before the door closed behind me. Oh, and those mandatory activities? They cannot really be minimum wage jobs. They don’t seem to do a whole lot to impress the colleges.

All told, to get into a decent state shool you are looking at ~82 hours a week! Why is that at all acceptable? That is two 40 hour work weeks!

We are also at the point where kids have zero room for screwups. I have a family friend who is ~10 years younger than me. They had a C+/B- average freshman year. Became B+/A- into sophomore and junior year. They didn’t get into Pitt or PSU main campus (those are the in state schools) despite having solid extra cuticular activities for all the years. Essentially, an average semester at the start of their HS career sunk them getting into the main campus of the big state schools. 20-25 years ago, they are accepted to Pitt/PSU main campus without a second thought.

So, between the absurd amount of work/time it takes to get into a decent school and the utter lack of room to be anything but the best, no wonder teens aren’t doing anything with the very limited free time they have.

IMO, teens would be much better off with less homework, less demand on what it takes to get into a decent school, more time to work jobs, and more opportunity to be the odd kid/adult hybrids they are.
Similar position. I have some complaints, but otherwise I do like my job a lot and am proud of my work, but I also don't have many options in my area. My boss was rather surprised when I told him I can't afford an apartment and still save money, though.

Non-glamorous startup problems, am I right?

I do wish I could move, however.
>Recent reports that these exploits are caused by a “bug” or a “flaw” and are unique to Intel products are incorrect.

From the English, this report makes it seems like there was no bug and no flaw. However, they say that ((bug || flaw) && only_intel) is false, but I have seen that AMD was not impacted.

Seems like this is a bug or flaw, since they are addressing it soon. They make it seem like everyone should be working in the same boat to address this, but they are just trying to un-distance themselves from their competition.
No, I've mostly accepted it at this point since I don't care too much about the size of /vendor (as long as it's not outrageous). I have noticed that it brings in extra files, though, which a `dep prune` typically helps alleviate.
Show HN: Cbuild 2.0 – makefile / header generator for modular C
"Loading data files" is code for "secretly computing prime numbers"
Lots of people being critical of this response. I think it's pretty good, and have been on the disclosing side of this equation many times.

Admits responsibility and says their current course of action (working with key stakeholders). Addresses concerns of the workaround. Has a timeframe for future updates. Has a call to action for what you should be doing next. To those of you pointing out that this is PR, you're right but that's not a problem...

Short and sweet and has it all. If anything, it is a day late but monstrous organizations probably had a lot of bureaucracy to cut through.

People are so reactionary and quick to throw any company with a security issue under the bus, without ever having been on the other side of the table. The reality is issues happen to everyone and Intel wants to fix it.
It's also in the works in Estes Park. It appears that the whole Front Range is interested in at least having these discussions.
What is your experience with getting early adopters?
No one talented and smart is loyal by that definition. If you get a raise, you have insurance against cutbacks, and the confidence to know you can get another job.
I know what you mean. We are having yearly adjustments to our paycheck. But more importantly we have not only the trust to do good work and are able to do Home-Office and necessary vacations (especially in times of need) without any ado.

So I know why I am staying and not in any need to look for something else.
> A rather bizarre statement of nothingness, and also an odd thing to say in a statement that just named AMD and ARM.

Particularly bizarre considering the use of "believes". If Intel disbelieved that their own products are the best in any particular respect, that might actually warrant a press release on its own.
I feel like I'm missing something. I can't figure out what the use of something like this is: https://i.imgur.com/7kJCn8u.png
Update: I've added the clarification about the English automatic or manual captions on the main page of the app. In addition, I added a button that loads in a random URL (from a small set of TED talks) so that it's easier to test the app out quickly.
No way, plot a graph of average horsepower and top speeds over time and you'll see it going up and to the right.