skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree this is pretty absurd but I could imagine that in this case the actual creative action (which I guess now can be copyrighted) might have been presenting silence as a musical score.

So my guess is your turned off hi-fi system wouldn't infringe their copyright - but if you produced an audio file containing nothing but silence and marketed it as a song, you would be infringing.

At least that's my try to find a spec of sanity in this.

(IANAL)
This is really great for first time website.
I can't speak for the alternatives you suggest, but I feel you're being overly unfair on this project. Even if it wasn't at all practical, it's still an interesting demonstration of the approach. Plus, it sounds like the author finds it useful, and I'm sure there are relevant use-cases. Maybe you could explain the "run a browser in a framebuffer" technique for those of us unfamiliar with it.

Zooming (not panning) is essentially as easy as scrolling, and I'm looking forward to a day where it's utilised more since it's such a natural motion. I can image a desktop (relevant!) that presents a huge 'canvas', allows you to zoom in and out of the filesystem, navigate the web at different levels, etc. There's definitely potential in interface design; what annoys you about zoom? I agree it shouldn't be a primary action that one would have to carry out very frequently.
I'm actually in the middle of a complete rewrite (I was hoping to stay under the radar until then). I'm ditching X11 and ffmpeg and actually rendering real text as a layer over the TTY blocks. See: https://github.com/tombh/texttop/blob/webext-rewrite/webext/...
Is it typical for VM hosts to allow some kind of remote administration which - at some near or distant point - is shared with the communication channels of the VM guests?

E.g. a ssh connection over the internet where the attacker gains access to the keys necessary to connect as a user or join an active session.
Yeah, that's what I did with my M5; I got the 16GB (2x 8) version, and then took another 2x 8GB from my old laptop too.

The thing is, I'm having trouble finding a worthy replacement (this is years old now and is dying; the left hinge is on the way out, the keyboard doesn't work properly (and it's the second keyboard this laptop has had), and the power jack is ... temperamental, but that's another story).

This laptop can hold up to 4 SO-DIMMs (8GB each), 2x 2.5" HDDs, 2x M.2 2242/2280 SSDs, has 4 USB 3.0 ports (one of which is also an eSATAp port), 2 DisplayPorts, an HDMI port, a SIM card slot, SD card reader, gigabit wired Ethernet, 3 audio jacks (headphones/microphone/line-out), a Core i7-4720HQ and a 15.6" 1080p IPS matte display. It also has a GeForce GTX965M but I don't use that (it's always powered off).

I'm in the United Kingdom, and I'm having difficulty finding something that can even come close to that, without going back to Eurocom (which I may end up doing). The most important aspect to me is the large memory support (I can barely get by with 16GB for all the development work I do, so 32GB is really nice) and storage (both HDDs are in a RAID-1 for /home, and both SSDs are in a RAID-1 for / -- which was handy, because one of the SSDs failed a few months ago, and I didn't have to do anything). Avoiding the Microsoft Tax would also be a bonus.

To compare to the laptop this thread is about: I only see an option for 1 drive instead of 4 and it doesn't even go to 1TB, there's no wired Ethernet and no HDMI/DisplayPort connectivity.

The only reason I'm hesitant to go with Eurocom again is their long lead time & shipping charges (they're in North America), and their laptop keyboards don't seem to last...
Operation of Clipper: http://www.crypto.com/papers/escrow-acsac11.pdf

"Clipper was intended as a drop-
in replacement for a standard DES chip, but with a new
symmetric-key cipher algorithm, called
Skipjack
, designed
by the National Security Agency and using an 80 bit key.
But before any two Clipper chips could communicate, they
would first exchange a
Law Enforcement Access Field (LEAF)
that contained a copy of the current session key, itself en-
crypted with an “escrowed”
Unit Key
held by the govern-
ment. Any Clipper-encrypted communication could thus be
decrypted by government agents without needing to break
the (presumably strong) Skipjack cipher. The agents would
be able to recover the session key simply by decrypting the
copy in the LEAF (which they would intercept along with
the ciphertext) using their escrowed copy of the unit key"

It had a fatal flaw: a 16-bit checksum that could be brute-forced.
I just upvote articles I want to read later, then get around to revisiting that list once in a blue moon. But at least it reduces tab bloat.
How Wendy Carlos Changed Music
Because I don't find anything that does better than litecoin. Also this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JarEszFY1WY shows the fundamentally different viewpoints between bitcoin and bitcoin cash. As someone mentions in the video what bitcoin cash is trying to do is implement business logic inside the protocol which is a layer violation.
> So you have to use the system to beat the system.

Which by the way is what RMS did back when the GNU system didn't exist: use proprietary UNIX to develop GNU, replace the system piecemeal.
This is still the case as of today - this protection has been extended to January, 18 when this last came up for vote. It'll likely get extended again.

So if they start targeting places, it'll be recreational pot stores and farms that sell to them, not medical dispensaries.
You are using the wrong unit. In a database a unit is a key. In a blockchain a unit is an address. It is entirely consistent from this point of view.
Wrong, if you dont like the outcome of the democratic process, you buy the system and fix it so it becomes unable to produce outcomes you dont like.
This website is way better than my first attempt back in the day. Keep it on !

Nevertheless, maybe the public dislosure of your phone numbers is not necessary.
Uhh.. congrats on making a website? I mean, if you are a real poster and are the age of the people on your site, kudos on making a public site. But I'm sorry, I don't feel this deserves posting on HN. I'm feeling trolled right now.
I found some free courses/schools here:

http://www.npower.org/
"Non-profit Npower offers this free program to young adults ages 18 to 25. The program hosts two class cycles per year, beginning in January and July, with each running a total of 22 weeks, including 15 weeks of class-based training and _7 weeks of paid internship_. The courses are based at Npower’s HQ in Downtown Brooklyn and in Harlem."

https://flatironschool.com/programs/nyc-mobile-dev-corps
"Mobile Dev Corps is a new, four month long course run by The Flatiron School and fully funded by the city. Starting in January students will learn to build iOS apps over a 16 week course. To be eligible you must be an NYC resident, earn less than $50,000 per annum and have no prior programming experience."

They also offer scholarships you can try to apply for if the above course doesn't meet your criteria.
https://flatironschool.com/programs/online-web-developer-car...

https://www.c4q.nyc/accesscode/
"Over the course of 10-months, expect to spend over eighty hours each week learning to code. From collaborating in hackathons to launching products at Demo Day, Access Code is fully immersive, and designed to train industry ready developers."

Forgive my formatting, I'm new to HN....
Great but you might want to consider redacting your email and phone number considering there are bots that can crawl and pick them up, leading to unwanted spam. Also sometimes people on the internet can be not so nice, and it's usually a good idea to minimize your exposure, especially in a very public platform like HN or Reddit.
It is a good idea to remove your sensitive info (e.g. phone number, last name, mail address) or replace it with bunk.
> The solution may lie in a new "non-speculative load“ instruction that delays execution until preceding branches are confirmed.

That's sadly not enough.

There are also potential speculation-based side-channels that are unrelated to cache: timing the idiv operation whose latency "depends on number of significant bits in absolute value of dividend." Furthermore there are many ways to measure contention on the execution ports which can leak information about the speculative execution.
Nice website. The “about” section is probably the most interesting for visitors and could be expanded. Readers might not know what TAS is. Is there anything you want to add or change about the site?
I think, by now "transpile" just means "compile, but in web development".

Because, as we all know, web development you never compile things... /s
Wrong, it was implemented from scratch.
Look the same, but was implemented in a very different philosophy. SpinalHDL is from my opinion much better.
Ahh, I have been trolled. HN needs a specific report button, even for young accounts, because duh, this post.
Because the Ethereum people only created 80 million tokens out of thin air?
You make it sound like 'anything' could be a currency. When in reality finding a common medium of exchange is extremely difficult, and must meet a lot of the properties I listed above. In terms of 'currency technology' crypto is a huge advance over our current standard currencies.
Yep, only EEG gives you that kind of information. fMRI takes a lot of post-processing with complex statistics to produce any kind of useful information. I worked on a study that used fMRI to study the involvement of early visual areas in the cortex during reading tasks, and when processing long runs we'd get on with other stuff while the data was being processed.

There isn't any existing tech to take surface data and "map" it to internal states because there isn't a simple relationship between on and the other. For real-time recording of activity deeper in the brain than a few centimetres you need to implant electrodes during surgery, which is obviously only something that happens in humans when that person needs brain surgery already.

There's some interesting stuff being done around decision-making with implanted electrodes in monkeys, but that's understandably not to everyone's taste.
High Quality Down-Sampling for Deterministic Approaches to Stochastic Computing [pdf]
> it's still running in a sandbox (a la javascript)

People frequently make this comparison upon hearing the term sandbox, but this is a weak comparison. Yes JavaScript executes in a sandbox, but the JavaScript (JIT) sandbox is purely for performance instead of isolation, which is like comparing a pencil sharpener to a bulldozer just because they are both portable machines. A better comparison of the JavaScript (JIT) sandbox is the JVM.
> Wow, that is truly evil.

Arguably. Youtube is a video hosting site, it's not a political platform and has no obligation to host content it doesn't deem suitable for their platform.

Those videos should be sent to news agencies, (inter)national archives, the UN, war crime tribunals, etc instead (or in addition to) "entertainment" video hosting sites.
How mean spirited. This attempt at humour undermines Laravel's developer's efforts unneccessarily.
ggsdata.se sells the same laptop with Swedish keyboard and Linux pre installed.
We don't need a legalization bill. Congress has given DEA full authority to reschedule drugs, and this includes removing them from the schedule altogether. Thus, the federal status of marijuana is one executive order away by the DEA director. Or a person said director is reporting to - like, say, the Attorney General.

So, as it happens, Sessions could make this whole mess go away with a stroke of his pen. Or Trump could direct him to do so. Congress could then vote to reschedule it again, of course - but I doubt they'd dare, given the polls on the issue.
They might post them but the money goes to the rights holder, which I guess is why they'll tolerate it.
Not only that, swing applets are notoriously fugly. One reason electron is successful is because it kinda looks like native. Swing Look and Feels all seem alien.
This is really, really great. Especially that you coded all this without DIY tools. I remember, the first time I tried building a website it was with Microsoft Frontpage, and then I upgraded to Macromedia Dreamweaver (now Adobe) and finally I gave up on both and started coding on notepad because these tools got in my way. Atleast you're lucky enough not to worry about IE anymore ;)
Sites permettant le téléchargement d’ ebooks gratuits en français
From what I gather, the founder and chairman of Hikari Tsushin Inc. Once among the world's richest people, until Hikari Tsushin lost 99% of its stock value in 2000.

EDIT: found this[1]

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/nov/25/internetn...
Yeah - that is a "moderate" on the Torvalds scale...
Checkout SpinalHDL it keep much more of your hardware description semantic inside the generated Verilog
If you are just taking about 1, maybe 2, extenders there is no real advantage. Now if you're talking about 2 or more extenders then the advantage is that 1 extender isn't handling all the hard work back to the primary access. The mesh network let each unit work with the other near-by units to share the load.

The disadvantage is that if you get too many mesh node they start talking to each on who can handle the load the best. That can get quite chatty reducing through put. Eero big push was for smarter meshing (less chatting, more throughput) at a cheaper price.
Right, but as - I repeat - Copyright does not cover ideas and information themselves but only the form or manner in which they are expressed then the computers information isn't the point - the expression of that information is.

Which is why it is not actually in violation to have a mp3 but only to upload or play it - as that is the expression. The digital data is not actually copyrighted.

Which is, again, why white noise makes no sense to copyright - it's random noise.
Nice website.

Interesting, in Taiwan international schools are forbidden to enrol Taiwanese students. I wonder what the rationale is behind that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_American_School
DERP DERP DERP DREP
THIS IS A BOT THREAD
what do you have to do to trigger HN's algos for bots and generics?
For anything where the other end is a standard connector you can get a C-to-whatever cable - C-to-micro for the Kindle and C-to-B for the LTE modem should work fine.
Crypto is already being used as a currency. And governments have no ability to depreciate it. I don't know what will happen next, but that is the reality today.

What I do know is a lot of people find value in a currency that cannot be depreciated at will.
...or be trained in gorilla warfare, so that it's just another (non-click) target to you.
How about distributing one's videos through BitTorrent instead? Should scale pretty well. Granted, viewing the video becomes a hassle. But it works.
Only if you are talking with reasonable people. If you were inside the crypto-groups, you'll know that this is a bubble.
Experiments with Shared Holograms and Azure Blob Storage/UDP Multicasting
Something I’d love someone to explain: in USA as in UK contract developers seem to be paid around $600-1000 a day with a few exceptions. In the UK this is higher than at least 95% of the permanent jobs I see - which is what you’d expect given you’re hiring an expert who is taking on some risk.... But in the USA (if the data in this post is to be believed) I’m seeing even inexperienced graduates earn more than experienced contractor devs. Is that right?

Also, I’m curious; I read figures like $400-600k... Is that actual salary you see on your wage slip or wrapped up in that are things like healthcare that you never “see” normally?

I’m curious because these figures are astonishingly high and I’m wondering 1) how on earth do startups find devs 2) how on earth there’s any developers over 30 when you can become a millionaire and retire early.
Don’t make it appear like you are reading your own recent writes
No, the nerds argued that music "should" be free and that musicians "should just" switch to a concert/merch business model. Which they ended up having to do. I think thats a very different view of it. I'm not a musician or otherwise profit from strong copyrights, but I still think creators were/are being robbed.
Wow, Helm is great. Reminds me of FAW Circle, which is not free. Was Helm inspired by Circle?
One isn't compiling to the JVM with this, they're compiling to WebAssembly. And I think the point of this is to compile JVM code to WebAssembly, right? Am I missing something even larger than that?!

Should someone want another VM to run their code in; how, good is this at reducing the size of the std lib or the JVM itself? Can I depend on useful packages with this, or will they immediately shit the bed? Will the payload be something like 150mb?
Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia
Next stop CSS. Try to make a web site using only HTML and CSS, without Bootstrap or JQuery. The trick is to use as much HTML semantics as possible, make the site readable using just HTML, then do all the styling in the CSS stylesheet. And add classes to the HTML elements if needed.
Non jailbreak Version iTools iOS 11.2.2 to iOS 11.3, 11.3.1 and iOS 11.3.2
FUCK FUCK FUCK HN REPORT PLEASE

Srysly, when does this thread get tagged as spam?
That point bears repeating: if you hold a wallet, you are responsible for having backups. It's very valuable data.

Either use two or more hardware wallets or keep a paper wallet (a printout of the private keys) in a secure place.
If there were a bug found in a crypto currency, it could easily be worth zero the next day.

The fact that the current blockchain design has withstood people trying to break it for so long gives the currency a greater value.

Would you rather store value in a crypto that is a brand new design, or something that has withstood the test of time?
Ripple $XRP explained
This website is way better than my first attempt back in the day.

Me too, but I wrote my first site when HTML 2.0 was standard so I have an excuse.
Well, that's not actually what you said. You actually said:

> in a DMCA takedown notice the only thing asserted under penalty of perjury is that you are, or are authorized to act on behalf of, a copyright holder

And the Diebold case didn't have anyone with a notarized statement that you speak about. I don't think what you are saying is necessarily supported by the facts of that case.
I'm confused - what's going on? Is the submitter meant to be a bot account trying to accumulate upvotes or something?
> Seems like crypto has a lot unique intrinsic value that surpasses traditional currencies to date.

Only if they are used as currency in the marketplace. If cryptocurrencies are only an investment point they are a bubble with little or no practical value. The only value is to other investors.

Personally, I find cryptocurrencies volatile and as such would not use them to purchase anything.
I did project with Webkit that renders to the terminal:

https://github.com/callesg/termkit
I've just had a look at the X1 (UK site). Annoyingly you have to have the most expensive model if you want 16Gb of RAM.
If you haven't seen what nukeop is referring to, then you need to read the discussions listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076601 .
I have the 1st gen XPS 13 developer and I'm happy with it. The build quality isn't as good as Apple, particularly the touchpad is notably inferior, and the right speaker died a long time ago. From time to time, I need to open it to remove dirt from the fan, and that's about it. 5 years later, works perfectly.

A coworker recently got the 6th generation model. No problem. Slightly better build. Excellent battery life and performance.

These are definitely reliable workhorses.
Give the customers a 5% discount if they pay in Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, ZCash, etc.
That's like saying Bezos or Gates aren't really worth ~60B dollars, like the news are repeatedly saying though. Isn't that right? Considering most of their wealth is in stocks.
Mineable crypto is not fiat because it cannot be created or destroyed at will. That is what gives it value over a fiat currency. You don't have to worry about a central government devaluing it or inflating it artificially.
We tried the markdown support in TFS but it was not what we wanted and then we created a small tool using a static site generator. It builds the documentation site after someone pushes new content to the documentation folder. This worked well enough for all devs and some non-devs.

I would like to have something like NetlifyCMS but locally stored.
https://www.netlifycms.org/
So GCC -O0 is a transpiler, but GCC -O3 is a compiler? Nice.
From a technical standpoint, it's a website created using bootstrap and some inline CSS. The carousel works, and that's not trivial to achieve as a neophyte. There is a footer with an easter egg (small text).

Home pages were very common back in the 90s and these days are out of fashion mostly due to blogs and social networks.

That's why making a home page these days is even more important, in order to contribute to a more decentralized Internet. So good job keeping the flame alive.
The comment from the owner of the disk he cracked is pretty great:

Doug Wyatt January 4, 2018 at 10:38 PM

I'm flabbergasted. That's my Alto disk you broke into!

The APL stuff is surely related to some work I did with Leo Guibas, showing why lazy evaluation would be a really good idea for implementing APL: see Compilation and delayed evaluation in APL, published January 1978. (That paper gives me an enviable Erdős number of 3, since Leo is a 2.) I'm sure it's not a complete APL implementation, just a proof of concept. It happens that my very first part-time job at PARC, in 1973, involved writing decision analysis software in APL -- on a timesharing system!

Given the AATFDAFD hint, I'd guess the real password is ADDATADFAD. This derives from a project I did with Jef Raskin at UCSD in 1974. (He mentioned it in this interview.) The Data General Nova we were working with produced some garbled message with ADDATADFAD where it should have said ADDITIONAL, and it was a running joke ever after. Strange, the things that occupy some brain cells for over 40 years.

Thanks for an amusing blast from the past.

-- Doug Wyatt (Xerox PARC 1973-1994)
This is true but I think OP meant Internet Archive in addition to self hosting.

> use the Internet Archive (at https://archive.org/) and your own hosting instead of YouTube
What's the advantage of disabling dhcpd?
When your node encounters a conflict (a fork), where two signed blocks have the same parent (double spend attempt), it creates a vote referencing the block and broadcasts it to the network.

The nodes vote and the weighted majority (>51%) is taken as the real fork. The weight of a node's vote is the sum of the balances all accounts that have named that node as its representative.

The key thing here is that when a fork or missing block occurs, only the accounts referenced in the transaction are affected. The rest of the network proceeds with processing transactions for other accounts.

The voting mechanism is to wait for 4 voting periods (1 minute total) and keep a cumulative tally of incoming votes from the other representatives. The most popular block wins majority and is kept. The other block is discarded.

Refer to page 4 (bottom right) of the whitepaper: https://raiblocks.net/media/RaiBlocks_Whitepaper__English.pd...

As far as I am concerned, this is a great design (if you buy into proof-of-stake, which I do).
The Clipper Chip was also well intended. It's just that it put the emphasis of trust somewhere most of us are not happy with.
> I don't like redux and it's crazy indirection

Can you explain this? There's very little indirection (if any) in Redux.