skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are differences between Copyright and Urheberrecht (the german thing).

For example, under Urheberrecht an author can always revoke the rights of the publisher, while under Copyright the rights are traded away and nothing remains with the author.

In Germany you cannot buy stock photos and use them however you want. The creator may sue you if he thinks he was not treated fairly.

Back to source code: No fear! If a programmer gives away source code knowingly under an Open Source licence, it cannot be revoked since the terms of publication are very clear. Still, there is no such concept as "giving copyright to a foundation" under Urheberrecht.

In general, Copyright protects the publishers, while Urheberrecht protects the creators.
I don't know where you read that I'm getting mad. I pointed out that your interpretation of what freedom of speech actually isn't anywhere near where it is when it's discussed as a principle, and went on to highlight that that interpretation is often used to shut down conversation.

To say that it's a UX problem is to lend credence to the idea that all interpretations are equal. My assertion is that the narrow legal interpretation is a recent phenomenon that's nowhere near as 'equal' as talking about it as a concept.

Even the article on Freedom of Speech on wikipedia states that it's a principle, and then directs the user to other articles on legal implications of freedom of speech by jurisdiction.

Not that wikipedia is an absolute authority, but it acts as a demonstration that the language people generally use when talking about freedom of speech is that it's a principle and a set of ideas.

The fact that there are legal implications in jurisdictions doesn't mean that we have a UX problem with the word, nor does it mean that we need "new word" in order to talk about it from the angle in which it's most commonly approached anyway.
2^225 < 52!
My bad, thanks for the correction. Probably I misread.
> According to Dr. Michael Greger, medical care is the third leading cause of death in America:

Everyone is going to die of something. If our medicine is good enough that, barring errors, it solves all other sources of mortality, then medical care would be the first (and indeed only) cause of death.

That it's the third (and there are still others after it) is obviously not ideal, but it's not necessarily a bad sign, either.

Nor does it mean a large share of the problems we face are of our own science/medicine/engineering, it means a large share of the problems we face that aren't solved by our own science/medicine/engineering involve failure of that science/medicine/engineering when deployed against some problem (of whatever origin.)
I was already on the lookout for a small ARM-based mini PC, just for doing financial transactions and record-keeping. Now that seems more pressing but I don't know of any such thing in existence.

I tried doing that on RPi 3, but the IO seemed not up to the job -- the CPU appeared to be just about tolerable, but using micro SD as a disk was too slow and prone to failure (I'd have tried an external USB disk but I believe the problems were in part because of poor I/O bandwidth). Other single board machines seemed to have better provision for disks that are up to the task I had in mind, but lack software support, so that I had little confidence in security updates, for example.

If somebody sold this I think they'd have my money tomorrow:

* An ARM mini-PC

* With a decent security update team behind it (probably the hard part?)

* That will let me run some basics: for me, a Unixy OS with Chrome/Chromium, emacs, ledger and python, without a big effort to install those and keep them up to date

* Ideally without too much anti-commodification BS (from my customer perspective) so that hardware can be swapped out if needed

Does anything like that exist?
I think (but I'm happy to be proved wrong on this) that we are the only animal that uses abstract symbols (rather than just vocalizations or other physical displays or gestures) to communicate and build models of natural phenomena, although those abilities are probably of relatively recent origin in our species. However, I've heard that animals like chimpanzees and dolphins can learn to use symbols when taught by humans.
From Newsweek. Of interest, Newsweek had a cover story in 1975 titled "The Cooling World" that suggested cooling "may portend a drastic decline for food production."

A 1974 Time magazine article "Another Ice Age?" painted a similarly bleak picture:

"When meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe, they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

I guess the pendulum swings back and forth for some of these news sources.
1. It's YOUR money and property. May as well have government prevent you from wearing gloves because there is extra work to make sure you do not use gloves in a crime.

2. It is decentralized. Anyone is free to trade, free to mine, free to fork. No papers needed

Sounds like someone is a bit upset they didn't spend a few $100 or few $1000 when BTC/BCH/ETH was cheap.
Zipline's blood delivery drones to operate in Tanzania early next year (2017)
Imagine: You open the browser, leave it open on some page and then leave your computer for a few hours or overnight. You can’t notice what a rogue ad did while you were away. Your passwords are maybe gone.
"The new keyboards in the recent Macbook Pro redesign are hyper-fragile"

The new keyboards are not fragile in my experience. I'd say that they're probably more robust than the old keyboards in terms of standing up to normal use.

The issue is that they are very difficult to service. You can't easily remove the keys to clean out debris etc like you could with the old version, which could be a problem if they accumulate dust and grime underneath the keycaps.
> What kind of discrepancies? Indicating how? What kind of tampering? No idea.

Granted.

But in the paper's defense, most experimental scientists don't know how to use general statistics correctly. So I think it's a fair assumption their average reader would likely be unfamiliar with p-values.
Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age – History of physics
Cscope feels kind of lousy nowadays after I have been using opengrok. It handles multilang repos so much nicer and allows you to search all the codebases instead of just one.
For values of “eventually” which include timescales on the order of proton decay...
US GDP is comparable to that of the EU, but the US has six times the land area and a lower population. That leads to very different overall patterns of development. I’ve noticed similar differences between the UK and France, which has the about the same population as us but double the land area.
Consumer Electronics Trends to Watch for in 2018 – IEEE Transmitter
As a landlord myself (obviously you are not by your comments) I offer accepting BCH or ETH for payment.

I buy more and more stuff online with BCH and then convert back to fiat when I need to use local currency here at merchants that are not yet supporting BCH.
Yeah I agree, but these tests can't show the cost without the base layer of mitigation (since at least PTI should be in effect across all instances at Amazon), so they're incomplete. The "unmitigated" version have at least the host-level mitigations. I'd love to know more definitively whether host-only mitigation is enough.
So, about doubled. Worth nothing that S&P500 also about doubled in that period (and quadrupled since the 2009 bottom), while paying dividends.
Here's the openSUSE/kernel-source/commit in question:

https://github.com/openSUSE/kernel-source/commit/14b04164b2f...

Search for amd.com for AMD related changes.
> he once confronted what he thought was a homeless woman on a Gbike. “I mean if I could describe her, you would agree with me,” he said. “She looked all panicked, and then she showed me her Google badge.”

Damn, that's cold.
As I understand it, raco (if it's the same as the old mzscheme) creates executables by combining bytecode with a complete interpreter and runtime. Chicken, via C, can probably leverage existing compiler support for creating minimal static binaries.

I've long been a fan of Dybvig and Chez Scheme and it would be a lot of fun to try running Hacker News on RoC with no effort on our part.
A Library for XML Data Standards
To Get a Loved One’s Face, a Lifelike Mask in Return
> Not if you're just trying to avoid a bubble in you pipeline and not actually executing the opcodes speculatively. In this situation the code will be loaded (and probably decoded etc...) but not executed before the CPU made sure that the branch was actually taken.

Here's what I'm trying to figure out. Let's say there's a JIT-generated instruction that I, an attacker, am interested in learning but cannot directly read from my position in the sandbox. If I can influence the instruction fetch speculator to issue a load for that instruction, then AFAICT it doesn't matter that it never makes it as far as the execute stage -- merely the act of fetching it for decode will have had a side-effect I can probably exploit into determining what it was.
At work the municipality runs the bike share.

I can unlock a nearby bike using the app or by using my code on a touchscreen on the bike rack.

I can then use it for up totwo hours before I have to leave it at another bike rack.

Price: approx USD 30 for a season (April to December)
AVG PC TuneUp 2018 v16 Crack and Serial Key
> “They don’t really want us to use it, but it’s OK if you do.” Ms. [redacted] said that when a bike is available at the train station she rides it 10 minutes to her house, and then keeps it overnight behind her gate. The next morning, she rides it back to the station, where she catches the train to her job at Google rival Oracle Corp. “You know, I rent it for a day.”

This seems like theft?

Edit: I removed the lady's name from the comment
> You just might have the Yosemite that manages to survive the computing apocalypse.

Just not MacOS yosemite, more likely Linux/PPC or Open/NetBSD... :D
I only read page one of that link (thanks for sharing), but it appears to limit its scope to a specific scenario: given a lump sump of money (a windfall), it is it better to invest all at once or dollar cost average over a period of time? It is not recommending against dollar cost averaging in general; it is recommending against it for windfalls. Diversification is also not mentioned in the article.
How does this all square with the Case-Schiller home price index, which showed something like a 1% real rate of return (i.e., just barely above inflation) for properties over time. As I understand it their data is based on comparable house sales and isn't subject to many of the common errors that occur when the mix of homes for sale shifts drastically.
> If this vulnerability poses a risk to your environment, the first line of defense is the firewalls and security tools that most organizations already have in place.

How would firewalls mitigate these attacks?
My in-laws had similar problems. They decided they wanted chickens. The presence of chicken feed near the house ended up attracting rats.
Show HN: Maximise your Holiday – UK
I built a website (https://maximiseyourannualleave.co.uk) that helps to plan 2018 annual leave in the UK.

For example, if you want to book 15 days, you have:
- 10 different dates to have 26 days off
- 16 different dates to have 25 days off
- 31 different dates to have 24 days off

Is that useful for someone?
It's great to see Idyll pop up on HN. I'm the creator of the project and have been working on it as part of my PhD research at the University of Washington.

We've had a busy year, including receiving a donation from Albert Wenger [1], which is being used to hire another developer to work on the project. Feel free to ask any questions in this thread and I'll do my best to provide thoughtful responses.

[1] http://continuations.com/post/166234021110/support-idyll-int...
What does accountability have to do with anything? Do you think GitHub verifies who you are when you sign up? They don't. Even if they did, a person introducing backdoors may not even live in a jurisdiction where this is illegal, or where you have any chance of sueing them. Do you think the data in a git commit is accurate? You can put anybody's name and email address there, and any date you like.

Please explain which part of this project ensures even less accountability than accepting code from a newly created GitHub account.

In addition, I would love to hear how you would hold someone introducing a backdoor through a GitHub PR accountable even if you know exactly who they are, where they live, and have a video of them opening the pr, and a signed confession.
True. He also forcibly kissed an unwilling woman, trying to force his tongue into her mouth.

Franken was creepy. We need to get rid of creeps on both sides of the political aisle.
Is there a documentation of what its capabilities are? I can't find anything specific about it.
Drones being used to deliver medical supplies in remote areas of Africa
"Hot spots" of directions appear because the more your spacecraft pitches "up" or "down", the less contribution yaw changes make on the final result. At the extremes, the entire range of yaw values is effectively wasted on rolling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock#In_three_dimension...

gattr suggests in another comment to look for clues around global illumination methods on how to solve this problem; his reference has the equations for picking polar coordinates from two random numbers generated from a [0..1] uniform distribution in section IV. B.
Ask HN: Spectre/Meltdown do I need to replace my phone?
In light of recent events, everyone is talking now about how critical it is to immediately update their OS, update their browsers, update their kernel... But almost every smart phone in the world will never get any system updates. Are we all supposed to go out and buy brand new ones from the select few that are still getting security updates? Is there any future for using this as some kind of legal leverage against Google and mobile manufacturers?
Even by your source, US GDP PPP per capita is quite significantly higher than most European countries. Most larger European countries are ~75% of the US as a rule of thumb.
Too bad segmentation was dropped for 64-bit code on x86, leaving just page tables. 32-bit x86 retains the segmentation model of the 286, extending it to 32 bits, and making it work with virtual addresses instead of physical addresses if the paging system is also enabled.

Most 32-bit operating systems ignored the segmentation system, basically just running everything in what the old timers would call "small model".

If we had segmentation in 64-bit mode, then I wonder if we could defend against a lot of these problems by running things we want to sandbox, such as JavaScript, in a different segment that only has access to the upper end of our virtual address space?

As long as the sandboxed code cannot change the segment registers, this would prevent it from generating an address outside the sandboxed portion of the processes' virtual address space.

I don't recall if the x86 segment system provides a way to trap attempts to change a segment register. If I recall correctly, it does support more than just the two level kernel/user protection system, and I think it supports not allowing loading a segment register with a selector that refers to a segment belonging to a higher level, so maybe if user mode was split into two levels, so sandboxed code could be run at a less privileged level than the main process it could work.

In general, I think processor designers need to take into account the need for processes to run sandboxed code, and provide some kind of mechanism the processes can use to protect themselves from malicious code in the sandbox.
Blocking a user from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate. It would also not silence that user, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.
Take a look at TFGAN -- it might make these implementations much easier!

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/tfgan-lightweight-li...

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...
RISC-V is an ISA. You can implement it in vulnerable and not vulnerable ways. My suggestion would be to extend, if needed, the ISA to mark instructions the compiler can tell aren't safe to speculatively execute so that implementations could use that instead of figuring it out on their own at runtime.

SPARC and POWER are also open. So far, it seems SPARC M7 and M8 are safe, but all current POWER CPUs are not (but don't trust me on that - I didn't check it).
I'm wondering what a realistic total real return is for purposes of investment/retirement planning. Seems to me that 7% is too aggressive, and one should work with about 4-5% or even less (given slower demographic and productivity growth).
As soon as a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a useful measure.
But, at least, if the architecture (not just the ISA) are open, the safety can be verified and, if we are lucky, even proven.

BTW, it seems SPARC (also open) is not vulnerable.
That comment makes a good point but this was no home-rolled RNG. unif(0,1) simply came back less than 0.4 a few hundred times in a row, or the Random Number God demanded sacrifice and was propitiated (the client fired us and the RNG has behaved ever since).
It's not the best textbook ever, but Shankar's book on quantum mechanics is interesting. It builds everything from ideas about vector spaces and the underlying mathematics (in an accessible way) before quantum magically pops out. You end up understanding bra-ket notation without realising it.
Still paywalled. Forwards to same url.
Look at Microsoft for an example of how you can ignore quality for a long while before it catches up to you. (To their credit Microsoft did a stellar job of climbing out of that hole).
What Happens When States Have Their Own Net Neutrality Rules?
There’s a case to be made that AWS is suddenly providing you 30% less than what you paid for. Imagine having reserved instances and they get 30% slower.
Στοίχημα: Δύσκολη αποστολή στο Αγρίνιο η ΑΕΚ
I wonder if the same people that prefer kinect and wii games over regular controllers would have an easier time learning to program using something like this....maybe not something based on the cryptic, ridiculous, register based brainfuck but some kind of 'interactive' programming language like this.
Review: ‘Clean Meat’ Could Make Livestock Obsolete
I think it is hilarious when people argue with Trump on Twitter, because I realize he is 71 years old. He's literally someone's old grandpa on Twitter. How many 71 year olds do you know on Twitter? How many people do you know would argue and talk shit with a 71 year old grandpa on Twitter?

I understand he's not just _any_ 71 year old grandpa, but it's so funny to think about it that way.
This is the dumbest thing I have seen on the front page of HN in a long time.

If I really wanted to be anonymous on GitHub I'd create a "fake" account/would not use my name.
As much as I would love to believe that I personally can sanely inspect all the code I run - I can't. One day I run apt-get install git and I have to trust all code that is being pulled to my machine (and there is a lot of code there) simply because my lifespan is probably shorter then time required to audit all the code in git dependencies (ssl, crt, kernel, etc). So given I can't possibly audit everything, then I need to trust, and if I need to trust, then being FOSS might make me feel a bit more sure about safety of the code, but in reality it might not even make such a difference - apt-get pulls-in binaries, who knows what/how/where this binaries are made ... trust chain is simply not there.

I personally trust FOSS software more not to do dumb things (like, hopefully my password manager doesn't report all my passwords to NSA), but simply being FOSS doesn't make it any more secure :)
> using this service where someone would pay your bill and the BTC would be held in escrow. The card used was fraudulent

Jack's complete lack of surprise has reached a new low.
Ahhh, okay. Thanks for the clarification!
DeepDyve is the closest legal option I am aware of.

https://www.deepdyve.com/

I tried their service before and did not like that the papers had to be read in the browser. I'd prefer living near a research library.
With a different REFERER, though. The above works for me.
The U.S. does not borrow dollars from China without China having exported that many dollars' worth of trinkets to the U.S., for how else would China get those dollars to lend back to the U.S.?

Today's mercantilism is all of this form: country X maintains a long-term trade surplus with the U.S., forces its exporters to exchange their dollars for local currency, and then country X's central bank buys U.S. treasuries (i.e., lends to the U.S. government) with those dollars. Yes, those central banks could purchase other dollar-denominated assets, and if the U.S. Federal government did not engage in deficit spending then those central banks would have to buy other dollar-denominated assets -- or they would have to let exporters keep their dollars and figure out what to do with them, or perhaps trade would have to balance.

Another way to put this is that Congress' deficit spending drives the U.S. trade deficit. If the U.S. budget suddenly went into long-term surplus then the mercantilist nations would have to start buying other dollar-denominated assets, or else the trade deficit would have to swing into surplus (which would then see the U.S. become a mercantilist nation...).

So when someone says "what if China lent the U.S. $1trn and ..." what they're saying is equivalent to "what if China exported $1trn worth of trinkets to the U.S. and ...". And look! It's what actually happens. China maintains a long-term trade surplus with the U.S., so it's continually selling $$$$' worth of trinkets to the U.S. and continually lending similar amounts of $$$$ to the U.S.

Compare to "what if China lent the U.S. 10trn Renmimbi and ..." -- completely different idea, though, of course, the U.S. only borrows in dollars.

Yes, I didn't say all this earlier, but people should really know this (people really don't). EDIT: The 15 upvotes above are from people who do know these basic facts of economics.
This article is very poorly written. First, how much you have saved should be directly related to your age, and they only touch on that in the second half of the article and only in way too big groups, ie not in any precise way.

Secondly, they don’t differentiate between married and unmarried. Two married 55 year olds with $300k each in 401ks are in better shape than individuals. As is someone with zero saved married to someone with $1M saved.

Also, they don’t include pensions and other defined benefit plans. That’s s substantial difference. If you are a school teacher two years away from getting $50k a year at retirement, you might not feel sane urgency to save.

and most importantly it ignores home equity. Paying off your home creates huge savings. I have a friend who paid off his $800k home by age 50, he would have answered that he has near zero retirement savings. He retired at 60 and built a million dollar home, no mortgage. Lots of people pay off homes by early retirement.

Finally, social security iften undercuts both the perceived need for big savings, and the means to do so. I’m paying in $9,000 per year right now, if i wasn’t i’d certainly contribute more to my 401k.