skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Let me assure you, a $200 snow blower is worthless

>>When I lived in Minnesota

You definitely don't want a $200 snowblower if you live in Minnesota.

But, if you live in somewhere like Ohio or Michigan in an area that doesn't get a ton of snow, a $200 snowblower can do the trick just fine. But that once or twice-a-year storm that dumps 10 inches might be too much.
> Which is why there won't be a settlement; it's clearly a politically motivated suit aimed to hurt Google as badly as possible; if Damore and the other individually named plaintiff were seeking to maximize the probability and magnitude of personal recompense, this would be a direct action. A settlement with no admission of guilt, no discovery, and just a go-away cash payment that’ll mostly be assigned to the attorneys won't achieve the goals for which they are filing the suit.

Nope. Think about that. You think a guy who got fired after a few years of work experience would rather make a company look bad than gain financial security?

The reason we are hearing about the lawsuit is because he did try for a settlement, with terms much like you deacribe, and Google refused. You only go to court as a last resort, and that's what this is. That's also why we are only hearing about it now instead of when it happened. Months of negotiation did not go anywhere.

That's my theory anyway. I have no knowledge of this case, but I have seen this happen many times.
Depends greatly on context, but here it refers to Proof of Stake.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_Stake
The issue is that the sale was scheduled after intel was aware of the issue.
Well, most every CPU was affected not just Intel’s. If I were Intel’s CEO my primary motivation for selling would be NVIDIA and ARM, not this exploit.
The ultimate one for this is:

http://oldcalculatormuseum.com/index.html
Proof of Stake. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake
>> Or butt garages up to the street so there's no driveway to speak of.

Talk about getting plowed in.
Because he has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, and by selling his shares he is misappropriating company information for personal benefit.
Why net neutrality has turned into a partisan issue is beyond me, but in this era seemingly everything must be politicized as part of a divide and conquer strategy.

I suspect the best hope for net neutrality is for states to adopt it themselves at the state level.
My assertion as stated in the parent post is based on the University of Maryland Program for Public Consultation's December 2017 poll, which asked respondents to weigh how convincing they found a pro-repeal and a con-repeal argument, and then asked their final stance. The results show [1] that 75% of Republican voters, over 88% of Democrat voters, and almost 86% of independents oppose changes are consistent with the result the FCC's undoing of the Obama-era NN rules. This survey at the time was widely covered in media, e.g. [2][3].

[1] http://www.publicconsultation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12...
[2] http://thehill.com/policy/technology/364528-poll-83-percent-... [3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/12...
"Muslim ban" was a term of the left. It was a country-based ban that didn't target most of the majority-Muslim countries. It was treating people as members of a group, but it was grouping by citizen.
It worked for my Dad in South Dakota, so it’s not exactly wimpy. I thought the same, but got proven wrong. It is very easy to handle.
The only place in the States I use Apple Pay is Walgreens and Whole Foods. When I'm in London? Practically everywhere.
West Quebec here. They do indeed take care of sidewalks here. They do on the other side of the river, in Ottawa, Ontario, too.
> Maybe, because there's no way to make money from patents and stuff

That's definitely not the reason. The over the counter pain killer / pain management sections in CVS, Walgreens and Walmart are half filled with generic options.
Yeah, the payload is lost. Lost I tell you.
Consensus.
Just like Vive, PiMax is a SteamVR headset.
A lot of game-related media has reported that a lot of games are largely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. My impression is that the most common result is "about 3%." (With some notable exceptions, however.)

Does this bode well for Apple code, which seems to tend to pull in innovations from games into the general UI?
Or it's all disinformation... dun dun dunnn
Ripple price compared to Bitcoin/Ethereum was and still is ridiculous. My harebrained theory is that the Arrington $100M crypto fund requiring deposit in XRP drove the price way up.

I thought I had a sense of this market until Ripple...the network is good but XRP isn't much needed to use it.
Well, Meltdown is (almost) Intel only.
Unless you go to Costco. You slide your card into the chip reader and before you blink it's telling you to remove your card.

Not sure who or what Costco had to do that to get such fast processing... but why can't everyone sign up for that!
> Because he has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, and by selling his shares he is misappropriating company information for personal benefit.

This was a scheduled sale. It's not clear to me what the SEC is seeking to investigate. Breaking a scheduled sale to take a loss is also illegal insider trading.
Courts know how to deal with cases where change of ownership (or another tort) is not reversible. It's as simple as if I promised you to pay you $100 for the dinner in your restaurant, ate the dinner and then never paid because I had no money. Obviously I was perpetuating fraud - I knew I have no money and still ate. But I can't return you the ownership of the food I ate. So the court would just assign just compensation (via various mechanisms) for fraud in that case, and maybe something on top to punish me for what I did. The only problem would be collecting it may prove impossible in this case.
We are not removing branches.

To fix this in hardware without software changes you would have to disable branch prediction. That would perform worse than what we are doing.
Follow the money. I suspect you will find the answers to your questions here:

https://www.opensecrets.org/influence/

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections/
Why is this downvoted? This seems like a reasonable debunking of the insider trading theory, unless someone has better information than this.
PV in HVM, not to be confused with PV on HVM [1] which includes PVHVM and HVM + PV drivers :)

[1] https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/PV_on_HVM
Nothing to get your knickers in a bunch about, is what I'd say about it. (Note, that term can refer to golf pants.)
Sounds like legacy source code. The law needs some serious refactoring.
I am pro net neutrality and unwilling to reveal my real name.

I'm also not an elected representative of the people.
Good work WebKit team in putting this together, it's just as good as Raspberry Pi's note on why it isn't affected by Spectre & Meltdown - https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulne...

Of-course here, the mitigation are being detailed as well.
A proper examination is best so that he can clear his name once and for all.
There’s a serious proposal to give babies born in the US $20,000 (or more)
She runs Australia’s newest unicorn, a design tool for the Photoshop-averse
Does this include someone who buys BTC on coinbase but never sells it?
> why is it illegal?

Google disclosed the vulnerability to Intel in June. On October 26th, Intel filed its quarterly numbers and made no mention of Project Zero or the word "vulnerability." It failed, in Item 1A, to disclose any new risk factors [1]. On October 30th, Krzanich gave trading instructions [2]. On November 29th, the trades occurred; on December 1st, their confirmations were disclosed [2].

I'm not an expert on the sale of stock in public companies by insiders. But implementing sale instructions after finding a material risk factor and failing to disclose it in a subsequent filing looks shady.

(I continue to default to the assumption of sloppiness over bad intent, though even that is punishable, albeit with fines versus jail time.)

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50863/00000508631700...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50863/00011276021703... Explanation 1
> if somebody is taking linear algebra in university and still didn't understand that this is an extremely important topic, then he should maybe go back to school or take a gap year or something to improve his general education.

raises hand

I was that kid.

I had to take differential equations, linear algebra, and discrete systems for my CS undergrad. I loved math, and I did my best but I eventually got bogged down and lost interest.

Since then I’ve come to appreciate more why you would want that advanced math as a programmer, but my experience at the time was that I could brute force almost anything with enough for-loops.

It just didn’t occur to me that there were interesting problems that were too complex to brute force, or that brute force would lead to such tangled code in some cases that it wouldn’t be debuggable.

Frankly, I doubt more liberal arts would’ve convinced me. I needed to get knee deep in big bad code and domain specific problems before I’d realize what I missed.
You'd be surprised. Bitfinex has added the "SPANK" token of "SpankChain" to its markets[1]

[1] https://www.bitfinex.com/t/SPK:USD
He scheduled it after he knew about Meltdown.
So was he disingenuous, or did he lack understanding? Pick one.
It's something to use for undecided voters and something to rile up the democratic base.
I plan on abandoning my smartphone next month. Not certain enough to say that I’m abandoning smartphones for good, but I sort of feel that way. I’m over it.
Even beggars in the streets of China are able to accept phone-based payments and show a QR code on their signs (WeChat).
So is your point that insider trading isn't bad, or that this isn't insider trading?

Because the WaPo article linked to is about insider trading.
I believe that means it depends on whether the schedule was set before or after he learned of this information. Mind you, I honestly don't know whether the schedule was set before or after in this case.
So you think that people who have the ability to affect the value of a publicly traded good should be allowed to trade on actions that they can plan and know about in advance? Especially when the way insider traders benefit the most is by selling off stock before an announcement like Intel's, which by definition hurts whoever they sell to as they are left holding the bag.

If you care that little about equality why not go all the way and just say laws don't apply to the rich, not just in fact but by law.

The only point of having laws is prevent people with power from amassing ever more power and hurting others. Without that there would be no reason for anyone to not take whatever they can the moment they get an opportunity
>That would be an enormously stupid attempt at insider trading.

A stupid crime is still a crime. It could all be coincidence that his biggest selloff came just after he learned of the vulnerability but the circumstances merit investigation. And he might have thought the stock price would go down more (I sure did).
Well said. Legal tender is the difference here, USD comparisons are apples and oranges IMO.

as ETH is a volatile cryptocurrency and not US legal tender at all, while USD is the exact opposite: a fiat currency considered legal tender not only in the US but worldwide.
Get one of these:
[0]: http://www.biltema.se/sv/Fritid/Tradgard/Vinter/Snoslade-200...
[1]: http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=39941... - in the US

for moving 90% of the snow and if you have to scoop the last bit it's not backbreaking.
Of course Hacker News participants are just human. That said, automatic downvoting of non-controversial, easily-proven statements, while comments with highly subjective and inflammatory takes get upvoted show the worst this community has to offer.

I used to think HN provided a good balance of open-mindedness and tech topics. It was a nice refuge from places like reddit and Twitter that had become overly politicized. In the last year - in particular since Damore's little lesson about shitting where you eat - the same kind of smarmy calls for "tolerance of different opinions" mixed with constant brigading of people (talk abut "tolerance") have taken over HN.

I really hope for our community's sake that it's just a small number of users ruining it for everyone.
But when was it scheduled? Intel has known of Meltdown/Spectre for some time (at least since June) and had planned an announcement for this week before the cat got out of the bag.
Not sure if it's CBD or THC, but coming off pot makes you realise how madly your REM sleep was disturbed (or basically non existent).

Part of smoking pot I enjoy initially is amazingly deep sleep, but that can't be good in the long term.
Framing it as "Good" vs "Evil" is half the problem. The real issue is a lot of the left have assigned morality to policy decisions and concepts about how government should work. You may strongly disagree with scaling back the EPA, FDA, banking regulation, Net Neutrality and who knows what other regulations but that does not scaling or removing regulation evil.

The rhetoric from the left that any disagreement with the left is "evil" is a really sad development for the United States and democracy. It has a chilling effect on any kind of debate once you brand your opponents as "evil".
It was "scheduled" on October, 30th 2017.
My problem with this idea is that it assumes this is the ONLY issue that a multinational corporation would be aware of.

There would be so many counterweighting forces at play at any time that it would be EASY to rationalize why this one shouldn't affect the share sale's view in the court of public opinion. Given that none of the other sales did either.

Case in point, we are analyzing this timely disclosure a full quarter later. I count at least five 8-k's since then, let alone form 4's
> This seems like a reasonable debunking of the insider trading theory

Martha Stewart went to jail for avoiding $45,000 in losses [1]. People don't always act rationally. More pointedly, you don't have to act in bad faith to break securities law. The lack of any disclosure surrounding this material issue, which Intel knew about for months prior to the CEO's sale and prior to Intel's Q3 Form 10-Q, is jarring and could result in liability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImClone_stock_trading_case
> Given how completely Twitter, Facebook, Google, et al censor right-leaning political opinions

Right-leaning opinions which violate their TOS.

big difference. I'm pro merit based immigration and feel entirely comfortable tweeting that (if I had a twitter, never saw the point).
Not by Meltdown, and the Meltdown specific patches are by far the most performance killing
Then why didn't clinton win easily?
1. It was scheduled in October from what I can tell

2. >Breaking a scheduled sale to take a loss is also illegal insider trading.

Source? I don't think this is correct - it is illegal to insider trade but not to refrain from trading. See e.g. https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/08/insider-trading-biotech/
I am suspicious whenever I hear of a "failed" deployment of a top-secret payload.

Here are the archives of SeeSat-L, a visual satellite observer's network[1]. This will be the place to look for the latest observations on the mission. Are there any other sources out there?

[1] http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2018/index.html
I believe the contention is that the scheduling too place after Intel was aware of the vuln.
I appreciate the planning fallacy. I usually do this implicitly but I just changed an expected timeline on a JIRA epic from 80 hours to 160 days after reading this.
Normally I’d chuckle, but with this who the hell knows?! I can think of a number of sound reasons to lie, but then again, it’s hardly unheard of to lose a payload. I guess we’ll have to see what happens with SpaceX in relation to the military to get a sense of it.
In relation to price, PoS removes the energy expenditure required to mine coins. Without constant selling pressure of miners selling to cover electricity costs, price may rise.
I guess I don't get your point about him being on the spectrum and how that means he accidentally may say offensive things. If that were true, as you say, wouldn't he have realized that in something like this?
You can get into a situation where you have multiple offers you need to decide upon at the same time. It's not entirely ethical to say "yes" to all of them, although one lesson here is that you have not really said yes to an offer until you sign.
> Breaking a scheduled sale to take a loss is also illegal insider trading.

Actually it might be legal. Which doesn't make sense, because trading or not trading based on insider info has the same effective impact on the market, but it may not be 'insider trading' if you decide not to trade.

'After Rule 10b5-1 was enacted, the SEC staff publicly took the position that canceling a planned trade made under the safe harbor does not constitute insider trading, even if the person was aware of the inside information when canceling the trade.'

It doesn't seem like Krzanich falls under this though because he went through with the sale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_Rule_10b5-1#A_possible_loo...
> Google has caught MMD (Microsoft Marketing Disease)

In two years Google Pay and Samsung Pay will merge and the new service will be called Pays For Sure.
Why bother? No one knows what is on the satellite anyway.
weird post fact times? heres a CMU taught, Cambridge written paper that concludes:

"we never had network neutrality in the past, and I do not believe we should engineer for it in the future either."

Its the exact condescension and willful ignorance of intelligent opposition in this thread that so characterizes the left.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~srini/15-744/papers/p49-crowcroft.pdf
The Science of the Job Search
I am like your wife, a chronic procrastinator. It is almost like my mind gets stuck in a local minima that is hard to get out of. Tasks just seem harder than they are (before I start).

Some things that help me: exercise, meditation, minimalism, routine (kaizen). These help to get me out of the procrastination zone.

A small question though: how does she increase chores compared to if you were living alone? is she very messy, or is it just annoying that you are doing the work for two people?
you'd be surprised. i worked with people who would write simple json structures by creating a class in java and then serializing it and printing it to the console to copy and paste. most of them were promoted out to management
It does screw up your sleep massively (basically REM sleep is gone)
ack will always be slower than ripgrep, but it shouldn't be as slow as it is in burntsushi's tests. In his tests, he's showing run times where ack takes 25x as long to run as ripgrep, and ack shouldn't be NEARLY that slow.

We think that there's something weird about his Perl installation that is making it so slow, but we haven't been able to figure it out.

Here's the ticket: https://github.com/beyondgrep/ack3/issues/42

If you have any insight, we'd love to have it. We've been stumped, as you'll see if you read through the issue history.
Anyone know whether there will be any repercussions for continuing to keep the flawed chips on the market, and for that matter continuing to sell these as of today.

I'm not talking about recalls of purchased product, just that Intel chose to continue to keep chips with major known issues on store shelves instead of choosing some other option.
So was this an error with the payload or the rocket?
I doubt it. The very rich seldom go to prison, especially if they are US citizens at US companies.

Intel can afford very good and very many lawyers for him. Intel may pay a fine to the SEC, after many years.
There is no stealth in space though. If you're in orbit and larger than a paint chip, somebody's tracking you. Consequently, lying about the success of the launch is silly. A million things could have gone wrong though.
There certainly exist people that do.
Because it's makes it less likely but it's not an iron class defense or even a strong defense. Martha Stewart broke the law to save ~45k with her insider trading when she was worth hundreds of millions. People's greed can over take any sort of rationality
Okay, how about shortsighted, stupid, corrupt, etc...?

This also sounds like an argument for political correctness.
First Equifax, now Intel. Let's assume no bad faith. That means committees and control functions are failing to (a) appreciate the damage a security vulnerability (or exploit) can cause and/or (b) receive timely notice of said occurrences. We might need a new disclosure rule. Prompt disclosure whenever a material security vulnerability or hack is discovered.
Is the rocket reusable though?
No, my point is that worrying about the semantics of the word neurotic is a pointless exercise because even when correctly understood in the case of the big five, it's still incorrectly used scientifically by Damore.
The facts:

In 2017, he set up pre-arranged sales of 28,000 shares

And then in November he sold almost 900,000 shares.

on Nov. 29, Krzanich exercised and sold 644,135 options and sold an additional 245,743 shares that he already owned
> Instead of trying to block that from happening, since it's Republicans who are trying to do that.

They are? Which bills?
Why does the right wing embrace Damore instead of being pissed at him?

There are people that might generalize and think all right wing people feel this way about women.

I have right wing friends and know that is not true but others might.

Instead Damore has become some kind of right wing matre which seems really strange.
It's possible this is misinformation.
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We're miscommunicating. We both agree that hiring practices should be fair and objective as possible... what I'm saying is that is the goal itself, and a racial/ethnic/skintone/appearance-based diverse group may or may not be the outcome, but the outcome will be fair if the process is.

Diversity-based policies currently are only focused on the outcome, but the outcome is not what should be designed for. The outcome should just be what it will naturally be (whether it's "diverse" or not) and we should only control for selection and opportunity. This is what diversity-based policies do not help since you cannot work backwards from the outcome, you must start with making a fair process and just let people do what they want do beyond that.
What does that have to do with insider trading, though? I'm reading elsewhere in this thread that this was a scheduled sale ahead of time. Supposing it was indeed pre-planned well before they knew of the vulnerability, cancelling the sale would also be insider trading.
I’ve tried both (for migraines) and didn’t notice much of a difference.
(From the cnbc link: )
A SpaceX spokesman told the news service: "We do not comment on missions of this nature, but as of right now reviews of the data indicate Falcon 9 performed nominally."
Okay, but they are also doing nothing about the monopolies.
First stage, yes.

https://www.space.com/38826-spacex-launches-secret-zuma-miss...
Sorry...I should have said “variety” instead of “form.”
It doesn't matter if other architectures are vulnearble as well. It looks like that the Intel CEO acted (sold stock) upon information which by its nature should have been made available to all stockholders prior to this. The whole matter is reported here [0]. It really looks shady from the outside.

[0]: http://www.businessinsider.de/intel-ceo-krzanich-sold-shares...