skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine on a first date, your date tells you they're a convicted felon.

That may be a closer analogy. We're talking about someone's previous criminal history, not the fact that they snore.
Hopefully, THAAD and Aegis work in real life as they have practice. I guess the other comfort is that North Korea is likely a one-trick pony with a nuclear device (if they _have_ managed to miniaturize it). What is scarier is the anthrax antibodies found in the North Korean defector :/

I'm hoping the withdrawal of exercises of the USA and peace talks actually get us somewhere, but we've been to the table 100 times, I don't see much changing.
A mistake that could easily have caused mass public panic and which there was no contingency in place for. That's not OK.
Reply to Vijay Pande, VC Investor and Stanford Professor
Mental issues are flaws but they don't make a person bad in my book.
FWIW, when I was at Google I had at least two colleagues with felony records. It made me even more proud to work there as it showed the company was willing to look beyond mistakes made in someone's past.
Publicly-disclosed UXSS flaw was exploited against Opera users for over 2 years
Many companies ask for past crimes . And if someone lies he has no crimes, they get terminated once a background check is done (if it ever is). Majority of the time checks are not done and they most probably never will be. If a check is not done, and it hurts your chances if a you are honest, why be honest. So the general rule is you say there are no crimes. And only get removed when they do a background check.
What's shitty about it? You posted the same thing a bunch of times and seem indifferent to the downside risk.
Because it's almost certainly true? I'm not trying to invent some sinister conspiracy, but most people on HN and otherwise acquired an exaggerated perception of the effects of nuclear war after being exposed to pop-cultural portrayals of it - chiefly in the movies.

Some of these portrayals were exaggerated simply because it resulted in a better story, but some were almost certainly colored by anti-war and anti-proliferation sentiments predominant among the cultural elites of that time. This wasn't coordinated or meant to advance some sinister agenda, but for better or worse, it skewed our understanding of what we can do in the unlikely case that any ICBMs actually fly.

An argument can be made that another factor was the government's desire to discourage the Soviets from ever trying to attack us, but I'm unconvinced - their generals, politicians, and nuclear scientists sure had a more realistic understanding of what would happen. Besides, the anti-nuclear and anti-war sentiments hurt the government in many other ways (nuclear power generation, nuclear weapons testing, Vietnam...).

Now, I'm not particularly angry at that, and I sure loved Dr. Strangelove.
these days it works out of the box on debian stable

run virt-manager, create vm, select your graphics card, and it boots
This is an EU initiative, not UK.
That's valid, but what would you suggest is better? Even if Apple open sourced the implementation of key security libraries there is nothing to assert that the shipped version of the library hasn't be supplemented with closed source patches that allow for backdoors.

Ultimately it has to come down to do you trust Apple. The evidence to date is that their behavior is trustworthy (e.g. they fought against unlocking an iPhone device despite being requested by authorities). However, there is nothing we can do to assert that trust into the future.
restaurants normally cook to order
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/7q67a1/emergency_aler...
How long do you think Mike would have survived had he not been specially cared for?

My guess: barely long enough to die from dehydration.
If that’s not a case for jury nullification I don’t know what is
Raiblocks and IOTA--and their forthcoming competition. Transaction fees stifle innovation. If someone could piggy back an ERC20 type system on top of a zero fee coin we would see an explosion of cool tech. I have things in my ideas.txt file I would start building immediately.

It costs 58cents to send a fraction of an ETH right now. Low compared to BTC but ridiculous compared to free.
Do you have any thoughts on the benefits of decreasing the fragmentation of the US grid? Presently it's some 3000 utilities who don't have much of an incentive to work together, but you could imagine a future where regions of the US with excess generation transmit to areas at a deficit to diversify the energy supply of any region. This is roughly what's happening in China with their single public utility and usage of HVDC to source renewables from provinces with surplus generation to those operating at a deficit (i.e. the most populous).
A Modest Proposal: #ProtectTheTruth
Some things I did:

- Started learning a new language(along with my wife)

- Yoga classes and meditation

- Carpentry or home improvement projects

- Learning to keep things in their place and keep my room tidy

- Letting go at the end of a distraction filled day, but motivating(and performing) better on the next

- Reading inspiring words: The motivation manifesto by Brendon Burchard is my go to book.

- Make deliberate effort to do the opposite of what you Flight Response(System 1) wants.

- Having more friends over and playing some games with them.

- Not looking at political news.

- Trashing all junk food/unhealthy snacks in the house and replacing them with something better
Everyone knows people like that. The problem is the amount of ex-felons who can't even land a median salary job. Not everyone, even in the non-con pool, can pull off a 6 figure tech wiz job.
The biggest pain for Windows remote automation is security around accessing servers remotely, I'll grant you that. I gave up. That's why I have VSTS agents on every box. I can easily write a script and tell each agent to pull the script down and do X locally and insert the results if needed into a Mongo collection. But for the few times I do need to treat my servers like "pets" instead of "cattle". I do everything from the GUI.

There was a time when our net ops team did something and I couldn't Remote Desktop into a server to do something urgent and if course I couldn't just SSH into it where I had to write a quick Powershell script and deploy it via VSTS to make a change. It was ugly.
I find that explanation hard to take at face value. There's a button specifically labeled 'ballistic missile emergency'? Is there a different button for every possible emergency, like a tsunami button, a hijacked plane button, an earthquake button, a volcano button?

The text of the warning was “EMERGENCY ALERT BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” That seems really specific.

Also, the news story we're commenting on describes it as a drill that is conducted every shift change, so yes I think it's a drill because that's how they describe it.

Officials said the alert was the result of human error and not the work of hackers or a foreign government. The mistake occurred during a shift-change drill that takes place three times a day at the emergency command post, according to Richard Rapoza, a spokesman for the agency.
Are we risking a severe epidemic of emotional dependence disorders?
> Some people bypass it via WebGL.

How? There's no concept of a tainted WebGL canvas because it just can't load textures without CORS.
That comparison only holds if you consider those attending cheap state school on student loans as "the vetted privileged few".

Not to mention, even at the state schools, we just download the PDFs off Google Scholar because searching the databases is annoying. Nothings's really changed other than rhetoric.
Professional role.

Some of us here have access to systems, data, or people with high value information. Some folks are involved in things professionally that an external, unethical party could put a dollar value on accessing things or people whom the victim could access.

Your kids’ teacher might have a spouse whose job directly influences a governor, mayor, Union, Senator, etc. Access to the wrong twitter account or TV producer could influence POTUS.
Well native windows definitely isn't POSIX. I might go against the opinions on this board, but I personally believe that MS got a lot more right about OS API's in windows than POSIX provides with its lowest common denominator. Frequently the POSIX API's that have tons of under-specified behaviors that aren't obvious at first reading. Particularly when viewed through a multihreaded/async paradigm. Many of the nonstandard linux/bsd/etc API's are there to address major shortcomings in POSIX which one frequently discovers aren't problems with the windows equivalents. Sure CreateFile() has a lot more parameters than open() but it frequent turns out to be useful functionality if your writing more than introductory applications.
The authors of fine article did not tested against cache-friendly binary search, for one. This approach can easily give speed up of 2x and more.

Another thing they didn’t test against is data-dependent middle index choice. Which would play nice with RLE encoding of first bytes of keys, especially if one choose reasonably big number of keys per page, at least 1024, not small number of 128 (or was it 256) in the paper. Especially for log-structured merge trees where learned indices can be used safely.

Anyway, original paper was very sloppy at establishing baseline and very disappointing because of that.
> it's possible that Apple could sneak a back door into the OS

Apple has gone to great lengths to make both devices secure and policies. You are awfully critical, so I really want to understand what is the expected behavior that you'd like to see?

Open source the security libraries? But if you don't trust Apple not to backdoor then what's stopping them from putting the backdoor in the kernel? At some point we must trust something.
Well if I use my contactor day rate say £50 pounds an hour cooking for my self costs over £100.

I have only ever spent more than that at a restaurant the #1 Grill at the Balmoral aka the best restaurant in Scotland and that was only because my colleague from the press office persuaded me.
Nice. Feedburner was nasty, even when it was still well-supported.

After your feed had been...err..."incinerated", it would work okay in a basic reader (sometimes), but god help you if you needed to do anything beyond displaying the basic text of the most recent articles.

Now that it's on EOL... (shivers)

And yeah, I still use RSS/Atom a lot.
C isn't my idea of a 'rare' language. you don't need to explain to me why there might be competing language preferences. I didn't have the impression that the other programmers on the team wanted to use Python for lack of knowing any other programming languages.
> large, national employers. Nearly all of them have internal criteria relating to who they will or will not hire

I always found it difficult to get hired by such firms without prior experience. And that experience only comes from small local employers. Work small and locally and then get hired by the bigger firms to have a better chance at employment.

Bug firms are just "too efficient" and don't really have time/resource to give chances. And take risks. Among the plethora of ridiculousness they use in hiring and firing, I cannot consciously give 2 cents about what they think.

So I'd rather skip them and jump to the more "personal" employers. Let them come and beg for me if they need to.
7) CPU architecture,

8) output binary format (though these days people generally only use ELF or PE),

9) compile time options (eg some packages will allow you to choose which TLS library to use at compile time)

10) hardware specific optimisations

Basically just a plethora of reasons
Tornado alley lifer here... they're a different story. They process slowly (10mph-30mph), the vast majority of them in the USA will move SW to NE, they usually have a very narrow damage track (100yards), and are usually very visible on weather radar as bright wind sheer.

My point being, if you can see a tornado coming, you'll have ample time to take shelter in a basement [or if you're in an unpopulated area, you can get out of the way]. Why people get killed by tornados "still" is usually insufficient shelter (homes without basements or safe rooms), quick touchdowns, them occurring at odd hours when people are sleeping, or the occasional goliath tornado with a massive damage track that's moving quickly, in the wrong direction.
No, you can survive for decades or ever even within a fairly close area.
Just to note, this has nothing to do with Hintons Capsule Networks
> I work in nuclear security

I'm curious, what does that mean? Designing shelters? Teaching people what to do in nuclear attacks?
I use potting mix from the hardware store.

Because it is hot and dry I have to over water, this leaches out nutrients so I have to feed quite regularly, slow release pellets and fish emulsion with a bit of worm juice.

Additionally for the citrus have to add iron chelates because the leaves get yellow from deficiency otherwise.
Yes I probably misunderstood you, because I have no idea what you meant by "standard American English". I'm an American and I speak English, and my rural neighbors are the same, so I thought I would report my observations. Around here we rarely use the word "dinner" for meals eaten in one's own home.
Response to Harvard Professor Alan Aspuru-Guzik
you're right, entirely right. But I think this is what people want: Developers can control and fork the code at will because they have a majority (51% >) of the coins.

Coins are used for some kind of service that it provides (transaction fees for decentralized exchange, computation, storage). Developers fund development from the initial selling of the coin and have incentive to increase the price.

I wonder if the two tiered model (ETH/Gas, Factom/Entry Credit, there are lots) is better or worse

So much money grabbing happening right now, and often they don't have any kind of service or working software yet. Definitely a lot of specutlation, are these all tulips?
If the Ui was so deliberate easy to send an alert and it was allowed to be implemented, mistakes will happen, he shouldn’t be fired for that
Like pi hole? https://pi-hole.net + a vpn
The thing is the benefits are not big enough for the costs compared to other more exciting things like self driving cars and machine learning.

Also 'make a new os' is much like 'rewrite vs improve in place'. Most mature engineers do improve in place. New systems research innovations come through improve in place operations. Change a filesystem, change that subsystem and eventually you have a new way of doing things.
Hawaii ballistic missile false alarm prompts panic
I was just thinking they are testing the network on one of the smallest areas in the US. You know with NK threatening to press the button
>America was settled by a lot more than just puritans.

Yes, but they won the cultural influence, not quakers.

>They definitely had an influence but you're going to need to make a better, less lazy argument than this.

General arguments don't go into the nuances, but that doesn't mean they're not good as models. In so much as someone believes in the role of ideas, ideology and religion in history and the development of a society, some connections are quite inevitable to make.

>It's like invoking the Prussians to explain something about Europe you don't like.

Lots of things about Europe one like's or doesn't like can be explained by historical circumstance, including things that happened way before the Prussian state. Tons of France's secular stance, for example, customs and institutions hark back from the era of the French Revolution.
It depends. Much has to do with the way management handles this. If they work with fear, it might happen again. But of course this one man or woman is not responsible for this.

The procedure needs to be reviewed of course. Why is such an important event the responsibility of one person? At least two persons should have to press two buttons and it should be made such that one person cannot press them both.

People saying nothing happened - I don't agree. This could cause serious problems for individuals, heart attacks, accidents. This is not without risk.
Oh they are willing to pay for it, if it can be delivered properly. What do you think sysmantec and a million other enterprise security and it management companies are part of?
"Debt" and "debt/GDP" are not the same thing?
You missed the point of the story. Many people would have the technical talent to reverse-engineer a pencil; that's not the lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbSEjOJL3U
His crime was scraping a website. The accusers killed an innocent man for violating Terms of Service. Who's the real criminal here?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-...
Yes exactly. To clarify my point; this vulnerability only affects you if you're sharing a physical machine/CPU with other users (isolated by a virtualization layer)... So if you choose not to share your physical machines/CPUs with other users then you are not exposed to that vulnerability and ideally you also shouldn't need to get these patches and their associated performance overheads.

Virtualization already has some known minor performance overheads but now these patches will add even more overheads.

Can cloud providers keep pretending that 4x 2-core virtual instances are as performant as a single physical 8-core instance?
BitBank Graphics Library – Optimized Primitives for RGB565 Surfaces on ARMv5
Mm, yes and no. It's one of those things where if you reveal you have them, you feel like less of a person. People look at you differently.

Be honest: If you were in a position of authority, would you place someone with known suicidal tendencies in a position of power? What if things went very badly? How about someone with outbursts of anger, or serious sleep issues that prevent them from showing up to work on time?

When people feel pressure to conceal their problems, the pressure builds.

Aaron had some political aspirations, and a felony conviction would've precluded him from running for certain offices. Maybe that, combined with his internal issues, may have made him feel like less of a person. I don't know. I just want people to feel okay with themselves, however they are.

Once people realize that it's genuinely ok to have issues, hopefully society will relax a bit.

Or maybe there is no solution, and people will eventually take their own lives for one reason or another. And that's ok too. We can remind them that it's not the only option, and give them some space to unwind.

That seems like the crux of it: People are so hung up on doing well or being a good person or accomplishing their careers, that their whole self-worth is tied up in it. When it goes badly, it's easy to take it out on yourself. But there's no reason to. The chips fall wherever they fall.
I also thought this was interesting, but I don't see what this is referring to. Google has bought the DejaNews archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups and I haven't find any reference of the fact that they would have given it to Internet Archive, neither on the wikipedia article nor on places where it could have been mentioned like https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php/Usenet or https://archive.org/details/usenet. Does anyone know what this implies?
I agree with you. IMO, Windows 10 is one of the worst products ever shipped.

The upside is that it is driving developers and users away from the platform. Windows is a dead man walking.
The truth is I know next to nothing about this, but it looks cool in the demo and seems significant. Also, I trust DJ Sundog: https://toot-lab.reclaim.technology/@djsundog/99344392058586...

>> Wherein one of the developers of Dance Dance Revolution offers to release a baremetal c graphics library he developed for the game and ported to the pi
And lots of those stories are from Hawaii! Many many people have died their due to tsunamis, etc. They take their warnings seriously (in the past they didnt have them for things like tsunamis)
While Governor Ige did accept full responsibility for the incident, he did not directly execute the technical steps that caused the alert to be sent to HI residents.

This is different than Capt. Asoh's defense because Asoh was directly responsible for

> attempt[ing] an automatic-coupled Instrument Landing System (ILS) approach, something neither [he nor Capt. Hazen] had done before on a recorded DC-8 flight.

In any case, your reference to the defense is fantastic. In the profane spirit of what Asoh told the National Transportation Safety Board investigators--"As you Americans say, I fucked up."--I think it's not too off the mark to observe "What an Asoh". [0]

[0] I tried resisting this but it's just sitting there, y'know. Also, I'm sure my American eyes are mispronouncing Captain Asoh's name. For what it's worth, we should all be so forthright to own up to the mistakes we've made.
> Majority of the time checks are not done

In the US, nearly every job I've had (not even sensitive jobs, just plain old programming gigs) has done a background check. They even go as far as verifying attendance dates at my University, etc.
Could have been something that came from DEC as the original NT was influenced by VAX systems (which often had LA120's as consoles) I seem to recall.
You don't have to even leave the big cities. In Gurgaon, India's "cyber city" next to Delhi, home to lots of shiny skyscrapers and glitzy shopping malls, you can drive along the main drag MG Road and see women squatting by the roadside manually pounding bricks to rubble, 8-year-olds operating food stalls next to the No Child Labor Certified factory, beggars with babies so sick they're turning blue and shitting themselves (amount of fucks given by passersby: zero), emaciated cows wandering on four-lane freeways, a naked swami doing his thing in a freeway offramp, families of construction workers living in shelters built from concrete barriers and a dusty tarp, etc.
> Agreed that having to drop to .NET is a fail.

So many times i run into performance walls with powershell, that calling the .net library directly is basically required.
Lack of single-payer medical services system.

Many 'poorer' countries seem to be able to afford single-payer health services, but the US can't?

Cui bono. (Follow the Money)
"Almost all Linux distributions rebuild upstream software from source"

On Gentoo et al, the end user does the building. OK, yes the ebuilds are recipes but I've lost count of the times I've used epatch_user (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches). You have a near infinite choice of ways to destroy your system, what with USE flags, mixed stable/unstable and all the other crazy stuff. Despite that, my Gentoo systems have been surprisingly stable.

In winter an update world session on a laptop keeps you (very) warm 8)

(wrt "Context": Ta for your work)
That was Admiral Byng, and the move worked, it made two generations of navy leadership reckless in the face of danger.
The Gini coefficient only accounts for relative differences and not absolute differences. A person/household at around the 25% income level in India might be below the US/Canada poverty line.
There's a trade-off, but I seriously doubt it's anywhere near that. For one, if you could get super fast by ignoring safety, that would surely be found in consoles. Then, a good old 486 or early Pentiums have none of these issues, having a multiple of z80 speed without some decades of progress we had in the interim.
Am I crazy or does this music sound Baroque/like Bach's music?
People who care don’t care.
> Open source the security libraries?

That would help a lot.

> But if you don't trust Apple not to backdoor then what's stopping them from putting the backdoor in the kernel?

At the moment, nothing. That's kind of my point.

> At some point we must trust something.

Yes, that's true, but the more I can poke around under the hood (or hire someone to do it for me) the warmer and fuzzier I feel.