skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My laptop spent a few days spinning the fans and consuming bandwidth, repeatedly downloading, trying and failing to install this patch. Error code was different from the KB article, but I followed instructions anyway, downloaded manually and ran it and it worked fine.
Another very important aspect is the time zone. I was working for last 2 years for a company that is 8 hours behind of me and I’d say it’s not what you can combine with your personal and family life.
Low life expectancies in the past weren't because most people died in their 40s / 50s. They were heavily depressed by infant and child mortality - if you survived to adulthood, you had a reasonable chance of living to a ripe old age.
>the videos aren't very long, someone should compress it to <10mb as an animated gif and do a pull request to put it in the README

There's no need to use an awful format like gif, just embed an efficiently compressed video file with the <video> tag
You are basically there to approve stuff, like the budget. Only if there's something really stupid it's your job to say no, but that rarely happens. If it's a smaller org you also do some job, like making policies, organize, etc. The smaller the org the more job you will do (and the less you will be paid). Being on the board of a small org like non profit is not very prestigious so it's easy to get in. But it can be a good learning experience. You first have to figure out who is responsible for recruiting new board members, then you have to get someone to suggest you. They don't want someone who actually want's to be a board member.
Found via @grsecurity about 15 minutes ago: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27431/Linux-Proces...
Anyone know if this is the same in Australia?
The real issue is incentives; that's what you need to work on.
and does your IRC server / client combo work in a seamless manner with consistent user interface over practically all platforms? does it allow for chat history to be easily seen? does it allow the user experience that the non technical members of the company need to actually use it?
I think it's a matter of degree, not absolute. You can do targeted advertising without being invasive.

If Facebook wants to target ads on their site based on information I have entered in my pubic profile I am okay with that. If Google wants to target ads based on keywords related to what I am searching for at the time I am okay with that. It's when you start tracking across time and across sites and inferring things I may not to have public that I think it gets invasive.

Google and Facebook know they are being invasive. They specifically don't allow advertising on things that might trigger people and make them realize how invasive they are being. For example, you can't start retargeting people who searched for information on erectile disfunction with ads for Viagra. People would rightfully get upset about that level invasiveness. Instead of not being invasive, they just don't allow the things that would trigger people. If people in general were made to realize how creepy all the tracking is, laws would require advertisers to change.

Given the option I would prefer that not being invasive be the default. If that makes things slightly more expensive, so be it.
This is how this terrible CEO tells us about microcode fixes, at a CES speech? Or is he even talking about a microcode update, or about the patches everybody else has been losing their lives working on? What a crap response to such a huge and existential issue.

Make a web page on the Intel site with concise, real information on what's going on and what to do. We're a week into disclosure and there's still no patch for most people's servers. A patch that takes up to a 30% performance hit but may not be necessary if there's going to be a microcode fix?

I know this is just a cute speech and debate practice session for the Intel execs, but I have servers that will have to get trashed because of the slowdown patch, they will be too slow to function in their current role and will need to be replaced. This is seriously affecting my life, my work schedule and my wallet. Please have real engineers provide real information here.
Trickle-down advertiser-to-consumer economics, ladies and gentlemen!
2018 is going to be a rough year...
If you gave people the offer of "you have to let companies search through your financial details, but you'll get more free mobile games", how many people do you think would take you up on it? I'm sure some would, but it'd hardly be popular.

Stuff like this comes about organically. No one held a big meeting and decided the internet would be funded by privacy invading ads. The ad ecosystem just shifted that way over time due to competition.
Who is forcing them to work at Amazon? Their lives are clearly better working there than if Amazon had never existed. If conditions are so bad that these employees live in tents, why not quit and.... oh wait.... live in tents (now with less money).
Yep, that's what the video game industry realized. They have been overrun by glorified crack dealers peddling their loot crates.
has he seriously not left this building in that many years?
I understand that, because those are basically the only filesystems anyone could use for this application. The comment was aimed at the "various hodgepodges of their servers ... with JBOD or cheesy RAID for the disks themselves" part.
Visa claims to handle 150 million transactions a day [0].

(150 * 10^6) * (1 - .999999999) =~ 0.15

[0] - https://usa.visa.com/run-your-business/small-business-tools/...
I live on a street like this with my mailbox on the opposite side of the street. In the winter, I always get my mail a day late since I refuse to retrieve it in the dark. Speed limit is 25mph but average speed is closer to 40mph. City can't be bothered to enforce the limit no matter how much we demand it. Sidewalks are being considered and might finally go in sometime before 2030.
> distributed ledger rejects control by design

Assuming you convince 1) 100,000 miners your blockchain has value, such that 2) the distribution of control is spread out among those miners uniformly. Both of which is a pretty big assumptions.
Why on earth haven't they removed him in a diplomatic bag or handcuffed to their ambassador?
Yes, to some extent. But why do you and other people who had nothing to do with Intel, the CEO, or the vulnerability deserve to make money off of this any more than the researchers who discovered the vulnerability or, if the researchers decided not to make money off of it, the insiders who can correct the price before the disclosure?

If this is just about wealth redistribution, there are much better ways to do wealth redistribution. If this is about how Intel should have disclosed that there was a vulnerability earlier, then laws against insider trading didn't make Intel do that anyway. If this is about how people shouldn't be allowed to trade with asymmetric information, the prohibition against insider trading doesn't apply to the security researchers.
You're missing the lightning icon.
Well, there are still currently regions of the world where high child mortality is common. Stories from those areas might provide some insight on what you are wondering.
> A blockchain ensures that some sequence of agreements was made in a way that everyone can trust. [...] The rest is fairy dust and noise.

Amen. "Blockchain" is today's fad just like the "nanotech" mania of yesteryear. That doesn't mean there aren't advances and opportunities, but it feels like 90% of the people promoting it can't even give a high-level explanation of why it's a good fit for their use-case.

> For example, why would be want a "fat" protocol?

This may seem weird, but bear with me: I think this is like people talking about intellectual property (copyrights, patents, franchises, etc.) The underlying idea is that you can create some core framework which everyone wants to use (or can't avoid) and that therefore you can collect rent (or at least sew up an incredible starter bonus) making it more consequential than the individual pieces.

The current internet is (perhaps thankfully) a contrast, where nobody (AFAK) is making big bucks off of TCP-IP/HTML/Browser licensing fees.
Another consequence of this is that windows will disable updates when you do not have any anti-virus software running as well.
Node-oracledb 2.0 with pre-built binaries is on npm
I get a lot of fulfillment out of knocking out quick features/bugs. Usually I just consider it my "10% time". Is that really a problem as long as I'm not chasing geese all the time?
I for one am excited about this. I used to have stuff on sourceforge, and to me it feels like they're on track to become relevant again.
Nice. Collaborative version control for Script writing/show running. Can the "amateur coder" and Stephen Colbert make something like this for programming? That would be very nice/useful. A layer on git? Is GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket already it? Real-time and ease of use don't seem to be there.

Are there editor plugins like this for paired / multi programming? Is it just that the problem of "programming" is a lot more complex / open ended than show script development / execution? It seems like they have a lot of similarities.

Getting multiple people to agree on the same tool may be a big part of the battle, but surely there are some comparable programming tools out there.
Or you know, he could let the justice system run its course.
It is not that big a deal actually, either you drill a hole with a special tool and then align the tap with the center of the hole or, on some cable you align the tap with a special dot mark on the cable where the shield has been moved aside a couple of mm. It is a convenience at the slight cost of some loss. Far faster to connect to than drilling holes in insulation using yet another tool.

It really adds up if you have to make a lot of drops on a cable.

If there is one thing I am happy about then about then it is that we no longer have coax networks. Nightmare stuff. Flaky connections and weird voodoo problems.
Should the company spend any money at all telling potential customers about their product? If so, should they use the incremental dollar to reach a random person, or a person who seems likely to be interested in the product?
Ethereum slowed to a crawl as soon as people started trading kittens on it. And I remember seeing transaction fees in the hundreds of dollars when popular ICOs were happening. Which probably didn't help you if you were stuck on one of the exchanges which simply turned Ethereum processing off in times of high load.

Not inspiring confidence in the statement that it is faster than other systems. Compared to Bitcoin it is off by a constant factor, and constant factors aren't really what we're interested in here.

Storing an economy in a fully replicated global ledger has its limitations, there's no getting around that.
There is a truly sickening amount of victim blaming going on in this thread. People need to take a step back from your selfish perspectives and realize that there are real consequences when we try to make ourselves feel better by saying "it can't be helped" or "there's nothing you could have done". It's not the little boy's fault that he got hit, nor is it nobody's fault. The fault belongs with the driver who hit him, with the road engineer whose design encourages negligent driving, and the society that prioritizes convince for motorists over basic safety.

There is not such thing as an accident.
Just be sure you have a realistic sense of the risks.

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/LeadingCauses.html

The primary risks to children are traffic, drowning, and as a teen and preteen suicide.

This gives you and your kids a pretty small number of things to be scared of, and consequently a small number of important safety lessons to impart.
I'm wondering how long we'll have to wait before iAd 2.0 is launched as the only ad service offering tracking on Apple devices.
Don’t do it at runtime. Do it at design time
I would probably blame the sensational news coverage nowadays, we didnt have this 20 years ago. Back then news would contain sports/world events and bigger stuff. You hear about so many bad things happening you never think about the probability of it actually happening to you. Like all we read is "Child kidnapped" not "First child kidnapping in a year with lowest kidnap rate ever and in a place so far away that its not relevant to you".
The negativity in this thread reminds me of the internet in the early nineties.

If someone had said that one day there will be a company that does billions by allowing people to fundamentally share their cat pictures and send each other happy birthday messages people would have laughed their asses off.

The blockchain can be seen as a giant immutable feed. Make of that what you will.
Indeed - Meltdown has an "easy" fix and now it's known it should be possible to design chips which are not vulnerable.

Spectre is, as you say, harder - but more because the line of what sort of state should be separate isn't as clear-cut as we might like it to be (i.e. it's not neccessarily just "processes" as the OS sees it - e.g. JVM/JavaScript interpreter state should allow for an effective sandbox between the executing interpreter/JVM process and what the running JVM/JavaScript code can see). And worse, those are precisely the cases where one probably cares most about separation given that's where untrusted code is typically run.

But hardware assistance could help - in simple terms, I'd imagine that allowing a swap out of more of the internal processor state (to the extent that one process "training" the branch-predictor doesn't impact how the branch predictor acts in another process) would be pretty effective. That might be expensive in terms of performance per-transistor/per-watt however (though probably not absolute performance).
As much as I hate to say it, I think the Intel PR machine is working stunningly.

Every geek I speak to will tell you the world's on fire. Every non-geek I speak to responds with "oh, really? if it's such a big problem how come no-one has heard about it? Oh, ok, well there might have been that one headline..."

I am infuriated by Intel's response no end, however I'm also somewhat impressed. They seem to have completely avoided a PR disaster and their stock price is largely unaffected.
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Very nice piece.

"Swap is primarily a mechanism for equality of reclamation, not for emergency 'extra memory'. Swap is not what makes your application slow – your lack of physical memory is what makes your application slow."
A Bit Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Firefox is doing it but as a separate browser for iOS. Wonder why not on desktop yet.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/focus
I used to work for an ad company, and a frequent thing missed in these articles is that the ad company isn't the only one who looses out.

Ad companies take some percentage of revenue as a fee. If they're loosing out, then three other people are also loosing out:

* The advertiser, who no longer gets their ad in front of the right audience. Now they're stuck advertising their potentially excellent product to people who have no use/desire for it. Selling their product now costs more, and it might make an otherwise profitable product not work out.

* The content producer. The person who made that webpage/video/funny meme. They only did it for ad revenue. Now that revenue is reduced, they'll have to make do with a shittier camera or will have to get a side job.

* You. You now have to put up with more lower value ads. They tend to be less useful to you (you might think normal ads aren't useful, but these are even more annoying and even less useful). That on top of the shittier content and fewer worse products available to buy from the above two reasons.
Sampling Hotness in TensorFlow
The cuffs could be removed as being attached to an ambassador doesn't give one diplomatic immunity. Putting him in a GIANT diplomatic bag is actually an interesting idea.
Wow, this looks really nice, actually. Hard to believe the creator is simply an "amateur coder".
> “We’re not interested in the millions of devices of everyday citizens,” he [Comey] said in New York at Fordham University’s International Conference on Cyber Security. “We’re interested in those devices that have been used to plan or execute terrorist or criminal activities.”

Oh so they only want to know about the bad people? That's a relief.
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Seo Strategies That Actually Looks Like Black Hat but Aren’t
While companies weren't as huge as some of the ones today, there were plenty of billon dollar companies back in the 90s. Some you probably know, like Microsoft and Apple.
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> I see money as a representative of how effective certain company/technology/etc. is and there were no multi billion dollar companies in 90s

In 99, Yahoo bought GeoCities for three billion dollars. Some of it was the dotcom bubble, but there were plenty of massive companies, and this was when most people did not have an internet connection.
Actually, according to the original definition - https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin/blob/92ee8d9a99... - it does, since blockchain is bitcoin (and vice-versa), and as far as anyone can tell, currently it is indeed trustless and censorship resistant.

The problem is that some people adopted blockchain as some kind of weird gimmick to wrap extraordinary claims such as the ones in the original post and promote scams (altcoins, appcoins, whatever).
>We could acclimate to all of this, sure. But we'd still have timezones. It wouldn't be immediately obvious to the Londoner that 11:00 is a terrible Skype time for her California colleagues (3am)

Yeah, I addressed that though. We'd still need to know the offsets sunrise-wise or cultural-wise (e.g. 10pm is late to call in some countries, absolutely normal in others).

>So I don't see the gain here.

It's trading local time reference points (like the sun etc), for global coordination (in an increasingly interconnected and real-time planet) -- so everybody immediately knows what time X is everywhere. It's not meant to eliminate the fact that sunrise times etc are different, just to keep a stable frame of reference without timezones for time (one would still need the offsets to know whether it's night or day in place Y at time X).

>Dealing with time differences is a fundamental aspect of living on a ball Earth.

Doesn't mean there's one and only one way to deal with those though. Or that people don't spend a lot of time in the real-time, non-spherical, always-on, web too nowadays.
Mark Twain on the main aim of the men of the Gilded Age:

“To get rich. In what way? Dishonestly if they can, honestly if they must.
It’s sad... a friend bought me ‘For Honor’ and it became almost immediately clear that it was a cheaply made Skinner Box. It was also clear that plenty of people were stuck in it.

I love games, but this emerging trend is boring, and worrying in equal measure. Games have shown so much positive potential, and I’ve been defending their value for a couple of decades at least. Now... I’m really worried, st least in the near-term, and I don’t know if I can still support them in the aggregate.
There were no multi billion dollar companies in the 90s? Seriously? Microsoft had a market cap of hundreds of billions of dollars by the time 2000 rolled around. You folks who came around after the 90s are pretty late to this party ;-).
Amazon presumably. Without Amazon they would be making a living wage at a mom&pop store, and we would all be paying more for lower quality products with less choice.
How come you think I can stop driving? If I stop driving I can kiss the business I built up over the last 10 years goodbye, there is absolutely no way that I can work without the level of mobility and reliability that a vehicle affords.

I have on occasion experimented with public transport in the country where I live and it simply does not work at a reliability level that I can trust not to result in regular embarassment due to inability to be where I need to be when I agreed to be there. This is a pretty bad state of affairs but I did not create that state of affairs and the day that this is fixed I will be more than happy to stop driving.

As it is, between email and driving I do not know which I hate more and as soon as I shut down my business and can retire I will be happy to get rid of both.

Please do not make assumptions about other peoples lives.
Free speech cuts both ways.

You seem to suggestthat OP's control over their own site content (ie the manifesto) is somehow an affront to your belief in google's free speech.

You certainly see it as a big enough grievance to write a comment on HN which is repugnantly entitled.

They get to pass comment on google's behaviour (a comment which, incidentaly, a lot of people seem to agree with). You get to pass comment on their behaviour. I get to pass comment on your behaviour.

Holding people and companies to account in a soft manner, without resorting to force (legislation counts as force) is an important aspect of a functioning free society. The freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism but freedom to criticise.
They actually can and fairly well IMO. What seems to be a bigger problem is that people don't want to accept that that has value.
SourceForge uses very invasive ads.
Click "past" to see the previous discussions from the previous 16 times this article was submitted to HN.
He happened to be the fraud himself
All based on whether the size of the keyboard is sufficient.
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Same boat for my XPS 8700, also kept around for same reason. 24gb ram i7 4th gen. Great for development, including VM work. Unless I was regularly doing video transcoding or heavy CAD work, it's more than fast enough.

Contacted Dell support and confirmed they will not be releasing a BIOS update for the system.

First harm to me from this issue. Not sure if it means I will have to join a class action against Dell or Intel
Unfortunately no. In AU, you pay capital gains on every single transaction you make - AUD to BTC, BTC to LTC, LTC to anything else. This makes trading regularly on places like Binance incredibly unattractive. There are discounts for holding over a year, and capital losses cannot be used to offset your tax. As an individual you are given a 50% discount however on your CGT, and 20% of your CGT can count towards your personal income tax.

If you're trading more than $10K AUD and you get audited, you're in for a world of pain if you haven't engaged a crypto knowledgeable accountant.

If you have substantial investments in crypto in AU - once you talk to an accountant who is knowledgeable of crypto (and you'll need to hunt one down, not many are) they'll tell you immediately to incorporate in NZ and transfer ownership to the company. NZ doesn't have capital gains tax for crypto and you can pay yourself dividends.
Spectre should work on most modern computers. There are no kernel patches in stable to prevent Spectre right now. Only Meltdown is mitigated by KPTI. The new Intel microcode and the kernel code to control it will propagate out in the next couple of weeks.
That does not say anything about censorship resistance, because it does not mean the transactions can be reversed (on the contrary).

That's a problem of anonymity (or lack thereof).
Aaah Keynesians
Reading old logs may also reveal something about the project Vitalik had before getting involved with Ethereum: Selling access to his quantum computer ... for mining Bitcoins.

Strange how the PR puff pieces around Ethereum never seem to mention this project. Amazing also how the quantum computer seems to disappear as the pre-mined coins were sold off.
This discussion boils down to should the kid(or all kids) have been monitored a bit more? If so would it have affected him negatively in his later years? Blame game or not this discussion has a lot of merit.