skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the bug report I'll take a look. My company didn't put ads in the downloads, and we when we took over we stopped that practice. I think most people can discern the difference, but if not it's okay. We're just focused on doing right by the million daily users and 430,000 projects hosted here.
If it's "my issue," the Democrats haven't shown themselves to be an option worth supporting. If my only other option is the Republicans, then I have no option worth supporting.
Chainlink is a project to enable a network of decentralised oracles.
Cannot agree with you more, but poverty is still a limiting factor for a great many people that don't have "built in" survival skills.
Glad to hear it too!
Here at NASA Goddard, old wiring is often never removed. In the cable trays in the hall outside my office is some ancient coaxial Ethernet cable. At one point, there is a tap and one of the standard cables that went from the tap to a workstation. I keep thinking I should grab the tap and squirrel it away as a historical artifact.
> This seems tragic to me. I can't believe someone would "order" him back into the silo to turn on an exhaust fan. First, starting a fan motor inside of an explosive environment can be dangerous. Second, how could someone have such disregard for another person's life, that they send him into a room full of explosive gas?

Ordering people to take potentially fatal risks to avoid greater harms is not merely recurrent within the military, it's fundamental to it.

That doesn't mean that there can't be room to debate whether a particular risk ordered was warranted, but one absolutely should not be shocked that a military superior ordered a subordinate to do something that involves a potentially fatal risk.
Apple rejecting subscription apps missing a complex disclaimer
Immutable append only databases exist without blockchains. Why does this need to be decentralized and distributed?
There's a coin for that: https://www.shiftnrg.org
You should make sure your kids can defend and counter attack. Not only physically, but using their brain and resources such as authority figures and the police.

Maybe you view the world as peaceful and rosy, and that's a good view to have, but always have a fallback.

Speak softly but carry a big stick, you know.
FWIW, that PoC (reading user memory only) still works on 10.13.2 even after the patch is applied.
In addition to the other replies, a slate roof is nowhere near ten times the cost of asphalt shingles. It's more like 3x, and that's only if you price the cheapest asphalt shingles.
On the other hand, a peer-to-peer solution would mean a better chance at connectivity when you're out in the field with your battery-powered device that's already consuming power to maintain what little connectivity it can get with the nearest cell tower.
It is misleading to describe etheteum as Turing-complete. If it were, an infinite while loop would soon crash the network. (As mentioned in the article, the processing of Ethereum contracts is powered/funded by a finite valuable currency called gas)

A novelty of the unfolding blockchain revolution is the realisation that there is a world of interesting non-turing-complete things to be built. We all assumed that anything non-turing-complete a waste of time. Surprise!

What you want to say here is that ethereum takes a large step towards creating a flexible development platform.

EVM function like an instruction-set for this distributed computer. This may be close to the way forward. But solidity is not. A quick port of JavaScript, it is still in the old software mindset.

Ethereum has problems ahead of it. Just as C has an endless capacity to create memory leak bugs, Solidity offers opportunity for contracts that will drain people's accounts. Each time it happens, it will be reputational damage for the community.

If you wanted to learn Ethereum, it might make more sense to start with raw EVM than Solidity. Play at writing a macro assembler. Once you were tooled up, you might try your hand at becoming the Brendan Eich of the blockchain. Until you do, we are stuck with Brendan Eich.

If we do not find such an expression, general-purpose, public-access blockchain will gain permanent mistrust, and fail.

Message-driven concurrency is here to stay though. I am building a concurrency language centred around message-driven consensus-engines. (github.com/solent-eng/solent) It is designed to be host-distributed, but operated by a single party and not multi-party.
You could recreate the data in Airtable and generate a read-only embed to put on your website. That should allow users to search and filter your data.
https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/217846478-Emb...
GitHub is much larger by traffic, but that doesn't mean we are going to abandon the million users we get every day and the 430,000 projects hosted at SourceForge. It's not a zero sum game. Some people like using GitHub's suite of tools, while also taking advantage of SourceForge mailing lists, project website hosting, detailed download statistics, and distribution/discovery capability. Our GitHub Sync Tool lets project owners use both with ease.
Nothing about what Apple has done has any effect on web sites or services that do not engage in tracking.
In the USA (and perhaps Canada), yes, but it's not illegal here in the UK (inferred since the British Oxford has a Cowley Road, which is a busy radial route).

The advice given to children here is "don't cross at the front of a bus, always behind it". That and "look right, left, and right again".
Microsoft says security patches slowing down PCs, servers
I would _love_ to be able to pay for all the content I read while knowing my privacy is preserved. Good riddance!
Exactly. And by rare, we're talking 99.99% uptime. Slack is down for me too, and I'm not exactly excited. But this is a mild inconvenience compared to what I'd have to deal with should I have my own self-hosted alternative.
Also as a developer and founder making decisions and executing on every piece of the stack, I also don't see why this is blowing up. It seems to me that a bunch of people who have not had to experience making and executing real software architectural decisions are hyping it up to be more than it is. They've created an echo chamber for this buzzword, and rather than talking about solving a real problem, they're going straight for this solution. Good reliable software is already hard to create and maintain and where I live all these clueless businesses and government folk think that blockchain has come to save them from all their IT woes.

Blockchain as a technology as originally described by satoshi's paper is an extremely good solution as a cryptocurrency. You have a bunch of transactions and they all reduce into a single number -- your wallet balance. Anything other than this you're just shoehorning data in a crappy linked list and you'll pay all the penalties for doing so.
Sad state of affairs that something like ScourceForge cannot operate as a paid-for service, but only as a "tech-influencer" ad site. quote from here: https://slashdotmedia.com/about-slashdot-media/

Not attacking the Abbotts and their SlashDotMedia and BizX web media influencer conglomerate, 100% legitimate way of doing business, but an overall observation on services that can't be operated as standalone businesses.

Also an illustration how big the tech dependency on advertising is, from Google to this. Remove ads from the web and a shitload of stuff disappears.
Which shows, that no matter how certain you are that your code matches the specifications, it still pays to test it.
Crazy theory, but their stock very steadily this year and a lot of retail investors probably had short positions that they've been holding as a result. Lets say they threw this whole thing together betting that it would cause a bump in value. I'd bet the stair step on the price chart was a cascade of margin calls against all the short sellers because all the brokerages were forced to buy the stock to cover, further raising the price.
Distrust between the public and authority is what they need to focus on.
Here you are:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/10/23/stopping...
Kodak has done a lot of research in the last 20 years to create digital watermarks that resist manipulation.

So they wouldn't necessarily naively hash an image file, but they could possibly create a hash from features that are extracted from the image and remain consistent even after manipulation or transformation.

Or they could hash the original bits in the file naively then insert that hash into the original image as a digital watermark that would survive manipulation of the image.
Unless you are running add-ons that block Google Analytics, which I would assume everyone here would already be doing.
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The bugs Theo was talking about were unrelated to these ones.
Amazon has long standing, massive server contracts with alphabet agencies. It's owner also owns a newspaper that is very biased towards the "uniparty" Washington establishment. I wouldn't put my money on them not already being malicious. They may just be the best at hiding it.
Oh, I don't want to give all the freedom that JavaScript in the browser gives, and that's the whole point. If we came up with something that allowed the same things, then that would be a pointless exercise. There will be cuts in aspects, some necessary, some intentional.

I don't advocate for a better way to have apps on the web, but to have a better app-less web.

I'm a bit tired to talk about this topic right now. I'm also repeating myself. I talked a lot about JavaScript on HN recently, so you can read there more, and the surround comments have lots of other perspectives. Not everything has been said. Maybe I'll write up a structured and hopefully complete blog post about it some day soon.
I thought this was super cool.

https://blog.hackster.io/keep-an-eye-on-things-with-a-wirele...
Families and friends also don't always take comfort in autopsies, organ donation, or having to explain their whereabouts at the time of death. Not saying I disagree with your wider point, but shouldn't our response to death be guided by something more objective than what family and friends might hypothetically want?
ScourgeForge?
From the README - “For this demo, you either need the direct physical map offset (e.g. from demo #2) or you have to disable KASLR by specifying nokaslr in your kernel command line." - what do you think are the percentages of systems that match these conditions?
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I think Netflix struck a good balance with their Chaos Monkey tool.
This is inaccurate, the preloading that AMP on Google Search does is a significant advantage over anything you can do with current web technologies.
I refuse to jump on board with micro services based on faith. Docker/k8s are not free actions, in fact you will probably pay dearly using them in a inappropriate context.
"New FBI chief continues tradition of (willfully?) misunderstanding communications encryption"
Companies don't have "ad budgets". Those depend on the efficiency of the ads. If your $100M spending on ads only generates $50M in value, you won't spend it.

Advertising has diminishing returns, when you decrease the efficiency of advertising, you decrease the spending.

Another way to think about it: line up every marginal $ you could possibly spend in ads, and sort it by efficiency from max to min. Find the point where efficiency = 100% (spending $1 more generates $0 marginal profit).

As a company, you'd buy all the ads until that point.

When you lower the efficiency of the ads, the intersection moves, lowering the marginal returns, and resulting in lower ad spending.
Just a crazy thought, but what if Slack (just using Slack as an example) could provide a dongle or 1U server you can put in your server room which works as a proxy for Slack and fallback for clients should Slack be down. This could automatically be updated and maintained by Slack. If you have several sites and no VPN you could install this at all locations and connect them together so you can continue as normal whenever Slack is down and if Internet is down at least you can use it with everyone in your local network. Might be difficult to sync it back to Slack when everything is up and running again though ...
Please explain why you hate it?
I don't know much about TV, but sad things have happened to children throughout history and this features in many great works of literature. To filter the cultural/artistic output that you consume based on whether or not it contains something one finds upsetting is a great mistake. I think that that applies even to your evening TV entertainment, but it certainly applies to undergraduate education in the humanities.
You could use that argument to argue against any regulation of any monopoly.

"You don't like that Comcast is going to decide what sites you can see? Then make your own ISP"

"You don't like that the water company is pricing people out of drinking water? Make your own water utility"

"You don't like that Golden Gate jacked their prices? Build your own bridge"

BTW, those examples aren't exaggerations. I imagine they're all no less difficult than making a new search engine to compete with Google.
Keep competing! Alternatives are good!
Yes, you can start using CSS feature queries
OTOH someone else is now stating that the lenses are unchanged from the Vive: https://www.roadtovr.com/ces-2018-vive-pro-hands-on-much-mor...
But would GPFS really be any better? What other competition is there for big iron hpc distributed storage?
Oh, and others who aren't as rich as you to pay for their content in cash?

Or just people with money should be allowed to have access to content?
I feel like reading articles like this makes me a more careful driver for a few days or weeks.
Hang in there man. Even for people who don’t know you, you can still do so much good while you live. There’s a lot of people struggling around the world whose lives would be made better with only a tiny drop of your help/knowledge.
To my understanding, the memory subsystem is fetching a byte in parallel with access permission checks. If the byte is discarded due to mis-speculation, then the result of the permission check is ignored, but the cache is still in an updated state.

I believe one solution would be to put permission checks before the memory access, which would add serialized latency to all memory access. Another would be to have the speculative execution system flush cache lines that were loaded but ultimately ignored, which would be complex but probably not be as much of a speed hit.

(edit: yeah, a simple "flush" is insufficient, it would have to be closer to an isolated transaction with rollback of the access's effects on the cache system.)
It happened over the holidays. It's over.
Do you know another way out of the Googernet ad matrix?

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-saved-an-estimated-887...
The poster was arguing that negative network conditions can be simulated.

If the problem is a lack of information about global network conditions, then you can deploy canary machines around the world to gather that information.
If you don't mind, can I ask what particular issues you faced? We're looking at moving from Slack to Mattermost later this year to help streamline the security clearance process so it's a little concerning to hear that it wasn't solid enough for something as simple as family communication.
You asked for a citation from Damore's memo, and I provided it.

Its interpretation as evidence for what I asked for is pretty stretched and tortured. Thanks for that!
Are there any plans to push this code back upstream to Apache? My understanding is SF.net abandoned the legacy alexandria (the PHP code from VA Linux) source code, built the current version, and then sent to the Apache Foundation, but I'm not clear if this is a fork, or what sf.net's relation is with it's upstream.

Also, since I'm on the topic, any chance slashdot will go back to an open source code model?
I agree with you about how the article is written, but "bad things happen to good people" isn't an idea that will save lives. "Find a way to stop driving, because it IS your fault if you kill someone with your automobile" is. She chose to drive, killed someone as a direct result of her decision, and then chose to continue driving. She was surround by car culture enablers (her dad immediately fixing the car instead of selling it, the cops asking her to drive more carefully instead of revoking her driver's license permanently, etc...), and is now propagating the "wrong place at the wrong time" myth herself. If she accidentally kills another child will she write up a follow up article to this? Maybe she'll give up something else related to driving the second time?
Except when you want the original link.
A lot of dapps don't need oracles to run. Anything that does is still more trustless than a centralized solution would be, reducing the counterparty risk to the oracle alone.

As mentioned elsewhere, a lot of work is also being done on decentralizing the oracles. Like PoW / PoS protection, this raises the cost of an oracle attack high enough to reduce the risk to acceptable levels for more sensitive applications.
I don't understand why they say Spectre can control branching in WebKit. Spectre is an information leak attack, it doesn't allow to modify memory. I could allow to find x in `is x == valueToCheck`. But if this is possible, even before Spectre it's a security issue, it's only harder to guess, and Javascript code should not be allowed to control `x`.
It's something we're trying to come up with solutions for, so that we can reduce or eliminate ads on SourceForge. But for now, any user or developer who creates an account on SourceForge will never see ads.
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Teaching coding to young refugees will generate job opportunities to thousands
Why, when you can come to Hacker News and read all of the duplicate postings? (-:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109335

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109132

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109140

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109194

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108912
True - my molester was a long time friend of the family, close enough that me going on a vacation trip to his state park campground trailer wasn't an unusual summer thing. Took me 25 years to remember exactly what had gone on, and a couple of years of therapy to get back to somewhat steady on my emotional feet. Never 100% sure of that anymore, but I try.
This is interesting but a bit self-serving. Imagine going around where you work and interviewing someone about their job:
"Is your job easy?"
"The days of my job being easy are over. Everyday I work very hard."
etc.
Jeff Bezos’ net worth hit $105B
> something more objective

You mean like rampant, baseless speculation with no knowledge of any surrounding facts?
Most of the time I don't care one way or another. Occasionally I search Google for Reddit posts on my phone, and it's mildly infuriating to get a bunch of AMP results, because I strongly prefer the desktop UI that I've chosen in my preferences over the default mobile UI that AMP shows.
Personally I see a lot of different areas where the blockchain will be extremely useful.

The reason I think that is very simple.

The blockchain allows us to create scarcity in an otherwise abundant medium.

This means that potentially (and yes it will take time) we will see be able to mimic the physical space and create items that are to some extent unique (even though the can be copied. The art market is based on exactly this principle)

It's extremely interesting when it comes to things like secondhand markets where we can buy and resell assets without having to deal with licensing issues from some central owner.

Things like ebooks that can increase in value because of the people who owned them, digital "Pokemon cards" to create unique digital assets, virtual goods without the need for the original creator of the game to be up and running.

In other words, it allow us to have a digital world where what we do creates a unique footprint and doesn't just get's obsolete and where the end user gets to tap into the value chain of technology even if they are not able to work in the technology space.

These are some of the things I believe is interesting. I am not anarco-capitalist or libertarian and I don't care if it was pushed primarily by them just like I don't care that my country was based on wars and slavery and killing other people.

The blockchain, the way I look at it at least, is a "protocol" like TCP-IP.
I had an AMD machine in on Monday that I installed in 2009, was chugging along fine until this update. Now has a stop error on boot.

New machine time - which actually gives Microsoft money in reward for their mistake but is the best course of action for the client.

It’s just expense for the the client and inconvenience for all involved.
Ads are never going anywhere. We had ads for decades that did not need to track your every move. They work fine and can work fine online.

I fail to see why internet ads being more like TV, radio, and print ads means that free services would go away. Rough geographic and interest-based targeting would still be possible, just like it is in those media.
Yeah thought of this proof of concept they've built using ipfs: https://peerpad.net/#/
> It's funny how no one was up in arms when facebook (the leading source of publisher traffic) did their version of accelerated pages.

Hmm, I guess it depends where you look. I saw quite a LOT of people upset by it. Many participated because they felt like they had to in order to get views.
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the first approach sounds kind of expensive to be done at the cpu level. I like your second one better. thank you!
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Google creates software protection technique to ward off Spectre bug – SD Times
It's widespread: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30960001-Speed-Report-DOCSI.... Anecdotally, I've lived in five cities in Comcast territory, and four of the five show gigabit cable for $80 and multi-gig fiber for $150 at my former address.
One assumption I've made (in my 30+ certs over 20 years, all in sysadmin/tools) is that ops/sysadmin can be much more tool/feature centric. It's rather easy to test someone's ability to know cli options or know the "one way" to configure a tool.
What about the people who aren't as rich as you and can't pay $10 for Telegram?

Some people can pay cash for products, others can't and will happily exchange their attention for the service.

You proposal boils down to "rich people like me will be fine, screw the rest".
I think you took his word too literally. When I read it, it simply means you put your hopes into something.

I am betting that my new relationship with be futile and bring me happiness. Doesn't mean I went to see bookie about it.
Because they aren't as rich as you and can't afford paying for everything with cash, but would be happy to pay with their attention.
I enjoyed reading this paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0708.0261.pdf
The decade feels grim, lots of tension, lots of mayhem. I try not to succomb to the surrounding darkness; not easy at times, nostalgia is strong in me, but I also know that this is transient.
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Every Google AMP link that I've clicked on has a button in the top right corner which displays the original link. It's very easy to copy from, and isn't hidden at all.
Windows isn't going anywhere, if for no other reason than because Microsoft Excel is basically electronic paper to the business world -- and there is simply no adequate substitute for it. (No, neither OpenOffice Calc nor any of the Web-based offerings -- including Microsoft's own -- count.)

Coping with Windows is a fact of life. Get used to it.