skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have constantly heard that they can't reliably measure the performance of a website unless it is AMP. I don't buy this argument at all. Google already has mentioned to using site speed for as a minor ranking factor, why can't they use the same methodology for putting websites in the carousell too?

Also, they have Real user data for over a million websites - https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/crux

This is a way better indicator of site speed as opposed to if the site is AMP or not. Would be so cool if Google used this data as a pre condition to put sites into the carousell!
Route 53 is down
"1-year of coding experience" for a startup means someone who got a PhD and interned for 4 years at various companies doing real work, then went to work for Google for 1 year and decided to leave for a smaller company.

Yes, that guy can become a world class practitioner.

He was talked down to junior and paid as little as possible because that's what companies do.
Maker Blockchain and Maker Token Platform from MarkHatch (formerly of TechShop)
I don't think there's a future in telling customers about the product via direct advertisement. It's too easy to filter out or ignore. The most reliable conversions are by word-of-mouth and friend recommendation, and those are nearly impossible to buy.
Your assertion about what's a recipe for more collisions is not well supported. It doesn't even seem true to me.
The 'end' is the security of the bitcoin blockchain. Defence forces consume a massive amount of energy and human resources. They are still funded because countries don't all trust each other and they want security. An alternative to Proof of Work such as Proof of Stake would be like a country having a nuclear arsenal, allowing it to cut back on military spending. The problem seems to be that the incentives are on the miners to switch to another proof system, and the existing miners wouldn't want to do that because it's their edge in the market (low electricity costs).
With Alexa, there's a clear value proposition. In exchange for this device listening, you can perform various tasks by voice control that would previously be done at a computer or manually.

With advertising, it's a lose-lose proposition. In exchange for being tracked everywhere, we get shown pictures of things we don't want. Who would opt into that?
There was no mention in this article of Lin-Manuel Miranda (who won a MacArthur genius grant in 2015), but he reported on Twitter at the time that he had used his grant to pay off his and his wife's student loans.
You forgot to say "on Linux".

For Dragonfly instructions see: https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/01/09/20710.html
In the US, they would put up a stop sign and park a cop near there for some instant, costly learning experiences. Although, if the speed is sufficient you would probably get an overpass, particularly if one road is a known truck route. It would be interesting to build a bicycle only overpass.
Yep every once in a while I see someone talks about "acceptable ads like static images". But those days are long gone.

You can't have ads without tracking.
manslaughter ≠ murder
Well, at least it's not as mind-punchingly slow as it used to be. Progress?
I absolutely agree with you. Speed shouldn't play any role in ranking. However in regards to relevancy RankBrain is going to eventually train itself to push the most relevant/respected results. Will have to wait and watch how it spans out.
Another comment explained how the UK hates stop signs, but yes, a roundabout would be a great and very British/European solution that would probably be very effective.
I like how HN's adherence to a certain simplicity has, I think, helped keep the community integrated, and relatively egalitarian and respectful (with a lot of other work going into that, as well, I'm sure).

But there have been a few times, this year and recently, where very pertinent security issues have had threads of both immediate and enduring value, with information -- mostly in the comments -- both useful and not available elsewhere that I've seen, online.

Maybe another one of HN's select, few categories. E.g. "essential". Probably populated solely at the moderators' discretion. In that, I'm in favor of the benevolent dictators model: Maybe some polite and well-argued comments about what might belong, but no voting or manipulable -- technically nor socially -- as to what gets in there.

When a processor, platform, OS is significantly borked, and the knowledge is essential to a broad portion of this community. That would be what goes in there. Starts as regular threads. If the need to know and value of them are high enough, they get tagged with that category. So that, e.g. I can more readily find that Intel Management Engine thread a couple of months later, when I'm deciding whether I want to patch (or patch further) and what mitigations to keep in place.

I don't know, and maybe I'm wrong. Just an idea.

P.S. I don't know whether the front page would link "essential" somewhere, or whether it would be like some other qualifiers, that don't have a front page presence. Again, the simplicity of the front page, versus the value of the information and the need to know.

P.P.S. I really am afraid, though, of the arguments its presence might engender, as to what belongs in it, and the disharmony this might introduce and foster. There's a LOT of value to the existing simplicity (of the interface, if not always the elephant behind it).
It would seem odd to be disappointed with a solution that wasn’t actually implemented.
No, serving differing content based on the source, making users double click to view it all, while trying to reap the “SEO” benefits of AMP is.
Do you feel most other fathers aren't?
That is an odd one. Why say that instead of of the usual, "we can't comment on that".

> U.S. government would never put a major company like Intel in a position of risk like this to try to hold open a vulnerability." [1]

They subverted the Dual_EC_DRBG standardization process. Had they not been caught and the algorithm ended up on more devices they would be hurting not just major companies but whole industries.

Also for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_(decryption_program)
It's pretentious for them to assert that the industry they're speaking for includes Apple.
> Sometimes I wonder if I would have actually hit them if anyone would have believed I didn’t see them

As a daily motorcyclist that also drives a car, I'm uncomfortably aware of how much of your vision the A-pillar obscures. Not to mention the passenger side one, the B-pillars, and seating.

That said, it is as much my responsibility (or any road user, or pedestrian) not to put myself into a dangerous position as much as it is for you to do your best to keep an eye out.
I think a more-accurate title would be "Ad companies can make millions with web bugs."
I know most comments indicate that even without the maths, the rolling geography would seem to block the view, and that the best solution would be a 4-way stop, a roundabout or the split road suggestion in the article.

But going back to the a-pillar, Volvo did have a concept design with a see through a-pillar. I'm not sure why it never made it to market. I'm guessing it didn't pass their safety requirements?

http://www.dangar.com/brochure12.htm
Good read indeed. Kindle example was good.
Haven't you collectively decided to do nothing?

Besides the homicide rate is not far of a 9/11 every few months is it?
Cool, had to Google bubble pushing[1]

[1] http://district.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/kevin.dunn/files/Simplif...
If you're interested in the intersection of blockchain and AI/ML check out the decentralized AI summit coming up on Feb 1st. https://decentralized-ai.com/ there are going to be a ton of good speakers and people into crypto/blockchain + IoT, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, etc -- it's like the world's faire of the future.
Ah, for the days when "internet celebrities" had day jobs... These days, sadly, they mostly just "productize content and brand engagement for maximum revenue stream conversion."
Tails 3.4 is out
I believe it does, though I have not been able to find a definitive source as to whether it is used in online or offline modes.
> TLS server to "solve" such a challenge by effectively echoing back the requested SNI value blindly

I would be mildly surprised if they pulled tls-sni because of this, since it is basically a client vulnerability, and both http-01 and dns-01 suffer from similar scenarios (e.g. I tricked a major email provider into serving /.well-known/acme-challenge/ for a domain I shouldn't have been able to, and a friend managed to get a wildcard for a ccTLD).
I remember those Glaze3D screenshots from BitBoys back in the day. They were the most awesome vaporware.
XRP == Ripple.
Caribbean earthquake triggers tsunami alert: UPDATE-3
The rule I generally follow as a pedestrian is that the object with greater linear momentum has the right of way.
On the one hand, I cry every time the open web loses a bit, and certainly AMP is a loss for the open web. After all Google is essentially trying to make the web its platform.

But as a user... I love, yes love AMP. All of these complaints about scrolling and Safari chrome and URLs are valid, but guess what: AMP has an awesome feature that the page actually loads!

I know some sites (like Daringfireball) load really nice and fast on mobile, and only have 1 or 2 ads on them, but that's not the state of the web. There are lots of sites with great content, but also 2MB of React Frameworks/Ads/Crap to display a 2KB article. I hit "Reader Mode" as soon as I can on these pages, which is usually after 5-10 seconds of load. Compare this to AMP which load in <1 second. That tradeoff is worth it to me.
Whats with the trend of calling things cancer ? I guess some people in the industry don't like electron but I'd rather have a modern version of " eight megs and constantly swapping "
In that case reliance should just buy the guy out.

Jio launches a pretty ambitious phone network and decimated the competition.

Do note thought that they are considered to be really bad competitors to go up against. They almost always have a focus on good ultra competitive pricing and ways to extract extra money from the consumer.

But they are very actively investing in broadband content to drive use of their network.
The new genetics of intelligence
What do you think draws people to these technologies?
This has been reposted and flag-killed several times this week.
(giving insight, not speaking for Microsoft here)

Internally we take privacy policy seriously. If you agreed to the policy, we're only using the data the way the policy says. (GDPR "keeps us honest", but there's actually internal drive for this. Microsoft Runs On Trust.) So autocomplete? seriously only used for autocomplete. same with inking and typing, it is only used for improvements to the inking and typing systems.

smartscreen does exactly what it says on the tin. That data's not used for anything but malicious website detection. It's first line of defense against phishing in a lot of orgs.

(systemwide Ad ID mirrors the feature on Apple and Android products. check the windows API for exactly what you get out of this. It's probably less than you think)

cortana is... a bit of a misbranding, to be honest. It's MS's answer to IBM's "watson", in that pretty much every consumer-facing AI product gets Cortana branding whether it makes sense or not. Note the privacy policy here, we can use the Cortana data more freely. Don't agree unless you agree.

Cloud-based is getting inserted into everything because users don't upgrade. We had to push an Office 2007 patch recently. 2007. It'd have its first crush by now.

Disregarding the ability for the above to be stolen (and that'd be impressive, MSIT is top-tier), your personal data is being used for exactly the purpose we say it's being used for. While your personal incentives may not align, our business incentives are "get you on the cloud, get your software working well, get easy data transfer between MS products, make sure you're patched and updated, take your money for this". It's not a secret. It's not a conspiracy. It's time-limited software licensing and cloud services.
My parental nightmare story - Many years ago when my youngest son was about 2 (he is 14 now), we were on family holiday and had just checked in to our hotel room which was on the 6th floor of the complex.

Exhausted from the travelling, we all decided to take a nap on the huge king sized bed. To this day I don't know what it is, but something snapped me awake mid-nap, and I looked across to see that my younger son had woken up, got out of bed, ambled across to the window, climbed on the ledge, and had cranked the lever, and was pushing the window open.

I leapt out of bed, and crossed the distance to the window faster than Usain Bolt, and grabbed him a split second before he plummeted out. I discovered that the window was (a) unlocked, contrary to hotel policy, and (b) the little safety bracket that would have prevented the window opening more than about 6 inches, was missing.

I reported to the manager, and the moved us to another room immediately, with better window security & safety.

To this day, I sometimes snap awake in my sleep with my brain screaming "OMG - I have to get [younger son's name] away from the window". In a kind of reverse blame, I keep thinking what if I had just slept through?
I am not really aware of specific issues with larger ones, but I've never seen mention of sizes beyond a certain point (small towns, marginalized areas in the mountains, etc). I'd love to have better references on this.

No, I was trying to refer to Eduardo the writer. He's written about Zapatistas' Caracoles a bit. Can't find the specific text though :(
The US also tends to overuse stop signs when a yield (give way) sign would suffice. That is, if there is sufficient visibility of approaching traffic, coming to a complete stop is not necessary to safely yield to any conflicting traffic. Also, coming to a complete stop and then proceeding isn't sufficient to properly yield to approaching traffic.

In the end, stop signs end up being treated like yield signs. The only time they're properly treated like stop signs is when it's not possible to see cross traffic before you approach the intersection.
Social Cooling – big data’s unintended side effect [video]
On another anecdote, similar to the OP story here - A good fried whom I used to play cricket with, had a sister, whose boyfriend was driving home one afternoon when a 3 year old boy chased a ball onto the road in front of his car, and was killed by the impact. He wasn't speeding or doing anything wrong. It was a pure accident. He was distraught about it and I believe, like the lady in the story, stopped driving for many years. I look back on the episode now and realise that I had no social cues as to how to approach him about it or offer him comfort in any way. I wonder how he is doing now - we lost touch and I have no idea where he is these days.
Private Capital: Record-Setting Pace in 2017 [pdf]
Can Dockless Bikeshare Pump Up Cycling's Diversity?
Well, when I read this on the news I was fascinated by the extreme growth (>4 standard deviation compared to growth experienced by an average astronaut), however, it turns out that there was a measurement error.[0]

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42630473
I think we're talking about slightly different scenarios. HTTP-01, for example, cannot be solved by just echoing back the file name the validation server requests because the client is supposed to return "token || '.' || base64(JWK_Thumbprint(accountKey))", but the file name is just "token".

dns-01 is not affected either because the requested label is always just "_acme-challenge.<FQDN>".
nope, it limits the max aperture once you cross 1/1000th
For me—in my 20's living at home—this kind of money would mean I could buy a house/apartment without needing a mortgage.

It would be a huge kickstart to my independent adult life, and the savings over the decades from not having a mortgage would absolutely be lifestyle changing. I'm not talking about yatchs and lamborghinis, but it would certainly provide the freedom to live on less income in exchange for more free time to pursue hobbies and side projects.

Not that I have any reason to complain, I'm very grateful for who and what I have in my life right now.
In a cluster, all hosts must be updated for the flags to be exposed to the guests. That is why you must update vCenter first, which prevents the patched hosts from being rejected.
But they aren’t. There have been plenty of articles where journalists have checked this with battery experts and this is a known property of batteries. John Panzarino at TechCrunch has been all over this. It doesn’t happen to every battery, in fact it’s a minority of them, but then Apple only enables the management when they detect it. It’s just that the other manufacturers never did anything about it.
A few speed bumps at the intersection would slow drivers. Speed bumps are cheap and effective. You can lay several in series to encourage drivers to slow. It would be a shame not to use them in such an instance, where lives might be saved.
Maybe because they covered one case of a grantee repaying their $180k(!) student loan.
What an amazing talk. There are some audio problems in the beginning, but the quality of the content makes easily up for that.

The talk is about an aspect of the change that technology and digitalization bring to our society, and how we deal with that. Language is a key factor in change, and the talk is focussed on that.

I highly recommend watching it.
That's very sharp but why do we want to apply the rules of Fiat currency onto BC? Why can't we do transaction and have handshake to return the same "value" later or some percentage of the prevailing value like interest. ?
While I understand your sentiment, probably the best action is to do the default, which is to wait for an update from your package manager/OS.

The news on HN is, well news, so it's often fresh and breaking news. Acting on said news entails its own risks unless you know what you're doing, and there aren't ambiguities which may bork your computer.
They aren't. Random shutdowns are a fact of life for all smartphones that don't reduce voltage when the battery degrades.
# Download new release of microcode from https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27431/Linux-Proces...
# Copy intel-ucode directory to /lib/firmware
# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload
# update-initramfs -u
# Reboot

Also check - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...
Why should Apple provide an option to pick a worse experience to people, 99.9% of whom aren't going to be able to understand the difference, even if it is explained?

The engineering behind the problem is insanely complex, even for tech-inclined people to grasp, and the engineering solution that was used was brilliant, and now is going in the garbage to suit the complaints of 0.1% of engineers who agreed with it but thought Apple should've been more up front about it, and legions of tech commentators who don't even remotely understand any of the actual solution but just ran clickbait headlines about "Apple slowing your phone INTENTIONALLY!" totally omitting the fact that it was beneficial to the user experience and to the long term viability of the device, and not only that, but REVERSED ITSELF if you had the battery replaced, even if it was by a third party dealer.

Sorry to rant, this just makes me so angry.

LET THE DOWNVOTES RAIN IN! I'm not going to apologize for it, this whole thing was blown massively out of proportion, by possibly well meaning but ignorant people who do not have a GLINT of understanding of the tech involved, many of whom shouldn't be allowed to program a DVR, let alone design smartphones.
> Forcing drivers to make left turns...

Would the remark still be equally valid given left-lane driving layout (as opposed to right-lane in the US)? Both left turn merging onto north/south road and right turn merging back onto east/west road strike me as lower risk given attention is focused on a single lane at any given time, as opposed to negotiating both north and south lanes simultaneously in existing intersection.

Also, the area appears to be in a rural location without nearby power distribution infrastructure to tap into; probably not as simple--or cost effective--at first glance.
At some skill point the marginal utility of increasing marketing skill is greater than the marginal utility of increasing in glass Blowing skill.
I've been working remotely for 12 years and I agree with the OP.

While I like not having to go to the office everyday and the more flexible arrangement there are a lot of challenges:

1. You miss out on a lot of socializing.
2. You lose visibility within the organisation.
3. Things that would be solved in 10 mins if you could ask for help face to face take hours.
4. Timezones can be a problem for some, but luckily not for me.
5. Other family members don't understand you still work and just think you're available whenever for whatever.
6. I knew I'd have to give up my team leader role when I went remote - it made no sense for a remote worker to do that.

I started going to a coffee shop every morning years ago just to have people to talk to.

It's a hard way to work, but it has its advantages as long as you're not trying for a promotion.
If this is really a problem worth mention(in DC no less!), then we are doomed as a civilization.
Presumably the OP meant "remain in that role in the company"; not necessarily intending to extrapolate to all positions at all companies.
Microsoft finally threw in the towel last year (2017) and cut off enterprise support for Office Communicator 2007 (!)
Optimal Bayesian Transfer Learning
>Steve Coleman, a saxophonist who won last year at age 57, said he had created a life over decades that required little money to maintain and could be supported with even less when times were tough.

I spend quite a bit of time thinking about this but it doesn't appear to be a solveable problem for people with kids/family even if their earnings as an IT/SDEV person are well above average.
I was under the impression that the taxes were more from a public health perspective: smoking, alcohol etc. are leading causes of death and we want to discourage public consumption while at the same time raising revenue
Judging from the considerations evinced in this article, pillar strength and thus rollover safety do seem to be limiting factors: https://www.redbook.com.au/car-news/toyota/toyota-patents-tr...

It also indicates, however, that the industry is putting real development effort into solving the problem, whether through clever optics like Toyota's efforts, or cameras and screens like Jaguar's concept.
Any links to discussions on this topic? Sounds suspiciously like SNI proxies.
The cyclist may not see the car if they stare blindly into the distance in front of them. GP is making the point that the cyclist should be aware of their surroundings, and taking precautions accordingly. This includes looking for approaching traffic down the length of a side road on approach to an intersection.

While I don't discount that there may be freak scenarios, as a motorcyclist I agree. If I don't see a car, a pedestrian, a bird, a kangaroo, a log on the road, I go to hospital. It's as much my responsibility to ensure my own safety as anyone else's.
No it doesn't, since that kind of thing is not what HN is for and there are many places that are. It does need fewer people typing breathlessly in all caps a lot.