skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>degradgation of the American democracy

First, they are lamenting the current administration instead of making the point alluded to by the title of their article. Second, the degradation of the American democracy was always occurring. The means have changed from manipulation using money and mass media towards spread of truly free ideas via unfiltered technology. This led to a shift towards populism. The mass media and power elite have immediately called this a threat to democracy, when in fact it is only a threat to _their_ waning control over democracy. Lies are truth and truth are lies.
Rise of the Mesh Computer – decentralized, distributed, computing everywhere
I only ever have lots of tabs open...
Book Publishing's Weak Bet on “Fire and Fury”? Blame Data
I'd be happy to see a mainstream economic theory that hasn't been debunked by data...
Anyone noticing that the user count is off? Like REALLY off. I'm only seeing it in the thousands. Currently it at 2546, but clicking the redirect I get 2434, 2380, 2306, 2075, 4011, etc. Seems like the counter surely broke.
As a point of clarity, the FISA court was established by the Carter administration in 1978. Though it's popular to say it was a Bush invention.
The Scottish one
The list of places the scan your face is growing
Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband
Why not perform the invoking and setup of the call via a server, but then perform the actual call on p2p once the device is awake and the app on the foreground?
Even if one would assume that there's a dollar hyperinflation, Bitcoin as a alternative is certainly the worst alternative as it is much more volatile than any real world currency.
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Facial Recognition Is Coming to Retail
> I work remotely, and it can definitely get lonely.

I used to work remotely most of the time, unfortunately in my current job this isn't very practical. I really miss the solitude though. Having to sit in an office surround by humans is the worst part of having a job in general. It wears on you and after a day at the office I am completely exhausted to the point where I feel like a zombie most evenings.

As for the loneliness thing, that's something I've never understood. I don't even know what it feels to be lonely. There have been times in my life where I've been alone for months and I never felt anything that I would classify as 'lonely'. If anything I would call my current condition the exact opposite of loneliness: I have way more social interaction than I can deal with and that's with me actively trying to reduce it to the absolute minimum possible.
I've worked 100% remote for nearly 4 years now and I can definitely say that I'll never go back to working in an office if I can help it.

Yea there are different challenges. You have to over communicate and be available, but availability doesn't mean 24/7. It really only applies to working hours and the occasional on-call shift. If your boss wants to get ahold of your on a Saturday night, that sounds like a company culture issue, not a remote work issue.
> Rather than help address then problem a sister comment alludes to "get a dog" folks are helping to perpetuate it.

Sorry, can you help me parse this sentence?
At what point in the last 10-20 years has the image of the nuclear family not been under attack?

Beyond medicine and the fact that it's less violent than 200 years ago, it would be incredibly hard to argue we now live in healthy societies.
Amazing. I'm jealous (I use Linode).
If you don't mind my asking, what sort of work were you doing in Macau? The economy seems pretty one dimensional built around the casino and hotel industries.
I suppose "update AMT password defaults" is good, non-obvious advice to spread.

But it does feel a bit rich to describe physical access and a default password as the stuff of a security professional's "worst nightmares". "Physical access means control" has been a standard assumption for years, and this really just constitutes a failure to secure all login channels. It's a particularly silly description when Spectre and Meltdown are busy being actual "worst nightmares" threats.
Sorry, are you saying "it's the cost of doing business"?
> fake Eiffel Tower, and the Venetian

I never understood this wholesale copying (Its not just China, look at Las Vegas). Do people actually like being in a fake Eiffel Tower? Wouldn't it be much better for a city with history like Macau to emphasize that instead?
For the confused (like I was):

"They did not create an entity that actually possesses "negative mass". They created configurations of energy states within a material that CAN BE CHARACTERIZED as a quasiparticle; there is no requirement that we think of it as a particle-like entity, it's just convenient from certain respects. In turn that quasiparticle behaves, in at least some respects, as if it were a particle with "negative mass", although from the sound of things, "negative inertia" would be a more accurate description of the phenomena they actually observed." - DarkLordKelvin
Who said I'd close the tab without switching to it?

I open N tabs from the HN front page, then read them asynchronously. Some I never get to, true, but certainly not most. Some I want to keep around for a while. Some I read/skim and/or close right away.
Trump's New Rural Broadband Executive Order Doesn't Actually Do Much of Anything
It boggles my mind that it's in the state it is. Some kid in his basement knows you do staging rollouts and build in parallel, this is seriously the most basic IT knowledge in existence - and yet they still screwed it up, now over 24 hours later.

Whoever their CTO is, is clearly the worst kind of incompetent and the team is the most amateur I have ever seen in my 20 years of Internet systems management.
Surge Pricing Comes to Restaurants
Yes, the new MBP keyboard has the same arrow key layout as the new Apple wireless keyboard, and I despise it. My fingers are constantly trying, and failing, to find the proper arrow key to press and I end up having to look at the keyboard. The only hope is that they change it back in the next version (along with removing the ridiculous TouchBar), but I'm not holding my breath.
That sounds pretty judgmental, especially since I suspect there are human rights threats around the world that you (and everyone else) are not fighting either.
A critical part of life would suggest to me that you die without it. Food and water are critical. Kids are not.
Compared to what? violent hooligans in football?
I suppose the subject's inability to measure anything with any precision is sort of quantum. They could make that a theorem about the nature of economics rather than their own professional failings.
whoahoho.. you got more downvotes than me dude
This is spot on. The argument is probably that the 100k will benefit "everyone" where as the raise only benefits that one person. Where in reality that raise most likely has a much better ROI.
Indeed. I want NoScript to grow a feature where scripts are not allowed on a page (even when their origins are whitelisted) until I click a "go" button.

Why should I want to allow a bunch of tabs to run unknown scripts in the background without my approval? I mean, talk about the spectre of Spectre attacks.
Thanks for pointing this out. I'll be updating the post shortly with changes. I've added a note about going to the source and reading the paper alongside.

For others on this thread: +1 on the above recommendation for reading the paper itself. It is very well written and accessible. If you've read the blog post, you know pretty much everything you need to understand the paper.
(author here) I agree! I was calling out Bitcoin's initial goals in the article but don't 100% align with them myself. Financial institutions came to exist for a reason and I'm really not on board with everyone "being their own bank" as I feel it'd be a step backwards from what we have today.

What I do agree with is the need for more audit-able, accountable systems so the institutions we trust are less susceptible to corruption.
Wouldn’t an immigration interview trump any other reaponsibility a person has? I’d explain to my boss the situation and see if I can get my day switched way before I’d expect any government agency to shuffle things around for my work schedule (especially any agency that’s immigration related).
Internal emails reveal Google’s toxic culture
What is a high-frequency trading PhD?
It's the exact same nerve this story hit, about how the years after having a child tend to be among the most miserable and unhappy for parents (demolishing the fairy tale).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/0...

I remember seeing some of the rage reaction to it online at the time. When a study like that gets that kind of response, you know it's probably hitting close to home for the people responding.
You Don’t Need a Domain Service Class in DDD
Pretty sure The Spotted Owl eats cats too.
Based on the text-only homepage, I'd say the tech team is much worse - at least the social media guy is amusing.
Interesting, the SpeechSynthesisUtterance API seems to be able to bypass browser sound controls.

I opened a bunch of tabs at the same time and Chrome wasn't able to tell me which one was causing the sound.
Muting the tab from Chrome also didn't work.
But it is correct. The Parisian-imposed usage is obviously faulty :)
South Korea considers Bitcoin trading ban
URISCSC17 and the #LongestLastMile
Yes, but also trust. I don't necessarily trust every script from origins I whitelisted -- I'm just not reviewing them. By limiting the resources available to them I limit my exposure as well. No, that's most certainly not foolproof -- not even close -- but I still want this control.
This article is about the spread of the word coffee, and has a small map at the end. http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/12/10/coffee_...

It's pretty similar with coffee being almost universal across different languages.
It's only declining in the places where people give a shit about the Planet in these terms.
It basically means that all of your programs and users have root access. If a buffer overflow happens on an exposed non-root service, it now has a way to get root access. It takes away a layer of security.
Strictly religious family turning its back on the child who sees the belief as nonsense. It's an old story.
I'm not sure what you work on but literally any laptop I'd bring with me while traveling has sensitive materials on them.
Indeed, that's a dangerous path to start down. Something like 60% of the UK population is overweight: do we stop treating Type 2 diabetes because it's self-inflicted? It would save billions of pounds, after all.

Personally I think people should take some personal responsibility for the NHS's under funding. We eat too much, drink too much, don't do enough exercise and drive dangerously - it's hardly surprising the health service is struggling.

Edit: not that I'm suggesting Anorexia isn't a serious mental illness.
Custom Elements – Web Components
There has been some discussion of Meltdown and Spectre on the Mill forums:

https://millcomputing.com/topic/meltdown-and-spectre/
This might be a component, but it is not the real reason why online shopping is behind in Africa. That would be because purchasing power is low, exchange rates are high, and most companies don't trust the system enough to ship to Africa - even for products with relatively high demand.

Many e-commerce companies operate in my country Nigeria and I have never heard that their major complaint centered on valid shipping addresses. The problem exists true,but it is a relatively unimportant one. DHL, FEDEX and other couriers whose principal business is delivery of goods are doing just fine last time I checked.

Purchasing power and disposable income are low across the continent and for those reasons I am personally bearish about the prospects of e-commerce in Africa in the medium term.
That's not a UI I want to use. Besides, MUAs have worse browsing and security characteristics than browsers. For example, by emailing yourself a web page you lose track of the real origin, and besides, your MUA won't have NoScript.
We also, as a society, put a lot of conscious and subconscious pressure on women in particular to have and to want children.

Girls are exposed from a young age to overt and covert suggestions that their value is in their reproductive appeal and reproductive potential. Women who don't have children are constantly questioned about it; treated as "less than"; and perceived as having something wrong with them. Women who don't want children are perceived as subversive. (We put some of these same pressures on men, but it's perceived as "normal" for men not to want children.)

And then the burden of childbearing and childrearing falls more heavily on women than on men.

So it's unsurprising that a lot of women have children and then regret it. What's infuriating is that the same pressures and stupid norms that push women into having children for the wrong reasons are the same ones that prevent them from speaking up about it and warning others once they realize they have.
Dismissing the entire field of economics requires a level of arrogance that can only be explained by gross ignorance. You really need to provide evidence to make this claim otherwise it is bizarre academic partisanship.

Economics at its core is the study of the problem of scarcity and how that is solved. If you think that's equivalent to alchemy but don't explain why, then I have nothing for you.

Additionally, simulation and games are interesting areas that do get studied by economists.
Related to your second question: both Chrome and Firefox are deliberately increasing resolution of performance.now APIs to reduce ease of precision timing attacks.
> I keep asking what views people are so intolerant of. Tend not to get real answers.

I'll give you some real answers. Note the are plenty of exceptions to what I'm about to say, but the views are very commonly held. Also note, in this post generally, and when I say 'Chinese' or 'Chinese community' I'm specifically referring to people who grew up in mainland China and moved to other countries as adults for study/work, not to children of people of Chinese descent who grew up in another country. Anyway, on to the issues:

1) Gay rights/issues - although not likely to be discriminatory to gays they know personally, being gay is generally viewed by the Chinese as a degenerate lifestyle choice and/or mental illness. Not to mention thinking that it spits on the graves of generations of their ancestors (because it has the high potential to end family lines). For a representative and recent (but non US) example, Australia recently held a referendum on whether to legalise gay marriage. The Chinese community was one of the strongest opposing voices to this. There is a common view that general acceptance of the gay community could teach/persuade their children to be gay, which is something none of them want. [0]

2) Trans rights/issues. Take the Chinese community's stance on gay rights/issues and multiply it by 10. That's how they feel on trans issues. Again with a recent Australian example, there is program called 'safe schools' that aims "to create an inclusive and safe environment for their school community, including for LGBTI students, families and teachers". The Chinese community is also vociferously opposed to this, believing (rightly or wrongly) that it is teaching their children to be gay/trans. [1]

3) Traditional gender roles. Chinese are very proud to announce that 'woman hold up half the sky' and that there is equally between men and women. It's a strongly held belief, because they compare things to how they were a hundred years ago when woman had bound feet, couldn't go to school, and weren't allowed outside without a male chaperone, and so yes things are definitely more equal now. Patriarchal Confucianism still has a strong influence on society however and women are generally still expected to do most of the cooking, cleaning and child-rearing in a household (unless the wife is from Shanghai, and then her husband is probably going to be doing all of it), and despite it being illegal for doctors to tell prospective parents the sex of their unborn child, there is still plenty of selective abortion that happens thanks to a cultural preference for males combined with an only recently loosened one child policy. [2]

That's three to start it off - I could go on, but this post is already getting long enough. In short, it's a fair assessment to say that the overseas Chinese community is generally socially conservative (I would also say they are generally fiscally conservative also).

0: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-16/chinese-community-expr...

1: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-23/safe-schools-mp-lodges...

2: http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2119281/...
Sorry, "then problem" should be "the problem", and the "sister comment" is the one about how we (in America, presumably) no longer have "a village" to raise children: parents are mostly on their own for the task.

My point is that folks who have the "get a dog" mentality are supporting the forces that make child rearing increasingly burdensome.
I think the analogy is a bit flawed.

The whole reason they are there is the mental health issue, so denying them because it's not fixed is more like denying a person with cancer any more treatments because they haven't responded well to the first 30 treatments.

A mental health problem is no more "self inflicted" than cancer is.

It doesn't really change your ultimate question though.
Four years after Gamergate, how can this be news to anyone?
Key take-away:

> Once the cryptocurrency price bubble pops and takes all the hype with it, will the community be able to recover the energy it needs to build real, innovative technology once again?
Then those exchanges have no purpose.
Hacker News equivalent for other fields
Is there a hacker-news-esque site for things like art, music or movie or other fields in general?

Reddit has a plenty of subs on these topics, but they seem quite noisey.
An Undented Universe
Parent comment seems to be referring to concepts such as "it is a burden" or "it is a noble sacrifice."
The Swedes also have Frokost at breakfast. The word, via germanic roots, means "early food" (present day German früh = early) and used to denote a meal taken before noon (as made sense when farm workers rose with the sun), but not necessarily the first meal, which would be "morgenmad", or "morning food" in all three languages (and a much simpler meal, as nobody was up to prepare it, as opposed to the later meal). From there, as this meal became more redundant, the word drifted earlier in the day in Norwegian and Swedish to become breakfast, and later in Danish to become lunch.

The large meal taken in the middle of the day was "middagsmad", or "midday food" (still is in the older generations, especially rurally, in Denmark), while "middag" is generally the larger, evening meal today (so, same deal as "dinner" in English).
Are you sure that was Bitcoin's initial goal? Or just speculation from early adopters?

In the actual white paper, Satoshi does not mention any of this, although like you, I do remember these motivations being used very early on. I don't know their origin, but Satoshi simply talks about non reversible transactions, in the context of payments over the Internet.
If you think these are confusing I recommend going to a big Twitch stream and watch the chat. You won't believe what you see.
Uh?

What exchanges?

I've never seen a DOGE to anything.

Right now, BTC is the most popular. ETH is second most popular. I know some exchanges support monero, but those are very limited in what can be converted.
This is why it is so important to have a will and other documents (such as advanced directives) in order, and to make family members aware of all the arrangements.

There are all kinds of sharks in the financial and legal industry that prey on unprepared people.

I and people I know have been screwed by these types, and it always comes down to not having a will. If you don't have a will, you're subjecting those you care for to dealing with these sharks. Don't do that to them.
Well, starting around grade 3 kids in the Philippines are taught primarily in English, so that's probably not the biggest hurdle there.

Thanks for the German link, made my morning :)
remember though, it's "just 1" in the past few years we've had the capability of detecting them.
Roku Transforms from Tech Startup to TV Streaming Powerhouse – Variety
> few people's inventions are really that valuable

The problem is, now you're stepping into quantifying the context on heavily subjective terms. Here's how that goes then:

How valuable have most of the last 15 billion people been on average? How about the bottom 50% of those people in terms of productivity and what they contributed to the betterment (subjective) of humanity or the earth? How valuable, in similar terms, have the bottom 10% of those people been?

And that's why - among dozens of other good reasons - it's entirely unreasonable to judge a person's life in such a manner.
Democracy and federal republic are not mutually exclusive (in modern usage anyway). Far from it - being a federal republic is just one of many variants of democracies.

The USA - like other countries, such as Germany or Mexico - are both a (representative) democracy and a federal republic.
I think countries with cheap labor are lucky. We're in Malaysia, and while maid here is more expensive than in Indonesia, we still can afford a fulltime maid (from Indonesia). We're middle income family, both working.

Of course, there are some horror stories about maid mistreating/abusing the baby, but that's minority.

I work from home, working on my startup, still zero revenue for almost 2 years (giving me stress, _my_ savings almost gone). But it's like blessing in disguise, as I can monitor the maid and give more attention to the kids.

Having baby is very stressful and time consuming (even with maid), I even told all my newly-wed friends, "If you can, don't have kids yet." But I told them it's the best thing I've ever had.
Note that this includes your explanation with the check_function() - that is not part of the exploit. The branches in their assembly are only about dealing with the zeros.

And, to reiterate: any explanation of Meltdown that depends on branches is incorrect. It's not enough to just use the phrase "out-of-order". All of your examples with if-statements need to change.
Weak Intel AMT security lets hackers hijack corporate comps – without code
>The USD is pretty decentralized already

People are insane.

Fiat currency is the definition of centralized currency