skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that contextual ads are only more profitable on specialized niche sites.
I lost countless hours in Amiga 500 meetings with a couple of friends back in the day, with them doing ProTracker sessions.

And the joy of reading electronic magazines (diskmag) like Hugi.
Most people who are passionate enough about something to receive these fellowships will take the opportunity to pursue their passion.

I had a Shuttleworth Fellowship for 2 years which is very similar to the MacArthur Genius grant. They are both often enough to not worry about having to work a job to pay your bills and feed your family. (The Shuttleworth fellowship includes enough to pay for legal, financial, travel, contractors, etc)

I worked harder during my fellowship than I can recall otherwise. I knew it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and that I only had a finite amount of time to do something great.

I wrote about my experience as a fellow here.

http://jaisenmathai.com/articles/shuttleworth/
Learn to Code Ethereum DApps by Building Your Own Game
I'm tempted to go through this carefully given that affine transformations tagged with cost functions are used in MR image registration/normalization all the time.
> AFAIK they all share the same brand name BSD and they are all closely affiliated.

This is a gross falsehood.

They all variously diverged from a parent project, called BSD, in the 90s. Since then they are wholly independent. Because of the common license and heritage, code sharing is often easy and legally unrestricted. But their leaders, policies, and philosophies are very distinct.
If you are approaching a merge with a vehicle ahead of you, the safest thing to do is keep full attention on that vehicle.

If there is a merge lane, you'll have time to change lanes after you've merged.

If there is no merge lane, it's more likely that the vehicle ahead will suddenly stop, and therefore even more important to keep full attention on it.

Drivers often try simultaneously to monitor the vehicle ahead of them, and plan their merge. As you found, it's impossible for a human to do both safely; we can't look in wildly divergent directions at once. So, a person has to prioritize in that situation and the priority has to be 1) the vehicle ahead of you, which might stop, then 2) plan and execute your merge.
Really? I've driven through much of Europe, and I've never seen a 4/all-way stop junction.

Edit: That came across as if I was simply trying to dispute your statement, but I am genuinely curious to see an example of this in Germany.
I was hoping it was a replacement for Unicode... Unicode is so broken that we need something new.
I'm little afraid of all the CryptoKitties clonies that this will cause to come into existence, but it's pretty easy to spot the low effort cash grab ponzies and to see that CryptoKitties itself has a ton of thought and effort (and talent/money) behind it [I'm obsessed, feel free to ask me all your CK questions, like "why did you use all your Ether buying pictures of cats instead of a used car?].

Anyway, this is incredible.
It's still out there. To be clear, virtually no chips before Week 25 pass the segfault test, a large number of chips afterwards pass the segfault test. AMD clearly either upped their production standards or is binning out the worst chips. But there is still a baseline of chips failing.

Some reported instances:

https://community.amd.com/thread/215773?start=1635&tstart=0 (user jcoiner, 1726PGT)

https://community.amd.com/thread/215773?start=1725&tstart=0 (user scorpio810, 2x 1728SUS)

https://community.amd.com/thread/215773?start=1770&tstart=0 (user ryzlin, 1733PGT)

https://community.amd.com/thread/215773?start=1785&tstart=0 (user flyinryzen1700, 1737SUS)

https://community.amd.com/thread/215773?start=1830&tstart=0 (user skimba 1725PGT, user xtronom 1728PGT)

https://community.amd.com/thread/215773?start=1860&tstart=0 (user jc_yang, 1742SUS)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/76q7ne/got_a_defective... (user grosbof 1733SUS)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/7ar15o/psa_amazon_is_s... (user triplesal, 1733PGS)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/7ar15o/psa_amazon_is_s... (user istockporno, 1726PGT)

Presumably this is something that will be fixed in the Zen+ stepping/Pinnacle Ridge (Ryzen 2 - not to be confused with Zen2, which will release in 2019?, likely as the Ryzen 3 series).

But for the meantime, be aware that you are absolutely buying silicon with known issues and that you should test it and RMA if necessary, and that there is fixed silicon coming within a couple months here that will probably run significantly faster due to process improvements.
Well, one problem with HSS used to be that it reduced the effective power/range of the flash gun.

The strobe has spread the energy stored in its capacitors across a series of small flashes instead of one large one.

Has that been solved now for small strobes (flash guns)?

By using a leaf shutter and a real high sync speed an X100 can use a tiny on-axis fill to do the work of a larger pulsing HSS system.
Then democratically-decided property law is new too.
She probably should, with all the viruses, spyware and tracking. The internet is nowadays very user-hostile, in part because of the toxic behavior of the ads industry.

Still, there continue to exist gratis, ad-free services. If you want to avoid that your mom is taken advantage of, point her to those.
I would also recommend installing an ad-blocker, but let's be honest, she already has one, doesn't she?
AMD is affected by Spectre (variants 1 and 2) but not Meltdown (variant 3). This is consistent with the project zero bug.
This is like the Apple iPhone of solar panel solutions. It looks better than regular solar panels, so those who can afford them, will get them.
Richard Stallman made good use of his $240,000 grant when he used it to fund the Free Software Foundation.
Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD BDFL) does not represent FreeBSD in any way. FreeBSD's policy is to work with embargoes.
> Besides which, when is turning abundance into scarcity a good thing?

To limit the illegal reproduction of information goods (movies, TV shows, ebooks) which have zero marginal costs. This is why DRM was invented -- to offer control to copyright holders by creating the illusion of scarcity of information goods which are costly to produce but can be reproduced by anyone at zero cost.
Seeing as you're associated with HN that can hardly be an objective claim.
PSequel: PostgreSQL GUI Tool for MacOS
I just checked and found that I did receive coins way back then, haven't dealt with cryptocurrency but did some research and this is the process I went through (can't guarantee it's the best/easiest/cheapest, but it worked):

- Recover account using recovery code from Stellar email

- Convert Stellar into Lumens (it will do this automatically when you log in)

- Create account on Binance, and use Stellar site to log into wallet and transfer to Binance

- Trade Lumens for Bitcoin on Binance (took a couple of tries of playing with sell price for them to sell, watch the price coins are trading for to get an idea of a good price point)

- Sign up for LocalBitcoins.com and transfer Bitcoins from Binance to LocalBitcoins wallet

- Find someone willing to buy Bitcoins for a decent price in your country who will pay via your preferred method (NZD into bank account for me)

- Use LocalBitcoins.com to sell to them, it places them into escrow and you release the coins once the money is in your account
If you want to be part of the Ripple network you have to trust Ripple's set of trusted validators. MySQL is open source, but that doesn't make a given MySQL server decentralized. Ripple in this case is that MySQL server.
Even more still:

* https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/01/09/... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16107777)
To be honest, Twitter seems like exactly the kind of company that this advice was made for. It had a neat idea that could have been made them a steady profit as a small to medium sized company, but took on billions of dollars in funding, hired thousands of employees and hired a bunch of scientists and high end engineers for a project that arguably didn't need most of that stuff to begin with.

Hence what could have been a decent company making a cool few million a year is instead one making huge losses on the assumption it's the next Facebook.
What can we do that would cost ad companies billions?
Do we get points for speculation based on these hints?

My guess would be that some major public CDN (Cloudflare etc) will let the attacker deploy their TLS-SNI challenge certs, and thus validate for other victim domains using the same CDN service.

EDIT: Main reasoning being that I can't think why it wouldn't work - apart from the TLS-SNI challenge certs somehow being considered invalid by the CDN provider and refusing to deploy them, but I find it hard to trust that happening with 100% certainty.
Benchmarking .NET Core SIMD Performance vs. Intel ISPC
CPUs have code that runs code, essentially. Think of a modern CPU as like a collection of micro-controllers. You have micro-controllers which reads a stream of machine code instructions for a particular instruction set (e.g. x86-64) translates that code into "micro-ops" (RISC-like fine grained instructions) that are then re-ordered and so forth and fired off into the CPU core(s) proper. That whole process relies on a ton of code that exists as essentially "firmware" (microcode) within the processor. Things like translation tables for architecture level instructions (x86-64) to micro-ops as well as code for the scheduler, the branch predictor, and various other micro-architectural parts of the CPU.

Some of these elements are hardwired into the silicon, some are controlled via decode tables, and some are controlled via flags and perhaps even instructions running on different components of the CPU, all of that together is grouped under the heading "microcode". A modern CPU is not infinitely programmable because a lot of functionality is hardwired (for example, what each micro-op does) but there's still a great deal of flexibility in how things work (such as exactly how the branch predictor and scheduler work, the translation of instructions to micro-ops, etc.)
I'd prefer this too, and I'd buy from companies like this every time if I actually knew they were there.
Real-world garbage collection with LLVM
Blockchain should not be a thing in a start up pitch. If you truly get the tech and have a sound solution it’s not a way to make money. It’s a means to disintermediate and that includes the person building it.
When a user does a search, clicks on a result, that result does not have what they want so they hit back, and then they click on another result that is a failure of the search engine. "Users can decide the site is worthless after they click" is an opportunity for somebody to come up with a better system.
In other words: the innocent victims of bad driving should just be more careful...

Your comment does bring up something interesting. These days, due to sharply sloped front windows (aerodynamic efficiency) and smoked glass rear windows (where allowed) it is almost impossible to even see a driver of an approaching car, much less make eye contact with them. A unintended consequence of what might seem to be two unrelated things.
The left's history with such a social norm, voluntary co-ownership is ... sordid. Just read up on how leftist parties treated Israeli Kibbutzim, for example.

People abandoned them, first in small numbers, and then of course the left no longer wanted anything to do with them, and they started getting sabotaged by (leftist) governments ...

And of course, now half of them are referred to as those settlers. It's not the same thing of course, but because of land prices they pretty much have to be, unless they're "historical".

TLDR: most of the existing ones failed and because of that everybody hates the new ones.

Let's not go there. Let's just skip it this time around, ok ?
Congratulations on choosing to develop a native application.
Intel's paper outlines a roadmap for future work.

* https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16079910)
Because death is an acceptable trade-off for avoiding irritation - as long as it's not your death, of course.
At least when I was in the States a few month ago, the bags I got at the grocery store where of really terrible quality (this was at Publix). They barely made from the store to my apartment without falling apart. Reusing them was completely out of the question. Most bags you get in most places I've been in Europe are much sturdier and can easily be reused a dozen times.
Good intentions?

Strip away the blue sky projects and the stuff they do for optics/PR, and you’re left with a machine that is designed to collect deeply personal insights about every economic participant on Earth and use that intelligence to make money.

Google’s road to hell was paved with deceit.
iCloud data is e2e encrypted. Apple can't tell what tabs you have open.
Going on the thought that interaction aids learning, I recently put together a very crude interactive jsfiddle to help visualize 2-d matrix transforms here: https://jsfiddle.net/holoopooj/31yt1ytp/6/
You click and drag in the left graph area and see the transformed vector on the right. The matrix values can be changed at the top. I've only tested in chrome on desktop. You may have to vertically expand the lower right pane to see all of the drawing area.
A rather pessimistic view of the industry, but I relate to his frustration with some of the annoyances he discusses. As a semi-new developer, I've found coding etiquette, or "clean code", to mean a variety of things from different people, each of whom as certain as the next person that their way is the right way.

My question has become: "How do I get to that level of code-confidence, where I'm objectively certain of something somewhat discreetly subjective?"

Sometimes I feel like my personality lacks the pretentiousness required to be a great developer. How can anybody act like a know-it-all in an industry a million libraries of books couldn't cover in full? One that is still changing every day?

Of course, there are reasonable rules that should be followed, but maybe the less obvious or even important ones should be more prevalently established and reemphasized to avoid confusion when it may occur.

Here is a personal example: A company's I interviewed for had me do a coding challenge which is usually my strong suit in the interview process. They emailed me afterward, saying that my code was not quite on par with what they were looking for. This confused me because the functions worked perfectly, the results were in the format they were asking for, and I left comments throughout to explain my approach. Still, I understand and I am always willing to learn from mistakes; however, I asked for feedback (via email) and never received a response, so I had/have no way to know what needs to be improved and why.
Look at what they have in Berkeley. It addresses exactly this situation
With the incessant lobbying you've done in this thread I think it's fair to ask the advertising industry for some donations which you could then use for your other big passion, offering poor people access to information.

Yes, it's true that they already have that through national television, cheap newspapers, book exchanges and donations, but if you want something done right, you need to do it yourself.
Or perhaps now is not a particularly good time to introduce some random personal vendetta-point into a discussion of a wholly unrelated subject.
Then of course, there's the ~7.4 billion other people on Earth who never even heard of a plastic bag tax so their habits won't change either.

Actually a plastic bag charge or even ban becoming the norm in more and more parts of the world. If anything the US is late to this game.
I just read the details of the tls-sni-01 challenge again.

I can certainly see a problem. With respect to the final validation stage, where the validator is communicating with the TLS endpoint, all the information needed to satisfy the validator is presented IN the SNI request data.

It looks like anyone could request a tls-sni-01 validation with any account key, for a host that they new would resolve to a TLS server infrastructure with a certain behavior and in turn be able to get the certificate issued.

The qualifying behavior would be a TLS server infrastructure which has some sort of opportunistic generation of a self-sign certificate for an unrecognized SNI name, such that the just-in-time minted certificate would have a single SAN dnsName being that exact value requested in the SNI. Unlike the other challenges where the final validating query from the VA does NOT contain the "answer" needed, it would appear that the in the final pass of the TLS-SNI-01 protocol exchange, the final "answer" is indeed in the request.

You know, I'm trying to recall the details, but I'm pretty sure I came across a consumer router platform once that, until and unless administratively configured with a certificate, would keep opportunistically recreating certificates to match the SNI name. This was to make the only validation failure be "signed by an untrusted..." instead of "name mismatch", etc, etc.... I wonder if a critical mass of things like that has arisen?
Would love to hear more about Terraflow! Drop me a line at jose at gethooksapp.com :)
I suppose George Dantzig is the ultimate example of such an episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig
"When was the last time you heard of a VC that wanted good dividends from their portfolio companies?"

Indie.vc (Bryce Roberts)
As long as we're tossing hats into the ring...

I don't think so - _maybe_ a MITM that would affect all TLS-SNI, but I don't think the model you propose exists (I'm a bit dated on that tho), and if it did, I think it would be 'wider' than the CDN's.

"It's an interaction between the protocol and provider services" -- I will wager it's that some providers don't validate the CA or RootCA authentication method/mechinism, and so would accept a SHA1 or MD5 where a SHA256 or ROT13 would be preferred. (Think JWK/JWS 'null' issues)

I assume standard rules apply - one internet point to the winner, in the event of a draw, fisticuffs at dawn facing opposite coasts until we're both bored with it?
>Lack of time travel as well.

Looks like this has been solved: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/sheriff...
I feel a lot of commenters are simply focusing on what signs can do or what sort of junction to build, rather than focus on the fact that on high speed primary country roads, bicycles shouldn't be sharing the road with the cars.

In Denmark, a lot of high speed roads (excluding motorways, of course) out in the country have separate dual-way bicycle lanes near it but not attached to it. (Example: https://i.imgur.com/dS6jqXS.jpg)

That way, the cyclists can cross the side roads on their own accord, where they are more visible and have their own junction with the side road. Additional, one can set up a traffic light that only turns red for the cars when a cyclist is crossing (i.e. activated by a button).

Furthermore, one might consider signage that warns drivers about cyclists in the junction: https://i.imgur.com/CX6SJdW.jpg

Also, a way to reduce speed of the motorists without putting in stop signs would be to add chicanes just before the junction, so they are forced to slow down.

Plus, as I've mentioned before (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977162), I also think it is because UK drivers don't really have enough training with how to deal with bicycles and the fact that they are also participants on the road.
The online mob doesn't really have the resources to get publicity to more than a few things at a time, so although some people will always be hit, most will be safe. I'm not saying that mob censorship is harmless, just that it doesn't reach the scale of governments, who have actual boots on the ground.

The Streisand effect happens when you try to make people shut up about something but don't actually have the power to make them shut up. So of course they'll just talk about that unsuccessful attempt, after all there's no downside. House arrest/public humiliation/bullet through the head? Try talking about that in any way critical of the censors and you could be next. That won't actually inhibit "dangerous" ideas, of course, but it's pretty effective at making everyone stop talking about them.
Do what i do, when my android phone constantly flashes a light & sound notification after finnishing loading the battery- call your software representetive.

It really helps against insomnia, if you wake some poor android developer halft the world away in the middle of the night to suffer with you - for his implementation of planned obsolence.

Two souls united in burning hatred.
Snow in the Sahara
No, reinventing the AS/400.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16053518
One wonders why /dev/mem was ever read restricted to start.
HP is doing horribly compared to the 80's and 90's.

SUN sadly has kicked the bucket and his picture is on the table with the punchbowl.
Picturing the Literary History of Word Processing
I'm guessing you have FiOS and/or at least one other wireline broadband provider in your area.

Comcast is ludicrously expensive in my neighborhood where they are the sole broadband option. It's so bad the city council is looking seriously at muni fiber.
All ascribe does is add a time stamp to an image, really not that useful except for those with a naive understanding of copyright.
There are a lot of situations where a two way stop would cause traffic to get backed up in the direction of the stop sign.

A great example is a 4 way stop at my former high school. Twice a day, everyone came and left causing a bit of a traffic jam. A two way stop would leave people in one direction waiting indefinitely, whereas a 4 way kept things chugging along rather nicely in both directions.
I just feel like Silicon Valley and other cities like LA and Seattle are out of touch with the rest of America

I thought that was one of the cool features of the US. That cities and states are much more free to come up with their own way to do things and test out new ideas without always having to go the federal government and ask for permission. If Seattle wants to do A and Minneapolis wants to do B, they can just go and do it and see what happens instead of lobbying the government to make either A or B mandatory across the whole country.
http://archive.is/qaoXy
We have at least one in Sweden, https://goo.gl/maps/kYZpAcQnD3n, it also has the sign subtext "flervägsstopp" /"multi-road-stop".
Ahh someone spots the emperor is naked!
Yeah, any system like this has to deal with the analog hole somehow, and there really are no perfect solutions. Reminds me of the post the other day about a white noise video on Youtube getting a bunch of copyright infringement notices. You can take a signal out of the analog, but you can't take the analog out of a signal!
The shutdown of tls-sni-01 doesn't affect the http-01 challenge, so the workaround is to switch your code over to the latter if this is affecting you.

We're using Greenlock (https://github.com/Daplie/node-greenlock, previously node-letsencrypt via npm) for our app (https://Clearalias.com) and this library supports switching challenges fairly easily. It's even easier if you're just using an Express server, since you can use a Node library like Greenlock-express (https://github.com/Daplie/greenlock-express, previously known as letsencrypt-express), which makes it dead simple to use http-01.

Best of luck to anyone who's scrambling to fix their cert layer right now. It seems like there's a chance the TLS-SNI challenge stays disabled, so it's best not to hold your breath and instead quickly switch to a different challenge mode if you get a chance.