skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He really needs to add the various legal risks of the mail hosters country legislation. E.g. there exist multiple rogue countries which force the hoster to install backdoors, wire taps or pen traps without a warrant, and more privacy violations (e.g. minimization). Or to search IMAP messages on the server. Such as the USA, Russia, China, UK and probably many more.

E.g. Conforming to "EU Safe Harbor" needs to be added,
with its 7 basic principles (ignoring the scam, the new "EU-US Privacy Shield" turned out to be).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Priv...
Git operations are not atomic, though. This is a huge implementation flaw, if not design flaw.

I had it several times that my laptop (or a VM) crashed during or short after a git commit, before it was fully written from cache to disk. The reasons vary, sometimes the VM disk was full, or some tests ran parallel to the commit that consumed too much RAM.

This doesn't happen often, but every few months. Meanwhile I "solved" this issue by making sure that the system is never in any form "stressed" while I work with Git.

Whatever the reason: The result is a broken Git repository that is so non-trivial to fix, that it was easier to clone it fresh from server and apply the missing changes again from the left-over local file of the broken repo.
The basic argument is that "big content" don't seem to be pushing it, scared off by the protests against SOPA.

Honestly, I think the clickbait "why" does the article a disservice: it is a more in depth work than the 150 word bullet point with gifs that the "why" advertises.
Dark Star. Same writer as Alien I think. You can see some proto Alien ideas in there.
> If you took JSW off of most websites, it wouldn't be neutering the web it'd be making it better.

Neutering animals is seen as making them better pets, it's still neutering.
The console of today's youth is in the browsers. Any kid can open the developer's console and start typing JavaScript, the results are displayed immediately on the screen. Considering that JavaScript has it's roots in Scheme, it is a good language for kids to experiment on.

For learning lower level constructs maybe Webassembly will help the future generations. The interested kids can also purchase raspberry pi s and dive into a world of low-level programming.
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Have you considered arr[max(i, arr.len)] instead of AND?
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I hate 'sin' taxes in all forms including this one. Tax alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and now sugar. It's meant to control behavior, but they disproportionately affect the poor. They do a poor job of controlling behavior. Any cigarette smoking given the choice between having no lunch or having no cigarettes is going to choose cigarettes every time. That's not controlling behavior it's subverting it.
I believe if you're a serious miner, then you're just as interested in building the most energy efficient system possible [1], that way you will receive the greatest return on your investments. Just like FB, Amazon, Google etc. I would also say the majority of miners buy their own servers, so I don't get your point on that front.

> You must run your systems flat out, all the time, no breaks. Apart from more efficient mining hardware, there's no way to optimize how it mines, it's 100% utilization all the time.

Do you have the same problem with other projects such as SETI@Home and Folding@Home? How about serious gamers or people who watch a really big screen TV all night while on their phone hardly watching it?

I also think that you're making assumptions about these large tech companies by thinking they really do care about energy efficiency as an absolute top priority. While I'm sure it's a consideration, it doesn't mean it always gets the front seat. Remember these companies had time to make this a focus just like new coins are making energy efficiency a priority [2].

Crypto currencies are a new technology and need time to evolve,they will become more efficient in the near future.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/geothermal-gold-why-bitcoin-mines-a...

[2] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bitcoin-alternative...
Well said. I think that applies to any journalist by extension. Little do they know about the difference between analog and digital.
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I think it should be extended again. How else can dead authors and musicians be incentivized into creating new works?
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'll clarify what I meant.

Parents need to learn to back off. It's the one thing this generation of parents (Gen X and older millenials) seem to not have gotten. You can't force your children to be you or to be a version of you who didn't make the mistakes you did.

What I'm about to say might be a little bit too much of internet psychoanalysis, but I see it too often all over the internet as well as from people I know in real life, and I feel like this is a general trend because of that. So, this needs to be said somewhere for the chances at least one person will see it: this sort of thinking in my opinion stems from the parent putting too much of their own sense of self in a child. Specifically, seeing a child as either an extension of their being, and even a "second chance" to do things right from the beginning. The success of a kid or their failure is essentially the parents' since said kid is an extension of themselves. This can lead to the child becoming an instrument of the parents' self-validation.

While a lot of this may be intended with the kindest of intentions, it is unintentionally extremely selfish, and it gets parenting backwards. A child isn't you, and they aren't a chance to fix yourself; they are their own person, and they have an existence apart from you and deserve respect apart from you. The point of parenting isn't to have a smaller version of yourself, it is to cultivate an individual who has their own self-agency and own right to self-determination. Of course, in this process, that person will no doubt emulate many parts of you...but that process will be natural. It should not be the focus of your parenting and it shouldn't be forced.

Once a parent realizes this, then a lot of these things that keep them up at night won't turn out to be as terrible as they seem, mobiles, drugs, bad boyfriends/girlfriends, art school, you name it. Sure, you want to take care of your child, make sure they sleep, eat, get a great education, and may be not do too many drugs. But the person I was replying to was fretting that, god forbid, a child be more distracted by a phone like x or y person they know was distracted by games, and not become z person they should be. It's so ironic, because so many distractions have existed for decades, but you've turned out fine. Why not let your child discover for themselves what turns them on, despite the distractions and all? Why do you know who they should be? (hint: it might have a lot to do with who you should be (or are), not what the kid should be).

The entire thing about play is that it is play and adults aren't there to supervise. Parents need to learn their place and let kids fail a little and get hurt a little bit. It's part of growing up. And for the parents, understanding this will hopefully get them to realize you won't "fix yourself" by "fixing" your kids instead of looking inward.
You completely misunderstood me.

iOS, Android and UWP sandboxes for native apps are always enabled, there isn't any configuration for naive user available.

You just allow or not the access to specific actions and that's it.

On UWP you cannot even access files directly, the user has to select them for your application.

You can only change the way sandboxes behave via developer settings, but that is only in the context of debugging, which naive users will never do anyway.
‘Strange Days’ is a great movie that I feel captures some of the Sci-Fi zeitgeist around the millennium, the burgeoning internet, and a bit of cyberpunk. The subject matter is rather dark and disturbing, which I believe has led it to be rather obscure. But it makes a powerful and prescient statement about how tech empowers and dehumanizes us, porn, addiction, exploitation, and fandom. It’s an incredibly powerful statement that is quite relevant.
Do you have easy material for me to understand how quantum computing enables that kind of things?
And does it use clasic numerical method computing or using different kind of mathematical approach?
Actually I'm not sure whether my question makes sense or not
I noticed that there seemed to be a lack of detail about other factor that may have affected the price. Are the properties being sold at the same time of year? As you say selling in such a short time period may be indicative of buying, some simple rejuvenation and selling again.
Yes, I think this is precisely the idea.

Anecdotally, 99% of the complaints I read WRT Go can be solved by using libraries that already exist. If one wants a batteries-included-in-the-stdlib form of facility, one should look at languages like Python.
It blows my mind that a mental ill person is ending up homeless like this. Society should take care of theses cases.
And along the same lines, Logan’s run which spawned a TV series.

And while we’re on 70’s TV sci-fi also; The Fantastic Journey, Battlestar Galactica.
Were you there when XHTML 2 was born and died a slow death? The Semantic Web died with the rise of search engines. Not that the well-formed, validated markup we had back then was generally even remotely semantic. Heck, even Google wasn't able to save semantic markup.

XHTML wouldn't have fixed anything. To make XHTML work on the web, browsers would have needed to make so many compromises we'd just have ended up with something even worse and less specified than HTML is now. HTML5 won because it codified all the compromises browser vendors had to make to deal with broken, real-world markup.

Sure, there are HATEOAS implementations that use HTML as a data format but the semantics of HTML are so generic and insufficient that all you're really gaining is being able to use an HTML parser instead of something easier to implement and more widely supported, like JSON.

Let me repeat that point: HTML semantics are insufficient and too generic. That is why microformats were a thing and embedded metadata was standardised in HTML5. So you can bolt on your custom semantics in a standardised fashion if you really want people to parse your markup.

HTML semantics are only sufficient to describe the structure of a document. And even that they don't do very well right now (just ask anyone who takes accessibility seriously and knows the WHATWG and W3C HTML specs).
Is that still the case with newer ETOPS limits, e.g. ETOPS-370?
Disable the option "Check if sites comply with EFF's Do Not Track policy" in Privacy Badger's settings, that should do it.

I'm on Firefox 57, also using uBlock Origin with every tracking-related filter list (I presume that may make a difference).
At least in the US, the DSMV is used to define "serious mental issues" while everywhere "art" is completely subjective.

I don't disagree with the premise of very creative people having very different though processes from the majority. There is a very fine line between genius and insanity.
I know he's perhaps not mentally stable, but after all. He has problems and he does some amazing things.

Perhaps consider donating on top of his page: http://www.templeos.org/ ( paypal).
Same here (with noscript as well). Although I'll say it's hard to blame web developers for not considering the case where JS is disabled beyond a simple "you need Javascript to see this page" message (though even that tends to be the exception, not the rule), because noscript/umatrix users are probably in the low, low minority.
- Clockwork Orange
- Dr. Strangelove (brilliant!)
- Strange Days
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (version from 1951!)
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Equilibrium
- Arrival
- District 9
- Chappie
- Predestination (i recommend to read Heinleins novel first)
I'm finding it hard to escape the suspicion that Spectre and (to a lesser extent) Meltdown is another failure of expertise on the same rough scale as the run-up to the financial crisis, the decades of bad or poorly-justified dietary advice, and the statistical problems in experimental psychology. On the face of it, it seems obvious that speculation + cache + protected mode was a combination likely ripe for exploitation, but the response seems to have been "nah, it'll be fine, probably"? And even if it for some reason wasn't obvious, it's now clear that it actually was the case. So the academic and industrial and bad-boy "security community" collectively more or less let the CPU manufacturers take a flyer on this for, what, a decade?
In the same spirit of my above comment, I think you're conflating the terms simple and easy.
http://www.templeos.org/ on top of the page is a donate button :) ( not affliated or any way. I just feel bad for him)
Zebra is a great metaphor for the type of companies investors should be funding. What we continue to forget is that technology is supported to help build better societies and communities, and not the other way around, where we continue to get more dependent on it (even addicted to it).
Look everywhere people are checking every 5 minutes to see what's on social media. People are more than happy to see and contribute on videos of cats and other meaningless junk, but not on meaningful literature.
Having read the tech reports myself, the interviewee on the Bloomberg report seemed to be most sensible talking head I've yet seen in the media. While most of the press are shouting that we're all pwned and it's Intel's fault or Apple's fault, or whoever, I'm of the opinion that this is one seriously difficult bug to exploit.

The speculative branch predication vulnerability seems to basically depend on finding a specific instruction sequence in the target code and then going to some extraordinary lengths to exploit it via a highly convoluted side-channel.

My first thought when I started to appreciate the technical details were that this was a Bletchley Park level of exploit, or "nation state" as the man in the interview said. And whilst it's completely possible that the exploit could be packaged up for script kiddies, it seems to me unlikely that someone with the necessary skills would do that, because the return would be too low. But states spying on each other: that seems a much more likely scenario for this.
> the difference between the high altitude person and you would be too small to matter if you weren't a mountain climbers or professional athlete.

I just said that it matters for sea-level people who have to perform physical tasks in La Paz, a populous city, nonetheless. I gave Messi's example because that was the easiest one, but I could have given an example of a Bolivian guy moving to La Paz from the country's planes area and trying to find a job physically carrying stuff in a warehouse. His rate of work would be much diminished compared to a guy born and raised in La Paz, so, presumably, his pay would also be lower. It matters because it shows that our bodies have changed and are indeed different based on certain geographical circumstances, but because some crazy guys in the late 19th-early 20th century have decided to kill millions of people based on some other differences that means that it has become tabu to discuss about this.
Static img elements with built-in surveillance and tracking, unblockable and intransparent, on a browser level? You have to be kidding.

The ad-based web economy had produced the current publishing dystopia in the first place and prevents the development of a sane business model.
Then just simplify the game's 3D scenes?

Also, this seems an inaccurate claim: e.g. a single $449 GTX 1070 Ti can do at least 50fps at 4K maximum quality in all tested games in https://www.anandtech.com/show/11987/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-...

This means that for 1000$ a dual 1070 Ti workstation should be able to do 4K 120hz just fine in all games, perhaps slightly lowering presets on GTA V.

Of course this being cutting edge graphics a quad GPU setup is more reasonable which would allow 4K per eye at 120hz max quality, possibly even more with tweaked settings.
They aren't going to push until the very last moment. You can be sure they are greasing the skids though. That mouse will NOT become public property.
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Not necessarily sure it's the sort of thing HNers will like, but I have a bit of an obsession with Hardware (1990). It's strange, trippy, violent and lots of fun.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16094349
that's what risk/reward ratio means. no scams = 2%. high scam potential means 20000%. every investor (should) knows that
TDD should give you the simplest solution conforming to your spec (your tests). So it's all the necessary complexity without any unnecessary complexity to fulfill your testsuite, and ease of refactoring in case you need to change something more fundamental about your code.

At some point you need to specify which edge cases you need.
Installs that involve new constuction are always tricky to be honest - there are a lot of moving parts and getting access can be tricky.

The real problem with VM is their massive overselling problem. It is on a UBR by UBR basis, some UBRs are totally fine and have enough capacity but some are chronically overloaded. I am luckily enough to be on Hyperoptic now but before it was a complete cointoss whether at peak times the 150meg or whatever would go to 1-2mbit/sec with massive ping and jitter making anything interactive (even SSH) impossible.

At one point they had 300mbit/sec of downstream capacity and 50mbit/sec of upstream capacity for 100s if not 1000s of users (who could be provisioned at 150mbit/sec). So two users could knock out the entire UBR.

I believe DOCSIS 3.1 will resolve this somewhat as it will allow far more capacity, but really VM needs to look at much more aggressive UBR segmentation which is expensive. Or switch entirely to FTTx (which they are doing for some new builds using GPON), but again, very expensive and many users won't notice/pay more for the additional quality.

OTOH BT FTTx is super reliable in my experience, with no contention issues at all (they have at most 288 users on 10gigE backhaul). I would much prefer a 80/20 BT line vs 300/10 on VM simply for the reliability of speeds.
> the NZ govt. forcibly separated our telecom monopoly provider into a retail and a wholesale company, then they put a whole bunch of money up for competitive tender to build a national fibre network

Isn’t that effectively what happened with BT and Openreach? In a large town or city you are usually ok, but any further out you have a lack of choice and pretty poor (for 2018) speeds.
TeaVM allows any Java application to be ported into WebAssembly, be it an applet or not.

As3-WebAssembly is a compiler for porting Action Script 3, Flash's programming language, into WebAssembly. Already integrated into Flash Develop.

Microsoft and Xamarin efforts to port Mono into WebAssembly, will allow making Silverlight apps again.

You are free to believe this won't turn out into anything, I rather think we will end up in WebAssembly + Canvas/WebGL in a couple of years.
I really like the Man From Earth. Terrible acting but good story
Seconded. The end is quite mind-bending.
Some favourable impressions of the new lenses here: https://www.gamecrate.com/hands-on-vive-pro-and-wireless-ada...
What’s so disruptive about Docker technology?
Not true. Lightning is being implemented and now you can make small quick payments with very low fees.

Bitcoin is still in the early stages, many 2nd layer solutions are to be implemented.
I wondered if Laura Dern's role in The Last Jedi was a bit of a nod to her dad's role in Silent Running.
In a uni course a while back they did define complex as something that can't be understood, and complicated as something that is understandable but hard.

So I agree with the above poster that the PEP makes no sense here.
Headline hyperbole. Applications of high end CPU suffer. That AVR-equipped light bulb doesn’t, nor do voltage regulators or DRAMs (though they could suffer if fewer devices are built...which won’t happen)
I found Arrival great, until the second part, where things stopped making sense. That part felt badly written. The ending was a let down because of that.
I am not an expert in these matters in any way, but most vulnerabilities appear fairly difficult to exploit to me (as an application developer).

Isn't it usually the case that someone scripts (difficult parts of) the process and then it is a lot easier to exploit?
I.e. yet another place, where the just-world fallacy sneaked in.
So you want to ban them from banning stuff? What's wrong with local citizens deciding what they want for their own city, anyway?

The new Tesla you have to use the touch screen to even open the glove box! Even the AC is touch screen based - which I think is unsafe compared to a tactile physical knob.

I fully agree, but that has nothing to do with being an electric car. The Chevy Bolt has a regular knob for AC control, for example: http://st.automobilemag.com/uploads/sites/11/2017/03/Chevrol...
He won't. He's protected by a trademark, I believe.
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I don't agree. BT have got to 95% 'superfast' (24mbit+ sec) coverage, with minimal govt funding. It will probably get to 98% coverage.

Try switching from Virgin to BT/openreach FTTx and you'll probably see much more reliable speeds.

FWIW I have hyperoptic in London which is ~£45/month for 1gigabit up and down.

edit: keep in mind the NZ project cost NZ$1.5bn subsidy to get to 87% penetration for ~1million premises. The UK has got to 95%+ penetration (>20million premises) for £600m ish subsidy. It's literally 20x the cost.
the wikipedia page for early world maps is worth a look, it shows how they improved over the years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps

I was struck by how much more accurate the linked one is than the c1300 mappa mundi, which lives in my home town.
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What does this mean in reality... You could make derivative works of the original Mickey Mouse free from copyright infringement? Would copyright still be in place for subsequent Mickey Mouse productions?
As mentioned in the post:

> the main goal is to keep Bazaar usable going forward.

If you don't need to run Bazaar, you don't need to use Breezy, and it has no real use for you.
These taxes currently only drive purchases out of your jurisdiction, lowering your tax base but not preventing the bad behavior. If you want a sugar tax to be effective it needs to cover a large enough area that I can't easily avoid it.

Boulder, CO has a two cent per ounce sugar tax. It has been extremely effective- I now always stop at a gas station in Denver to buy a soda before driving into the Boulder city limits (I only go to Boulder once or twice a month).

It's just like how we used to drive across state lines to buy cheap fireworks as a kid.
Whan you think of it, mapping is an art of representing regions not important enough. To highlight important places, graphs do much better job.
Soft drinks are very refined sugar. Quite different from natural.

Also implying natural is better.
Isn’t one of the central tenets of federalism that everything should be done by the smallest government that can do it effectively? If something is done at the municipal level, it is almost definitely more democratic than if it is done at the federal level. If someone doesn’t like Seattle’s sugar tax, they can make their voice heard in city council elections, or vote with their feet, move to the suburbs, and commute into the city.

Presumably the people of Seattle are down with the tax. Who are you to say they shouldn’t have it. It’s their city, after all.
and yet it apparently works with sugar, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/22/mexico-sugar...