skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Advertising technology firm Criteo, one of the largest in the industry, says that the Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) feature for Safari, which holds 15% of the global browser market, is likely to cut its 2018 revenue by more than a fifth compared to projections made before ITP was announced."

Wow! A feature which doesn't block ads, in 15% of the browsers, is going to cut over 20% of this poor company's revenue.
Microsoft: Haswell and older CPUs are slowed down significantly by Spectre fixes
>With this design, no longer would it be reasonably possible for any driver to simply blow through the junction. Drivers would have to come almost to a stop.

just put a good bump there, or a couple.
The article describes that the cyclists don't see the car either because it is coming up on them from behind (at a 94 degree angle, with higher speed).

You can't know you haven't made eye contact if you don't know they are there.
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Preloading website content is not what I want for my phone. I have a very low datacap and I go out of my way to disable AMP and preloading because web publishers believe that my bandwidth can be used freely by them in an effort to "reduce latency". Instead it robs me of the little data I have for my cap.
It works great, but the latest version is almost a year old :(
Have a look at http://http://www.dancingbots.com which visualizes Orderbook positions. Most of the action (95%?) close to current price looks like positions from bots.

Compare the orderbooks of exchanges which have no fees for maker orders (like gdax, bitfinex) and are preferred by bots to those exchanges who do ask for a fee.
> And it's generally viewed as bad form for me to express such thoughts. And I don't understand that either.

What thoughts are you referencing here?
Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Mendelssohn, Brahms etc. probably didn't send each other DMCA takedown demands though.
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On the subject of interviews I don't think you can learn anything from an individual rejection, you are much better off just moving on. It's quite possible or even likely they won't tell you the real reason you were rejected. Companies reject good candidates all the time and they know that.
You have the causality backwards. Places with a high risk of robbery tend to install security measures such as cameras. This doesn't eliminate robberies, but it does reduce them.
Road Junctions don't kill people, people kill people.
At least 4-way stops have the same basic rules throughout the US (cars go in order of arrival).

2-way stops do not:

Consider the case where the first car to arrive is turning left, but cannot do so due to traffic on the main road. Then a car arrives from the opposite direction going straight. Who is supposed to go first? In some states it's the car that reached the stop sign first, in others it's the car going straight.
I got into SVC / code repositories after the whole sourceforge serves malware debacle, so I'm not familiar with SF from a developer perspective.

Is it a got repo? Mercurial? Something else completely?
Because there's no substantive basis for it, it's merely using someone's death for a cheap hit of excitement. There's nothing politically serious about that—it's just adolescent, and frankly a litmus test of low-quality commenters.

Because of that and the other slop that has been posted here, I haven't been this ashamed of an HN thread in quite a while. It pains me that HN would be an example of how low the internet sinks when someone dies.

Edit: tptacek said it better than I did btw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16110384
Microcode doesn't control everything the CPU hardware does
Build cars with the driver seat on the left then.
All this discussion over an obvious flaw which removed would solve the problem.
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Property-based testing (with a sprinkle of JavaScript)
Nothing compared to duck pain in France.
It was even weirder than that. He believed he could gain an edge on bitcoin mining by simulating a quantum computer with a conventional computer.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/buterins-quantum-quest/
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Very reliable. There was/is a lot of dedicated funding for this issue and so we have dedicated satellite instruments and people working on them. Ozone is comparatively easy to measure due to its super strong and clear absorption coefficient. Stratospheric changes are both slow and on larger spatial scales, making satellite resolution perfectly sufficient.
Your partner is really key, if you are both thinking off the same page then it makes a huge difference.
I have trouble believing that the common scientific consensus was that only terrestrial vertebrates feel pain. Isn't pain an essential evolutionary survival mechanism? Probably is one of the first feeling evolution produced along with pleasure (for eating and sex).
>In California almost no one comes to a complete stop. (That's probably why rolling through a stop sign is called a "California Roll").

It probably depends on where in CA. Have been living in Bay Area, mid-Peninsula, for 18 years and i've so far seen most people (and myself included) do complete stops. And just recently saw police stopped and cited a cyclist for the "California Roll" in Los Altos.
It happens the other way around too; I had a bicyclist roll through a 2-way where I had no stop and almost cause a collision. They yelled at me, probably thinking it was a 4-way.

It might be my imagination, but I seem to recall nearly all, if not all, 4-ways marked as such with a small rectangular placard below the stop sign in Virginia. I've seen them sometimes in California, but not even at the majority (not really any more common than the opposite sign "Cross traffic does not stop").
Oh indeed, but seeing as we work on HN every day, we're more steeped in the data than anyone else is, and to us this is a pretty obvious observation. I'm saying 'we' because I'm sure all the moderators agree.

The HN community stopped being based in SV many years ago, if it ever was to begin with. It's heavily international, widely distributed even in the US, and significantly more sympathetic to boostrapper/indiehacker narratives than to VC ones. Which is pretty easy to understand if you think about who the users are and how many of them there are.

In terms of comment quality, the cynical end of anti-VC sentiment is a problem because it's so knee-jerk and predictable. Solid critique is welcome, but alas, there isn't much. As a moderator I don't care what people like or hate but I do care about getting the best insights from all sides, and this is one area where we don't, really. Or rather, we do, but it's drowned out by Dunning-Kruger and reversion to the mean and all the other phenomena that make internet forums suck.
Sorry if my reply implied that the blockchain is somehow comparable to DRM -- they are not.

I was merely talking about the effects of the blockchain. The outcome of using a blockchain is identical to the outcome of using DRM: they both can be used to engender the illusion of scarcity of something that is not naturally scarce.

Without (the illusion of) scarcity, the enforcement of property (or access) rights on the Internet would be impossible; blockchains and DRM enable their enforcement by maintaining records of "who has permission to what and for how long" which is why they are useful.
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What if it's a photographers portfolio? An art collection site?

Sometimes images make sense.
what a difference from the screenshot in the article to the current numbers...
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Electricity was also once only for the wealthy.
The only good employer in tech for highly skilled developers.

Remember that the GAFA only have offices in a very few locations worldwide. Can't work for them if they are not here.
Ask HN: How do you interview a software company?
Often programmers are interviewed by the company, however what should we do on the developer side to interview the company? Could you share any good questions to ask (Technically, culturally or philosophically)?
tldr: should I never ever update my Windows 8 again lest it becomes slow af?
Anyone having issues with upgrading your old account? I get the message that my account has been upgrading after signing in and that I now need to use my secret and public key. However, when I use those in the account viewer it tells me that my account doesn't exist on the network.
There's a stable right next to the intersection https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8609001,-1.4574099,254a,35...
I’ve often thought that certain jobs should only be open to first borns. Jobs with serious responsibilities.
> The lead author of the study, Susan Strahan, an atmospheric scientist belonging to NASA’s GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center) in Greenbelt, Maryland explained that it can be clearly observed that the chlorine level near the ozone layer is coming down while reducing the amount of depletion in the ozone.

Quibble: Is it actually 'healing' if the depletion rate is decreasing? The hole in the ozone is still getting bigger. It's just getting bigger at a slower rate. (I realise that this is the title the article uses - but I believe it is incorrect).

(This is a particular issue in Australia - we have increased occurrence of skin cancer due to this.)
I won't dispute it because of the general "If you've never seen a black swan, is that proof that none exists? (No)" fallacy, but speaking as a German, I cannot remember having seen one in Germany, ever. So even if one exists it's an exceedingly rare thing.

When I lived in the US I always found it unnecessary that everybody has to stop. In Germany we always have a "main" road and a "secondary" road, and those on the main road don't have to stop. That priority pattern is kept from major roads to tiny roads. Then there's the "right before left" rule when the roads are equal - creating a priority without signs and without "everybody has to stop" rule.
Every time I see a Ycombinator article on Blockchain, I can't stop but feel a bitterness from the years of nasty comments I got here when advocating for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Blockchain technology here.
There are books specially designed for different levels. Such as books with phonetic annotation，or book using only "easy Chinese characters" with pictures would be pretty easy to read by very young kids.

As for Adult books, I belive a primary school student at about grade 3 maybe "can read" with a little struggle. As they have learned enough basic word to understand the sentences, even if there are few "hard word" remain unknown.
No Patrick, homeopatic sugar is not a solution to that.
No... Being vegan is also not a solution. And neither is cannabis oil.
There are hundreds of companies letting you using their services for "free" because they resell your informations.

He did a silly test to have some fun that didn't force the users.

I'm happy for once to read an article that is not heavily edited by marketing to please the sensitive readers but instead gives us the raw reactions of the guy.
Have a roundabout instead. Easy, safer, and less traffic jams. Seems objectively superior to me.
Anecdata: fixing frequent accident sites (e.g. 70 kph main road x 50 kph access roads) with traffic lights reduces minor accidents, but there was a major accident on one of them just recently...because "traffic lights be damned, nobody ever comes out that road anyw-BOOM." Traffic lights are a discretionary access control mechanism ("ignore at your discretion"), roundabout is a mandatory access control mechanism.
No they don't. Those issues are very rare and indicative of faulty batteries. When you sell hundred million devices a few hundred can be defective. Not a big deal. Generally, Samsung phones (or any other manufacturer tbf) do not start shutting down randomly after 2 years. They also do not slow down the CPU. So they must be doing something which Apple hasn't discovered yet or (more likely) hasn't implemented because this way they can force users to buy $1000 every year.
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Seems like a negative Fresnel lens in the lower corner of the windshield would suffice. I've had trouble with the A-pillar in my 2015 Prius; I may try this.
Yeah, we won't need rationing for humans if we just stop overuse in agriculture.

Credits to the EU for regulation this aggressively.. I even think the US is doing something:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock

As with climate change, this is probably going to hit emerging economies the hardest.. due to lack of regulation and less ability to deal with cost of workarounds.
It's interesting that they were so focused on CBDR, but then totally dropped the ball when it was time to extend the analogy to overtaking (where you assume to be overtaking if you are >22.5° abaft the other vessel's beam, which is not the case at a 94° angle.)
When I did my driving lessons many many years ago (UK), I was told that the car turning left would have right of way, because they weren't crossing a carriage way.
The author seems rather fond of that phrase, which shows that it's not a typo.

This essay is excerpted from The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years. The relevant quote it:

> In the course of his long career, Sam Clemens lost as many friends as he made. He did not suffer fools or rivals gladly, especially if they wore crinoline. He targeted them indiscriminately—from religious leaders (e.g., Mary Baker Eddy, John Alexander Dowie, De Witt Talmage), politicians (William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Tim Sullivan), fellow writers and lecturers (Bret Harte, Kate Field), to literary pirates (John Camden Hotten) and military leaders (Frederick Funston).

From "Twain in His Own Time" (same author), we see very similar text, but not identical - https://books.google.com/books?id=Po0GV2mONToC&pg=PR17&dq=%2... :

> In the course of his long career, Mark Twain lost as many friend as he made. He did not suffer fools or rivals gladly, especially if they wore crinoline. He targeted them indiscriminately - from religious leaders (for example, Mary Baker Eddy, John Alexander Dowie, DeWitt Talmadge), to politicians (William McKinley, Tim Sullivan), to fellow writers and lecturers (Bret Harte, Kate Field), to literary pirates (John Camden Hotten), to military leaders (Frederick Funston)."

From "Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-century American Journalist" (same author: - https://books.google.com/books?id=y3j5MT6gM5EC&pg=PA82&dq=%2...

> ... and coedited the Buffalo Express. He did not suffer rivals gladly, especially those who wore crinoline. In early January ...
This is one of my favorite graphics/rendering papers from 2017; great work from the entire DWA Moonray team! In addition to the main paper, there are some other materials that were presented at HPG and SIGGRAPH 2017 by the same team.

HPG Slides: http://www.highperformancegraphics.org/wp-content/uploads/20...

SIGGRAPH Course Notes (the relevant part begins on Page 35): https://jo.dreggn.org/path-tracing-in-production/part1.pdf

SIGGRAPH Slides: https://jo.dreggn.org/path-tracing-in-production/MoonrayV3.p...

Also, the actual shading system they used was also presented at SIGGRAPH 2017: http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2017-shading-course...
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There's a remarkable book about this called "Selling Hitler" by Robert Harris.
Except pedestrians, bikers, cyclists, etcetera. (Plus you are overestimating the rate of change: I still see horse carriages on the road, 100+ years after the beginning of the car era)

And don't get me started on driver ed in PA, USA: in my case, it consisted of a video, signing an drivers' permit application - and voila, go out there and drive (under supervision). I was shocked, shocked.
Would you please stop spamming HN about this? and creating multiple accounts to do it?
Sounds like you figured out what their target market looks like then.
The wording re. the difference between Windows 10 and 7 seems intriguing:

> Windows 10 PCs with Haswell or older processors will see "more significant slowdowns" and Microsoft notes that a segment of customers may "notice a decrease in system performance”.
> Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs powered by Haswell or older processors will see a "decrease in system performance" for "most users".

Does it mean that if you care about performance, it's better to use Windows 7 instead of 10? It's not spelled out explicitly, but they way they worded it suggests so.
I'm pretty sure that if it were as simple as shining some light on tissue we wouldn't use antibiotics, since they come with pretty strong side-effects.

Even supposing that the light really kills germs, the light won't reach all spots in the wound and it wouldn't reach the bacteria that already entered the bloodstream.
My name isn't Patrick and I don't do any of the things you listed.
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All this assumes drivers who know and follow rules. Where I live, I have to wait in a suicide lane to make a left, and sometimes drivers at the stop sign will try to steal the right of way to make their left first. And then there's the problem that it's accepted practice here to point your car and inch toward traffic as a way to request they give you an opening, despite the very significant risk involved in doing so.
In the Netherlands, a 4 four stop would lead to an instant deadlock. I.e., if you reach a stop sign then all traffic on the road you approaching has priority.

There are no rules for solving this conflict. Because you cannot have two roads that have priority over each other.

The Dutch equivalent of a 4 way stop is a raised intersection. Basically an intersection that is one big speed bump. Traffic is forced to slow down but otherwise normal priority rules apply.
Which alternative are you referring to?
As a father of a 6 year old voracious reader, I agree. He is devouring books faster than I can find them.
You expose them to lot of different books and then sit back and observe which one they pick up again and again to read. Talk to them about what they liked about the book, to discover what actually interests them.

Initially I tried to influence the books he would read, but after a while he refused to read them (he would read them in his own time). So now I just let him be and just track what interests him and periodically introduce him to new stuff.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're boring to everyone else and not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
It seems so. Sooner or later people will post some benchmarks so we'll have more precise knowledge. At this point the statements from MS are a bit fuzzy.
I think he's making a Spongebob Squarepants reference.
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If if was every page, that would be terrifying. But if it only measured the speed of pages directly linked from a Google search result, I would be fine with that. Google wouldn't be learning anything new there.
A rolling stop is only good enough to prevent a 'high-speed collision' as judged by people wearing steel armor boxes.
Well that skews things a little bit then. If the Twitter account is not theirs and everybody is looking at it, why haven't they come forward saying: "oh, hey, so, the Twitter account? We don't own it anymore..."
The obstacles are intentional. Blocking sight forces people to slow down.
Personal swipes will get you banned here, so please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This paper from 2005 describes a cache timing attack that enabled an unprivileged process to another process' AES key:

https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/cache.pdf

IIRC, the only way to address the issue was the addition of the AES-NI instruction set, which came a few years later.
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Is it still possible that the GHC garbage collector will be able to take advantage of linear types, and thus improve performance since it can free linear values after they’ve been consumed once?

I remember linear types for Haskell being presented as a way to get Rust-like performance in the cases where memory allocation/freeing is a bottleneck. But I’m not sure whether this has changed after further research.
State actors ranging from the US to North Korea

No-one really believes that the Norks with their steam-powered computers are hacking anything. Propaganda cuts both ways.
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Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, let alone ideological flamebait. Those are just the sort of things we're trying to avoid on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Similarly, my primary (personal) server is an X10SL7-F with an E3-1231v3 (running FreeBSD). I'm waiting around for Supermicro but I would suggest not holding your breath.

On second thought, I suppose the same goes for Asus with regard to my main workstation (Z10PE-D16/WS with a pair of E5-2620v4's).

My ThinkPads are much older (T420/W530) and I'm not really expecting anything for them from Lenovo -- especially any time soon, although they do put out the occasional BIOS update for 'em.
We should be thankful to the chemists that came up with substitute refrigerants that break down in the lower atmosphere and don't kill the ozone layer. Just like the discovery of oil saved the whales.
You've posted quite a few unsubstantive and/or uncivil comments. We ban accounts that do that, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and clean up your act?
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One and two are usually true of Darwin award winners too, but even if that came with a cash prize, the other thing MacArthur geniuses have going for them (by comparison) when it comes to managing the windfall is that they're MacArthur geniuses... surprised this didn't make your list!
That's a silly thing to take away from that; the cat eats the mistakes, not the children.
Curious question: Why do you write those details here on HN and not on the Letsencrypt Blog or letsencrypt.status.io?

Are HN readers somehow more entitled to these information that those who "merely" subscribed to your blog's RSS feed?
I think that the article is possibly just poorly written.

According to Wikipedia, the ozone levels stabilised in the 90's, and started to recover in the 00's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ozone_hole_recovery.jpg

I'm led to believe that the ozone layer depletes and regenerates in cycles, and what the article is highlighting is that the amount that is depleted in a depletion cycle is lower.
There's adtech, and there's Facebook.

Facebook's stance so far can be summarized as "Meh, we don't care, it's you who should comply to local laws, not us".

I really really really which the EU actually delivers on its GDPR promise and hits them with a fine of 4% of global revenue[1]

[1] https://medium.facilelogin.com/understanding-gdpr-9201e13564...

"4% of the annual global turnover or €20 Million (whichever is greater)."
I don't think so. The literal text from the StVo for the STOP sign (VZ 206) is

Ge- oder Verbot

1. Wer ein Fahrzeug führt, muss anhalten und Vorfahrt gewähren.

And that strongly implies that at least one of the other streets has the right of way. I've also never seen one.