skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only successful organization which kept US at bay was OPEC. They collectively caused a major oil shock that sent US panicking.

Similarly, the best thing for Africa is to somehow form a coalition to collectively operate on Africa's interest.

It's extremely difficult to pull off, but education is the only way forward. The more people are aware of what is happening to your country, what their leaders are doing will allow for better decision making but this is also tough in countries where the leader has all the latest tools and gadgets specifically aimed to disrupt such rebellion or threat to their powerbase.
A company's involvement in your life should have security/transparency multipliers. Google has more of your data, but they do a better job of keeping things safe and communicating with you what they have and how they use it.

That said it makes sense that if one company has too much of your data you should rightfully be wary of them. +1
The entire point of the attack is that attackers can coerce targets to predictably load things into cache, which is why you're being downvoted. You should re-read the Meltdown paper; it's very clear (and significantly easier to read than the Project Zero writeup, which is good but goes deep into implementation details).
Plus no one really owns anything.
It's funny you use the word "were" here. This is still the case.
Thanks!
You can actually search for the channels to subscribe using our API, and we are working now on standardizing that API so you can know what to expect there. Yes, the point is that once you subscribe you KNOW that we will tell you if something happens and we will give you the needed data to do something with it.

What use cases do you have in mind?
> Free content will continue to survive

Most "free content" is paid by ads. Most hosting is paid by ads. Most online services are paid by ads. Do you ever use WhatsApp? Gone. Google Maps? Gone. Oh, that Guardian article we're discussing right now? Gone.

> The advertising industry is not the benefactor that you're trying to paint them as

Who talked about benefactors? They're just a business like any other. I hate ads, but I know that they fund a lot of the content and services I use.
Can it get me a cold beer from the fridge?
Yeah, I halfway expected Wappalyzer to say, "Built with PHP-Nuke."

But maybe they stopped injecting ads into open-source downloads at least? Can't imagine why anyone would trust them again.
That's why it so perfectly illustrates the problem. The detractors are correct, a website can be made fast without AMP. But that isn't the problem AMP solves.

To draw a crude analogy- I don't have a problem with alcohol, I don't drink in excess and that's all there is to it. So clearly, there's no reason for AA or any other detox program to exist.
All the 1's probably think they're 3's, though.
Biggest issue is connectivity issues. Corporate firewalls don't allow incoming connections, and limit outgoing connections to specific ports (in most cases).

Maintaining history is also tricky in a P2P system. Can I search and view all chat history from when I am not there? A hybrid system could, but then you would still be limited by the host being online and accessible.

Also just the amount of moving parts. With P2P, you can get strange issues where some people can talk to some people and not others. It can be hard to track down where those connectivity issues are.

My company moved from self-hosted IRC to slack a few years ago. No one had time to maintain the system (backups, updates, troubleshooting, etc), and it was cheaper and easier to pay slack than to hire someone to maintain an IRC server, or to pull someone from their actual job to maintain it.
Be fair. They had it updated within 5 minutes. I know, because I had just sent a message before it went down.

Compare to Amazon... an hour, two?
The drop test shown in the announcement is impressive to me.
The consolidation of online advertising is a real problem, but I don't think Apple should be making product decisions to preserve competition in the ad market. Preserving competition is literally the job of antitrust regulators and that is the avenue to address concentration in markets. Fortunately they seem to be waking up to this.
Yes, you'd create a mess (understatement), but there isn't risk of a nuclear detonation.
Lolz. That's some awesome industrial design -- did they use 1984 as inspiration?
"cryptocurrency" is a bit of a mouthful, so I at least understand the urge to shorten it, but I wish we could agree to at least shorten it to "cryptos," as in: "A Cryptos Website Changes Its Data..."
The embargo date agreed among the several teams that were working on this was today, the 9th.
They should add additional weight to their ranking algorithm for fast sites; anyone who's worked with a sales and marketing team knows how much they'll freak out if pagerank drops. They'll basically throw their firstborn into a well for higher pagerank.
You are right, and I think this aptly captures just how misunderstood Blockchain is even on this forum.
Did they get to install Linux during their early teenage years?

How much restriction?

What aspects of "the industry"?

What sort of experiences might they have missed? Will you ever know?
How confident are you that that doesn't happen already?
I hate it that my work is dependent up on a web-app that freezes when network connections go haywire. I struggled the last 10 minutes troubleshooting my network connection, force-quitting the app when it freezes. Please please give me a native Mac app.
First bitbucket and now slack?

not a good day to be an enterprise saas...
With a little digging - it's when tickets are 'created' or 'completed' in one type of project management software. (The article is basically an informal ad for Redbooth, where the blog post first appeared.)

Commit times would have been a decent metric, though devs obviously vary a lot in how they structure and time their commits. But this study used ticket-completion, and finds lots of work gets done at 10-11 AM and 4 PM. Which looks suspiciously like a whole day's work has been logged during morning standup and before-leaving ticket checks.
Then make another search engine, don't complain about using Google technology in Google's search engine, on Google's browser.
it's version 2, the density of components increased
The GFS model has been embarrassingly bad in comparison to Europe's ECMWF models. Here's to hoping it will be more competitive in 2019.
Kodak has more or less shifted to focus on printing and packaging. Building it into their printers would let photographers get credit when someone prints one of their photos (authorized or not).
Because it's really smart branding. Giga as a prefix has come to mean "really big, bigger than mega" colloquially, not just the metric uses of it.

Maybe it's just a form of inflation of hype :) What used to be called mega this and mega that, is now called giga this and that?
Yeah we ended that practice as soon as we acquired SourceForge over a year ago, and we have nothing to do with the company that made those decisions in the first place. It's in the blog post. As for ads/design- we know we can't please everyone and still keep the lights on. If you login you won't see any ads.
And if a board member isn’t performing well, we get rid of them. I’ve been on boards where the SEC is in there. I’ve been on boards where the Department of Justice is involved. You don’t want that. You destroy companies when you do that. You destroy shareholder value. So what you try to do as board is make sure people are above board. You guard against anything that hurts the companies from an outside perspective. It all comes back to governance and taking care of shareholders.

This points to a problem with due diligence and/or how board members of Fortune 500 companies are chosen. Can anyone elaborate on how this happens?

I get the impression from looking at corporate websites that many board members include former officers of the company, investors, and experienced leaders from adjacent (but not competing) industries. It sounds kind of insidery, which can lead to all kinds of problems and conflicts.
Why is Open Source built with closed source tools?
Google can't serve anything that they proxy on a google domain, so they need something like cdn.ampproject.org to cache the content. They also need to guarantee the content will behave properly when cached, hance the AMP format.
https://sr.ht/lP5u.png
More than that, our business is not legal in the US which is one of our primary markets.
What's the problem here? This is the 2nd time I recall a major outage in the last few months. How can they get something so wrong? Where's the resiliency and failover? What could possibly happen that causes such a system-wide failure?

Granted - I've never built or run any system on such a scale as Slack - but I think that I would have either 1. learned from past experience 2. built some anti-fragility into the thing...
Unless there's a parallel repository of all the images in a form that's easy to search (some kind of sparse, feature-rich form that's quick CV-match friendly), which isn't the hash, you're going to have a hard time with that initial assessment and enforcement of potential infringers.

That right there could be a pretty expensive system to maintain and it isn't ideal to distributed across a bunch of blockchain participants, it probably has to live in a Kodak server farm somewhere.
The funny thing is that even with p2p systems many people use them only in a centralized mode. At my last company we kept our code in a private github repo. When our internet connection went down two devs found that they “couldn’t collaborate because they couldn’t get to github.” It didn’t occur to them to simply push their code back and forth between their machines.
Glad to see they are removing their adware from packages. I believe the damage is already done though and nobody will trust a binary from that place ever again.
Really surprised IPFS hasn't been mentioned yet. Though, it will eventually implement a cryptocurrency to help solve the hosting issue (think Storj or Sia but for websites).

But, to be brutally honest, I doubt the backbone of our internet will change at all until we have a serious, blatant cyber war wherein the vulnerable aspects of our HTTP-based internet is taken advantage of.
>Is that kind of paranoia productive? Especially considering we are at historically low crime rates.

I balance the likelihood with the potential consequences when making my decision.

For example, logically, I know that there's no danger of contracting anything from sitting on a public toilet seat but I still make a bird's nest when I have to poop in a public place.

Intellectually, I know that the world is now statistically safer than it was when I was a child but I still do not allow my children to roam unsupervised in public places.
>really

We issue dividends which is more than you can say about SNAP.
This is actually the future I see: any smart and noble ruler would seek to reach this society and would enact systems that make them obsolete. A good CEO builds something without him there and I think the optimistic view of a singular ruler is that they would empower people enough over the period of their rule that distributed rule would be possible and we would no longer have bloated centralized governments.
From the article: "There is a problem where some anti-virus vendors are using techniques to bypass Kernel Patch Protection by injecting a hypervisor which they use to intercept syscalls and make assumptions about memory locations — memory locations which are now changing with the Meltdown fixes."

Difficult situation for Microsoft. If you install applications which mess with the operating system in unsupported ways you can't expect your system to function correctly with automatic updates. On the other hand, users are likely not aware of what they have done and bricking millions of computers is also not good. Might for example cause a backslash when people stop updating their systems.

This sounds like a quick and dirty fix they put in place while figuring out what to do.
We need base services and not just microservices
Except US citizens, in a lot of cases.

Reason is they want to avoid SEC Wrath for sketchy shit.
Is Sync specific to Visual Studio?
cds? you must be rich.

i was downloading that on a stack of floppy disks
If you do it once, it may be that your AV isn't compatible with the patch and will cause your system to bluescreen and maybe not even turn on, so no, you really shouldn't do that.
> I don't see why it's so important to prop up a specific failing business model.

Nobody is propping up anything, let them do business.

Don't like the ads? Don't access those websites. Vote with your wallet and clicks.
Clojure in fashion: modelling fashion models on the catwalk (2016)
Don’t forget about failure modes driven by out of spec loads, vibration, shock, acoustics, and thermal environments. A launch vehicle can experience higher than expected environments and can transmit those to the satellite or adapter, causing a separation or satellite failure. I’m not saying this happened but its usually a complicated post flight analysis that takes some time.
Jesus. That’s a lot.
Hooray! Everybody can do some work now, without distractions! Be swift everybody, that’s your rare chance!
You’d have to be pretty daft to take their word for it. Google hasn’t played fair in the search space in over a decade.
Having less of your data by default means they can do less with it, so you are "safer" for that reason. I'd be wary of confusing that with "they are trying to protect my privacy more."
A great example of how to utilize Google Cloud Platform for analytics. I guess it doesn't really matter what you want to analyze :)
This reminds me of the seasons Gary Snyder spent in a fire tower in the Pacific Northwest:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47182/mid-august-at-s...
That orange is very similar to the HN orange. The ad placements do give it a smarmy feeling as a site.
That's a cat an mouse game that search engines and SEO companies have been playing for years. "Improve your benchmark" only works when you don't have adversaries.

Edit: To clarify, "improve your benchmark" is not a viable strategy by itself any more than "put your opponent in checkmate" is a viable strategy. As advice it is unhelpful. You generally have to mitigate flaws in the way you rank pages, keep large parts of the algorithm secret, and attack the economic viability of your adversary's strategies. Rather than going for checkmate, you want your opponent to resign so you can do something else instead.

There have been incentives for bad behavior on the web for so long that I don't think we have any hope of coming up with any kind of automated benchmark to tell us which pages have good user experience.
We had built it for another internal project before we acquired SourceForge, so we decided to release it on SourceForge since people seemed to like it.
So you agree with James. Glad we could clear that up.

Background: there is little to no evidence for the assertion that discrimination/oppression is the sole cause of the under-representation of women in tech, but that assertion is the basis of the HR policies that Damore criticized. In fact, the evidence that it is even a contributing factor is at best scant/anecdotal.

The evidence that Damore cited is incomparably more solid.
I'm not sure why you're so upset about being courteous.
This AI can tell whether you’re liberal or conservative based on your car
Everybody thinks they have resiliency and failover. But like any software, until you try it, it doesn't work. It has to be debugged. And nobody is willing to put up entire data centers to try recovery from a system-wide failure. Especially not a startup company.
This is hilarious: https://twitter.com/carmenrjavier/status/950815039065276417
Is it possible to add new data? Like connecting an Open Data portal or something similar and get notified if new data is added/updated?
There were tool anchoring rules way before that, going back to the 1960s.
Just focused on doing right by the 1 million daily users that come to SourceForge to download one of 430,000 projects hosted there.
You can write Solidity in the browser now using their Remix IDE:

https://remix.ethereum.org/#optimize=false&version=soljson-v...
You are confounding the demand for decentralized ledgers with the demand for currency that's recorded on the ledgers.
I've been on SourceForge a while, and I really like it. It always looked a little outdated, and there was the whole malware incident, but for hosting code with discussion boards and ticket systems, it does the job nicely.

Obviously the malware thing was really bad, but in general I think it gets a bad rap because it wasn't the trendy new thing. I personally liked the old UI, but I'm happy for the new change because it's good for the future of the platform.
> you either distribute (and host) your website through Google's AMP registry

As long as anyone can setup their own AMP-like cache and build a search engine similar to Google, that also supports preloading... then I'm not sure it so bad.

The proposal GP refers to has a lot of use-cases, it basically makes caching of HTTPS by third-parties possible. At-least to some extent.
Google's AI can tell when someone is peeping at your phone
This is such a great/terrible example of the absolute arrogance in the tech industry. I really do try to defend tech in general, but then something like this comes along.

Your claim is that you can enter into an industry literally thousands of years old and use a little algorithmic magic to prevent sex trafficking where the world's collective police departments have consistently failed. And it's all done by an anonymous bunch of dudes. Pretending that they have an "extrajurisdictional company". Which, yes, is a criminal conspiracy. Except conducted on the web, and funded by an illegal securities sale.

It of course brings to mind this classic bit from the Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8
Heh, I want to know how to get paid $80/hour :) , grass is always greener right?
California Bill Cutting Back Zoning Could Increase Access to Housing, Jobs
It's more likely due to Massachusetts' high degree of urbanization. Urban areas have slower traffic. Slower traffic is less deadly.

See Jeff Speck's "AMERICAN CAR-NAGE" passage in Walkable City: https://books.google.com/books?id=kbfeAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA37&ots=...
How do you know it's leveraging Ethereum? Link?!
Seattle Radio Alarm Clock in Bash
I think at this time if you're on windows 10 you should really just use Defender.

It works well, they are actively developing it, and the new white list based directory protection is kinda neat if you're scared of ransomware.
Origin Demo DApp is now live on Ethereum testnet
I'll never understand why AV is a third party software solution. I don't buy an Audi and then go to some other company and buy ABS and seat belts. This is a MS issue and should be handled in house.
Could you imagine betting your multi-million dollar satellite on whether the contractor used the approved torque wrench, or something they found at Harbor Freight? Hell, who needs a torque wrench? I've been doing this long enough I can do it by feel.

Using the right tool gets us to the moon. Complaining about how micromanagement stifles one's creative vision is how we get the shit show we call "software" today. Somewhere in the middle I'm sure there's a happy medium.
Cryptocurrency theft possible with Spectre and Meltdown
resale value?
Sounds idyllic, but you will struggle to make a business case unless Slack is mission-critical to your business (which it probably isn't - you can simply email, phone or walk over and talk to somebody).
> Does anyone actually believe a fancy AMP powered site isn't getting nice traffic boost from Google?

If they were to get a nice traffic boost, would it be because the site actually loads faster or because it was ranked higher. I think both would increase the traffic boost.
GoogleBot runs only in a few datacenters in certain locations in the world with amazing connectivity.

It is a horrible predictor of load times.
> much nicer [ads] that come out of direct negotiation between publishers and advertisers

Uh, usually this results in "native advertising", which is advertising pretending to be real articles. This is much more dangerous and insidious in my opinion than an explicit 'sponsored' box with an ad inside.

If this continues, successful publishers will be the ones that push the most profitable corporate propaganda, rather than the ones that effectively inform the public.
What other smart contract platforms are worth following?
I don't think it's quite as straightforward as people are making it out to be here, especially when considering forks. If you bought BTC a year ago and sell BCH (or BTC) today, what was your purchase price?

There are currently a couple of dozen Bitcoin forks, each with arguably equal claim to be the true successor. So it's difficult enough if you bought before all the forks and are selling all of your BTC in one go now, but lord help you and your accountant if you've bought or sold any inbetween some of the forks.
True. My position as a sheepdog isn't limited to strangers. My children aren't unsupervised with many relatives or family friends either.

They're also not left unsupervised with clergy.
Defender can be seen as merely being the lesser evil.

Consider CVE-2017-0290[0], which was caused by the MsMpEng process running a custom unsandboxed javascript interpreter with system privileges to evaluate untrusted code for maliciousness. Remotely exploitable over many unsolicited channels. Pretty much the worst kind of exploitability. Of course other AVs have done quite similar mistakes.

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
So you don't have to replace it again before selling it, or take the hit from someone deducting the cost of a new roof off of an offer, the first is typically better for you as a seller. It also adds value to the house in multiple dimensions: they don't have to replace the roof when they sell it, and a solar roof reduces their electric bill.
Did you make it through? Yes.

Be wary of survivor bias. Not everyone is like you, and not every similar situation is the same.

I grew from my free experience with computers, and I hope every child can have that opportunity.
Well, they may not be risking it, as the EU would happily give em another monstrous fine for that.
I have a six months old. I really REALLY dreaded reading this article... but afterwards I've finally realized that for the last half year I've been quite afraid, scared of the fact that this beautiful thing that came into my life can be taken from me at any time by an uncaring cosmos.

Powerful stuff. It feels vitally important to confront this fear. But I do feel deeply unsettled.
Visual Studio uses Sync to refer to git push and pull, as far as I can tell. (I avoid it and use the command line).

In this context I think they're referring to tools to automatically sync your git/wiki/releases etc from Github to other platforms like Gitlab.
For all old maps fascinados: http://mapire.eu/en/
Well done site with great viewing options!
For example, steemit.com: a social network where you get paid (in tokens) for producing/curating content. As the network grows, the token gets more valuable, so there's a strong incentive for early users to join it.

I'm not sure yet steemit will end up being a winner in this field, but I find this a very smart approach for challenging the network effect of big competitors.
>Fast websites stayed fast, and slow websites stayed slow.

Website did ridiculous things for SEO when Google was the main traffic-driver on the web. Ridiculous. If Google sufficiently penalized bloat in ranking most websites would remove the bloat. But it never was a significant enough factor.
Has no one yet tried forking AMP and simply removing all the Google? Call it OpAMP. You might not get into the carousel right off the bat, but if you get the ball rolling you'd have actual leverage instead of writing open letters on the internet.