skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree, and I think I made that clear at the start. Looking around though, it happens quite a bit, and since the discussion was about "what's the use case for this?" I think it stands ok.
paper towel dispenser
That's just how market caps work in general. The same argument has been made for startup valuations. It's not a problem with the metric at all and doesn't hold for the case being discussed as actual market based transactions in enough volume are happening. It's not just a made up number. Here's an argument that Facebook was not worth 33B$ in 2010 because only 3% of its value had ever been transacted:

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...

It's worth almost 17 times more than that now. Market cap is not a perfect metric because it doesn't capture the depth of the market willing to buy but coins don't make that any different.
Growing Pains: The 2018 Internet of Things Landscape
Why do you keep giving CEOs barrels of money?
John Romero talks about creating TEd, the tile editor
> "Wealth is built through control"

Centralised wealth is built through centralized control.

Distributed wealth is built through distributed control.
Contrarian approach to this article : is there a way to short Bitcoin, and other "cryptocurrencies" ?
Never had it not work in the UK.
The reasons why Ecuador took Assange in in the first place no longer make much sense. Under Correa, there were a number of tensions with the US that were looming large in Ecuadorian political landscape following a default in 08. By taking in Assange, Correa could both shore up anti-US sentiments at home that were mounting in criticism over an oil export deal, and get a bargaining chip to boot if he needed it. With Correa out of the picture and China stepping in and propping up exports, this makes little sense, and Assange's value as a bargaining chip is dubious to a Trump admin.

Back when Wikileaks had a better reputation, it also helped affray Correa's attacks on free speech at home. Now that Assange's reputation is in the gutter, he's only a liability to Ecuador.
Has nobody in the design team ever tested this on a screen at less than 4K? At 1366×768 the title is jammed right up against the left edge of the screen.
Maybe because many of us has reason to belive this isn't about justice but about how to get hold of Assange?

I'm no big fan of that man but there are so many questions around this investigation that I have serious problems believing most of the official story.
Just buy an AMD chip right now.
For private servers that are totally not connected to the internet in any way and don't need to be, run self-developed code on data which is mainly CPU-bound but also need a lot of disk IO for reading files and memory mapping data, I'm pretty certain it'll make a noticeable difference, for no security benefit.
It's very interesting how similar Coughlin's mannerisms are to Hitler's. I would not be surprised if Hitler copied him.

Just to show not all mass media Catholic priests are so unpleasant I give you Fulton Sheen, popular on radio 20s, 30s and TV in the 50s. Was popular among non-Catholics and even won an Emmy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_J._Sheen
There's a plugin that disables autoplay.

https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto...
Honestly, let's all of us web developers make an agreement together that we'll focus on plain text and intelligently-compressed images rather than JavaScript and auto-playing videos in our projects moving forward and recommend that we do the same where we work.

People are trusting us to help them with technical decisions and we have a responsibility to make sure the web is accessible to as many people as possible. Our opinions have tremendous sway, even though it might not feel like it.

The web really started to go sideways when we followed the trend away from Progressive Enhancement. Let's get back to basics, pure and simple.
Right, but that was my entire point. Just because both users/MUAs are using STARTTLS has no bearing on whether the message is sent in the clear across the internet from MTA to MTA. That's where STARTTLS is worse than HTTPS. With an HTTPS request, there's a pretty good chance that the messages are getting from source-to-destination without ever traversing the Internet in cleartext (modulo MitM with forged certificates)
I believe there's a price limit on it, it's mostly for small transactions. Also, pre-chip cards only need a signature, which is easily faked. Most bank insure your card.
Well, except that quite a few shops with Apple Pay specifically, offer essentially unlimited. I bought a couple of hundred quids worth of food at Waitrose using my phone when I;d left my wallet at home
Man, remember when in the 90’s real estate values were soon to collapse because everyone would be working remote, and Class A office space was going to be useless?

Funnily enough, they are saying the same thing now about AR/VR. We will see.
Lower costs do not straightforwardly translate into lower consumer prices, unless we're dealing with commodities in a perfectly competitive market.

Moreover, in this scenario where the entire market is now able to spend their advertising budget "more effectively", there are many possible outcomes besides more products being sold for the same ad cost. The market-wide increase in "ad effectiveness" may effectively cancel itself out. Ad spend may remain the same, but with more budget allocated to speculative ad strategies. Or the savings may be funneled back into product to further differentiate it from competitors.
When you're 30, your concept of profit is different to when your 60. When you're 60 and considering living on the income from shareholdings in enterprises, you need both length and breadth. 15% next year but it tanks the two after is worse than 7% year on year.

Long term profitable enterprises do not asset strip, fail to invest, or destroy the market for a short term gain. These are all things which inside a 5-10 year planning cycle, many enterprises will willingly do, for apparent short term profit. Destroying the environment destroys future capital. Failing to employ women (51% of the population) for fair renumeration ignores competent staff, and destroys goodwill from half your market who in fact, make 75% of the significant purchase decisions in a domestic context.

Think about it.
So by not using AMP, Google search result pages will not display the lightning icon next to the link to your domain? Is this what you mean?
Yes, I was having a poke through dmesg after today's patch to see what my venerable i7 from ~2005 said relating to KPTI. The first line of output is:

[ 0.000000] microcode: CPU0 microcode updated early to revision 0x19, date = 2013-06-21

I think the rest of the cores get updated a bit later in the process.
> Just buy an AMD chip right now.

AMD chips are reportedly susceptible to Spectre, so that's not going to help. From https://meltdownattack.com:

Almost every system is affected by Spectre: Desktops, Laptops, Cloud Servers, as well as Smartphones. More specifically, all modern processors capable of keeping many instructions in flight are potentially vulnerable. In particular, we have verified Spectre on Intel, AMD, and ARM processors.
Google is a for-profit corp. How are these proposed changes in Google's self-interest?
Even trusted webpages pull in crap from all sorts of places that I don't trust, the way the web is structured is a disaster. My public news provider for instance (http://www.abc.net.au/news/) has all sorts of shit broken when you run ublock or noscript. There "live breaking news feeds" that are rather important may as well be a blank page because it just reposts twitter messages. And they're one of the better sites with no advertising.
From the article:

"Amazon likely has about 700 workers [in Ohio alone] receiving food stamps, more than 10 percent of its Ohio workforce"
Is that really good PR? Or just news that hasn't hit the mainstream because they don't understand it or doesn't affect them much.
yes, just borrow Bitcoin and sell it for fiat and when the repayment is due just buy Bitcoin again, you are basically "short selling" it.
I don't think the childless females can ever really understand the process either...

I am a dad, and I saw a change in my wife the DAY my first son was born. It's easy to forget but we were all on the other side of having children at some point (regardless of gender). It's something that changes you, your relationships, your priorities.

If someone accidentally killed my child I don't know that I'd forgive them either. I know that it would tear my family apart and would ruin the rest of my life. I hope it doesn't happen to anyone.
My grandmother lost a nephew (nick) in the early 80's he died in a motor cycle accident. His brother (Jared) was shot and killed behind a pool hall in the late 70's by some guys that where butt hurt about loosing some games of pool and the money that went along with it. Her other nephew (the only surviving brother, Wes) did 20 years in prison due to some guys robbing him and raping his wife (He was a drug dealer, they ended up dead, he ended up in prison you get the picture). Anyways long story short she never got over Nicky, she always said he was the good one and she felt guilty that there must have been something more she could do. She too lost her husband (the most important and influential man in my life) but to this day she will tell you the lose of Nicky hurt the worst. He was like a son to her. We have had a lot of tragedy in our family, in addition to our loss of Joey which I talked about above and Nick and Jared, my cousin Shawna was murdered at 23 by her boyfriend and her father was killed years later by some guys that robbed him at his ranch. But the point is there are certain people that hurt worse than others and for my grandmother it was Nicky, she always confided in me, that until I came along that she had the strongest bond to Nicky more so than my own father (Nick was born before him). I did not really understand when I was a child why she held so tightly to me until I was older and had children of my own. Now I get it.
True for meltdown, not for spectre.
That's why we need to find a better way to get some sort of reasonable middle ground.

If we don't give them a way to get what they need without also breaking everyone else, then we're really not going to like the outcome.
Ok but now you are talking about a different product (a PC) vs Microsoft Windows. The third party AV vendors are paying the PC manufacturer to bundle their products, they are not paying Microsoft.

In the PC case both Windows and AV are third party products.
> I would probably blame the sensational news coverage nowadays, we didnt have this 20 years ago.

Yes, we did, and the media-driven false perception was already well-established 20 years ago; I saw papers about the media-driven false perception in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

Media sensationalism isn't new. Even the heightened form driven by the 24-hour news cycle is older than that (CNN, the 24-hour news network that drove the 24-hour news cycle, is 37 years old. Fox News and MSNBC, the two competing general 24-hour news networks that made that cycle competitive were each founded 21+ years ago in 1996.)
IC1 is a 75140 dual line receiver, where pin 6 is a reference and pin 2 is a strobe, so pretty much what you thought.

Also of interest is IC101, a 75122 triple line receiver, which has a Schmitt trigger, two AND gates and a NOR for each line. Most of the pins are tied to ground (1, 2, 3, 4, 12) so it's used as a buffer, ignoring the rest of the logic.

For IC3A-D, I think what's going on with the symbols is a briefly-popular way of representing positive logic and negative logic by changing the symbols so a wire has bubbles on both ends. In other words, if you have active-high inputs, represent it as a NAND gate, but if you have active low inputs, represent it as an OR gate with inverters on the inputs. It's the same gate, just drawn to indicate if it's performing an AND or OR. Note the way the bubbles move on the inverters too.
Certainly some of Ecclesiastes sounds like it could be written by an atheist. Especially the last quote in the article. So it's an entertaining speculation at least.

But then I also think "the truth shall set you free" is crypto-atheism.
Well put. Could not agree more.

In fact, I think any quantitative measure of tangible results would be flawed, at least when it comes to open-ended and creative work (research, exploratory data analysis, software design, ...). In my work as a PhD student I often have a full day, damn, even a full week without any tangible result. But when the results eventually do arrive I usually realize that those seemingly unproductive hours actually were valuable, perhaps even necessary.
Node.js and Oracle DB: Node-Oracledb v2 Query Methods and Fetch Tuning
Question: how many of those 430 thousand projects have seen an update in the last year?
Yes, and thus your boss won't pay you to optimize anything if he doesn't get the lightning bolt.
As a gamer who became a father. I played this game and felt pain, but on the flip side I couldn't even play this game now. All I'd do is picture loosing my son. I could see a lot of the repercussions playing out in my house though, aka relationship with my other son, wife, etc.
Not to "relevant XKCD" you, but.. https://xkcd.com/1924/

In addition to the other points made (you often won't be able to charge enough for typical usage), you're also weighing down the car, and you're also immediately disincentivized from parking in a garage, while a house is never not going to be outside.
They'll tell you if they're ok. /s
Not at all. You are creating the dangerous situation in the first place. If you weren't driving, people could run across the road without fear of getting hit by you.
Stuxnet?
The creator isn’t simply an amateur coder, it’s a team of real coders working on a program originally conceived by Colbert and an amateur coder.
Could you argue that the cost basis of your bitcoin was changed because BCH is similar to a stock dividend that is reinvested?
What about something like MailChimp?
For an average user that doesn't bother with security to the point that nothing on the server runs in sandboxes - Spectre and Meltdown are not of much concern. Running under a different user is not the same as running in a sandbox, certainly not on linux/bsd/windows. A user still has an enormous attack surface to play with. And due to the nature of multiuser software typically running on servers where all users live within the same trust boundaries any exploitable vulnerability is going to do as much damage, as if it was running under root, think Cloudbleed for example. You can't make things noticeably worse by turning off KPTI.
This is how Vitalik initially described oracles, as far as I know: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/22/ethereum-and-oracles/

The terminology seems to have changed to mean any system that provides external data to ethereum contracts.
There is often an interface between the lens and camera. It's different for each camera maker usually. It may be mechanical, electronic, or both. It may provide significant power to the lens, a data path for firmware updates (Olympus), or even mechanical rotation to drive unpowered focus mechanics in the lens (Nikon).

Various lens parameters can be communicated to the camera, including static lens capabilities but also dynamic factors such as the current manual focus distance, current manual aperture, or focus mode.

So yes, they could do that. But some systems would be designed with the assumption that all lenses will have shutters, or that the user of lenses with shutters will set the camera shutter to remain open.

Sometimes the shutter release "button" is part of the lens instead of the camera.
Thanks for the data/links. Glad to know it actually isn't a major issue.
You can do any of the following.

1) Accept that most websites have to make money to continue to provide you content and that advertising is how most of them do it.

2) Do not visit websites that choose to support their business through advertising

3) Use uBlock and continue to use websites.

But given the prevalence of websites that monetize via advertising a search engine that excludes websites with ads is as useful as a social network without any people.
Why not? They are a competitor in the search space... Public, private, doesn't matter.
You make a good point.

Sometimes trying to prepare for a crisis that might never come is the worst strategy.

Supposedly, this is what makes democracies stronger than authoritarian governments. Democracies argue endlessly, never taking action until a crisis, and then pulling off the impossible.

Authoritarian governments will try some crazy engineering solution for a problem they really don’t have (like irrigating Kazakhstan), and then 15 years later 90% of the Aral Sea is gone.

In other cases, preparing for Y2K, although it didn’t come, was actually extremely useful in responding to the attacks of 9/11. A lot of protocol that was used that day was originally going to be deployed 18 months earlier during New Years, December 31st, 1999.
Sounds like extra work that websites would need to do in order to adopt. If there was a way to say automatically remove the javascript and other html extensions and the automatically serve the site via particle, then that would facilitate adoption.
Show HN: CurrencyFormatter.js v2.0.0
No free lunch (at Google) for thought criminals
That's because they can always print more. There's no cap.
You're missing the point. I recognize that it was quite possible to make fast websites without AMP, but as a consumer, a theoretical solution that few take advantage of is useless to me.

AMP got (some) websites to actually be fast, which is a lot more useful than a hypothetical.
That seems sensible. Really cool project (and I didn't mean to piss on it), just wanted to point out that generally speaking, finagle is serious business and can be used already.
I don't know about so called blockchain projects like ethereum, but bitcoin has value because it has inelastic demand. There are a lot of underserved people out there that need bitcoin, regardless of its value, in their daily lives because they can't use fiat currency for things like buying quality drugs online, getting rid of ransomware, laundering money, etc.

Hell, if these don't pass the ideological test, just ask someone from Venezuela why do they need bitcoin.
Really has nothing to do about offending women, this is about powerful men using their power to force both men and women and even children to do things completely against their will for fear of having their career destroyed. The power differential is what makes this important, the entertainment industry is not a holocracy, you have an extreme hierarchy and its very easy for that power to be abused.
> because bitcoin is rising in value

and what happens when it drops in value, the poor guy lost money
Glad to see Oracle working more with Javascript. For years that was a strong claim of MongoDB, but recently Oracle has done better (although so have many other vendors).
> You. You now have to put up with more lower value ads.

Not if I block all ads :D

This news may be tragedy to the ad companies that profit off of blatant and forceful violation of users' privacy, but it is truly wonderful news worthy of celebration to the average web browser.

It sounds like you're saying that when users demand privacy, ad companies will punish them with more a obnoxious ad experience. Can you not see how this is literally an "abusive relationship" between the user and the advertisers?
Yeah, I really need an adblocker, I'm working on that. Thank you for the nice words!
Sure people who aren't pregnant can never understand what it's like to carry their child inside them for 9 months.

You feel their movements inside you. You just know when they aren't feeling well.They respond differently when you eat certain foods.
It's an almost spiritual connection.

Then to finally meet them after 9 months, I just can't describe it.
Do we really need to rehash the whole phrenology period of our history?
Ubuntu Meltdown patches available
I agree with your first sentence, but let’s not forget the defective equipment that needs to be fixed or stabilized with medicine is the same equipment responsible for the decision to take it or not.
This is a shame a) in the specific case of this story, as it's a really interesting read around an important and compelling subject, and b) in the general case as it means your sensitivity around niche subjects may restrict your access to all kinds of information that you'd otherwise enjoy or benefit from.
Ah you're right. It is more tricky than what I imagined.

Right if I drop my bag on the ground it should immediately be free for all and available for police search. But trash is considered "abandoned".

I didn't know about easement but it makes sense thanks for pointing that out.
Money can be a thing of worship, like in the film Wolf of Wallstreet.
Well, good luck with that.
I know you're trying to be snarky, but he's responding to a very real accusation from our community.

Every time this question comes up, half of us freak out and scream that the FBI is trying to grab all of our deepest darkest secrets.

I'm not inclined to trust them very far on this issue either, but I still think we should take it as a good sign that Wray is aware of our concerns and that he publicly acknowledges their validity.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3522-1/

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3522-2/

Ubuntu 17.10: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3523-1/

These are fixes for Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754). Spectre (CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753) will be addressed later. See more information here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...
Let me break down what the article really says (it's pretty short):

> He also said that Intel expects to issue updates
> to its processors soon. More than 90 percent will be
> getting them within the week, and the rest by the end
> of January.

Intel expects 90 percent will "get an update."

90 percent of what?

It should be self-evident that Intel means 90 percent in whichever way gives them the largest percentage. I expect this means Intel discounts "older CPUs" that are "probably not in use." In other words, 90 percent of CPUs sold in the last N years for whatever N makes the percentage largest (5 years [1])

"The rest by the end of January" can be taken with a huge grain of salt. Intel is documenting and exposing an MSR to flush the [ed] branch predictor, but only for recent CPUs, and admits they aren't able to do so in a timely manner, or they would have said "100 percent."

[1] https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-issues-update...

"Intel has already issued updates for the majority of processor products introduced within the past five years. By the end of next week, Intel expects to have issued updates for more than 90 percent of processor products introduced within the past five years"

Edit: I incorrectly stated the MSR was for the TLB, it is not. It is for the branch predictor.
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While I think Assange has a good case against an extradition to the US, the chances of him successfully fighting it are not 100% and if I were in his shoes I would not risk it.
What does profitability have to do with an investment to bring a company to a region? I've never heard of a profit-sharing agreement between a company and city/local government.
I don't remember this scene. I might have to watch it again.