skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you not think "world class" implies significant expertise?
There are no credible sources claiming that Zuma failed. All the news we have heard is rumour and conjecture, with no two reports getting anything like a consistent story.

F9 S2 deorbited as expected. S2 got to orbit. Thus the payload got to orbit too.
Yes many tokens are being used as shares and trying to circumvent securities law.
I have a vested interest as a VC, but I disagree that VC funding is a negative signal. That's a very blanket statement to make, and there are lots of toxic VC-funded companies but also lots of amazing ones. (Similarly, there are tons of toxic non-VC companies and tons of amazing ones.)

The way I'd frame it is:

1) If you want to build a company that is venture scale, taking VC funding is a great option to consider. If you don't want to build such a company, VC funding is a very poor option.

2) There are good and bad VCs. The bad ones suck. The good ones will help you and support you even if the outcome is 2x or 0x. Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures articulates this attitude well in several posts:

a) "If you look at the distribution of outcomes in a venture fund, you will see that it is a classic power law curve, with the best investment in each fund towering over the rest, followed by a few other strong investments, followed by a few other decent ones, and then a long tail of investments that don’t move the needle for the VC fund.

But that long tail is comprised of entrepreneurs and their teams. People who have given years of their lives to a dream that was ultimately not realized.

And as I have written many times over the years on this blog, I spent the majority of my time on that long tail. This is irrational behavior if you think about fund economics, but I believe it is rational behavior if you think about firm reputation." (http://avc.com/2015/11/power-law-and-the-long-tail/)

b) "There are two interesting things here that I always think about. The first is that even the very best investors in the VC business only get a hit about 1/3 of the time. That means that they have their share of "slog it outs" and "hit the walls" too. I am certainly in that camp. The second is that we end up spending an incredible amount of time and energy (hopefully not money) on the 2/3 of our investments that don't work out. When everything goes well, you really don't need that much from a VC. Of course, I have added value in all of my winners. But its the ones that don't work that I have left my blood, sweat, and tears on. And that's the paradox of being a VC that cares. Which is the only kind of VC you want to work with."
(http://avc.com/2013/03/when-things-dont-work-out/)
Anybody know how to make this work in OSX, for those of us who don't want to "upgrade" to the train wreck that is High Sierra?
Also FedEx
Negative trend 6: adopting a trendy, complex web stack before you absolutely have to when a simple one would get you to market faster
How does the blockchain ensure that I can both verify that my vote was counted but can't sell my vote? https://youtu.be/BYRTvoZ3Rho describes one electronic voting system that's supposed to have those important properties, even though I don't fully all the details yet.
Show HN: Chatty – analyze texts to and from your friends
Ah the old "it's better to have a glass of water and a stale breadcrust than eat nothing at all".
a good API has documentation and wouldn't introduce random, breaking changes

The changes don't have to be breaking, if the HTML is well designed. Adding or removing an intermediate tag is OK as long as the data tags have identifiers to avoid having to write complex, fragile XPath queries.

Well established methods for authorization that is easy to use from code/cli and so on.

Basic Auth is very established and easy to use.
The one thing AMP does right is have a hard and fast set of rules that pages must follow. Page performance for regular web sites dies a death from a thousand cuts. Was is the web developer who added that last analytics tag that made it slow? Or was it the 12 other third-party tags that already existed? Unless you have a single self-contained team who control the entire stack, do a ground up rewrite, or have a dedicated performance team, it's hard to hold the line against a thousand little things that slow the web down.
> I think it's impressive that the media made you think he was the one responsible for that narrative

because he was. Is the media responsible for the wikileaks twitter account now?
Only what Intel provides, the updates are AFAIK encrypted.
Who knows. It is obvious why the US initially did not want to extradite Assange from the UK, because such an extradition would seem to have a low chance of success and even if it did work it would take a very long time. The UK may be a five eyes country but it also has a strongly independent judiciary.

To speculate, perhaps the US's original plan was to waiting for Assange to make his own way to a more pliant jurisdiction, and the whole Sweden case caught the US by surprise as well.

As soon as Assange ended up in the Ecuadorian embassy, the US would have had no incentive to file for extradition.
Emotional intelligence. You will certainly need to work with other people and a higher emotional intelligence helps you work more effectively with other people.

You'll understand your project's goals better, you'll work with your team more efficiently, and you'll manage your own emotions better.

There are two techniques for improving emotional intelligence in this article I wrote: https://www.climbuptheladder.com/the-importance-of-emotional....
I don't care at all about AMP really, but this:

> I'm of the persuasion that they can rank and display the results however they please, it's their site after all, so it's a non issue either way.

I don't get why anybody says this. Of course they are in control. Nobody can force them to do it differently (maybe the government but whatever).

Most people aren't saying that Google has no right to do what they're doing. People are saying that Google _should_ be doing it differently.
You need both.

According to https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301:

> CVE-2017-5715 (variant #2/Spectre) is an indirect branching poisoning attack that can lead to data leakage. This attack allows for a virtualized guest to read memory from the host system. This issue is corrected with microcode, along with kernel and virtualization updates to both guest and host virtualization software. This vulnerability requires both updated microcode and kernel patches. Variant #2 behavior is controlled by the ibrs and ibpb tunables (noibrs/ibrs_enabled and noibpb/ibpb_enabled), which work in conjunction with the microcode.
Preaching totalitarian propaganda is much easier and more glamorous than eg actually prosecuting murders (and other injustice) committed by local police departments.
I had to have hip arthroscopy because I had an impingement, leading to quite a bit of cartilage damage/labral tearing in the joint. They even had to reshape the end of the femur to remove the impingement. It's quite a recovery period of crutches, cane, etc. and the pain from the surgery was _supposed_ to be quite immense. Honestly, my hip hurt so bad for so long that even a day post-op it was less painful than it was when I went in. I only needed the opiates for a couple of days and used CBD once or twice a day for about a week- after that the pain was just a dull soreness.

Luckily, there was very little arthritis in the joint and three years post-op it's felt just fine and I've had no set backs whatsoever. Luckily I've not had to look into any type of long term pain management for anything.
> On what basis do you say that no extradition request has never been filed?

You're asking the parent to prove a negative, which is impossible. No public extradition request has ever been filed-- indeed, the United States has never so much as commented on it-- and so the burden of proof is on you to show that there is such a request. And no, links on "justice4assange.com" aren't convincing
> I would expect this would have been loads easier with even something really cheap like a MAX10 FPGA.

basically nothing is easier with an FPGA. faster, perhaps.
Google fired James Damore for a controversial gender memo – now he’s suing
Most of EU also has the equivalent of right to refuse service. You only can't chose to refuse service because of the customer belonging to a legally protected class. But they also still have to prove that was the cause, you can still just claim you simply don't like them.
> 2. "Most of Wikileaks' critics have 3 (((brackets around their names))) & have black-rim glasses. Bizarre. Tribalist symbol for establishment climbers?"

I'm confused, isn't the (((3 brackets))) a white supremacist thing for identifying Jewish people?
Australia overwhelmingly uses cane sugar, but we still have plenty of obesity.

I think its less to do with the type of sugar consumed... and more about how much we consume.
A lot of people don’t know this but [insert literally any non-trivial fact here].

(Sorry for the sarcasm, but I couldn't help myself.)
Great interview! I would definitely be interested in a history of Unreal in full book length form. And if anyone hasn't already perused "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner on the early days of Id Software, it is such a good read.

Regarding the Haskell love. I believe Unreal contributed to the design of a research functional programming language prototype called Cayenne back in the day:

Cayenne—a language with dependent types

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=289451

I think another historical note is how everybody developed on SGI machines in the late 1990s. Primarily, due to Maya modeling. But the 3D graphics API wars were certainly a factor:

Direct 3D and OpenGL by Paul Hsieh

http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/windoze/OpenGLvsDirect3D.html

And, yeah, MSDOS ZZT from 1991 is still playable via Internet Archive ;)

https://archive.org/details/msdos_ZZT_1991
There's a 'too big to fail' thing going on here I think, because what you've said about Intel is exactly how I felt about Equifax's breach. At a certain point of terrible-ness people just shrug and carry on.
Like others have said typically the microcode update is applied by both the BIOS and kernel. Typically the kernel has the latest microcode.

However, there could be an issue where updating the microcode at kernel time can cause an issue due to a microcode version (or lack of) from the BIOS.

Only other thing I could think of is the microcode update that disables TSX, I believe, could only disable it if TSX wasn't used yet.

So I suppose it's also possible that the microcode has to be updated by the BIOS because some boot process prevents the kernel from being effective with its microcode update step.
I know that Assagne supporters just treat it as a given that the Swedish charges are a cover for him to be extradited to the United States, but I do want to wearily point out, yet again, that there has never been any actual evidence of this.
For what it's worth, you can respond to GitHub issues via the notification emails you get sent. That's kind of like a mailinglist.

I've never really needed to interact with devs much, so I'm quite naive on mailinglists vs issues. The biggest thing I guess I see missing with modern systems is the lack of threading.

What capabilities/benefits do mailinglists have over modern approaches? What functionality has been lost?
As a bonus, under EU law, once Assange was extradited from Sweden to the UK, he couldn't then be re-extradited to the US without the permission of both Sweden and the UK (as per Article 28 of the 2002 EU Council Framework Decision (2002/584/JHA). So the options are:

1. The UK will not assent to to Assange's extradition to the US, so extraditing him to Sweden will protect him from extradition.

2. The UK will assent to Assange's extradition, but for mysterious reasons, they didn't just hand him over, when he was in their custody. Despite their status as a close ally of the US, and their long standing history of handing over anyone the US asks for, no questions asked (Gary McKinnon, Richard O'Dwyer, the NatWest Three, and many more).

Plus, neither the UK nor Sweden can legally extradite him to the US without a binding assurance that the death penalty will not be sought, so...yeah. The more you think about it, the less sense extradition makes as an explanation for the Swedish problems.

If extradition was going to happen, it would have happened when Assange was in British custody (and it didn't) or it would happen after Assange left the EU and was in a more pliant jurisdiction (ie, not Sweden).
> AMP preloads the minimal content before the click, removing the round-trip. That's the whole magic, and the only way to get the 'instant' load.

There is another way which enables almost instant loads. Turn off js completely. Try it yourself before you disregard it. It literally turns page loads instant over a regular home connection.
I miss DromEd so much... that was the only phase of my life where I was into map editing.
I constantly need to remind myself of this.
I don't want to diminish the success that this company is having being run in their own way, but give me a break with these blog posts.

VC is a "trend to avoid"? Avoid "Hypergrowth"? I guess companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest and a hundred others all really messed up.

I mean I could go point by point and give examples that are the opposite of these trends, but that isn't any more meaningful than these suggestions. You can choose to run a company however you want, and you should. If you believe these things are bad, don't do them. Attract employees that agree with you. The market will decide if you are right or not.

But enough with the blog posts about it, especially if they are dismissing critical tools that many companies use very successfully. Every company is different, every product is different, every team is different. Use some common sense on what tools make sense for you, and keep an open mind.
Forbes on Why Your ICO Investment Is Going to Zero
> While I'm going all nostalgic, anyone remember playing UT on Linux?

Not the original UT, but 2004 had a Linux version. Damn, that's a long time since I tried that game the last time. Gotta get myself a real licensed one though, back when I was younger we shared a serial key and well, someone got the serial banned on most servers somehow...

What wondered young me was that UT2k4 was able to run without any compilation or whatsoever on any Linux system no matter which kernel version, distribution, driver version, xorg version, ... Older me knows it's due to static compilation, but still absolutely awesome given that the only binary that does the same is busybox in static compiled mode, everything other will break when crossing distribution boundaries.
Thanks for telling, I found the rebase extension on my own but I don't know what Mercurial users are using unless you tell me and I would not have found the evolve extension on my own :D

I will probably check it out, to be fair it seems unlikely to "unseat the incumbent" git, but I've sampled my fair share of VCS including Git, SVN, CVS, RCS, Fossil, and have never really made it around to Mercurial. None of those others that I know of recently seem to have a vocal following, other than both of Git and Mercurial now, I guess.
Ask HN: Have you heard of the Tidex crypto exchange?
Is it any good?
no debian 9?
They did it themselves by showing bias in the US elections.

He doesn't need to be a russian stooge to have credibility drop to the level of fox news.
Yep, that was Assange either being ignorant to a point stretching past credibility or anti-semitic.
This attitude is exactly what makes the ad networks money. You really think thise small sites will continue without a sustainable source of real, verifiable revenue?

People who make content worth something to me should get that money honestly, not baiting me onto the site to get ad revenue and subtly lowering my quality of living and happiness.

Nobody deserves ad revenue.
My first thought when landing on their page was "is this serious or a The Onion-style parody?"
> If there is something, somebody will share it.
I meant post tax earnings, of course.
Avoid trends in general, unless they make sense.

Well, that's what an AI told me to do.
Evorus: A Crowd-Powered Conversational Assistant
At the end of the day, on even these stocks, the value is still predicated upon either those assets being sold and the value being distributed, or those incomes turning into a dividend or liquidation value. A business that reinvests its income into its own business does to because it believes that the return on that investment in the future exceeds the rate of return demanded by its equity investors. Otherwise, doing that would reduce the value of the stock.

It's impossible to assess, of course, but the true value of any equity is the net present value of the future cash it will generate for its holders. Full stop. Equity holders don't care about value in the business that won't translate into dollars coming out of the stock at some point in time.
I work in publishing, and tangentially with children's books published inside and outside of China. My main observation is that the Chinese market for children's books (read: parents) is totally uninterested in books produced in China. 99% of children's books published in China are imported and translated from other countries, mostly the US.

In other words, the (politically-influenced) Chinese publishing industry is producing didactic children's books, but Chinese consumers are not interested in those books at all.
It's a nightmare! I'd appreciate any advice or if someone had a similar experience?
don't forget to update your initramfs, else on reboot it won't be applied

on debian: update-initramfs -u

check with dmesg | grep microcode
> Wray said the bureau was unable to gain access to the content of 7,775 devices in fiscal 2017 — more than half of all the smartphones it tried to crack in that time period — despite having a warrant from a judge.

So if 7,775 is "more than half," a conservative estimate of how many phone's they're attempting to crack per year (so far) is about 10,000?

> “We’re not interested in the millions of devices of everyday citizens,” he said in New York at Fordham University’s International Conference on Cyber Security. “We’re interested in those devices that have been used to plan or execute terrorist or criminal activities.”

How many thousands of terrorist cellphones do you really think they've seized in 2017? Maybe a dozen? This is the FBI, remember, so it's only counting phones seized on U.S. soil (goodness knows what the CIA's tally is, but that's a whole separate issue.) I haven't been on the lookout for "authorities append would-be terrorist" stories, and those definitely appear from time to time, but they're not a daily occurrence.

Terrorism isn't a significant factor in this issue, as a question of the FBI's day-to-day operations. It's just a word that surveillance hawks have discovered gets results. I'm sure the ~9,999 non-terrorist phones they're trying to crack were owned by some pretty terrible people, but if the FBI were saying "give us a backdoor into all your devices so it'll be easier for us to go after online-poker rings and weed dealers," they'd be laughed out of the room.
Respect! Without him we would know anything about Clintons, Pizzagates, Obamas juicy hidden secrets. Big thanks you really proven that our governments are liars..
It definitely still had BSPs. UT2003 had terrain rendering that seemed custom (not likely octrees but could have used quadtrees for all I know) and much more of the environmental detail was made up of static meshes (meshes were culled based on the bsp but didn't contribute to it) presumably because GPUs could churn through them faster. The basic BSP editing was still there though, kind of amazing how long they kept that unchanged.
The "extradite to a laxer jurisdiction so you can re-extradite to the real destination" idea is fun, but the legal system doesn't allow it.

Under EU law, if Assange was extradited from the UK to Sweden, then both the UK and Sweden would have to approve of him being re-extradited to the UK. So either the UK will approve of Assange being extradited (and extraditing to Sweden isn't needed) or they won't (and extraditing to Sweden won't help).
Indeed the non spender is in the majority.

"Whales" - the term for those spending thousands - although few in numbers, are the ones accounting for most of the profit.

https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-whales-of-microtrans...
I'm not sure why. My sister has an Instagram where she takes a couple of pictures of her kids a day, and has for the past five or six years, and I quite enjoy it. I know many of my family members do too. I visit a URL that just shows me her posts once a week or so, and just scroll to see what my niece and nephew have been up to.
I'm already adjusting upwards for that; life expectancies didn't reach 50 (in the US) until the 1920's[1], and the posts I'm responding to are talking about the Medieval period or earlier, when life expectancy at birth would've been 30 or so. Some people did live into their 60's or longer but they were very much the exception, even among adults.

[1] https://www.seniorliving.org/history/1900-2000-changes-life-...
What are some examples of a trendy, complex web stack? Or, what are some examples of a non-trendy, non-complex web stack?
It is a shame to see Assange's welfare reduced to being a bargaining chip like this, but one imagines that he has upset too many powerful people and it is only a matter of time for him until he is back in the justice system and shuffled into a cell somewhere. I'll be counting him lucky if he avoids something like Guantanamo.

It really amazes me how many people claim there are no conspiracies against Assange though - the number of things that went from 'conspiracy theory' to 'uncomfortable fact' because of Wikileaks is obviously no evidence of anything.

I remember what it was like watching discussion of the 5 Eyes before Wikileaks; people were written off as cranks for opinions that turned out to be very well rooted in fact. If Wikileaks' leadership gets shut down, we are going to lose a very comforting level of insight into how decisions are actually being made by people in power; and what the moral realities of government actually are.
Running a Kickstarter project that’s late
some of the comments in this thread are really concerning to me. i bet assange was in their good books before their political candidate lost.
I'd frame 1) slightly differently, as there are many cases of bootstrapped unicorns.

Time is also a currency, so you make a trade-off between time (extra years of your life spent acquiring funds to scale, and delayed product launch) and control.

Time is also an issue when you have competition, in the sense that your competitors can get there first by raising money.
Or his appearances on Russia Today (RT)
Potential iOS flaw – auto download apps bypasses device restrictions
I have just discovered that several iPhone only apps have been downloaded to my iPad using the automatic download feature from iCloud.
For example I was able to use WhatsApp and Fiverr on my iPad.
Any potential for bypassing other restrictions with this?
In the latest season of Black Mirror, the most dangerous technology is cars: https://medium.com/@galencro/whats-up-with-car-accidents-and...
> if the dividend yield is high enough

Are you not then still betting that the stock continues to offer dividends / offers them at the same rate?