skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's kind of a scam that you don't own the sidewalk but they force you to maintain it.
Google was just fined 3 billion EUR for the advantage they gave to Google Shopping in their search, it is very much expected that if they continue with AMP, the same will happen again.
Other commenters have addressed turning off kpti (nokpti boot flag), and Linus has said any additional protections should be toggle-able: https://lwn.net/Articles/743712/

So worst case you compile your own kernel
For anyone considering this, please note that if the flash is iTTL-compatible, you'll be limited to 1/500s. (This is because of the flash duration at full power of the Nikon iTTL flashes of the same vintage.) A "dumb" flash will sync at all speeds since the centre pin is live at all times and the flash doesn't talk to the camera through any other pins; your t0.5 and trigger become the limiting factors. (Many radio triggers will not work reliably above 1/500, and only a very few are usable above 1/1000. A shoe-mounted flash or a cable connection doesn't have a trigger-speed limitation as such.)

If only that 6MP sensor had a broader ISO range. If you're not shooting for the big print, 6MP goes a long way.
It seems like you just gave me permission to stop discussing. Subtle, yet still offensive. That's a neat trick, I'll have to try that. "Hey everyone who disagrees with me! You should all definitely feel totally free to stop the discussion here."

The number of my assumptions about you is three:

1) You feel guilty about driving and good about biking. Source: your words.

2) You care about human life. That's just extrapolation from 1) and from the fact that you were interested in (at least the comments on) this article, and is moreover, charitable towards you. Take that away and I'd be assuming you're something much worse.

3) You feel conflicted when you get behind the wheel. Probably the least fair assumption of the three. No real grounds for it, other than 1) & 2) and the fact of how strenuously you defend driving (but not in a way that proclaims it's right and just, rather in a way that says I'm wrong to remind people about it).

The rest of it is about people in general, people I've witnessed talking about this in various contexts in the past. I see I used the pronoun "you" occasionally in that portion, so if that was confusing, I apologize, it's the usage of "you" that means something more like "one" or "someone."

You've also made some assumptions about me, which I don't find "ok" at all, but I let most of those go as the cartoons they are. My flaws that you want me to enumerate (which would in no way affect your own, even if it turned out I was a mass murderer or an angel) do not include driving a car, and as I said, that's relevant because that's how I know it's possible to avoid it. And it's also the source of some other flaws you're witnessing, including being rude, pissed-off and fresh-out of patience with people saying how messed up the world and the roads are, while contributing to the problem. People hate being confronted with that shit, more than anything else. I don't care, this is not your "safe space" any more than the roads are mine. Nor am I an ambassador or an advocate trying to gently coax and sell people on something. I know most of them would sooner jump off a bridge than change voluntarily, and you implied that very thing. I just want to be a pain in the butt and remind them they're doing something that benefits themselves at the expense of others, and pissing people off like me in the process who have kids and lives also.
Without taking Intel's side there's another perspective.

Meltdown/Spectre are severe and perhaps even unprecedented security problems but if you put them in the overall security context there are many other issues that outrank them at least from the perspective of non-technical users.

1. A majority of Americans using credit had their private data compromised in the 2017 Equifax breach. [0] That's just one of what are now countless breaches of data. The damage from Meltdown/Spectre is somewhat theoretical at this point whereas the data breaches have led to real fraud against countless individuals and business.

2. Even recent OS versions have large numbers of security bugs--see Greg Kroah-Hartmann's comments on obsolete kernels for specific Linux examples. [1]

3. State actors ranging from the US to North Korea have well-funded operations to steal or corrupt data. If they really want your data they will probably get it even if Meltdown/Spectre had not been discovered.

Finally it's only fair to point out that some of the claims of Intel being disingenuous on the august Hacker News forum [2] turned out to be overblown--other processors are subject to some of the same problems and many users will not notice much difference in the patched systems.

[0] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/09/equifax-data-breac...

[1] http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/01/06/meltdown-status/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16064545
If you want something other than money, money will often be the quickest way to get it.
> Isn't the whole point of protected classes based on being something you can't change about yourself?

No. I can change my religious affiliation, my choice to engage in collective labor activism, and choice to engage in political activities. The first two are federally protected and the all three are state protected in California in employment.

Immutability, or even not being a matter of personal choice, have nothing to do with labor protections. In fact, labor protections are often about freedom from coercion on matters of choice.

(Not, of course, that the usual concept of fluid gender is that it is a matter of choice or subject to personal control.)
Very true but this will still have a non-zero effect. People who don't want to pay for the sugary stuff might also not want to travel out of the area to stock up on sugary drinks.

I grew up in a state with stricter fireworks laws than the one that we bordered but the border was a 6 hour drive away. Nobody I knew made the journey to get the good stuff.
The binaries in question aren't GH's or SF's, they're the project's, and since this synching is under the project's control, I don't see the problem.
The steemit coins, as I understand it, have little to no other use (unless 'speculation/gambling' is a use case) so they don't need to be crypto coins at all. Instead they could be magic internet points that are all accounted for and transferable on steemit's website, with options there to buy more or to sell them for cash.
This was a really awesome and helpful explanation! Thank you very much! I read the other article and was left thinking "Yeah but what's wrong with the other style?" which I might've just missed but this explanation was great!
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It's sarcastic? Tongue-in-cheek?
I stand corrected, the MSR is to flush the branch prediction state. Updating my comment above.
This is not the choice the users get. The profit from tracking goes disproportionally to Google/Facebook, not creators of mobile games. So more tracking like financial information will make that disbalance even worse making it rather pointless for mobile game industry.
The question really boils down to over what timeframe is shareholder value measured? A long-term approach would take into account externalities like global warming which affect future business operations and future shareholder value.

A short-term approach would look only to the current price of stock, regardless of all other considerations, justifying such things as massive layoffs, selling off core business assets, etc.
You're right, the system is not fair, and it's FAR from being perfect. The "innocent until proven guilty" part bothers the heck out of me. But the story doesn't end with me or you. Recall that there are actual criminals in the world and "the system" is trying to balance public safety with the rights of the individual. It's tricky, and is just becoming trickier.

I don't know how to solve it, but the answer can't be stripping our law enforcement officers completely of the right to investigate what a person did or is doing.
>but he's responding to a very real accusation from our community.

No he isn't. His whole point is that the FBI can't know for sure which of us is a terrorist or "bad guy" unless they can sift through all of our data and all of our devices to find out. Given the history of the US government classifying every sort of activist, from quaker to environmentalist as "terrorists", his argument should be tremendously unpersuasive to everyone who thinks it through.

http://abcnews.go.com/News/Blotter/fbi-spied-peta-greenpeace...
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but it's not physically broken... it's just a different way of connecting to it... so yes I would call that hard bricked, but not broken, since you don't need to replace components
I opened this link thinking “finally, someone will explain why blockchains are great, with some solid practical examples: ycombinator themselves”

Nope. Still hype and noise.
I published my own list on reddit a while ago of the reasons.

And not a single media mention, the entire change in perception was either through Wikileaks’ actions and words, entirely through reading mostly their own Twitter.

Edit, found it:

Some of the reasons why I don't like WikiLeaks:

1. Their cooperation with Roger Stone: "Well, it could be any number of things. I actually have communicated with Assange. I believe the next tranche of his documents pertain to the Clinton Foundation but there’s no telling what the October surprise may be."

2. "Most of Wikileaks' critics have 3 (((brackets around their names))) & have black-rim glasses. Bizarre. Tribalist symbol for establishment climbers?"

3. Fueling the whole utterly bizarre 'spirit cooking' thing. The world's most pre-eminent performance artist invites the brother of the campaign manager of a presidential candidate for dinner? I'm sure that the degrees of separation to fucking Trump are shorter than that, but no, Hillary is literally the devil.
And the whole 'election is rigged' thing with "Trump won't be allowed to win the election"

4. Calling out the Clinton Foundation for receiving money from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is one of the world's wealthiest countries, and the Clinton Foundation is one of the world's more pre-eminent charities. They have many other donors and Saudi money goes many other places. And the Saudi royal family numbers in the tens of thousands. Sure, some of them will be involved with ISIS. But seriously.

5. "WikiLeaks offers award for #LabourLeaks. Wikileaks offers £20,000 reward for #LabourLeaks with information on how the Labour Party’s top officials have attempted to stop Jeremy Corbyn becoming and staying on as leader." Any chance of a reward for information pertaining to Trump or Russia? I didn't think so.

6. The RT/WikiLeaks connection

7. Leaking Clinton library records. The chilling effect here is insane.

8. Hitchens, back in 2010: "The WikiLeaks founder is an unscrupulous megalomaniac with a political agenda."

Almost entirely WikiLeaks themselves, posted before the election of Trump even, no colouring in of my opinion by the lamestream media.
I'm still getting the same even though the status page indicates all repos are back.
a) they could use ETH, but if you launch your own token you get two advantages:

- funding (ICO)
- an economic incentive for attracting early users (give tokens for using your app in the promise that they will be worth more in the future)

b) if a user earns tokens that value over time, that's a huge win: imagine if all the time you spend on apps today, generating valuable data to a few companies, would generate in turn some of these tokens back to you?

Besides, what do you mean by "closed" exactly? The data being on the public blockchain should actually encourage integration by default. For example, several new dapps are being built on top of IPFS for data, using uPort for identity, Aragon for governance, etc.
Unless you're straight-up stealing, you have to persuade people to hand over their money. The way you do that is by convincing them that what they're getting in return is valuable.

Unfortunately people tend make value assessments that I think are horrible, and that causes entire industries to pivot in ways I don't like. For example, I love Nintendo's $60 games that come with plenty of content and no microtransactions. I don't like "free" smartphone games that do the opposite.

However, huge numbers of people have determined that getting nickel-and-dimed with thousands of dollars in microtransactions is something that adds value to their lives. I certainly don't think I have any right to object to their conclusion, except in the way that I'm already objecting: by refusing to spend any money on microtransactions. It just stings a little that I'm quickly finding myself in the minority.

It sounds like you're going through something similar with respect to the cryptocurrency market.
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Off the top of my head: IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Intel ... I'm sure I'm missing a lot of them
It seems the CIA and State Department succeeded at their objective of making Wikileaks irrelevant. Do you have any evidence at all of him being a Russian stooge? Most of the American public has become State Department stooges.
>Putting him in a GIANT diplomatic bag...

Wikipedia mentions a previous time this may have happened.

"In 1964, a Moroccan-born Israeli double agent named Mordechai Ben Masoud Louk (also known as Josef Dahan) was drugged, bound, and placed in a diplomatic mailing crate at the Egyptian Embassy in Rome, but was rescued by Italian authorities.[4] The box that he had been sealed into "had almost certainly been used before for human cargo,"[5] including possibly for an Egyptian military official who had defected to Italy several years before but then disappeared without a trace before reappearing under Egyptian custody and facing trial."
The extradition request that the US never filed?

(That's the part I never understood... why would there be a need to spirit Assange from a Five Eyes country and very close ally of the US to one that is not before springing a surprise extradition?)
> Flash photography is a balancing act between the light that comes from the flash strobes and the light of the environment. It's very popular these days to take portraits where the background is blurred, often significantly, but the subject is still in sharp focus. Background blurring is a product of the physical aperture of the lens and the distance to the subject. Opening the lens up to create more blur in the out-of-focus areas requires that the shutter speed be increased to compensate for the additional light entering the camera. A typical sunny day outdoor exposure might be f/2.8 at 1/3200s. This is far beyond the typical sync speed of a focal plane camera.

I found this to be a very helpful explanation of why I would want to use a leaf shutter. TFA explains it in terms of your flash "competing with ambient light", and shows a lot of sample pictures of a properly exposed subject over an underexposed background. While visually interesting, it's probably not an effect I would want to go for when taking pictures of my kids.

Putting it in terms of being able to use the largest aperture possible in broad daylight makes more sense. There have been plenty of situations where I have been shooting in harsh daylight at f/1.7, and would have liked to use my pop-up flash to soften the light a bit, but the camera doesn't allow it due to max sync speed limitations.

Unfortunately it doesn't sound like leaf-shutter lenses are the solution for me, as the $1800 minimum for a single leaf shutter lens is more than I am willing to pay for an entire camera + lens setup.
I recall Unreal Tournament (1999) used octrees and not BSPs. Was this changed between Unreal and UT? I recall comparisons between Quake 3 (also 1999) and UT engines noted the spatial model impacting the performance of certain map designs: indoor vs outdoor.

While I'm going all nostalgic, anyone remember playing UT on Linux? There were so few good Linux games back then. I think I played it until the hard drive platter was thread-bare.
what dangers are more dangerous?
Moritz Lipp's twitter is actually interesting to follow. He is reconstructing images which do not fit into cache. Quite amazing.

https://twitter.com/mlqxyz/status/950378419073712129

(I personally do not have a twitter account but was looking for the paper and stumbled upon it, glad I did!)
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I mean, we have attempted (at least in part) to create a system where acting selfishly in pursuit of money forces you to create value for society. That's literally the intent of the idea of capitalism.

It's a good idea - people will act selfishly instinctively, so if you can align that to make it good, then everything works.

Of course, we know raw capitalism doesn't work (e.g: monopolies break it). So our systems have all sorts of hacks to try and fix it. The problem is that so many of the richest people just focus on breaking those fixes and finding gaps to exploit to avoid creating value for society.

Currently, a lot of the groups in power across the world are actively trying to make more of those gaps they can slip through, and remove the layers of fixes we have put in to support the people that are not helped by that simple system.

Yes, it's good for people to want to make money in a capitalist system, assuming the system is perfect and that there is no way to break it is to ignore reality.
Going from WorldCraft (Half-Life) to DromEd (Thief, Thief 2) was a similar experience for me. No more leaks.
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Wait, how is he a Russian government stooge again?
They haven't yet, but they will. Let's wait a few more years.

I think Rust is – at the moment – the biggest language that will usher that change.
Source: Verizon also under pressure to cancel upcoming Huawei phone launch
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There's a company building a distributed grid exchange system so your neighbors could get a slight discount by buying your power as opposed to that of the electricity company, and you would make more than you would by selling to the electricity company. Currently piloting this idea across a couple places in Australia and SE Asia.

https://powerledger.io/

Edit: I clarified a sentence.
Or an internet connected or proxied web server with normal web server security precautions.
Articles like these should come with a disclosure: "the authors own bitcoin and augur" or something to that effect.
Check out: SubEthaEdit [1]. It's been around a long time, and it's a beautiful product. Caveats: it costs money (worth it IMO), and it's Mac only.

[1] https://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
> Apple would prefer that everything be conducted in apps on mobile

Or they just want to sell more phones, which makes Apple way more money than any conversion of web traffic to in-app purchases this privacy stance could bring. Or—shocker—their management wants to make a device they themselves enjoy using?

All these suppositions have the same amount of evidence: practically zero.
As much as I dislike Comcast, I voted you up because I once also had this magic serenity for a few years.

Then I switched to Comcast for TV and it all went down the tubes. Random outages (sometimes daily), substandard speeds, Netflix speeds suffering (or stuttering) at peak times, etc.

Who knows whether this just reversion to the mean, or the techs botching the install. Even "reddit trick to email the Comcast VP" didn't fix it (though that did get a quick response).
Possibly. Part of Google's advertising revenue comes from AdWords and YouTube ads. This revenue is split with content creators, enabling them to invest in more and better content to the benefit of their users.

More search ad revenue allows Google to invest more in search. Better search could benefit content creators by giving them more and better targeted users. Users benefit from better search because they are able to find the content they are looking for faster.
It all comes back to governance and taking care of shareholders.

Which explains why companies are like they are -- if the board had a fiduciary responsibility to employees first and shareholders second, maybe workers would be better off.
Look at the source of motherfuckingwebsite.com. You'll find that it loads a certain analytics script. Motherfucker indeed.
Ever wondered why wiki leaks never published a damning post on Russia? Or why they chose to attack Hillary and not Trump. Or why they facilitated Snowden's passage to Russia? Or why Sweden dropped the case once Trump became president
When I was in news television in ~2005, we dabbled with replacing iNEWS with something Web-friendly and nice, but the Web landscape just wasn't there. It seems like a million years ago, in terms of the Web. Our frustrations were the same, since iNEWS and ENPS are just slightly different flavors of shit sandwich, and while a typical ENG rundown can plod along with one-active-writer-per-slug the editing locks were starting to really get in the way of some other things we wanted to do. Reading this was just like being back in those meetings.

Nice to see someone have the exact same idea and execute well. If you wanted to take on Avid, I bet you could firm up some ENG-type integrations (wire integration would be a showstopper) and get some traction in newsrooms, all of whom are having their thin budgets bled by AP and Avid. MediaCentral is a hot pile of garbage, I hear, so Avid might be handing you the opportunity as we speak.

Showrunner has a big challenge in front of it taking on the Final Draft religion, but man, if you guys crack that nut...
Indeed, this is exactly the topic of the OP article.

They mean you have nothing to hide form them. They still insiste upon their own privacy:

> "Things inside your house are to be guarded," [Police Chief Kroeker] told WW. "Those that are in the trash are open for trash men and pickers and--and police. And so it's not a matter of privacy anymore."

> Hours later, the chief issued a press release complaining that WW had gone through "my personal garbage at my home." KATU promptly took to the airwaves declaring, "Kroeker wants Willamette Week to stay out of his garbage."

> A few moments later, [the mayor's] office issued a prepared statement. "I consider Willamette Week's actions in this matter to be potentially illegal and absolutely unscrupulous and reprehensible," it read. "I will consider all my legal options in response to their actions."
I never worked on the Quake one but the Unreal Editor is where I started getting creative with computers - both by creating maps and fiddling with Unreal Script to change behaviors and build mutators.
For the mapping aspect, as a 10-something year old - it was super weird having to think in reverse at first - but then it got just natural. Think of being a huge block of clay and working from the inside.

As the Unreal Editor evolved it just got better.

The best part of the early Unreal editor was the "skybox" hack that you would have to create basically a small box placed somewhere in the map with the inside painted as the sky (or whatever panorama you wanted players to see when they looked at the sky).

There was no better feeling to me as a kid than opening up a map like DM-Deck16 in the Unreal Editor, and investigating how the genius mappers had created this or that part of the map (especially the toxic zones).
This one looks amazing. I had a side-project, Terraflow, with the exact same goals. The project is on the graveyard now, but the fact there is a market for things like that makes me feel great. At least the idea was good :)
Ask HN: How have you hacked the job search process?
Applying to jobs nowadays feels like throwing applications into black holes. What specific tools or strategies have you found to be the most effective? What potential new strategies could work in 2018?
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