skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe one is just better at PR than the other? FB manipulates people through notifications and ordering in news feed; Google does it with notifications and ordering in search results. I don't see a substantial difference.
> > and of all things, hilariously defaulting to 'no'

> It does not default to "no" since the default is to run MSE / Defender.

I think that it's reasonable to read the grandparent's post as meaning "defaulting to 'no' under certain conditions on the system". It would surprise me if there weren't plenty of users out there who have legacy workflows with antiquated antivirus software still running, either because they set it up and haven't changed it or because their local tech geeks set it up and they don't know how to change it. I know that, as I've tried gradually (and unsuccessfully) to ease back into Windows after a long time away, it's been hard for me to believe in Defender as a full AV solution, and my first instinct was to run old favourites like ClamAV as an extra layer of defence.
Intelligence May Stem from a Basic Algorithm in the Human Brain
Doubling headcount from 3 -> 6 is quite different than from 450 -> 909.
World on a Wire (Welt am Draht) - German movie from 1972 similar to the Matrix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire

Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky film from 1979 on the indifference of aliens and humans' inability to comprehend alien intelligence. Somewhat like Solaris.

The Incident (El Incidente) - a nightmare time-loop movie and possibly the most disturbing movie I've ever seen written and directed by Mexican director Isaac Ezban. You can watch it on Netflix. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3528756/

Speaking of Ezban, Cosas Feas / Nasty Stuff is a disturbing sci-fi short he did in 2009 available on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/65601847

One more: They're Made of Meat is available on YouTube and only 7 minutes long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfPdhsP8XjI starring the guy from Cash Cab.
You don’t see any logical inconsistency in saying that being paid by Putin doesn’t imply that Assange works for him?

Besides the fact that I see quite a difference between RT and the other outlets you’ve mentioned (I don’t remember multiple journalists quitting from those other organizations because they were ‘being used to spread propaganda’), my answer was to show the multitudes of questionable connections and even more questionable judgements can’t just be reduced down to something that is conveniently dismissed.
Cheung notes that children in China consistently score higher on academic tests compared to children in the U.S. and Mexico.

If we’re going to play this game, which culture’s children’s books teach kids more about honesty, I wonder?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/how-so...
> ...what? What kind of error-rate? How long could you sustain that? How'd you manage that speed having to glance between source and keyboard?

I'm not sure what kind of error rate. Currently without complete formal training (I did the first stage of Mavis Beacon maybe twice about 6 years ago), I'm at probably 90WPM and I can write without glancing between source and keyboard (Actually, something I like doing is typing while looking directly at someone else. It creeps them out :^) ).

It was weird because the incomplete formal training has actually increased my error rate, I'm using more fingers than I originally did (originally I used maybe 2 - 3 at most) but different fingers like to "step-in" now, which makes it more difficult. It doesn't help that I've switched between QWERTY and workman's layout several times (I can never seem to get the vim bindings nice :c).
"marketing is not bad, and is not a waste"

nah. while not always bad, most of the time it looks like a prisoners dilemma
Note: We don't actually know what this microcode contains. It could be a bug fix for the one that came out a few days ago, a bug maybe not present on your generation of CPU
As long as you safely slow down before you approach the ground, it's not.
I've disabled defender due to high CPU usage on machines that had to slice mpegs into jpegs with near constant work.

The machine was slicing up 11 channels of 24fps videos into jpegs, so 264 jpegs/s at 720p and 24 bit color.

I've had friends and coworkers that have hit the same CPU issues with big git repos and defender.

It seems like Defender has problems with getting hit with tons of small files in quick succession, but really I know very little about it.
> Naturally the current crowd have their own ways.

The whole situation with Michael Wolff is a little worse than staff just taking notes considering he kind of just kept showing up at the White House and got a couple hundred interviews over half a year.
That link shows Meltdown in reference only to High Sierra, not Sierra. What am I missing?
LML: Lightweight Markup Language (1998)
> You (and colleagues) must have a strange workload.

Sometimes it's something as easy as installing the printer driver for a C1028i printer. On 10.13, it's stuck on "Configuring printer" forever. The printer driver is the currentmost available from the vendor, and the OS fully patched.

Or something as grave as the famous empty password root backdoor. This alone is sufficient for me to not upgrade as long as possible - when something like this manages it into production, what else got missed?
It's a currency trading platform - like all businesses created for the sole purposes of making money, but that's certainly a more prominent mission in this type of company. It's about money, and it's purpose is to help make more money. It's not surprising that this kind of business attracts a certain type of personality and people.
I don't think you can. As an H1b, the only allowed sources of active income are your H1b sponsors.
The problem (requiring the cold reboot of the VM) is that they masked the PCID bit off in the CPUID, so the VM thinks it is running on a CPU that doesn't support PCID. Obviously they've stopped doing this with the new update, but you have to cold reboot (not warm) for the newly enabled feature to be visible.

Presumably they did this to make it possible to hot migrate VMs between old hosts that don't support PCID, and new ones that do. Which, with hindsight, was not a good tradeoff.
Slight correction: The kernels released only address Meltdown, Spectre is yet to be fixed.
Nice. A large improvement. Have been waiting for this for a while since it was announced that it was sold.

No idea if anyone working on sourceforge is likely to be here or not but I would love to know if I could get an API of the projects there or even just a list. I would like to add more of souceforge into searchcode.com and would prefer to not scrape the site.
I half thought he was going to talk about using ME to push updates to Intel-based machines. Thank god they have a backdoor to fix security issues! ;-)
Browserling allows Cameroonians to stay connected on social media
You need to add in 2000 sq ft of solar panels, mounted. As well.
I’ve always hated them. They are basically machines for beaming unavoidable ads into your face. No thank you.

One time I tore a piece of the in-flight magazine to cover the screen because it didn’t have an “off” function (you could only dim it) and the flight attendant gave me shit because it was supposedly a fire hazard. Uh huh.
Sell something. If someone wants to buy from you, then solve the problem of delivering that thing they want to buy.

Don’t solve a problem until you have a paying customer to solve it for.
Is the issue the icon or the carousel being at the top? I just checked and the carousel had both AMP and non-AMP content for me.
Of course, since the Dogecoin client software hasn't been updated in the past two years it lacks the rather substantial performance optimisations that Bitcoin has developed over that time period, so it's not clear how well it would actually cope if it ever had to handle a transaction rate anywhere near its theoretical limit. (Or, for that matter, if miners are actually willing to process that many transactions.)
So do the hungry, the lost, and the forgotten.
Are you sitting on next-generation battery tech the rest of us don't know about?
Given that Linux (and most other VM guest OSes of note) support CPU hotplug, shouldn't vMotion have just given the VM a new, second CPU with PCID, and then removed the first one?
Beijing district court dismisses lawsuit against Bitcoin exchanges – TechNode
https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution

They claim no, due to microarchitectural differences in their branch predictor behavior. This is variant 2 we're talking about here.
...and it was as if a million people typed sudo apt-get update at once.
Ummm.. Rob Dubbin was mentioned as the amateur coder. Slow down there :)
No other Unix-style tool has reached so far into programmer land. Needing all these great docs and lessons is just what it takes to get this type of tool widespread adoption. Some things are just kinda hard, and managing code is one of them.
Most images of black holes are illustrations
Model Training
> left my maps with a host of problems usually related to planes not lining up correctly

Note that this was most likely an issue with the editors people were creating at the time. AFAIK nobody has managed to build the original QuakeEd's source code and that one didn't had those issues (mainly because it didn't allow much manipulation in the first place - most brushes are axis aligned and neatly arranged on the grid).

> UnrealEd on the other hand inverted that paradigm, instead of building your level a void you carved your map out of a solid mass

Which is funny because this is also what Doom did: like Unreal, Doom had you carve up negative space in a huge solid world. This approach was also used by other engines at the time, like the Sith Engine by LucasArts which was used in Jedi Knight (in that engine all world geometry is made by sectors creating negative space pretty much the same way like in Doom).

Although personally as a programmer i tend to favor positive brushes for their simplicity. I have written a 3D world editor that has both negative and positive brushes and the code to handle the geometry generation for negative brushes is like 10 times more than the positive brushes (i don't use BSP) due to all the edge cases from floating point precision.
Google for Jobs aggregates many listings and supports advanced terms, range and salary queries, etc.

But my perspective from the opposite side of the table. Build something that can't be ignored. Something I would share with clients or colleagues.

A recent example is the wind visualization map Ventusky. I had a lot of fun passing around that link during the recent "bomb cyclone". It not only serves as an eye-popping demo of what is possible with WebSockets, Canvas2D on mobile web. It represents a level of polish that commands your attention.

Good luck and I hope you find what you are looking for in 2018!
There is a asymmetry of how they percieve the world and you do -- the difference in available information might not be able to let them make choices that would satisfy your standards.
He made his 'Bitcoin is a fraud' comment in September when Bitcoin was somewhere between $3000-$4000. In October, he called Bitcoin investors stupid.

Bitcoin has done nothing, but increase in value since then. If JD was trying to spread FUD in order to buy cheap....that clearly didn't work. No one in the Bitcoin space gives a shit what that guy says.
Show HN: Dino – Modern XMPP desktop chat client
It’s always fun to look at the flow of knowledge from academia to the industry, and how some things can take decades.

Reminds me of LinearML which was an experiment nearly 10 years ago.

https://github.com/pikatchu/LinearML/blob/b1a49f153e02f3cffb...
Before AMP was introduced, News was increasingly being siloed on Apple News and FB Instant Articles. The story was going to end with Apple News/FaceBook sucking up all of the publishers. The publishers could theoretically have all fixed it themselves, but they weren't, and increasingly native news apps were winning over the web.

AMP was a collaboration with publishers to keep content on the Web. It's an open source project, and is implemented not only by Google, but by Bing, Baidu, even CloudFlare has an implementation. Google successfully organized the publishers and got them to fix the problems that many people claim they would have fixed by just doing it themselves, but that wasn't happening, user experience was becoming horrible, and rather than fix their sites, they were basically giving in to Instant Articles. AMP kept news on the web instead of in the App Store.

AMP is supported by most major browsers, requires no proprietary browser extensions, is just HTML, implemented by multiple search engines and CDNs, and is an open spec and source project. I'm not really sure why so many people are losing their shit over it. It's based on standard web technologies. I understand the UI issues, but those look like they're getting fixed.
Does anyone know where CMC gets the circulation numbers?
I expected some metaphor about becoming an adult. Turned out I was wrong, it is exactly as the title says, no second meaning.

Maybe I see so many "interesting" titles that I tend to forget that sometimes, they really mean what they are saying.
I dispute your notion that the driver of a vehicle is automatically to blame if there is a collision between the vehicle and a pedestrian.

https://www.google.com/search?q=insurance+fraud+dash+cam
interesting insight from inside the bubble
> Remember, Apple loses out on credit card processing frees from their '30%'...

I strongly doubt that. Even in the worst case scenario - all $1 charges and Stripe's "you charge a card every six weeks" 2.9% + $0.30/transaction fee - they'd be just about breaking even... and Apple's certainly big enough to get some volume discounts.
Both of them are teaching children to be honest people. Chinese children scored higher just because they were trained earlier. That's it. And there are several minor reasons mentioned in book <Outliers: The Story of Success>. China has a lot of people, and there are cheaters to blame, it's not only about those cheaters' honesty, there are economic problems too. Try to generalize or portray all Chinese students as dishonest people are just not objective. If you wanted to play that game, who got more prisoner to citizen ratio? Given they read those cutie books taught them to be law-bide people.
The family relationship has always been a horrible way of describing the employee/employer relationship. There's divorce or disowning someone, but do you really want to try and draw that comparison when you fire someone? A team has players and they're always being traded to different teams. That's both more positive and honest when you're trying to describe a high-performant culture.

And there's also no concept of unconditional love in a company. There's respect, which should be a given. But you shouldn't be expected to unconditionally love your co-workers.
How about taking it one step further and not hiring people onto a team but instead rewarding them:

https://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2016/11/properly-valuing-con...
It feels better to admit insecurity as a given, than to constantly fight for a false feeling of security I cannot achieve anyway.

...and more importantly, not make our lives significantly worse in pursuit of that "perfect security".
Meltdown affects some ARM prcessors as well.

https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update
>So I figured out that I needed to compute the line integral from the eye to every point on the screen. I learned some calculus in college, so I said to myself "I should be able to do this." So I figured out the formula for it with some crazy complicated trigonometry. I implemented it, but it was 100 times too slow. Then I realized, "Oh wait, I can do this in the lightmap space”, because the lightmap is a discretization of geometry into bite-sized chunks. I did that with lightmaps, so it was real-time.

What is lightmap space?
Just looking at the patterns I'd guess they have a huge amount of usage from school-age kids.

In the summer months you see higher engagement per user. You also see a compression of the weekday-weekend cycle. Both imply that something in the summer makes users use it more and especially on weekdays. Gotta be students.
I experienced a different issue.

I kept receiving different phone calls from 650 2345 xxxx numbers. (650 2345 are made up)

the first 7 digits are the same as that of my number. only the last 4 digits are different.

normally I won't pick up. But some number kept calling and I received this kinda of phone call quite often.

So, one day I picked up, on the other side, it was an angry lady asking who I am, and why I kept calling her. I said I didn't, I was just picking up her call.

She said "stop calling me again!" then hang up ....

Then I emailed google about the issue. they seemed to fix for a short period of time and then it happened again. I switched to t-mobile then.
So I guess just kernel updates for Spectre are needed.
HN would have to cancel the "Who's Hiring" monthly job ad threads.
What really amazes me in this story is what a powerful force an army of desperate and somewhat ignorant users can be. If they were told to post some memes and fake news or write some troll comments, they would do it without a bat of an eye.
Expiration of a student license, maybe?
I'll bite. Why does someone from Venezuela need Bitcoin?
It's very precisely an accusation.

The idea is that Apple's efforts to protect user privacy online are motivated by a selfish business case towards incentivizing people away from the web.

/u/michaelbuckbee wasn't "reminding us why Apple was behaving" this way, as he has absolutely no insight or insider knowledge as to the motivations of the team who developed and deployed this feature.
It is odd all that everyone talks about the blockchain and the one problem no one talks about that it could solve is journalism.

News committed to an anonymous blockchain, immutable and potentially monitizable seems pretty interesting but maybe not as lucrative as other ideas.

Because AMP isn’t about ads or speed, it’s about editorial control. The same goes for Facebook and Apple.

I don’t care how many press releases they put out denying it.
Okay, I'm saying this as a republican, but the calling of people visiting a campus as "immigration" is stupid on its face.

I see the reductionist attempt to equate the two, and sure they have in common the fact that it involves people moving their bodies to a new location, but that's where it ends.

Not a single person I know, not even the most liberal, border-erasing people would advocate for the complete eradication of property rights, nor for the removal of a property owner's choice of who to allow on said property.

As a conservative, I was sickened by the filing, because if even half of it was true and not taken out of context, it indicates that Google does have an institutional bias against certain ideas being tolerated.

I'm not saying people should be allowed to harass others, but some of these reactions would constitute harassment.

FWIW, I think this is really an issue of many people at polarized edges of an ideology aren't able to have a constructive discussion without it devolving into shows of force to silence the other.
But there is value compared to these you list. I respect them but I also think they are foolish to disregard their lives. What was once a person becomes rotting meat. Some people will grieve, others will write eulogies, some will will glorify them to serve some agenda, and others who don't care for such things will treat this for what it is probes and sensors that gave one more piece of hard won information that can maybe be somehow utilized -- maybe it's bad to think like this, so it's important to keep going with good humor.
You can't earn side income on h1-b visa. However, the job of enforcing that belongs to INS, not Stripe.

Stripe doesn't care. You can open Stripe account and accept payments, you just risk deportation if INS finds out.

Your other options:

* offer the SaaS for free until you get Green Card. It's still valuable to find out if your product will be used when the cost is $0 and you can build SEO/reputation. If you don't want to paint yourself into a corner you can build a "lite" version, that withholds some features. When you're ready, you can add those features and charge for a pro plan

* you can setup a business in your own country (or some non-US country that allows easy formation of businesses) and have payments (Stripe) directed to that business. I'm not sure how INS would interpret such work-around, but it's a moot point since the probability of INS finding out in this scenario is close to 0%

* like the above but have a trusted family member to open and manage the business. It's still a work-around but almost certainly INS-proof
May I ask you to elaborate on 99% part? Chinese parents are as anxious as other parents in many economies. That's why they buy books even their children don't read, they will read those for them... And buying children anime books from the West or Japan has little to do with politics, it's more about story-telling. Chinese editors still need to make their work more funny and engaging.
A trend that I would like to see more startups buck is the use of the independent contractor model. While I believe startups like Uber and Lyft could not achieve the scale that they have w.o this model, there are smaller startups & markets where I believe the increase in value to customer service can really differentiate a product.

Studies have shown that customer service, ability to execute & perform, and general quality of service correlate with whether or not the employee is an IC/temp or not. I've wondered if any startups have gone the opposite direction and hired folks FT/PT for roles that otherwise would seem to be filled by ICs.
...or maybe the other 10% are in-order non-speculative designs which are intrinsically immune; they still have a few:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark (basically a die-shrink of a 486!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnell_(microarchitecture)
Kafka vs. RocketMQ- Multiple Topic Stress Test Results
Nah, most substantial leaks in recent years have avoided wikileaks and gone straight to reputable publishers, such as the panama papers team, so as not to be tarnished by perceptions of bias or recklessness.
> Selling more products for the same amount of ad cost should allow for cheaper products.

If the ad companies are making less money; it doesn't suggest that the ad cost is going up
Here are a few tips

- Creative writing

- Exercise
Sounds like a false dichotomy. Another way could be to let the user turn on low-power mode, or accept the diminished battery capacity. I know that doing what Apple thinks is best is Apple's way, but maybe in this case it's the wrong way, especially if done in a way that seems surreptitious.
This is quite baffling to some Americans as well (anecdotally speaking of course)
SureFly –  a personal helicopter designed for safe and easy flight
Supposedly just for 1 of the 2 main variants of Spectre.

Though there are many likely more timing channels that could be reasonably called Spectre variants that have not yet been fully explored...