skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, intel has been continually misleading with their PR. By neglecting to mention the software updates, they are trying to trick people into thinking "oh there is a firmware/microcode update which fixes it".

Anyway, Meltdown is only fixable by an os update (that software patch which causes the massive 5-20%).

The microcode updates give os developers a few extra tools that allows them to build Spectre migrations, like temporarily disabling indirect branch detection while kernel code executes, or flushing the indirect branch entries on switch to kernel mode.
What's the reason for blocking a headless browser?
> It is very simple to enable installation of packages from the non-free section, and then usually everything just works.

Not without a network connection, it doesn't.

There are other ways (flash drive, etc.) to get the firmware onto the machine, of course, but I can understand bad_user's frustration.
would work with. don't care if you use them, but at least learn them!
This is true. But it is a necessary first step and some refactoring has already been done. It's a long way.

Many comments here are missing the main inspiration of using C++, which is the Botan crypto library.
Bots (scraping, etc) passing as legitimate users.
> I was fact-checking your (unsolicited) diagnosis, which you had already provided despite my lack of request for any kind of support.

Yes, I posted a general response to the class of problems that your anecdotal story appeared to apply to. In an informal discussion of anecdotal evidence, what sort of fact checking do you seriously think could be performed? It's basically impossible. You are trying to set an impossible bar for anyone to comment on anything you say.

> I said if you wanted to check your facts I would provide you with information to confirm or disprove you

That's... not how any of this could possibly ever work. You want me to perform research so that you can tell me whether I got it right or not? My original response stands regardless of if it effects your system: proprietary code is often a problem for package managers.

But further more, as the one holding the anecdotal (and physical) evidence, the onus is on you to agree or disagree with facts using it. Your request for me to do original research specific to your problem is at it's most charitable a tech support style question (even if phrased along the lines "what technical knowledge do I need to prove you wrong?"). Because if it were a request for evidence in a discussion it would be an unreasonable request positioned to stifle all disagreement with you by placing unnecessarily large (e.g. ridiculous) burdens on anyone who comments (to which my response would be much stronger).

If alternatively you had said "I doubt that because I never installed NVIDIA code on the system." or nothing at all. I wouldn't have cared or responded.
Block scrapers that use a wrapped browser to work around client detection
What we've witnessed over the last few months has basically been the negotiation process.

Emirates know they're the anchor customer with a strong negotiation position and so expect even bigger discounts than airlines normally get from airframers by playing hardball, and humiliating Airbus by not making the anticipated airshow order. Airbus's only counter was to look actually willing to accept the possibility of writing the whole programme off, with negative implications for Emirates' own prospects
Very cool - although hard to tell from the video that they were in danger.
Why? You are getting excited about something that makes you happy and hurts no-one... Why is that bad? Just because it doesn't fit your serious adult worldview?
Absolutely. But it explains why many companies are so reluctant to raise their wages. Admitting you no longer have a valid business is hard.
Debugging Emacs Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace
That is partially happening already. Even Porsche is offering a subscription. [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/10/porsche-launches-on-demand...
NeoPG uses Botan, which is a crypto library written in C++. I recommend reading its source code and comparing it with, for example, libgcrypt.
On the first point 4, it's something that many people don't realise. Water policy in this context is set on a National level. All these Youtubers and Facebook protestors don't understand that a Municipality can't simply shut off water to farms/mines. Various approaches were already discussed prior to the Water Act of 1998:

http://www.dwa.gov.za/Documents/Policies/nwpwp.pdf

But as it says in that document - it's National Policy. The government will need to make the call. There may well be provision for disaster areas, but the government doesn't think CPT qualifies.

On the second point 4, there's a already a health concern with regards to our current water supply. Cracks in pipes in the existing infrastructure allow impurities to enter our water supply. When the pipes are at full pressure this doesn't happen. However, when the pressure is dropped (as what is currently happening in various suburbs), the pressure is not enough to keep these impurities out, and you end up with a contaminated supply in some areas.
Or stop buying devices that try to lock you out and force you into this cat-and-mouse game.
Great news. That should keep the A380 alive long enough to clearly see how the airplane market is developing. Currently, its all about 2-engined airplanes, but I cannot believe, that there is no need for the large airplanes like 747 and the A380. The amount of air travel is still growing year over year and once the production is shut down, it would means a certain class of airplanes is just unavailable.
Scrambling for a safety while having a hard on. Ouch.
The UK Appoints a Minister for Loneliness
You have credit available to you and you aren't maxing it out. You're exercised self control.

What you don't do with a credit line is just as important what you do with it.
Ah, that's a shame.
I don't think Paint (at least the version this is replicating) had a crop feature.

I always used to do:

- Ctrl-A (Select All)

- Ctrl-X (Cut)

- Ctrl-E, 1, Tab, 1, Enter (Resize image to 1x1 pixel)

- Ctrl-V (Paste)
> I would love coding to become a new form of literacy, and I am certainly going to treat it like that with my kids. But I currently don't believe many people will use these skills on regular basis

It's been added to the primary school curriculum in the UK. And annecdotally, a good number of my (20-something, recent univeristy grad) friends are finding that a little coding is neccesary for their jobs, even if it's not the main focus.
Yes, U-boats sank merchant shipping in Table Bay
Could you give details on "soon"?

All I was able to find is this issue: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1079 with not activity for a long time
Oh, it's just for single games. Eh, much less useful then, thanks for the info.
Not sure how to interpret this statement..

One part of me is disgusted at someone profiting from bad planning and misery of others, the other thinks that this is something that really needs investing.
Thanks! Yeah, this is a great follow-up to what I've been saying.

Right, Windows isn't perfect either. What it does have going for it, though, is that on Windows there are comparatively very few external shared libraries -- in fact, the only ones I can think of are in fact the C, C++, .NET, and SQL runtimes. So, as you confirmed, it means application updates rarely break your system globally. (OS updates can still wreck the system... but that's no worse than Linux distros in my experience... but let's not go on this tangent.) Of course, that comes at the cost of needing to rely on the vendor for updates to their uses of third-party libraries. It's understandable that not everyone would like this trade-off (though mine tends to prefer an out-of-date system that works than a patched system that's broken), so that part (kind of) makes sense, especially if people are extra-worried about security over productivity. The part I find mind-boggling is that Linux users are obsessed with package mangers for the initial installations themselves, not merely updating. Package managers seem (almost?) fundamentally flawed in that regard, and that's what baffles me. Do they really only ever want to install FOSS software blessed by their OS distro, and do they really think it makes sense for a system to break if they install anything unblessed? More power to them if they can live like that, but I can't.

In terms of the problem you faced, do you mind if I ask how recent of a Windows version it occurred on? (i.e. was it on pre-XP, XP, 7, 8/8.1, or 10?) One generic tip I do have is to use VirtualBox to boot into the host OS with an immutable virtual disk, make all the changes, and verify everything works correctly before doing it for real. It can come in handy when installing programs or updates that you suspect might be problematic. I can provide more details on this if you're interested; just let me know.
> C, C++, Rust and others already have their own DOM/JS support.

What does that mean? Could you expand on that?

Can Rust code compiled to wasm manipulate the DOM?
Or 1 in 5 used a hawaii vpn
rather than blocking a bot, it would make much more sense to CAPTCHA an ip that is producing a lot of traffic in a short time. Scaping has always been part of the web, and one should not have the belief that the information on a website is only going to be available on said website.
7 Technologies That Will Rule 2018 – IQVIS Inc
The heaviest offenders have also had mandatory electronic limiters fitted to their properties, permitting no more than 350L per property per day (as of now)
Standard 80x24 terminal with elinks.

Number of times needed to hit page down to read article content of desktop page 13. Number of times to start reading content on amp page 0.

Don't really get the amp hate.
A few points from a Capetonian observing a potential disaster in slow motion:

(a) I don't know how claims about the % of users who are toeing the water restriction line can possibly be accurate. what is the population of Cape Town - last major census in 2011. What if there are actually 50 000 more people in CT than we think?

(b) water production is at just about half of what it was at peak in Jan 2015 despite population growth. This is surely a remarkable achievement, presumably a result of considerable collective action. Source (production graph here: http://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Cit...)

(c) the most egregious users have had water restriction devices installed - maybe the bar is too high and city should be stricter about when this measure is taken.

(d) the daily production of water has been more or less constant since July. This tells me that there is not that much more give. The only serious reduction I could see is through very difficult to enforce measures e.g. buckets only instead of showers. However I would prefer to do this now instead of having dry taps in April.

On a personal note: many home owners have boreholes and full rainwater tanks (it is difficult to store more than a few rainy days' worth of water). My parents' tank is +- 20 days of water at 87l pp per day, although they do not currently have a way to purify the water. My block has a plan to put borehole water into the flats. I don't think anyone knows how long borehole water will last though as there has been a massive spike in drilling.
I believe the usefulness of this is that now the _server_ knows the client is headless. Then blocks it.
Tips on how to loose 11 kg in just 2 weeks with this boiled egg diet
Shapes are always filled with an outline, no matter which option I choose. Apart from that it looks really good, and I don‘t have performance problems that some people report.
This is the only one I subscribe to: http://softwareleadweekly.com/
When I was living in Montréal, the boss were already stealing the tips of my wife that was paid the minimum.

It was a common practice there. They say sold it to their employees as a way to socialize the benefits so that there were no discriminations in the tips.

To the reluctants they just said, the one who pays make the rules, and if it does not suit you go else where, anyway, we all do the same.

It resulted in

1) the owner getting is "fair" share
2) the fair share would sometimes goes up to 100% of the tips.
You probably want the web equivalent of malicious compliance - an algorithmically generated web-hole or similar. That way the bot author isn't entirely sure you're on to them; it could be a bot or server error. Like send the right headers but garbage data that looks like it's compressed but isn't, or doubly compressed garbage, or trim pages at a different place (before anything interesting), or slow data transfers, or ...
Maersk, IBM create world's first blockchain-based, electronic shipping platform
Can somebody tell me how long does it take for then to make a plane and how long until the next "alarm"? I ask because I see 20 ordeals fulfilled per year on wiki and at his rate it seems like this is just for one year (without understanding their pipeline)
I meant this in a positive, not negative way. A for-profit company, if done properly, will be able to introduce the required infrastructure where necessary. It should (theoretically at least) also be run in a better way -- if the infrastructure isn't functioning properly, no profits are being made.
2 hours each way for a day-trip?! I'm always shocked that people suggest that much driving as a proportion of the total trip time.
Nobody outside of HN thinks anything of HN. I'd be deluded to believe otherwise
looks that the original article hosted on github revealing the actual content of this exploit has been taken down for the time being, possibly out of the fear that it may cause some actual problems to people's apple systems -- as this issue has not been fixed by Apple yet...

but for those who are nerd-sniped and intrigued to find out how this bug works -- for fun and for curiosity, the archive.org still hosts some copies of the code:

view-source:https://web.archive.org/web/20180117063656/https://iabem97.github.io/chaiOS/

google chrome browser seems to have disabled the display of the content but other browsers may still be fine with it...

Last but not least, we are nice and gentle hackers and not those ignoble script kiddies, right? So don't use it to do harm to others...
I feel that I get much more connections and information out of small local meetups than big conferences.
In a small local meetup I'll occasionally pop my laptop open and start geeking out on some new tech with another attendee.
Big conferences feel too corporate and impersonal to me.

The ticket price of the biggest conferences is reaching absurd levels too.
More likely that they had headphones on and didn’t check their phones

Also confirmation that it was an error was out on Twitter 5 minutes after the alert, which also affects the numbers
Drone saves two Australian swimmers in world first
It's 2018 and Intel and Microsoft are proud to announce that they've decided to put security first.
I bet the link is SFW, but for people on corporate networks like myself: the shortened link from the tweet redirects to pornhub.com which may, or may not, be on your companies whitelist...

On the plus side, if anyone from IT Net asks about my websurfing history, I was just reading it for the 'insightful analytics' ;)
Hah, this didn't cover window.webdriver, and I was about to post that you can still use that (since I assumed window properties weren't deletable) but... window properties are deletable. Cool.
Forbes – The Three Seats of Engineering Leadership
For anyone wanting to read more about this, here are some articles and data from the Climate System Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town.

This article explains the severity of the drought, and calculates that the return interval for a two-year drought of this severity is 1150 years (!), which mostly absolves the City of blame for not anticipating it: http://www.csag.uct.ac.za/2017/08/28/how-severe-is-this-drou...

Here, you can see an interactive plot of rainfall in Cape Town. Highlight 2017, 2016 and 2015 to see the reason for the current crisis: http://www.csag.uct.ac.za/current-seasons-rainfall-in-cape-t...

Addressing the scaremongering by the City around "the new normal": http://www.csag.uct.ac.za/2017/11/01/is-cape-towns-drought-t...

Describing the difficulty of forecasting this drought: https://theconversation.com/why-cape-towns-drought-was-so-ha...
The clang code requires -fblocks/-lBlocksRuntime too, and I was a bit quicker :)

https://github.com/google/honggfuzz/commit/a9db9ddc2e24d157a...
This idea is pretty old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference
INSANE
I'm glad the boys are safe! This is something that was bound to happen eventually and we've seen recent videos of this use and many others in advertising. I think dropping floats from a some is a natural use but it will be interesting to see if some of the other ideas survive.
Kind of ruined the article for me, thanks.
Tho, in C++ I guess almost everybody would use a scoped variable with its desctructor using lambda.
I see your pain and raise you a £1.75 USB/Ethernet adapter with free delivery [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ethernet-Network-Adapter-Converter-...]. But yes, you do raise a valid point.
Semi private chatrooms is where it’s at right now. The kind where somebody assembles a group of a few hundred individuals to hang out on Slack or Telegram around a particular loosely-ish defined interest. Invite only of course.

I’m in a couple and it’s honestly amazing. Small enough to feel safe and cozy, big enough to have lots of activity and a range of ideas and personalities.

It’s like putting the community conference hallway track online and making it last for months and years on end, not just a day or two.
What are you talking about? Tesla already did kill people, by decapitation no less.
Why Russia Is Building Its Own Internet
MailChimp leaks your email address
If you don’t know what to look for, it’s very easy to miss someone right beside you:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/family/2013...

> To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the No. 2 cause of accidental death in children, ages 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents)—of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult.
I worked for a company that (among other things) organized multiday tech conferences aimed at IT managers at large companies. I was surprised to learn how low the margins were. The top conferences were selling well, and had big-name sponsors at different tiers, yet one year the P&L for the group showed a profit in the low single digits.

I later learned that the cost structure was high, and some of the events (particularly less established events or those with lots of competition) struggled to get signups.
In German, is it also used in a darker sense, as the counterpoint to envy? For example, an acquaintance goes on what would be your dream vacation, but is plagued by illness.

I hope this article is not a sign that we are losing the word in English to people who want to affect erudition, as we don't have a good native substitute (and that is not because English speakers do not have such emotions!)
And the discussion on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/7r1b33/an_open_letter...
Apple, Xerox, IBM and Fumbling the Future
...Claudia Schiffer, Heidi Klum, Julia Stegner, Diane Kruger,...
Skyfall and Solace vulnerabilities announced
MEP calls for clear and mandatory baseline IT security requirements for devices
Introducing Backbone.VDOMView, Backbone Views with a Virtual DOM
"But all critics think they’re doing the world a favor. If they didn’t believe this delusion, criticism wouldn’t get written."

I disagree, some people just like to burst bubbles. I think it makes them feel better.
I understood the article a bit differently: if you rant about Java, don't pretend that this is only to educate other Devs and open their eyes to sad realities. There is another, less benevolent side to it, a destructive side, that on purpose does not attempt to weigh pros and cons, but focuses on the shortcomings only.
Obviously, if your rant is well presented, lovers of Java will have a hard time keeping up their love. And knowing this might give you additional satisfaction.
So criticism is not primarily a tool to hurt others, but recognizing the involved hurting aspect is essential to understand the whole dynamic of criticism, and its very personal nature.
I like to use the ATM machine located on Table Mesa, and use the cash to enjoy a cup of soup du jour of the day.
that is so often not the way for-profit works in any public system (ex: prisons, electricity, garbage hauling, education)
Turkish Garbage Collectors Open Library in Ankara with Books Abandoned as Trash
What they do is not illegal, so courts do not help. For example, see Fair Tax Town. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crickhowell-welsh-town...
HuffPost, Breaking from Its Roots, Ends Unpaid Contributions
There's always a market for second hand clothes in good condition. My wife buys and sells a significant chunk of her wardrobe online, primarily through marktplaats.nl ("marketplace", a leading Dutch second-hand stuff site acquired by eBay).

Or kid's clothes go either to friends or family with younger kids, or we give them to our cleaner who takes them to an orphanage in Ghana.

But with low manufacturing costs (no doubt driven by sweatshops and child labour), it's possible that recycling has become a lot less relevant than reuse. (Also: don't give away clothes with holes for reuse. Nobody wants that.)
They absolutely should.

However, some people are much to trusting and don't think to.
The problem is not technical. The problem is government.

You have 2 types of aircraft carriers: direct and hub-and-spoke. Direct means that they either have a direct flight between A and B, or have no way to get from A to B at all (in most cases, of course no carrier is 100% hub or 100% direct). Since A and B tend to be routes like Marseille to New York there aren't going to be enough passengers to fill an A380, so smaller more efficient airplanes are where it's at.

In short: Big, huge airplanes make sense for hub-and-spoke carriers and don't for direct carriers. Small airplanes, lots of them, make sense for direct carriers.

For consumers, the difference is twofold. Direct carriers are faster, and they will be more expensive, because a number of costs can't be shared between as many passengers as in the hub networks. Hub carriers are slower, but a (lot) cheaper.

But that doesn't even really matter. Governments have decided that most airports won't be upgraded to support more planes and/or more passengers. This has resulted in airports that would normally be hub airports, like London, Paris or New York aren't hubs, because they are incredibly oversubscribed. For the same reason they become very expensive, very slow, and generally bad for passengers. But there is no competition, because only the government can approve airports, and they don't.

This means that unless you're a carrier that happens to be in a location where such government concerns don't exist, like in the UAE where the government is the carrier and doesn't care about the local population at all, you can't have a hub network.

So superjumbo's are threatened. Despite, of course, the market clearly pointing out that the cheaper flight almost always wins, if it's up to the customers, and therefore hub networks should win. I would say that therefore it is pretty correct to say that customers want A380s. But governments are standing in the way. For no good reason.

But governments have decided that having everyone pay significantly more for every flight, and generally have an utterly awful experience flying is absolutely worth it. After all, the alternatives would mean slightly more work for them ...
> Energy efficiency: 100%

It's just embarrassing.