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Yeah, Intel is caught with its pants down again, and clearly pushed out an unfinished microcode just so people couldn't say they hadn't published something, while quietly telling the Important People(tm) not to install it.

I've blacklisted the microcode update from my systems for now. I understand this is being rushed out due to security issues, but the risk posed by complex local exploits like Spectre is substantially less than the risk posed by system lockups/reboots due to broken microcode. It appears that even ultra-conservative Red Hat is being forced into that conclusion.

All of the mitigation stuff needs at least 4-6 more weeks in the oven before it's anything near production-ready, and in the case of Intel, probably more like 3-6 months before they have a semi-stable microcode, if ever.

Disclaimer: I say this as an outside observer with no direct knowledge.
The link is broken, FYI.

EDIT. Link is fixed.
Actually it's possible to represent 1/3 perfectly accurately, but what about all the numbers that it's theoretically impossible to compute? (Almost all real numbers have this property)
Like I said (I probably sound like Chase sales guy) they have been pretty good to me and it's nice to use a big bank to have all your stuff in one place.

Car loans / Home Loans get bought up by Chase and you can service all that sort of thing in one web interface. I'm worried that local banks will make me switch back to snail mail days - I'd have personal access but boy I just want to be able to do it all virtually.
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Is anyone else greatly annoyed by the FUZE/Python comparison block on the homepage (fuze.co.uk, ~halfway down the page) that compares the Fuze loop and Python?

They write the "print" statement like it's damn Java. A simple `print(outstring)` would have been sufficient, instead of two lines of Java-esque sys.stdout.write nonsense.

Not to mention something like `colored` and `colorama` or `click` would solve the colored text thing. Though I'll admit having globals like INK and PAPER makes things a bit more intuitive for kids.

But the fact that they go out of their way to make the Python example more intimidating is a little... annoying.
I can't see Amazon moving to Austin.

Austin is a very popular "2nd Campus" for tech companies, but it's not a great "HQ".

1) Poor airport connectivity
2) Seriously bad traffic options, with limited ability for build out
3) Not a lot of great public transit options
4) Limited ability for free land/property tax abatements/government handouts

Austin is a strong candidate because of UT Austin, but UT Austin students primarily come from Austin or Dallas (not like they are trapped on an island) unwilling to move out.
That site caused Firefox 57 (64bit) to lock up on Windows 10...

It is an i7, 16 GB total (7 GB free), and an SSD.
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I would never assume someone walking around with a North Face t-shirt works for North Face but tech companies are obscure, especially outside of the big tech cities. If I see someone wearing a t-shirt for a tech company in my city, they more likely than not work for that company. If I saw someone with an Uber shirt I would assume they work for them, and probably as corporate. I can't say I've ever seen a driver wearing Uber swag.

Personally, most company swag I've worn once or twice and then throw in the Goodwill bag. So it's possible there's some random folks wearing a $NoNameCo shirt, but I'd wager they're just as likely recycled into something else.
It doesn't. His example is nonsensical.

The best use cases for smart contracts are gambling apps (i.e., financial markets, exchanges), escrow services (collateral-based trustless loans), and perhaps some identity services
I doubt you will find many that cannot live without a Blockchain system. Instead see it as a tradeoff between performance and where you place your trust. Centralized systems are performant, but the burden is managing the security/trust of that system. A decentralized system of trust removes this burden, but it comes with a performance penalty.

An example I'm working on right now is a system of authentication using Ethereum to replace passwords. The decentralized identity of addresses, combined with the cryptographic primitives provided, paves the way for a whole new way of managing identity and authentication even in the "old web" world. Hopefully I'll finish my demo by the end of the weekend.
Obvious crank.
> I’m pretty sure AT&T and Comcast don’t employ many min wage workers, especially not like Walmart does, if any at all.

AT&T has a lot of door-to-door people: technicians, sales "consultants". Also people in call centers. Those are a lot closer to minimum wage than what you are implying - that only managers and big wigs got those bonuses.

> You aren’t making a valid inference here

The claim was you couldn't be happy for them because basically only managers got those. I did some legwork and found that it's probably not true. You were looking for a reason to cheer and be happy for them, so I found one.

> it honestly feels like something Trump would claim.

I usually prefer a conversational style with exclamation points and allegories. But I think you're not in the mood for that. Sorry, I should be more formal perhaps.

Also not sure why we are talking about Trump?. But since you brought him up (invoked the Devil's name!). Do you think he is responsible for these tax cuts and the bonuses or it is mostly a charade?
I would hate to have amazon here. I don't need my rent to go up or my commute to get longer.
> I'm sad the one that finally did it chose js.

Look how easy it is to shed tears for free stuff you don't personally have the energy to do yourself: You didn't have to lift a finger but to write an internet comment.

Just wondering what you think it adds to the discourse.
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AOL sent my dad an e-mail :(
My understanding is that the latest AMD CPUs use a neural net branch predictor which requires that they store the entire address, not just some of the bits, so you can’t effectively poison the branch predictor.

Everyone else will switch to the same model.

I suspect that cache changes will need to be tagged with the reorder buffer slot and rolled-back on mis-predict. It also means a hit to the N-way scheme because you must be able to hold multiple instances of the cache line for the same address.

I also worry there are undiscovered side channels lurking in arch-specific registers or status bits.
In your example, this would correspond to having the number x = 0 +-1 and then wanting to compute 1/x. If your number can potentially be zero, why would you want to use it as a divisor?
The worldwide roaming works too. You just need to set the APN correctly. APN is something like h2g2.
Borrow huge amounts of money from the banks and buy land... Unless the government is apt to expropriate, then, yeah, just buy anything that stores value.
I really hope this is just some angsty kids dangerously playing around and not a committed act of, technically speaking, homegrown terrorism.

I saw a short film long ago about a guy who’d snapped after getting one too many parking tickets by posting up on rooftops and shooting “meter maids” with paintballs. While some people cheered his actions as a stand against capricious ticketing, others took it a step further and eventually somebody was badly stabbed. Because the initial paintballer never revealed his identity, the violence that he initiated had spun completely beyond his control.

Violence, especially anonymous violence, has consequences that can be beyond foresight, and far beyond control. I really wish I can find that short film someday...
It's true that fiat currencies only work well if they are managed well. And what we're seeing in Venezuela isn't even poor management anymore. It's more like you took a stack of paper currency and intentionally set it on fire.
Which country of America?
Agreed. After reading the abstract, the method seems like a reasonable method to implement interval arithmetic. However, I haven't discovered any novel idea in it.
I'm sorry to hear this. Can you describe what happened?
The thing about software is that you don't have to be physically near the markets you serve. Writing software in Miami would provide zero advantage for serving this market.
No, there isn't one. The reason is that you can do everything the blockchain data structure can without using blockchain by just putting it in a traditional database with more ease.

If we take a look at Bitcoin, think how much easier it is to implement if we just didn't use blockchain -- it's literally just a single SQL table of transactions and some sort of API to be able to submit transactions. From an application development perspective, all the extra cruft that Bitcoin needs to work makes blockchain less useful for normal application development.

The point of a blockchain is to essentially be able to do what we do normally in a centralized application in a decentralized way with a different set of controls in terms of trust. It also acts as a specific secure by design architecture that allows us to build these distributed applications using an established model.

Don't get me wrong, though, having a different trust model is significant. It can allow us to make applications which we otherwise couldn't make before because of non-technical reasons. For example, an application like secure voting isn't done (or is discouraged) with an immutable database because we don't trust the central authority -- but with blockchain, we can better trust that all votes are valid.
Yeah, Europe's economy is really falling apart.
Or take text rendering out of the kernel.

The whole device shouldn't restart due to malformed text, that's just sloppy. If Microsoft can do it with Windows then Apple can do it on iOS.
I totally get that there is tension and conflict in the situation. Other comments allude to the tension between Local and national governments (1) and there may be an element that the National government is neglecting CT or actively wanting it to fail.

I don't think though this is the same as a city like Sanaa being shelled into rubble (2)

1)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16176394

2)

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/inside-war-torn-yemens-capi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoZsjagnKPs
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I'm not even sure how Boston wound up in the running.

I love the city, but it's experiencing a biotech boom and already has crazy expensive real estate, issues with crowding/traffic, all that jazz. The city would HATE it, even more than Seattle did. And let me tell you, the ostracization in Seattle is extremely painful. I don't think it would turn out to be a good working environment.

I guess it has a lot of educational institutions, but honestly, in its position, I'd sort of expect a company like Amazon to want to start getting more involved in educational outreach themselves.
Amazonians are already used to traffic :p
The underlying principle is incremental upzoning. By rezoning neighborhoods to just the next incremental higher density level (Single family homes to duplexes, triplexes, SFH+ADU), you allow for housing supply growth in a way that doesn't rapidly change the neighborhood character, and incentivizes households to participate in the growth, rather than just large developers.

It also can result in a more stable appreciation of land values than going from SFH zoning to large apartment zoning.

See:
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/12/12/the-power-of-...
Unfortunately most likely not going to happen because of how cheap plastic is.

Fortunately though there is some interesting research in how to break it down.

"From garbage to gold: How advances in plastic recycling can help save the environment"[https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/06/advances-recyclin...]

(https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/06/27/ibm-research-scientis...)

>On Monday, IBM Research said that scientists from the Almaden lab found a way to transform polycarbonates into a stronger type of plastic that doesn’t leach BPA, a chemical that has sparked health concerns in recent years.
Has governmental tax laws changed in response to corporation taking advantage of loopholes? If that is the case, then is it actually to ones disadvantage to not use loopholes, which has become the new norm?
Ludicrous? It was just a question guys...

In my own words:

> or is that milestone for the market still a ways off?
Everything is economics, brother. Even humanities.
Capital controls make that pretty difficult. There are government set controls on whether you can purchase foreign currency and even then to how much you are allowed to buy.

I remember back in like 2011 Kirchner did this in Argentina while I was living there. There was out of control inflation and capital controls. The government also covered their ear and said "lalalalala I don't care what the world markets say, our currency is worth $x.)

If you were traveling, you could get foreign currency, but you had to apply for it, prove you were traveling, and then accept that the government would allot how much they thought you needed on your trip. I had a friend get $75 per day for their trip to the states. This creates the black market (or in Argentina, the "dolar blue") where the government said that the exchange was 5:1, but economics and the black market said 15:1 (at one point).

Moral of the story - you can not just ignore basic economic principles and dictate the value of your currency. Focus on building a strong and diverse economy and promoting a free market.
Oh man this is what I hate the most about my Pixel. How can I turn it off?
OP is freaked that the data that was shared with Google is used to help Google get a bigger dataset...

Get a grip.

Edit: Downvotes now rolling in. I'd love to know why. Is this a bug? Is Google doing something wrong? Or did OP hand over the data and not bother to go through the settings to turn off things they didn't like .
One of the first "real" programs I wrote was a thing in Visual Basic 6 that would navigate to the giving tree page and quickly snatch up stuff. It was extremely primitive, requiring me to manually sign in to Neopets through an IE webview, and most of my code was ripped from other projects on planetsourcecode.com(that site was epic to my 12 year old self), but somehow I made it work for a short while. Trust me, I didn't really understand what was going on or even what a GET request was.

Also, pushing the limits of the HTML and styling you could have on a store page helped me learn those things, and I'm sure some of the knowledge I use for my career in web development today came from those days on Neopets.

I wonder if I came across your site back then.
I still have the issue where if I access the camera from the lock screen it randomly renders my phone unlockable
Designers like pullout quotes because they break up the monotony of body copy, and you can use fancy display fonts on them. Consequently they make pages look more "expensive" to readers simply by association with more thoughtful design.
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Well it's a Depeche Mode song quote, but the slogan is printed along with the shape of an island where I don't take a computer with me when I go there and turn on the phone only every other day or so or simply forget it. Being there is a completely different mind set and relaxing and for me that is the mental control to actively decide that no business or computer problem can bother me and ruin my day. Peace of mind.
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They aren't in many cases.
I didn't make that argument. I made the argument that patents are the least bad approach to the problem, and that as an incentive, it works well.
Really I have heard reports of much worse about MCI.
Every once in a while I run into another programmer who started on Neopets, and it makes me happy. :) When I interviewed for my job, they asked me my “programming story.” I remember struggling to make my petpages compatible with Firefox, Safari, and IE5. I remember learning Dreamweaver so I could apply to adopt cool Neopets. I wrote tens of thousands of lines of HTML in TextEdit to make an interactive Lite Brite, and more recently I built Neopets-compatible Minesweeper. (http://www.neopets.com/~wire) These are the projects that made me give CS a shot even though I had no idea what it would be like and even though I was nervous to enter a field with a bad reputation for its attitude towards women. I’m so glad I did.

So many people learned the joy of coding from that site. Sadly, it can’t be that for the next generation because its code filters are almost as obsolete as this guide. HTML5, CSS3, multiple classes on an element, and the word “position” in a stylesheet aren’t supported. TNT, if you’re reading this, please take some time to invest in the part of your site where people learn and create.
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> Does government corruption / incompetence come into play

Of course there is a political dimension.

The SA national government (ANC) is from a different party to the Cape Town local government (Democratic Alliance, the main opposition party).

So there is tension between local and national governments. They try to make each other look bad.

Hard to prove, it it does look like the National government is either just neglecting Cape Town or deliberately encouraging it to fail.

And they are corrupt, particularly the national government, yes.

https://www.biznews.com/undictated/2017/12/15/cape-town-wate...

https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2016/12/05/sa-water-...
> Developer has made up an interpretation

I don't see any made-up interpretation. All I see is a direct quote from Apple's response when asked why the app was rejected.
I was countering the "weekend vacations are ruined". Those who want to go on a weekend vacation around voting day can elect to vote early, along the other planning a vacation requires.
I literally don't think I have ever seen someone say that the issue with cryptocurrencies is that they are "not based on physical reality".
The main problem with some of these cities, Indianapolis in particular, is that it might be hard to attract software developers to go live there. Even though the dollar goes farther in Indianapolis, after adjusting for cost of living, you would still need to add a bonus to entice developers to live there rather than Seattle. I grew up near Indianapolis and I certainly would not live there over Seattle, for political/cultural preferences that in my experience most developers share with me
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I generally prefer android to iOS because it's easier to work with as a dev, but this has been making me think about converting back.
> After Uber’s lawyers insisted the company wouldn’t pay Kamel to clean up Kalanick’s personal scandal, Kalanick agreed to pay Kamel $200,000 out of his own pocket, according to a person familiar with the matter. “The meeting ended on a positive note, and Travis appreciated Mr. Kamel’s openness and forgiveness,” a spokesperson for Kalanick said in a statement.

For $200k for being lectured for a minute, I'd have a lot of openness (of my wallet) and forgiveness too.
>- land in the downtown core to build on, this might eliminate New York?

They could rent out the space in One World Trade Center.
The main thing headless chrome saves is having to spawn and manage xvfb per instance.

If more sites adopt serving fake data to headless chrome, people will just return to the old xvfb workflow for those sites, and use headless for everything else.

Could even use a small set of xvfb scrapers to verify the results, and automate detection of false data.
I have no idea that's why I am asking HN.
I always thought punk was a bit shit, it didn't seem to have any musical merit to me so although it was my era I ignored it.

I struggle to see why, a generation later, people look back at it with anything but disdain.
Why, when I can get a job somewhere much more comfortable to live?
Shame that it uses the native colour picker...
By similar logic, Congo must be an example of capitalism in practice because companies hire private armies there.
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Apparently World of Warcraft gold is more valuable at this point than the Venezuelan bolívar fuerte: https://twitter.com/KalebPrime/status/952648572729724934
And there you have it. Northern Virginia will win this hands down if it's up against neighboring Montgomery County (which is where I live). Northern VA wins in infrastructure, existing tech culture, housing, and transportation options. But, the primary reason is that Montgomery County politics will never bend to accommodate Amazon in a competitive situation like this, and it's been that way for 30 years.
You don't need to ban cars. You just need to design around people instead of cars. Remove parking minimums. Don't put on-street parking but rather leave it to the free market to handle parking solutions (Yes, that means people pay to park.) Subsidize public transit but road maintenance must be paid by automobile-based taxes. Don't require density, but always zone for the next bigger thing. (The neighborhood is single house? Allow duplexes and MIL units. Is that the neighborhood? Allow 3 story buildings. Don't go from single house to giant skyscrapers, but rather build incrementally bigger.)

That means that there will be fewer automobiles, fewer large roads, and less traffic, lending to more density and more maintainable infrastructure.
A lot of people enjoy their quiet suburban neighborhoods and don't have any particular desire to live in a dense city so to convince them these guys need to start talking about dire economic consequences.
Yes, I wait to transfer and pay again.

The PATH is cheaper, runs more frequently, makes several more stops in Manhattan and NJ, so it would be a better option.

If you want to go downtown, for example, the PATH goes to WTC, as well as midtown.
Denver's airport is one of the biggest airports[1]. When I first moved to Denver in 2014, they didn't have a flight to India. In 2015 they announced a _direct_ flight to Banglore, India. My point being not having a flight is not really a roadblock.

[1]https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/denver-inte...
Ah, finally, their G+ efforts finally bore fruit and shows their hand.

G+ has been the impetus behind all of this and has led Google away from their core search and related tech and more into weaving itself into our daily lives, mercilessly.

I love most of Goog, but G+ has diverted them into this social mess. It's something I wish they'd left well enough alone.
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I think this is called "shadow work"...Google has turned you into a mechanical turk without pay :)
Is it fairly vacant?
Of course.

Maybe you can point us to some examples, current or historical, where human societies thrived without the existence of the state.
I’m sorry you had a terrible interview experience. In 2017 we hired Gayle Laakmann McDowell (CTCI author) to train engineers on how to interview better and how to design better interview questions that weren’t biased. She held many sessions so hopefully our interviewing experience improves but it’s a skill that needs constant training.
There are areas of the patent system that are legitimately in need of reform, but that doesn't mean the underlying concept is not sound. Many people seem to be looking at the areas where reform is needed and erroneously concluding that the whole thing needs to be burned down. That's a shame, since the core idea of patents seems like a very good trade-off to me.
11-year-old me used the hell out of Funky Chickens HTML Help.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who used this.
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Wouldn't something like what Douglas Crockford built with DEC64 be more useful and practical?[0]

[0] http://dec64.com/
The thing about Amazon is that they do a hell of a lot more than just write software.