skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This approach only stops the most basic and laziest scrapers. Some people have tens of thousands of diverse IP addressed to utilize for scraping. Many of them will not give a shit about your bandwidth or server constraints and will cause your server to hit bottlenecks, making it slow and useless for everyone.
> Anyway, Meltdown is only fixable by an os update (that software patch which causes the massive 5-20%).

Yes, currently the OS update with the performance degradation is all we have. But could there be other future solutions that work differently and thus have lower performance impacts?

I think there could be. AMD is not affected, so it is not at all impossible to have a CPU behave "correctly". Wether Intel is able to correct their behavior only in microcode is of course a different question, that I'm not really able to judge.

But it could still be possible for them to add special CPU instructions that allow the kernel to explicitly protect it's address space and go back to the previous memory mapping.

I'm not super hopeful since they already had a lot of time to look into that and did not come out or announce such a solution, but maybe they deferred that in the light that KPTI works and is "good enough" for a first mitigation.
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Their support is truly worthless.

I bought an add-on to a game, it downloaded to 99% and refused to finish. I mailed support, perhaps 2 weeks later I received a generic did you try to reboot your PC response. So I listed the 10 different (including and up to complicated) things I had tried up to then and mailed back.

Another 2 weeks later I get another response along the lines of whether I've tried restarting my Steam client.

After a 3rd round I just gave up. In the end it was a network issue on their side that auto-magically resolved itself (after 1.x months)
I was out in the surf off the NSW coast today, and it was scary as hell. Massive waves that suck you in and spin you around like a washing machine, coupled with a strong current pulling you out to deep water.

I definitely would have felt safer knowing there was a drone in the sky above me, ready to drop a flotation device on me. Our lifesavers do a great job, but it's a long, long way from the beach out to a drowning swimmer.
Teaching an old IRC dog some new tricks
You have to gz-decompress it, which is a harder job, and the only reason you're doing that (at least for images) is to undo the inefficiency you just added.
I know there are probably many other tools for the same purpose, but just built this while learning about ARP protocol.
Have you ever tried drinking sea water? It tastes salty. The short of it being: It makes you thirstier; drinking it is worse than drinking nothing.

Desalination is expensive in many ways. If it was a viable way of acquiring water (which it is in some places, like literal deserts) then these places would have already done it. Hence rising sea levels provide no additional access drinkable water.
A pool must use a lot of water - perhaps heavy taxation on [water for] pools would help in the future?
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However improbable: The story of an Intel microcode bug
I think from financial POV gog makes sense for CD Projekt even if it's never becoming big - simply because they can publish their games there and get 100% instead of 70% of the
price. They have lots of fanboys (me included ;) ), and on PC they sold more through gog than through steam (at least in 2015, haven't seen later data).

I hope they never go back on no-DRM, it's not worth it.
Reports claims that Twitter employees can read DMs of anyone
I'm not sure about some of the reasoning in this article. Perhaps the author is referring to a particular sort of conference, with which he is most familiar?

Would an appropriate analogy be the era of stadium rock concerts, versus smaller, more intimate venues (and the economics of one versus the other)?
The big problem is that if you already have a voice talking to you, there's decent possibility you might also find verification that isn't real. If your basic connection to reality is misbehaving, there's really not much that verifying yourself (or lol ghosts!), so to speak, would solve.

I'd say the only real solution is to make sure that others around you, who are generally considered sane, and ideally critical of your claims, are there to verify your internal verification.
Also living in Austria (Vienna), I do not experience the situation being as bad as you do. There are cafés where you can talk for hours (also in the evening), there are pubs (some of them do play loud music tough), and plenty other bars where you an go to and have a nice chat, with background music but not disturbingly loud.
I'm sensitive to noise but there are usually plenty of choices if I want to hang out in tranquil places. The situation is different on the countryside where you don't have that much choice.
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I used to go to work via the train and always had my earbuds in; part was from boredom, but I think a more important factor was blocking out the noise and whatnot. When I forgot my earbuds, I got restless on the one hand, and while waiting at a train station, remembered why I had them in. Loud train noises and such.

Of course, no earbuds will block out the smell. (trains here dump their toilets onto the train tracks; it's officially not allowed to use toilets at stations, but it's not enforced).
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380#Production_and_del..., production in 2018 will be at 12 per year, so this would add 2-3 years (if the optioned 16 will also be produced).
Intel admits Spectre patch problems also affect newer Core chips
Announcing WebBook Level 1, a new Web-based format for electronic books
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There is at least one self-sufficient desalination ship for hire that could apparently just about cover the entire city's needs on its own. It is also apparently very exensive so we are hoping to avoid that. I'd expect that's the kind of company that would be useful in these sorts of disasters.
Insane, probably not. Bored? Sure. And why be bored when there's always something to do?
"small conferences exclude people" this is a fallacy, the more small conferences there are the less people are excluded.
I guess this is more of an "embedded" usecase and more suitable to a statically compiled target.

Not the same as "using it throughout the organisation" in the sense that their IT personnel need be concerned with.
How does this add 10 years in this case to the life?
Most web servers on the Internet store unwrapped base64-encoded secret keys.

Most SSH hosts store their secret keys encoded in base64 (/etc/ssh/).

Then, there's JWK which supports unwrapped secret keys.

Basically, you can't guarantee that the whole world is only encoding encrypted keys. That's why it's a good software engineering practice to prevent possible attacks by using constant-time encoder/decoder. As you can see from the link in posted, BoringSSL implements one.

Finally, the context of this thread is encoding and decoding of secret data, so I'm not sure why you had to post your opinion stating that it never happens. 1) It happens in real world. 2) I mentioned a solution for the case when it happens.
"Install this patch, and your servers will start regularly crashing."

Let's say it like it is.
Ending the Debate for MVC vs. MVP vs. MVVM
While demand for air travel is growing, the demand is in the wrong places.

First of all, you have to remember that on long-haul, the front cabins pay for the flight; if you scale the plane up without also scaling up the number of people buying premium-cabin tickets, you lose money. Emirates runs around 50 premium seats in their 777s, and 60-80 in their A380s depending on configuration. That should tell you something about whether the premium demand scales up with the economy-class demand (it doesn't).

Second, there still just aren't enough places on earth that can fill a 500-seat (or even 600-seat as Emirates is experimenting with on their latest configuration) plane every day. It's a cliché to say it at this point, but: Airbus bet big on people flying mainly between megahubs, and that bet failed. Much of the expansion of commercial flying has been to secondary or tertiary destinations that aren't going to fill an A380-sized plane. Which means either flying the plane with a bunch of empty seats (which loses money) or not flying it every day (which loses money).

You may not like it, but the more reasonably-sized twinjets won. 250-350 seats is the sweet spot, and the future belongs to 777s, 787s, A350s and their descendants.
There was a time I would have just taken Intel's word for it but sadly times have changed.
Three link goes to Twitter though, https://mobile.twitter.com/Pornhub/status/953668567714680833..., that URL might still catch on filters.
I find it interesting that the author of the letter which is a high profile person in the Perl community openly admits to never standing behind the "sister languages" meme and that it now has come full circle from replacement version -> sister language -> replacement version.
As a passenger I'd choose 787 in a eye blink - comfort of higher pressure and better air is making a huge difference.
I don't think that every husband would be replying the same to the 'bum problem'. I'd expect the response to be tailored based on some specific traits of both husband and wife and based on experience in similar types of marriages/relationships.

I do agree with you that I'd rather make my own mistakes, than try to be a perfect partner by using an app. The idea is definitely interesting, but scary at the same time. It sounds like something out of The Black Mirror show :)

P.S. your English is great, nothing to worry about!
Raid, backup and archive
If you prefer listening over reading I can recommend https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/sysk-live-db-coo...
> It's trivial to run. Get a minimal AWS instance, or a small digitalocean instance, or whatever. Hosting is not a problem these days. Godaddy is offering managed (they patch and provide support) VPS instances for $18/mo right now. Surely not as cheap as some dedicated host, but also more secure and if you're actually spending your time developing something, not a lot to pay.

These trivial things matter when you're getting off the ground. Dropping money on that idea you were playing with in your evenings is a big psychological step. A couple of hours faffing with server admin can be even more offputting.

> Nobody is saying expose your laptop to the internet. But getting started isn't about getting someone to look at your stuff, it's about actually getting started and getting some code written.

Disagree. The goal isn't to write some code, the goal is to get a viable business, and these days business concerns - the famous product-market fit - are a much bigger risk factor than technical ones. A mostly-static page with a simple text form that can start getting you actual customers puts you much closer to that than any amount of code running on your dev laptop. (It's different when technical innovation is at the core of the business - when the actual code is the biggest risk factor - but in that case you're probably not doing web stuff and probably not using any of these languages).

> If you're talking about whether the framework has instructions on how to run as a CGI, I'm going to go out on a limb and say yes, they all do because that's step one in telling people how to run your stuff when making a framework, where it makes sense. In some cases it's just a WSGI/PSGI etc server and you can interchange them. It may not make sense to run twisted as a CGI, but if you write WSGI you can just use django, which does support deployment as a CGI.

It's never "just" though; these differences are important. Every extra step beyond "upload this file to the host" probably cuts the number of projects that get off the ground in half. And a lot of these frameworks will tell you how to "run" them in a one-off way but completely gloss over how to set them up so that they'll still be running after you restart the server you're hosting on.

I just had a quick look through the django tutorials to check I wasn't talking nonsense and it's even worse than I thought. The "installing" page gestures vaguely in the direction of virtualenv (which is how people actually use django in practice) but it's not integrated in the tutorial at all. The 7-page "beginner tutorial" only ever uses the officially-not-secure-enough-for-production local development server. I was excited by the link to an "advanced tutorial about creating reusable apps", but turns out that's just telling you how to package up your webapp so that other people can run it locally with the development server. Nothing about WSGI, not one word about how to actually put your "webapps" on the web. I don't mean this as an attack on django specifically - I like django, and it's documentation and tutorials are better than a lot of options - but no wonder people keep using PHP.
Do they have 10% traffic fluctuations every minute? That seems quite a lot...
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The real test will be how well they fare on the second hand market, when Emirates begin to retire their first aircraft over the next few years. Last year an A380 that had been with Singapore Airlines for 10 years was put into storage until a buyer is found [0], and an Irish leasing company decided to start their own airline as they couldn't find anyone to lease their A380s [1].

[0] http://www.traveller.com.au/first-retired-a380-superjumbo-pa...

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/leasing-company-force...
Yea because in 2018, using an 80x24 terminal is THE WAY to browse the web. Cool. Thanks.
Were you (or anyone) able to change the brush size? (I'm pretty sure it used to be + on Windows, but it's been a while)
There is a lot of evidence that oxidative stress is a major "cause". But one has to look at what causes oxidative stress. There is a lot of scientific literature about this topic.
Dr Dale Bredesen has a method (not a medicine) to successfully treat Alzheimer's: 9 out of 10 patients are cured. He is currently doing a larger study and might be interested in Y Combinator since his method has many variables and he wants to use software to make it available to many doctors.
Steam sells up to 4 times cheaper to people who live in certain poorer regions, and this also gets the usual discount. So some old game sold for $10, might get a 75% winter sales discount, plus a further 75% off in poor countries, down to about 60 cents.

It's clever because it takes purchasing power into account. So a game that's about 1 hour salary in the US would cost about 1 hour on a Indonesian salary as well.

This is going to be really hard for many competitors to match.
My organization runs KubeCon + CloudNativeCon [0] and we have events in 2018 in Copenhagen (May), Shanghai (November) and Seattle (December). Our Austin event last month grew 300% from the year before to 4,200 people.

I believe that conferences are extraordinarily valuable for open source communities. They give an opportunity for new people to get involved and connect with the existing leaders. A common concern is which talk to attend when there's overlap. I always advise to choose the one where you want to talk the speaker or other attendees afterwards. Since all of the sessions are posted to YouTube [1], you can see the other talks later (and can watch them at 125% of normal speed, if you want [2]).

>But all of that media can’t really replace the socializing, networking, and simply fun that happened as part of (or sometimes despite) the conference formula.

The real reason to attend a conference is the hallway track.

(Disclosure: I am executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.)

[0] http://kubecon.io
[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2P-3-xqvmWa...
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...
Just finished reading Affluence Without Abundance https://www.amazon.com/Affluence-Without-Abundance-Disappear... about bushmen who live in southern Africa.

It turns out people have lived in southern Africa for 200,000 years, hunting and gathering.

Westerners show up, run out of water in a couple hundred years, and call them "developing."

The book is an eye-opener.
For people that don't want to dare their companies filter:

Traffic graph: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTwcgMZXUAAn1uX.jpg

The blog post reads as follows:

On Saturday January 13, residents all across Hawaii received a text message at 8:07am stating that a ballistic missile was on it’s way to their island and advised they should take shelter immediately. With international tensions currently at a high, it’s no surprise that the warning was taken very, very seriously. We can’t begin to imagine what would go through someone’s mind after reading that message, but based purely on the traffic numbers, it’s NOT to be watching porn.

Based on real-time, per-minute pageviews, and compared to levels on the previous two Saturdays, our statisticians found a precipitous drop in traffic at 8:07am immediately after the warning was sent out. By 8:23am, traffic was a massive -77% below that of a typical Saturday. As residents were notified around 8:45 that the initial warning was sent in error, traffic began to return to normal and Hawaiians collectively breathed a sigh of relief. Those seeking further relief, headed back to Pornhub where pageviews surged +48% above typical levels at 9:01am.
A Scalable Distributed Spatial Index for the Internet-Of-Things (2017) [pdf]
It won't add ten years of production of new A380s. It could extend the period of time in which there are airlines flying A380s by ten years.

The earliest-delivered A380s are already starting to face retirement by airlines, and aren't being replaced with new ones -- they're being replaced with 777s and A350s.

The line in the article is based on Airbus being hopeful that if they can keep the production line open another couple years, more airlines will start ordering A380s. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
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Things aren't just black and white. London and Paris, also Frankfurt are partially hub airports. Many long-distance flights from Europe will relay via those airports. Additionally you have direct flights. And with the raising passenger counts, there is a need for large airplanes on point-to-point connections too. Of course only on the important ones, but there is a need. A shortage in runway capacity also limits the amount of flights you can have from an airport, so to raise the capacity, you have to go bigger too. Right now, there is obviously no large demand for the A380, but I could see how that changes again - especially once the 747s in use got retired.
A380 and 787 both pressurise around 6000ft height equivalent as opposed to 8000ish on older planes.
Good and ethical behavior should be incentivized, both on short and long timescales. It is obviously not enough to punish the wrongdoers, because our laws don't prevent everyone from killing, discriminating, or exploiting their fellow people.

Currently so much rides on mere survival that the only effective objective function we have to consider our actions is that of money. Either the capitalist system needs to be diversified to encourage multi-objective optimization wrt quality of life across all lifeforms, or it needs to be dismantled and another form of cooperation that directly incentivizes helping your fellow human/animal survive should be installed.

Think about it like this: rather than writing some complicated optimization algorithm that sometimes climbs hills and sometimes descends them according to some arbitrary judgment scheme, we redesign the objective function so that all ethical behavior lies along stable manifolds. We can effectively hack human psychology by exploiting its predispositions to incentivize ultimately good behavior.

This "good behavior" doesn't even necessarily need to be complex or controversial: something as simple as the Golden Rule would likely be sufficient.

E: to add that I recently attended a contemporary art exhibition where one of the exhibits was the introduction of a new cryptocurrency called Kineticoin[1], which supposedly awards artistic contributions to society. How exactly to distribute this value is up for debate, but it is a sorely needed one, IMO.

[1] https://kineticoin.weebly.com/
That's really great! With development of technologies, lots of people can be saved
That was Herbert Spencer’s Belief, yes, as he had a rather reductio “Gadgrind” view of knowledge and worth (he is also the originator of the phrase “social darwinism” and, amusingly, is buried across from his rival Karl Marx. This simplistic view is pretty much dead these days.
You could tow a floatation device anyway, then the drone doesn't even need to work.

It's there a "pocket-sized" buoyancy aid that locks into a small canister you can strap to your wrist/ankle? I'd guess not due to insurance liabilities.
It's a problem because it's a digital currency? Because many other things that could be considered "surpeflous" also consumer massive amount of electricity. Or for example (not superfluous but potentially equivalent) how much electricity all the global banking system uses? I bet that it's more than "a nation".
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Letzwapp Communications, Inc. has introduced an App named LetzwApp that works like a digital switch to update your new phone number by replacing your old phone number in your contacts.

Contrary to people’s opinion that LetzwApp is a messenger App, but in the actual sense, it’s not. It only has multipurpose functions making it a top-notch mastermind application that automatically updates your contact information in your contact devices instantly most especially when you change your contact or phone number. One of the unique features of LetzwApp is its ability to automatically update and replace your old contact number with the new one with neither text nor email. It is a fantastic innovative App suitable and compatible on all devices.
"if done properly", state infrastructure can do this just as well. I'd have a look at the Carillion bankruptcy before claiming that the private sector is a solution.
16 Bi for edit: 20 planes + 16 options is around 440Mi ea. seems they didn't get as large as a discount as I was expecting
no ruby. no fun.
I can make my minor edits in MS Paint and be totally done then go get a coffee and when I get back to my desk Gimp may have finished loading.
Very attractive for potential students who can otherwise do nothing about their passion. But, how would anyone substantiate one's hard work/achievements without at least a certificate?
I pretty much dismiss all 'the youth today' statements.

I once read an article (it was a paper, so long time ago) about late Roman Empire customs. Young people used to fill the circus for massive, noisy concerts. No electric instruments, so the noise was achieved using lots of percussion. Also long hair and ripped trousers. Nihil novum...
This approximately describes my approach to game development, too. It works exceptionally well there as gamedev is all about crafting a fantasy and an experience.
That's for additional optional 16 for a total of 36.
Devices like WaterSeer have been debunked a while ago by guys like Dave from EEVBlog. Basically the math behind them do not check out at all.

Does anyone got alternative views?
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Cars right now are both a practical good and a luxury item (where branding comes in).

Clocks were the same, until everyone got a phone in their pocket at which point they were reduced to just a luxury item.

I'm sure there will always be car collectors, but buying a car as a luxury item when there's no longer a practical need to own one, is far from comparable to buying a watch.