skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not soon anyway as he's associated with the old, non-corbyn faction of the party which seems to be in disfavour ATM.

Though... he does currently have a shadow secretary position. In theory that makes him a ministerial candidate and that (also in theory) puts him in position to create labour's policy on such topics.

Writing the cheques from government is always different to being in opposition or even a disident backbencher. But you're right. He does seems to have an understanding of these issues, and guts.
You kinda hint at the answer in your post already - you keep referring to "the government", but who? Is there one or a few people responsible for directing others to perform the unlawful surveillance? Or are they too protected by some mechanic? The legal state being "unclear" probably also means that those people can't face judgment for continuing doing it while the judges were still out.
The Cyclone core has 6 decoders. It can decode, rename and retire up to 6 instructions per cycle[1].

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/7910/apples-cyclone-microarch...
... and bad weather of course meant "no connection".
Not the females?
> Heck, I‘ll take a Raspberry Pi over an Arduino any day to automate a simple relay, just because with real Go and Linux I can use the same tooling I‘m using every day at work.

I don't think this is a good example as for many people there are far more good reasons to pick up Arduino over RPi in this scenario. With LinuxBoot the question is far more complicated. If there is a vendor using it, and if it's done properly, you won't even notice a difference.
The fact you said "50" and not "5000" is enough reason to not consider it premature.
I'm neutral on the particulars of this venture (it's probably positive). But how can anyone argue that the market is efficient when it is possible for companies that "is free from profit-making incentives" to exist? Just curious. How does this example fit into that framework?
Aadhaar in India, hopefully!
I suspect that building tooling, as in things to automate test-generation, likely only going to be successful in situations which cry out for some duplication to be eliminated. A thing that can be done is to improve the way that the frameworks we use support testability. For instance, the company I'm at felt like rails controllers had gotten hard to write tests for and so they replaced them with https://github.com/gocardless/coach.

Here's a blog post if you're interested in using it: https://gocardless.com/blog/getting-started-with-coach/
We already knew that though - anything Snowden published was just proof of what pretty much everyone already suspected was happening and/or possible.
What the NFL and Olympics have in common… and can teach you about business
A non-profit ensurer staffs itself to have high quality customer service by pushing back on improper billing by providers and instead of returning that savings to its members investing it into higher quality employees, more training, and better systems to ensure that hospitality is a paramount concern.
I took one look at that article and the fact that the U.S. is literally painted the same color as China as having an equal amount of internet censorship would be hilarious if it weren’t so egregiously misleading.

There’s internet censorship and there’s China. Nobody else is in the same league.

The only explanation I can think of is if censorship and surveillance are just being casually lumped together, but people understand that they’re not synonyms, right? Right?
The BBC News breaking article on Meltdown and Spectre was hilarious. The title was something along the lines of "Apple phones have bug", then in a paragraph down near the end it noted that oh, by the way, almost all chips used everywhere by everyone are also affected.
As a fairly young guy, I think a lot of the fallout over narcissism is really a kind of sublimated culture shift.

Before about 1975, unemployment was typically under 5%, and underemployment or precarious employment was far more rare. Social safety nets (for white people, at least) existed and were strong. University wasn't terribly expensive, and the chances of getting a job that delivered an acceptable standard of life was really quite high.

This meant that, with their basic needs essentially met, generations born before a certain point tended to concern themselves with ideas like self-growth, fulfillment, and personal goals.

Between 1975 and 2008, those concerns became increasingly displaced by survival-level thinking, as unemployment ticked steadilly up, and jobs generally grew more time-consuming, and less well paid, while commodities and rents of all kinds increased.

I think for a lot of young people, there's a kind of fallacious misidentification between the concerns of older generations, and narcissism. To obsess over abstract personal concerns to the point that basic needs are not met is narcissitic - and if somebody of a generation that went into the workplace following 2008 obsessed over personal concerns to the degree that the older generations do, it would absolutely impact their abillity to cater to their basic needs.

However, because older generations are typically in a good financial situation, having profited both from the pre-80's social contract, and often, from its disassembly - it's not at all narcissitic to care about personal concerns! It's absolutely rational - they aren't going to become homeless if they decide to go on a buddhist retreat, or engage in a messy divorce, or start a new career.

Narcissism gets picked out as a culprit since it's a way to both categorically assert that a different way of life is wrong, and equally, to lay the blame for the current situation at the feat of our proximate frustrators - the boss, the mentor, the parent.
None of what you just said is going to happen as long as there exists a desperately under-funded pension system in every city, state, and nationwide.

Also, the biggest factor relating to poverty these days is overpopulation--too many people, not enough jobs. The jobs that do exist are never going to lift anyone out of poverty, even "good" paying office jobs won't take you very far. That is the reality.

The other reality with public transportation is that outside of a few major cities, it doesn't respect an individual's time at all. I used to take a bus to my job in the downtown area of a city, but to get to that bus, I had to drive. I commuted to then commute again. It nearly wrecked my life, 90 mins. a day lost to all that bs. I got smart and quit that stupid job.

Humanity's future is dire--go visit China or India and realize that those places are the guideposts for everyone's future. Filthy humanity overflowing with nowhere left to go, air pollution, trash all over, stench. That's humanity.
It’s amazing how quickly our Russian allies turned into our Cold War enemies at the end of WWII. I’ve heard a lot of blame on both sides, the US stockpiling arms, McCarthyism fanning the flames. But the end of this story drives home just how brutal Russia was. A wwii hero who not only deliberately went to Auschwitz for three years, organized prisoners, compiled intelligence reports, then escaped and fought bravely for the resistance in Warsaw and somehow survives it all ends up getting tortured and killed by Russians a few years after the war.
There were cases in the States where a defendant tried to subpoena records from the meta-data collection saying it would exonerate him from the accusation. I can't find how the motion was ruled on with some light Googling. Anyone remember?
This article is from 2003. Did subsequent research confirm these findings ?
Ah that would explain the mintel terminal I found at tymnet house at hemel for my odd terminal collection :-)

I used to work on billing for TG and latterly Prestel

80:BTG174 (Neuromancer on the NB) and I think I was Mouser on Shades
There is plenty of profit to be made... lower insurance premiums result in higher profits for Amazon, JP Morgan and BH
Incorrect. New York has lots of people trying to get from point A to point B pretty much all the time, and other American systems with half-decent mass transit (Boston, DC) also see those systems get heavy use, to the point that shutdown of a line is a major disruption. Which is also the universal experience in Europe; Paris has added several mass transit lines in recent years, and has had no problems keeping them full.
Google Cloud Platform Opens Region in the Netherlands
> One of the benefits a profit motive brings to insurance companies is pushing back on improper billing by providers (doctors/hospitals) and negotiating lowest possible care and drug rates.

The ACA requires insurers to spend 80% of the premiums they take in on direct healthcare costs for their members. Inflated billing and high drug costs are actually helpful if they want to make a nice big profit. To a point, at least - they've gotta find the right balance between profit and people being unable to pay their premiums.
> I would argue also that no one has proven that it's efficient at preventing terrorist attacks.

What if arrests in terrorist investigations are kept under wraps though? If the public would hear of thwarted terrorist attacks on a regular basis, either they'd feel more and more unsafe - that is, the terrorists win - or the terrorists find out about other cells and find ways to circumvent detection.
I still fail to see the problem at hand?

Would faux rationality that the world is getting better constantly not keep us in silent optimism, as opposed to - urm - violently keep fighting for it being made much worse?

What cruel bastard would even do such a thing, anyway?
Roger, I think we both know D-Bus has been rock stable at for the last 7 years, or possibly more, and Simon McVittie, its current maintainer, is a highly skilled and competent engineer.

While I find the situation different with systemd maintainers, whose communication style used to be questionable too often, and their software had some nasty bugs, I must admit that despite those problems they've also built software, which is nevertheless reliable, even though it took them a lot of time to come there.

This, honestly, is the most disappointing statement I read from you in the recent couple of years. And I'm saying this as a person who used to respect you a lot. I find your lack of respect together with the willingness to spread lies like this quite appalling.
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The difference between rail in the US and Europe is that on a lot of the rail in the US, cargo has right of way over passengers.
When less busy and an extended weekend seems in order, I go to ctrip.com (note: I live in China, but I'm sure there are equivalents for flight/train details where you are) and see where on a mental list of places I like / I would like to go in China / East / Southeast Asia seem cheap, and if something seems really cheap, I get a Friday and/or Monday leave approved then book the flight.

For what to do and places to stay I tend to go to the Reddit sub-page for the city/region and wing it from there. Reddit can have quite a bit of noise and group-think, which just takes getting used to, but the signal can be a true gold mine. I don't post unless I've got something really specific about a place that's not been asked before.

And simply as a European in Asia for a long time, where other foreigners and internationally-minded locals tend to migrate here and there quite a lot, a network gets build over LinkedIn, WeChat, Facebook, etc, that there's invariably someone I've crossed paths with living where I want to do, so if I need a 'meat search engine' answer to a question I have it, or can suggest to hang out for those I know better.

So, that may or may not be applicable to you, but that's how I plan, or really don't plan much at all.

Do always have medical insurance when travelling. Check if your employer covers this. I've thankfully never needed to use it, but it gives a peace of mind for low probability high risk events.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plans & the Kaiser hospitals are non-profits.
"Why we wrote our Kafka Client in Pony (wallaroolabs.com)"

I love the fact that the words "Kafka," "Pony," and "Wallaroo" are all together in one sentence, and not as part of an elaborate joke. I love even more the fact that Serious Business Executives will have to use these words to discuss useful technology. Awesome names.
It's possible to make a mistake in the application of any principle, particularly when the mistake suggests you've made an important discovery. I think there would have been a clear consensus among third-party physicists that the razor favoured Bethe in that case.
Why was he untouchable?
I have a mid 2014 Macbook Pro (top of the line, discrete GPU and all) and some recent update has made it really slow (not the Meltdown updates, something before that). It now takes an age to switch workspaces, to load the task switcher, to change applications etc. Stuff also seems to go wrong more. App crashes, iTunes refusing to open, Finder crashing etc.

The annoying thing is I tried to upgrade to a new Macbook Pro, but I just couldn't get on with the new machine (I detailed my thoughts here https://blog.willj.net/2017/08/14/why-i-returned-my-macbook-...).

I feel like Apple are pushing me away. My mac is still better for me than a Linux machine, but it's getting close now.

The thing with this is that I don't really think Apple cares that much. Apple is a phone company now, and OS X and Macs feel like an afterthought.

It wouldn't surprise me if in the next few years Apple slowly winds down all things Mac. Marketing, updates, upgrades etc. and while doing that makes XCode Windows compatible.
> Today it's closer to $18,000.

Do you happen to know the sources of inflation? Are we consuming a lot more services? Are healthcare providers being paid more? Are healthcare companies getting rich?
They are closely related though. Mass surveillance, and/or the loss of privacy online, has a chilling effect - effectively censorship.

Either your government blocks / censors your er, controversial statements, or you're afraid to post your controversial statements because the government is watching you. Same effect.
Heh

When I worked in the TEC tymnet engineering centre we had an ex phone phreak who had got done by BT security for hacking Prestel.

One day the SD officer who arrested him bumped into him and freaked and demanded he be sacked - senior mangers told SD to piss off.
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I assume the BigInteger library, which offers isPrime() and isProbablyPrime() functions, already does that kind of optimization.
To be fair, Norwegians might be more anti anything government if the Norwegian regulatory system was as Byzantine as in the US.
Individual privacy is the issue.

Op sec is the military's problem.
Is there a crypto hat lets you bet on when Goog will pull the plug on this new service. I’d wager 1000 doge that this will stop taking new users in 18 months and be offline in 36.
This is exactly the argument I am talking about. It's fine that we can't judge CEOs, but then why are they taking home millions of dollars?

If we can't judge them for failures then we shouldn't be able to judge them for successes as well and they shouldn't be able to pull out the "rare skills" argument
Russian Parliament offers to decriminalize cybercrimes
I wrote this in another comment, but it's relevant here:

It wouldn't surprise me if in the next few years Apple slowly winds down all things Mac. Marketing, updates, upgrades etc. and while doing that makes XCode Windows compatible.
Well somebody or some bodies stood for the law and approved it. They needn't all go to jail or it would become a neat implement for beheading a government, but allowing them to create such laws without any repercussions is wrong.
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I understand that's why these non profits have spring up, but I don't think their existence means you have a reasonable chance in our legal system. They simply don't have the resources to help everyone
Authentication of a write operation is not the only problem a blockchain system solves. Using a public blockchain, for example, you are assured that:
0) all writes are authenticated
1) all the data written will be accessible to anyone
Now contrast it with a centralized solution where admit can just restrict access to some data. Yes, all writes are authenticated, but who cares if you cant access them?
2) The history of all writes is also reliably preserved and accessible to anyone.
3) In case of smart contracts, the business logic is visible to you upfront. You can study the contract and decide if it is fair to participate. You can study the history of that contract also.
4) All "redundant" nodes have proper incentive to participate in the activity. They gain value just by validating and processing your transactions.

My point is that this is just not achievable using traditional DBMS: the original premises ("trust model" and incentive model) of those systems are very different.

Please correct me if I am wrong somewhere.
My commute to school and university. Good to know that Heron is still there!
For companies like Amazon, JP Morgan, Berkshire, it's blatantly clear they have a massive financial incentive to beat down the run-away cost of healthcare. They've got a million employees all up and down the economic tiers. It's a very big boon to their business, to have a smaller share of cost going into healthcare, where they can instead redirect that money into eg competing for labor with higher wages (especially relevant with the U3 at 4.1%).

Healthcare costs are so bad they're now a large, direct competitor to the Amazons and Berkshires and JP Morgans in a business well-being sense, as resources are finite. I like having these giants stepping up to the plate and targeting the healthcare system on cost. They tend to get their way; if a political rock (eg insurance companies) gets in the way, it'll get moved out of the way.

It reminds me of the 450 hospitals getting together to set up a not-for-profit generic drug company recently -

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/hospitals-plan-to-create-the...
Well... These are the (large) cracks in rule of law that no one has ever managed to close entirely.

It's dangerous to criminalise political tier decisions and actions, just like it's dangerous to prosecute former politicians. It harms the ability to preserve peaceful transitions. Criminals or not.

First, it opens a door to political purging. Also incentives to use power in order to remain free is just too big.
Why I left Facebook (HN search results)
I don’t know. But a quick Google search indicates that these 3 companies have over 1 million employees. But that’s world wide. Still that’s an impressive number.
I think as it becomes clearer to young people that Corbyn is — at best — lacklustre about repealing Brexit, his assailability will grow
> Apple has wisely focused on designing its silicon (for its system on a chips, Apple uses reference designs from Arm Holdings Plc).

I was under the impression that the current A cores are not reference designs from ARM... That it was a purely Apple-designed core implementing the ARM ISA. Am I mistaken or is the article mistaken?
That only applies to the individual market, not employer insurance (small and large group.

Higher medical expenses don’t help. It only creates higher premiums, which members then blame on greed.

There are plenty of legitimate problems with providers, drug laws, and insurers. But insurers definitely don’t benefit from higher expenses.
Squad takes the joel test
Another use of hemp is for clothing.

I searched for years to find a great winter coat minimizing animal products and fossil fuels. Finally, I found Hemp Hoodlamb's parka https://us.hoodlamb.com/collections/fw17-man/products/aw17-m... which fits the bill and keeps me warm.

The company has a couple videos showing their hemp production in China.

On another note, from the article:

> Getting a mature plant in just a few months — with less fertilizer than needed for industrial crops like corn, and without chemical fertilizers or bug sprays — makes the potential for profit huge.

That's not how profit works. Fast growth may make the potential market size huge, but without barriers to entry, competition will bring profits down.
>You kinda hint at the answer in your post already - you keep referring to "the government", but who? Is there one or a few people responsible for directing others to perform the unlawful surveillance?

Yes. Those that signed related orders. It doesn't even matter if they get them all, just some high enough would be enough to deter others.
In the case of the Flint water debacle, there were several indictments. It's been a really positive change at the state and local level. It empowers the career experts to say to the political appointees and elected officials: "no, I'm not going to jail over this."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/us/flint-water-crisis-man...

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-...

http://michiganradio.org/post/3-years-later-flint-water-cris...
It is not so far fetched as it sounds. We had a parlamentary inquiry after the Snowden relevations. The result of 4 Years work is a lenghty document detailing[0] (among other things) How BND and NSA work together on analysis and raw data processing. That does not mean that BND needs the NSA to bend the law (that one they can do very well on their own), but the cooperation between the 2 organisations is such that the bulk of analysis is done in data centers in the US, simply because the german intelligence services do not have the nessessary processing power.

One of the results is that the german intelligence services will get more resources to do analysis on their own in the near future.

[0]: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/06/1812850-ungesc... (page 484 ff.)
The courts didn't technically rule that it violated a particular persons rights, only that the law lacked safeguards to prevent such an abuse. That quote was by a Labour minister not the judge.

But otherwise I agree with holding politicians accountable, as this has no doubt already broken at least a few peoples rights.
The results are way way skewed.

An example is Wordpress VIP hosting claims that the average load time is 100ms

You can't even get a flat html file to load in 100ms, DNS counts for approximately 30, SSL handshake approximately the same, web server anything between 10 ands 30ms leaves roughly between 10 and 30ms to transfer the data and render it and present it to the browser.

Consider the scope of Google and their edge locations, they can't even get the small Google initial search page to load in 100ms which is probably 30% of the weight of the tested wordpress page, not to mention the sheer processing power available to Google.

The author evidently has zero knowledge of what the data means in the test, it's more likely that what the author calls load time is actually time to first byte (TTFB) which is not actually load time at all, it's the time for the first byte of information to recieve back to the device after a request, this can be spoofed with various techniques and is not a good representaion of how fast a website page loads.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar_processor
This might have sparked it: https://qz.com/1090762/an-open-letter-to-jeff-bezos-you-are-... (2017)