skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm very anti-Comcast, so this isn't a defense.. BUT, aren't data caps.. fine? Nothing is unlimited, so why pretend you can get an unlimited amount of data?

If you're selling XMbps for $Y then I should be able to use XMbps, regardless of total usage. That's the unit that they have chosen to market, "speed of connection".

The problem is that I have to pay for this this two ways. As it stands, they're going to charge me for a 125Mbps connection, then they also get to charge me more if I use that 125Mbps for more than 18 hours in a month. To reverse your statement: Why pretend that I have XMbps of data if I can't use it?

The rest of your statement makes a lot of sense, and the SLA is what's really missing. If that was addressed in addition to / in lieu of neutrality it would be a net positive.
Because most of the time, need to fire a worker who held for a time period longer than a typical contract duration of a contractor, comes when the company itself goes bust. When nothing can help you regardless of your employment status.
Isn't C# a second-class citizen on Linux at best?
I have exploit code -- took me about 5 hours to write after Theo announced all the important details of the vulnerability. I'm not going to publish it yet, though.

AFAIK other systems aren't affected -- is lazy context switching even a thing on them? The fundamental issue here is that one process' data is still in registers when another process is running and we've been relying on getting a trap to tell us when we need to restore the correct FP state.
>but what's stopping a building owner from offering hot desks + coffee themselves?

That is not at all what WeWork offers. I'm typing this from a Regus office space (probably the best known incumbent), and having worked out of WeWork offices at other times, the difference between the two experiences couldn't be more stark.

A lot of companies try to claim to be "tech companies" when they're really just doing some mundane thing, in the same way as ever, but with a "tech" sheen on the website. (Maybe some green kanji characters scrolling down a black background, that sort of thing.)

WeWork really is different. I've seen some of the tech they deploy to improve the density ratio of the buildings, and to track different aspects of their customers' experience, and on and on. I'll grant that there aren't many barriers to entry in a small-scale, "hey, here's a desk and hot coffee" local market -- but very few companies can create the kind of global footprint that WeWork now has, which is a big part of the main strategy, going after the office needs of the Global 2k.
There could be nothing more satisfying than seeing Equifax washed over by a tsunami of small claims cases.

Is there a how-to out there for filing in small claims court against Equifax?
Wouldn't light-speed internet be useful ? I would think that HFT firms would be interested in them
You are the nano-hero the Python community deserves right now.
They used a legal definition. It makes sense since gender harassment can be an antecedent to sexual harassment.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm
Yep, and private keys are never compromised.

Aside from the many, many known cases where they are: http://legacydirs.umiacs.umd.edu/~tdumitra/papers/CCS-2017.p...
No. Information doesn't travel faster than light, ever.
Einstein’s travel diaries reveal racist views of Asians
Disclaimer: I am not familiar with mental health since I am neither a mental health professional, enthusiast or patient. Take this opinion with a grain of salt.

- get a diagnosed by a professional if you perceive a problem.

- don't self diagnose. try to make a distinction between facts and opinions as much as possible.

- follow treatments responsibly.

- if the treatment is risky (e.g.: high cost, side effects...), get a second opinion first, unless it is urgent.
I know of at least one gamergate meetup that had a bomb threat called on it. https://kotaku.com/gamergate-meetup-evacuated-after-apparent...

Would it be fair to paint the critics of gamergate with the same brush?

My best advice is to look at the majority of the people and see how they act, then make your own judgements.
In fact only the coastal regions will suffer from sea levels rise per se. But no height will be sufficient to guarantee your safety, sadly, because this is not about literal Great Flood. This is about climate change and hundreds of millions of deperate displaced immigrants from places like Bangladesh who will make everywhere more chaotic than today. We're not prepared for the human part of the catastrophe.
When I am playing a game, my computer's power consumption increases by a lot. I am using more energy and ultimately generating more entropy in the universe. Is it worth it?
Both Ethereum and Bitcoin mining is very centralized, with the top four miners in Bitcoin and the top three miners in Ethereum controlling FAR FAR more than 51 % of the hash rate. Was that transparent to you ?
I'm on mediCal so I get pretty much one option for mental health, these 'family clinics' and goddamn they are horrible. I've been in one of the deepest depressive swings I've ever dealt with and they really couldn't give less of a shit, but I can't see a normal doctor without paying out of pocket. It's kafka-esque, really.
Not owning real estate is the reason for the high valuation. Hilton and Marriott discovered this a long time ago, and more recently AirBnb.
How does one make polls?
I love it when "the little guy/girl" wins!

So, maybe this is a good strategy to put these big firms on notice:

1. Exert plenty of PR pressure to broadcast the wrong that big firm did.

2. Launch tons of small claims court cases.

3. Firms lose money flying paralegals (or other legal staff) around the country for small claims court appearances.

4. Or, these firms lose money paying out all these awards at small claims court.

5. Congress - seeing this widespread ire/angst and related court action - springs into action legislatively, and enacts laws to better protect citizens.

LOL ok maybe that's too fantastically fictional. ;-)
Design of the FAT file system
Could this attack be mitigated or otherwise slowed down by using non-temporal memory loads (x86: movntdqa) when reading the private key from memory? Or using clflush to evict the cached private key data from memory after each time it’s used?

The constant-time crypto in BearSSL seems like the best approach — I’m just curious if the above approaches could be used as a quick fix for the affected codebases until they can be fixed properly.
Yeah, these sorts of questions are typically something that goes under the umbrella of "multi-tenancy"; having proper access controls, isolation, accounting, logging, security model, etc, which incidentally also makes even trivial software explode with complexity. I haven't been paying attention, but I would have not thought Redis to be multi-tenant ready out of the box.
Even if it _were_ possible to only have the “government” have access to our personal devices and information, why would anyone want them to have that access? There are things I want to share only with my family, and ideally, I should have the ability to do that comfortably in this age of IoT. We won’t solve crime by allowing the government to spy on us; at best, it will cause the crime to be diverted or changed in form.
R is much more lisp-like than python: more functional, more emphasis on DSLs and metaprogramming, and the community is far more inviting to New comers: reminds me a lot of Racket in that regards.
I think that was outlined as one of the very first tricks in the post. I don't have a system available at the moment to test that with. Also, it explores doing the same thing without a Linux system, and shows the various ways such files/folders can/cannot be accessed.
Most commercial buildings are held by investors/funds who tend to own thousands of units. They probably have an in-house staff of property managers who places tenants, schedules repairs/improvements, etc. Managing co-working space would be a totally new way of doing business for these funds which represents a risk they're not currently interested in taking.
Fear of the merger being blocked by the Feds.

After of the approval AT&T got to buy TW yesterday, Fox shares jumped 7%.
That is specific to the Linux code itself which is taken from upstream. Linux distro vendors provide a contractual relationship with their customer base that provide SLA's around patching security defects and bugs. They also enforce policies around uptake of new third party code. They also do extensive patching of all of their packages to mitigate the vulnerabilities that upstream providers do not patch. There is much more to this that would take a blog entry to explain.
If it is a referendum on woman place then why are feminists like Christina Marie Hoff Sommers accepted?
Google to force users into using the new Gmail
It's tempting to speculate that they're having difficulty with the technology, but "iMessage in the cloud" was also announced at WWDC 2017, and was released just days before WWDC 2018, so it is (perhaps?) more likely that Apple is having more systemic problems internally developing things.
Obligatory plug for the Book about this: https://unbound.com/books/rocket-jump/
> This to my mind verges on civil rights infringements

You're funny!
We could be using this technology to see tumors and other pathologies through patients’ skin. Instead we’re using it to give soldiers and spies x-ray vision.
> Isn't sexual harassment rife pretty much everywhere?

I wondered the same thing, but a few comments in this thread highlight why postdocs are generally more trapped than employees.

Paraphrasing other comments:

A PhD student conflicting with their advisor is risking years of effort and their degree. You also can't just switch departments without losing a lot of progress (if it is possible at all).

"If the postdocs want good recommendations, they better keep their mouths shut".

Many postdocs are international students. It is very hard to change jobs as a student on a F-1 visa.
A better hardware/software equivalent for a gun would be something like an AED or an insulin pump.
yes but I don't think it's just a web browser + features that they're trying to do
Yes, it would be like a Netflix box (maybe branded under their Roku brand name) that's similar to Tivo. A Tivo Bolt Premier can be had for $299 with a 1TB drive.

The key is signing a lower cost deal with Verizon/ATT LTE or Dish Satellite to do some sort of the multicast broadcasting similar to Over the Air broadcasting but over the internet. Or do unicast transmissions but during off peak hours and blast it out over the LTE/Satellite network over the span of a week between the hours of 1AM to 5AM. The Netflix Top 100 is probably like 95% of what people are watching.

That way not everyone is congested from 5PM to 11PM every night and the mobile operators have additional revenue from existing wireless/satellite infrastructure.
Second Book plug because you're correct on all counts (I really want this to get funded :( ) https://unbound.com/books/rocket-jump/

90s FPS was my most treasured era of gaming… watching the tech evolve inspired me to get into computing and become a dev.
The "Big Three" television networks will become the "Big Two". The "Big 6" film becomes the "Big 5". You can mark this as another major event in the consolation and monopolization of news and entertainment under a rapidly growing singular corporate umbrella.
As best as I can tell, if you don't trust OS or microcode updates, you can't trust your phone at all unless you airgap it or somesuch.
Really? Does that apply to Wireless ISPs? (i.e., https://startyourownisp.com/)
I did check out go. I was surprised to see that it had null, and aside from the emphasis on concurrency I didn't find anything new or interesting. This was recently posted here, and I findyself agreeing with most of the points (though I'm not quite as strongly in favor of pure functional programming as the author seems to be):

http://yager.io/programming/go.html
How will Artificial Intelligence Impact Society
If anything, karma reflects how many users like your post or comment. They can like it for various reasons, not necessarily support it.
Not trolling, really don't understand how WeWork is valued at 35 BILLION when they don't even own the real-estate properties that they are leasing.

How is this absurd valuation -- or for that matter, even the 17 BILLION previous valuation -- justified esp considering (according to the article) they are losing money ?

> The company’s bond offering documents showed fast-growing sales but even faster-increasing losses. WeWork had total revenue of $886 million but a net loss of $933 million in 2017, according to the documents.
I've used both Regus and WeWork and would pick Regus over WeWork any day. I am so much more productive at a more laid-back, quiet (both sound and visual noise) environment than the hustle and bustle that WeWork takes pride in. WeWork calls this energy, I call it noise.
> However there is a sense in which this is a problem with container tech, in that there is no container equivalent of `deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main` (yet!).

That's what the Docker standard library is
sentors would technically be the same count.

Currently California is +2 Dems

In the new plan it would most likely be +2 Dems +2 Rep +2 Dems = +2 Dems

So no new gain. Where it would hurt would be the electorate college. California has 55, now 1/3rd of that would go to Rep.
Equifax is one of those companies that had a shitty solution to a really important problem. Its like a parasite sucking up money and from its host and not giving any thing to it except a headache.
Somehow people in multinational consumer companies and Credit Cards think this parasite should be allowed to exist. Its worth killing this parasite if only to gain a small shot at rethinking the solution to this important problem.
It's neither of those things. It's not the accusation that was made at all; the original claim was that she slept with a reviewer who gave her game positive coverage. The entire gaming press debunked this based on the technicality that it wasn't actually a review, but that wasn't the claim that was going around. Supposedly they also weren't technically in that kind of relationship until shortly after the press coverage, but that went down less well as a counter-argument for obvious reasons.

(This also wasn't the focus of the original blog post at all. To cut a decades-long story short, the reason that particular aspect caught people's attention was because there were a whole bunch of people who already very strongly distrusted the entire gaming press for reasons entirely unrelated to women. Then Reddit started shadowbanning anyone who mentioned the journo's name, hosters were pressured to shut down sites which covered it, the entire gaming press declared gamers as a whole misogynistic scum over it, and every escalation fanned the flames more in typical Streisand-effect fashion. In fact I don't think it was even mentioned in the blog at all, but I could be wrong.)
It's the same thing as saying "reverse racism". Intelligence is all the same, irrelevant of where it comes from or who has it.

It's just another example of humans elevating themselves above the, so far, non-sentient, intelligences in the world.

Yeah currently nothing we have encountered is as intelligence as us, so I'd say yeah we haven't created anything that mimics human level intelligence or sentience yet, so yeah everything thus far has been an artificial attempt at some aspect of human intelligence, but eventually we will create something intelligent, and it won't be "artificial" or mimicking intelligence, but it will be an independent source of sentience and intelligence.
Andy Lutomirski noted on another thread that he unintentionally fixed this two years ago in Linux:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17304947

(He switched it to eager FP because it's faster on modern hardware.)

But a lot of people running old LTS kernels may be affected.

EDIT: Looks like Luto's change landed in kernel version 4.6. https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.6#List_of_merges https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
From your experience what makes data.table so useful?
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It's only €4,500 in the Netherlands for the US citizens:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT
Why are companies paying Equifax if it isn't providing value to them?
Canada gains numerous concessions after becoming a dictatorship pursuing WMDs
Can you expand on this? How can it be used to send messages back in time if both are timestamped to the micro/nano second?
How did the previous court decision go through for AT&T? I really don't get what's wrong with that judge (besides may be possible corruption). Comcast now will be using all that as an excuse.
JP's perspective seems to start from the assumption that people are binary (either entrpreneurial/creative or managerial/administrative).
I believe that people are more complex than this and in every person there is a combination of the two (or more) skillsets. Although I agree that one skillset/personality trait might be more prevalent than the other.
I don't understand why HN hates R. HN loves lisp, and R as a language shares a much greater affinity with lisp languages than python or Go do. The language was born out of the original authors reading SICP (as statisticians). Sure, many of the users of R molded it to look like what they were used to (S), but that just highlights the powerful metaprogramming capabilities of the language.
What data structures do you recommend learning about?
"...5. Congress - seeing this widespread ire/angst and related court action - springs into action legislatively, and enacts laws to better protect citizens...."

...or they spring into action to enact laws to better protect Equifax.

Which do you think is more likely?
They have not completed any audits, and that astronomical dollar value backing up Tether is an extraordinary claim lacking extraordinary evidence.
So, I would say it rests on the assumption that Tether is lying and have something to hide, backed by the fact that they haven't completed an audit.

The alternative, that this is not market manipulation, rests on blindly trusting that Tether is backed up by the dollars they claim.
Or rather, they know that a large number of people don’t see it as a trope and will be genuinely moved by it. In this bubble, not really, but a lot people aren’t so well educated or skeptical about motives.
It's better than forcing students to pay for proprietary statistical analysis tools like SPSS, etc.
Fair enough. I think modern browsers warn on links with username/password. The UX for basic auth is so bad it is not really a usable feature
Net loss, holy cow. $1.8B burn on $900M in revenue.
If you ever visit santa monica you will know exactly what I mean. The fact that anyone can pick one up and drop it off anywhere is much different. Skateboards and roller skates are anywhere near what these electric scooters are.
If only it were that simple, and Apple were the only ones to trust. History shows us that even the best intentioned key sharing is vulnerable.
Any recommended ressources for Learning those concepts?
Although it's tempting to consider this a purely domestic USA matter, it has huge ramifications worldwide for IPR and entertainment product, presented to the consumer. I don't watch TV very much any more, and am not a subscriber to netflix or any like service (I watch news on PBS and a small number of things free to air, on a PVR on time delay) But I believe the significance of this deal will be the effect on content production and over-the-internet content delivery worldwide: The material coming out of Disney is going to a lot of eyeballs...
It applies to any service that offers cable television, which in the US market is a basic part of the economics of the business. Americans still overwhelmingly expect to get television service bundled with broadband.

I used to live in an apartment building with both cable and fiber. Nobody subscribed to the fiber because the fiber provided didn’t have a franchise to offer television service. It was nuts—I was the first person on a floor of almost a hundred apartments to get the fiber service. I found out because the ONT had been misconfigured when it was first installed years before. People just didn’t care—they wanted their cable package with ESPN. It’s why Google Fiber offers a television package—a broadband only service is not competitive in most US markets.
If one had access to the deep order book of some security, how would one start learning how to trade it?
Taken with their "community adjusted EBITDA" and I really want to hear a good-faith explanation of how this situation doesn't end horribly. A valuation divorced from any reality and a company using fantasyland financial metrics.

http://www.businessinsider.com/wework-community-adjusted-ebi...
But the information being hidden is largely information that never previously existed. Specifically, a complete log of where you went, what you read, who you chatted to, possibly the contents of those chats, etc. It is a previously unimagined level of intrusion, which is perhaps justifiable once someone becomes a suspect, but not extending backwards in time for potentially an entire life.
This isn't even remotely close. The only way your car analogy would be relateable is if car drivers didn't follow the rules of the road and were free to drive on sidewalks and dump them in the front lawn of companies and personal homes.
The issue was with exceptions.
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Meditation is a passive activity and doesn't really have appreciable effects. It's mostly new age woo.
Site is down, http://web.archive.org/web/20180613213214/https://movaxbx.ru... should be an archive but I can't check from my current location
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