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The pmax is supported by several emulators, if you want to develop PaX for MIPS then it is as good a starting point as anything else.

The EdgeRouter devices are MIPS and people are still using Loongson laptops.
Now you've just obfuscated that string for no apparent reason. Nobody can grep for that literal string anymore and you gained an extra line of code.

Those paths are not the same data repeated twice just because they share common substrings. They are two paths that serve distinct purposes. The developer likely chose that syntax because it looks like a setting that can be changed. It could just as well have been read from a settings file.
In the spirit of the original article I think point is not whether it was too much or not enough abstraction--it was the wrong abstraction. His abstraction eases one potential change (changing the project folder, which would imply changing two path strings in the original code but one in his), but at the same time makes a whole bunch of other potential changes much harder (or even impossible) to handle. We all would have been better off if he'd just left the duplication in place.
And the revenue is not a percentage from every expensive phone you buy in the US. It's the user data that phone, cheap or expensive, gives them access to. So as long as the phone is able to provide data about your location, browsing habits, emails, music preference, searches, etc. Google will never care if it's a cheap one.

This is why I don’t understand how computer geeks can prefer Android over iOS. I understand not everyone can afford iOS products, but for the people who both know Google’s business model and can afford it, why wouldn’t someone prefer the simple transaction that Apple offers - you give them money and they give you stuff.
I would not work for an employer that tried to limit my non-work activities.
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I don't see how any of what you said applies to the current story. We don't know whether the driver has financial problems or not.

On the surface, it seems likely that the driver is simply an unethical person who is abusing his customers' trust for money and/or fame.
Am I the only one who has no problem with this? You're in someone else's car. Of course that person has a right to record you. And freedom of the press is a crucial cornerstone of a democratic state. Of course this person has a right to publish anything they please.

This is just journalism paired with a new and novel social and technological configuration. Nothing more.

Meanwhile, actual eavesdropping-style surveillance is ongoing via state institutions. Are we perhaps bothered by our conscience a bit here?
I call that the 'NPR Radio Style' and I totally despise it.

It's cancer.
I really think that undefined behaviour should be switched to machine-dependent behaviour everywhere and we should just have tools that can suggest optimized variants of hot functions - to be rewritten in ways that take advantage of assuming undefined behaviour doesn't happen. Or lift the `extern "lang"{}' construct from C++ to C and have `extern "C-strict"' which turns on full strict undefined behaviour optimizations. Yes, I know I can turn most of them off. We ship C++ software and always compile with singed-overflow enabled and strict-aliasing disabled (among others). Those are just too dangerous to be turned on for an entire codebase of a large C++ application where you have no idea what will be inlined where and what LTO will do. But if some UB allows for measurable performance gains, we should be able to turn it back on for restricted safe scopes.

And please, if the compiler can prove that the program invokes UB in "strict-UB" mode, that should be an error, not a cause for the code to be deleted. I'm talking about the case of this SPEC 2006 code [1]

It doesn't make sense to me to just apply potentially disastrous micro-optimizations that save a couple of percent of run-time on the whole program. This sounds like a classic case of optimizing before measuring.

1 https://blog.regehr.org/archives/918
The project includes a data file. I couldn't tell where this data came from, or if there's any way to update it so it's for immediate or approximate use only.
I've seen too many people fall into absolutism recently. Too many people disagree with someone on a single point and then discount everything they say based on that disagreement. If you are only handing out an "A" or an "F" when grading someone's arguments/opinions you are not thinking critically enough.
This is another good point that I think can’t be overstated (running on big-endian or otherwise non-x86 arch). Support the unconventional and it supports you back. It’s a fun, positive feedback loop.
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I can, and do. But your average Jane cannot.
Why not just stop selling the movies instead of wasting all that time, capital, and effort?
According to Wikipedia, for smallpox the reason was:

> Based on past experience, it is estimated that 1 or 2 people in 1 million (0.000198 percent) who receive the vaccine may die as a result, most often the result of postvaccinial encephalitis or severe necrosis in the area of vaccination (called progressive vaccinia). Given these risks, as smallpox became effectively eradicated and the number of naturally occurring cases fell below the number of vaccine-induced illnesses and deaths, routine childhood vaccination was discontinued in the United States in 1972, and was abandoned in most European countries in the early 1970s.
I think “creepy” is one of the least interesting arguments someone can have. Plenty of things are creepy, and the word “creepy” itself falls into the same category as “offensive” or other very subjective accusations.

“Creepy” is not a good argument. What’s offensive to you is normal to me, what’s creepy to me is normal to you.
Podesta’s emails had proof of the Clinton campaign colluding with the media. You can not compare that with details of Manafort’s private life.

It’s clear why one would be in the public’s interest to learn about and the other is just gossip.
I think we have pretty much cured every disease a mouse could possibly have including aging...
Does anyone have a feeling for what the GDPR fine would be, if this had taken place in Europe? The number of people affected is fairly small, but this isn't the usual negligence or incompetence.

(Ironically, the site is geoblocked for the EU.)
You may correct me if you know better, but I have not seen any information that was leaked that I didn't imagine Russia or China already being very aware of.

Was this information revealed to only Russia/China and kept from journalists? If so how do you know about it?
That's why you always wear a wet suit when water skiing, even on a hot day.
A copyright is not private property. It is a privilege granted by Congress that has some property-like qualities.

The copyright owner is not deprived of anything by their copyrighted work becoming public domain except for the enforcement of that copyright by the government.
I do hope we get a full genomic sequence of it before it's gone, though. Anything that has co-evolved dealing with the human immune system for so long likely has useful tricks up its sleeve if they were applied for medical use.

And considering how much suffering this parasite has caused, it is a nice thought to think that humanity might get some benefit out of it beyond simply stopping the cycle of pain.
This is the most ridiculous comment in the whole thread. Greenwald broke one of the biggest stories of the century (Snowden). In what universe is that considered anything other than being a reporter?
That's interesting to hear, both things.
I feel some very valid assumptions about an uber driver were made in the initial comment, that might explain this behaviour. These comments were made with regards to his income situation.

I agree with you though that it might not be for making money, but just because the driver is a morally bad individual.

A much more likely scenario than him being a bad actor is that he might've thought he had found a hole in the market that would bring him 15 minutes of fame, and that's where his rational and moral thoughts went out the window.
I’ve thought similar ideas around “How about housing specifically for public servants so that teachers and police officers can live near their constituents”

It’s very difficult to get right with central planning.
I put linux on my x1 carbon (gen 5) and it works well enough. Some notes, in no particular order:

* great keyboard

* kind of shit trackpad

* trackpoint is pretty nice at least

* hidpi is a pain in the ass to set up

..* looks great once you get it working

..* some apps like Zoom refuse to scale up, so the buttons are tiny

* light weight

* really long battery
I used a few apps with the captive Windows runtime back in the day. It was highly frustrating because the app it was bundled with worked great, but if you wanted to do anything else (eg view other files) then Windows wouldn't let you because it wasn't the full product.

As a user the bundled Windows wasn't perceived as a benefit, since it consumed so much more hard disk space and had higher memory requirements etc. The driver situation was often dire too since established apps had established drivers, while early Windows had whatever few Microsoft had written. Microsoft was also obviously pushing the Windows agenda, after many delays and much competition as outlined in earlier articles in the series.

In case anyone wants to fix it, I also have a bug report from the one time I used Windows 1 as a kid. I used the paint program and went to save. A standard file dialog didn't exist as part of Windows until 3.1 (1992), so before then each app was on its own. Paint gave a single line edit control where you typed in the whole pathname (no browsing or similar). Back then DOS had a 64 byte pathname limit but the dialog let you keep entering characters, so I did. When I hit save, nothing happened except brief blips of the hard drive light. I had to reset the machine and found that this buffer overflow had resulted in most of the entries in the root directory being deleted! A quick disk edit tool and they were fixed (a flag is set on directory entries to say deleted so you just had to undo the flag providing you didn't create new files to overwrite these entries).

An intriguing product from the era was Desqview/X. You got a full blown X server and so could direct Unix programs to display on DOS. It could also export DOS programs to other X servers. If it had succeeded, then in this alternate reality apps would run on unix and PCs would be good for games and accessing those "real" apps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview#DESQview/X
That was true before USB3 even existed, but USB3 could be part of a greater set of features which suffer from a similar problem.

A domino effect perhaps, or the result of finding a niche?
Cowardly behaviour to hide behind the “it’s legal” line. If the majority of your passengers, who don’t know they’re on camera, think this is creepy then ethically you’re in the wrong.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17583690

My dad was a veteran with shrapnel in one eye that made him unable to purchase additional life insurance and it caused blind spells that left him intermittently unemployed for months at a time. I've had a class on Homelessness and Public Policy. I know something about both veterans and homelessness. (For those not bothering to click on the link above, veterans are over-represented amongst the homeless.)

Veterans tend to be proud people. They may not tell you how maimed their military career left them and it may not be obvious why they can't get a better job. I also don't see where the article made any effort whatsoever to understand why he has chosen to do such a thing.

So perhaps you don't see how my remark applies to the current story because the current story would like to vilify him while glossing over the context in which this is occurring.
It may not sound nice to say, but working with state actors (U.S. Mil) removes you from the "innocent civilian" column.

Regardless of whether you believe what the state actor was doing The Right Thing™ or not.
Why the fuck was this on "Hacker News", let alone at the #2 spot?
Ugh, yes. Had the same reaction.
I was a Nuke, Chem Bio Officer in the US Army in the early to mid 2000s.. Bio weapons are very much a threat. Just because we haven’t seen widespread use doesn’t mean they are a benign threat.

Belligerent states don’t care about what is “banned.” Chemical weapons are also banned but there have been several public and not-so-public uses of those during the past 20 years.
T series Thinkpads only come with U class processors. This is fine for many usages but depending on what you want you might need to go for the P-series.
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But in this case the original title "Intel Power Gadget" is more misleading than the "Intel Pulls MacOS Version of Power Gadget".
The most straightforward outcome would be for the standard to be public domain, the laws to remain valid and for the former copyright owner to take the government to court if it doesn't like having its standard incorporated into the law.
It is not only suitable to blow it up but also to shorten it in any way you want. You just omit literaly any paragraph and the reader is still able to grasp the story.
Also, using this format the story can be extended anytime without restructuring the text.

But yeah, I agree it is not enjoyable to read.
It's quite a strange situation as an immigrant.

I had an interesting conversation with a native American, that went down the "your ancestors did x/y/z" route (which I don't begrudge him, it wasn't unprovoked). When I pointed out my 'ancestors' arrived that May, he conceded that this wasn't accounted for.

(The discussion was regarding the local tribe's hiring preferences. We went on to become good friends. The conversation was blunt but not unfriendly.)
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The issue is that by people from minority racial groups becoming hyper sensitive to race they end up perpetuating racial division.

Trevor Noah's comments are an example. His view of the world is probably significantly influenced by race due to real or perceived discrimination he has experienced, but by his commentaries focusing on race he pushes a worldview that directs people's attention to the fault lines of race rather than the things which unite us in spite of racial differences.
I guess $1000 per case of filming plus his earnings
Counterpoint for shrooms

1. I took magic mushrooms (well truffles, Amsterdam, sold in smartshops, i.e. legal) and I felt a bit uncomfortable in my body and I felt like a kid.

2. I took magic truffles again (again Amsterdam) and I felt a lot uncomfortable in my body and was contemplating suicide. Fortunately I had on gray brain cell left that said "you can kill yourself, but only if you agree on it when you're sober and it's one week later." I locked myself in a bathroom with no windows. Yes, I could hurt myself in the bathroom, but I was fortunately to dumb to know how to do that. When the effect started cooling down it was a mix between a really bad trip and a really profound, meaningful yet really painful trip.

When I came out of the trip and felt sober I got a lot of data to analyze about myself and that definitely helped me. Yet, god forbid if I didn't have that 1 gray brain cell that realized that I was on truffles and therefore not in my right mind. Needlessly to say, when I was sober I decided to live because life is one interesting big trip anyway :D

One thing that I am realizing more and more: I really like myself sober. When I am sober I am capable of keeping my emotions in check. It's easier to love myself and all those things.

Nevertheless, I am grateful for the insights.
I think, perhaps, you didn't interpret the oath as was intended...

It's supposed to be to The People through the agency of the Constitution and not pledging allegiance to whomever cuts your paycheck.
Lazy FPU state restoration almost never makes sense on modern CPUs (regardless of security issues) because the cost of an interrupt for state restoration is so high and because "FPU" registers are used for a lot more than just FP calculations these days.
Look at the picture of the mouse - it’s not aging, it’s dying. Yes, they “reverse” the condition, but only by the cessation of giving these little guys poison (doxycycline, a harsh antibiotic). This could have been called “high doses of doxycycline almost kills mice.”
> What I suggested above is to use neither locales nor UTF-8, but code points.

I agree, I think that is the right thing to do for ranges. If you want "all alphas in the current locale", then you should use some special indicator like [:alpha:] that is defined to be that.
On 1. 10 planets equally radially spaced dont cause a wobble like 1 going fast. Also 10 planets equally spaced are quickly not equally spaced due to differing orbit vel. 10 isn't the problem, assuming aliasing is the problem.
Yes, same here. The problem though it got more spammy lately, with all the videos and recruiters so LinkedIn may burnout as a useful tool. Although not clear what could replace it...
Look, we're all unhappy about how this whole fiasco went down but dude, "I'd been swindled. No. More than that. I'd been robbed." ? That's jumping the shark a little bit.

You'd been swindled, sure. Plain and simple. Not robbed.

Letting anger and frustration escalate beyond the scope of an injustice isn't doing anyone any good. I agree though, a more judicial approach to refunds is probably warranted for a game that SO under delivered on the hype. This isn't in the same ballpark of a let down as Spore.
The interaction is well defined in the sense of “unsafe leta you do these things” but specifically, the rules about what invariants unsafe is required to uphold are not super well defined. The overall shape is there, but we’re not at an ISO standard level of definition. It’s an active area of work and research.
Exactly this. Science is supposed to be reproducible. Computer science is much more easily reproducible than many other disciplines and it is just sad that many papers don't publish their data/code to reinforce their conclusions.

I could understand Facebook/Google/BigCo. doing so when the data in question might be internal implementation/tech but the trend is far more prevalent.

Sharing experiment data/parameters would not only help people verify your results but also help students learning how to design and carry out experiments.
Yep. That was the bit when aliens should have landed and made their selves known saying "alright guys, you've passed." as they then go on to share the wisdom of the rest of the universe. Was disappointed they didn't. I guess we have to show them a few more tricks.
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I guess it would really depend if they go after the driver or Uber itself.
It's basic decency to let the people know they are being filmed.
--inspect-brk will start the node process then immediately break. It looks like ndb supports inspect-brk too.
I'm typing this on my Lenovo T480 running Ubuntu. Here is a little review I wrote after a couple of days with the machine:

https://reprep.io/writings/20180621_lenovo_t480_linux_review...

I ended up installing NVidia's proprietary driver which let me disable the MX150 and use the Intel video card instead. Machine seems to run a little cooler since.

I was pleasantly surprised that Ubuntu auto detected my network printer. It also played nice the first time I plugged into the RJ45 port.

I'm still underwhelmed by the audio quality of the built-in speakers. It's sufficient for video conferencing, but it's a little sad when playing music.

Another minor annoyance is that when restoring from suspend, the laptop briefly flashes the previous desktop before showing the lock screen.
*30 series Thinkpads (ivybridge) have the broadest support across all OSes (windows, Linux, BSDs, even some hackintoshes). If you don't want a new laptop, you can get one of those for cheap. General advice: Don't get anything with nvidia.
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It doesn't have to be either/or between "malicious and greedy" and "poor person desperate to make ends meet." The truth often lies somewhere in between.
Have you found a good way to adjust the trackpoint speed on your X1 Carbon? It's way too slow on my gen 4, and way too fast on my gen 6 (even after configuring it to max speed on the gen 4).
Didn't you read the comment?

One blatant example: how do you think it'd benefit intelligence agencies to see who begins encrypting their comms after the news breaks?

If it's a topic of talking head discussion on the news, and nobody picks up arms, that's implied consent. "Well, that's just normal operations, we've been doing that since 20xx!"

Open secrets are ones you don't have to worry about leaking in ways you don't want. Being able to coordinate media reaction, social media reaction, and Gov officials' responses, is key, if this was indeed a limited hangout.
Absolutely spot on. The leftist fascists at HN are welcome to downvote this too.
True. But it's imo sad thing that it is so (at the very least it leads to duplicated functionality and duplicates query tree copies, but it also makes it harder to implement functionality like automatic matview usage etc). I'm quite sure that nobody would implement views in today's postgres that way. If there weren't the fact that there's still resistance to removing rules, I'd argue we should reimplement them.
From KC. The indictment [1][2] is pretty bad. There were multiple reported injuries that were decently severe leading up to the final incident. One of the guys full blown destroyed reports. Which led some 17 yo kid to become a whistle blower and go to detectives. I'll agree this article attempts to paint this guys a slightly more favorable light and should of went more in depth into the actual misconduct of some of the persons involved. KC Star did some really good reporting on this whole incident even leading up to it I believe they were calling into question the safety.

[1] https://www.kansascity.com/latest-news/article206611679.ece/...

[2] https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/977310924804579329
Yay! I love the smell of fresh Netbsd in the morning. Seriously though, awesome news.
It is not. Copyright is clearly distinguished by the Constitution as something granted by Congress rather than a Constitutionally guaranteed right.
> Why do you need a subjective first person experience [...]?

I reject the premise that I need a subjective first person experience. I don't have a subjective first person experience.[0] I have convoluted, poorly-documented internal data processing mechanisms cobbled together by a blind idiot over millions of years. These could, in priciple, be measured with sufficiently good instruments.[1] They could, in principle, be analyzed and translated into a form compatible with someone else's spaghetti-coded wetware. I don't have a subjective first person experience; I have a objective first person experience.[2]

0: And neither do you.

1: And this is likely to be feasable in the next couple centuries.

2: Like a p-zombie.
Even disregarding the fact that for any given X, that X most like actually was stolen...

But these aren't particularly interesting places. Now, if you check the Russian section of LiveJournal, or comments sections of online news sites, let alone professionally patriotic sites (Goblin etc.), you would be amazed as how anyone could complain about perfectly sensible and reasonable comments you mention above.

I do assume that you speak/read Russian well enough...
The problem is that "a strong government with rule of law" wasn't a realistic alternative; it might be desirable but even looking back there doesn't seem that there was a reliable way for Russia to get there even if certain groups chose to do so; the balance of power between various major influences who have goals incompatible with this scenario just wouldn't let it come true.
For one thing, doorbell cameras aren't generally streamed to the entire world.