skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's concerning is that the post author seems not to see the problem with trying to sit on both sides of the fence at once.

As others have said, the way this was done is likely to be against numerous laws in most major jurisdictions. If you wish to do this as a PoC then simply put a notice up on the page that initiates it and use dummy "competitor" content, so you've got some semblance of user content/transparency without copyright infringement. That would work just as well for flagging it up as a concern to others.

Or if being up-front about it is not the side you are on, do this fully admitting that it's wrong and face any consequences (it doesn't sound like this was the post authors aim, esp given follow up comments).

For a "very brief period of time" doesn't cut the mustard here, just as it wouldn't with briefly stealing something from a bank or briefly kidnapping someone (both crimes where one could sometimes argue there may not be permanent damage, although even that likely isn't true in many cases)
OK, thanks for the correction. Much better, indeed. :-)
> Oracle will not do any more business with you

Isn't that a blessing?
Nhận diện những mẫu sofa đáng mơ ước cho không gian nội thất
It’s much the same reason why you wouldn’t go to work wearing a days old, stained shirt and ripped pants — yeah, you’re more than likely going to work just as hard and as well than if you were wearing clean clothes, but that’s not going to stop people from judging you based on your appearance.

Most academics write code to just work. Not work well, or to be generalized, or to be efficient, just work. And while that’s absolutely fine, as your results being reproducible from the code is all that really matters, a lot of people don’t see it that way and will only see code slapped together haphazardly and dismiss you because of it.
From the official C# reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
Or... just have people outside the US do the benchmarking.

These kinds of clauses are likely effectively null, void or unenforcable in any country that has decent consumer protection laws or laws concerning anti-competetive practices.

You also can't just go and write whatever into a document that already has weak legal footing in many places - and especially not after I purchased your defective product. This shit won't hold for a minute in court.
Since he doesn't claim to know why, by far the most likely reason is that they don't believe he has what it takes to take the company further, whether technically or in terms of management or industry experience.

This is the cold hard world of business which is why founders should keep some decent equity to make sure they don't get stiffed like the guys at Fanduel: http://uk.businessinsider.com/fanduel-founders-likely-to-los...
Work for the public sector. There are loads of departments whose cause is unambiguously beneficial to society at large.
Installing the benchmarking package, or running it, isn't against the license. Providing or publishing (comparative?) numbers while the microcode package is applied would be.
I guess this speaks a lot about the App Store's review team. This is pure spyware, didn't even try to hide, and then allowed it.
Maybe Google can tell the difference, but, as I did SEO some years ago, we didn't relyed on it. Duplicate content was considered a problem regardless of who published first.

Duplicate content is a problem for organic rankings. In payed search it may be a problem for the quality factor (not sure). But even if it impacts the quality factor you just have to pay more to achieve the same result.
Ancient Human DNA Revealed Coupling Between Neanderthal and Denisovan Species
That's nuts, I have 4 yoe and only on like ¥5M. Like a parent comment stated I am content with low pay and carrying an entire team with several years exp on me, though. You don't come to Japan for the money, or at least I didn't. Good to hear you found a well paying org (I hope you can get the chance to use and learn Japanese there as well).
Breaking and entering or trespassing at the very least.
Why would the legal risk ever be over?
And before. Most people were still on dialup until I think maybe 2010-2012. Wireless ISPs became really popular during all of this because they could offer better service, better uptime, better speeds, and QOS for things like VOIP. Bandwidth and data usage management became so important that ISPs were also selling managed proxy servers and on-premise email servers to businesses because it was cheaper than having to pay for additional 1GB data caps.

The two primary causes for this situation was that the sole wireline telecomms company in SA and there were only 2 undersea data cables connecting SA (and I think Africa) to the rest of the world. Telkom was semi-private and state-owned so they had no incentive to improve things and also had to pay through the nose for access to the two undersea cables.

However, things started to improve when more undersea cables got laid down (lowering bandwidth prices and improving international bandwidth) and the government started lowering entry barriers so that Telkom stopped being such a monopoly.
When time estimates become deadlines and the politically correct "Didn't we agree that it will be done by day X". Also, needs to be built by Wednesday and we will have the specs for you on Friday.
Back button is not the only way to end up at noindex site.
This story about George Soros is False.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germa...
Yeah, this is the thing that I wasn't expecting when I first saw this reporting. Preferably with some lag to cursor moves etc.
No problem! It's a very good strategy, it's what someone who wanted to remain anonymous would use.
Managing generated files in GitHub
It'd be very easy to make a proof of concept of this exploit which didn't breach copyright or record peoples personal information and then to publicise the problem immediately, instead he chose to operate on real sites, collect real personal data and then forget about it for 5 years. It's this general lax attitude that gives everyone working in the SEO sector -- and by extensions the tech sector as a whole a bad reputation. The whole experiment doesn't feel like it was conducted in good faith or with any consideration for the ethics beyond 'hey this is cool'. Grow up!
Too lazy to click through to get the cite?
Hopefully it would be better than the related Black Mirror episode (Nosedive), which started with an interesting premise, but handled it in a very crass and immature way, more reminiscent of stupid Hollywood teen comedies (e.g. American Pie).
Given their commitment to user privacy so far, I'd trust them more than any other ad provider at the moment.
Quoted text talks about being upset because of perf, not because of Intel not allowing benchmarks.

Not allowing benchmarks - yeah, agree to that, that is a reason to be dissapointed or upset.

But people throw words around: lawsuits, upset, etc.
> "By the way, the reason that the hangs kept happening at 10:30 am is just because that’s when our IT team ran their inventory scans. If you want to trigger a scan manually, you can go to Control Panel | Configuration Manager | Actions | Select ‘Hardware Inventory Cycle’ and then Run Now."
Speed Limits in Germany are generally valid until End of Town or the next (major) intersection (not every road intersecting with the lane you're on counts as such, the sidewalk has to be interrupted). There are exceptions; Speed Limit Zones (Zones, not simple Limits, usually 30KPH) do not end at intersections and there are special Walking Speed Zones (Beruhigte Zone, usually around Schools or dense Community Areas) where the max speed is 10kph where you get much more severe fines than in other zones (especially around schools).
After switching back and forth between Dvorak and QWERTY for multi-hour work sessions maybe three times I found that I could do so instantly. I learned touch typing on QWERTY very young so maybe this is why it was easy for me. I often use a keyboard without any labels on the keys so it's always touch typing no matter the layout I pick. Also, I don't really get anxious about things that slow down my text entry, so I tolerated my own interface experiments without worry. I've coded and done data analysis using my thumbs on a cell phone. Switching keyboard layouts really isn't so bad by comparison. To each their own.

I find it surprising that much of the current effort in keyboard layouts is in finding things that are better than QWERTY but similar enough to it to not be scary. I am completely unmotivated by this. If someone could convince me that their layout was a kind of super-Dvorak, and scientifically enhanced the same features that I enjoy about it then I would try it out in a heartbeat.
> Many ISPs and telecom providers certainly do

Do you have a list of them or source for this claim? (not that I'm disagreeing with you, but just want to see the full extent of the problem)
> No, prosperity is "financial success" and that's related to the people around you and to some basic standard

If that's the case, then prosperity is purely relative term (as I suspect the "basic standard" will be redefined every decade or so) and hence can never improve. To me, what you're describing sounds more like inequality than prosperity.
I would add: we as a society need to start thinking about how to halt the service-ization of everything. The smartphone is a general purpose handheld computer that's been captured and turned into a rent-extraction device by being re-conceptualized as a "service." And the service-bug is spreading. Laptop and desktop computers are in the crosshairs, as are cars and various home appliances. Do we want to live in a world where every device is a black box that's only reparable by "authorized" personnel, where some hobby-level engineering skill won't help you prevent a 1$ dishwasher repair from costing 100$? Where every appliance comes with a plan, favors a "platform" and will make your life a headache if you disagree, serves you but also who knows how many other masters and economic agendas, and inexplicably goes dark because bankruptcy, bugs, hacks, your guess is as good as mine?

Generally we need to stop this because it's a major culprit in turning our world into an exhausting, low-trust, paranoid slog. Already, I mistrust non-OSS computing devices with their mystery-meat forced updates and non-removeable apps and barrage of legal agreements. If current trends hold, I'll have to second-guess my fridge because it's also serving a grocery-conglomerate, or the insurance company, my car is serving the insurance company and the state, my toilet works for pharma, and my washer and dryer... well, it goes on like that.

Constant wariness and justified cynicism are exhausting and dehumanizing and will do their part to sap an entire society. We know how this goes in the case of corrupt illiberal states, but ending up in that same place via a corrupt corporate culture/state is also possible, happening as we speak even, and halting that should be seen as another layer of defense for the liberal order.
Better than Ikea, then.
You can spin up an FPGA-accelerated EC2 instance right now. There are a few highly specialised applications where every scrap of performance matters, but for the most part the software development costs are prohibitive compared to just spinning up more CPU or GPU instances.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/
Apple: The History of Aperture
Replying to myself here as I think I got this part wrong:

> This Clause is not intended to be applied against at-scale existing open source projects, but incrementally on top of commercial counterparts that need to be transitioned to source-availability to satisfy urgent business or legal requirements.

This isn't actually making the 'commercial vs open source' mistake, it seems to mean:

> This Clause is not intended to be applied against all open source projects, but incrementally on top of commercial software that is currently open source but needs to be transitioned away from open source to to source-availability to satisfy urgent business or legal requirements.

That's what I've put in the PR anyway.
How FireEye Helped Facebook Spot a Disinformation Campaign
Every time I delve into the internals of the .NET Runtime, I am somehow aware that I don't really know that much and I marvel at the ingenuity of the Engineers who wrote the code! :-)

Especially in this post, the crazy, low-level tricks that the Profiling APIs and the Debugger have to do are amazing, for instance read 'How do Managed Breakpoints work?' https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jmstall/2004/12/28/how-do-m...
I do this too. Particularly when I'm reading something online or thinking. I was smoothing my sideburns whilst reading this post, looking for "that special hair". I favour my sideburns and beard.
You might as well use WebAssembly for the task. C and C++ have good native complex number support.
It will be worthwhile to know that a second edition of that book is expected to come out shortly.
I think Wisconsin and North Dakota also have this system.
Iain M Bank's Culture series covers a post
-scarcity interstellar civilisation.
You have identified 3 important non-functional requirements: robustness, security and performance.

But what about:

- maintainability, extensibility, reusability, configuration

- mean time to detection / mean time to repair during an incident

- bus factor, cost of adding more developers, documentation

Code can still be problematic in terms of those and I think that would be closer to what the OP described.

Consider you have 2 cars: both are reliable, but during maintenance one of them requires you to buy rare and expensive replacement parts that you need to import yourself, only one shop in the entire city can work with it and it takes 2 weeks to get the work done. Which car would you rather have after going the process I described 3 times?
I find this to be particularly bad with Americans and Brits. I don't really use yelp much anymore, but when you're on holiday and look at tripadvisor reviews of restaurants, it always seems to be the Americans and Brits complaining the otherwise great restaurants are bad because they don't do some awful shit that no one in their right mind would ever expect a really good seafood restaurant on the coast in Spain to do (e.g.).

These days, reviews on all platforms are more useful as a way to avoid genuninely awful places. As someone else said, ignore the average rating, but check a few comments to see if there's a consistent negative theme.
If you get caught while doing it you would likely be charged with attempted burglary. It's up to you to convince jury/judge that you didn't intend to steal.

If you only get caught after leaving the premises it is trespassing, since it's apparent you didn't steal. Picking a lock in order to trespass might make the sentence a bit harsher than normal.
They should ban any 5G millimeter wave (30GHz-300GHz) devices until enough testing on humans has been done. It is unclear what affects these waves have on our corneas and requires more research.
Sharing code is not
always the answer

Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good?

Sharing code is not the full answer, especially in case of Monte-Carlo simulations in physics, because
that kind of algorithm is hard to test: What is the testing oracle?
What is the specification?

But sharing code is part of the answer.

Setting	up a culture where it is unacceptable to submit	a paper
without open-sourcing the code and suitable testing (for simple
edge ases), and suitable scripts that make reproducing the software
simulations easy, is good scientific 'hygiene'. See for example [1,
2] for efforts towards reproducible software submissions in computer
science.

Reproduciblility is the	very essence of	the scientific method.

[1] http://evaluate.inf.usi.ch/artifacts

[2] http://www.artifact-eval.org/
Just a quick note: Martin Fowler has been working on a second edition of _Refactoring_, and IIRC it is expected to come out this Fall. See https://martinfowler.com/articles/201803-refactoring-2nd-ed....
UK Labour leader proposes tech tax to fund impartial journalism
No I have just found so many discrepancies on wiki through the years that I do not consider it a valid cite and many academics agree. Are you perhaps to lazy for more in depth research than picking the first hit on Google and forming your opinion based on that one source of information?
Part one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17780127
Breaking and entering. Trespass.
Benchmarking clause is unenforcible. It's like a clause by an auto manufacturer you can't track gas milage.

What you are supposed to just ignore how much gas you put in the tank? No different when your servers slow down and runs up your electric bills.
So like Argos?
"Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
Mmm. As an Australian, the main reason I'd be happy with using US telecom equipment would be the fact that Australia makes up 1/5th of the 5 eyes.

I'd expect our security people to have a very good idea of what backdoors are or are not present.
Equally troubling for Intel is the fact that they're losing their advantage in fabrication. The performance of their architecture is going backwards with every microcode patch, while their move to 10nm is hugely delayed.

https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-cpu-10nm-earnings-amd,n...
No, I'm not wasted or being rude – I've got narcolepsy
When I was young I’d wrap my hair around my finger and pull out giant chunks. My parents would tell me to stop, so I just began hiding the hair in vases and stuff lol. I stopped eventually, no idea why I started doing it.
For context: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/the-my...

> A credit hour in 1979 at MSU was 24.50, adjusted for inflation that is 79.23 in today dollars. One credit hour today costs 428.75.
So who does the work at home now? Both partners after they get home from work? That doesn't sound like a better deal to me.
It's not quite that clear cut IMO.

E.g. "intel-microcode-legacy" and "intel-microcode" would be more diplomatic (disgustingly so IMO).

And one could argue that every package in non-free would deserve a "-legally-restricted" suffix.
They do have some cheaper ones ($29 & $99) problem is I can't quite figure out why I need one.

https://www.tindie.com/stores/dcwdc/
Let's try again:

- If you, as the licensee, sue Facebook on /any/ of their patents (not just on the ones that are subject to the patent grant), the license terminates immediately.
- On the other hand, if Facebook, as the licensor, is only promising not to sue based on the /specific/ granted patents.

The "any" vs "specific" part is what people where annoyed about.
Tenure track is a cruel funnel, and if you don't make the cut, it's time to find a job outside of academia.
Kubernetes anti-patterns: let's do GitOps, not CIOps
> Well, first, it's not exactly like forcing the PRC to do anything like that is practical.

Well "force" as in sanction the PRC until it backs down from its militaristic position. Of course it's up to the PRC how to react, but the world shouldn't tacitly accept its military belligerence.

> And, second, externally imposed partitions haven't exactly been sources of peace and stability, historically.

I'm honestly not sure what you mean by this. How is there an externally enforced partition? The current status is that there are two countries. That wasn't externally enforced. It was the result of a stalemate between the two sides in a civil war and the inability of either side to fully beat the other. Also how would the PRC and the ROC signing a peace treaty not be the epitome of "peace and stability"? Are you actually implying that the PRC's claims that it may someday invade the ROC better represent "peace and stability" than the current status quo of two countries* co-existing more-or-less peacefully?

I presume I just am misunderstanding you though because I find your statement very confusing. Feel free to correct me.

*They treat each other as countries whether they are willing to use the word or not.
Describing a Reddit thread but not linking to it is somewhat in the same vein, don't you think? :)

There's this great Atlas Obscura article + HN discussion from a few months ago:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-family-recipes-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16534495
Not at all. Specialized coprocessors are mainstream actually - from network cards offloading to small chip in every iPhone, and for a reason.

The obvious way forward is universal specialized coprocessors, reprogrammable for the task(s). Better if tightly integrated with the memory, buses and CPUs.

The weak side of FPGA historically is programmability and especially the tools. But since the interest for FPGA is growing exponentionally in open-source community in recent years, things may change.

And by the way, 10 years ago you would say that exactly 'niche' words about GPU.
You can get permanent residency after one year if you've been married to a Japanese for more than five years (iirc).