skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't assume people actually know the specific company I work at, or the university I went to.

When I started interning out of state I thought this as well, but then people thought I was just obfuscating going to Duke or UNC (when in reality my actual school was a few tiers lower). In most circumstances where this sort of thing would come up, I would imagine even the general public would understand the weight MIT has - hell, Tony Stark went there!

(Also, what's GAFA? Google, Apple, Facebook, Airbnb?)
In fact, he has advocated for the use of a non-copyleft free license over the GPL, in the case of libogg.
Why would they say anything at all?
While I agree generally with what you're saying "We're screwed indefinitely until the incentives change", I like to remind myself that IBM was once one of the most dominating companies in the world. Yea, IBM (and my parents were children during this time). All companies come and go, literally all of them. In a few decades we (i.e., our descendants) will be looking back thinking how funny it is that we (i.e., us) ever got sucked into this so viciously.

I agree with the parent comment in that - Google and Facebook and the like have exposed some serious problems, that they can't fix (as they are financially incentivized not to fix them), so someone, someday will come along and eat their lunch? Who what when where and why? Your guess is as good as mine.
Anyone who holds stocks bought them, and if they are still generating net wage income will buy more, and presumably will eventually sell them when hey retire.
I'm simply exhausted by it, even though I do pretty well in whiteboard interviews.

These days, I stick with places that are happy to see me coming. Desperate even. I'm not getting top dollar, but I have a lot more leverage.
Point on the net are points on nothing. Everyone has known this for 20 years now, so all points are on the gross.

As a result, Hollywood has started manipulating the gross numbers to hide money.

The Lord of the Rings lawsuit was over the right to audit the books to detect such fraud. No studio will ever actually let you look at the books. Period. If you sue they’ll drag it out then settle.
This article is worth skimming/reading in order to fill in the technical gaps in the Bloomberg article; but also describes the complexity of modern computers in a way I didn't previously appreciate.

What's still missing in the overall story, is what Apple and Amazon denials mean. The Bloomberg article says Apple and Amazon independently discovered these chips (Amazon via a 3rd party) in 2015; but the blanket denials by both companies appear to deny this discovery and reporting to U.S. authorities. I'd argue it's unethical for a company to apply falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus to a PR statement, but it's plausible there is a sufficiently misleading or false claim in the Bloomberg article that they feel it's legitimate to dismiss the entire article. In the meantime, the company denials have to be treated as conjecture.
Microsoft has really gone too far with OTA and automatically reverting settings to more grandma friendly options. I have a windows pc which every month will have some setting reverted without me touching it. It can be anything and it usually takes some time to discover it because it only presents itself when you perform some rare task. My network sharing settings and external monitor scaling settings has been lost multiple times after OTA.

I used to prefer windows but now it's simply not reliable as a OS anymore. They treat it as the front page of Facebook. Every time you boot up its a surprise what you are going to get. Backwards compatability which used to be Microsoft hallmark has now sunk so low that even the user facing options and data are unstable.

I understand the need and desire for OTA and shipping new and modified features but whatever you do don't break user settings unless the feature is so much modified the old setting doesn't make sense anymore.
>A large number of show, like the Netflix Originals, seems to have a good idea for one season.

Think of the first season like a start up. You have a creator/founder that has a passion project/idea/concept, but can't get in front of the right people to make it happen, yet. They keep pitching it, getting feedback, re-working the original concept through many iterations (could be years). Then one day they meet the right investor/producer/etc with a much more fully edited/revised product and plenty of practice pitching. The original product gets made to great fanfare, and suddenly everyone wants version/season 2.0, but like now. Everyone forgets how long v1/s1 took to develop. Some developers/creators can already see past v1 to vX, and just hope they can keep the product viable long enough to get there.
Using prison for non-violent offenses is ridiculous, in my opinion. For anyone who thinks “better that than a huge fine” - explain to me the difference between that and debtors prison.
What I’m hearing is that your values are ultimately driven by your feelings, as opposed to numerous first-hand accounts testifying to this person’s character, or even the words coming from his own mouth.

Sexual assault allegations aside, Kavanaugh acted—and has acted—like a partisan hack and an entitled frat boy, and has almost certainly lied under oath. He is plainly unfit for the Supreme Court, innocent or not.
This is simply a hateful screed. Flagged.
“You only look behind the door if you have stood there yourself.”
That would be wage savers buying from retirees who are cashing out, both with market orders, not limit orders.
I am of the opinion that in a couple of decades we will look back at all these social networks and find that they caused a lot of problems, in social and personal levels.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, even Linkedin, do they really bring more benefits than detriments? I personally don't think so.
Why Amazon is starting to look like Berkshire Hathaway
s/last/only

Although I have a sweet spot for the windows xp x64 edition, it worked pretty good in the end too.

After trying to deal with windows 10 I went 100% linux and started gaming on PS4 instead of my PC.
Researchers Create New Font That Helps Boost Memory
> "one of those things that was really amazing at the time, but just can’t compare to modern sweets"

Taste is subjective/cultural. I visited Istanbul early this year and brought back home (to São Paulo, Brazil) some boxes of Turkish Delight, several flavors, and they run out really fast with family and friends. Everyone loved it.

Personally I'm not a fan of modern overly sweet treats.
> They should publish a detailed post-mortem analysis, though.

More of an obituary at this point.
IMO Prime to me is about more than shipping. I actually don't shop on Amazon often, though my wife for sure appreciates the quick shipping (we live in a suburb).

Prime Photos/Amazon Cloud Drive has been my most used Prime perk, probably. I use it a ton as a Dropbox alternative (it's not as nice as Dropbox but whatever). Followed closely by Prime Video. Then Prime Music, which I actually don't use on purpose but allows our Echo to 'just work' when it comes to playing music (I often forget to say "...on Spotify") especially themed stations. Twitch Prime is a thing I don't use much, but happy to be ad-free there. Not sure how they do ads anyway.

Honestly I think Prime Video alone is worth the subscription.
I don't think that's a fair statement.

The processor is one of the only thing Apple has a clear lead in over Android flagships. (Others being customer support and longevity)

Android hardware and software are fully stable now. Android phones have better cameras and match apple in most other hardware metrics (display, speakers, antennas, build, touch response)

Software wise, it comes down to preferences. Both have a few things they do well, and others they stumble on. iOS12 is from what I have heard, smoother as butter. However, top flagships from Samsung, Google, OnePlus all run Android without any stutter at stable 60fps too.

All of my daily apps/usecases are at parity with their iOS. I don't know if the app ecosystem complaints are valid in 2018. (Apart from snap chat, because they have some wierd hate for Android)

I can respect your choice of wanting an Apple device. Especially if you are invested in their hardware and software ecosystem. But to someone who isn't, the iPhone does offer enough to switch from Android.
The only logical outcome is that the big car companies continue to build the majority of cars when (if) self-driving cars are ready for the mass market. Waymo is not going to build millions of cars a year like GM and Ford and Toyota.

Big car companies can buy startups in the self driving space, which is what GM did with Cruise. Or they can license the software from Waymo or other companies who are working on it.

Self-driving software can be just another thing car companies buy from suppliers, like transmissions and brakes.
I think the internet just makes craziness possible on a much larger scale. It's much easier for manipulators to spread false information to a large number of people. Previously it wasn't that easy to enrage millions of people.
I don't quite agree, but I'm sorry the language I used was excessively inflammatory.
Unison it's not new and work flawlessly, all you need is the ability to reach all devices via network...

BTW do not blame org for the mobile crappy OSes we have, they are not designed to serve us but to serve vendor leaving us small crumbs, milking us for commercial purpose.
It's not that bad. 3 weeks means you're going to county jail (in California). 3 weeks in county is great. They feed you a bunch (5 times a day), you aren't there long enough that you are compelled to get a jail-time-job, and the weather is fair. There's a TV, books, paper, pens, cards, etc.
'Commoditize your complement': https://www.gwern.net/Complement
Waymo is far the best self driving tech and nobody has the money to buy it, as Alphabet is not selling (it's the first real diversification from ads revenue). GM is few years behind, but hopefully those few years are not enough for Waymo to create a monopoly.
> Software may be free but not open-source, and it may be open-source but not free.

Other than version 1 of the Apple Public Source license, which is considered open source but not free (and also now entirely unused), what cases are you thinking of?
Do you really want anyone with a helmet to be able to unlock it?
Just so people don't get too hung up on speed issues, please realize that the major advantage with raytracing over rasterization is that it's trivially parallelizable. Naive implementations of ray tracing and rasterization run at O(log n) and O(n) respectively, so at some point in the near future ray tracing (or its optimized version ray marching) will likely win out. See the "Calculation effort" graph mid-page:

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Ray-Tracing-and-Gam...

And a bit more recent writeup:

https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/05/27/nvidia-bound.html

Many of the Demoscene demos today use ray marching. Here are some examples of ray marching in WebGL, to show what's possible (and probably inevitable) in the next 5-10 years:

http://raymarching.com/
So the point of the attack was to subvert the BMC firmware in a way that was resistant to firmware re-flashing, but not resistant to firmware integrity checks. But there are no firmware integrity checks?
check out glassdoor.com , they're not perfect, but a little is better than nothing
Perhaps, though that starts a long line of big ifs, and the wealth to solve a great deal of the world's problems already exists - a vast chunk of it just spins in various shadowy games.

I tend to think there are better ways for bettering society than philanthropy though, and these vary wildly in effectiveness. In this case the millionaires in this fund focused primarily on some cancer charities. I understand that these tend to resonate emotionally since everyone is at risk, but really they are quite suboptimal ways of channeling funding relative to the needs of the world or maximising ethical return on investment.
Indeed. SuperMicro is the victim so far.

If trustworthiness amounted for anything in today's world, all major news agencies would be out of business.
Rubygems for everybody! Or arbitrary docker containers.

My current deployments allow outbound SMTP only. All software packages (rpm or whatever) get pushed in via rsync from the outside, or are built in an adjacent lab behind the firewalls and pushed across.
> The point is that you don't need any software layers at all to code up a basic neural network implementation.

I grafted my answer to the wrong post, I meant to respond to the guy talking about the project implicitely using Numpy.

Offtopic remark: It would be nice to be able to move a post to a different thread, or make a single answer to several messages.
So with Google news: Is there a way to sort by date?
How do they assure unidirectional transfer with out any feedback in reverse direction (TCP Acks for example ?).
It's not ignorant to say that because just looking at voter turnouts can tell you a lot about Americans' relationship with their government. At least the detached/unaware part, I can't speak to the rest of the statement.
>> After an unsuccessful attempt to sell ARPANET to a commercial buyer (AT&T could have literally owned the internet, but said No thanks), the government split the system in two

Can you imagine what it would be like if AT&T bought the internet?
Come on. It's a personal blog. It's understood to be a personal opinion. The title and message is quite fine as-is.

He even concludes: "if you are contributing to open source and you want it to stay that way, you should not sign a CLA."

if, if, if.

I generally agree with you (!), BTW, but the author does a great job justifying the when and why of his own opinion, and I find it sound.

IOW, if I want to contribute back because I don't want to maintain a private fork or spearhead a public fork, I just want to be done with it, totally fine, even by the author's opinion, which is fully qualified with the statement "and you want it to stay that way". This is reasonable and not at all forceful like Stallman.

You are reacting to something that isn't written nor implied.
This video linked from the article is very cool: https://twitter.com/Bananaft/status/894675135260745729/video...
Compared to Linux the amount of bloat shipping with Windows 10 is simply unreal. Open up Task Manager on a fresh install and the only two questions I can ask are "What the fuck do half of these services actually do?" and "Why is Windows Defender ALWAYS running up the CPU?"

The start menu is loaded with trash like Candy Crush, which I can only guess is a revenue stream at the expense of user experience. You can't rid yourself of OneDrive, Cortana, or the mountain of other trash professionals and power users don't care for. If you try to, you'll rudely find that the GPOs to do so were removed, even from Professional.

The only way out of all the bloat and social media noise is to buy Enterprise, and I don't even think those are for sale to consumers or available in units of one.

I'll stick with being forced to use it for games only.
> They're not "maintaining ignorance"; they're categorically denying it

What makes you think the people denying it know about it though? E.g. if the head of Apple security got served an NSL, wouldn't that potentially prevent them from telling the company lawyers or the executive team?
Not a sophisticated attack, but a standard industry practice for high value, high density boards. I first saw a buried passive 5 years ago.
AOI would miss the chip if it were buried between layers or look exactly like a part it was replaced for.
Why are you assuming people haven't looked?

> Why haven’t the leakers just provided the actual chip? It should have been as easy as ordering one.

Sure, let me just order up a state intelligence compromise.
It's right here on Alibaba right under Official_PLA_61398.
How to get that great “hoppy” beer taste without the exploding bottles
The only recourse is to treat Twitter just like any other message board...and ignore it.

The cynic in me says this will never happen for the same reason Twitter even made it into the mainstream in the first place: star power.

As long as celebs roost on twitter, the press not be will be right behind to gather the fallen feathers.
Carole Cadwalladr Threatened to Injunct Channel4 Demanded They Hand Over Sources
Where in the World Is Denmark’s $2B?
I love this article. Unfortunately, looking back at conversations I had with people this summer, most of the talks I had very easily fit into these categories.

If one can easily categorize bragging techniques in these buckets, it begs the question: how can a person who is genuinely interested in making a conversation interact with people who brag? A lot of people brag. If that makes you feel bad, do you just give up on them and move on? Is there some way to use these bragging forces to a positive effect?

I'm genuinely asking. I'm constantly craving good connections with people, you don't meet a lot of people who are able to talk about themselves and inspire you without looking like they are bragging and get you annoyed. (Any answer will not fit under the "Beneficence Brag" category since I'm explicitly asking for help :))
As far as I can tell, it's only three paragraphs with no actual substance. I wasn't able to get the cached version of it, so here's a dump:

> At 3.12pm on 20th November 2014, Emily Thornberry hit tweet. The Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury, then serving as Shadow Attorney General, posted a photograph of a house in Kent, decked with three flags bearing the St George’s Cross. Her caption? “Image from #Rochester.” At 6.15pm she tweeted again, apologising for “any offence caused by the three flag picture,” adding that “people should fly the England flag with pride!” By 10.30pm she had resigned from the front bench.

> The political autopsy lasted days, focusing largely on the question of whether Thornberry had opened a window on to metropolitan Labour’s cultural alienation from—and perhaps even contempt for—working-class voters in small towns. But looking back, the significance of that episode is not as a snapshot of political turbulence, but as a development in the process that turns turbulence into news. What stands out is the medium, not the message. In autumn 2014, Twitter was already a recreational habit for Britain’s political class. But “Image from #Rochester” marked a watershed moment for the social media website. Without the super-accelerated online frenzy, there was no story.

> Four years later, the Twitterstorm is not only routine, it is the qualifying benchmark for newsworthy controversy. Anyone who doesn’t squander hours every day on the platform might be baffled as to why its name occurs with such frequency in news bulletins. A majority of UK voters still do not have a Twitter account. Yet the site’s impact in Westminster and on the way politics works is real and exceptional, not because of how many people use it, but because of who they are—politicians, their devotees and the journalists supposed to be holding them to account.
Meanwhile fixing anything in this x220 has been as a simple as going on amazon. Keyboard? amazon. Battery? Amazon. Display? Amazon. Plastic enclosure? Amazon.

I've nearly replaced every damn part but the motherboard in it at this point, and its still cheaper to own than a new macbook.

My T460 sadly seems to have gone the apple direction. I don't want to buy a new $1K laptop every few years just because a small part broke or it needs a battery replacement, that's a ridiculous waste.
> ... high end server manufacturers like SM - use sophisticated automated tests and quality control on boards.

MFG test guy here (not supermicro!)

Not necessarily. Automated production tests are there to configure and exercise the system and confirm it works as specified. Such tests are good at things like finding bad solder joints, pick-and-place mishaps, misconfiguration of firmware and weeding out product that fails functional test. That, by itself, is hard enough.

Such tests are not _really_ able to detect things which no one is expecting, or worse, things which an adversary has specifically designed to avoid detection. Sure, if something gets "discovered" during a failure analysis, a test or process can be created to specifically address THAT problem in the future.

To find "unknown unknowns", you need an audit of some kind and that is definitely different from production test.
Show HN: Nebular 2.0 stable with 30+ native Angular components is out
To be clear, my question is how you know how many failed replications there are that you never find out about.
An even closer one would be the Leftovers seeing as it shares a few key crew members (well, Theroux and the lead writer worked on the Leftovers, at least).

The Leftovers was basically Lost done right, very very clear from the onset that it's about people's reactions to the craziness than the underlying reasons for it.
Maniac feels like it has some unnecessary stuff tacked on, the premise has a Charlie Kaufman copycat element to it all that feels like a necessary gimmick as opposed to something which naturally fits into the world.
Turning Visitors into Customers: Five Useful Lead Generation Tools
Your returns on the asset don't really matter for whether you should get a mortgage or not.

What matters are what returns you can get with the money from the mortgage.(Opportunity cost)

Ex. You own an investment property you bought for 200k, it returns 10% per year. The only available investments to you are the stock market which returns 3%. Mortgages are 5% should you get a mortgage? Obviously no.

Same situation but the stock markets are returning 15% per annum. Obviously yes.
Sri Lankan DoD and several army sites hacked by Russians
TCP relies on timeouts when it receives no ack, so when you reach timeout and you have no retry logic, packet is gone.
What do the disks do? A cart already moves pretty easily on it's wheels, so how much improvement have you made by attaching these disks to it?
> Their entire point is that the stuff they wrote is indistinguishable from these journal's normal fare.

Journals publishing papers indistinguishable from their normal fare is the null hypothesis! If accomplishing that was the authors' goal they could have taken ten months off, surely ;)
I’m going to assume you’re young and still learning about world history for the last 100 years, or a CCP shill/citizen whose been brainwashed with revisionist history.

If you actually don’t know, I suggest starting with the history of the cultural revolution:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents
And previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18127811
I don't understand. If Eve (who we don't know) adds data like location, age, interests to her profile on our Dave, people will want to access her profile on Dave. This creates an incentive for Eve to aggregate as much data on as many people as possible.

Are you saying that nobody can know which Dave we're talking about unless we identify him as Dave-with-cell-5551234567? I don't think that's true, since human social circles are pretty easy to figure out; see the humorous hypothetical collection of data about US Founding Fathers. http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/phone-spying-paul...