skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The check should be written:

if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && (0 = current->uid))
retval = -EINVAL;

This would cause a compile error on the naughty code.
This is a very good question I've been pondering for years, and I generally came to the same conclusion wrt. military-industrial complex in general - not just software. It seems to me that no one expects any war that would hurt the US any time soon, so it's an open season for fleecing the military budget for all it's worth.

I also wonder sometimes if a similar thing isn't happening in enterprise software - that is, actual software doesn't have to work; it only has to serve as an object of trade between companies, and all the problems will disappear in general organizational noise & inertia.
Thank you for your work and for this comment. Regarding the last line: if you can work in the US and are not hamstrung by personal circumstances, there is no way, given the skills you imply having, that you can't find meaningful work: health care, education, energy all have dozens of good companies straining to find additional competent technical staff.
I use to be an ardent supporter of Google. As soon as I installed a new browser or a got a new computer I would set Google as my home page without much thought. Then over the years they've lost my trust little by little.

I never really tried using Chrome unless I absolutely had to because I believe in the separation of services and because I started losing my trust in Google. I didn't want to be tracked. I don't have nothing to hide, but I still appreciate my right to privacy. I thought I was already sharing enough with my Google searches and YouTube usage.

I do continue to use gmail, but I've been keeping an eye open for reputable alternatives with security that matches that of Google, since it has that going for itself. I still haven't really found an alternative... yet, at least not one that is convincing enough to make the switch.

Just recently I changed the default search engine on all my devices to be DuckDuckGo as they seem to be a much better alternative when it comes to privacy.

It's pretty sad that greed has consumed Google and all they care is about maximizing profits instead of balancing profit and user experience/privacy. I really wish they can be that company they used to be, until then I'll keep my eyes open.
Is there any way to solve this problem without needing a "trusted manufacturer"?

I know it won't probably won't apply to general purpose motherboards or devices, but is there a way to design or build some components or devices in a way that you can verify that they can perform their purpose and nothing more?

If we start with that concept, and slowly build up "verifiably secure" components, they can be the islands of security that we can build off of without having to worry if the manufacturing plant left their door open one day and some random person was able to sneak in.
Side note: I really liked the design of his blog.
I'm not convinced all of them have even read this perfectly understandable point.
Recovering mental health usually takes years. The sufferer or people who care about the sufferer have to learn enough to solve the problem. They must free themselves from false beliefs and keep trying things till they find something that works.

Addiction is an obstacle to learning and (more generally) to making progress in life because a large fraction of one's potentially-productive time gets absorbed by the addictive behavior.

Replacing an iPhone or Android phone with a phone that is even slightly less addictive (if such a phone existed) would allow a person and those who care about the person to engage in the probably-years-long process of learning and trial and error faster, resulting in fewer years lost to addiction (statistically speaking).

* * *

Seeing concrete examples of lives ruined by addiction (or by some other illness) makes a person uncomfortable. A natural human response would be for me to reduce that uncomfortable feeling by telling myself it will happen to me because, e.g., (a) the sufferer behaved immorally whereas I am moral or, e.g., (b) the sufferer did not obey the rules of society whereas I do.

Are you sure that you haven't reduced your discomfort around addiction by telling yourself that it cannot happen to you or those you love because you and those you love are willing to do the hard work of getting to the "root cause" of the addiction?

(Or maybe you believe that it can happen to you, but that you will be able to fix the root cause before a large fraction of your life is ruined by the addiction.)

I ask because your comment skates close to what we might call "essentialism", in which you argue that it is useless for you and I try to help the addict because what is wrong is something essential to the addict, so of course only the addict himself can help.
tl;dr: author describes the use of Google cloud STT on ham radio audio recordings
No. You are tragically misinformed. Most systems that generate value incentivize generating as little waste as possible.

There is nothing "efficient" about proof-of-work -- in fact, it's deliberately inefficient because it's a zero-sum game and all the miners have to waste as much electricity as possible to compete with the other miners.

The wasted energy is not "on the chain". It's gone, converted into CO2 poisoning the planet.

Banks may do stupid or damaging things, but they aren't in the business of wasting energy just to prove they wasted it.
>....and understand the downsides.

I believe very few people (if any) actually understand the downsides of having a vast amount of personal data aggregated on every user. All the assumptions below are false:

* I know exactly what information on me is given to 3rd parties by online services.

* The 3rd parties can provide 100% guarantee that my personal information will remain secure and won't be stolen by hackers or unlawfully traded by an employee.

* Even if it gets stolen, there is no way my personal information can be used for identity theft or socially engineered account takeover.

* There is no way private aspects of my life (browsing history, online purchases, direct messages, etc.) can become publicly available.
True, and good points!

Lambda itself may be fine, I can't judge it specifically (and appreciate Austen engaging :)).

That said, I agree that if they come in with "enough experience to start contributing code [etc]", that's a good benchmark!

But for the school to be successful, they don't really _need_ to go that far, which is my point about incentives: They just need them to look good enough on paper to get in the door, and know just enough that someone will take a chance on some percent of them, and rely on the fact that firing is hard -- in this model, their 'incentive' is to just churn out as many grads as possible, with the nicest resumes possible.

After writing that, though, I think I'm being more cynical than needed, prob based on some sub-par bootcamp grad interview experiences. I hope Lambda is really committed to good education, and I wish them the best, it's a worthy ambition and a hard problem.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the response they gave after years of flat-out denials? You may not consider that the same thing as lying, but it's in the same family.
> It looks like they reward people who make publicity waves and ignore the fact that nothing comes of it.

The world of advertising is all about eyeballs. That might explain it.
"that work on all iPhones", "that work on all iPhones", "that work on all iPhones".

Versus "uses a standard that more than one vendor will license".

Yet you seem to think the first is better.

I have a iPhone XS. I had really nice headphones. I despise the headphone adapter, it's horrible in my pockets and I am waiting for the cord to fray just like my Macbook power cables do.

"Go all in on Apple" or "sucks to be you" are very polarizing options.
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As someone that flipped the power switch on a rack mounted machine by accident before, I could see how a power button or switch would be consitered a liability more than a benefit, especially when the solution (pull the power cable) is simple, foolproof, and doesn't happen that often to warrant optimizing!
Not an expert, but as I understand it most ground is sedimentary rock. It accumulates slowly with time, with things like dust, organic dead matter and yes, part of it comes from carbon sequestration.
Updated Version of Windows 10 October 2018 Update Released to Windows Insiders
I fondly remember the "2nd screen" of the LG V10 and V20. When I first saw the notch I figured it would be an awesome implementation of LG's 2nd (and 3rd) screen.

I was wrong thought. It's the full screen and part of it is cut out as you can see when watching videos and playing games.

Sad day that it is being copied.
The goal is to maximize screen-to-body ratio. Having an edge-to-edge screen is just a milestone related to that goal.
Many brochureware websites can be deployed as static sites.

There are many sophisticated static site generators which allow creating and maintaining large complex sites.

There are static site generator CMS apps which provide viable front-ends so that non-technical people can manage content. See netlify CMS.

All content is kept in git with all benefits derived from it.

Netlify hosting is free, simple to set up, secure by default, and provides lightning fast access in a “set it and forget it” manner.

To update your site, push to your github/gitlab/bitbucket repo. To create a preview of changes, push to a branch.

Form processing, logins etc. are inexpensive easy to set up add-ons.

Static websites are a magnitude faster, less hack-able and worry-free.

It’s a really sweet spot.

Heroku could be used for this but the free tier is limited.
> As part of combining the two companies we will be sunsetting the mLab service and migrating all customers to MongoDB Atlas.

MongoDB really consolidating the Mongo hosting market

Wonder if Compose.io will be next? Their initial marketing push seemed to be largely toward Mongo, I see they support other DBs now
Ok, they're compatible with phones that have a lightning port. Unlike the USB-C "one port shape, a million devices and cables implementing various optional subsets of the specification" compatibility mess.

As long as you use the cables that came with each device, you're great. If you're buying aftermarket accessories, research carefully, and best-case find a review from someone with the exact same set of devices and cables.

I say this as a USB-C laptop owner. The either-orientation plugs are great, the charging from whichever side of the computer is more convenient is great. But just because a cable says it supports DisplayPort alternate mode with multi-stream transport at 4K/60Hz doesn't mean it's going to work.

EDIT - actually more to the point, just because it has USB-C at one end and DisplayPort at the other, doesn't mean it supports multi-stream transport at 4K/60Hz. Right port shapes? Check. Does what you expect it to when you plug it into your gadgets? Flip a coin. And then put your screen into DisplayPort 1.2 30Hz compatibility mode and pretend the low refresh rate doesn't bother you. It's a standards compliant cable, just not the right part of the standard.
I frankly don't see the difference; all of them seem pretty similar to me, with large bets on unproven tech (hololens, waymo), trying to cash in on enterprise and developers (Office 365+Azure, GSuite+GCloud).

And saying that MS is executing well when just three days ago they had to pull a Windows update due a data loss bug that passed their QA seems funny.
Can't we take profit too with this attack? It would affect the whole blockchain, so we can also send an amount of that coin to an exchange when you start the fork. Then we will have the amount restored when the fork becomes the real of the coin.
I don't like the secrecy, but I don't mind Google being in China. Just like with Apple, Chinese people would be better off with censored Google than without it at all.
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It's a little more complicated than that. To take an extreme example, in some cases you can use force (even deadly in some states under certain circumstances) to exclude trespassers from 'your' property. Thus, the right to property is not only a right to have the gov't protect it for you, but also a restriction on the government from prosecuting you for certain acts taken by you on your property.
He is a SANS instructor, CEO of Dragos Inc and very well respected in the infosec community. Helpful input like this, and being an educator, is why he has that reputation.
Introducing Volume Snapshot Alpha for Kubernetes
When you compare a new initiative with established business the dollar values doesn't matter. If it's inline with the company's core mission it's worth doing even if it makes significant loss. But when the team could be working on something closer to the core mission, or much higher revenue potential projects it make sense to cut a $100M business.
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A little of topic because it’s not a comparison : Recently had my first experience using gke ( and kubernetes in general), and although i managed to get something working in the end i would say it’s still pretty rough...

Documentation is a mess : the general layout for google cloud is really a pain to read and navigate, but in addition to that you often have to jump between kubernetes doc and google doc, with some information being on both. Don’t do that please : either make it obvious that people need to get familiar with certain chapters of kube doc, or provide all the info ( me preference would actually go to the first option..)

It’s quite hard to guess what you can do on the gke web interface and what you can’t. You can feel it’s meant for people that really know kubernetes, and not people who discover both gke and kubernetes at the same time.

And for the life of me i couldn’t get the load balancer manage https. I’ve read this was possible, but never saw the actual page explaining how. I ended up using cloudfront but lost the ability to see end user ip in my logs in the process. ( also logging is a real beast to tame on its own, with no obvious way to know what is available by default, what is a paid option, what should be configured on the stackdriver website, and what should be coded )
> Most of the time the behavior is binary

I'm not sure I agree, but it would be interesting to study. I think people assign a trust value to almost any information they encounter. For example, I would guess that you assign a 'trust value' to this comment based on where it is (HN), who wrote it (a commenter that you likely don't know), how it's written (the sophistication of the English and the argument), the emotion (sarcastic? angry? humorous? all caps? calm and reasoned? etc.), etc.

On the other hand, for some things I agree that I don't care much about the trust value because I don't care much about the accuracy, such as 'who sang that song I can't get out of my head'. Which means we have to draw a distinction between trust and caring about trust.
Short of migrating to another platform, no.
The service that launched on Azure in 2017 was ACS (Azure Container Service), which is very different from what AKS is today.
I think the problem of releasing MBA types on an organization is that they're specialists in business in general, not in whatever a particular organization wants to do. The actual goal is just a parameter - input to the process. And that input can be changed, or abstracted away, and as a result you get a typical soulless corporation - an organization that lost its soul, it's actual object-level goal, and remains a mindless automaton optimizing profits.
With the surveillance state we have, fisa courts, along with two corrupt business parties, an almost fully corrupt government, a corrupt military, no doubt. Anyone using Google since it's early days could probably notice a change in 2015 into the 2016 elections, especially how they handle news and looking up news/events that happened in the past. It's not exactly a wild theory. Twitter openly admits to purposeful censorship of hashtags [1].

Make Orwell fiction again.

[1] https://archive.is/1qD6n
Thank you. That’s a very insightful question and it made me think. I have no answer yet why I (we) view some tradeoffs as ok and others not. Will think about this...
Lol let's do a startup
Source? Edit: the site (https://www.eastwindblog.co/?page_id=56) says "founded on May 1st, 1974"

Anyway, if so (and certainly similar communities were a thing then), some of the founders from then must be 70+ by now. Were those people eligible for Social Security when they passed age 65? i.e., after 40+ years of employment by an organization that doesn't pay FICA or file W-2's -- or do they? And if they do, why isn't that mentioned in an article on the "economics" of the organization?

https://www.thebalancesmb.com/what-is-social-security-tax-oa...
GP is not OP. HN has a try not to editorialize titles rule, so GP was pointing out the title was changed:

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Only on international flights.
I would say they are excellent at PR. Having seen behind the scenes the reality of various initiatives, and comparing it to the media narrative they manage to spin around it... Their reality distortion field is truly remarkable.

It takes serious PR expertise for a company doing so much harm to enjoy such a consistently positive image with the media and general public. This is starting to change, but it’s a very recent development.
Larry wall is also the highest profile person I know who spends lots of time on IRC to the point anuone can talk to him basically any time they want.
The same things happened with Beduins in Israel long time ago and in other countries around the middle east, it has nothing to do with global warming, they live in the desert anyways. It is just that being locked into a specific country and modernity in general make them more urbanised.
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I thought his intention was to refer specifically to the group of haters who are lying. There are many people in that group who have strong incentives to do so.

That’s to differentiate them from the larger but separate groups of liars, and of google haters, who he wasn’t referring to.
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The operative difference that the person (and your quotes) highlight is they shipped a solution “that works” on all the devices you care about. Using a standard technology is a good idea on paper, but I’d rather get something that “just works”.
Makes sense. Then I agree with the parent comment. Odd change made here
Might depend on what they've implemented so far. The simplex in figure 2 from the paper looks a lot like some of the simplex plots seen in Keenan Crane's work here:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/

And the authors have at least that connection to the ``Carnegie Mellon Geometry Collective,'' (see their prior work on his page) so I'd include discrete differential geometry in your list. This has connections (eh hem) all over...

Edit: For some reason I missed the Penrose site at the link and skipped straight to the PDF short introduction. I am presenting somewhat redundant information above. Sorry!
The "battery slowdown" was only in place for a year or so before it was widely known.
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Do you live in an FEC community?
In which case the real market is for things that seem like they help. Ideally as a subscription that you can forget about like a gym.
I'm getting a 404. Does anyone have a cached link?
Slightly unrelated, but what would be the best way to migrate a kubernetes application from one cloud to the other?
> You will be given plenty of time to migrate, and nothing will be required of you for at least 4 months.

I hope they will publish migration tools and docs soon. So there is enough time to migrate.
iOS 12 is actually excellent on a 5S, my daughter's 5S still out-performs a huge chunk of the current Android market.
Apple detects whether a Chinese user uses the Taiwanese flag emoji[1] in order to corrupt its display. Nothing is stopping them from pinging back home when a Chinese citizen says or reads the wrong words.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/11/apple-china-taiwan-flag/
Compose.io is owned by IBM
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Waiting on YouTube to use machine learning so i can select text off a video frame..

YouTube Text Overlay - coming soon.
IBM already bought Compose a while back.

I do wonder about latency. Unless you’re in the same zone in the same cloud, surely your queries are gonna be slow-ish.
Yeah, that was an issue with my LG V30. Looks great, but they didn't program any way of dealing with those accidental edge touches.
I’ve been following Lambda, Holberton and 42. All three seem to have similar models: no upfront tuition, pay later out of your salary. The quality of education seems much higher than the typical “bootcamps”. I really like this.

Has anyone compared those three schools?
I would take his recollection with a grain of salt but what they told him most likely was more true than false.

So that leaves a number of specific statements which you could each refute, in part or in their entirety. Judging from the title of this article and a number of other anecdotes in this thread (some by other people that served) it seems his anecdote is entirely believable.

That you can't extrapolate to all of the army would be a given.
Getting rid of the +word search syntax in favor of quotation marks was also a bad move

I also loved the +word feature. But didn't they want the '+' for something to do with Google+? That's dead so maybe they can release '+' back to the search people?

Actually they won't adopt +word again. As you say, more and more "irrelevant search results". Thankfully the "verbatim" option helps me. I don't know how normal people get verbatim results, that left-hand column only appears for me because I don't allow JavaScript. Otherwise the option is missing!?
If you're not British, you might not get that 'red' here is associated with the Labour party who are left wing. Blue is the colour associated with our Conservative party (right).

Right now, with Brexit and leadership fights and other stuff, the main parties are all over the place though.
Not sure why the title got changed, "MongoDB acquires mLab" seems to make more sense.
I agree, Amazon is the better copycat. Remember when Google tried to buy Groupon for $6B and they declined? Both Amazon and Google subsequently created a Groupon clone, and the result: "Amazon Local"[1] was way better than "Google Offers"[2]... and interestingly both shut down in 2015.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_products_and_se...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Offers
Watch all the Tesla Model 3 crash test videos – Electrek
Apple isn't "the most valuable company in history" it just has the highest market cap of a public company in the USA right now.