skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If DHS has an active investigation how them saying they have no doubts about statements Apple made be a lie. Apple stated:
1) They have not found the chips
2) They are not aware of FBI investigation
3)They are not seeing any evidence of exfiltration, cc based on their security systems
The wonders of HN: Yesterday I posted a link to their kickstarter and it didn't get a single upvote :)
You're generalizing. In my part of the States, EVERY home has a basement. That basement is usually unfinished. They'll leave exposed framing on half-walls and walk-outs. It's up to the buyer to determine whether more livable space is necessary (and therefor drywall).
You're not pretending to manipulate though, you're actually doing it. There's a massive difference between deceiving an NPC in D&D and actually manipulating your friends to win at Risk. This is what makes it uncomfortable for me.
Never underestimate the value of engineer training. Document your best practices and coding style. Diagram your software at a high level to show how different components interact. If you have any internally developed frameworks add documentation or at least an FAQ explaining why certain design decisions were made and examples of how to complete common tasks with the frameworks. It might sound like a big investment up-front but it doesn't have to be, start small and your materials will grow with your organization. Encourage your engineers to contribute if they had to figure things out on their own. Being able to point to these materials will help on-boarding and free up your time for high level tasks.
I don't know how Linux manages its memory pages. FreeBSD would put all of the anonymous pages onto essentially a free, but not zeroed queue. And there's an optional background job to zero the pages and put them in the zeroed queue. When a new page is needed, the clean queue is checked first, otherwise nonzeroed pages are zeroed on demand during allocation. (Zeroing can be theoretically skipped in cases where the kernel knows the full page will be written to before any reads)

Zeroing on exit would be more secure, but significantly slower -- you want to exit quickly, so you can potentially start a replacement program, which would be expected to, at least sometimes, take time to allocate the same amount of memory. If it does allocate the whole amount immediately, it's not necessarily any slower in total time between zeroing at exit or on mapping; but it there's enough time for the pages to get zeroed in the background, that reduces the amount of time waiting for the kernel to do things.
Another billions of $ managed on a stealth website:
https://www.rentec.com/

(Those behind Cambridge Analytica, btw)
Lifetimes and destructors aren't as directly related as it might feel at first. Destructors of course are a thing that happens at runtime, and sometimes the order in which things get destructed has important observable side effects. (Maybe it prints something, or maybe you care about the order locks are released in. Apart from memory safety questions.)

Lifetimes really have no runtime effect at all. They only exist to prove things about the program at compile time. So all the types and function signatures get assembled together, and then a constraint solver gets run over the whole thing. As long as it returns "yes a solution exists", then no ones really cares about the details of the solution. The benefit of non-lexical lifetimes is to weaken the constraints on the system, so that code that used to appear invalid now appears valid. But I believe it will have no effect on any existing code. (There's a Rust compiler reimplementation somewhere that doesn't even check lifetimes, since you can always use the standard compiler in testing.)
Why do you need to "make them afraid"? Why is your feelings toward privacy the only correct one?

Owning a keyboard is potentially "giving everything you type to a company". Connecting to the internet at all is possibly giving the whole world access to your machine. Using ANY service is giving them information about you that could be used against you.

Why are those tradeoffs okay, but giving a company access to your email not (access, which is already given to Google as the one actually running the email service)?

Nobody is saying they want it to be a free-for-all where anyone that gets access to your information can use it any way they want with no security or tools in place to manage it. But I feel I should be allowed to decide who I'm able to give my information to, especially when I get something in return. And I want there to be controls in place to prevent abuse, I want to be able to revoke that access at any time, and I want the legal system to be on my side if things go wrong, but I don't want someone condescendingly trying to make me "afraid" of a conscientious decision I made that is making my life better and all parties involved are happy with.

Just like how you shouldn't be lambasted for using a keyboard which could possibly contain a keylogger embedded in the device, I shouldn't be insulted for wanting to use tools and services on my information that benefit me.
Focusing on the parts of the inflation index that have gone up the most and implying that's the "real" rate of inflation is misleading.

I could write an article pointing out that wages have stayed the same but the cost of a computer has gone down by orders of magnitude - that doesn't imply that we're richer by an order of magnitude just as this article doesn't mean we're poorer
I went to a public university and on top of tuition there was some student registration fee of around $750/quarter that went to clubs and paying for the gym. It’s such a ridiculous expense to add to poor students taking our debt. College campusss have really become like luxury resorts. If they wanted to trim some fat, they definitely could.
Show HN: SandySearch – Waze for services during or after a disaster
Anyone in path of Hurricane Michael?

If so please feel free to use our Call for Code entry: SandySearch. It is a tool that can find gas stations that actually have gas, around you now.

Go here to use it: https://plu.sh/sandys

It is also available on the Google Play store:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/io.ionic.sandysearch

More information on the app, entry and how it works here:

https://devpost.com/software/sandy-search

All comments and feedback welcome.
How AR can create an ROI for the enterprice
Thanks! The database was running out of memory, but I upgraded to a much larger droplet and I'm monitoring it, so it's back up now.
Are you seriously denying the reality of global climate change? Believe the predictions? You don't need predictions you can just look at our world today. It's already happening and is only getting worse.
Not 'slightly better' though, IME.
This is so true from my own experience. In general any form of addiction is a symptom of a person not taking in something that is going on in his/her life.
How We Built the Google Cloud Infrastructure WebGL Experience
Still down for me
Yup! http://www.wall.org/~larry/cornea.html

It's actually a really cool read - I wish he had more stuff posted on his blog to read :(
Get any job, including boring jobs. Good luck!
Housing and healthcare are much more significant and frequent expenses than a computer tho. They’re also necessities.
Anyone in path of Hurricane Michael?
Anyone in path of Hurricane Michael?

If so please feel free to use our Call for Code entry: SandySearch.

It is a tool that can find gas stations that actually have gas, around you now.

Go here to use it: https://plu.sh/sandys

It is also available on the Google Play store:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/io.ionic.sandysearch

More information on the app, entry and how it works here:

https://devpost.com/software/sandy-search

All comments and feedback welcome.
That could be the case for some people. For many others, there probably isn't some other root cause. It's the damn phone (and the apps on the phone) that is causing the problem.
bring back 2-way binding. There are use cases, where it greatly improves productivity. Leave the choice about it to the developer.
*17% for two years, capped at $30k total.

But yes you’re correct.
RAPS Cat Sanctuary
That's pretty funny, reminds me of Ayn Rand Reviews Children's Movies: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/ayn-rand-review...
> All the stuff that made 50 line Perl 4 beautiful made 10,000 line Perl 5 an unreadable mess.

Yeah, that's the best description of Perl I've ever read.

At the time when the options were Perl awk, or C, it was a great language. It's just past its own time now.
> China is only a small player in the Greek debt drama, but it seems to me that they are one of the few friends that Greece has that is both willing and able to play a helpful role.

Is/was their role charitable because they are nice guys? or is there something there for them also? I would imagine that they had a long view and would have really liked to get control of Greece as a gateway to Europe by taking advantage of the Greek financial crisis. I don't believe China has any friends, just business partners they cooperate with to benefit them in the end.
> Imo.. what is missing are clear advantages, a reason to bother.

Sand depletion [0], recyclability

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/world-facing-g...
This. Even if you sell your TV, you will get into another procrastination rabbit hole (browsing, YT). Because if your attention capacity is depleted after an entire day of work then only a proper rest or physical activity may recover it. Also your side-stuff may be too much chore, you should start with some basic task list and do some quick change to get the first dopamine release.
Steve Ballmer was talking about how healthcare costs have gone up like 400% over a 30 year period but expected lifespans only increased by .6 years. We’re pahing exponentially more for relatively insignificant gains.
They have influence by using the bully pulpit, talking about it, making plans that are different. See California right now on climate change.
I’m glad to see this getting ridiculed on this forum. I would be happy to see more critique of the attitude that the problems created by irresponsible technology can be solved with more technology.

The driver of the “phone addiction” problem is obviously direct economics. Companies are organized around profit, and more phone time means more profit (especially in ad-driven models like Facebook).

So how about addressing the problems by looking at root causes?
Which Laptop?
I don't think it's that, really, that streaming users don't really enjoy music, it's just that streaming services simplify things, removing the need to handle physical media. Never underestimate the warm, convenient glow of laziness that streaming services enable.

I do think that there can be something lost when listening to an assortment of single tracks as opposed to cohesive albums. Getting a new album and letting it play all the way through definitely feels like a different experience to me than putting on a playlist of assorted tracks.

With the prevalence of streaming music I wonder if more and more artists are abandoning the creation of cohesive albums?

There's also the issue that, I think, that compressed audio files are particularly susceptible to bit-rot (perhaps compressed files of all kinds?). If you don't have a physical copy to re-rip from then you could well be boned.
You get false positives sometimes (where it claims to not be a tty but is going to the screen), but because the fall back is just reduced functionality it never causes any issues. We make hundreds of checks like this for tty in the CLI
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/

=>

https://mail.google.com/mail/h/0/
> amd is the opposite of both and it's stock continues to dive. go figure.

AMDs share price is up almost 1400% in 2 years, what on earth are you on about?
>"Intent is imputed, you can't know it for certain, or even very well."

The "intent" was to win the Pentagon contract, it is not some subjective thing here. I think when a project has an internal codename and team devoted to it it's safe to assume the pursuit and desire for Pentagon business was quite certain.

The rest of your comment reads like false equivalency and rationalizing.
37%, I'm almost as culturally illiterate as I expected.
> What is it about C that makes people think L3_imdct_gr() is a perfectly good function name?

Early ANSI, like Fortran77, only required 6 characters of a symbol to be significant, with compilers not going much farther beyond that. At that point, it sort of becomes a "when in Rome" thing.
Get a Grip Berkeley Targets Dexterous Manipulation Using Deep RL
Café Swaps Espresso for Personal Info
> we argue that the US has a much bigger footprint on geopolitics

and by reducing that footprint (which is the main purpose of the critique) who do you think is in the best position to fill the vacuum? and what is the net effect of such change (good vs bad)?

> And we criticize the bad parts, of which there are plenty.

so you won't start criticizing China until US becomes the perfect utopia? how convenient..
East Wind, like most members of the FEC [0], has a joint self-insurance pool for catastrophic healthcare costs. This limits administrative overhead.

There are a combination of factors that limit outlays for the community: As you note, the demographics skew young (in any given year, there is usually a sizable older cohort, but a lot of people move to Twin Oaks [1] as they get older).

Additionally, almost everyone is low-income, and thus people are eligible for subsidized routine health care through the state (although Missouri is pretty stingy).

Finally, mostly people just don’t choose to consume much healthcare.

[0] http://thefec.org
[1] http://twinoaks.org
I've been in the same boat and I completely agree. One thing that's unexpected to people is that getting decent performance out of a GPU is actually easier than CPUs - vectorization and multithreading is unified in the parallel programming model, cache optimizations are mostly not needed. These are the two biggest time sinks you have when optimizing for CPU, solved right there. What you instead have to care about is resource utilization per thread, and that is IMO way easier to reason about and optimize for.
Just to note, this would be the European Council, which is made up of national ministers, who are definitely elected.

You may be thinking of the Commission, who can propose legislation and are appointed for five year terms by the Council (following nominations by national governments).
Introducing+The+Top+10+Public+APIs+of+2018
There are ways to mitigate that - e.g. increased taxes based on land value and stronger legislation around lending. Trouble is, rising house prices are more popular to politically powerful groups.
Not really.

Lifetimes are a language you use to help the compiler prove that all of your references will be valid. If it's unable to prove that, it will throw up an error. That doesn't prove that your references were wrong - it just says that they _might_ be wrong, and the compiler won't allow that possibility. Non-lexical lifetimes just provide the ability to prove more refences and thus allow more code to compile - code that was already fine, but, the compiler couldn't figure out that it was fine.
Not sure how it will detect bullying but it's nice to hear that
Introducing Story Templates and 5 Steps to Get Started
This scenario would only happen if a flag became required. Prompting or not it would still be an issue. (And it wouldn't prompt as this is a non-tty environment)
The small authoritarian countries in Europe can bring everything down, just like the Irish tax issue. It's worth China bribing small countries to get their way, whether outright or through special deals.
years ago i wanted to create a restricted version of android for this purpose. so i downloaded the AOSP source. it turns out it is not so easy though and quite intimidating for your average coder. but maybe some sv wizards will create such a 'restricted device'.
Interesting although I would bet cash that the anonymous part is total bull given the request for zip code. I'm not sure how I should feel about the 89%. I don't have cable, so I only watch some podcasts and TV when I visit the relatives.
Until someone produces some actual compromised hardware, I'm leaning towards Apple on this one. I don't know what is going on, and I fully trust that Bloomberg was very confident in the story, but for Apple to deny this so strongly, repeatedly and vehemently indicates to me that they are telling what they believe to be the truth as well.
except price of computers have been steady or rising.

electronics is the one fake anchor in that list. and there are a few. when he says repeatedly that he won't contest the official number, that is an economist joke. the official number is a joke and it only matters that the number can withold by not affecting other numbers the fed have no control. if those other number respect the ramdon number, the random number holds. if not, the random number is adjusted to meet reality as needed. so the "measure measures" joke in the article. inflation index is an index alrigth, but not of what everyone thinks it is.
Love that they provide their financials in machine readable format.
Heavy Perl user over the years here. Its the only language after Lisp, that will let you feel the power beneath your fingers. Back in the day I would do with Perl do over a weekend, what a Java programmer would budget 6 months to do. It was just a productivity catalyst from hell.

I still think nothing comes to beat Perl when it comes to regex, and unix level scripting work.

I eventually moved on to other backend languages/stacks. But I still miss the productivity boost Perl is.

Over the years, I came to realize I like Perl so much, not because what Perl is, but the underlying concepts. Eventually I realized Perl is the closest to Lisp in the C world. And I like Perl, because I liked Lisp more. Lisp offers everything Perl offers, and more. And Lisp is infamous for almost the same reasons. These days I think Perl refugees will eventually find refuge somewhere in the Common Lisp or Clojure camps. And that is really good, because Perl like languages are basically a programming philosophy.

Lastly, Higher Order Perl(free to download online) is one of the best programming books you will read. Its a book on the same lines as OnLisp from Paul Graham.
Thank you.

I read How To Make Friends And Influence People. Then I threw out all the fluff about genuine connection, and realized that people only actually care that you make them feel like they've been understood. This is the implicit thesis of the book, once you realize that a decades-dead author cannot possibly have a genuine two-way emotional connection with you.

In practice, this tends to mean telling people they're right a lot. Then you imply they have the wonderful, glorious opportunity to become more right. Then you remind them of how right they are. If this sounds exhausting, well, it is. But it also matches the structure of my previous comment.
Traditional co-routines absolutely are M:N. A co-routine system where every co-routine is backed by a kernel thread is known as threading.
15th percentile :| (from north EU)

Weird, I'm somewhat sure I know more than most of my peers. It would be cool if they showed average stats by region / country.
What It's Like as a Product Engineer at AngelList
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Love it.
It is wrong that they can't trade with China. Billions of dollars a month go to China to Europe in trade.
But where does the money go?
An Introduction to XBRL
"Google has transitioned Gmail accounts to the updated version that it released last spring, and is now removing the option to go back to the “classic Gmail.” (The stripped-down HTML view is still available for some browsers but lacks many features)."

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/technology/personaltech/g...
Care to share a quote from the article that backs up your claim of a conservative bias?

It's seems pretty factual to me.
Surprised Damian Conway never made that list .. I thought he was sort of heir-apparent at one point
> Feeling smart? Let's change that...

If I ever saw a description of Haskell in a nutshell, this is it. YMMV, of course.
Well, the Smith-Mundt Act[0] was repealed in an NDAA passed a few years ago under Obama...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act
The point is that it doesn't scale.

This community can only exist because it's a tiny minority surrounded by a much larger, depersonalized, "dirty" society which handles all the big problems for them. Problems including: National defense, international relations, technological research and infrastructure, advanced education, manufacture/import/transport of all kinds of exotic goods and medicines, law enforcement, care of the elderly.

It's easy to say it's a better way to live, until you realize that it can only exist because it's held up by all the people paying the costs of the "worse" way.

As a thought experiment: Think of how much different our larger society could be if there was some sort of alien galactic society that handled those kinds of problems for us.
Ireland also did this. Mind you, they probably just copied whatever the UK was doing, as was the style of the times (spare a thought for the poor Irish public servants, who will be forced to transpose their own European directives into law from next year, rather than just copying the UK).
Glasses with optical notch filters already exist [0]. So it's not inconceivable that glasses that block R, G, and B from at least some common LEDs could be built.

[0] https://enchroma.com
Like for the confirmation example? I agree. It would help clear this up. The points people are raising here with prompting are definitely not issues, they're just misunderstanding my point.
Thanks! I’ve tried a bunch of different arduino/compatible units. Early ones started with Duos. Some others used Sparks. It’s more a function of what bus voltages are needed for the LED controllers. If possible I prefer to not use line lever converters. Currently I used a customized protoboard but am planning on custom PCB in the future. Each one is generally an improvement on the last due to streamlining processes.
It's an argument that Daniel J. Bernstein made when proposing slashdoc. So M. Dickey is not alone.

* https://cr.yp.to/slashdoc.html

I myself write doco in Docbook XML

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15779321

generate HTML from that that can be read directly

xdg-open /usr/local/share/doc/nosh/machineenv.html

or on the WWW

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/machineenv.html

and generate roff for man pages from it as well

man machineenv

Whereas --help output is auto-generated from the option definitions given to the command-line parser, much like libpopt does.
GPU Ray Tracing in One Weekend with Unity3d
I wish they made it easier to manage the lists I'm subscribed to because I didn't ask to be on most of them. In their defense, unsubscribing works, but I wish I had a view where I could see all the lists I'm on and be able to unsubscribe from there.

Cory Doctorow asked about this once:

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/641642822286753792

And they basically said no. I wonder if now that GDPR is a thing if they have to provide this information?
What I Learnt from the CI/CD of Facebook and Their Open Source Projects
"Just remember to exclude the Arq files from files that are downloaded by default if you're running the client."

Funny you mention that. I'd been trying to figure out why my disks were running out of space. Turns out my Amazon Drive desktop client was syncing the encrypted Arq files back to my laptop, then those were being fed back into the Arq backup set. You can imagine how quickly that spins out of control space-requirements-wise.
Better bus predictions (a lot better)