skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that any CIO with a bit of savvy would think twice before betting too heavy on a Microsoft Linux product, at least while Windows is still a thing in the eyes of Microsoft. Should Windows really be relegated to the annals of history this might change but until that time it'd be unwise to assume Microsoft would allow its Linux distribution to become a potential replacement for its Windows products, the simple reason being that Linux can be had elsewhere.
Come on, everyone was affected by that.
When you're busy, perhaps you're bored with whatever you're busy with, and so your brain wants to do something creative.

Conversely, when you have free time, are you filling your free time with stimulus that take away the boredom? (e.g. browsing the web, video games, substances) If so, that's why the creativity and desire to learn are then disappearing.

When you have free time, try not allowing yourself to succumb to stimulus, and allow yourself to be bored. Then see if the desire to be creative returns.
Company taxes are being lowered because last time that was done, tax take went up not down. That is lower corporation tax = more tax revenue and it's revenue that matters.
Yep - scale of potential is full datacenter market (see GoAi and RAPIDS) and all cars. It's a crazy time for those of us in this space.
I wonder: if I sell something on Amazon and make it an Amazon-exclusive brand, will I find it easier to keep counterfeit knockoffs out of their inventory?
"Is Amazon" meaning "is made by other manufacturers and white-labeled for Amazon" apparently. Why is this interesting?
The Erlang BEAM VM is fantastic work of art, from what I've heard. I've tried reading the source, but it's all low-level optimized C code, which goes way over my head.
I can't possibly see how Google Cloud's change of leadership and that could be related.
Does anyone actually use raft these days
This would be a great option. Maybe Google could get on that, but they're more likely to axe the basic Html version considering their latest trends.
In a previous job I was asked to use a configuration management tool to automate setup and installation of a development environment. (Never did it though.)

This would have been easy on a Linux desktop: installing Java, Maven, an IDE, and changing some settings files for the corporate proxy and artifact repository etc is very basic for Ansible, Puppet or Chef. It's probably achievable on Windows or OS X, although I'm not sufficiently familiar with them.

Heavy customization of the IDE could be trickier; the configuration system doesn't necessarily stay very stable between releases. Maybe something that's part of a larger, well-designed system, like KDevelop, would be easiest.
Tremendously. It is a huge first step. I worked on BIOS stuff before. I decided to wait until AMT was more exploitable to come back to the scene.

This is big news. It should be #1 on HN, instead of the failed pentest story.

Right now I am ordering a GB-BPCE-3350C to replicate their work and see how to extend it to other platforms. Intel will limit the vulnerability. No time to wait.

A modern AMT free laptop would be of great value.
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Why don't you just donate the extra money you don't need to charity instead? There's no obligation to fund all social activities through tax.

For instance if you don't need a few hundred pounds per year, why not buy a friend private health insurance.
It's not an irrational fear of the welfare state, it's an ideological opposition to collectivism from the half of the country that are ideologically individualistic.
>We all benefit because we have access to this new invention and soon can make it ourselves

Two decades is not "soon".
We should team up and start a fund that just shorts whatever we buy :)
Do you have sources for these claims? I always figured some low income housing is better than none, but if these programs are not effective I’d like to know why and how they fail.
Sure, but look at it YTD.
Are you thinking of Heartbleed, which was an OpenSSL bug? Cloudbleed was specific to Cloudflare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed
This post simply doesn't belong here on HN at all. I've flagged this.

Also i'm looking at the list of cases the ACLU is fighting https://www.aclu.org/defending-our-rights/court-battles

Things i see:
A case preventing NSA widespread wiretapping,
A case forcing authorities to obtain warrants for cellphone history,
An FOI request for the use of widespread wiretapping,
A case to force Nevada to provide legal representation for those who cannot afford it
A challenge against the consitutionality of an executive order signed by the president
A case against declaring people "enemy combatants" and claiming they have no rights

Can you think of a more positive organization? I suspect some people don't like some of the cases the ACLU brings but that's the whole point of the ACLU. They are there to make sure everything is correctly challenged in court, they have had cases where they have supported the far right an the far left. If the volunteer lawyers of the ACLU bring something that you think has no merit to court and they win don't blame the ACLU. Blame the laws. The ACLU are the one organization ensuring laws are correctly tested and implemented.
Hi Armin, this challenge is a great initiative. I'm sure it will help a lot of hackers to show more what they are doing.
This doesn't seem at all realistic. Tight security and people are actually getting work done? Inconceivable!
>> In other words, nothing new here

Up until now, when i read stories about the market share of Amazon private brands(and i'm quite curious about that subject), i never heard about those kind of hidden brands mentioned in the story. And of course, they we're mentioned in market share calculations.

Taking that into account, it's possible that Amazon has or will have:

1. A large/dominating market share in many categories.

2. It would be a secret, preventing questions about a monopoly to rise.
I wrote something[1] in a similar vein recently. My take is that we as a species are just not ready for this. We weren’t ready for near-free sugar and we are not ready for instantaneous, global communication. As individuals we are very capable but as a whole we need more time to grow.

I like the idea of atemporal media consumption. I ended up doing that unintentionally in college years ago, catching up on 1950-70s classics and browsing through the corresponding Wiki pages. I did the same thing re: Israel/Palestinine conflicts a few years ago, trying to grok the issues in depth and context. From my personal experience it works amazingly well, giving me a look into a world that is no longer the same. Only problem is that the effects are short-lived, like a Habitat for Humanity mission. Once you are back in your own world, that other world is a distant memory.

This is in contrast to my one very short experience using a VR headset just once. I have had more flashbacks to swimming along side a massive alien ship than recollections of Hitchcock or Woody Allen movies. Maybe VR history worlds would be a good remedy to his “now” problem.

1. http://chir.ag/201810301545
I shudder to think it! And shudder again at the 70% likelihood you are prescient with your comment
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this suffer from a race condition? What if a process requests an awake, but then gets preempted before doing the blocking system call, and then gets awakened in response to its awake request (rather than because of normal scheduling)? Its awake request was already serviced, so if it performs a blocking syscall, it will wait indefinitely.

Alternatively, if the awake request is only done when a blocking syscall is done, doesn't it then suffer from the problem that a random buggy library function could request an awake without then doing a blocking syscall (due to whatever logic bug), so then when the process does a blocking syscall that it expects to block indefinitely, it instead gets a syscall with a timeout?

Wouldn't it be better for the awake syscall to take another syscall as a parameter (pretty simple to do in assembly and should be provided as a C library wrapper), in order to guarantee atomicity?
Austerity increases economic growth. Government spending isn't "growth" because it's funded by taxation - unless it's funded by borrowing, in which case it's only a temporary growth spike that must be offset by contraction later, as tax revenues are diverted into repayments and interest. In the long run all growth comes from the private sector.

In other words you're saying the exact opposite of what conventional economics says here - massive levels of borrow and spend is exactly why the Greek economy is so bad, and austerity on an equally massive scale is the only long term solution. When the Greek state is a smaller proportion of the economy, actual growth can occur.
... Or punish them when the do do this.
Is there another distributed consensus algorithm that you think is more prominent? Paxos is on the decline. AFAIK Raft underlies most new distributed systems. Kubernetes for example relies on etcd which is a Raft implementation.
That makes sense. When I am free, I am browsing on the web or using social media. But, when I am in a tight schedule or have to prepare for something big(Eg, exam), I want to learn something new. Will try this method.
Well, to be frank, duh.

There's a trade-off between small battery size and battery capacity.

You don't really need to qualify that with "if you've taken spending off the table".
> "I consider intelligence to be the ability to predict the future."

this is the definition i've settled on as well.

you see it, for example, in basketball: the best offensive players can predict where the closest defenders will be, as well as their ability to shoot unimpeded, to a high degree of accuracy. the same with the best defenders - they can predict where the offensive player will be going and their options for shooting and passing. the best rebounders can better predict where the ball will bounce after a missed shot. physical ability is a pre-requisite for being a great player, but intelligence is what puts you in the upper echelons.
If you look in a mirror, the image you see is half your size
The idea is that over time AMZN will push their products even more, to the point of hurting consumers and other sellers. Don't see the (potential--at least) bias? Amazon instead of showing you the best product, will show you the most profitable-to-them product. Yeah, same category and good enough but still, it stinks...
When I'm busy with a project, the things I don't understand very well make me curious and cause me to think of things to learn/make. I recently began to combat this by keeping a list of things that would be cool to learn and/or build and referring it when I'm bored. So far its been working pretty well
I started out restricting myself to original works with English translations, but it turned out the most important quality was that it be fun to read and at the right level for me. This was easier to find with translations of English books for children/teens that I knew were fun, like Harry Potter and Roald Dahl.

Someone further along can shift their mix back.
Do they have to be replaced as often?
Used Loki for 6+ months here, In my case the main problem was that it took too much time to shutdown the system. I don't know if that's an elementary specific issue, but I've noticed it on multiple systems with the OS. Again, I've seen hardisk issues propping up while using elementary. It was really easy to use but then it had issues.

(Did anyone else have these issues?)
With all this what would a paid market for WhatsApp/<share stuff only with people I care about app> with full privacy look like?

Or is this what slack is?
I think it is starting to make sense for Microsoft to have their own Linux distro for servers.

However acquiring Canonical may not be the way to do it. I don’t see any point for them to promote Linux on desktop. Buying Canonical and then getting rid of desktop side would be bad PR.
The whole way houses and cities are built in California is to blame for this tragedy (not discounting the effects of global warming of course).

It's high time California realizes building wood framed boxes with walls of compressed paper with no defensible space between the wilderness and the houses is a BAD idea and we start building with more sensible materials like concrete, bricks and stone like Europe has been doing for centuries - because it works.
A basic terminal interface for git, written on Node.js
For TS? I actually wonder how much of the TS stat is due to Angular. I only picked up TS because it's required to use Angular. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have bothered. TS is fine, but I have yet to see any real benefit compared to plain JS.

Rust going up in popularity is pretty cool, though. I can think of production cases I'd use it for on the server side.
It doesn’t matter at all really, China isn’t exactly known for the productivity of their bus and taxi drivers. Productivity is often a distant secondary concern for service type jobs.
> In a blog update, Verily cited here insufficient consistency in the correlation between tear glucose and blood glucose concentrations to support the requirements of a medical device.

Continuing the extremely long and varied history of failures in non-invasive glucose testing, especially those attempting to measure proxies rather than the blood itself: See John Smith's _The Pursuit of Noninvasive Glucose Blood Tests: "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey"_ http://www.mendosa.com/noninvasive_glucose.pdf
A lot of people invest their retirement accounts in S&P 500 index funds that include Facebook and Alphabet (another company with a two-class stock structure). They haven't really made a conscious choice to invest in Facebook and are probably unaware of the corporate governance issues. (I looked at an S&P 500 index fund and saw that FB and GOOG comprise 4.5% of the total holdings, not an insignificant amount.)
> The idea is that over time AMZN will push their products even more, to the point of hurting consumers

Do you think that supermarkets selling house brands hurts consumers?
Of course. Most of basic science in the US is government funded. I'm wondering what the OP thinks about removing the barrier that they identified (private corps paying for the trial vs gov paying for the trial) and how that would affect their thinking.
You too? For the benefit of the greater good, I’ve stopped investing for several years. I just couldn’t stomach the damage I was doing to the markets.
Wow. I knew that HN commentators were over their head, but this is probably the most outrageous one I've seen.

I sure hope none of the companies, startups included, dont give up after a week (or three) of testing on the projects they are working on.
Not sure where you're from, but cheap lumber, bro. California has lots of forests, and therefore timber framing is comparatively cheaper here.
For me the feeling is quite different, for example when I am in busy and I want to learn new language. At that time, I can't. But, I write it down. Later, when I have free time. I am not that active like when I am in busy. Does that happened to you?
> You can play this moral dilemma forever.

Yes, of course. That's the whole point. It's a very hard problem.

> In reality, there is no dilemma. The people who can help are morally obligated to help in non-theoretical situations.

Really? How much money have you donated to help provide clean drinking water to poor children in third world countries?

> If a child is drowning, and by jumping in I have to ruin my $5,000 watch which I would have otherwise later sold to help 100 children, my moral obligation is still with the immediate need of this drowning child.

Really? You would sacrifice 100 to save 1? That's a very peculiar moral calculus you have there.
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Have a look at section 1.1 and Figure 1-1 of the Intel Whitepaper. There this topic is discussed.
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Politics yes but management? unless you mean managing a country, not a company.
I agree, and I think there's another aspect to it: When you're busy, you want to learn something new because you know you can't actually do it. So you get all the upside ("feeling good about your resolutions") without the downside ( "actually having to do it")
Why is it pathetic? It does reflect a very real reality. And yes there are "objective realities" in economics and politics and always have been. In economics the objective reality is resource limits. In politics, votes.

Have you ever investigated the Greek situation? The country is a basket case of epic proportions. The best description I ever saw of it is "a third world country temporarily able to pretend it's not due to the EU".

Tax collection has already been mentioned. There are many other problems. For instance in most countries workers retire at 65. In theory so do Greeks. But not in practice: Greece has the notion of a "arduous and unhealthy job" which lets you retire at 50. Some of the jobs considered so bad you can retire a decade or more early, on a full pension, include trombonist, bakers, masseuses, hairdressers (this job also qualifies as dangerous!), and pastry chefs.

The notion that Greeks are hard working is systematically undermined by facts about their own laws. The country lived off borrowed money for many years, and is now being brought back to something resembling the correct level of wealth given their laws and economic fundamentals.
Just like many things in life, its all about building that habit in the first place. The most important thing is to be fiercely disciplined when it comes to carving out dedicated time for the task. Start off small: maybe 30 minutes a week to read new articles, every week. Don’t ever miss it. When that becomes easy and part of your routine, make it 40. So forth and so on until it’s something you don’t even have to think about.

Building up your habit is a long process, and it can’t be rushed. Don’t start off too big (i.e. start off spending 8 hours on a project in one day). I mean you can, but if it feels like a drag then you’re biting off more than you can chew. Prioritize on sustainability and consistency; otherwise you’ll unconsciously tell yourself that it’s too hard and set yourself up for failure.

EDIT 1: I realize the post is more about having feeling inspired/creative vs wanting to learn, so my thoughts may not be answering OP’s original question.

EDIT 2: I think a better way to frame the question is how to bring creative ideas to reality. If that’s the primary goal, building up the habit of trying to apply our ideas is IMO really important. Otherwise, ideas will just remain ideas.
Because only US citizens have US passports. Just a wild guess.
Ah, I didn't know Paxos was on the decline or that etcd uses raft
I used Thunderbird and am still using Airmail and they're working without issues for me. Faster, more responsive and better UI than any web crap.
I have a perfect solution for all those issues. Bonus: it's been done for centuries in Europe, tried and tested, it's called "clay shingles". You can observe them... everywhere you go in Europe.

https://eagleroofing.com/lifespan-tile-roof/

Bonus: clay shingles are the longest lasting material you can cover a roof with, and you can repair it by sections. It also looks way better than the crap we use to cover roofs in the USA.
Why there is so much confusion over nutrition and fitness
Yep, that as well, I agree. And the plumbing is super verbose
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Let's leave all the war criminals from Iraq so we have repeats in Libya and Syria. Let's forgot about the bankers and fraud. Let's not do anything about the NSA and liars like Clapper. Let's instead get Assange. This makes a lot of sense, but only if you are a pretend democracy.

That should read the US regime is preparing to 'persecute' Julian Assange and should be a reality check for anyone remotely concerned about democracy, free press and dissent.
Time to dust off the old Xenix brand!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix#History
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As the article points out, the practice is nothing new, it's about the scale that Amazon does it at.

And that's basically the point for everything Amazon does. They aren't doing anything other companies don't, it's just they do it on a massive scale.

With "store brand" specifically, the idea is that Equate or other store brands were well known to be comparable, if slightly less good versions of name brands. In economics terms they were "substitute goods" from brand names, but depending on quality they may not be "perfect substitutes."

In the case of Amazon, if they have brands that are at first glance not Amazon brands, but actually are amazon brands, then they are kind of doing an end run around what was an implicit agreement between consumers and retailers. Namely that a retailer will make it explicitly clear, with obvious branding, what is a "store brand" and what is not. Simply stating "our brands" isn't obvious enough to make that connection if you are only spending 30 seconds on a product description page.

This is something that Amazon is great at actually.
The usual "nobody get fired for $groupthink_based_behavior" creates systemic risk.

A level of diversity is necessary for resiliency and security.

This is true for biological systems, social organizations, complex technologies and of course software as well.
It would be perfect for them. Instead of having to hack, just get them to come to you under the guise of DDoS protection.

"Hey, everyone's starting to encrypt and we can't get the data as easy as we used to."

"Well, DDoS is a big problem out there. What if we offered a DDoS protection service because very few companies can afford the huge pipes needed to mitigate those attacks."

"Perfect! We can offer it to free for most sites, and offer "free" SSL encryption that terminates on our end."

"Yes! We'd gain their trust by offering such a service and they'd COME TO US begging for help."

I've wondered about LetsEncrypt as well. Since they're they ones generating these "free ssl certs", don't they then have the means to the decrypt the data? Yes, I'm cynical, but I think we need to be.

Same scenario as above. "Hey, we can just offer free certs and they will just give us the keys."
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No single supermarket controls 49% of all product related searches on the internet
Yes, you pay an extra 5% commission or so but get real "gating", nobody else can sell it
I would never send my kids to school
Yes, that happened to me as well. How do you solve it out that?
We had the technology to build earthquake-proof houses for quite a while without needing to use timber framing which has all kinds of downsides.

http://dme.engin.umich.edu/stubbornstructures/

The only advantage is cost and speed of execution, they call them McMansions for a reason.
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Antitrust concerns when they compete with their own vendors and give themselves advantages
i'm not much of a thiel fan (e.g., poo-poos college, then sells book spouting business 101 concepts) but i agree with this.

it's the main reason why google became alphabet: not so much for true diversification (because there is no discernable diversification strategy in their portfolio), but as a legal maneuver, a regulatory shield, and a playground for the leadership.