jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This particular topic has been discussed to death lately. It's really not that big of a deal. Apple is doing this to aid in the phone being able to Triangulate it's position in relation to cell towers (when gps is unavailable).

Also, the phone is NOT constantly tracking your location. It only logs a new location (a) when you launch a location-aware app, e.g. Facebook, Maps etc. And (b) when you have never been to that location before.

It does not log the amount of times you have visited the location.

I suspect Apple is planning to do something cool with this Data, because of the way it is synced across Computer and Phone. Keep in mind however, the Data cannot be used to Track you constantly, only to see where you have been in the past, but, the log will never update to show that you visited a certain location more than once.
Hope this helps!
TiVo is taking software that was intended to be
and remain free and betraying the spirit
of its license

Linus Tolvards himself said he has no problem with Tivo, so I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, but just because somebody chose an open-source license doesn't mean it adheres to any political agenda you happen to agree with.
With respect to technology, the problem with Android is the exact problem with Linux on the desktop. The Surface Graphics Manager and Surface Graphics Library are just not as good as Quartz and CoreAnimation.

And it seems like no one on the Android team thinks that GPU acceleration of the UI is a key problem.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914
Total Off-topic but have you been to the Rutgers Jazz Library?

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/jazz/jazz.shtml
"Many legal professionals are shocked by the lawsuit, but a jury will ultimately decide whether or not Leon Walker does time."

I don't see why this case is so outrageous or why they have to use a law that puts this in a gray area. The guy clearly stole his wife's password and broke into her account. This would be clear cut if it were a stranger who did it.

Even if he believed the son to be in danger, there are ways of address the situation without compromising her email account.
Wow, tons of great information, things I never even though of. I've hit up Demo Camps and Bar Camps around where I live but never thought about doing it internationally. Thanks!

I haven't committed to where I would like to start off yet, since there are countries on most every continent I'd love to go, but at this point in time I'm thinking I would love to land in Eastern Europe and go from there.
Four-square does look nicer to me, but it is not a big difference, because the words' individual meaning is not important. You could say that "foursquare" is simply a new word, and in english text about that company, you would write about "Foursquare", not "Four Square".

On the other hand, experts-exchange is much better than expertsexchange, because the two words carry own meaning---you would not try to create such a word in english but write "Experts' Exchange". Therefore, I believe that these words should be separated. The standard way to separate words in domain names is the hyphen.
Because its free its difficult to track stats. Many are not connected to the Internet in Asia. China has mandated that all Internet cafe's use Red Linux. Schools are also changing to Linux. Type "linux India" into Google news and you will see evidence. Ms are common but that will change. Many were burned on vista, many will not upgrade to seven and when XP runs out, some more will go to Linux.
Whenever I go camping now I have to turn my Android G1 phone off for large periods of time so it will survive the weekend and be available if I need it. Never had this problem with my old mobile phones. They'd last a week or more a lot of the time.

I don't get the obsession with thin phones. I'd much rather have a thicker phone if it lasted 2-3 days instead of 1.
That wasn't very funny.
>> If not, the coroutine will yield, and at the same time, be scheduled(migrated) to another set of threads responsible for the ‘slow’ requests(ones that need to block). Those will just schedule the coro in their own scheduler, and perform the read again and continue.

>> Alternatively, we could just yield the coro, waiting for a new special coroutine that would run in a background thread just executing readahead() and then re-scheduling(making runnable) the original coro, waiting for readahead.

Seems to me this scheme will ultimately be limited by the slower request. Performing fast and slow operations is essentially Little's Law[1] where the average time dominates. However if the slow/blocking reads where also async, I think you'd eventually be limited by io speed?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law
I definitely agree with this. I also think that capability systems that are based on a good type system are probably going to be easier to code with than ones based on message passing security. The type systems make it easier to define and use the basic capabilities and involve a lot less boilerplate code than what one sees in other variants of capability-semantics.
This has nothing to do with "the cloud", hosted content or anything - Chromless is an application launcher allowing applications to launch utilizing the Firefox engine - think of it as an Adobe AIR type product.
indeed, the unexamined life...
Acid use means taking your life and examining it from every angle. A key point I like to get across to people I discuss acid use with is to never imagine that experiences you have whilst under the influence of LSD are as discountable as their known experience with alcohol - with LSD the reprogramming sticks (for better or worse!)
Im getting a 404, is this the same? (Amazon service disruption "explained" by an employee)

http://lgv.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonFail_explainedByEmployee.j...
I notice that it doesn't support multiple inheritance or multimethods; out of curiosity, is that because of a principled objection to them, or more because it wouldn't be convenient to implement them?
I wouldn't say acoustics is dead at MIT. I participated in some very interesting ocean acoustics research in the last few years which has been published in Science a couple of times.

For anyone interested in reading about underwater ocean acoustics:

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/323/5922/1734.full?ijkey=t...

[2] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/311/5761/660.full?ijkey=bc...
Well right, but what I'm saying is that the people who actually use the language are the kind of people who like the operators. I know Latin, and a language whose functions were named in Latin would not be a practical impediment to me, but I wouldn't say that such a language would be practical in general. Haskell's operators aren't on that level, but I do think if you introduced it in a company where people were hired to write Python/Ruby/C/whatever, there'd be people who found them a practical problem.
I didn't downvote you myself, but I will say I have ... um... "some" experience with Berkeley DB, and it's pretty well designed for reliability. Obviously that doesn't mean nobody has ever experienced corruption, but it's been used heavily in production environments as the storage layer for many systems.
Nick responds directly to that graph:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/feamster/why-your-netflix...
>guys quit their hell jobs

That's what you want. The hell job has less leverage when I can start up my own food cart. The hell job must be improved to the point where someone wants it. There is no impetus right now to improve the hell job.
I'm almost done with my 1.3 and looking forward to 1.4. The big thing for me is the lack of the oil bottle and the sodium (I wasn't getting enough before and would get headaches).

At this point, my body has fully adjusted and I crave Soylent at some times. I use it for ~1/2 my meals and could easily see it taking 2/3. I do enjoy regular food a _lot_ so I doubt I'll ever go full time, but it definitely has helped to balance out my nutrition fully.

I continue to feel that Soylent is the first company that will likely feed the world - literally. Without the oil bottle and the ability to scale manufacturing, it is only a matter of time before we see Soylent as part of humanitarian convoys and/or used in medical settings. The possibilities are quite frankly amazing...
With Comcast, it's almost obvious that the net neutrality won't change this because Comcast was already operating under net neutrality requirements. To win approval of its NBC merger, Comcast agreed to be bound by net neutrality requirements until 2018. When Verizon won its lawsuit to strike down the FCC's 2010 rules that did not change this. Comcast remained bound by its agreement.
They're putting a positive spin on it, but it seems Google decided not to focus on Dart, considering all the other javascript's they're invested in.
The only serious problems we can see from the 2020 election, aside from the normal voter suppression that has long been common in many states, was the deliberate hobbling of the USPS by a Trump appointee and donor that results in an untold number of ballots not being counted that would have been counted had the USPS been operating at it's normal efficiency.
I don't believe it was stolen.

I think we should be able to see how our vote was recorded.

The whole system is based on trust. Right now that trust is being threatened (eroded?). Since there isn't a way to individually inspect the system, we have to rely on the word of others to validate it.

The government doesn't always act in the best interest of the populace and often outright lies to it. This begs the question, should we take their word for it?
> It's quite unfair to call them terrorists when they've harmed no one and destroyed nothing.

People were harmed and property was destroyed. There's plenty of videos of fights breaking out and capitol windows being broken.

https://twitter.com/search?q=washingtondc%20windows%20until%...
Aren't you inadvertently proving their point here?

The fact that it applies to both perhaps suggests validity, no?
Would you care to provide evidence that mail-in vote fraud has ever been a significant issue in any US election anywhere, at any time, at any level, now or in the past? Because I have never seen any such evidence, and mail-in ballots have been used for over a century.
> The American philosopher Robert Nozick came up with a thought experiment to make the point. Nozick asks us to imagine a "machine that could give you any experience you desired". The machine would allow you to experience the bliss of fulfilling your every wish. You could be a great poet, become the greatest inventor ever known, travel the Universe in a spaceship of your own design, or become a well-liked chef at a local restaurant. In reality though, you would be unconscious in a life-support tank. Because the machine makes you believe that the simulation is real, your choice is final.

> Would you plug in? Nozick says you wouldn’t because we want to actually do certain things and be certain people, not just have pleasurable experiences. This hypothetical situation might seem frivolous, but if we are willing to sacrifice limitless pleasure for real meaning, then happiness is not the highest good.

I think there's a flaw in this line of reasoning. Suppose you were actually accomplished in whatever field you wanted to be, and then you found out that your entire life was a lie and in actuality you were plugged into said machine (much like the plot of The Matrix). Would you give up your reality for one where you were not only not accomplished/happy, but also had a potentially insurmountable challenge to overcome in order to maybe get there (with a real risk that you won't)? Generally speaking you wouldn't because of fear of the unknown. In fact, often times people will say in old age that in hindsight they regret not taking a risk earlier in their lives to change careers because of sunk cost fallacy, or because of previous life commitments (e.g. family lifestyle), etc.

Another experiment that comes to mind is one where mice were hooked up to a device that delivered stimulus directly to the pleasure center in their brain. Once they realized they could activate it at will, they would lose interest in everything else, including life critical activities such as eating.

IMHO, what Nozick is observing is that given a choice, humans will choose the least foreign condition. The thought of being stuck in a tank subsisting on a simulated lie is not as "natural" as living in the real world, but if that simulation was your only reality, then the thought of being outside would be "unnatural", not to mention brutal, regardless of which was the absolute reality.
I dont know how to meet angel investors.
Did some digging, and LoJack security vulnerabilities were detailed at BlackHat 2009:

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/ORTEGA/BHUS...
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/ORTEGA/BHUS...
I've always wished Delicious would get more social and more niche-y. One particular idea I'm interested in is to uncover user bookmarking patterns and not just bookmark popularity. I wonder if this this clone experiment would play with these ideas:

+ Finding the people who shared the same bookmarks as you, and also measure how different they are from you: This might uncover bookmarks and areas of interests that weren't on my radar.

+ Look for users who have similar tagging patterns: Finding similar people would be handy, then I could subscribe to their bookmarks. Delicious has a feature called the user's Top 10 Tags. I wonder if there is a way to compare how similarly you tag with other users to find similar users?

+ When performing a search, look for the most popular bookmarks and the most unpopular to find more esoteric and possibly interesting items.

+ An RSS feed for people who bookmarked the same thing I did: as a way to find new people who share the same interests as you.
Well, that's like saying we should destroy the original tools cavemen made because they aren't of any use to us now. The point of Geocities in current day and age is to show us where we came from, IMO.
Yeah, that site has no reason at all to be flash.
And in Science, the word "theory" is supposed to basically be the equivalent of a proven phenomenon.

Citation please.

There are a lot of theories in science. They vary greatly in how well accepted they are.

As for the source of the Big Bang, there is a wide variety of speculation on that. Including a previous universe collapsing (no coming from "nothing" and a quantum fluctuation. But until we have a theory that combined general relativity with quantum mechanics, we won't have a real idea how reasonable different theories are.
CSS annoyance:

The import bookmarks, and bookmarklet links had a:hover text-dec underline, which creates an out of place underline on Chrome.
Me too, useful was the wrong word. I probably should have said "self-sufficient".
I am in a situation similar to yours. This is how I am doing it, I dont know if it will help you or not. I hired a developer to build the prototype. Me and the developer discussed the technologies and framework which will be used. Upon getting the info, I did some background research on every thing. From which OS to run, which database/webserver to choose, which language/framework to choose,which version control to use, where to develop, where to host, details such as those. Just to get used to the above stuff took me a while. Now that I am comfortable with the set up of the prototype, I believe it will be a more focussed learning if I wanted to start writing code. I dont really want to start coding yet because I believe it will take up a lot of my time. I plan to use this to sell my product. Like you, I do know basics of coding. I do plan to fire up Eclipse and start debugging code in the future, but only when I have found a business model/customer :)
You do realise there is a standard to bear when fact checking ?

https://ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/

Its not a bunch of opinion based socialists with flower based triggers.
The rewrites tend to involve managerial decisions and not technical (arguably Reddit was one of the few cases where I can point to clear cut technical reasons, the reason being "we wanted to run FreeBSD and threads sucked there"). Sometimes it's internal politics (like JPL's C++ developers giving Lisp as reason for their code segfaulting...).

There's quite a lot of big systems written in Lisp. Unfortunately they rarely ever were opensourced, and we get to have blinders made out of our own limited experiences and common generational knowledge loss in IT.
I really haven't followed W3C politics, but has it really been mismanaged and captures more than is inevitable when you have power concentrated in a few companies and interest groups? Are there standard-setting bodies in other industries (ISO?) that operate with less capture? If anything I've been amazed at how much cool tech the web has been getting as a platform (WebGL, wasm, service workers) but I'm not sure how much credit to give W3C for that.

PS Matthew is also the author of the excellent Practical Topography. https://practicaltypography.com/
> “Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated,”

This is a chilling effect of the advancement of artificial intelligence and deep learning. If they can do it to Chess, Go, Starcraft, then they can do it to any game.

I won't be surprised to see e-sports ruined by grandmaster-level bots
My worst: Developer machines were dumb (but secure) terminals for remote desktop connections to a jump box, where a VNC connection got us to a Linux desktop living on AWS GovCloud where actual development took place.

It was a remarkably risk-averse client.
I always read the F as "featured"
I do not have confidence in an engineering fix. Fixes will be broken. It's possible to use encryption to thwart marketers or cyber-crime rings, but we'll never have a sustainable edge on intel agencies without policy changes.

That said, better encryption will raise the cost of NSA's surveillance which might eventually lead to policy reform (when budget hawks are forced to act). And it might mean their dragnets have to be more targeted which could slow the expanding the definition of "terrorist".

I think the most effective actions would be to make the public outraged over cracked encryption and surveillance. And even with all these leaks, that hasn't happened IMO (debatable I know). Outrage would happen if people understood how this has real-life effects. Storytelling is what's needed, not white-papers and tech blogs.

edit: wanted to add that Bruce Schneier gave an excellent talk on the topic of your question, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v9t_IoOgyI
>This sort of cloud scale thinking about power usage/performance is how we'll clean up the environmental record of the data center industry.

i wonder whether writing efficient programs running in efficient environments would be the best way. One can imagine something similar to CAFE standards, or like one day EPA banning Java, Python, etc from scaled deployments :)
This article is very reminiscent of "The Weapon Shops of Isher"- it's always a strange feeling when the lines between science fiction and reality start to blur.
We could save even more lifes by outlawing backyard pools. Nothing unconstitutional about that either.

http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/water-safety/wa...
The right of the people to keep and bear arms does not specify that every person has that right, just that the community in general does. Having licensing requirements hasn't noticeably restricted the people of the USA from keeping and using automobiles.
Why do we need this in the footer at all?
They don't have to be: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4912116/closure-vs-anonym...
It's essentially the raw sensor data. So each pixel is representing a large area with perhaps several features contained within it (spatial resolution is ~30 or 60 meters depending on the band). The images you are talking about zooming in on have many pixels representing each feature.
On Homebrew, at least, it's `gnu-units`.

If you try to install just `units`, brew is smart enough to suggest it, however.
I'd take a look at how often crime statistics come up during discussions of expanding public transit options - up here in BC and when I lived in Boston that was the primary argument against expansion... Public transit stations "cause" a raise in crime rate and lower (detached) home values.
It's new in macOS Sierra. I believe mach_absolute_time is slightly faster but not by much–both just read the commpage these days to save on a syscall.
Upsetting, but seems to be not directly related to the contact tracing app
I use a tad bit of IRC, but I prefer Signal messenger and Discord for gaming specifically. Signal is encrypted, allows videos, audio messages, emoji reactions, has search functionality, it's just a great app IMO.
> People would be far less likely to post or share dumb stuff if being banned means there's a risk of losing your 'equity' in the platform.

Isn’t this like HN already? Also who will define what is “dumb” if even the community can be eventually polluted and biased? Would a moderator or owner decide this?

Careful, money and greed can pollute anything. I tend to find that content that is not profit motivated are often the most truthful- ex: whistleblowers
I would rather improve error reporting / monitoring than saying that downtime is a good thing.
Are you sure you're making a relative argument, and not just a statement about the existence of a counter-example?
Can you define "tracking"?
> Turning bytes into characters is outside the scope of most Unix kernels and the filesystems therein.

All the major contemporary Unix(-like) kernels do have code in them to do file path charset translation. It is very important when dealing with removable media (ISO-9660, UDF), FAT filesystems, network filesystems (especially CIFS/SMB, but even some NFS implementations), filesystems defined in terms of Unicode such as NTFS, HFS+, APFS.

Traditional Unix filesystems don't do this, but they were originally designed at a time when few clearly distinguished the concept of byte from the concept of character.
That's really disturbing, and more disturbing first world nations were aware of this.
Also, I read recently the CIA and other covert ops led to assassinations on members of the Black Panthers and even Malcom X and maybe Martin Luther King.
The single worst feature with Tesla is it takes at least two taps to turn on wipers. During that time, it has just started raining, which is a dangerous time to take your eyes off the road. And you must take your eyes off the road because the taps are in two different locations on the screen, and there is an animation involved, and after that animation you must decide which speed setting to tap on. All this time your eyes are not on the road. There is an Auto setting there, but Tesla's rain-sensing tech is unusably bad. I never use Auto. All my other luxury cars with rain-sensing I've always used Auto, but not Tesla.
The purpose of free markets is asset allocation:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_(economics)

>Markets facilitate trade and enable the distribution and resource allocation in a society.
How are you ordering an Uber without internet access?
now THAT would rile up the public.
> Can't tell if you're intentionally or accidentally misleading.

All I'm doing is looking at the market cap of companies like Facebook and Dropbox. I mean, hell, Facebook literally sold personal data and sure, you occasionally see "boycott FB" movements, but they're all bark and no bite.
This is mind reading. I don't do that.
> Do you not see how problematic this is?

Their platform, their rules.
It could be they got special permission for that, I'm not the owner