skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this the same model that funds most websites? Zero cost in exchange for advertising and, I'm guessing, giving up your private information - with all the positives and negatives associated with that model.

I'm too lazy to check: Does Amazon say what private info is collected? Info on phones can be much more personal and more accessible to other applications.
Verizon Is Cheating You, but Here’s How You Can Save $900 Next Year
> in fiscal year 2006, each officer wrote an average of 1,539 tickets.

Assuming a 2080 hour work year, that's 1.3 tickets per hour. To my (admittedly naive) idea of how many tickets police write per hour, that's nuts.
Sanders couldn't get elected dog-catcher without the word "free".
Virginia Shooting Gone Viral, in a Well-Planned Rollout on Social Media
This model comes with a few problems:

1) High quality games that are meant to be completed quickly will make less money relative to poor quality games that stretch out gameplay.

2) Developers become incentivized to stretch out gameplay to increase revenue.

3) Amazon Underground is covering the costs for now. But if users were asked to pay themselves, I'm sure many would balk at the idea of paying per-minute to play games.

All that aside, this is an interesting idea. I could see episodic games particularly benefiting from this model -- so long as they don't fall into the trap of stretching out gameplay to increase revenue.
Protecting the Net from Advanced Persistent Threats
It would guess not because the deal is that Germany is getting software for data. They are not being trusted with large amounts of data from the NSA.

However the 5 Eyes share data freely with each other, and while there is no verification I would be shocked if the US did not file warrants against US citizens based on the testimony of analysts from the other 4. And once there is a warrant, of course, then the US can cheerfully look at its own data and see what they were told could be seen.

My expectation is that this happens, and happens frequently. And not just for terrorism.
Interesting. Curious about the reaction to Google Play not allowing such an app. (I'm guessing restrictions on app stores are ok when Google does them)
I've watched both the 'Should Google Go Nuclear?' and Microsoft Research videos on this topic.

Both are pretty good. The Google video has Bussard in it and was made not long before he died.

The Microsoft paper talks about, well a lot of things, but I recall one of the key research items was cusp confinement. The problem with using magnets to control a plasma is the plasma will reject the magnetic field as its density increases. The wiffle ball shape of the resulting plasma of the polywell allows the field lines to penetrate the plasma even at higher density.
Ad Blockers and the Nuisance of the Modern Web
Wonder how this will play with BitMesh: https://www.bitmesh.network/
Well, the title has context -- the URL of the site hosting the title, Unity3D.com, is right next to the title, both on the main page of Hacker News and on the discussion page.
See https://getlantern.org/
I'd travel on 5k and put the rest in my investment portfolio. The 5k limit will make the trip a lot of fun and force you to get out of your travel bubble to meet people. It will also lead you to more interesting experiences and force you to get creative.

If you really want to burn the cash, then spend another 1k on a day trading class along the way, and put the last 19k in a highly leveraged investment like options on GLD or something. Either way the investment goes, it'll make your trip a lot more exciting!
Will they be selling it at the subsidized rate California farmers are accustomed to? Farmers in Central California paid $17.00/acre-foot last year. I'll do the maths:

472.6 acre-feet X $17.00/acre-feet = $8,095.40

Not bad for 300 railcars.
This is a bug in Unix culture and an example of spray-on usability. It's perfectly legal to have a file named "Software Manager" and it's not even harder to type if your shell has case-insensitive completion. Yet the situation persists where the "human-readable name" is different from the "internal name". (Not that people generally launch GUI apps from the command line anyway.)
Lidl sells plenty of stuff other than groceries, with anything from clothing to telescopes, they just don't stock them permanently.

But when they do, sometimes they even beat direct-from-China pricing, by up to a 60%. Which is pretty impressive if you were to ask me.
A selection :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkJEt1UsUcs
Lol yeah try running a windows 95 game in windows 8 for fun you will see most of them fail
Yeah I looked; it's the IPC from Mach with some shimmed bits to do VM-y things for mapped message passing.

Mach was mostly VM and IPC - so of course it looks like it's a lot of Mach code. But there's no separate mach kernel running - it's just the IPC instances and they only exist as FD bits. It's not a complete kernel and FreeBSD isn't running "on" mach.
Missing: The German national anthem.

This was actually the anthem of the Austrian monarchy (introduced in 1797, in official use from 1826 until the end of the monarchy in 1918). Some Austrians are still hearing the original text ("Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze / Unsern Kaiser, unser Land!") whenever the "Deutschlandlied" is played.

Before the "Deutschlandlied" was introduced in 1922, the Prussian anthem "Heil Dir im Siegerkranz" was in common, but not official use in the German empire (1871). This one used, like many others, the melody of Britain's God Save the King/Queen.

[Edit] The anthem of the Habsburg-empire is a bit tricky in terms of plagiarism: The melody was composed by Joseph Haydn in commission by Franz II. (later Franz I.), but was also part of the "Kaiserquartett" (op. 76 no. 3, also 1797). Here, there are some similarities to an earlier composition by Mozart ("Exsultate, jubilate").
Seems many here do trust Google with their personal data. So, I suppose that implies they are not only a marketing company, but a good one :)
That looks like a different project of the same name. The lantern in this post is a desktop app that bypasses site blockers.
The module system is the object system fwiw. The things OCaml calls objects are just dynamic row-typed beasties which is why nobody recommends them (except to use as phantom parameters to get your own row typing).
We already have enough firepower with standard nuclear warheads to destroy civilization a few times over. I doubt a bigger bomb would fundamentally change the equation at all.
If ^ is true, why does amazon feel the need to disclose this at all? Seems like a weird set of words that either displays culture or product. They could easily say nothing and sign the same deal.
Don't have an Echo and have never ordered groceries so not sure how they solve this one, but taking the example of "Add eggs to shopping list"...how do they handle brand options with general queries like that? Are there brand options?
New Tor weakness is being exploited prompt dark market shutdown
Why do you think they are lying? Did the companies use not apply the grsecurity patches but claim they did?

If they did apply the patches AND used the grsecurity trademark in their brochures what is the problem? They arent misrepresenting grsecurity. They arent being derogatory in any way. Why can't you say that you have the kernel and you applied grsecurity patches?

It seems so funny when people are all about GPL code and "freedom" and yet act so precious about a "trademark" just like proprietary enterprises.
What about the DMCA? It seems like people cower in fear of it, but only with regards to the entertainment industry. Is that only because it's dangerous when the copyright holder is a huge corporation, but remains effectively toothless for those unable to support years of litigation?
Nothing surprising after a decade of unlimited internet under specified limit.
It appears that it decides for itself when to go direct and when to circumvent. This will limit bandwidth usage and the ability of bad guys to exploit it as an open web proxy, assuming they are good at software.

On the minus side, observer at the Great Firewall can probably learn a lot about Lantern users, unless the Lantern software is really careful.
I read their statement as they were morally angry at the purpose of the enterprise
Facebook chat: Not exactly messaging for teams
Netflix Viewership Finally Gets a Yardstick
My school's was Purdue's fight song in a different key and time signature; I think possibly syncopated. I only learned it in an AP music theory class so there's a good chance hardly any of the student body or general public even knew (unless they were alumni or students of music themselves). But we were also in the state of Indiana so...I suppose by that measure it was probably more a matter of admiration/local support than straight copying.

I ended up going to IU, so the joke's on them :P
An ad-homenium attack on me? Wow.

Are you seriously going to claim that Wikipedia is "patriotic BS"?

"Although the directing powers, and the government as well, are convinced that our war strength still can deliver considerable blows to the enemy, we are unable to feel absolutely secure peace of mind ... Please bear particularly in mind, however, that we are not seeking the Russians' mediation for anything like an unconditional surrender." -- Tōgō 1945 July 17 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan
Could Apple take legal action if Amazon were to try that? (hypothetically of course)
The guidelines say we're supposed to flag stories we don't like and then ignore them. Because a thread full of pointless comments, is valued more highly by those that run this place, than a flame war.
How are 1) and 2) different than the status quo? Aren't developers already incentivized to keep users in their app for as long as possible? More touch points -> more IAP buying opportunities -> more money.

> 3) Amazon Underground is covering the costs for now. But if users were asked to pay themselves, I'm sure many would balk at the idea of paying per-minute to play games.

As I understand it, it's not a pay-per-minute sort of deal. You'd pay the same price every month and the revenue would be divied out based on usage (like Netflix).
http://www.speedtrap.org/
they ... actually think i'll read that stupid sideways fake ye olde typewriter typefaced "letter"?
Ask HN: How do we solve the Bitcoin schism?
How do we solve the Bitcoin schism? What solutions are you getting behind? What do you personally propose as the way forward?
Repeating my call for each HN post to have a new, separate comments section specifically for shitty comments about the page itself as opposed to the ideas contained therein
Please explain yourself instead of just insulting people's education. What you're doing here is useless if you want to actually inform people.
Not bigger. Easier to get/build, no enrichment.
don't know what this means exactly. are we getting free apps? how are they paying devs?
Uh, I feel completely the opposite in that regard. Commonly available, well-known tools should be the norm.
Actual GPL violations are bad. If actual trademark infringement happened (the blog post presents the company's counterarguement as to whether or not that happened, and I neither know enough about the law to assess the competing claims or know enough about the situation to know whether or not the blogpost fairly represented the counterarguement), that's bad.

But "[not] bother[ing] to hire us to perform the port properly for them or to actively maintain the security of the kernel they're providing to their paid customers" isn't ripping off the developers or stealing from artisans. Nor is "not contribut[ing] a single dime toward our continued development and maintenance." None of those things are required by the GPL. If you want to sell software, and if you want to get pissed when people use your software without paying you for it, choose a license that requires people to pay you for your software.

(And exactly how much money has GRsecurity paid to the developers of the kernel they're patching? The unmitigated gall factor here is stronger than most of these kinds of rants that I've seen, because they're not even the upstream.)
Point 1 and 2 seem like the same thing, but I agree.
Here is my best guess. And it really is a guess.

Everyone with an app store wants to own the app store market. It is a land-grab to establish a monopoly.

Amazon has to be worried about this because if you own the app store, you choose the default way that people read books on the device. Which means that they can cut Amazon out of the book-selling business to that person.

Amazon doesn't want that. So they have been trying to make the Kindle work. And to install their bookstore as an app. And to try to make their app store viable. And so on.

It is all a long-term play to be in a position to not lose a core business when everyone switches to reading on devices.
It's also easier to use: Most "one-click installs" basically give you a VM with the thing running with a default config, but you usually still need to SSH in to maintain it, edit config files, etc. Sandstorm is intended to be easy enough that a non-technical user can install and use apps.
This is not at all true. They are liable for significant monetary damages for violating copyright, and you can find a lawyer to take up the case if you own the copyright. There are a couple well known organizations who have gotten paid more than their expenses from lawsuits against gpl violating companies: sfconservancy.org, sflc.org., fsf.org.
Le Tote (YC S13) Is Hiring Ruby Developers
If you die before you grow old, you're probably going to do so as a child. If you survive birth, childhood and are otherwise healthy, you're chances of growing old are pretty good no matter where and how you happen to live.

That's why life expectancy is so high now in the western world, it's not that people are growing far older than they did in the past or elsewhere, children just die very rarely and don't pull down the average.
To be fair, Amazon didn't claim there wouldn't be any ads:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1003016...

The promise is that there will be no payments for the app or for in-app purchases. Also, I've spent some time playing Angry Birds through Underground, and the ads seem much more unobtrusive compared to getting the "freemium" app through Google Play. I guess the philosophy is similar to the "Special Offers" on the Kindle e-book readers.
Because it's not ransom. We're going in circles here...
I figured that the Trending Now and Best Of were just based on raw numbers of shares and saves - nothing that required much algo intrusion. I suppose that I was just looking for better clarity on what Recommendations is and would be doing. Pocket responded in a tweet that the Recommendations feature will not used to support ad targeting and our data (and metadata) will not be used for that. So, I feel a bit better. They also mentioned that Recommendations will not be loaded unless we tap on the tab for it. With all of the privacy intrusive practices being carried out today, I tend to question new features that aren't accompanied with a clear privacy statement.
Why isn't the page itself relevant?
Australia is left off the list of countries. I can still sign in with my Australian account, using the US option though.
> Oh, and the job market for software engineering here is rubbish ;-)

I'm not in software engineering ;)
On Android, installing a random apk is as simple as

1. Allow installs from unknown sources
2. Download and install apk.

Can't do that on iOS without jailbreaking.
> They're integrating it into FreeNAS and I think PC-BSD will follow suit

Are they planning to rebase FreeNAS on this? Why not just stay on a normal FreeBSD base? Or will there not be much noticeable difference feature wise from the user's perspective?

I can appreciate the idea of integrating launchd as a new init system and I know people have been working on that for a while, but this seems like it's much more than just that to me. Or am I misunderstanding?
An article with background for those (like me) who don't follow Bitcoin news.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bitcoin-schism-how-bitcoin-became-v...

"Bitcoin is in crisis; Bitcoin is thriving. More people than ever are using the cryptocurrency but as adoption grows the network that it relies upon is running out of spare capacity. Developers fear that within less than a year, the whole thing could grind to a halt. If nothing is done, bitcoin's own success may end up breaking it."
The lawyers say that because they're advising their clients not to set themselves up for a libel suit, not because they're buzzkills. In other news, doctors recommend you eat healthy, but don't they always say that?
The key difference on Android is, and has always been, that you can get apps from off of Google Play. Google's store is just a store with its own policies, and you can install apps from anywhere (including other stores) if you want.

Which is why there is an Android version of this, and no iOS version.
Because there isn't one now and there's no reason for one to ever come into being.
It's similar in the sense of throwing out the Unix philosophy and replacing it with a different one while keeping 99% of the code. It's not obvious why NeXTBSD would be better than Lennartux though.

(Just to be clear, I never liked the Unix philosophy so I enjoy seeing experiments in postunixism.)
> And I presume the two apps (the main app and the connector app) can send messages to each other?

Yep. Through Cap'n Proto RPC -- or HTTP layered on top of Cap'n Proto RPC.

> I want the connector to use a real web browser to talk to the bank's website

Interesting. That does add complication, but it seems doable. Perhaps the connector grain could act as a proxy, embedding the bank's UI in an iframe, where the iframe src of course doesn't point directly to the bank but points back to the connector grain in proxy mode.

FWIW, we definitely want grains to be able to embed each other's UIs in iframes (with proper permissions), which might play a part in this.
This is the key to running cities based on ticket revenue. Residents would would never tolerate it if they were plundered like this. Heck, most of them probably don't realize what's going on until they've been there awhile.
Keep in mind this is just for StoryStudio, the content creation side of Oculus.
That's infuriating.
> history of reliable judgment

Right. This is certainly one path and the path most seem to be on, and exactly the one that needs to be challenged. The key intuition here being that a judgement, which is a decision, is not an answer to a logical problem. A decision entails a will, and when our personal will is overridden by an animated paperclip, we close said program. Decision != Answer.

People don't necessarily want decisions made for them, but rather, they want assistance in making their own, or better yet, reasons to justify the decisions they've already tentatively made. "Reliable judgement" is the complete opposite of "a resource of intelligence". Certainly all of these assistants feature a little bit of both, but I keep sensing the urge towards the former. Worse yet, a decision is often treated as an abstraction that somehow justifies hiding everything that went into that decision, even though there is immense value in actually being told why. People have entire conversations over why to eat at some place as part of the process of sharing the decision to go there.

Even when used only as a resource, if only these robots wouldn't keep trying to read our minds or insist on telling us what to do. Maybe a handful of people will accept a robot's choice, but everyone loves more information.

Maybe we shouldn't be looking for some secret sauce that enables robots to make better generalized and rational decisions than humans. Maybe we should be building robots capable of assisting humans at better making their own personal and irrational decisions instead?

(edited for grammar)
Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6
After spending a few years in the Yukon, I wonder how they a) lit fires and b) cooked on those fires.

We once forgot to bring anything steel for cooking on a fire during a week-long sheep hunting hike. After much thought, I managed to boil water for coffee and food :)
Points (1) and (2) are true for ad-supported games in general. What Underground provides is a way for games developers to be able to provide a low-barrier ad-supported version of their game while being completely unconcerned with ads. It essentially allows the developer to engage in two different business models (pay-for-install and ad-supported) without that dual-model creeping into the implementation of the game. In that respect, this developer-player inter-mediation is more of a threat to Valve's Steam than it is for Google's Play store.
I remember Mr. Wizard quite well and loved his show as a child. Growing up he was one of several science popularizers who made it "ok" to be a smart kid interested in STEM.

I can't say that without Mr. Wizard I wouldn't be where I am today, but each person (Mr. Wizard, Bill Nye, etc.) who took up a similar kind of role helped create an environment that made it more possible for people like me.

I never realized many of the subtle cues that he used on his show -- no labcoat, talk to the kids as adults, and so on. But they definitely made it all feel more welcoming and approachable as well.
Sanders won't get far because the only thing he has to offer is giving away other people's money and the USA is already $20 trillion down that path (more like $150 trillion if you consider the unfunded mandates).

How can we possibly do more when what we are doing now is unsustainable?!
Maybe for servers. It's completely unusable due to performance problems on my i7-powered thinkpad.
India turned off mobile internet for 63M citizens amid protests in Ahmedabad
Printing currency costs money, so they probably shouldn't actually destroy it. But you can certainly destroy money without destroying currency.
I never made such a claim that FreeBSD is running on Mach. I said it integrated a Mach kernel interface as a module running in kernel space.

They also ported tasks (as processes), threads (kthreads) and some clock/timer stuff, as well. No memory objects because there's no external pager they can be backed from.
It's simple, the people who support Trump don't trust the media, and with good reason. The media in this country has stopped even pretending they are impartial.
From the post: "The aforementioned company has been using the grsecurity name all over its marketing material and blog posts to describe their backported, unsupported, unmaintained version in a version of Linux with other code modifications that haven't been evaluated by us for security impact. Simply put, it is NOT grsecurity"

There _are_ no "grsecurity patches" to apply for the system they're using the grsecurity trademark on.

Seems pretty clear cut from here.
> Is this the fault of the hackers?

Yes.

> I'd argue not.

Wouldn't be much of an argument as you'd be wrong. Rather than going about other means to release this information privately, they dumped it on the world. They made that choice.

> It's the liars, and the cheaters who hurt their family, not the hackers.

Who are you to speak on behalf of everyone who has to deal with the outcome of this? I know for a fact that you are making some grand assumptions that are wrong.

> Yes, some 'went through a rough patch' and 'already moved past this', and are now dealing with a world of pain. But ask yourself, what makes you the authority on how much pain they should have endured for their mistake?

Unlike you, I give a damn about privacy. You clearly do not. What's your real name? Where do you work? Please, share with us the details of your life.

I swear, people like you are terrible, terrible evil people. Not caring about people though their lives are on the line for doing absolutely nothing wrong. But no, just because they are associated with something you disagree with in some way, you feel it's their fault.

You are awful.