skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that people look down on people who actually make stuff is a sad commentary on our society. That being forced to dress like a drone is seen as higher status than having the freedom to dress as yourself, is too.
Hypervisor that runs under openbsd, and which can run openbsd.
Compatibility changes in IE11 (Specifically the User-agent)
Comments here and on the article mainly point to in app purchasing. It's disgusting to see wonderful creativity turned into such mean-spirited awfulness in the hope of earning more money in the short term.

I hope that Apple (for one) wakes up and realises what this is doing to destroy the overall iOS experience.
> The tablet is in the collection of the National Museum of Damascus.

Shit, I hope IS doesn't blow the museum up or something . . .
How about the blockchain?

Edit: This is a serious question. I don't understand the downvotes. Is it possible to extend the idea of the blockchain to facilitate an uncensorable area for speech?
My previous post's parent discussed an 80 year old pensioner being unable to afford to continue living in San Francisco (or some other hypothetical rent controlled city) despite the fact that they can't afford to live there without rent control. That was the exact scenario that was sold to California voters in 1978 for Prop 13 and people voted for it because it seemed like it would benefit them (at least in the short term) and actually does the opposite long-term.

Re: the financial situation, California only recently paid off debts left over from the wake of Enron criminal fraud days.[1]

Obviously the underfunded retirement funds are huge looming unknowns, but they are partially (if not mostly) caused by local governments (such as the city of Stockton) underfunding during the bull market years and being unable to pay during the bear market years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
It's not hard to create workably public space. One can rent VPS for 5-10 USD per month, and pay with Bitcoin. Then setup Isso or phpBB or whatever, as a Tor hidden service. If you want more privacy from snooping by the hosting provider, lease a server from PRQ etc and use LUKS.
You'll want to learn about traditional video game development. Programming wise it isn't much of a jump, it's a matter of rendering everything twice with slightly different positions each time. Which would involve using two different View matrices. Each render is then shown to its respective eye. This gives us depth perception the same way it works in real life, which combined with head tracking (using gyroscopes in the HMD), tricks our mind into accepting the images as 'reality'.
How the internet is changing your brain?
GuerrillaWarfare/Armory – The 802.11 Hacking Repo
Looks amazing for people who want to learn web development. Text editor (with dark theme) , preview , list of files and help builtin all in the same window.
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What is a "shame mob"? Does it include the people who started #DistractinglySexy ? Does it include people who post "I thing Hunt's comment was sexist"? Does it include people who say "I do not think we should invite Hunt for our next 'Women in Science' conference"? Does it include the UCL ruling council?

Or is it a much more limited set of people who, say, send death threats? As a reminder, and quoting from http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/09/tim-hunt-sexi... :

> One female scientist who commented in the media after the story broke told the Guardian she had received “such a torrent of abuse” on social media and blogs that she could no longer face speaking publicly on the matter. Other female scientists who spoke out had apparently also received death threats. “We’ve all been silenced. It’s quite shocking really,” she said. “It’s just not worth the aggro of waking up to calls for me to be sacked on Twitter and hundreds of messages. It was so frustrating to see the perpetrator becoming the victim.”
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Show HN: Android Gps log ala Google Timeline, local, encrypted, opensource
The Docker-on-Btrfs problems are/were severe enough that CoreOS now defaults to overlayfs on Ext4. I have a bunch of EC2 servers on CoreOS, and we ended up wiping Docker partitions regularly until that switch...
It's simple. Love what you do and do what you love. Just follow your heart because when we are doing everything by heart, we can achieve the best thing in the life.
> One can rent VPS

Which is someone's property? So you're not addressing those concerns.
Looks interesting but I wonder how it fares with more complex websites? The changes he made in the video amounted to editing static tags and css colours to see realtime changes - but what if a javascript function is used to add elements on page startup? Or a js library is used to load a twitter feed?
thats why it's important to propagate ideas for symmetric upload/download connections and self-hosting.
Some more UI feedback for you then:

It did take me a while to figure out how to delete "grains" (I would've thought from the list of grains, instead I had to open one and click the delete button).

Also, I don't quite understand why I started out with five wekan grains from the get-go? Maybe a bug.

Also, I think first-time users might need some more hints (like unintrusive first-run popups or something) that the top bar is the Sandstorm stuff, while the rest is the app itself. I don't know what would be the best way, it seems quite challenging to design something like this :-)

What does the key icon do? (No hover text.)

Maybe "Share" should say "Share app"? (So I don't get confused into thinking it means "share this one wekan note" or "share this particular song from groovebasin".)
Great comment. Another aspect is that you can only rent space (hosting, domains, connection, etc.) on the internet, you can never own it. If you have a landlord they can kick you out, but if you own your own place then you have a much greater deal of freedom.
You can use Asana and simply export into excel about what you have done. I used Asana alot and also kanban board. I combine both and receive maximum potential of my life
Prediction #7 about the mobile revolution was particularly interesting to me at the time. I was working in the telecoms industry and everyone was saying that super-smartphones were coming out in just a year, 2 at most, that would revolutionize everything, but that was all marketing hype. The reality at the time was to my mind looking really bad. WAP was pretty much a conscious effort by the telecoms industry to trap itself (or actually the users) in a technological stone age ghetto run by committees of marketing executives. The fact that Apple forced the carriers to allow an open mobile internet was utterly shocking to me - in a good way. I was expecting mobile computing to be a dismal carrier-controlled dystopia for a generation at least.
There are other cryptographers that tend to agree that encrypt-then-mac is optimal.[0]

[0]http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-prin...
Benchmark comparing various data serialization libraries
HTML 5 History API: modify a website's URL without a full page refresh
I think it is important to understand who's problem this mostly is: Our children's.

And they will just solve this themselves by method 4 as stated in the article. But nobody will do any “reconfiguring” – our children will just grow up in a world where things are different and come to different conclusions. Most of them won’t see a change, they will just one day notice that their parents have a weird perception of this topic.
Oculus Rift SDK Gets Performance Boost: 'Direct Driver Mode' Unlocked
This is supposed to be a 'condition' and an 'inability'? I have this and have always associated it with an enhanced ability to think abstractly, and more generally intellectual facility. I had never met anyone else having this, until I came upon a paragraph by Einstein who comments about his absence of mental images, replaced by geometrical-like thinking. That only confirmed my intuitive assumption that it related to enhanced intellectual abilities in the analytical and abstract thinking domain. It is therefore bizarre to read about this as a 'condition' or even 'disability'... On the bright side, it is wonderful to see that it is shared by others, even studied and meet fellow geometrical thinkers here -- hi fellow Jedis ;)
The attic corruption in question is apparently caused by a bug in the version of msgpack the reporter was using, can be mitigated by updating dependencies - see https://github.com/jborg/attic/issues/264
looks just fine in firefox. ain't working in my chrome v44
On my Mint Desktop:

Firefox 40.0: 1000 Bunnies at 12 FPS
Firefox 40.0: 10000 Bunnies at 12 FPS
Firefox 40.0: 20000 Bunnies at 12 FPS
Firefox 40.0: 30000 Bunnies at 12 FPS

Chrome 44.0: 1000 Bunnies at 60 FPS
Chrome 44.0: 10000 Bunnies at 60 FPS
Chrome 44.0: 30000 Bunnies at 30 FPS

Why this extreme difference between Chrome and Firefox?

about:config in Firefox says "GPU Accelerated Windows: 0/3" so I guess it is somehow not using the GPU. Although then Im surprised it can render 30k bunnies at 12 FPS. On the other hand, it says "WebGL Renderer: NVIDIA Corporation -- GeForce GT 630/PCIe/SSE2". So I guess it's using the GPU. Also I would expect this WebGL demo to not even run without FF using the GPU. Strange. Any ideas?
So you believe every crime after the age of 25 should come with a life sentence?

Get in to a drunken fight at the bar on night... Life

Shoplift a pack of gum.... Life

WOW....
If anything goes wrong, we'll just do a theme park!
Would it be possible to use this to host a Weechat instance with http://www.glowing-bear.org/ ? (I mean, the UI of course, but weechat itself is a bit challenging, since you need to generate an ssl cert, open some ports and whatnot.)
Unless the provider looks inside your VPS, they won't know what hidden service you're running. Privacy-friendly VPS providers won't snoop unless forced by LEA. But LEA won't know which VPS provider to force, unless your OPSEC is bad.
From last time around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6858855
PHP 7.0 RC1 Is Running Much Faster Than PHP5, but Still Not Beating HHVM
Zauber-pferd
How far off is prediction 9 really? What do sales matter when Apple takes more profits from their computer business than all those combined; Apple having a 30% plus margin and other computer makers a 2-3%?
The solution to this has not changed. Public spaces are not public because they are not owned by anyone – they are public because they are owned by public entities. You can do that with computers and infrastructure just as much as you can do that with land and buildings.

The one difference is that for land you can actually be there, whereas on the internet you will probably go through some privately owned infrastructure. The simple solution to that is encryption, the thorough solution is government regulation.
The way s3ql works is that it copies the db from s3 to your local machine. You make changes and then write the new version back to s3 later with the data. So it won't help in this case.
I could do a udev rule to just mknod random with the urandom device instead.
excellent usage of Docker
Building a Decentralized, Bitcoin-Powered Reddit
Unfortunately at the moment, it's not a safe call that any particular system is actually running a modern enough kernel imo.

getrandom() showed up in 3.17, and the latest CentOS distribution ships with 3.10. And then you've got older deployments.

You could play with autoconf hell of detecting getrandom() and compiling for it if needed, but I couldn't imagine it to be worth the effort at the moment if you're going to be maintaining a branch of fallback code anyway.
This depends on where you live. In Germany, the landlord can not kick you out (http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/netzquelle/awo/awi762.pdf) – Government intervention can solve a lot of problems.
This startup can grow metal like a tree, and it’s about to hit the big time
You have to put Thimble into context. It's a tool for teaching basic Web skills to people new to the field, and part of the Mozilla Learning initiative[0].

I'm not sure it's intended for actual development.

[0] https://teach.mozilla.org/

EDIT: forgot the link
A public space is government's backyard, the argument is moot.

See China - government acts as the censor, not ISPs or companies. To favor "public spaces" it's not enough to argue that private backyards have censoring issues, but that public spaces would not have them.

More so, anyone can open his or hers private space to say what he or she wishes in the internet, much more easily than IRL. For instance, if my country prohibits me to speak about certain topic, with a bit of cleverness I can anonymously rent a VPS in another country. If the issue is just a deleted Facebook post, moving out to the competition or creating your own blog is trivial. The real issue is government censorship, which is enforced by the use of force. You can easily leave a website, but not so easily leave a country.
This is not about memory, it is about what you can access consciously. Those of us who have no image in our minds have memories of our houses, cars, friends, etc. just like you do (as far as I know!), they are just not part of our conscious experience. If you want to relate to this, think of language processing: you are not aware of how your brain parses the sentences you hear, though you still have access to the meaning that is produced by that parsing. We don't have access to the visual images, but they are there somewhere and can be used by our memory system.
(ps. I suspect that getting images to reach consciousness or not is not just a random 'accident', but rather reflects a more generally different brain organisation -- just not wrt memory having access to visual representations or not)
> For reasons that seem baffling in retrospect, Amazon understood this long before any of its major competitors

I don't think Amazon really "understood". It's more that (according to "The Everything Store", anyway), accidentally, some emergency servers were reprovisioned as servers on demand for a bunch of frustrated devs who couldn't get resources the traditional way. And then demand just exploded and they thought why not sell it and see what happens.

It is true that Bezos appears to have a knack for spotting great products that appear accidentally in his org tree, and spinning it out as a separate team (e.g. the A9 team, Kindle...) but it might be that he thinks like a VC and backs everything that looks interesting instead of letting the bureaucracy kill it, and hindsight is 20/20...
Big Markets, Over Confidence and the Macro Delusion
As both a teacher and a recent student: you do not know what the student is doing on their laptop, nor is it your job to police what they do on their laptop; some students are using their laptop to enhance their learning experience, and some students will have come to rely on that enhancement... and frankly, even if a student is multitasking, maybe they have a very legitimately pressing reason in their life to do so today.

If you really wish students in your classes would multitask less than they have been, you should concentrate on adopting a more focussed pacing for your content, and you should figure out how to make your material more engaging (which you can do either by making it more interesting or more entertaining: I will ask that you avoid cheap tricks like putting students on the spot and trying to scare them into paying attention).

As for the effects on people using laptops on the people around them, there is also a simple solution I have found quite effective: make a culture where students who are unlikely to be paying complete attention to your lecture sit together in the back of the class. As both a student and as the teacher, I have found myself completely forgetting about the existence of students who are sitting far in the back who might be distracted.
I think the go guys are clearly focusing on server applications.
It's pretty sad that the embedded system problem is exposed to the userland, which isn't a reasonable place to deal with the problem. A better solution would be to require the bootloader to supply the kernel with a seed (as, I gather, OpenBSD deals with the problem) and not support hardware that doesn't have at least one of 1) hardware rng or 2) 256 bits of non-volatile storage for storing a seed across boots available to the bootloader.
This is a pretty common thing -- except the glass door cubby hole thing that your food gets put in. You find in a lot of Taiwanese restaurants machines at your table for ordering, requesting things like water and utensils, etc. Yes they have people who bring these things out to you, but otherwise it doesn't sound too different. What's new here? If it was machines preparing the food the title might be more deserved.
Google faces civil lawsuits as new platform launches to assess damage claims
http://twister.net.co/ is an attempt to do this. As far as I know it basically works, although it's obviously subject to the Network Effect.
That's easy to answer without images. Either by reasoning your way out of it, or more plausibly, with this kind of 'geometrical imagery' that comes instead of images. I 'see' a sort of figure-stick elephant and can tell you immediately where the trunk is. Maybe a test involving details of pictures would fare better?
Do you plan on supporting paid apps in the future, or will Oasis be sticking to free only? I can imagine a one-off payments or subscription models where users pay for continuous updates, funding further development.
The question that seems to be on peoples mind lately (at least in Swedish media) is if people are more prone now to lynch mobs because of social media. We see public campaign to fund mobs to assault/murder people. We have people being harassed out of their jobs because of a single less than 140-character message on twitter.

I don't think that the Internet is dooming free speech, but government does seem to be a bit confused on how to deal with lynchmobs that operate online rather than forming up in the street (you can't just have your mounted police gallop into them in order to have them disperse). Police also seems less incline to take campaigns on social media serious, even if the campaigns goal is to encourage crime.
TL;DR
"But in the end, the most important factor over which people have control — whether juggling, jogging or memorizing a script — may be not how much they practice, but how effectively they use that time."
Ha! I thought everyone without images had a sort of stylized geometric visualization instead of images, but maybe different people 'substitute' differently, some with music, some with geometry, some with ??
Structured Procrastination: Do Less, Deceive Yourself, and Succeed Long-Term
Technology is awesome
I'd prioritize predictability over anything else.
Indeed. It seems likely that Apple could cut their margins and grab that 50% if they wanted to, but since that would reduce their overall profits why would they want to? It seems like Apple can at this point have pretty much whatever share of the market it chooses.
Using Firefox 40.0.3 I can't create a new project. Even after registering. js console says:

> [Brackets Filesystem] Unknown I/O error Object { name: "EFILESYSTEMERROR", code: "EFILESYSTEMERROR", errno: 1001, message: "unknown error", stack: "e@https://mozillathimblelivepreview…" }
The key Sleepycat people went on to write WiredTiger which was acquired by Mongo -- it has some interesting features: http://source.wiredtiger.com/2.6.1/index.html

> WiredTiger supports row-oriented storage (where all columns of a row are stored together), column-oriented storage (where columns are stored in groups, allowing for more efficient access and storage of column subsets) and log-structured merge trees (LSM), for sustained throughput under random insert workloads.

> WiredTiger includes ACID transactions with standard isolation levels and durability at both checkpoint and fine-grained granularity.

> WiredTiger can be used as a simple key/value store, but also has a complete schema layer, including indices and projections.
Please don't forget about living costs (room and board for the years the degree will take - 3 for a licence, 5 for a masters), and opportunity costs (you could have worked full-time and advanced a career). Tuition being free only reduces by a fraction the total cost of a degree.
Can we get this guy a tonne of money, please?

Seriously. That's actually a new concept to me and makes a lot of sense. Would people trust an Apple/MS implementation fully? I'm not convinced, but something cross-platform that handles all the heavy lifting per machine-account would make a massive difference.

It might not solve the issue of webmail encryption on its own though, which would seem to require either a culture shift or an enforced upgrade.
Axis Bank Down.. Server Error in '/' Application
AstroBlend
It's interesting to me that Apple value profit over market share, unlike many of their rivals.
For the record, I'm currently using Safari (8.0.8) and the only part of the URL being hidden is the protocol.
1. I agree that this can be annoying at times, but you can disable this. Settings > Advanced > Show full website address

2. I have no answers for this one, other than to say that I haven't experienced it.
Tools shape society just as much as society shapes tools.
After reading the article, I am left with the impression that Steve Yegge was mostly wrong.
From what I've heard from native Swedes they are fed up with the amount of propaganda thrown by the media. I've seen photos of criminal immigrants "whiten-up" so there is no outcry against the crazy immigration. I think the IKEA stabbing and the grenade attacks are getting harder to cover up.
The point is that if you oppose the massive immigration in Sweden (or say Germany) you're gonna get lynched (loose your job for example, become a persona non grata) so there is no effective free speech.
A memo was published (or leaked?) in which he said, abbreviated and misquoted: "Our internal services shall be robust enough to sell as services on the big bad internet. Assuming friendly callers is a firing offense."

"Why not sell it" is a bit of a joke. Before you can say that, you have to have a platform that's designed to handle unfriendly users. Users who may be presumed to attack each other and the platform. Setting that up doesn't happen by accident.
Blythe Masters Tells Banks the Blockchain Changes Everything
Obviously there will be lots of bugs.

But HN is not really Thimble's support forum though. That would be something like: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new
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This doesnt really affect any advanced database that has online alters and workload management. It would just take longer but wouldn't affect any normal transactions. It's a solved problem unless the database just doesn't support it.
Microsoft security guru: Jot down your passwords (2005)
Yes, we'll just learn to not care so much.

Compartmentalization is also important. Especially for those with poor impulse control. Having one invariant online persona over a lifetime is just insanely unworkable.
Tough question: how do you see the developer getting paid for their work ?

I would love to be able to work on Open-Source apps and might occasionally build some for free but at the end of the day I still need money to pay my rent and all.

The answer to that is probably central to what kind/quality of application that you will get on the market.
Some kind of proof? I've heard many such stories about feminists receiving death/rape/etc. threats and it turned out as a scam to gain attention.
Well-meaning idealists can be incredibly intolerant and nasty. They obviously see themselves as good, and then anyone who have very different opinions become "bad".
The phone makers at the time really had no idea how to make a full-featured mobile computer OS. Nothing happened until Apple giving them a kick and Google saved their butts by handing them Android on a platter.
Relevant Father Ted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-eXcazOhHk&feature=youtu.be...