skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and it is thus in the same boat as systemd.

The IPC layer for getting launchd to work involves amongst other things FreeBSD kernel changes to support the Mach IPC API; similarly to how the systemd people have already achieved (subreapers) and have been pushing for further (kernel Desktop Bus) kernel changes for systemd's benefit; and indeed much like how IBM AIX gained kernel augmentations for supporting the System Resource Controller: the SIGFORCE and SIGNORM signals and the SRC_kex.ext extension.

vezzy-fnord is I suspect refraining from pointing to http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/08/26/0/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10127120). (-:
Direct link to the article...
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541276/deep-learning-ma...
It's certainly possible, but for now you could just write an app in plain React and wrap it in a web-to-native app wrapper, using something like Electron or MacGap (which Slack uses for their Mac app).

http://electron.atom.io/

https://github.com/MacGapProject/MacGap1
And of course it was totally valid traffic so it didn't get picked up by any network sensors.

That's the part of a lot of the backdoors and hacks that makes my head spin. No one can tell programmatically if certain traffic is "good" or "bad" - you have to go through it and devine it's intent.

Given that, is it even worth anyone's time to try to secure systems, or should we all just adopt some zen-like acceptance of the futility of all action?
There's no reason you couldn't implement it to work on desktop, but I doubt Facebook will spend the time. I hope the open source community implements this, though, because I'd love to have a truly native cross-platform framework that also works on desktop.
[Mathematician here]

I'd prefer something similar to your version, like: Let's suppose that pi is rational, pi = a/b ...

I usually like to understand what is the intended meaning of the symbols and how they will be used later, in spite it's not necessary to have a correct proof. I was (slightly) surprised when I found out that a/b "was" pi.

But, each one has a preferred writing style, ...

But in this case, I suspect that the proof is optimized for space. An alternative title could be "A proof that pi is irrational in one page" so some details and constructions are skipped to put everything in one page.
So this confirms the approach that we have in mind: the ability to setup a fee at order creation as it is the case in Connect (per charge there). Very :+1: on this.
In the same way anyone who comes into a situation where they are more competent than the people they replace become a linchpin. If you come in and make a thing a lot better than anyone else in your organization is capable of making it, you become the go-to person for that thing.
If you're going cross platform, the key is to know in detail the limitations of this approach, even if it takes longer to make that initial decision about what path to take.

Different cross-platform tools have different approaches, but as a concrete example take Corona SDK. You need no native platform knowledge and your app runs inside the Corona runtime, which makes some difficult things easy but some easy things -- third-party SDK integration, install source tracking -- difficult. And if the creator of the cross-platform environment has chosen not to support certain things, you're out of luck (and you're probably always going to be lagging even for things that are supported). On the other hand, you have only a single codebase to maintain and single-click builds for a lot of platforms.

As for Cordova, we spent some time testing if the performance was sufficient when building an early version of Recent News (https://recent.io -- v1.0 just released three days ago!). We concluded it was not. Boot times were slow, the UI felt very non-native, and overall performance didn't meet our requirements. Now that was a while ago and Cordova may have improved, and hardware performance certainly has improved, so maybe it's a better option today.
I'm assuming this is a sarcastic post.

It's an interesting thought experiment to extrapolate antitrust ideas onto free software.

If Linux grew big enough could it attract antitrust lawsuits despite not being the product of any single company?

My first impression was to draw the line at organizations that make money, but that leaves the possibility for free software growing so big as to hinder progress, which isn't necessarily beneficial for the community either.

Discuss(?)
The question is not how much the saw costs, or how often you replace it.

The question is what you can do with the saw. As you note, fine carpentry is an art form. There's no limit to the possible value of the art you could produce with the saw and other tools. There's no limit to the possible total value of the art that could exist in the world.
GPG sucks. I use it, I have a smartcard, I did subkeys, etc. I encrypt backups, I log with it to ssh. And it sucks. It sucks so bad, that I don't even know why I am doing it. There are just so many technical glitches, not to mention all the googling, FAQs, manuals that I had to bookmark and constantly refer to, to use it.
basically deja vu of MS vs. Netscape and other independent software providers of 199x. For the last decade Google was basically replaying the MS scenario.
The PICO-8 Fantasy Console
>So I am assuming you are claiming to be part of the ecosystem?

In general, I am part of many systems (eco- and otherwise), but no; that section of reply was an argument against the idea that being able to 'predict' the future was a reasonable way to define intelligence. It doesn't really change the argument if you stick me on the island though - I behave intelligently, and that affects the behavior of the ecosystem, but that doesn't cause the ecosystem be 'intelligent'.

It's interesting to have a debate this slowly, I feel like it's unusually civil :-)
I've seen some iPhone 6 pictures on Facebook that blur the line, IMO. I'm sure someone with a good eye could spot some areas with lesser contrast or detail, but if they'd claimed that a professional photographer had taken these a few years ago, I don't think anyone would question it.

Some my family uploaded in the last week (albeit tiny files with funky artifacts)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qbw8bnbucujvaqa/image1.JPG?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ytethfobkiar308/image2.JPG?dl=0
Whatever suspicions I have about the process by which this decision was made, it seems in principle like a sane ruling that'll improve the openness of the Android platform.
Java REPL with JShell and Bazel
My only real life experience with a "drug bust" was at a music festival where a cop came up to my friend and I, asked for our bag of weed, dumped it out, and then asked where we got it. We didn't tell him where we got it and I then thanked him for not issuing us a citation.

I'm white and my friend is Mexican.
Pros and prosumers. What we're seeing is a real hollowing out of the middle. DSLRs and other interchangeable lens cameras are still selling pretty well and there's still some business at the high-end of the P&S space (differentiated by bigger zooms or larger sensors etc.) or other specialty cameras (e.g. waterproof/ruggedized). But there's not a lot of reason to buy a cookie-cutter low-end or midrange P&S these days. I use my interchangeable lens camera but it's been a few months since I've bothered to take my Canon S100 (highish end but older P&S) anyplace even though it's very compact.
I remember seeing the original shows when I was a kid and even I saw the pattern he was exploiting. And I'm sure I wasn't the only one.

It's boggling that everyone else in the studio didn't see this. Or maybe they did and couldn't do a thing about it until they had a way to reprogram the system. Game shows tend to tape multiple episodes per day.
React-native for Android is here
I'm not the OP, but your attitude here is unnecessarily dismissive. Not everybody has the calculus skills to understand this, let alone an awareness of mid-twentieth century calculus notation conventions.

For my part, I do know what polynomials are, what a Taylor series is, and so on, and in theory I can trace through the steps here and agree that yes, one follows from the other. Yet I find this proof unsatisfying because it doesn't demonstrate clearly, to me, which particular properties of pi it is using that bring about the contradiction. When the proof makes use of pi, it doesn't explain why the statements it is making are specifically true for pi, and not for some other number.

Take this same proof, substitute the number 3 for every occurrence of pi. Now pinpoint for me the place in the proof where it is clear and obvious that the proof makes an invalid claim about the number three (but where for pi, it was clearly and obviously correct). If you can't find it, then this proof structure equally serves as a convincing argument that three is irrational. That's quite unsatisfying - though of course, a proof doesn't have to be convincing, it just has to be right. Nevertheless, to qualify as a 'simple' proof, I think it does have to appeal to intuitions and concepts in a way that simply convinces you of its truth.

This proof is short, but it is not simple. It doesn't satisfy because it doesn't show me how the ratio of a circumference to a diameter has to be irrational - only how a number called pi which has particular relationships (not specified clearly in the proof) to the sin and cos functions, has to be irrational.
The Spark File
Can I request a Shopify platform integration? My company (www.dodocase.com) would love to sell our products in mobile apps. Feel free to reach out to me at patrick at dodocase dot com.
Another example: GPS units. I have a handheld that cost less than my phone, runs 48+ hours continuously on a set of two AA batteries (that I can replace in about 30 seconds) and it floats and operates in water and is physically indestructible, and its very sensitive in heavy foliage. I almost never use it anymore. The phone is a complete piece of junk in every comparison, but its usually with me and map upgrades don't cost $125, so ... Once in awhile I load it up for a big geocaching binge or when camping/hiking, that's about it.
What do you mean by "use"? It has nothing to do with the functionality. That would work well even if all the scaffolding was removed. It's not readability, a code with scaffolding is harder to grok than the code without. I guess you mean ease of maintenance, but even that is highly dubious, especially in a well-aged codebase where the actual behaviour have diverged far away from the original abstraction.
Google's transition to SHA-256 certificates is now essentially complete
Despite being open source, Google does not really accept submissions of code from third parties. Yandex does in fact have their own app store, but many apps are only published on the Google Play Store.
I was under the impression that airlines/TSA can't anyway mark your luggage even if it contains firearms. Some airlines give you a tag, but you are suppose to put that inside your luggage, but I might be wrong about this or my info might be very old. I'm basing most of my stuff on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqtYfaILHw
Currently #1 on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10216234
You're actually arguing that it is a fringe opinion that the companies in Gattaca are discriminating based on genes?
Not in RHEL7, which they will support at least until June 30, 2024. Next RHEL version they could of course switch it out.
They are also supporting Upstart in RHEL6 for a long time still, though its mostly a glorified sysvinit wrapper there.
Nothing in the underlying article seems truly quantum in the sense that there are quantum physical principles contributing to the outcomes of the experiments. Instead, authors used quantum probabilistic-inspired mathematics to analyze their results. In that, there isn't really anything truly interesting; that's just data modelling (and quantum math is structured to make modelling easier).
the main theme in Russia today is "replacing of imported goods and services with domestic ones". The strategy consists of 3 stages:

1. prohibit, bash, etc... foreign goods and services

2. ...

3. enjoy quality replacement by domestic manufacturers and providers.

right now the stage 1 is at full swing.
I love this quote:

>> “They weren’t bad people,” the worker said. “They just did bad things.”
Smartify: IDE and App Store for SMS-Capable Phones
"Arcadia" by Tom Stoppard. It's an incredible play which explores some of the foundational concepts of Chaos Theory as literary themes. I'm not a huge fiction reader, but this one gets me every time I read it. The ending is really beautiful.
> My only question is why can't we go after Microsoft for locking down hardware in the same way.

Microsoft's hardware (e.g. Surface Pro) is less locked down than the competition's version of the same (e.g. iPad). Why must ever topic devolve into Microsoft bashing?
How will this work in practice? Will it actually hold them responsible for court fees if they file another bogus request like this, or will the only thing that comes out of this be a simple checkbox on the DMCA takedown form that says "I considered fair use before filing this takedown request"? Will this actually help defendants establish the prohibitively difficult "bad faith" request on behalf of IP holders?

EDIT: The Ars Technica article gives some time towards answering my concerns.[0] The short answer is, somewhat.

"A copyright holder who pays lip service to the consideration of fair use by claiming it formed a good faith belief when there is evidence to the contrary is still subject to 512(f) liability,"

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/eff-scores-a-win-...
"Nine of the 10 displayed subjective or objective improvement in cognition beginning within 3-6 months, with the one failure being a patient with very late stage AD."

The way this sentence (from the abstract) hedges by including "subjective OR objective" hardly makes this sound like a "real cure". As the summary notes, "These anecdotal results suggest the need for a controlled clinical trial of the therapeutic program."
My robo painter automatically replicates a painting by mixing colors
It's all mysteries. The point of "simple" is to create a series of simple steps, each step should be straight forward and easy to understand.

Terse != simple
> Baidu's regulatory expertise also helped to solve what previously seemed like an insurmountable problem. They developed a process whereby ICP license applications could be automatically submitted on behalf of CloudFlare customers. This removes the burden of individual customers having to navigate local licensing requirements.

Translation: "Baidu's regulatory expertise" means "Baidu's guanxi and relationship with key decision makers in the country that invested and will profit from the company growth". It's always funny how corruption gets renamed to better sounding words like "expertise".
When I use my Nokia phone camera I get nice results. When I use my wife's D750 (she's a pro, the 810 and D4's are to heavy) I am astonished at the images it produces, especially with a fast 50mm or 85mm lens. The lens is probably the thing, it fills pictures with light like breath. But - others probably have other opinions...
>Here, the crime seems to be usually without motive, except perhaps a short-term rage. Presumably, the accused was unable to stop their actions (no point in deterrence) and would rarely be in such a position again (compared to serial criminals or crimes caused by incompetence).

This also covers a lot of cases of murder. For example, someone who kills their spouse having caught them cheating... as long as they stay out of relationships they won't be in that same situation again. We do reduce the penalty if done in a fit of rage (second degree murder instead of first degree), but we often still add a lengthy sentence still.
Fair enough. But even Chrome missing from iOS is mostly just an annoyance to tech types. Nobody is trading in their iPhone for a Nexus just to get Chrome, it's not the same as when Instagram was iOS only.
Let's see Yandex can indeed fork Android and deliver a device in Russia without Google apps..what anitrust issue here?
Maybe Yandex anticompetitive desires?
To allow FAMs for non-trivially constructible/destructible types would be slightly more complicated than C FAMs, but it doesn't seem like an unreasonable thing to expect from the language/library, or intractable from a standard or compiler perspective.

Regardless, I'm still not sure what the justification is requiring it be UB even for just primitive types.
I got into native development with no experience in the iOS/Android APIs, coming from a web dev background. I did know Java and C from working on side projects, and read up on Objective-C before, though. At my previous company, all the developers doing native work had no prior experience w/ mobile development (i.e. they primarily had backend C# experience)

I dabbled w/ Cordova and friends before, and did some work to wrap webapps in thin native shells earlier on, but there was always a very strict separation between the "sandboxed" webapp and the native code, if any.

Webapps can and do work just fine for CRUD applications, but right now, I'm of the opinion that if you want to really leverage the hardware APIs or the native ecosystem, you're better off learning the native platform, because you get no syntax mismatch friction on Stack Overflow etc, compared to Xamarin / React Native / Ambly / whatever

Also, this opinion might be unpopular among the js devs who like lightweight text editors (disclaimer: I'm one), but the heavy IDEs for Java/ObjC/Swift are actually immensely useful once you get familiar w/ their features. The static typing provided by those languages helps a lot in large refactors, in API discoverability/autocompletion and in reasoning about the codebase in general.
Uh, Sergey only has the LRRK2 mutation and has not been diagnosed with Parkinson's. Yes, this raises his risk, but let's not jump to conclusions. Details:

Only about 10 percent of Parkinson’s disease cases so far have been linked to a genetic cause. Mutations in the LRRK2 gene are the most common cause of Parkinson’s disease in this relatively small group, representing one to two percent of total Parkinson's cases.

However, for people of two particular ethnic backgrounds — Ashkenazi Jewish and North African Arab Berbers — mutations in LRRK2 account for a much greater number of Parkinson’s disease cases than in the general population. While estimates vary, it is believed that changes in LRRK2 (predominantly the mutation scientists know as G2019S) account for 15 to 20 percent of Parkinson’s disease cases in Ashkenazi Jews and about 40 percent of cases in North African Arab Berbers. Other genetic changes in LRRK2 that increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease have been found in additional populations, such as in Asians of Chinese descent. It remains an active area of investigation to find all the genetic changes in LRRK2 that may lead to Parkinson’s disease.

https://www.michaeljfox.org/understanding-parkinsons/living-...
>This implies that self-driving cars will be programmed with a morality superior to that of evil humans.

No, he implied that computers are faster acting and probably wouldn't have hit the kid in the first place.
Make sure your phone can connect to your machine: check https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/running-on-devi...
Just because we overcharge some doesn't mean we should expand that and overcharge even more. Overcharging, mandatory minimums, sentencing guidelines, etc. are the reason the US prison population dwarfs that of other nations. We need to focus on rehabilitation and prevention for crimes like the drug dealer you mentioned not expand our prison population further by excessively charging in more and more crimes.
Thank you, I love this :)
> Do you have any reason to believe it was posted with permission?

I'm not making public assertions it was posted with permission, unlike you, who publicly asserted it "this really is over-the-top copyright infringement". If you are going to make factual statements about the legality of an action without supplying evidence, nor even making the unsupported claim that you know more about what's going on that what's available publicly, expect to be called out.

> My points are simple:

It was simple, but you've conveniently left out that you stated simply and clearly that this is copyright infringement. If you had simply said "this looks like copyright infringement, and if so it's fairly stupid to do it like this because..." then there wouldn't be a problem. I would agree with you, for that matter.

As much as you might want to cast this as some anti-copyright vs copyright debate, it's not. It's purely about your unsupported statements and tone. I doubt anyone would have cared to downvote you had you actually backed up your statements (and to be clear, I haven't downvoted a single comment of yours, I prefer to engage).
Total Commander is also written in Delphi.
Such a great program I would still be using if I was on windows.
I should clarify that here I'm not talking about Microsoft's hardware like the Surface. I'm talking about being able to buy a computer from a manufacturer without having to pay $99 for an installation of Microsoft Windows that I explicitly do not want. Some effort was made to stop this practice (of MS paying manufacturers not to offer machines without Windows), but it clearly didn't go very far in solving the problem. Either you're going to pay for a copy of MS Windows, or you're going to build your own machine (or pay about as much as Apple hardware costs from "specialty" hardware retailers). And to answer your question, I bring this up because I find it difficult to point fingers at Google for the same behavior without bringing up an example of a company that is flatly getting away with murder.
A lot of people struggle at math because they're missing things like that. With today's technology, there's no reason things can't be broken down to arbitrarily small steps, so that people can be filled in on the cracks in the foundations of their understanding of math.

The usual reason for not including everything is that it becomes ridiculously laborious. With mathematics being abstraction piled atop abstraction, this is quite reasonable. Just look at how much work it is to prove 2+2=4 -- http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmset.html#trivia

But, as you can see from the above, there's technology to simplify things. I wonder if someday we'll be able to break things down in a friendly way so that for any piece a student doesn't understand, they can get a proof in terms of things they do understand?
The strangest thing I've come across was saving several hundred pounds by booking a return flight instead of one way, and just not using the flight back.
I guess I don't branch enough then.
If you have gimp, there are a couple ways of doing HDR there as well. For quick and dirty stuff, I found the exposure blend plugin [1] to work pretty decently. For more complicated stuff, doing the exposure masking yourself [2] also leads to real good results. As far as speed, there are a few apps out there that will let you bracket and do an automatic hdr sequence out there if you have a phone with an IR diode, yeah it means fumbling with two devices, but the results would almost certainly be well worth it.

[1] http://tir.astro.utoledo.edu/jdsmith/code/exposure_blend.php

[2] http://www.instructables.com/id/HDR-photos-with-the-GIMP/
Given the long process to bring this to justice, imagine all the ones that never get that far. It's much easier to convict someone of stealing bread from a 7-11.