skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ain't nobody got time to look at source code :-p , well more so, a lot of users (most?!?) would need to skill up in order to understand it. Better they can have confidence that you have good intentions and competency, or more likely, that they have reliable friends who support your work.

It seems a weak link here is TLS and its implementations (see many OpenSSL vulnerabilities) connecting users to some remote resource for importing your key. If you posted signatures of your signature (terrible nomenclature, I know) from very popular people, then new users might have a good chance of having someone in their network that believes in you. Otherwise, they could send out an notice that they need some reviews of you and your code.

(Continuing my reading for now @ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~davide/howto/validate_gpg.html )
The scene where the "cops" have to arrest (or was it kill?) the victim of a rape because her crime coefficient increased was pretty harsh.
"The Final Parsec Problem" -- not to be confused with the Last Mile Problem :p
I think "not expecting people to use them" is in accordance with actual facts, a substantial portion of drivers would flat-out refuse to wear seatbelts. (I feel as if this has changed in recent years, as those people age out, mellow, see reason, or die in car wrecks).
> It seems like with such a strong engineering team, Facebook should have really built their own phone.

They actually tried not too long ago... [0]

[0] http://www.cnet.com/news/heres-why-the-facebook-phone-floppe...
I believe a better question is: Why can't this problem be solved in hardware? So, it won't depend on the OS and if I shutdown my laptop and leave it on the charger it will still work.

My 3.5 year old Asus laptop has still similar battery life as it had when it was new. I always keep it on the charger when I can and sometimes I just shut it down and leave it on the charger overnight too (but this is rare). When I bought it, I have noticed that the battery was never above ~95%, but I have never studied how it works exactly (is it done by HW or by the driver). I have used it with Win7, Win8, Win8.1 and now Win10.
First of all, good for atavist. They recognize their market, and are following the path of greatest efficiency and effectiveness. Sounds like great business sense to me.

Now, on the other hand, I have to say, this kind of thing always bums me out. For a news distribution service, it does not matter so much I suspect, but in-general, the trend of putting more and more of the functionality I rely on daily into a web browser is distressing. Web browsers, despite all the innovation and work that has gone on lately, are still an enormous attack surface with the most significant likelihood of security breach (especially given that the rise of javascript has led us all to the point where we are almost allowing arbitrary code execution from untrusted sources on every page visit). Not to mention that web browsers were founded on the notion of conveying content, not functionality; HTML is a markup language (with <canvas> and JS and HTML frameworks, that's not so concrete anymore), it was not meant to host alternatives to the power of native applications.

I often find myself wishing for the ability to use a text-based web browser and have "The Web" still work, but those days are mostly long-gone[1] till I finally get around to writing my own browser[2] (which seems like it should not be a necessary step just to be able to interact with a simpler Web).

I suppose I am just tilting at windmills at this point (and, as I said, this post is not really aimed at atavist since I think content-delivery is a perfect niche for being web-only). Ah well, a user can dream, I suppose…

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r38al1w-h4k

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10072796
> There is no real evidence of significant differences between the sexes other than men are often physically bigger

That's straight up false. Just because evidence does not accord with your ideology, does not mean it is de facto incorrect.

There are numerous biological differences between the genders, not least due to differing levels of sex hormones. There have been studies done on on pre and post-op transsexuals that support this.

One example I've seen here on the front page in the last few weeks: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/04/03/is-the-...
Thanks for the link. A good writeup on Nix and Snappy.
I have a doubt here. Does Nix support deb packages? Snappy is said to be built on deb package management and not a replacement. Can someone shed some light on this?
They probably needed the software for this indeed. My local police department did not even cooperate with other local police departments. Profiles and reports for a criminal vanished, once they settled somewhere else. That is just throwing information away. This problem still exists in Europe. A sex offender from Belgium can move to Germany and become a janitor at a school.

Software is expensive to develop, but once developed it is actually very cost-effective. It can be copied over to other departments at a fraction of the cost of a detective salary.

Software will continue to eat the world. Criminals use new technology to stay ahead of the police, so the police has to stay up-to-date too. Data mining software helps the police do their jobs more efficiently and honestly. Factors don't lie, machine learning actively combats bias. While human intuition can be flawed and biased.

There is a danger than humans grant too much authority to computer systems, but there is also an opportunity to remove or dampen cognitive bias.
Nix has its own packaging format. Debs (and other formats) are insufficient for functional package management. Packages are code in Nix and Guix.
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That may be successful for the software companies. But pity the user who's stuck with old hardware and wants to know why used computers don't last as long as used cars. Maybe when Moore's Law finally becomes invalid...
Incredible. Is this the highest resolution photo, in terms of smallest resolved features, that we will receive covering all of Pluto? Or covering just a section?
> If you're using Linux, I'd advise you to use a fast terminal like Terminology

Egad, that pulls in a lot of dependencies! But yeah, it's blazingly, impressively fast.

Check out st[1] sometime. It's not as fast as either terminology or rxvt, but it's fast enough.

[1]http://st.suckless.org/
You can't even get people to reliably wear helmets when riding a motorcycle.
There are lithium batteries that perform well in cold temperatures. I have not used them myself but something like this should work fine in the fridge or freezer. http://www.energizer.com/batteries/energizer-advanced-lithiu...
My favorite part is that they're going to support Qubes OS [1].

That's why I'm hoping their next Skylake generation will come with an option for a 6820HQ or 6920HQ CPU [2] (4 cores/8 threads/8MB L3 cache), as well as options for 16 and 32GB of DDR4 RAM (but I assume they'll have that covered) and at least a relatively fast NVMe 256GB SSD drive just so I can run Qubes at maximum performance. Fingerprint authentication (along with software support for two-factor auth at login) would be nice as well.

I do think they need to drive their prices down in the future, though ($2,000 for a "private laptop"). Privacy and security shouldn't be just for the rich. Their laptops feel like they are at least 50% more expensive than what they should be. I imagine this will get better with scale. Their laptops also don't have to be "Macbook Pro quality". I think some compromises there in thinness and build quality can be reasonable, if it means dropping the price by $300 or so.

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)
That's like trying to demolish a building by simply removing any roads that lead to it.
It's unlikely that your OS is writing enough data to the SSD during boot to noticeably affect the drive life.
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There is a thisamericanlife show (Crime Pays) about cops paying kids to give up (or avoid) a life of crime. It is quite amazing how little it takes to prevent someone from costing society $40K a year in jail.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/555/t...
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Is the iPad Pro a tablet or a laptop?
Note, this is only because the C++ standard grandfathered in changes to the standard library in C99.

It does not actually allow you to write compliant C99 and compile it.
Tammer has the right of it, actually. There are (at least) two classes of "not on the app store," the first is as you describe, not generally available but there for legacy purposes and can be re-downloaded from the Purchased (not on this device) tab. The second is completely gone and only available if you've backed them up somewhere. There's even a modal dialogue alerting you to this fact when you have finished a restore (basically: go sync if you want certain apps that could not be downloaded back)
Forget the birds, lets not microwave the atmosphere.
I think there are other problems with using curl|bash than purely technical ones.

Since it isn't obvious to everyone how to do it correctly you're unwittingly creating a culture of just running anything of the Internet. You're also making it harder for yourself do the right thing, both over time and when you're stressed. It's generally just a good practice to remove sources of errors, especially if they are low-hanging, to get a more robust process. Managing computers is hard enough as it is.
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And of course the guys curating this list should do this for free, just for the fun of it.
Another HN commentator once gave me an excellent tip for getting an intuition for that sort of question: the ratio between a mile and an inch (63,360) is almost exactly the same as a lightyear and an astronomical unit (63,239). Pluto is at 40 AU, and the closest stars are at ~4 ly. So if you're sitting on Pluto and the sun is 40 inches (~ 1 m) away, the closest stars are about 4 miles (~6 km) away.

As far out as Pluto is, it is nowhere close to the next star, and the Sun is still overwhelmingly the brightest thing in the sky.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235876
I don't think that the reason are OCR errors. It's too consistent for that.

I think I also have seen such character set corruptions before, but I can't remember how exactly you can get these particular corruptions.
(I know this post is about linux.) My windows laptop batteries usually die after 2 years. I think Windows laptops have the problem of overcharging. To avoid it, I have to unplug the battery when I need to use a laptop as a desktop. We have to admit Apple does good job in battery management. My 2010 MacBook Pro 13-inch's battery is still in good condition (relatively).
I can't recall specifics since it was so long ago, but my understanding is that components of the UI had been produced at Real.
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End of the day, it's cheaper to pay people to do nothing, than it is to lock them up when they become desperate and commit crimes.
I'm running the latest iOS released this week on my 4G iPhone 4S, 1.7G still free. Granted, I don't store videos/photos (long term) that much.
Why does it take so much effort to use a garbage collected runtime efficiently? Wasn't the purpose of a GC in the first place to make things easier for the developer?
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I wouldn't worry too much about write endurance with modern SSDs - at least if you're not using them in a server or something. The Samsung 850 EVO (not even the PRO model) is rated for 150TB, and most tests got closer to double or triple that number before the drive failed.

If the full contents of a 16GB memory are written to disk for hibernation daily, with say another 50GB of work, that's over 6 years before you hit the lower limit. I probably wouldn't trust a hard disk that was used that heavily for that long either.
These points should be in a top level comment. There are some very good reasons for running a printer from a cloud based service. It solves more problems that it causes.
> Hopefully, Drupal 8 is going to bring all those fun parts again.

I'm not all that deep in Drupal anymore, but from what I hear: I doubt it.

Drupal has to choose a target audience and focus on that. If they choose "developers", then it will become a great tool that is fun to develop in, no doubt.

But as long as it remains in a limbo between "end-users" (the one's browsing the site you are building), "webmasters/editors" (those managing the content and configuring tidbits) and "developers" this won't happen.

There are just too many conflicting interests there. Real use case: can a webmaster change some settings in the image-cache? certainly not! Changing the width of an image will break all your carefully crafted CSS grids: it is tightly coupled to the Theme (which lives in Git and goes through a release-cycle).

If Drupal chose "developers", a thing like "imagecache" won't even exist in its current set-up. It won't have a database to store its settings, nor a web-interface. Instead it would be an Image class that you can inherit and then define some settings and methods in order to get an image-derivative.

From what I've seen, Drupal 8 does not change this conceptual basis. So I highly doubt it is possible to develop sites when your basis is conflicting with what you want to do on such a crucial level.
The last change I'm aware of was around VS2010 when they changed to MSBuild-based project files. Anything since then?
I believe creating variables at the point of use was retroactively inherited from C++ in C99. It can be useful feature when not abused.
The parent is not referring to those needs (which are legitimate). The presentation talks a lot about the hacking culture; how there is a lot of duplicate code, a lot of dead code, a lot of "temporary" code.

We call these things technical debt. But it sounds like they just never fix them. Refactors never happen.
"If we disbarred the defence attorney, then they would't have client/lawyer privilege"
One of the things Apple seems to be very good at is managing battery "overcharge": my 5 years old MBP reports ~90% battery capacity but a relatively low amount of cycles (~200) because it's almost always tethered. Other companies seem to handle that less well and have the battery health fall much faster.
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After Riley v California (2014), a warrant is required before the search of a mobile device. Therefore, in a scenario where you are asked to unlock your device, the only question is whether you are required to cooperate by giving your password or offering your finger. In the case of a password, the answer appears to be no, due to the privilege against self-incrimination. In the case of fingerprints, there is no such right. You are merely identifying yourself to the phone and your identity cannot be construed as incriminating testimony.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-132_8l9c.pdf

http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent...
You would almost think it was another UN conspiracy theory, except that they are actually discussing this.

Also interesting that the UN report references Zoe Quinn and Gamergate, when it's known the Gamergate "journalists" had a private email list which they used to collude against critics of Zoe Quinn.
John Carmack's talk at Oculus Connect 2 (2015)
The F-15 is one of the most successful air superiority fighters in modern war history. It is not a dog fighter, its a huge aircraft with a lot of power and a high service ceiling. It got to be such a good air superiority fighter due to its ability detect and fire missiles at aircraft before they could. So I don't think the F-35 needs to dogfight, it just needs to be less detectable and a better detection system than its adversary.

I agree with the drones though, making cheaper drones and having a large quantity of them seems like a better strategy. A single plane can only carry so many missiles.
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"According to a report released by Public Citizen last May, the contracts the government counted toward its small business targets in 2013 "included some held by the largest companies with which the government does business."

The reason the above happens is because people start small businesses and then when they win lucrative contracts the large companies buy them. The article is a good overview of a dysfunctional system though.
I'm not sure if this is baked into Rails 5, but you can get es6 support (via Babel) with the sprockets-es6 gem:

https://github.com/TannerRogalsky/sprockets-es6

Rails is still a second-class JS citizen due to the asset pipeline being opinionated and controlling compared to the node way of doing things, but it gets you closer to 'the new hotness'.
In the case of modern countries: The contract is the law + the Constitution (or your local equivalent if not in the US) and your signature is living in and benefiting from the nation/society you live in.
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Some sidenotes: I'm surprised to see so many custom libraries for Paper, an app which I had forgotten about. And another reminder that a lot of companies at scale are choosing mercurial over git.
They added several C99-only features that are not part of any version of C++ in VS 2013, such as designated initializers.
> are designed to require an airbag to be able to stop an adult male not wearing a seatbelt

That's Joan Claybrook's fault. While she did champion many much-needed safety improvements, this and the 85-mph speedometer were not her best ideas.

For the inside story on this and other auto industry disasters, pick up a copy of Jason Vines' book:

http://www.amazon.com/What-Did-Jesus-Drive-Christianity-eboo...

*I asked him, "What the hell is a thermal event?" "Um," he paused, "The vehicle could catch on fire."
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My wife's Lenovo has a windows utility that allows you to default the charge max to 60%. My Dell has a similar option in the EFI settings.

After about a year, there has not been a noticable degradation in battery life (and I have noticed it in past laptops).
Because the incentives are set up such that it is more rational for governments to have a predilection for predictability over risk - even if the predictability means it will take much longer and cost much more.
All we really need is a real passcode, and then a second special passcode that wipes the phone instantly if typed.

so, my normal code might be 123456, but if someone asks what my code is and I say 345678, then the phone does a data wipe that isn't obvious from the outside, and just deletes all credentials, cookies, history, documents, etc.

Is this workable?
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This should be handled by something like social services, not police. Prevention is not their game.
> The latest Oculus SDK (0.7.0.0) on Windows _absolutely_ fixes this mess.

Tried to use that to show it off to a friend on his desktop running Windows 10. Didn't work. The demo desk worked - but nothing else did. Also - didn't I read something where .7 is not backwards compatible with apps compiled for .6?

> AMD drivers and the Rift's extended mode stopped working together.

I find extended mode only works for me on my AMD card. And I think this is part of the problem - there appears to be a number of "it works for me"/"it doesn't work for me" threads all over the Oculus Rift forum from people with varying builds including threads of "if you follow this incantation and sacrifice a chicken while modifying your registry - this will make the Oculus Rift work"

> Also, if you haven't checked out the latest VR Desktop

I tried that out - but it crashed for me almost every time I tried using it.

For me the Oculus Rift has pretty much been a fail - I couldn't tell if the fail has been on my end (ie my desktop) or Oculus Rift's end. Though I really think if they hope to get a market share is to hire the guy(s) who has been working on JanusVR and make that a bundled "app". Right now that is the only reason why I don't just put it in a box and forget about it. Yes - I understand this is a "development kit" but I would like to know that it's functional before I develop for it. If people have to read out of the Necronomicon to use it - there is no point in developing for it. I feel like others share this opinion because I think Elite Dangerous implemented support but said that they won't update it until the Oculus Rift has a non-dev kit version.

I'm just frazzled because I purchased this $300 device expecting it to be somewhat stable - and it seems like something I would get out of a kickstarter.
Except it's mostly not web based.
Facts like this always make me wonder if perhaps we, as a species, haven't undergone some major mutation in the last 100 years or so as a result of .. I dunno, some cosmic event or something .. to accelerate our intelligence and understanding of the universe, and propel us so rapidly into the current state of things. Sometimes, it sure feels like the human species took a major, major leap somewhere .. and I wonder what it is? Sure, it can be explained culturally - the Enlightenment, world wars, medicine, etc. But how come things are being compelled along at an exponential rate so rapidly .. penicillin? Electricity? All of the above? Just: whoa. The next 100 years is probably going to be amazing ..
Unless an app has been completely removed from the AppStore by Apple (for instance, a malware app), the last available version of all apps will exist in the "Purchased" list. If an app is "completely gone", it probably has a good reason not to be there in the vast majority of cases.
If the were not sloppy they wouldn't have to deal with those needs too.
I learned c in the c89 days as my 3rd or 4th language (after modula-2 and pascal and maybe fortran) and now, in 2015, I can confirm that beginning-of-block variables are in fact just miserable.
I've written 40TB so far to the 1TB 850 Evo in my workstation and it certainly has problems now that it didn't have before - it just hangs for a few seconds at a time, when copying or deleting large number of files. Not sure what it's doing.
I'm glad when the courts uphold the U.S. Constitution in a meaningful way. I have faith America will sort its shit out.

But we shouldn't have to rely on the law alone. We should be able to rely on technology to make it impossible to compel people to give up their most intimidate data. Computing devices have become an extension of the mind and no one on earth has a right to the contents of your mind.
I'm struck that with a tiny bit of research you could figure out yourself if/how they accounted for the possibility of luck (hint: they did).
Visualization of this data from almost 20 years ago - I used it as example data for my PhD thesis:

http://mepalmer.net/ibb/

The views are all pre-rendered. Sorry for the old school site, circa 1996!
This opens up the possibility for an interesting defense, what if I make my password contain the coordinates of those illegal drugs I buried?
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Since we're picking on people for their grammar mistakes, let me throw my hat in the ring:

I'm more in favor of this convention (OS') when it comes to possessive apostrophes for word that end in an "S" which is to omit the trailing "S" and leave to the reader or interlocutor to infer the meaning from the context.