skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think those 8100 pounds will help much if you are crashing into a mountain wall or drop down into a 1m deep ditch on the side of the road. Just slamming the brakes will probably give you a whiplash in that thing and it probably has tons of sharp and hard edges in the interior. Modern cars have so many safety features, auto tightening of the safety belts, seats give way in strategical locations to save your back, etc etc etc. And don't forget active safety such as auto brakes.
Iridium is currently doing this - they should begin launching a new LEO constellation later this year.
You've posted many comments to HN that were uncivil, unsubstantive, or both. Now you've called (or almost called) for nuking Pakistan, which is beyond the pale.

Please work on editing out the uncivil and unsubstantive from your comments, and please stop feeding flamewars on this site.
RFC 4122¹:

6. Security Considerations

Do not assume that UUIDs are hard to guess; they should not be used as
security capabilities (identifiers whose mere possession grants
access), for example. A predictable random number source will
exacerbate the situation.

Do not assume that it is easy to determine if a UUID has been
slightly transposed in order to redirect a reference to another
object. Humans do not have the ability to easily check the integrity
of a UUID by simply glancing at it.

Distributed applications generating UUIDs at a variety of hosts must
be willing to rely on the random number source at all hosts. If this
is not feasible, the namespace variant should be used.

① https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122#section-6
The kind of attacks that he is referring are located at the lower levels of the phone, at the SoC level, not at the operating system level.

It's something that neither Apple nor Google can control.
I doubt removing the SIM makes any difference, it's only used by your carrier to identify you. If the NSA wants to target you specifically, it wouldn't stop them.
These (both the original author's and this) are the ThinkPad laptop keyboards put in a plastic shell plus a USB driver chip.

This one, the 55Y9003 is the exact same as the T420 keyboard. I have one, it's really nice, although some reinforcement and a Bluetooth version would really be appreciated. Alas it's really hard to take it apart. You can find instructions at https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Displays-Options-and-Accessorie... and this forum post mentions some success in adding a few metal rods. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=710896&sid=5322c4...
They also used to build the shit out of CD-ROM drives; didn't seem to matter which company sold the drive -- it was almost invariable a Lite-On drive.
Social games are a prime example illustrating the parent's point that true micropayments (as in, lots of very small payments) don't work - they all have found that the payment models that actually bring in revenue are "micropayments" only in name, they're exactly as it was said, either "a monthly bill for all you can eat" ... or "discrete payments of $1-$2-$10", or even very high price packages targeted to a few "whales" that still bring in a substantial portion of total revenue.

Charging $10 is accepted by the paying consumers, being nickel-and-dimed isn't. Even in the "micropayment" games.
I just flashed Marshmallow on my Nexus 5, and the setup process was embarrassingly buggy: On each text input screen, the text field was offscreen, covered by the keyboard. Meanwhile, there was a big blue box taking up all the visible screen that served no purpose aside from providing some negative space for the title when the keyboard was closed. There was also a grey margin on the left and right of the whole layout that looked like another display bug.

I would have taken a screenshot, but since the phone wasn't setup yet, I didn't think it would work.

I thought I should try landscape orientation to make it recalculate the layout, but I couldn't scroll at all in landscape. The screen reflowed correctly, but the page was unusable in that orientation.

I know that setting up a new device is not a common experience, but I'd hope Google would have better QA in place for a major release like this. Then again, having spent over a decade using Google products, I should know better than to presume anything about their QA process.
Not total privacy since the network knows who's on both ends, or at least that you're on one end, but as long as you can tunnel encrypted traffic over it via a hotspot, I'm not sure how that could be cracked.
Japanese Universities Are Shuttering Social Sciences and Humanities Departments
Good design maximizes profits.

You seem to be unaware of the human element in all of this; designers are proud to create the best experience they can, developers are proud to implement it, and clients are proud to let it speak on their behalf.

You answer your own question, and emphasize my point with your perception of "shoddy clickbait" being popular. Obviously, for some reason, people like it. Who are you to say it should be eliminated?

So, again, if you don't like it, it's not intended for you.
> But, I also think Linus should be allowed to be a total ass if he wants, and so can the others, if they really have the best interests of Linux in mind. You could argue that if they are being asses, then they don't, but some communities just have people with a rough way of dealing with others, e.g. drill sergeants in the Marines.

I thought the article was pretty clear: technically brutal is completely acceptable. Personally brutal is not.
The 7-day expiration was definitely something we (Sandstorm) asked for, not Globalsign.

It does simplify recovery after a Heartbleed-like bug, as described in the blog post. Of course it doesn't prevent the bug from happening, but it does greatly simplify recovery afterwards, which is important to me. The security properties are in fact the most exciting thing about short-lived certificates for me personally.

For the sake of transparency, there is another motivation: For a 1-week certificate, we pay 1/52 of what we would have for a 1-year certificate. So if a user installs Sandstorm, gets a certificate, and immediately uninstalls, we don't pay for a full year. More importantly, if a user installs sandstorm several times -- perhaps due to a bug or a misunderstanding -- and gets a new cert every time, we don't take a huge hit. Basically, we get some risk management out of this deal.
Yeah. I know. :) They sell them at the shaving shop I mentioned in the post. Scary. I don't think I'm at that stage yet. I think I'll stick with my safety razor for a while.
Every nyt article goes through layers of editing, fact checking and copy editing by people with years, often decades of experience. Nyt is one of the few places that can afford to do this. Furthermore, if the nyt does get something wrong, unlike most blogs, etc; there is a framework in place for submitting and publishing corrections. NYT even pays someone (Margaret Sullivan, the public editor) to advocate for readers. She writes about her work here[0].

Per evidence. Here's evidence: half the 'content' you read on the web was first reported by the nyt.

Recent examples: Hilary clinton emails, VW scandal, Nail salon exploitation, etc, etc...

here are 50 more:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/21/business/media...

(disclaimer: i work for the nyt but opinions are my own)

[0] http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/thepubliceditor/index....
Big Data results depend on what data we look at
I completely agree - things needs to be simpler not more complex. I believe a quote from Albert Einstein fits here:

> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

Though I think I get why this email client and Android's Outlook [1] will hoover your emails to some other server - the server may have more processing power than your device. And/or use an RDBMS to index the emails which is better suited for a server than a smartphone. And that's fine - but the email client should be able to do this on it's own without the need for a server (and explicitly show a warning/message allowing you to opt-in to using the third party service). It will be slower indexing emails on your phone but that is the price you will pay.

And to be fair - I've tried almost every email client I can get my hands on: Evolution, Foxmail, Pegasus, Thunderbird, Outlook, ElementaryOS. To date no one has gotten calendar, contacts, and email better integrated than Outlook. Trust me I REALLY REALLY REALLY don't want to use Outlook - but I've yet to use an open source alternative where in 5 clicks or less I am syncing all those items previously mentioned. Thunderbird comes in second place - but I have to install 2 different extensions for contact and calendar syncing. The contact syncing has been hit/miss and the calendar syncing was stable for the most part. I should note that I don't use Exchange but I use iredadmin with SOGo.

I think SyncML was supposed to solve the whole syncing problem - but never really took off.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
Was it a dirty flash? I didn't have any issues on my N5 with a clean flash.
If diesel drivers had to smell what it is like to drive behind one they wouldn't be able to sell any.
I just unlocked the screen after leaving it on my desk for a while, and it unlocked to the setup screen (even though that's been finished for hours). I hit Back (hoping to snag a screenshot of the broken page) and the setup app closed, dropping me into the Google Now Launcher.

/facepalm
I can't possibly believe publishers could be stupid enough to partner with Blendle. Blendle clearly, as demonstrated by the effort to duplicate content down to the pixel, intend to be a middleman and, if they get popular, control the pubs. If they were a SSO solution that allowed you to pay and see an article on the original pubs it might be a good deal.

After seeing what happened with apple and itunes/music, or amazon and kindle/ebooks, I just can't see how content makers are willing to make the same error. Letting a third party own your relationship with users never ends well.
Nope. Clean as can be.
> Mr Snowden said GCHQ could gain access to a handset by sending it an encrypted text message and use it for such things as taking pictures and listening in.

This sentence is as much context as the article provides, and I won't rehash my other comment, but this could be from a recently purchased ~$20 burner to a ~$800 iPhone. Not every phone is windows/android/apple and connected. idk, I found it pretty eye opening.
The trouble with that idea is that it is very difficult to rent a heavy duty vehicle for towing. Most rentals explicitly disallow towing or other types of heavy usage.
Thanks for doing the math! Good to have a concrete number.

They might be able to achieve parity with fiber on optical links between satellites -- basically the same technology that's used with fiber -- but of course atmospheric conditions won't support that sort of bandwidth at optical frequencies, so there would be no easy way to get it to/from the surface.
Ye of short memory! In the 1980's and the early 90's diesel was definitely cheaper. Also in the late 1970's although back then you had to fill up standing in the rain at some special pump used by lorries.

We also had lead in petrol back then - nice!

I can only recall this anecdotally, a friend's mum ran a diesel car and my mum explained why they had such a noisy thing. You could suffer from tinnitus for hours after getting out of what I believe was an early square shaped Golf (with diesel engine). Diesels back then had no clever electronics or fancy injection so it was a dirty fuel.
> When everything is communicated in exactly the same "business professional" tone, you have effectively reduced the bit depth.

That Linus calls any attempt at civility "bourgeois mores" or something like that doesn't make it so. No one is calling for the same "business professional" tone. Just for basic civility. You can be a little rude, just don't go overboard.

> The way you deal with things is by being logical and having supporting evidence, but I don't believe communities have to be for everyone and work for everyone.

Again, this is the response I'd expect if someone called for mandatory uniforms. Here someone is just asking them to be itsy-bitsy-slightly less dickish. To tone down their dickishness. To go from being total dicks to being normal dicks.

Ah, but who decides what is a normal, acceptable amount of dickishness? This is actually quite simple: common sense, combined with listening to what members of the community say (sprinkled with a well deserved apology here and there). And when common sense doesn't cut it any more, there is a need for rules. Namely, the exact same way every reasonably functioning society that wished to be anything less than a total asshole-heaven has done since the dawn of civilization has done it.
What I want to know is what's the definition of terrorism? That's very important. Let's define terrorism as the use or threat of force for political gain.(a US military definition) Then the biggest terrorist of the last 15 years is the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
It is an admin for each AS. Each AS that has a direct connection to the abusing AS would need to put a stop to it, otherwise risk being seen as complicit themselves. Hops further down could blacklist an AS as well.

Large ISP's may have multiple people that can affect these policies.
From a different point of view, this is quite encouraging for the future of news and digital publishing.
Why would that ever be a requirement of the CA? That doesn't make any sense to me at all, genuinely curious if you'd care to share.

I'd also argue that this is a massive help against heartbleed type vulns.

The average pleb(myself included) just patched the vuln and didn't do a thing regarding updating their(now potentially compromised) certs until their regular annual renewal hit.
My dad used to refer to VW Diesels as VW Desmells

Personal impression based on my friends commons on car buying recently. I think electric cars are going to eat whatever small market share diesels have in the US. Also of late diesel fuel is more expensive than gasoline at least in the bay area.
"The sample space listed as:'BB', 'BG', 'GB' is wrong, because 'BG' and 'GB' are in fact the same sample."

Flip two coins. Exclude the case where both are tails. What is the probability the two coins are different? If 'BG' and 'GB' are "the same sample", is it also the case that 'HT' and 'TH' are the same sample?
> I can't help but wonder if the author's characters were slightly sexist. What if the characters were written this way on purpose?

You often run across similar criticisms of Game of Thrones in particular.

In the GoT world there are legitimately bad people, and not comic book style evil villains but instead bad people that feel true to life, and often have legitimate motivations for doing the bad things that they do.

So you run across these long articles criticising GoT, the author, or just asking things like "why did this [bad thing] have to occur? Wasn't it avoidable? Did we really need to read that? What was the motivation for putting it in?"

You often don't notice this style of complaint when the fiction is either more unrealistic or less true to life. I think people get disturbed by the plot/world/characters, and then lose sight that it is perfectly reasonable for "bad things" to happen in fiction. And yes it can contribute to the narrative, and the author doesn't need to apologise for it, or justify it.

I am not suggesting that anyone cheer for sexism in this book. But is it inherently wrong that there IS sexism in the book if that is the world the book's story ache takes place in?

PS - Of course anyone can criticise anything they wish. But they aren't immune from their criticism being in turn criticised.
Never had the pleasure to own or use one. My best was this : http://mla-s1-p.mlstatic.com/mouse-ibm-ps2-ball-scroll-point...

Fond memories.
From what I understand, Rust is not making in-roads into the OpenBSD world for at least these reasons:

1) Rust's use of LLVM means it will not work on some hardware platforms that the OpenBSD folks are committed to run on.

2) The Rust project currently does not offer a long term support release.

These are important to the OpenBSD team. Additionally, I am sure that they value the memory safety that Rust offers.

I wonder if the OpenBSD team would ever design a systems language?
Brandy Melville is taking over their market segment, selling solid-color clothes for thin teens. Abercrombie and their surf-poser Hollister brand are more about the logo.

The Iconix Brand Group has made a business of buying up hip brands in decline and turning them into JC Penny/Walmart/Kmart labels. They own about 25 once-cool brands, including Danskin, Ocean Pacific, Joe Boxer, and Peanuts. Maybe they'll pick up American Apparel.

[1] http://www.brandymelvilleusa.com/clothing/tops.html
Intel Fellow Outlines Bright Future for Deep Learning
I feel like it took me a few years to get my "Following" list to where I really liked my stream. Took a lot of patience of adding people every week for what seemed like forever.

when people say "ease of use" that's what i think about
And here I was thinking that the ease of programming was the main reason for ncurses to be as popular as it is. Oh well...
Google Finance says their current market cap is $20.47M, so he's got 40% of the company. The stock has seen more than 99% of its value go away since 2007.
Here's an old hacker news discussion about the 402 code's slot in the spec which is fairly interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7857236
> I'll be doing my part and read some smtpd code during an 8h train ride tomorrow. I already read one file and found one bug in it and told gilles about it.

Wonderful! This is exactly what I (and many others) were hoping for. Thanks so much for your willingness to jump in like that.
One of the early pop-culture mentions of googol was Peanuts, 23rd Jan 1963

http://www.peanuts.com/search/?pubdate=&sort_by=bydate&seaso...
Exactly. I used to be a journalist but now work as a technical writer. Wages for content writers are already in the basement, with such a low compensation scheme it would kill online journalism entirely.
No, it's the the first paragraph of the US Constitution that the federal government ought to "provide for the common defense".
You can't just charge people the same rate that an advertiser would pay for that person to view something; by charging for the article, you are going to certainly get less viewership than if you publish it for free. To earn the same with a pay-per-view model as you would with free-but-with-ads, you are going to have to get paid more per viewer.

This is the same fallacy that content providers make with piracy; you can't just multiply the number of pirates by the cost of the item to see how much money you 'lost' to piracy. You will always get more viewers/readers/users when something is free.
Health Benefits of Tea? Here’s What the Evidence Says
> but they're... proprietary

Everything you ever wanted to know about Exchange [1] (but were afraid to ask). I personally use SOGo [2] as a Exchange ActiveSync provider but I know OpenChange is a project to implement the entire Exchange stack. So I would not consider it proprietary.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc307725%28v=exchg....

[2] http://www.sogo.nu/
A few weeks ago, in honor of 1M digital subs, the NYT published a list of digital highlights.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/21/business/media...
I used mutt until I started this company, so I couldn't agree more. :) Reading HTML emails piped to w3m gets kind of old after a while though!
20-30 years ago when I was a professional auto mechanic, I would routinely see diesel VW Rabbits that had 250K miles on the clock.

Sadly, the POS VW diesel that I bought didn't last nearly that long. What a steaming pile that thing was. So YMMV.
e.g. drill sergeants in the Marines.

The point of drill sergeants in the Marines being that "rough" is to make sure that people can cope effectively with something far rougher: War.

My ex was career military. At one point in our marriage, I was very ill and he and I were fighting about something and I was really "this close" to just losing my shit when he accidentally physically bumped into me. And what happened next made it very clear to me that military personnel get certain things drilled into them about body language and violence and so forth that most civilians will never need. He backed up and was suddenly very deferential, otherwise I likely would have hit him. Instead, I left the house to go calm down elsewhere.

If you aren't in a situation where you need to selectively dole out violence -- i.e. to the enemy and not to your comrades in arms -- while under extreme psychological duress, you don't really need someone yelling in your face from two inches away to force that kind of discipline onto you. It is done to save their lives and make them effective tools for enforcing national security, not to defer to the massive egos of drill sergeants who have some fantasy that they have "earned the right" to just go around being assholes to everyone because they are so awesome or some shit.
If you are talking about the US, I am not. Cable in Mexico would hide ads.
The BGP admins are those that are assigned that task by whatever company or organisation owns the AS they are responsible for.

There is no central authority, most people that are interested in that sort of stuff are on various mailing lists, the main one being NANOG.

Generally for larger ISP's they will have direct contacts with their counterpart on their BGP neighbour where the handoff from network to network exists, for smaller entities (for example a small business with two uplinks that announces their own /24) they may have a support contact that they can call about issues.

Is it a risk? Maybe. The Internet and BGP is built on mutual respect. You can and sometimes will filter certain routes from certain uplinks/providers to change how routing happens from your network onto the next hop, but overall there is no authentication, and no authorization.

Anyone that has an AS, and has a peer that is willing to accept their routes, can advertise whatever they want.

As for how many there are? How many CCNA/CCNP/CCIE's are there out there? How about comparable certs for Juniper/Alcatel Lucent and whatnot. Each of them could potentially be a BGP admin. It's not a difficult job. When I worked at a large ISP I remember announcing some new IP's out from our AS to the world from a new location and watching it propagate across the world. Had me and my colleague made one little typo we could have accidentally announced the wrong thing.

The only controls are policies that are set up by each AS for what routes they will or will not accept from a neighbouring AS. In general this is an accept all. Then the AS can choose to re-advertise it's received routes from it's neighbours to it's other neighbours, this is how route propagation works. You can also choose for example to receive routes from a neighbour but not re-advertise them (i.e. you don't become transit).

BGP changes happen every minute of every day. Routes get added, get removed, and those things propagate. This is not the first time nor the last time that a mistake happens, or that someone advertises an address space they shouldn't be advertising. Look at what happened when China accidentally leaked routes that took YouTube and Google off-line for a bit, or the BGP issues with Syria advertising everything in an attempt to take the internet offline in their country...