skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long until this is used to lock down the independent "publishing" of images? This seems like a great foundation upon which to build software ecosystems that discourage user-generated content w/o the imprimatur of an authorized publisher attached.
Jony Ive, J.J. Abrams, and Brian Grazer on Inventing Worlds in a Changing One
Reading this article, I was wondering about the logistical costs of this torture (on top of the fees paid to Mitchell and Jessen). Wouldn't it have been more efficient to arrest the suspected men and try to have an honest conversation with them in the line of "We suspect that you are part of a terrorist network that wants to harm us. If you speak, we can protect you and your family, if you don't, well we will detain you for couple of weeks - without harming you - to see if you change your mind, and then we will simply release you."

It may sound too innocent, but how is someone able to trust the information given by someone who has been driven crazy? If Suleiman forgot the name of his father due to the torture, he may as well forget crucial details of the terrorist plot he was supposed to be part of.

And on a totally unrelated note, please disable the autoplay of the videos when scrolling down to them, I think this is one of the most annoying misuse of javascript I ever came across.
>There exists a realizable, evolutionary alternative to our being either atom-bombed into extinction or crowding ourselves off the planet. The alternative is the computer-persuadable veering of big business from its weaponry fixation to accommodation of all humanity at an aerospace level of technology, with the vastly larger, far more enduringly profitable for all, entirely new World Livingry Service Industry. It is statistically evident that the more advanced the living standard, the lower the birth rate.

-Buckminster Fuller, Foreword, Grunch of Giants

He's talking about the Demographic-Economic Paradox by the way. There is a renewable surplus of the basic physiological needs of humanity, yet almost 50% of the global population lives in poverty and struggles to obtain these basic needs. The most simple and effective solution to overpopulation is to focus on renewable production processes and distribution methods (i.e. farming the sea; using automated solar power drone distribution methods). Technically, it is entirely feasible, it is just a matter of user buy in which is the real challenge.
CORS support seems to be paid-only. Oh well.
A look at how Macintosh accessories are prototyped and tested
There are probably a lot of people with those names FYI
I've had something that might be classified as sleep paralysis. It's horrible, but in my case it is easily explained. The cat slept on my bed. I would try to roll over in the night, but be unable to because the cat was on top of the blanket in the wrong direction. (And, because I was asleep, I wasn't moving forcefully enough to make her move.) But when I kept trying, the cat would eventually move, or I would wake up enough to put some force into my efforts.

Once the cat died, I quit having that experience. The new cat isn't allowed in the bedroom at night (nor much during the day).

Note: I am not claiming that this is the source of other sleep paralysis experiences.
Why you want a bare metal hypervisor and how to choose
I thought I said "fault tolerance" rather than "hardware fault tolerance" to reduce confusion. I failed: inherently confusing I guess haha. To be clear, I was mainly referring to her use of the asynchronous, priority-based model. That combined with self-checking/adaptation and human-in-the-loop, priority displays. Most of what I read mention those specifically as her contributions. Do correct me if she didn't invent any of these or was merely the first wise enough to apply them to production systems. I like keeping the facts straight so right people get credit for building better parts of our field. :)

Thanks for the Svoboda reference as I didn't know about him. His is our vanilla approach for reliability so he deserves credit. Might look up his papers.
I think I'm paranoid
I disagree. The article both does a good job of outlining the issues and makes some interesting and reasonably substantial comments on these issues. An article doesn't have to be earth-shattering to be useful.
EMC/Dell merger and it's effects
Three companies might be affected most by this deal - Cisco, NetApp and Nutanix.

Cisco has massive footprint in networking but in compute too (with UCS) in datacenter. But they have been failing a lot w.r.t. storage. Whiptail acquisition backfired, VCE fizzled out. They need storage story for their datacenter products. Now all its main datacenter competitors (HP, IBM, Dell) have their own storage solutions.

NetApp for obvious reasons; For NetApp this acquisition should be seen as EMC acquiring Dell, so now EMC comes with full stack solution and not just storage.

Nutanix, because their hyper-converged infra is easy to be displaced if Dell/EMC/VMware or Cisco/NetApp/? pull things together (not as hyper-converged infra but as compute-network-storage put together from single vendor). However, a while ago, their CEO had pledged allegiance to Dell. So may be there is grander things at work here.

Interested in hearing from HN readers!
Desktop url: https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage
Good luck, looks like your login is down.

GET https://api.netlify.com/api/v1/sites?page=1&per_page=50 401 (Unauthorized)

Olark is returning 403, too.
I think we're moving the goalposts here. Is there any controversy over whether Ukraine has BUK launchers, or use 9M38M1 missiles? Both Ukraine and Russia clearly do.

Nobody forced in anyone in Russia to make the easily falsified claim that they didn't have any 9M38M1 missiles. The only reason it's interesting to establish that they did is that it harms an alibi they weren't forced to offer.

The Dutch report, and a lot of other open-source evidence, makes it pretty unlikely that the Ukranians launched the missile. This is a missile system that consists of several vehicles, one of which is a giant lumbering missile launcher. The missile was launched within an 100km^2 firmly controlled by the separatists. The Ukranian military didn't spirit a missile launcher convoy to a wheat field just a few km south of Snizhne --- a town that Ukraine was bombing --- spectacularly down a jetliner, and then somehow spirit that convoy back to Ukranian-held territory. That is not a reasonable narrative.

I don't see any serious arguments that this was anything other than a tragic accident. No matter who launched the missile, we're all pretty sure they didn't mean to shoot down MH17. The subtext behind Russia's involvement is that they set up a barely-organized irregular separatist militia with a weapons system that was easily capable of shooting down airliners.
Another woman computer science first seldom celebrated is Kateryna Yushchenko, who invented a high-level programming language with pointers in 1955, 3 years before FORTRAN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateryna_Yushchenko_%28scienti...

Sadly, being behind the Iron Curtain was likely a primary reason for her relegation to obscurity.
If some asshole intent on mass murder can't get his hands on a gun, he can just drive his car into a crowd and do as much damage.
FWIW, Google has been pushing its European AdSense publishers to implement the cookie notice for a while now.
This seems like a great start. Hopefully they'll get good looking Windows and Linux themes together as well.
Will think about it. I suspect it'll be cpu70 afterwards.
One thing missing from this picture is the significant amount of software that Tesla has that's not open-source.

It's not trivial to get an always-connected car working(as we've seen from other mfgrs). I think where you'll see Tesla succeed is using the aggregated data across it's whole fleet to make smart engineering/product decisions moving forward.

We've already seen this when the bumped up the spec on the 85D from 5.2s to 3.9s 0-60 based on real-world motor usage.
* I meant I'm looking forward for it :)
Unfortunately war crime trials are always for losers of wars, not winners.
Peopleware has a great line about "status meetings" really being meetings about status - as enforcing the manager/subordinate role, or "look at how productive I am" image or so on. They aren't to accomplish actual work or communicate.
Blog engine for GitHub Pages
I write books. I publish the contents for free online, too.

But I still want copyright. If there were none, someone else could take my work, attribute it, put it on some SEO'd site and outrank me.

What recourse would I have? Very few people are going to find the original source, search it, get past the SEO and find my site.

And zero readers have commissioned a work. I make money, but not that way.

Trust me, copyright isn't just for fatcats. Though I suspect it's mostly fatcats who propose unreasonable applications of copyright.
Suffering Is One Very Long Moment: How Oscar Wilde’s Prison Sentence Changed Him
In the US, you have the right to request a blood test, but the blood test is not required and the breathalyzer is considered sufficient evidence (again, since the offense is defined in terms of the breathalyzer).
You just reminded me of a properly funny UnNews story from back in the days:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnNews:RIAA_CEO_discusses...

(Probably needs a trigger warning in this day and age.)
On Building and Launching Reddit’s Upvoted
How Agriculture Controls Nutrition Guidelines
Stay private, send secret messages with the Kibo keyboard
Small, but important point:

There are two APAs:

1. American Psychological Association - PhD/PsyD Psychologists - (torture scandal)

2. American Psychiatric Association - MD/DO Physicians - (unambiguously opposed to medical involvement in torture)

People get psychiatrists and psychologists confused all the time, and the distinction here is really, really important.

Bias: I'm a psychiatrist, and I am proud that our professional organization has been clear from the start that torture is unacceptable.
Half of the heads of state of Europe would be dragged along with the US since the convention forbids states to transport people to any country where there is reason to believe they will be tortured.

Overall 54 countries participated and cooperated with the US on it's extraordinary rendition program from Iceland to Iran.
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/g...

This would be an interesting trial indeed...
Especially with something entry-level. You aren't going to be working on anything interesting and it's a damn miracle if you actually get to be intellectually stimulated. How many people get any type of dream job straight out of college?

You are there to get "experience" and pad your resume so you can move up to something actually challenging and interesting.
Conde Nast doesn't own Reddit anymore: http://www.redditblog.com/2013/08/reddit-myth-busters_6.html...
Assuming that's true, and you want to social-engineer your populace into some sort of "equality" utopia, then I can see why you might think that to be a problem.

Unfortunately, we can disagree on that latter part as I believe in absolute individual freedom from violence and coercion. That definitely includes state engineering.
I like your highlighting of quality. Do you think it is a real or just perceived notion that the quality of items on Kickstarter/Groupon decreases as their popularity increases? At first glance it feels to me that it casts too broad of a net. Maybe if a user saw it as patronage when Kickstarting artistic endeavors, she might bristle at seeing baubles like laser razors being funded?

Anecdotally I see this with video games on Steam Greenlight, but that service always seemed liked the Wild West to me.
yes, bad meetings are bad.

on the flip side, I've noticed something creeping up within 'no meeting' culture: constant distraction in slack or hipchat. I'd rather sit down and resolve something in 15 minutes with 2 people than to constantly have to check back on whatever thread happened in a slack channel.
Here's a video which accompanies this post - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR5Fzv6DP0I&feature=youtu.be
The key finding in the report was that the missile was fired from a specifically calculated area -- shown in red, in figure 62 -- that lay squarely within rebel-held territory. This by itself is quite damning for the pro-Russian side.

Whether the missile happened to have been fired from one of the 3 villages within that area, or from unincorporated territory is basically irrelevant to the report's main conclusions. And whether some CNN reporter, or his editor, may have fudged a bit on this basically irrelevant detail (shortening "fired from an area near village X" to "fired from village X"), even more so.
To gain experience? To learn the challenges & pitfalls of the field on someone else's dime? To learn from somebody who has been doing it and getting paid?

Nobody jumps from the bottom of the mountain to the top - you climb it one step at a time. There are people making a living producing music and writing apps - the world does work that way. I'm not saying tomorrow you can decide that's how you'll make a living and it'll happen - but it is something you can work towards and achieve in a reasonable amount of time.
All of the technologies here, including Photon, are open sourced under commercial-friendly open source licenses (the MIT license being most common in this space.)

Electron is a "competitor" to NW.js (previously known as NodeWebkit). It was developed by Github for their commercial and non-commercial applications.

There should be no concerns about using these things in commercial projects. But you don't have to take my word for it, all of these projects have open source repositories, most of them on GitHub, and you can check their LICENSE files for yourself.
> You guys are kids. I used MINCE (Mince is Not Complete EMACS) in 1981.

If we're going to get into I-can-top-that territory here <g>, I used some version of Emacs and Brian Reid's SCRIBE on a DEC-20 machine in 1980-82. (I was a law student; the AI guys at UT Austin's CS department let me have an account to experiment with word processing for the law review -- a grateful shout-out to Dr. Mabry Tyson, a grad student at the time, if by chance he reads this.) Then The Final Word [1] on a Compaq PC clone to do camera-ready copy for my first book. At my law firm I wrote an Emacs keyboard emulator for Word Perfect for MS-DOS (and posted it on CompuServe), then another one for Microsoft Word for Windows.

</obnoxious>

Now if I could only do more than pitiful coconut-headphone programming in Emacs Lisp ....

[1] https://goo.gl/d9MaKH (Google Books archive of 1983 review in PC Magazine)
I don't know what you mean by more likely. The rule is "theatlantic.com##.blocker-message > .blackbox + .disable" from "Adblock Warning Removal List". It's a default list in uBlock Origin.
In order to make any progress, you have to understand the ideas that come before you, lest you make the same mistakes. It's the same in STEM. That being said, the idea that there's no new philosophy is ludicrous. I recommend David Lewis as a very original, modern philosopher.
I don't think you're justified in reading in your own definition of "best", when RMS defines it himself right there in your quote. If you're prepared to agree that the best possible chocolate mousse is probably "good" in ways that are incomparable to the best possible steam locomotive, then all you have in your comment here is misleading rhetoric.

Kind of funny to then sign off with

> I'm not sharing my opinion of whether this is good or bad; I just dislike bs
No, giving people a free pass ("may be fair") to lie is not acceptable, even if lying is expected and commonplace. It's still dishonesty and is supremely unprofessional.
Conheça as desenvolvedoras de games brasileiras que estão ganhando o mundo
I didn't have any OS specific issues either. I, also, had to re-install steam (though all the data files were fine) but after the re-install things seemed fine.
I blame so much on the media in this area. They spread lies and confusion with the constant barrage of debates about whether waterboarding really was torture.

History will not judge us kindly.
It's not necessary to exclude the possibility of a Carbon tax, but it's certainly not the only, or most likely to be tenable, solution. Gates' own Creative Capitalism probably offers a better path towards zero emissions.
Well-put. Just before the "Golden Age" you cite, there was the "Pubic Wars" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic_Wars) -- a back-and-forth between Playboy and Penthouse over who would show more. As you mention, Playboy got lapped by such competitors, and that time between about 1968 and 1972 is where the competition pulled away.
By 2050, human-on-robot sex will be more common than human-on-human sex
> but should be talking about

No reason not to talk about both of them!
Judging by the quality of every else made in china, the batteries will last a year and the flash memory used in the computers will fail after a few thousand cycles.
I guess it's a list that blocks similar things that are "under" ads and only show when you block ads. Soon, sites will just start adding more stuff to be revealed once you block those. It's an endless pit and no one has a solution.
This doesn't sound as a good name given the existence of: https://vmware.github.io/photon/
Granted, in the context of atom and electron it makes sense, but still.
He should just talk with Tony stark, after all he did build it in a cave with a bunch of scraps.
Bruce Jessen got a PhD in Divinity from Utah State so probably not even that :P
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Whatever value Twitter has, the majority of it definitely isn't in its technical implementation.
Protecting a single image is far more difficult. Video and audio are "protectable" to the extent they are because there is a really low expectation of how they have to work. Start playback, stop playback - that's about it. No one expects to pre-render, use video as a buffer for other things, etc. You can realistically render video direct to the screen via hardware, in a protected path.

Doing the same for still images adds a ton of work for little payoff. And it still doesn't prevent anything. At least in video if the system remains uncracked, it's hard to make a copy. You can't just point a video camera at a screen and get good results.

Whereas for a still image? Pretty easy to reconstruct the exact pixels, 100%.

Anyways, this is doomed entirely. They provide the case of social media sites stripping off metadata. Well guess what, if your DRM is gonna prevent them from modifying the image, it's gonna prevent them from loading the image in the first place. Even if the JPEG folks add it, it has zero chance of going anywhere. You'd need support from the hardware, OS, and on up. (Like video has.)
Looks like he still cannot get over with Pocket. They were supposed to clone features from Instapaper etc. I paid for both Instapaper and Pocket (when it was still named Read It Later and had paid version on Android). I stopped using Instapaper and used Pocket exclusively because Pocket is simply much better piece of software. Period. On iOS and of course on other platforms Pocket can run but Instapaper can't.

He wrote "They’re coming with shitty apps and fantastic business deals to dominate the market, lock down this open medium into proprietary “technology”, and build empires of middlemen to control distribution and take a cut of everyone’s revenue."

Well, what if they are coming with _better_ apps and fantastic business deals.. ?

Being an indie dev (or a small indie company) does not automatically make you a better developer / software maker than anyone else. Part of that may be lack of resource, but maybe just maybe you're competing with someone better.
I don't like what has become of kickstarter, but I think it's more of it's users fault than the company. They are really trying to stick to their values and principals, and mission despite having the possibilty to go the usual 'lets raise bazillions and get some flippin growth and extinguish the competition' way
This is the most important part of the article:

>>"We know much less for sure than we think, and recommendations that forcefully tell people exactly what and precisely how much they should or should not eat can be counterproductive."

Unless you have a very acute and well defined health issue like diabetes or severe allergy, people who try to sell you on diet-absolutes are full of nonsense or trying to sell a product.
wow, thats pretty cold.
Brilliant reasoning. Let's forget about drivers licenses and car registration, too. Any why bother securing our homes? Anyone intent on breaking in can just pick the locks.
Ada Lovelace's story is a jumping-off point to talk about other achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. http://findingada.com/
You're quite right that Margaret Hamilton's achievements should be talked about more.

P.S. Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Signup pages can't be Show HNs. Please read the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Also, please don't do promotional voting on HN. It's against the rules, HN's software tends to pick it up, and then the accounts involved get penalized and/or banned.
Or, in other words, companies tend to get the applicant pool that their job descriptions/work conditions deserve.
And people using those names as pseudonyms.
This touches me. I am 55, and I think this is a very astute observation. To me it seems the downfall of the 50+ generation was either caused or exacerbated by the financial crisis. On the other hand it seems that the top class wasn't really affected, on the contrary their wealth has grown substantially. That money must have come from somewhere.
Politicians do not seem to offer real solutions, and the media seem to be obsessing over details instead of big picture issues.
My generation may have given the greedy ones and sociopaths too much leeway.
Would be cool to have a similarly exploded IC version next to it.
So here is the question for you, if you were an elected representative of your country would you give your vote or influence to bankers and oil companies? If so, and you clearly seem to despise that, why would you do that?

> There is no meaningful difference between a process I
> cannot influence and a process which could
> theoretically be influenced if I could put more
> time and money into it than I actually have.

The problem with that position is 'I', 'I', and 'I'. Is there no one else in your peer group that feels as you do? Maybe just one or two? Is there someone who is willing to be the person in office if you will help them get elected? Someone you can trust to behave in a way that you can respect and one which is free of external influence? Nobody took your ability to change the world away from you, you gave it away! Now take it back, if only in a very small arena. See if you and your friends can get one of you elected to a seat on the city council (or what ever the city's governing body is.) Have you ever tried? If not, why not? Sure being a city council person isn't going to change the world over night but it will show people what you are made of and it will show others what you stand for, if you aren't alone in that (and I don't think you are) they will come to your aide. You can inspire them to do that. All it needs is a willingness to day "I'm tired of the way this is run, I'm going to see if we can change it."

That is what I love about the Tea Party (not their politics but that they decided to do something about what they felt). In just under 10 years they have become a strong voice in national politics. Many of their members were brought into office by people just like you, passionate about what is wrong (in their opinion) with the way things are done.

Tell all your friends you are running for city council. I dare you. Tell them what you stand for and why you should be a city council member instead of the people who are currently elected. Listen to what they want in their city and try to visualize a better world. If not you, who?