skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the government can't force Toyota to push a firmware update to fix faulty electronic throttles?

No, of course they can't (or, rather, should not be able to). Nor can they compel the production of such a firmware update in the first place, let alone pushing it. For the particular case of vehicles, since the government controls licensing of cars on roads, they can deny or withdraw such licensing entirely on safety grounds, and since the manufacturer doesn't want any of that to happen they'll produce and push firmware updates instead. That's the government saying something you can't do again: you can't drive an unsafe vehicle on public roads where you could potentially hurt people, which seems perfectly reasonable.

> the compromise is that the government can get at nearly any place that might contain evidence, so long as it has a warrant.

Encryption and electronic access controls aren't a "place"; the analogy does not hold. If they serve up a warrant, they can take the locked device, and they can have all the encrypted bits they want. I would argue that attempting to force decryption or backdoors would represent an expansion of warrant powers, or "moving the goal line"; preventing that simply keeps the goal line in place.
No - I understand that part - I meant the transformation of the syllable as it is assembled. It changes shape in a similar way.
The BBC6 recording of this interview [ http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0... ]
In Jacek Dukaj's "Black Oceans", the portrayed world also has surveillance everywhere that is treated as normal. Moreover, it serves an important social function there - it facilitates insurance claims. If anything happens and it was registered on cameras, victims are determined and reimbursed properly. Conversely, you can opt out of the surveillance and e.g. have a camera-free zone in your home or conduct your meetings in such - but by doing so, you forefit the right to get insurance if anything happens to you while you're outside monitoring range.
"until currency existed poverty did not exist" -> surely if your kids die of hunger, we can call that poverty?
Hamilton herself says otherwise:

> "In this picture, I am standing next to listings of the actual Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) source code," Hamilton says in an email. "To clarify, there are no other kinds of printouts, like debugging printouts, or logs, or what have you, in the picture." It's just her and her code.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/30/8689481/margaret-hamilton-apoll...
Really sorry to rain on your parade, and it certainly doesn't take away from her other great accomplishments, but she really didn't originate the term[0]. It's a nice story though.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging#Origin
Thank you for linking this.
There's more than one Kickstarter. Lots of us live below the million-dollar campaigns that are more the product than whatever's being sold. With less hype and more right-minded Kickstarter patrons, everything's a little more straightforward. It's the middle-class campaigns that remain the heart of Kickstarter.
Which suggests that it's not the surveillance that's the problem, it's that if the decisionmaker is an idiot, there's nothing that can save you (yes, killing people because of politics is total, counterproductive idiocy, even if it doesn't seem as it from within the system).

EDIT: seriously. This quote most definitely doesn't mean people should stop writing out of fear of execution.
Cupcakely also "just got bukkaked with fat term sheets." Oh, wait, that was the fake company in that TV show. But good luck searching for it, because non-fake companies apparently jumped all over the temporary search engine juice.

Then again, I like cupcakes, and I like being optimal, so what the heck?
Which is still silly, because a malicious app will just come up with an innocuous reason why they need them.

Oh, and one of the most invasive, the "Phone state", which includes unique IDs and called/calling numbers, is required by nearly everyone under the guise of "Needed to pause when phone call comes in". Which is either completely moronic (what, Android couldn't have a "getIsUserInCall" function) or just shows how busted it is.
Wow, how was this ever legal to begin with?
No money for Taiwan startups? It isn't the investors fault
What does "procured enough drama" mean?
With C/C++, one can get A LOT OF performance by writing custom memory allocator that fit certain usage patterns for large scale App.

I designed a custom allocator before new/delete operator overload for C++ OO app. You can think of the app like MS Word, when you open/create a new doc, one need a lot of malloc(). In my case it usually between a few millions to a few tens/hundreds billion records.

There were a lot of overhead for standard new/delete. After profiling, I end up writing my own allocator with the following property:

* It malloc 1,2,4,8,16,32,64MB at a time. (progressively increase to optimize the app RAM footprint for small and large doc use case.

* All the large block alloc()s are associated with the "Doc/DB".

* When the Doc close, the only freeing a few large block are needed. This change make the doc/db close operations go from 30+ seconds for large Doc/DB to less than 1 seconds.

* I later modified the allocate to get the large block memory directly from a mmap() call. All the memory return are automatically persistent. The save operation also went from 30+seconds for large multiple GB DB to < 1 seconds. (Just close the file and the OS handle all the flushing, etc.)

Without ability to customize memory allocator + pointer manipulation, I can't figure how to get similar performance for similar type of large scale app with Golang, Java, etc.
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http://drop-kicker.com was excellent from an engineering viewpoint but it's gone dormant. http://eevblog.com/forum/crowd-funded-projects/ is not bad if you want to hear a bunch of skeptical engineers tear things to shreds.

A site that focuses on the shipping milestones, the true measure of success rather than meeting an arbitrary goal, would be valuable.
this comment is too real
How MacArthur Geniuses Handle Their Windfalls
The authoritarians that run NYC are tremendously contemptuous of the common man. See: anything Bloomberg has ever done.
The trouble there is that so much hardware and infrastructure is built for IPv4.

With file formats however, it's only software. Add supports to mainstream browers and operating systems and you've got a fully functional new format. Look how quickly webm came into existence.

JPEG is an oldy, but support for a new format that does all JPEG does is certainly possible, and it would slowly win out. Much like how png killed gif (until social media brought it roaring back... egh).
Looks great, thanks for this! Back when I worked with Meteor, Arunoda's work was exceptionally helpful.

The homepage seems to be a bit confusing, I think. You don't have to sign up to read some of the content. There is a small link below the large button: https://learngraphql.com/basics/introduction.

Correction: As sync pointed out, you still need to sign up to access the full content.
> They do not, and should not, go after people who fail to achieve the objective -- that would defeat the point of crowdfunding.

I agree. But they can somehow force the hands of Kickstarter and its competitors to have some mechanism in place to protect consumers from contributing to such bogus projects. I looked at the Kickstarter page and it seems any creature can post and request their projects be funded. Some of the scam are poorly disguised while others are masterfully disguised such as the one for which the is thread is created.
> Had merely typing seduction into a search engine marked me as a rascal? Or was the formula more sophisticated? Could it be that my online choices in recent weeks—the travel guide to Berlin that I’d perused, the Porsche convertible I’d priced, the old girlfriend to whom I’d sent a virtual birthday card—indicated longings and frustrations that I was too deep in denial to acknowledge?

While a lot of those examples are true instances of tracking and inference, in some cases I think author is imagining things. People have a scary capability to see patterns and intelligent agents where none exists. It's incredibly easy to cause this.

I'm running a simple IRC bot that "pretends to be human" by means of hand-tailored regular expressions matching input and some witty responses. I can't count the times I tricked people into believing they were talking to human. It's like, write out some simple regexes and you're 90% way to passing a Turing test. People prime and then fool themselves.

So yeah, I'm betting those results in the part I quoted were caused just by "seduction techniques" search. And if he clicked on that Ashley Madison banner, he basically sealed his fate.
It's actually not, the L4 Lagrange orbit is something totally different from a typical satellite geosynchronous orbit. Consider the following link.

http://freemars.org/l5/aboutl5.html

Just intuitively - think about the rockets you need to get a satellite level payload to geosynchronous orbit vs what it took to get space probes to lunar orbit (let alone exolunar or returning a craft to earth). Bear in mind that staging is an exponential problem, the more mass and the more total delta-V you need, the problem gets exponentially worse. Small satellites can be launched what amounts to a SRBM and a small kicker, to get even a small probe to lunar orbit you need an ICBM plus a pretty decent kicker to handle translunar injection and lunar orbiting. To get a spacecraft there you need, well, a Saturn-V plus a decent kicker plus a small rocket for everything else.

Geosynchronous satellites started in 1963 (Syncom 1) but the Lunar Orbiter program didn't start until 1965. That doesn't make sense if geosynchronous orbit was beyond lunar orbit. And if geosynchronous orbit was an equal distance, it would be trivial to put satellites into trailing orbits and cover the lunar blind spot. Lagrange points are a different (but very useful) orbital equilibrium. Particularly the Sun-Earth LaGrange points - these are indeed very far from Earth and have a very useful vantage point for all sorts of things. So far it's mostly been used for things like solar observatories.
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I think that really overstates what the effect of copyright elimination would be. A lot of traditional methods of monetization would be harder to make profitable, but stuff like Patreon or Kickstarter would probably still work pretty well. At worst, we'd be left with people making content in their spare time and not for profit or to make a living. That would suck, no doubt, but I don't think it sucks as much as a copyright term effectively limitless in duration.

It also ignores what we're missing out on now because of our copyright regime. Anyone should be able to make a Star Wars movie by now, or a Spiderman open-world RPG, or an epic poem detailing the later exploits of Meriadoc Brandybuck, or whatever the hell else. There is a shitload of derivative works we're missing out on because of onerous copyright restrictions, even on works where everyone involved with their creation has been dead for fifty years.

Anyway, the main point of my previous post was not to support eliminating copyright. Mainly, it was to point out that if you support dramatically reforming copyright - twenty years and no DMCA would get nearly as much opposition from special interests as would eliminating copyright altogether - you've got a real uphill battle and no clear allies, despite having more in common, probably, with people who what to eliminate copyright rather than the maximalists. So I'm sympathetic to the view of "fuck it, let's just get rid of it, then" even if there would be some negative consequences to that.

Finally, there is something to be said for taking an extreme opposite position even if it goes further than you would prefer. I think I'm more likely to see reasonable copyright happen in my lifetime if I support people who want to abolish copyright, than by trying to reason with people who want it to be limitless in scope and duration.
Microsoft's+'Spartan'+browser+makes+official+debut+-+CNET
We'd a guy at my last job who really dug Rebol. It always looked very cool to me, like an even-better TCL, or almost-a-Lisp. I've never had time to dig into it, but I'd love to.
So the government should not arbitrarily seize property from its own citizenry? I'm sure they will take that under advisement.
> But this one is actually feasible.

Does Google Maps even embed display ads? I don't think there's any way to get a cookie, pixel, etc etc in there for just a query.
Great, now i've got optimizely ads following me everywhere on the internet ; ). Congrats on the raise.
You still have to sign up for the 'Start Lesson' button at the bottom of every page.
Engineering Humans for War
Awesome; I didn't know you could use macros to define REM as a comment in Visual C++!
Awesome to see the Kadira team branching out beyond Meteor-only content, can't wait to check this out!
I'm really hoping this becomes the case, if not, then at least a more neutral looking interface so that it transfers smoother across platforms. I guess kind of how IntelliJ maintains a nice interface across platforms and similar projects.
Ah, that's a bit of a shame.
My argument is that correlation doesn't imply causation. Just because all current examples are biased does not mean that the only way to do things is to be biased, right?

To put it another way, the concept of disruptive change is when some company does something different than all the other companies have done up to that point. I imagine uber, airbnb et al being told by someone that the 'empirical evidence is 100% against them' as well.
Is the lack of any page displaying with adblocking turned on intentional, or is it simply bad design?
It means you're using a bad ad blocker. Using uBlock origin it displays fine.
Stop and frisk something something...
The Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook's iOS App
Can anyone here honestly claim the optimizely is better than visual website optimizer? I've used both extensively and I constantly run into problems where I'm required to do things a certain way with optimizely where I can just do it like I want with vwo.

Genuine question. I'll give them a 2nd chance if someone can convince me.
As someone surrounded by the new construction in Seattle, these things are hideous.

Predominant materials include cinder blocks, a random orange wall, corrugated metal, yellow windows jutting out at a weird angle, and one wall made from reclaimed artisanal barnwood. And that's all on one building.

Density, urban sprawl, NIMBYism, single family homes, etc. are issues for someone else. I just wish we were seeing some good looking buildings.
Guys, this is an activity based course.
That's why you need to login.

You can do stuff and get points.
This is a good way to learn something.
We've prior experience in with our BulletProof Meteor course.
Right, almost all of them involve ladders to lofts or something, but there is no reason a tiny house can't have a normal bed near the ground if you need that.

Anyway, by any chance did you read my page? I am pretty bummed out because I have been trying to link to that tiny villages thing from everywhere I can just so maybe a few people would read my idea, but the traffic analysis on the github page keeps saying there is 0 traffic (except for 2 the other day and 1 of them was me).
Looks interesting. Question: why do I need to sign in with my Github account?
many thanks for sharing. This is rather amazing to me.
Yes, that lady's youtube channel is amazing.. I watched most of her videos and it has been an inspiration for me.

By any chance did you read my tinyvillages page? github says there were 0 views :/.
>Finally, there is something to be said for taking an extreme opposite position even if it goes further than you would prefer. I think I'm more likely to see reasonable copyright happen in my lifetime if I support people who want to abolish copyright, than by trying to reason with people who want it to be limitless in scope and duration.

That's a good point. As a practical matter opposing all copyright is probably the most realistic way to get it back to a reasonable level.
I just opened it twice. That seems to have solved the problem.
"If it turns out that you launch it and nobody cares, you can always add more features and launch it again."

Or reconsider your approach/market research if nobody uses it.
This explains the high cpu usage on lan sync. Using http to send large files. So, it has to constantly encode/decode to send over http. For reasons like this I'm saddened that we never standardized on a secure file transfer protocol.
Malware/spyware can easily explain that. That's all I can think of.
So my question is - how much extra power does the IBM Power8 cpu need in order to get performance that is on par with Intel's Haswell?
There's a bit of a problem with the page so far:

http://imgur.com/zhPbYuA - see the whitespace?

Maybe adding photos would help the traffic?
I know it is difficult to describe complicated software simply. Make the examples more prominent, and provide a sandbox for someone to try them. Some people like watching videos, others don't.
Loving and having passion for what you do doesn't contradict making rational decisions.

Many business loved by their owners have been destroyed because of emotional attachments to business models that someone just as passionate but more rational could have saved.
It's an online course, you need to do some tasks in each lesson. And you get points.

That's why you need to login with GitHub.
See more on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10384683
I'm not sure why you're being down-voted but this was completely spot on.
Here's a better, less Forbesy article that loads for me:

http://www.amny.com/news/taxi-and-limousine-commission-seizi...
Plain text version: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dfc/087c012d163135f5eb3e/...
Most young Americans say Snowden has served the public interest
Years and years ago I attended https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play!_A_Video_Game_Symphony - the experience stuck with me ever since. Video game soundtracks can be quite beautiful.
Interesting story but reading closely it seems aparent that his eagness to adopt the 'normal' sf citizen image is not only a new life he wants but also his primary legal strategy for a recent bust.

His ability to sell the fact that he is now reformed and out of the game will play a sifnificant role in whether or not he rmains free..
Unless you have something more recent than this, that appears to be a tenuous connection, at best.

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/25/3/620.full
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10374237
Relocating from suburban North Carolina to the Bay Area has really opened my eyes to one fact: the majority of America has no f'ing clue what the problem is because almost no one (percentage-wise) has experienced both sides of the "problem." There just aren't that many metros that are growing so fast they have the kinds of problems that exist here (SFBA). I lived in a city of 150,000, where my beautiful 4300+sqft/400m^2 home in a very nice neighborhood with manicured lawns, a playground, neighborhood pool, and 2mi/3.2km of wooded walking paths can be had for ~$600,000. In the majority of the country, that's a high end luxury home price. In the Bay Area, it's a hovel price but -- even if you could find a house like it, which is very hard -- would be a $4m house on a postage stamp lot in a cramped neighborhood.

I know it's impractical to build neighborhoods and homes like that in a place like the peninsula, but I would be lying if I said I didn't miss it... a lot. If you can't afford to live near work out here, and if you don't rent in an actual urban center, by the time you get home in the evenings the traffic has drained you so much it's hard to be motivated to do anything besides eat & sleep, rinse * repeat.

To your point, if you transplanted some of the nicer neighborhoods in Palo Alto or Menlo Park, for example, almost anywhere else in the country, and they'd just be slightly run down, mostly mediocre neighborhoods most middle/upper class folks would pass up in favor of new construction. And those are $3-5m houses here!

<rant off. Can you tell I'm frustrated by the auction-like homebuying process and stratospheric prices?>
The Geneva Convention is pretty clear and the United States signed on.

Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Library:

Article 2 & 5:

"...Prisoners of war are in the power of the hostile Power, but not of the individuals or corps who have captured them. They must at all times be humanely treated and protected, particularly against acts of violence, insults and public curiosity. Measures of reprisal against them are prohibited.

: "...No coercion may be used on prisoners to secure information to the condition of their army or country. Prisoners who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind whatever. ..."

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/geneva02.asp#art5
And I think your immediate reaction to my comment is also strange, but also knee-jerky and shallow. :).

You're implying that I'm suggesting she's being weak by "sucking it up". That's not the case at all. Being strong and sucking it up are two WAY different things. By doing the former, she's able to get the stupidity of sexism out of the way. By doing so along with advice when asked, she's also personally helped many other women in her workplaces become more confident. That sort of thing spreads, and I've seen the effects she's had on others first hand. It's incredibly cool to see.

How do you stop a bully? You don't give them the satisfaction that they hurt you.
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Good observation. The area between models' legs has been looking closer to the texture of a barbie doll than skin for some time.

Perhaps someday people will buy old copies of Playboy to fulfill their nostalgia for those early 21st century girls "wearing Photoshop".
>I think it's pretty normal to be extremely idealistic when you're raised in a middle class, educated bubble like I was.

So if you have kids someday, would you hope to raise them to be "worldly" or to have lived in a protective bubble?
The more I learn about Stallman, the more I admire him.
The classic story is how Target figures out when women are pregnant by their buying habits. I honestly don't know how true it is but it gets repeated quite often. Sounds fishy to me. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
So many jobs have been shipped overseas it's not surprising. I know a lot of one-income households who are barely getting by - the other spouse wants to work but they're holding off for pay that is more than daycare. Many people doing from-home businesses too, many under the table.