skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Is this such a bad thing to keep things simple?"

And you are claim that your way is simpler? To me all the thing that you rant about are just different. If things with the web rendering would started with the front-end instead the back-end, then you would be ranting the same stuff on the opposite side and you would be saying that SPA are simpler.
False. The PIN is an input to the onboard HSM, which holds the actual key. The HSM itself enforces rate limiting and, if you have the right setting enabled, wipes its contents after N bad PINs.
Drip campaigns push the envelope on "transactional mail" a lot, and a lot of what the article suggests could IMHO easily push in the area that I'd consider spammy (sending multiple mails per week) and which makes sure I don't actually read any future mails unless I explicitly look for them, because they get filtered away.
Can anyone in the field comment on what is the best offline TTS available today? This project is old, hardly maintained and the samples sound horrible. Festival is... not very good, but 'acceptable'. The MS build-in TTS engines are OK-ish. Dragon has some TTS but hard to use outside the use cases they designed it for it seems, and I'm not sure if they're even using their own TTS engine? Haven't had a chance to try it out myself. Any major ones I'm missing? And just how much better are the online ones, like Google's? Anyone have any quantitative data on that?
They do a fair amount of counter-terrorism work;

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/administration/counterterr...

They don't believe that the Federal government can or will provide adequate protection from terrorists.. I sympathize with them a bit on that count.
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Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives riddled with security flaws
getrandom() has a mode where it acts fully like /dev/random - and it's for some (misguided but very important to some big businesses) security certifications
Rimbaud in the Alps (1878)
> There is so much evidence of police illegality, wanton murder, and lack of criminal action at every level, from the bottom to to the top

This, and your freedom to comment about it on a public forum, is pretty much conclusive proof that America is NOT a police state.

When this evidence is suppressed or anyone attempting to cite this evidence is disappeared, THEN you should start worrying.
Yeah, but it hasn't been tested in court ("Are there any cases upholding warrant canaries? Not yet. EFF believes that warrant canaries are legal, and the government should not be able to compel a lie."), and EFF almost has an interest to give not-your-lawyer advice persuading people to use canaries so that they can fight it in court. Moxie Marlinspike reports that lawyers have advised him it's not legal: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/whispersystems.org/issues/...
Sodium thiopental is not used in the U.S. anymore, but it’s still widely used in India and in parts of the developing world as an anesthetic.

That's not true. Sodium thiopental is still used in the US, the challenge is that the drug makers are refusing to sell it for executions.
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/scene/doc-files/c...
Real question: First they had the electric chair, now exotic mixes of drugs. Whatever happened to the gallows? How come we have to do this (if we do actually need to do this... I don't know about that part) with fancy expensive tech?
The frequency is not really relevant. It was and is legal and faced no real opposition.

>The purpose of the bulk surveillance is absolutely NOT to gather evidence against citizens.

They admit themselves they gather bulk data on everything. The intent of an organization that has proven to lie through their teeth and break the law really means nothing. Intent is also pointless, the action is what matters.

>In fact, it is used agains foreigners only for national security and intelligence purposes.

This is simply not true.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/27/nsa-employee-sp...

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.htm

www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/23/bloomberg_report_nsa_employees_have_deliberately_abused_their_power.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-nsa-can-abuse-data-on-ame...

https://www.rt.com/usa/nsa-domestic-surveillance-abuse-684/

There are hundreds of resources and examples showing rampant abuse and non-security related surveillance of Americans.

edit: don't forget its use for corporate espionage: http://sputniknews.com/latam/20150707/1024322295.html
That is amazing! One thing I'm very interested in is the vertical data which Strava seems to be very good at interpolating from GPS traces. Do you know if they contribute that data anywhere?
True, but it doesn't work for the author because he's using a one button mac.
For me, this only happens when I scroll up. That seems sensible to me.
> which you do if you can push OS updates

Unless Apple already inserted a secret backdoor that allows for forced updates, you don't have to update the phone when it prompts you. The closest I've seen it get is a reminder that asks you if you'd like to schedule an update for 2:00 AM or some such time, and then asks for your passcode to do so. You still need to type it for the explicit purpose of updating for it to go through.
Apple Tells Judge It Can’t Unlock New iPhones
popcorntime.io is also down

Perhaps related to https://torrentfreak.com/lawsuit-rumors-break-up-popcorn-tim... ?
> Bonus points for optionally handing out a /48 as
> recommended so that docker containers can be allocated /64's.

A believe that currently a /48 is recommended for "larger" end networks (65K subnets), not for end systems or "home networks"[1] where a /56 is recommended.

Would docker instances each need unique subnets? I think a /56 would be sufficient (256 subnets, 4.7×10^21 addresses), maybe even "just" a /64, if docker instances could share the same subnet.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6177
Such as? Please do not reference a google search.
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I wondered the same thing, why not an RV.

Also, I wonder if this guy is tired of Matt Foley references.
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No, but I tend to consider people who call hardworking Wikipedia editors by the pejorative "wiki-fiddlers" less than reliable, and the man regularly wrote half-truths and sometimes resorted to outright dishonesty.

That you would publish him... Well, that's your judgement but I consider it to be lacking.
This author draws conclusions like a BC astronomer; they are good given the area the article is restricting itself to, but this restriction is innately wrong. Numbers are weak because natural languages don't intrinsically use them and they are taught post-linguistic development to a fractured foundation, e.g. natural languages form like slang. Lets arbitrarily call 205-chi and 210-foe, how is one to find the name for 207; there is no interconnected phoneme structure that numbers and words can jointly draw upon. Yes, numbers are a naming system, but they become just another irrelevant layer when there is not a common core to draw upon. It's funny, with so many brilliant minds continuously rewriting coding languages no one has stopped to make human language less of a symantic ambiguity. Maybe Ithkuil is our only hope.
EMC outlines new cloud unit under Virtustream brand
Does anyone really open links with left-click if they still need the current page?

I always middle-click.

It bothers me more that most web-sites don't indicate in- and outbound links.

Often I get a bunch of links on news pages, which just let me hop around on their system, while the link text indicates that I get to a source of information.
It's my understanding that the drug companies themselves, operating outside the US, are the ones making these drugs unavailable for death penalty use. They are engaging in a straightforward boycott.
> The electromagnetic charger people have the same problem

they can just build those into tables and mark the area that charges instead of having to tile an entire room with those transducers.

Having a human slightly adjust his behavior (place laptop on one of the rectangles) in exchange for reliable charging should be far less frustrating than a supposedly automatic system with lots dead zones that the user can't see.
Yep, agree with all of your clarifications.

I was mostly responding on the basis of desktop browsers, since most of the rest of this thread has been about desktop browsers. You're right, on mobile the WebKit/Blink duopoly, with the shared code base that does mean that they are closer on feature and bug parity, is pretty problematic, but even there I'd say we're in better shape than the early 2000s IE monopoly.

> Mozilla Research are paying me to work on that in the coming months, as Servo doesn't have the user base that would show many of the site compatibility bugs that arise as a result of their bugs, leaving them disproportionately reliant upon the test suite

Nice, that sounds like it'll be quite useful. I am eagerly anticipating being able to actually use a browser based on Servo day-to-day. There's quite some ways to go, but it's great how much progress its made so far.
Do bananas do this?

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/416066/how-terahertz-wa...

Tell us more about bananas...
They're saying "there isn't an easy way in that we know of" not that there isn't one...
> if you prevent the police from executing a search warrant that's a crime too, a court can order you to present existing physical evidence including private diaries, recordings, or anything else and refusal to do so is a crime.

Whether it's a crime for the device owner is an entirely separate question; there's case law in both directions about whether you can be compelled to supply the passphrase or unlock the device. (That case law also varies by jurisdiction.)

There's an entirely separate question about whether the device vendor can be compelled to introduce a backdoor where none previously existed. And you could quite reasonably argue that even if the device owner could be compelled to unlock the device, the device vendor should not be compelled to produce a less secure device, any more than a safe manufacturer should be compelled to produce a backdoor combination that unlocks one of their safes.
I use BetterTouchTool, a program similar to AutoHotKey for Mac, to remap three-finger-tap to middle-click in Safari and Chrome in order to allow this.
Sweden introduces six-hour work day
What's sad about that is that there are plenty of lethal drugs that are perfectly legal and normally regulated, but they aren't part of the must-cause-pain execution method used. Terminally ill patients seeking medically assisted suicide take a lethal dose of a sleeping aide, which is pleasant.
They pull the elevation data from government data sets:

https://strava.zendesk.com/entries/20965883-Elevation-for-Yo...
Perhaps the issue isn't as settled as you might think.

Please refer to the link I posted just above this for a study from MIT linking non-ionizing radiation to permanent damage to cellular DNA.
Let me guess: You've never had a dog.
If a link is simply to reference material (wikipedia blue links / blogs that reference earlier posts / etc), then I'd ideally like the new page to open in a new column and either occlude or squish my content to the side. I don't want to save those for later or leave what I'm doing; I want the contents of both, now.
Holding command is pretty much the equivalent.
Family of Ahmed Mohamed, Student Clockmaker, to Move to Qatar
This seems like a good candidate for a browser extension.
The cases you are citing are all unauthorized accesses and abuses, not systematic government policy. Your argument seems to be that because a law could be broken, then it must be being broken, which is hardly useful.
How to act less stupid, according to psychologists
Só Lexus, the one that kills people with a stuck accelerator, is the most reliable. Okay...
Wait, why would people think that Agile is a substitute for hiring senior people?
> To leave the men responsible for, say, robbing and stabbing to death five people at a quiet bar is grotesque.

And how would killing again unstab those 5 and bring them back from the dead?
Apple fixed that in iOS 8.1.1. (CVE-2014-4451).
I desperately want to extend my exposure to Clojure/Clojurescript. Unfortunately I can't use in my current company. I'm trying to play with it in my own time, which is of course very scarce. I wish more companies realized how amazing Clojurescript is.
depth sensors
But that's not what people use Solar Panels for. They use Solar Panels to reduce (or even negate) electricity costs.

Spending tens of thousands of dollars on batteries that only last a few hours when grid-power is lost is not a luxury the typical person can afford. But solar panels that are cheaper (and provide revenue through net-metering) will revolutionize the energy industry.

The average homeowner uses 30 kW-hrs of electricity a day. So... what, three Power-Walls per day of backup energy for $10k + installation costs + inverter costs? With a power output of only 2kW? This is going to cost maybe 20k or 30k for a solution that gives you power for more than a day.

In contrast, a simple gasoline generator will get you 5kW of power (6kW peak) and run for as long as you have gasoline. This crazy solution costs like $600 from Home Depo... and has several decades of experience to prove its effectiveness.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Powermate-5-000-Watt-Gasoline-Pow...

Generator + Solar Panels is still looking a hell of a lot more practical than Solar Panels + Battery. $50 of gasoline is going to run you ~25 gallons, enough to last 2+ days without any power. And if a crazy hurricane "Sandy" situation occurs again, you can always go out to the local gas station to grab more gasoline for day 8, day 9, or day 11 without power.

I mean, seriously? 10kWh per PowerWall is laughably small.

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I mean, when do you lose power for extended periods of time? Answer: when major hurricanes or snowstorms hit. That's what. It isn't like your Solar Panels will work while they're completely covered in snow. You'll need the generator if you actually want reliable off-grid energy anyway.
They seem to manage just fine jailing large amounts of people for pot possession and other non-violent crimes. If they were worried about costs, they wouldn't have been imprisoning like crazy for decades.
Promoting your business on HN is not a bad thing per se. This post is actually a great example of HOW TO promote your service on HN. By providing very useful information to startups and companies who need to send email to their customers, SendWithUs has made us all smarter and in doing so have improved their credibility as an email service.
iOS devices have a "lock screen" where to use the device you have to enter a passcode or password or fingerprint to gain access to the device. Usually if you pick up someone's phone this is the screen that you see.

https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/screen-shot-2013...

Note the "slide to unlock" message at the bottom. If you asked most users what it means to unlock a phone, this is what they would think of, as they see it every day.
Google, Siri, Cortana and Amazon Echo all store your voice recordings. They are explicit about this in the fine print. Google and Amazon allow you to listen to these recordings yourself[1][2]. Not sure about Siri or Cortana.

[1]https://history.google.com/history/audio
[2]https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

What's more, you may get to listen to the recordings, but you're not the only one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9101875
After reading caf's comment about Concorde's radiation detector, I came across this: "To protect passengers and crew from unnecessary radiation exposure, airworthiness authorities of Britain and France require that civilian aircraft, which fly above 50,000 ft, have a solar cosmic ray warning device. If the radiation level reachs 100 millirem/hr, the pilot is to descend to a lower altitude." - https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oam...

Guessing there aren't a whole lot of civilian planes affected by this rule :-D
Not killing a killer would be miscarriage of revenge, not a miscarriage of justice.
> "I" means the 80 kg of biomass, the brain in particular, that is typing this comment.

That's very different from what most people when they say "I", because they're thinking of their ego, the little voice narrating to them their thoughts. If you're willing to reduce "I" to this definition, then yes, that solves a lot of problems.

> "Giving the same circumstances" is the trap. If I get to choose food or sex, the outcome will depend on my tastes and the circumstances: Do I like the sex partner? Had I any sex in the last month or year? Am I really hungry? Do I like that food? Is it any good?

The reason I asked the question was to pin down the variant of compatibilism you were subscribing to. You seem to be effectively arguing for a minimalist compatibilist view.

When you say things like:

> Freedom means that if presented with an attractive partner and disgusting food I can choose sex. Nobody forces me to do what I don't want to do.

> We're not "free from ourselves", we're free (or not) from external interference. We weren't free to choose our rising environment and once the circumstances of it internalize, that's part of us and our will.

You are redefining the definitions of "free" and "will" such that of course it is obviously compatible with determinism, because you have (rightly) watered down the words "freedom" and "will" until they were much, much weaker than most people who believe in free will at all. It doesn't make much sense to call it free will anymore, at that point. And that's what my original post was about: I prefer to call a spade a spade, while some compatibilists prefer to argue down from the old superstitions until they rationalize the history of thought down to an approximation of reality, and still call that by the old "free will" term.
I understand, the problem is that i fear that this is what will be implemented soon and become and common thing, and things can get only worse from there.
> If I want to reply to a comment in a thread (like I'm doing right now) I don't want the page to refresh after I submit, causing me to lose my scroll position.

That's what middle-click to create a new tab is for.

> Even worse is when discussion sites (cough HN) whisk you away to a whole 'nother page to submit your comment, then dump you back to the thread afterward.

If HN were a single-page app, I wouldn't use HN. Period.

> Let's say you have a long list of topics in a sidebar on the left. If I find a bunch of topics that I want to read and they're in the middle of the scroll, I'll be annoyed if the whole page refreshes when I click on one.

Again, that's what middle-click is for.

> If I'm filling out a long form (like enrolling in school or applying for a job) and I enter something wrong, I want to know immediately.

Sure, that's a nice use for JavaScript. I just don't want to have to expose my entire system, and all my data, and every system I can connect to, to malware in return.
Ask HN: How to re-familiarize myself with a stack, and also validate my skills?
I have a few technical interviews in python and angular coming up but I've been working in a different language / stack for the last several months. I usually psyche myself out by stressing for 48 hours (see below). Instead I would like to psyche myself up by practicing for that time. What are some good ways to do this? I figure reading up on the manuals is a good idea and probably implementing a couple of cookie cutter websites in the stacks I'm interviewing for, but I'm wondering if anyone has a better / smarter way of going about re-familiarizing yourself with a stack / language... basically cramming?

I would also like to describe my (hopefully not) unique situation and get the opinion of my fellow cynical masses. I started in a different field and moved into front-end and then programming (did not attend college for either I am completely self educated in these areas). As a child I would sit in my room for 12+ hours a day on my 386 and make horrible video games in QBasic. Much later in life I started web development in front-end and moved to backend via building somewhat horrible PHP sites and implementing Wordpress, also I built my own mini frameworks. I was able to get Jr level job positions and work my way up by reading manuals and books and working on side projects using my own stack.

I gained the validation of multiple colleagues, but I also gained the disapproval of others who didn't feel my code was up to snuff.

I have improved substantially over the last several years (I have over a decade of experience in the industry), learned new stacks and languages etc. and have recently been validated and re-validated by multiple people. Still I continue to feel inadequate, and I also suck at technical interviews (see above). How can I validate my skills in a realistic way once and for all? Is there anyone else in this situation, or should I just quit the tech world and start swinging a hammer?
Out of interest, people may not realize that Japan has a very different addressing system than in the west. Streets do no generally have names (though there are a few that do). Instead a city is divided up into areas. I won't try to explain it (for fear of getting it wrong ;-) ): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system

Often foreigners get confused and see things that look like street signs, but which are actually signs for the chome (kind of a big block). They get very confused when they see another such sign on a different street going in a completely different direction :-)

Anyway, Japanese people generally don't put address numbers on their houses. Instead they will put their name. So if you want to find an address for someone you don't know (or a business) it is really hard. For businesses that have to deliver things, it's really important to be able to find the address. So the public database is really useful. These days everybody generally navigates by GPS. You put the address in and the GPS unit will take you to the right place. Most navigation units will even be able to navigate from a land line phone number (as the phone numbers are pre-assigned to the address).
I'd like to see how HN would be without karma, voting and pseudonyms.

Just plain comments, maybe with a hide feature, so that you can remove stuff you don't care for.

I mean most people here request sources to statements anyway. And votes/karma/pseudonyms just distort the opinions of the readers. Some people even use throwaway accounts, so their opinions don't strain their main pseudonyms, which they thoughtfully form or down vote stuff they simply don't like.
Consider this: http://www.csg.org/pubs/capitolideas/enews/issue65_4.aspx

It really is creative activists trying things against the will of the people in those states that support capital punishment. I've got a complicated relationship with the death penalty, but that aside I recognize that the only way to change it is through the institutions we have which are empowered to make those changes.
Atom needs something like this - it often hangs on very large files. For now, syntax highlighting performance is still an open issue - https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/979
I first discovered it on HN several months ago, so it's definitely been here.
cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-std=c++11’

apparently I need a newer gcc
Makes sense to anyone who uses an iPhone though.