skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that the overall trajectory is towards more government power.

As for telephone wiretaps, I think technology is a perfectly adequate explanation.

Most people in the 1920s were on party lines. It was common to have the operator who connected you, and multiple neighbors, listening to your call. There really was no reasonable expectation of privacy in that environment.

In the 1960s the system had been upgraded to the point where most people had a reasonable expectation of privacy in their calls.
Much like Polio, vaccination isn't/wasn't common in the US because it's a preventable disease that was basically eliminated. I think some higher risk people may have gotten it (teachers, medical professionals, etc.) but since the vast majority of people wouldn't ever see TB in person they didn't need the vaccine.
Android Dev is 30% more expensive than iOS. And we have the numbers to prove it
>"In April, a group of influential UK biomedical funding agencies held a meeting to discuss the problem — and have just released their findings."

I checked, there is no data there. The findings are just a summary of whatever they discussed. I am quite interested (pessimistically) to find out what a biomed reproducibility project will uncover.

>"There were scientists talking about the ‘reproducibility police’ or even ‘reproducibility Nazis’."

What in the world is wrong with these people?
Seems like the expected development, when I first saw Ubuntu's presentation slides for Ubuntu in all things it really struck me that this was the way things would go. At the Microsoft Windows 10 event their ability to make it morph on multiple form factors seemed like they had done a lot of work to have the whole "phone tablet desktp" thing work everywhere. The challenges of maintaining multiple stacks has got to be huge.

So this is a good move for Google, ideally they cut down the infighting between the two groups, get rid of the lower 5% of both groups leaving them with a combined, more effective group with a well defined mission.

It will be interesting to see if they can make enough money at it though.
iOS 9.0-9.0.2 redirect caching bug?
Mesa, AZ.

http://www.heatsynclabs.org/
Node v5.0.0 (Stable)
Arguably, it should actually be the other way around. If you make a bad hire, you increase the proportion of bad hires in your company by 1/NUM_EMPLOYEES. For Google, NUM_EMPLOYEES is very large, so making a bad hire is not disastrous for Google and they can probably get along for awhile. For smaller companies with <100 employees, you're increasing the proportion of bad hires in your company by entire percentage points every time you make a single bad hire.
And what would meta-metadata about the datetime solve? What you're looking for is faster updates to timezone libraries. And for governments to stop being idiots — "I'm delaying DST because it inconveniences me", pah, what a load of garbage. It's a symptom of how much DST sucks. If anything, this couldve been a good occasion to repel DST in turkey.
thanks! missed this, changed to blue.
Facebook has kinda chosen a path that sets them apart from, and often in active opposition to, the Internet RU Sirius envisioned. Facebook is antithetical to what a lot of folks wanted to see the Internet become, so it shouldn't be surprising that the early visionaries of the Internet find themselves being excluded from participation in facebook on their own terms. Participation in facebook is on facebook's terms, always, and it's not surprising when they're dicks who wield that power arbitrarily.

I've had several transgender friends excluded from participation in facebook based on this name policy, and I've known a wide variety of other people who use odd names for a wide variety of reasons (some silly, some deadly serious like trying to hide from an abusive ex) who've also been excluded from participation. Facebook makes pleasant noises about the policy and its implementation, but the reality is they're not doing this for us, for the good of the world, or for the good of the open Internet.

I'm not trying to go all RMS about facebook; I have a facebook account, and I use it daily. But, facebook isn't the Internet I envisioned, either. It is just another petty little walled garden where we're all peasants.
It took me a week struggling with Asyncio to wrap my mind around it. It took me 12 hours to do the same with Golang channels.

I got 20 000 inserts per second from a 360 gig JSON file into Cassandra using 30 goroutines. I was maxing out at 900 in Python 3. Golang was parsing the JSON at a frankly RIDICULOUS 2 million lines per second. Python 3 was around 50 thousand.

Python 3 is adding features that other languages do better. Python smashes other languages in numerics, and approachability. Nobody needs 3 for numerics, and 3 goes backwards in approachability. If you're using 3 for its back-end tools, you're using the wrong tool.

I would never move to golang for numerics because pandas/numpy/scipy/theano stomp all over it, but its only for numerics that I'll stay with Python. Everything else I'm moving away (mostly Golang, looking at Elixir) and talking to the numeric stack over zeroMQ/msgpack.
I wonder which pen-testing techniques were used by Alibaba to find this vulnerability.
More to the point, none of the national governments particularly care what the EP thinks.
There are technical angles to this that weren't mentioned in the article. For example, we are constantly getting better at restoring and digitizing film. If we digitized a lot of these films 20 years ago, they wouldn't look nearly as good as today (and those digitized today will probably look like crap on our 8k TVs of the future).

Countering that is the fragile nature of film. Not only do they degrade over time, but they are also highly flammable. When you store thousands of them in vaults, it isn't unheard of for the entire thing to literally explode. We have gotten better at preventing that over the last few decades, but that was a consistent problem for much of the 20th century. If we don't digitize some of these soon, we are running the risks that they will be lost to time.
Android has so many problems it is even difficult to start talking.
Philae's gas rocket was jammed, the wax seal had frozen or the sensor had broken. The pilots wanted an extra day to get it working but they were told the fanfare had begun and the various Presidents couldn't be disappointed so they had to launch.

Therefore they had to throw the Philae 'paperclip' exactly right using only Rosetta's thrusters to toss it toward the comet - no retrorocket to damp landing, only math.

Calculations were further complicated by 67P's dual lobed masses with Lagrange points inbetween the two lobes and an low escape velocity of 0.5 metres / second - practically a 3-body problem. Dr Matt Taylor is an awesome pilot.

Add to this the unexpected surface density (hard ice-crete shell rather than powdery floof) so the harpoon and leg screws would be worse than useless - it was an incredible piece of spaceship trajectory design and luck.

Thankfully the anchoring harpoon failed to fire, it would likely have ejected Philae from the comet.

The extreme reluctance of the OSIRIS team to share high resolution images of the surface may have complicated the search for Philae ( for which they were rightly but ineffectively chastised by the head of ESA ).

As the mission nears its close Rosetta will land on the comet and so post-perihelion close views across the surface will become available.

The 6 CIVAS photos returned from the surface of 67P by Philae IMHO rank alongside Armstrong's lunar footprint as humanity's greatest artworks.
Why scan the table of precomputed values? It seems like the code would be both cleaner and faster like this:

class AnimatedVariable {
int numValues;
std::vector<float> values;
// ...
}

Then:

if (!mPrecomputed) {
float idx = time * numValues;
float before = values[idx], after = values[idx+1];
return lerp(before, after, idx - (int)idx);
}

I guess there's a bit of float -> int coercion going on there, but it shouldn't be too bad.
Second price auctions are pretty great [1]. I'm sure 18F will figure things out the next time around.

The interesting 'broken' mechanic in this system is the fact that you can't bid higher than the current lowest bid, which isn't usually a problem. Is fixing that equivalent to having a second price auction (in terms of incentives)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_second-price_aucti...
How we reached the newspapers
July 2009: Ballmer told the crowd, "I don't know if they can't make up their mind or what the problem is over there, but the last time I checked, you don't need two client operating systems. It's good to have one."

May 2010: Om Malik "Android Has Won — Time for Chrome OS to Move Along?"
Don't get too excited. Low-power devices get really interesting when they start to scale up in numbers. None of the technologies listed in this article have demonstrated that capability. The coming IoT shakedown is going to leave quite a few ebullient "visionaries" crying in their martini while they consider their next startup.

* Star networks are infrastructure heavy, requiring build-outs on part with cellular networks, and having low per-base density.

* LoRa's CSS (Chirp Spread Spectrum) approach doesn't promise to scale well, as devices start to interfere with each other over its very wide spectrum scattershot. There are other problems.

Disclaimer: I work for an IoT mesh company (SSNI/WiSun) and we're busy cranking out massive networks that actually work. Sadly you can't get a dev kit at Fry's yet.
At this point, Android is about to win the fight of "client" operating system, overall. It definitely looks like the underdog in the Innovator's Dilemma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma).
Insane position in infinite chess -– bishop gun battery fires bishops out
If this happens then the web as a platform will lose. No more Javascript everywhere, forget about all the browser improvements of the last years: we're going Java!
Nationally speaking money spent per student is at an all-time high ($11,749 according to figures from Figures in the Statistical Abstract of the United States.) Yet we are getting worse and worse results. Private schools, on average, spend significantly less per student ($7,171 according to the same source) but achieve significantly better results.

Some school districts spend almost $25,000 per student which is drastically larger than all but a handful of the most expensive private K-12 schools in the world.

Money is simply not the problem and every single statistical number I have seen shows it.
Or that's the end effect of having been attacked from those IP addresses, which I'm assuming are not unique to the user.
Consider that the target audience of the WSJ is much more "investor" than "technologist". You really think investors wouldn't want mention of a company that might be in their portfolio? 'Cause that company isn't "Google", it's "Alphabet".
From the own article:

"I summarized all of my findings in the following table (you can click the image to enlarge it). Next time you need to choose a color, you can use the chart below to guide your decision."

http://www.nickkolenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/full-c...
Thanks for putting that front and center.

My biggest issue with these services is that for a regular home-cooked meal, that is quite a premium for something where the portion size is quite often way too small or the ingredient quality isn't justified by the price.

I know I'm looking for something that may not be able to exist because of the razor-thin margins, but if someone came out with a service at the <$10 price point with decent ingredients and portions, and healthy (read: low sodium, low sugar, low processed-crap) options, I'd likely switch a significant percentage of my weekly meals to them.

As it stands now, it is just hard to justify at that price. But perhaps I'm not the target market.
The only real difference with mobile versus desktop computing is the human interface. There are immense cost savings to be had in merging the operating systems for Apple devices if you can manage the code well enough; I'd be surprised if they don't eventually at least try to combine iOS and OSX.
Agreed! but s/most/all/g FTFY :)

Actually, GA only provides you with a [meager] subset of the data that Google gathers. Now it's their data.. not yours, and not your customers. They won't even give up IP addresses so that you can check it against your own logs.
It is ironic to see the quote from RU Sirius about what a victory the internet is for the counter culture:

> The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.

followed by this from the comments:

> This is what happens when you let little children manage grownup things.

basically begging for a more traditional power structure, and being extremely upset when the next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, manage it differently than how he'd expect.

I don't think RU Sirius is right about the internet being a win for the counter culture (I do hope he is right, though). I can't find a year for that, but I'll bet it was said before all the Snowden stuff.
Finally.

For years, Google insisted that there was an important difference because Android was for touchscreens and ChromeOS was for keyboards and pointing devices. But that went out the window when they released the Pixel. Suddenly, both Android and ChromeOS had to support touch, and there was no contest between them.

You see, ChromeOS is just a web browser running as the graphical shell. Android has a web browser, and it also has its own application platform. We end up with a comparison between "web browser + touch" and "web browser + touch + non-web applications", making Android objectively superior (when, before ChromeOS supported touch, you could argue that ChromeOS could have a better UI because it didn't need to support the peculiarities of a touch interface).

It makes no sense for Google to sell both a full-featured OS and a crippled OS.
Alternatively, is it legal to jam 3G and 4G networks? I can't imagine the FCC takes kindly to that type of thing.. Sometimes the best solution to constrain government overreach is to turn the bureaucratic machinery loose on itself.
Maybe this might work to handle flocks of quadcopters?
Reminds me of making clad via explosion welding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u51tJdRDK0
I can only see 1 paragraph; why do people keep posting sites with broken content? Would be nice if people could link to actual content.
I wonder if the name "Pixel C" for the new tablet presaged this.

But Pixel C is a pricey device. Chromebooks can be made very inexpensively. And Android would be suckey in an inexpensive laptop non-touch form-factor. I assume they have thought of this.

This will also be an interesting trajectory for getting tablet devices into business settings. It's not the response I expected to iPad Pro. I'd really like an Android-based direct competitor, which Pixel C isn't. Close, but not really.

If they do it right, it could be what Windows could have been: One browser runtime, one managed language runtime, one implementation language (or a family of them that compile to the same bytecode), across all form factors. But that "across all form factors" has eluded a solution so far. I don't blame Apple for not trying to get there first.
http://www.ubuntu.com/phone
It took me like 10 times before I got the title. The rest of the sentence doesn't help of course.
Ironically this article was blocked by a "We hope you’ve enjoyed your 5 free articles" box – until I hid that div and set the content container overflow to "scroll" with a little location-bar jQuery.
Neither is teacher salary. You are spot on in your factor rankings and it make me absolutely crazy every time people try to turn student failure into a teacher pay issue.
If you've invested in Alphabet without knowing that it's the company formerly known as Google you probably aren't someone who reads many articles about them.
I agree. I love Apple's products but to be honest it is a bit frustrating sometimes when OSX doesn't interface with iOS.
Visiting Etsy, Amazon’s Next Prey
Thank you. Very good call. Not at all what I expected it to be, based on the context when you were pointing it out. Very pertinent information and fits with a lot of things I understand to be true.
Is one way around this to have analysis packages on my site? Is there now a upload your raw stats and get a nice analysis SaaS?
Nope, the job of the car should be to protect the occupants.
Will Moneyball Work for Williams in Formula 1?
MEPs vote in favour of giving Snowden asylum in EU
Oh yes, I don't disagree at all and that has been my experience. It depends so much on the local market. I was just throwing that out there as a possibility. Every landlord is different.

In my neighborhood you can't get an apartment without a credit history and high(ish) credit score. Landlords around here (even those who only have one property to rent) have a set limit for income and credit score. It's really insane. At least that's was the deal last time I looked for an apartment. The ads would say "at least X credit score and at least X income. NO EXCEPTIONS!" I seriously feel bad for those people struggling to find a roof over their head just because they don't have a credit history.

Were you ever able to rent a place for your business?
Definitely not reading such a delineating and boring post.
#JustSaying
Do the Hulu Criterion streams include extras like commentary and making-of interviews?
SolarCity Beat Revenue Expectations with $114M in Q3 2015 Earnings
Writing a business plan? PCMag.com reviewed 5 online applications to help
Are you implying that all those middle-eastern countries were failed states, ruled by hordes of warlords? For instance, I vaguely remember Iraq being a pretty fine country; for decades, a lot of engineers from my country went there, and we had a pretty good economic cooperation. Then the US came and bombed the living shit out of it.

As for Africa, isn't most of the mess the result of Europe coming there, destroying their local governance, abusing them for a while and then withdrawing, leaving a huge power vacuum behind?
Okay, fair enough. What you describe are essentially extended instructions, and RISC-V has support for it. One of our teams is currently working on a vector co-processor that can get very good performance on compute-heavy workloads.
Good point, fixed :) (and thank you)
IRS confirms use of StingRay surveillance tool
Are there recent analysis/benchmarks of startup time? This is the major blocker preventing us switching to PyPy, since we run a lot of short-lived processes.
Because if I understand it, the people who were blocking "api/analytics" we're actually paying in order to see the page that was being blocked.
I receive about 2 emails/week from recruiters. I don't answer. Sometimes I get 3 emails from the same recruiter. Amazon, Microsoft, startups, etc. They all use the same boring pattern where they only customize the first line.

"I know you might be busy at xyz, but..."

"You might be receiving these kind of emails everyday, but..."

etc.
Sigfox is being used in the roll out of smart gas/electricity meters in the north of England/Scotland. Unfortunately Telefonica won the south any they will use the GSM network.
My grandfather works for one of the studios. He's cleaning up and digitizing films that have never been released other than in theaters. They're slowly releasing these old films one at a time, I'm not sure where you can buy them though.
I'd take this a step further and summarize the strategy as:

Google: Blend devices so the experience is seamless, tracking across devices is unbroken, and get as much reach as possible with the free OS

MS: Blend devices so the experience is seamless, tracking across devices is unbroken, and then ultimately once people are sufficiently bought in, switch the OS to a fully subscription-based model with strong lock-in

Apple: Best experience for each unique device with strong ties between them because they make their money on the devices.
I've been doing my best to teach non-technical friends how to start scripting. This'll be a great resource. Thanks for sharing.
I'm fine with that.

The web was supposed to be a, well, web of interlinked documents. Using the web as an applications platform has always been an ugly, ugly kludge.

Let's separate our document-browsing system from our applications platform again.
If you search the Chromium commit logs, you can see they are still actively working on features for the Ryu (Pixel C).

Part of this story hasn't been told yet. They announced it with Android, yet there is still hardware management work going on for the same device in ChromeOS. Now, WSJ is gossiping that ChromeOS and Android are merging, which would make continuing to do Ryu-specific work in ChromeOS even weirder.
I came to a deeper understanding of this problem earlier this year.

A team that 'made a mess' may think they know all the mistakes they have made in the code, but they have never proven it, and they haven't been practicing doing things 'the right way'. They haven't even learned how to push back on bad strategic decisions that made things worse.

How do you know that the rewrite will be profoundly better than the current version? I think you have rather a lot of evidence that it won't.

Take a team that cleans up their messes as they go. They know whether their new ideas are better or worse. They have proven they 'deserve' a better code base by building one. By the time they know for sure what's really wrong with the code, they no longer need a complete rewrite. They need a partial rewrite that they can string out over the course of a couple years.

If any of that is true, then the people who want a do over won't take advantage of it, and those that would benefit most wouldn't feel comfortable doing it.
Chrome OS having just a browser UI with web-only apps is what made it appealing. I actually admired Google for releasing two competing operating systems and to me this is sad news, even though I've been an Android fan. You make it sound like Google is the one that needs a "credible alternative" to Windows, when in fact it is Microsoft that needs a credible alternative to Chrome OS and Android.

Speaking of which I don't believe in Continuum. It's an idea that's natural coming from a company that has a desktop OS and wants to leverage that in order to maybe win some market share on mobile. I first heard of the idea from Canonical with their Ubuntu phone, another company trying to leverage a desktop OS.

It's a cool idea for geeks, but made obsolete by cloud-enabled apps like Google Docs. Why would one need Continuum when the changes you make in Google Docs on your phone are reflected immediately on every device or PCs you have?
Shawn from BeepNetworks here. Check out OnRamp (now Ingenu). Their coding scheme allows 1600 simultaneously communicating devices per spread factor per channel. That 1600 factor means their base station can handle massive numbers of clients compared to cellular. http://www.scribd.com/doc/273814075/On-Ramp-Wireless-White-P.... That paper is certainly biased in their favor, but the tech is real and they have serious deployments.

The counterpoint to mesh is that it's a) much more complex to implement b) uses more power since nodes need to relay each others' communications.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out, and who ends up crying in whose martinis as you say.
Innovative Finnish Mini-PC Runs Linux on Tegra K1
Or Imperial measurements in the U.S., or driving on the left in the Commonwealth countries, or non-Unicode encoding in Japan, or right-to-left writing in the Middle East. Whenever an agreement on anything is reached in most of the world, there's often some conversion benefits for whoever holds out signing up to it.