skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Trying to Be Happy Make Us Unhappy?
OberonStation, an Oberon RISC workstation
That's odd, but then again, this company seems to be an odd duck.

HR has actually been able to convince me that I should avoid looking at where degrees have been conferred from, at least in initial screenings. I thought that was fairly standard for companies for the past few years. Is your degree from an accredited college/university program? That should be all that matters.
I think you meant to say "lose" not "loose".
The orbiter computer was also not bug free. Remarkably correct software, even so.

http://klabs.org/DEI/Processor/shuttle/
> So now you can buy a radio chip for a few bucks and add it to any device.

Where?

> Think kilobits-per-second, not megabits-per-second.

Well, voice is (or was...) 32kbps, so technically you could make a voice call over these radios, if they can give you 32kbps? I've heard of voice compression as low as 8kbps too. Imagine a cellphone that lasts months :)
This belongs on reddit or tumblr.
I assume you would take the same position in regards to internet advertising which is quite a bit more controversial.

Sure, you could argue that you've agreed to be advertised to by using whatever service, going out in public, or whatever, but you could make the same case for cold calls or since you've agreed that anyone is able to call you.

I think it's interesting how telemarketers, door-to-door salespeople, and certain forms of direct mail are universally hated but creepy, manipulative, tracking, and malware infested internet ads are "supporting creators." There seems to be quite a lot of, "well the scummy way I make money is ethical" whenever the debate come up.

Do you see a meaningful difference between the two? I honestly want to understand.
This is the worst day in commercially available operating system security in my lifetime. There have been bad operating systems in the past (pre come-to-Jesus Microsoft, like 98 and XP...), but rarely has anyone taken a great security product (ChromeOS) and merged it with the worst currently-shipping security product (Android).

This is a horrible day for security.
Intel x5-Z8300 board in a Raspberry Pi2 form factor
Is there any evidence of the public being put at risk by these government mandated exploits ?

Privacy and Civil Liberties seem less popular arguments to oppose the 'keep the public vulnerable' policy than public safety.

Speculative Fiction :

"It seems the evil-doers procured the Celebrity's schedule by eavesdropping their calls with a Stingray.

During the kidnapping they jammed the cell communications of the security team and trivially evaded pursuit by tracking the cells of the pursuit squad with the Stingray device.

You mean by spying on our citizens we have made everyone of us unsafe ?

Yes Madam President, our monopoly on the backdoors was only temporary.
"

It occurs to me that the police themselves use cell communications.

Are they similarly vulnerable to tracking / intercepts ?

If so then this is a staggeringly short sighted policy.
http://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/sx1272-and-sx127...
Unfortunately even basic handling and inspection of film this old is costly and time consuming. The machinery is old, the people who do it have specialized skills, and if you do it wrong in any way you can easily destroy what might be the only copy of a film.

I certainly agree they should put this stuff out there, and it sounds like it is happening, but I doubt it's a profitable endeavor so probably not particularly high priority.
The short answer (i.e. without teaching all of Phys 101 in this comment) is that physics treats linear motion differently from curved motion. Objects that are moving in a straight line will continue moving in a straight line unless acted upon by a force. An inertial coordinate frame is by definition one where this holds true.

We can define "absolute rotation" as rotation relative to that coordinate frame. We will not have any trouble agreeing on who is rotating and who is not, because only one coordinate frame will observe perfectly inertial movement, and all the others will measure some coriolis and centrifugal forces.

See this video for better intuition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36MiCUS1ro
Your example doesn't necessarily bolster this thread's original point, because compiler backends are already sophisticated enough to apply this sort of transformation regularly (e.g. you'll see this sort of code generated in Rust, where closures are stack-allocated, iterators are lazy and single-pass, and the resulting loops can even be vectorized).
Yes, and although that would remedy some of the tracking/privacy concerns with GA, the (grand)parent comment's concern with bandwidth would not be solved but transformed when taking the road you describe.
Somehow this feels like I'm writing C code but am unable to take a pointer to anything but the top-level object.
> Considering that they explicitly made forced abortions of these kinds illegal (although this is hardly enforced) implies that it was a big enough problem the government needed to step in.

The officials are not dumb, they probably saw the incentives structure and decided to ban this proactively.

GP has a good point. Singular events in few decades in a population of over a billion? That's either bullshit or random fluke, depending on how charitable you want to be towards the report, but it's definitely not something a reasonable person should care about.
They merged back in May.

"io.js has merged with the Node.js project again.

There won't be any further separate io.js releases (except for critical security fixes). All of the features in io.js are available in Node.js v4 and above."

https://iojs.org/en/
Cheap equipment and volunteers is no way to go about restoring 80-year-old celluloid. It's not an easy task, though I think you're right that many would love to help.
Awkward, if you're not considering it as a technical source (and it is, in its field). If your primary concern, as a reader, was monitoring potentially important information as it pertained to your investments, would you not prefer that they lead with the actual thing in which you may be invested? Is it not a lot easier to scan for "News Corp" than to have to make the associations in your head that "Wall Street Journal" is something that one of your investments owns?

IMO it's just "consider your audience" writ large.
They also don't paywall organic search traffic.

Search the headline in google, then click the wsj link. If you're using chrome just highlight headline, right click, search, and then click wsj link.
They are still being sued by Oracle over the base the OS is built on.
The PSTN also migrated from human operator-switched connections to machine-routed connections at some point. In the earliest days of telephony, the phone company operator had to listen to at least the first part of your call, so that you could tell her to whom you wanted to be connected. They didn't always stop listening after plugging the appropriate cables into their switchboards.

After machine switching took over, the expectation of a third party listening in on your call disappeared.

So it might not have entirely been a broadening in the interpretation of privacy protections, but a change in the reasonable expectations of the public.

By that measure, you could theoretically make wiretaps legal again by illegally tapping calls for so long that the public expects that you're always doing it. Think of it like an adverse possession of your privacy.
Should we rebuild lost ecosystems through trophic rewilding?
Understanding Openness
Any sufficiently big project has its downs. Your comment doesn't give any information to audience. Care to elaborate?
The Wall Street Journal will only let you read articles if you subscribe- if you google the article's headline and get at the site through google, though, you can read the whole article:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Alphabet%E2%80%99s+Google+to+Fold+Chrom...
It depends on what they are looking for if poor credit score would be the same as no credit history.

If someone wants to extend you credit (this includes cell phone and cable service) no credit score would be the same as poor credit score.

Employers who do a background check are not looking to extend credit to you. They are usually looking to both verify your identity (did you lie to them on your resume?) and looking for negative stuff in your credit history. In that case having no credit history probably won't be a problem.

Local and national laws dictate what employers are allowed to take into consideration when doing a background check. The credit reporting services themselves are subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Almost every job I've ever had included some type of background check. For each I had to sign off for a third party to do the check. It totally depends on the company, and the industry and probably the geographical location.
Wow, sorry to hear that. Interesting perspective tho, I changed the colors but not sure you mean to say: #00000f that is on the black side.
The stocks are still listed as GOOG and GOOGL.
This could be a huge opportunity for someone like Cloudflare. They could proxy agreed upon URLs to advertising networks and everything would originate from the same domain. Advertisers would establish a business relationship w/ Cloudflare and could trust that the traffic they are receiving is more or less legitimate.
I'm wondering what could motivate anybody to become a Uber driver nowadays, given that in a couple of years, they'll replace the drivers with robocars.

It's a job with no future there.
don't forget about Ubuntu, they are doing the same thing with convergence (even before Microsoft and Google)
Take the URL and paste it into google to read it. Works for most paywall sites.
Thanks for the information on the timeframes.

> Though female infanticide, forced abortions, and gender-based abortions were made illegal, they still happened in rural or poorer urban areas where there was less scrutiny from the central government.

From the subthread under [0]:

"Some of the examples you listed have only one report. And it's policy that lasted almost 40 years in a country with a billion people."

It's a good point. Makes me wonder how much the negative opinion about China's one-child policy is just overblown and/or pure propaganda.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10470733
That same weld pattern from the article can be seen here in the explosion welding video (~7:50): https://youtu.be/2u51tJdRDK0?t=7m50s
Maybe they could Google it :). I don't think Alphabet will ever be as popular as Google. That's like knowing that Comedy Central is owned by Viacom. Yes, that's true, but you probably don't care and don't really think about Viacom at all.
It would be easier to convert to linux since Android is already a VM on top of it, right?

I'm hoping that since they're now targeting the desktop OS market that they'll make it easier to run native linux programs on Android. My biggest complaint of using ChromeOS on a pixel 2 is that there are no good text editors on the level of Sublime Text (which works on linux).
Really don't want Android on a PC.
Er, maybe that should have said #fffff0. Whoops.

Edit: Yes, that doesn't make me cringe. Much better.
> So we've eliminated the farmer myth, why do we have DST?

One likely possibility is the "but that is the way it has always been done" response (http://www.jeffbridges.com/because.html).
I'm glad I'm not the only one. My father's name is the same as mine so at first I thought he was calling me, nope, robocall.
The reasoning for the choice of Clojure is interesting, in terms of their design around immutable events.

The juxt guys have made a huge contribution to the Open Source and Clojure community.

https://github.com/juxt

https://juxt.pro/
If your point is "that's the same thing", it's not, see elsewhere in this subtree. If your point is "that would be clearer", I agree; if the WSJ's standards for prose in reporting meant that they put stock ticker names in the headline, I'd guess that they would have (I don't recall ever seeing them do so before). But consistency, in technical publications, is generally valued. The name of the company in which readers hold stock is "Alphabet"--therefore, call it Alphabet.
$150 for a 750 word article? are you mad?

If they are working full-time and only pumping out 4 posts a week... well... I think you need to look for another writer.

I have hired teams of writers before and they should be pumping out at least 2 750 word articles a day.
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That's exactly my problem too, and I decided to develop a prototype protocol for it. I wrote a reference implementation in python, feedback very much desired:

http://stringphone.readthedocs.org/
It depends. Maybe we just see the Play store added to chromebooks, and chromebooks are rebranded as android devices. I mean, there's already so many different android runtimes/versions, what's one more?
Looks like what Win 8 would have been if Microsoft had already had a tablet operating system.
Celeb Casey Neistat: Tradional Media Companies Are Utterly F*cked
> But if that is the route they want to go the FCDPA clearly states that they can force the debt collector to cease communication for the most part and the avenues that remain open are via written mail.

Most people aren't aware of the FDCPA and its not clear that debt collectors are all that compliant with it. In any case, the FDCPA only requires collectors to stop contact when they have received a written request from the debtor.

> I understand that sometimes an old number or something might be called in error but that has be a pretty rare thing and something easy to deal with on the receiving end.

Inaccurate numbers getting called (and not just "old numbers that were once valid for the debtor") isn't (AFAICT, from direct experience) a particularly rare thing, nor will debt collectors stop calling when they reach an inaccurate number (nor will they accept a request to stop calling at that number.)

> I think the best way to avoid robocalls from debt collectors is to not let your debt go into collections.

Sure, if by "your" you mean "no one who has ever been, either through intentional misrepresentation to avoid contact by debt collectors, or by past use, or for any other reason, had their account associated with your phone number".
Yet another journalist who can't even count. (- 2015 1969) = 46, not 20.
I posted something here, then deleted it to protect my privacy. I do freelance work. You can email me for a copy of what I posted earlier.

Best of luck.
I've been getting calls for 4 years from debt collectors for someone else. Not for my debt, but for someone else's debt and legal troubles. So when telling them to stop calling me hasn't worked, what can I do? It's 4 years now, and anyone calling for the old person at this point is being negligent.
Theranos restructures board amid questions about its technology
Lumen – Eternal Flashlight That Doesn't Need Batteries
Good to know. Then the "reactive" mentioned in the title is not exactly async, and not exactly as in "Reactive Extensions" either, so where can I find the intended meaning of "reactive" in that context?
I think this is a valid potential downfall worth looking into more... unfortunately. I really wonder about the long term-staffer thing. It doesn't seem to me like there are very many of those, simply because they get snatched up into other industries. The congressman I know has two or three dedicated people with them, and the rest cycle in and out, and I don't think the two long-termers would stay if someone else got elected to the seat...

I think the most experienced reps should put together a "congress/senate bootcamp" training package for newcomers, document it well, as to avoid the knowledge-drain of such a proposed system.
Google is a company. Alphabet is a company. Alphabet owns Google.
> SHA-2 is not broken, while SHA-1 is

this kind of bare statement benefits greatly from a citation

> collision resistance of many cascaded hash functions is not much better than the maximal resistance of one hash function used in the cascade

I don't think GP is suggesting including results of hashes in the contents to be hashed by subsequent hash functions, but rather calculating MD5(contents), SHA1(contents), SHA2(contents), FOO4(contents) etc, and then concatenating all the hashes together. Or am I misunderstanding and this kind of scheme is exactly the "cascading" that you're talking about ?
> And in theory, dependent types are the awesomest thing ever. But they're not ready yet, and there's no guarantee they ever will be.

I think the reason dependent types haven't made it into practical programming has less to do with them being not ready and more to do with them being fundamentally challenging to learn. I have a pretty strong pure math background and it still took me a significant amount of time to wrap my head around them to the point that I could write non-trivial proofs using them, let alone programs. For programmers who have never done much formal logic or who have never heard of a category, I can't imagine how much time it would take to get the prerequisite knowledge.

Another issue is the fundamental problem of creating a new language; you have to build up a ton of extra machinery (libraries, tooling, etc.) to even think about it becoming more than a toy, even if you don't care about it being mainstream. Rust has the backing of a large open-source company and a ton of really smart people dedicated to bringing it to primetime, but it is still going to take a long time for it to get there. Dependently typed languages like F* and Idris don't have the same manpower behind them and also have to face fundamental challenges like integrating formally verified code with a world full of unverified (but useful) code.
Grow up without money and constant financial worry, without a sense of home / self and few / no friends and start in the workforce when you're a teenager. You find yourself in "always make more money to be more secure" and "always look for validation from other that you belong". You become career driven as thats what defines you - and a "community" becomes your self reinforcement and friends.
Learn C and build your own Lisp
>Perhaps I'm being overly idealistic, but I can't help but hope for a day that I can work with a high level language and have the compiler take care of optimizations

I believe optimizing compilers are already a thing. Am I missing something here?
Viacom's Comedy Central doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Facebook isn't the Internet anyone envisioned, mainly because it isn't the Internet. It's possible to block them completely and still participate meaningfully.
Will be interesting to see just what form the combined OS takes, particularly which elements from ChromeOS carry over.

It's notable that iOS and Android still don't have native support for composing declarative UIs, notwithstanding marvelous hacks like React Native. Web technologies aren't perfect, but the use of markup for UI with well-integrated APIs is something that WebOS, FirefoxOS, etc got right a long time ago. It doesn't even have to be HTML... look at QML.

I'm hoping that Android will take on some of those characteristics, and not subsume ChromeOS without a trace.
Where you get squeezed is, output power is limited by regulation (for good reason). And sensitivity is limited by noise which is related to your signal bandwidth. The wider the band, the more noise you capture. There is a signal to noise 'wall/floor' defined by information theory, etc etc. Encoding technologies+ allow you to operate closer to the wall, but it's still here as a hard limit. Once your signal/noise drops below 3-6db game over+.

These new technologies/products try to solve the problem from both ends. Increasing transmit power to the max allowed. Some early Zigbee chips for instance had transmit powers of 0db, big fail. These new radios transmit 10 to 20 db output power. On the receive side reduce bandwidth to increase the sensitivity by 10-30 db, at the expense of data rate.

The cost of all this is very low bandwidth. Not just in bps, but also packets per minute due to duty cycle regulations. This poses some problems if you want encrypt your packets. Add at least 32-64 bytes overhead. Another problem is as the coverage area gets wider so does the number of interfering radio's.

+ Sometimes you hear comments that spread spectrum allows you operate below the noise floor, but that's only for the spread signal. Once the signal is despread at the receiver, same rules apply.
"Users", the vast majority of users, buy chromebooks because they're billed as inexpensive, secure, zero maintenance windows alternatives.

Not developers.
I think you are right for Windows, but definitely not for Office.
If your information was compromised, its at least possible that whoever was not a debt collector, but posing as one supposedly collecting a debt associated with embarrassing info (that people wouldn't want to be associated with if there was an escalation to a lawsuit) so that they could extort money from you.
> You make it sound like Google is the one that needs a "credible alternative" to Windows

With the new Windows licensing Windows is the better alternative to ChromeOS - you can do more at the same price and you can lock it down if you need to a la ChromeOS. In some ways Google is stepping up the game - with Android you can do more.

Good point about Google Docs use case however that's very limited - If I carry the shared storage of my phone with me, if I can blow up the phone to use two monitors and still have my missed calls, SMSs etc in front of me - it enables a greater use case. There is definitely merit in that if continuum is done right.
You live on an island!?! That's AWESOME.
> Here is some worthwhile reading for our new wrangler/director/managers, and all the people whose jobs depend on their charm and savvy, from almost exactly 20 years ago, published in the Times Magazine.

The article is good. It's worth reading.
Have you tried Alphabet's Google's YouTube's Youtube Red?
And what if a human female "gets off" on the ejaculation???

This is the point I'm making... you are asking that human females satisfy themselves with that which YOU deem it acceptable to provide them. What happens if a human female, indeed many human females, decide they want something different???
Ok, since there are some radio wizards in this thread: if I want to log low bandwidth sensor data (so < 1kbps) on a unidirectional (if that helps) link over ~ 500m, almost clean line-of-sight with some trees in there, what are my options? I'd prefer to spend little money and use little power on the sensor end. I'm considering an ESP8266 (so 802.11) with a high-gain directional antenna. Sender and receiver are fixed locations.
Nexus 6P Teardown
I made a free html&css course some time ago and used 000webhost for the convenience of just zipping and uploading it to make it live. Now I have to dig up their contact to tell them the bad news. 000webhost turned out to be like a bad STD.
OpenBSD developers: Stefan Sperling
if you watch D conference with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs they both say that the browser will take a (giant) step back in favor of rich clients. It only makes sense, stuffing everything into the browser is a terrible proposition on its own for various reasons, but the development tools are very bad too, so no real gain.
You don't understand. You're actually stuck. You can't see it because you're stuck. If you find yourself grabbing a dictionary because you need to establish with your "correspondent" that you're talking about the same thing when you say "love", you have a problem.