skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big difference between mass surveillance, and a system of mandatory logging by private companies with warrant based access to individual's records for security officials.

A sensible compromise would be to accept a regime where the security services could read all the internet communications of particular individuals, or compel that individual to reveal decryption keys, subject to a warrant from a judge sitting in a public court who has decided there is reasonable grounds for suspicion.

Sadly, the proposed bill appears to still give too much power to the executive branch of government.
"I also marvel at the long queues of people outside of it most of the year, waiting to pay good money to enter what is still a construction site."

The same can be said for any local that lives near a tourist zone. This coming from someone who lives next to WTC.
I've been follow grsec for a while now, and I really like the honesty around it. They admit what they are and aren't good at, and as for the product itself (grsec), it has become my go to hardening system for the kernel over SELinux (I know you can combine the two, I don't though). Combined with other measures I think I am doing a pretty good job in balancing out the usability security scale.

If you haven't taken the time to learn grsec, you will thank yourself later if you do. Keep in mind though there was some recent drama with some people/companies not properly attributing grsec, so you want to use current instead of stable imho. Alpine linux has grsec build in, gentoo has some good guides, and so does arch, but I tend to add it to debian.

As far as the state of linux/kernel security, I blame one thing in particular, and that is complexity and amount of code. The many eyes theory has a fault, in that it assumes a lot of people will look at the code and with enough people the bugs (security bugs) will be found. Well the problem is that the linux kernel is now at 10 million+ loc. So even with a shitton of people digging through the code, lots of stuff is going to get missed, and the real problem is that there are a lot less people looking at the code than we all want to think.

I think the primary way we will be able to move to security in the future is in efforts to refactor and reduce complexity of code in general, along with working on making it easier to read (or better commented).

This is one reason why I find minix 3 to be a very interesting project, at <10k loc.
I might suggest concentrating on one city, or part of a city if it is huge and concentrate efforts.
I love Twitter, but the burden is on the user to make the experience—it's entirely dictated by who you follow.
Randomized test with a suitable number of runs will cost-efficiently give useable results.

I agree, it's not trivial. But, it's not hard either.
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Let's be clear on the differencen between reproducible and replication. Reproducible is when an experiment's data and methods are published and other researchers can reproduce the same statistical results. An experiment that has been replicated is a new experiment that applies the same methods to a new set of subjects and arrives at statistically equivalent results.

The distinction is important. Reproducible research is a lot easier but there are still famous examples of attempts to reproduce published results that revealed serious flaws. Cases where the data are kept secret to thwart reproducibility are thoroughly suspect. Replication is a harder problem, both in being able to perform a potentially costly and difficult experiment, and in the statistical analysis to show equivalent results.
Or even simpler: if $INTERNAL_CLOCK < $PROJECTED_DATE_OF_SALE { fake_emissions; }
We need a third class of employment, the employee-contractor. It is one thing for independent contractors to provide a service for a company without necessarily being employed by the company, like a software consultant, but when a business cannot exist without so-called independent contractors (unless they're hired outright), then they ought to be responsible for some of the cost, such as gasoline or repairs, but at the same time, their contract can be canceled at any time by the employer. That gives the employer flexibility and the employer-contractors stability.
> You really do need mass for gravitational attraction, and what we measure is gravitational attraction.

But aren't mass and energy interchangeable? And what about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
I'd be a lot more excited about this if they were more accessible. I can barely justify an upgrade to whitebox Intel Xeon servers and there's just no way I could rationalize the prices that IBM demands.
I wouldn't move to alfred for it's file search capabilities, in side by side tests spotlight is much better. Alfred does have many other uses though.
> Society worships the Goddess of Reason while frowning down on "irrational" and non-verifiable religious testimony.

Yup, and now that the science in question was attempted to be verified and shown to be poor, we can improve the process. Try that with religion.

> Now that science is proven to be systemically corrupt

Huh? Anyone who took psychological research as gospel does so at their own risk and ignorance. We've long known psychology is a soft science little better than voodoo. For example, most of the psychological establishment still default to 12 step programs for addictions. Guess what? It works about as well as any faith based healing program.

This is just another measure of validating the scientific method. Which is to say we don't know everything but we're learning.
It's also a regulation / regulatory capture issue. The UK has a switching regulation set up so that all you have to do is go into the new bank and tell them your account number at the old bank. All scheduled deposits and withdrawals switch over with no further effort on your behalf.

(Then again, they also don't have things like paper checks anymore.)
So, as an actual lawyer i actually think i disagree with you in practice.

Imagine for a second that the US gets tough on GPL violators, and says "well, if you want to sell android devices in the US, you have to produce the GPL source code".

Or something even simpler, along the lines of "products marketed in the US must comply with all licensing obligations of software that it contains".

This one actually happens behind the scenes sometimes right now, though you don't see it.

I believe they would not be allowed to do that under this provision.

It clearly falls into:"1. No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products containing such software, in its territory."

3 is no exception:

"3. Nothing in this Article shall preclude:
(a) the inclusion or implementation of terms and conditions related to the provision of source code in commercially negotiated contracts;"

The GPL and other open source licenses are arguably not commercially negotiated contracts.

So yeah, it doesn't stop private citizens or parties from doing whatever they want.
It may stop you from being able to create laws and enforce them at import/export time around actually complying with OSS licenses.

Which is really not great, since it in practice means free reign.

You will never get state supported companies in their own countries to comply with licenses. Generally, your only course of action is to try to enforce elsewhere, or ban import/export.

Here, in the case of the US, you will not be allowed to ban import unless all of that open source software is completely US written.

(since the provision limits requiring "source code of software owned by a person of another Party". Of course, what it means by "software owned by a person of another Party" is also up in the air, since most open source software has many copyright owners , so does it mean complete ownership, partial ownership, or what?)
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I went to college and worked on both degrees in Computer Science and Psychology. I wanted to go into researching in a field that crossed the two of them. I even did undergraduate research in a lab that worked at creating and testing VR to aid in therapy.

What I saw, read, and heard as I began my climb up the Ivory Tower made me turn back and go into industry instead. Once you are inside you begin to see the corruption. From the lack of pay to people who were allowing their views to corrupt their work (often seen by tweaking definitions of terms, especially in the realms of sociology and social psychology).

I still want to go back, but I would like to do so once I'm personally financially secure as that would remove one of the vectors for corruption.

P.S. To be clear, nothing was bad in the lab I worked in, perhaps because there was little to make political about creating VR landscapes and interactions.
Honest question: suppose I pick a plausible sounding h(x), perform the proposed test, and get a vanishingly small p-value. So I feel pretty happy about rejecting the null hypothesis. But the null hypothesis is a conjunction: A group members accepted have cdf a(x), B group members accepted have cdf b(x), and h(x) satisfies various technical conditions related to a( ) and b( ). So when I reject the null, I'm saying the data were unlikely to be generated by the hypothesized process. Couldn't that simply be because I guessed the wrong form of h( )?
Chicago - LOL

I was expecting some tiny city.

I found over 50 meetups with only 60 seconds of effort??? If you can't make it work in Chicago, development might not be for you bro.

Head over to building 1871. It looks like a good start.
Ads should allow me to opt out of any alcohol or gambling company's campaign.

If the ad network is slurping all my data they should use that info to serve ads that have some relevance to me.

I'm happy for stuff to end up in my twitter stream. I'm not happy for anything to sound like it's come from me, or has my endorsement or recommendation.
Anyone for Stanisław Lem's "Tales of Pirx the Pilot"? One of the stories there ("The Inquest") shows how human imperfection (resulting in indecision in the critical moment) saved a spaceship. Indeed, indecision sometimes IS the best strategy.
That's both a humorous and short sighted statement. Uber isn't a magical "unicorn". It could be gutted by regulation overnight.
Another delay and tribulation that came up last week: http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Drops-...

For quite a while, the systemd/kdbus developers have been trying to pull an end-run around mainline by getting distributions to include it in their kernels. The idea was "even if mainline rejects it, we'll still get kdbus in". And now suddenly they changed their mind and asked Fedora to yank it.

That may not mean kdbus is dead, but it does mean it's on the back burner and isn't going to be used for quite a while.
> Now that science is proven to be systemically corrupt, what will "rational" people base their understanding on?

Oh yes, and all the scientific advancements will stop working from now on since science is proven to be corrupt. I can hear the satellites and the MRI machines crashing because science doesn't work anymore...

What this means is that studies are less rigorous than promoted to be.
Now what? You need to attempt independent replications of every published claim going forward. It is clear a single published result is unreliable. This is well known but apparently needed to be rediscovered by those who misunderstand the meaning of a p-value.

>"The first is a p-value, which estimates the probability that the result was arrived at purely by chance and is a false positive. (Technically, the p-value is the chance that the result, or a stronger result, would have occurred even when there was no real effect.) Generally, if a statistical test shows that the p-value is lower than 5%, the study’s results are considered “significant” – most likely due to actual effects."

No, there is endless literature on this. Just to start:

http://andrewgelman.com/2015/07/21/a-bad-definition-of-stati...
And if I read that right, they were just trying to run the code provided with the papers again.
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One thing I noticed is that the more focused the subset of psychology, the better the results. For example psychology that looks at a group of neurons and how they function is vastly better than psychology looking at how some early life event X leads to later problems in life.
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Arch Linux has it in the repos but it's not installed by default of course.
What about svg?
To answer your question simply, yes, investors believe it will be hugely profitable in the future. That's the only reason to invest in any company that doesn't make a profit today.

It is not as unreasonable as you might think. Look at how fast Facebook's earnings are growing in the last 2-3 years. Investors hope Twitter can replicate this, even if it is at a smaller scale. Whether they are right or not is obviously up for debate, and you can take part in this debate by buying/selling/shorting Twitter in the stock market.
Actually I'm not planning to be popular. I'm doing it for myself and to develop interesting projects. Of course, it would be cool if it becomes popular.

In terms of popularity, if I see something is interesting, I make sure to add it to Twitter, facebook, send to friends, add to reddit, add to awesome lists and encourage participation (clear license, clear contribute.md) etc.
>Varies.

Could i get a range? Since i'm oblivious to how agencies work

>Educate an audience, whose businesses you can improve and that is able to pay you.

Can you elaborate?
It's not sharing anyway you look at it. Carpooling networks do exist but Uber is not one of them.
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Oh, the urgency I'm talking about is children being raped by gangs of men. This is a much more common use of police intelligence needing urgent access to phone records than terrorism.

As you say, with terrorism there's not the immediate need and there's usually a bunch more information.
Another good one is St. John the Divine in New York City: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_John_the_Di...

Started in 1892, one of the largest cathedrals, as yet unfinished.
Just say "less addictive and with fewer side-effects". No need to have us go through all the levels of indirection, i.e. implications one must think of when you say "plant".
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"But knowledge of whether that media use will enrich their minds or turn them into easily distractible dullards is fuzzy."

Really? Is it fuzzy?

Here are the results of a study led by a German pediatrician on 1900 kids 5 to 6 years old. The question was: can you draw some people. This first link (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bO43-eiJbBM/S7URDMTE4WI/AAAAAAAAAK...) shows samples of drawings by kids who spend less than 1 hour a day in front of the TV. This is what kids who spend more than 3 hours daily watching TV drew: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bO43-eiJbBM/S7URPAGCQQI/AAAAAAAAAK...

I'm not an old fart, I do watch TV too and enjoy a video game session once in a while, but kids and babies need to talk to people, they need to listen to real people to develop before they can handle just sitting idle in front of a TV.

Edit: I'm trying to find a link to the original study that would lead to a content in english.
>Yup, and now that the science in question was attempted to be verified and shown to be poor, we can improve the process. Try that with religion.

Can we?

To the scientists devoted to furthering knowledge, they will improve. But there will be many who hold onto this. A subset of what we currently see as science is probably better described as religion already and we are soon to see this distinction clearer than in the past.
The signal to noise ratio isn't good though. Personal integrity has been sacrificed for scientific "advancement".
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Benchmarks sound like their fighting hardware frequency throttling more then actually benchmarking the chips.

One big issue to point out:

>Floating Point: NAMD

GCC sucks at automatic hardware vectorization. So does the LLVM. Really the only time you can count on getting automatic hardware vectorization is if you shell out for the ICC AND write your code in Fortran. I'm gonna bet they didn't vectorized a goddamn thing, but we can't inspect anand's binary so we'll never know. The results are still likely correct, but IBM should have lost by a smaller margin.

TL;DR

POWER8 is fun but costs 5k more then Xeon per rack mount and uses about 2x the power usage for 10% less performance on generalized work loads. But can pull off 10-15% more performance on _some specialized_ workloads. So meh?
I use POWER8 hardware at Red Hat (supplied by IBM[1]) and it certainly does rock. It helps that I don't have to pay the electricity bills.

I just wish the hardware was more available. There is precisely one, barely affordable, non-IBM POWER8 system available to buy[2] (if you have $3-4k burning a hole in your pocket). Where are the development boards?

[1] http://research.redhat.com/powerlinux-openpower-development-...

[2] http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/
I have some fond ass memories of Pokemon on the Game Boy but sadly never kept playing after Gold and Silver. But man what a glorious time it was to grow up in the 90s, walk around with your gameboy and link cable, spot another goober kid with his gameboy (and, presumably [read: 100% absolutely] a pokemon game) and trade some monsters. That brief interaction with another kid trading and bonding over a game is what makes me keep one eye on Nintendo's prospect for a pokemon phone game today.
Twitter Engineering Lead Alex Roetter Apologizes for Diversity Issues
BBC headline is a little misleading. According to the article, legal action has already been taken. Cases have been submitted to the London Central Employment Tribunal.
Actually the "waterfall" effigy defined in various manifestos was the revolt against civil engineering project managers who entered the software engineering field and believed that "building software" was like building a bridge, a skyscraper, or a sewer system.

The correct solution space wasn't to abandon dependencies and long range planning, but to recognize that software engineering is a specific type of process engineering that involves partially or completely automated processes.

Software doesn't describe the state of a machine in so much as it describes a process. Often developers don't recognize this so much because many of the terms have been concretized into the operating system (ie, process) and get thought of as a container for software instead of the representation of an automated process working in concert on shared resources.

And consequently software is complete when the process is well-defined and repeatable, not when things are bolted together.
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Didn't Bishop Pike declare the Anglican cathedral in San Francisco "finished", though nobody else regarded it as being done?
That's a really good point.

A friend of mine who wants to be a forensic pathologist follows a coroner who posts autopsy photos and asks people to guess the cause of death. She has something like 500k followers. It's amazing all the micro-celebrity that's possible, but as a user you have to know where to find it.
How viable is a service based on easily renting technical lab environments
I'm a tech worker in Glenwood Springs, CO. This is their muni option (50Mb/100Mb/250Mb symmetrical for $70/$105/$175 respectively):
http://gscbn.com/services/internet/business-internet/

As a business subscriber, they have provided friendly and capable local support for many years, and the service itself is top-notch at a tenth the price of the same service from a telco. Price isn't everything however - their support is excellent.

They communicate with their customer base regularly on maintenance issues and system status, having no issue with owning the rare, but inevitable screw-up expected with any industry.

At one point they had a few local ISPs reselling their service, mostly as wireless. That infrastructure is still in place but I don't see anyone currently reselling it for some reason, however other wireless providers with their own connectivity are active.

I've been dreading the day that some telco beats them up on legal grounds enough to make them go away, but now it looks like there's some momentum behind this concept making it less likely.
British people proudly building their own Stalinist Stasi Society.

Nothing to see here folks, move along, move along.

Edit: I see this as expression of huge fear about possible conspiracy. The question is: who they think are the conspirators.
Hello Everyone,

This is a new project I am about to launch that is a service designed around the concept of renting pre-configured cloud based labs for Linux, Unix and programming environments that go along with the tutorials written on the blog.

Please give me feedback on whether this is a viable market and additionally if it would be a useful and relevant service.

regards,
Nneko from Big Thinking Applied
I'd recommend Ardbeg. I also love Talisker, from the Isle of Skye, which can be a bit sweeter but still quite smokey.
Show HN: A meal planning app for real people (frozen pizza allowed) – Open Beta
Isn't that really neuroscience?
For someone wanting to start an on-demand service, what would be the correct way to design their app so that you could meaningfully link requester to providers?
Great article.

I keep meaning to get started on my Game Boy Printer emulator so I can download pictures from a GB Camera. My plan was to just hack an eBay link cable in half and solder them to the board, but this is much cleaner and way classier.
spoonacular is a meal planning app with nutritional information and an automatic shopping list. You can add both recipes and store bought food and get the daily macro- and micronutrients. The web app has been online for a couple years (https://spoonacular.com/meal-planner) but the link is to the Android open beta test. Hoping to find out what's not intuitive/user friendly, should be beyond anything disastrous now (crashes), but you never know with Android! Next goal is to add fast food/restaurant data for a complete, real person meal planner.
Truish. But have you ever attempt to manually draw a bezier curve?
> Can we?

If we couldn't, this HN discussion wouldn't exist.
Danny,

In your opinion how does this affect the ability of governments to pass laws requiring them to use only free and open source software? I think this is incredibly important not only for software freedom but for a properly functioning free society in general (think of voting, financial accounting and digital currencies, etc). Would such use be considered "critical infrastructure" or does this provision preclude passing such laws?
What's the difference between a carpooling network with a high amount of usage versus Uber?
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They do that because nobody demands that they don't.
Toyota Invests $1B in Artificial Intelligence in U.S
Regardless of anything relating to the royals, it is not Queen Elizabeth who is instituting this, it is the democratically elected.

Please don't bring in our royals as if they're somehow the reason of anything. There is a symbiotic relationship in regards to the royal family that you have to understand, the people who hate them are jealous- yet would probably not like the spotlight they have. They do bring in a net gain to the country, they are educated enough in certain scenarios to represent us quite well.

I don't take exception to them, but if the public /did/ then government could restrict the funding to Her Majesty. (Which has happened a lot before and has constituted the closure of many of her castles.)