skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Party" here means party to the treaty, right? So, governments can't require source disclosure (except for critical infrastructure), but this specifically exempts contracts about such from this rule:

> [Nothing in this Article shall preclude] the inclusion or implementation of terms and conditions related to the provision of source code in commercially negotiated contracts

It seems like this wouldn't affect licensing at all, given that licensing is supposedly a contract. Am I missing something?
Just publish and put some clear indicator right there in the README of the status/purpose/scope of the thing. I have bunch of them marked 'experimental', more rarely something gets all the way to 'minimally useful' or 'used in production'.
Arbitrary example: https://github.com/jonnor/agree

It is not for me to decide whether something will be useful for someone else or not, that is up to them. Just give people enough facts that they can make an informed decision.
So in short, if I understand this correctly, the US government (and any other government party to the treaty) will for example be unable to insist that Volkswagen (or any other manufacturer) open source their future emissions control software (as a condition for regulatory compliance) ?
Currently states is looking for a way to legally hack into your phone, computer, tablets, intercept all kind of communication and read offline data without warrant. It's not how that works nowadays.
Systemd.conf recordings
Ask HN: How do I start a teleportation startup?
1. What does the MVP and/or V1 look like?
2. What subjects/research to follow/study?

A few design liberations: it can be pseudo-teleportation (eg travelling consciousness at near the speed of light is allowed) not just real teleportation (no travelling)

Have a good Friday :)
For the live stream: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/Mainroom/
The PragProg book they just released uses RXJS && Cycle.JS: I'm about halfway though at the minute, it's been really good so far, and I'd recommend it if you're wanting a bit more detail.
Is it restricted to gnome?
These are rules for States. It has no bearing whatsoever on the GPL.

This prevents a country from forcing somebody like Microsoft or Apple to give up their source code for "inspection" in order to access their market. It also helps to prevent States from demanding and acquiring encryption or other private keys (there's a separate section that also explicitly forbids mandating backdoors be added).

Not everything in the TPP is bad.
Brazilian here. Wow I remember those times. People travelling to Paraguay to buy computers. crazy.
I think he's referring to the public library and museums act of 1964, which enshrined in law:

* The right to shush people without prejudice

* The right to bear cardigans
Librarians are protected from any investigation and library records are kept from the government.

You cannot investigate at any point, someones library history.
Most of us can afford to pay it too. That's the real tragedy.

All of us should consider doing something similar, allocate a couple $ a month and give it to people who make our lives/jobs easier or better.
sigh, I knew someone would nitpick :)

Perhaps I should have been clearer; My point about it being simply 'a plant' is more that it can be grown at home by users - no need for heavy refinement, solvents, chemical processes or pharmaceutical companies.
Oversight of the police has increased in the UK to massive proportions

http://new.spectator.co.uk/2015/03/the-shocking-truth-about-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Elveden

Elveden is particularly important here; in an environment where journalists are weaponising private information for smear articles with no real public interest justification, any information the police can easily get at may be leaked by bribed police.

UK trust in the police is still generally pretty high, but the War On Terror erodes trust everywhere it touches.
Malaysian firms can now tap Silicon Valley’s ecosystem
Would this prevent us from requiring VW make available it's source code? Not a lawyer.
That was the main point yes, but there is also the 'grow your own' benefit, so you know exactly what you are putting in your body and how it was produced.
If you're trying to get into a new language, aren't you looking in the documentation all the time anyway? If not, try keeping an emacs buffer open to http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=browse;oldid=SchemeCom...

Also, you might learn Scheme better by focusing on the core language first before you get into SRFI libraries.
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Could anyone rewrite cited part in plain-English? I have troubles understanding it.
At the time he was against microkernels, QNX had already demonstrated they were faster than the monolithic state of the art. [1]

Linux does not have any form of capabilities (maybe Capsicum, but it's not finished). Capabilities are not POSIX capabilities, which redefined a decade-old term, but rather this [2].

The rest is just trite dismissals of the same faux pragmatism that Linus embodies. He's "not interested in the theoretical", as if there is any other? Before the now-mundane ideas became the staples of pragmatists, they were theories hidden in the research literature.

Linus is a major figurehead and his promoting of self-destructive attitudes is undesirable.

In fact, you claim he lives in the here and now. He does not. The here and now has long surpassed him and he now lives in his own realm.

[1] https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.p...

[2] http://www.eros-os.org/essays/capintro.html
Interesting tests which can reveal your current implicit (read hidden) attitudes toward race, gender, color.

Worth to do and discover few facts about ourselves, even if uncomfortable.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
No, nobody should give Linus any slack whatsoever.
He's responsible for the current fiasco, where stock Linux kernel is a joke security-wise, one can find reliable vulnerabilities in a few hours, once the debugging infrastructure is there. Compare that with Windows where it's a few weeks to a few months and then a lot more work to get the reliability.

Linus holds the vast majority of the blame here, simply put, he is an idiot when it comes to security or looking ahead at how things will be in a couple of years. Linux is slowly entering every single aspect of our lives and this trend will only accelerate via IoT. Imagine what this means about security with Linus in charge.

We now KNOW that there are intelligent adversaries out there that spend hundreds of millions to defeat security worldwide.
It is simply UNACCEPTABLE and downright MALICIOUS STUPIDITY for Linus to hold the views he does in this day and age.
He's been repeatedly warned and cautioned for more than a DECADE now and he's laughed at and ignored valid criticisms from people with much more foresight than him. If this trend continues, he should be NAILED to the cross.

A security bug is NOT just a bug.

No, I shouldn't have to DISCONNECT everything that runs Linux from the Internet if I want it to have a modicum of security.
The "parties" of a treaty are governments. This has nothing to do with GPL. This is saying that a government can't say "you aren't allowed to sell software in the country of Frain as a non-Frainian unless you provide the source code for that product (whether to the end user or to the government)". They leave an exception for "critical infrastructure", because it was hard to argue that the government of Frain shouldn't be able to require that nuclear control software come with source code. Essentially, I don't see why this clause is concerning. It is clearly a form of pandering to the interests of software developers reliant on intellectual property rights, but only in a way that seems to me mostly about forcing capitalism on nation states that might disagree with its premise.
You know, that's the problem. There is basically no reason why this is so hard.
Many security features could just be enabled by default by major distributions with hardly any downside. You don't even have to look at grsecurity. Just using pie binaries to enable proper ASLR would be a start.
Without a court order, at least.
>>> React Native's basic navigator is non-native and implemented in a way that has fundamental performance problems.

- just use the InteractionsManager - Navigator works well enough on all the Facebook apps and Paper etc. yes agreed about the NavigatorIOS - it doesn't work and I complained bitterly somewhere on github about that.

- You probably aren't coming from the web where I think most people know that if you are making requests in the background and doing too much stuff inside of requestAnimationFrame your performance will be bad.

- Maybe you should move the Javascript that is causing performance slowdowns into Native code if it's that complicated then it'll run on the different thread? I think if you come from an app background it's probably easier to expect better performance.

- I hope you are testing performance in the Release build mode in xcode, it needs to be on for loads of optimisations to be made.

- I've found performance acceptable so far and excellent when you use actual Native things.
You could tell me what this is: http://imgur.com/HLAfj64 ... Specifically the coil array is a WTF. Coil array is for parallel MRI via only RF [radio] - University of Colorado - google

I studied mercury for about a month and was horrified by some facts. Specifically it was known to cause mental illness since 500BC, and how to make a mercury mine more profitable than a gold mine: https://voat.co/v/politics/comments/171588

causation:

The problem with mercury is its a radio/electric conductor. Innoculations used since 1700 to prevent disease. Mercury added to vaccine in 1920. Discovered in 1930 and 1960 Brain Axons (nerves) use electrical impulse. Mercury could create a literal short circuit. image explantation: http://imgur.com/B9OVJOY

Mercury (vaccines) was known to cause mental illness, breathing disorder, and heavy metal toxicity since 500 BC [dartmouth tox history mercury]

Mercury is a metal, and is excitable by radio. radio is a form of radiation. the earth is a big ball of radiation. therefore the mercury will always be excited.

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You could try shielding: EMF sensitivity is a thing. My schizophrenia gone for $1 of foil and earplugs.

Mylar blankets ($3 from amazon) could block light(laser), emf (magnets), microwave radio and radar

Air ionizers or orgonite or negative ion projectors could block negative ions

Earplugs and stuff will block low frequency sound (mind control) and the freq men make

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We should ask why the previous treatments for mental illness were barbaric [US superme court testimonies]

Lithium (a poison so toxic its used to kill unkillable cancer cells)

Shock torture

Lobotomy

Hand crank drilling a hole in the skull to drain blood

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We should ask why theres so much chemicals in the food: https://medium.com/@bananaguy80/the-great-filter-theory-are-...

We should ask why the newspapers silence this stuff. Why my congress men has an unlisted email, his contact form is broken, doesnt answer emails, facebook etc.

And then get guns for your bull E.T.s.
I think they update their benchmark results to https://chromeperf.appspot.com/ (browse for benchmarks with mofo prefix)
Looks like pretty damn fast to me.
The cheaper geoengineering proposal is emission of sulfur particles into the stratosphere - i.e., the sunlight reflecting portion of a volcano. I don't recall the cost estimates, but they were drastically lower than $4T.
Some libraries output them, because the code for writing them is very simple, and you don't need any separate area of memory for managing the compression or whatever.
If you look at this jsbin, you might get a better feel for what's being discussed: https://jsbin.com/cejuyijahu/1/edit?js,console

If you use an OOP style (with classes and inheritance), then you end up needing to use the 'this' keyword. If you use a functional style, you don't.

Is the functional style better? Does it let you write more reusable code, and avoid tightly coupling it to date? Eh...maybe. If you like that style, you'll probably be more productive that way (and be intrigued by Cycle.js). If you don't like that style, you won't be.

Also:

> the statement above implies the existence of 'this' is a failure of JavaScript's design

It's certainly been a pain point, and there's a lot of confusion and debate over classes, prototypes, constructors, the this keyword, figuring out what 'this` even refers to at any given point, the 'new' keyword, etc. I'm not sure I'd agree that the existence of the 'this' keyword is a mistake (and I doubt the people behind Cycle.js would either), but I don't think it's controversial to note that you can avoid a lot of confusion and sidestep the whole thing, if you are of a mind, by just using plain functions returning objects as needed.
According to whom?

The figures usually provided show a lot of income from Crown land, which belongs to the state. Or, they put a big figure on tourism -- which would probably be even bigger if tourists could pay to have a look inside the palaces and castles.
Currently I like the way Germany is going. They've been down the surveillance state rabbithole before (with the Stasi) and learnt how fucked up it is when the Government has that much power. It seems unlikely they'd repeat history.

It would be nice to see at least one country in the Eurozone use freedom of information as a selling point to come work there. I imagine there are many who work in IT in the UK who would move there out of principle.
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I'm thinking also of stuff like complex hierarchies of "object orientation" that don't embody any actual logic, but only serve to impose a "structure" that may or may not have benefits.

Writing code that consists mostly of actual relevant decisions seems like an often-ignored art.
We took a birdwatching tour in Iceland a few years ago. IIRC they told us that Puffins don't taste especially good and that really only the 2 to 3 year old ones are close to edible at all. Puffins were a poor men's food.
> [...]  it's a project of a size comparable to the entire existing energy industry, so it would need to be supported by the full influence of the current Establishment. It clearly cannot be done as a market-driven project.

Those two things are not exclusive. The `Establishment' needs to set up the regulation and incentives right (eg a proper price for carbon), and then the market can get to work.
Wasn't there some notion of an international TPP court that could dispute nations' decisions?
Don't you think exactly from lower to upper middle class, what most non-financials first need in a financial advice is Knowledge-Made-Simple? People hardly budget, don't plan, don't know how much their non-financial assets depreciate, etc. Hard to get a robo-adviser to work for you, if you don't know what questions to ask.

I see the upside, robo-advisers make financial advisors (not advice) cheaper and thus financial planning more accesible. But it's hard to get someone to think about a personal risk appetite, when they are financially less than fully literate.
> it's not clear that having a library would add any security

I don't think that's the main benefit of using/developing an external library for this. To me, using an external library sounds like a good idea because:

- You get code separation. A bit less code on the main Firefox repo, and a repo dedicated only to BMP decoding (or image files in general). Someone who wants to contribute to the BMP decoder wouldn't need to download all FF repo and understand/configure its build system. Big plus!

- The library can be shared among different applications. It doesn't make sense for each browser to have a different implementation of BMP decoding, each with their own bugs. Sharing a library for this kind of stuff would actually benefit security, as a bug fixed by one browser/app developer would benefit the others.

That last one is the biggest thing for me. The BMP example is a very simple one, and not very important. It is in more complex tasks that i think sharing libraries would be much more beneficial.

For example, wouldn't it be great that, instead duplicating so much effort in implementing the streaming capabilities of Media Source Extensions [1], the different browsers shared a library dedicated to that complex task? We could have had a more complete and robust implementation in less total time! And that's just one example; there are tons of complex things browsers do that could be extracted to separate shared libraries.

[1]: And so many bugs https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617
It's an article about the monetization of web content, negative consequences of that system, and possible better alternatives. This is the bread and butter of Hacker News.
NOAA: Partnering with Amazon Web Services on Big Data
I actually have an answer for this:

Stop talking about "psychology" like it's a monolithic thing. Start by separating "hard" psychology (perception, attention, psychophysics, etc) from social psychology.

Papers about saccadic adaptation are, I suspect, much more reproducible than those about implicit association.
If you are estimating a parameter with a sample statistic, two properties it should have are unbiasedness and low variance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-variance_unbiased_esti...
"Flutter is unique technically because its rendering implementation uses neither WebView nor OEM widgets. Instead, Flutter uses its own high-performance rendering engine to draw widgets."

Factually incorrect since http://www.qt.io/qt-quick/ has done this for a while and has a very mature fast mobile reactive amazing UI engine.
That's one of the most unbelievable XKCD references ever.
Let me guess: "I could care less about it".

Did I summarize it well?

You know when you see Linus piss on security so easily, you start to wonder - maybe that joke about allowing the NSA backdoor in the kernel was actually true?
Github does something similar, if you drag an image into the textarea in their issue tracker, it uploads the image to (I think) a public URL. I've considered what this could mean for teams with private projects who might e.g. attach screenshots with sensitive information.

Here's an example of an image uploaded via the GH issue tracker. Definitely public.

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/95562/7319912/200...
Industrialisation in Africa: More a marathon than a sprint
Plants that help humans are propagated by them.
That, and the fact that outliers can often be discounted due to measurement/instrumentation error.

Moreover, the fact that Carlos entered your restaurant may be a significant event depending on the analysis that you're attempting to do. So you need to have to have a good rationale for dropping outliers, and you should probably also watch for bias when dropping outliers that don't support your hypothesis!
Sounds pretty bad to me.
Damn, over a year to fix this? It's good that they did in the end, but the timeline is just crazy.
I'd politely disagree, unless you're a PhD in chemistry and botanics, you probably have no idea what you're putting in your body :)
Opium poppies are very very easy to grow.

Drinking opium tea for pain relief is probably a bad idea.
Apple might introduce “panic mode” in new iPhones
You can't own property, man!
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I used to run mandrake many years ago, and there was a -grsec kernel available in their package repository, and it just worked.
Not cynical, just realistic and speaking from past personal (and others) experience of Apple rejecting apps for whatever reason they feel like (if any).

IMO, Apple specifically carved out the exception for JS for WebKit/WebViews, to make using web views in apps possible. I'm quite certain they didn't have in mind React Native[1] auto-downloading JS bundles to bypass App Review. Apple wouldn't be a fan of that.

Now, the complete opposite of this is their favoured tech for developing new Apple TV apps, TVML, explicitly allows and is designed for updates bypassing App Review. In fact, most of the app logic and UI is delivered from your own server.

[1] Actually, the guidelines mentions 'WebKit framework'. Does React Native use 'WebKit framework'? Edit: It uses JavaScriptCore which I guess is a part of WebKit http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/JavaScriptCore
I didn't really refer to his massive ego in my previous comment, but this is another facet of his idiocy in my opinion. The signs were there 20 years ago, but now one could say that the adorations and worship of vast number of subordinates and minions have all turned him into a monster,
like a caricature of the corrupt Roman emperors.

I sure hope some other leading figure emerges and seizes some control over Linux because I sure don't see Linus changing the way he does business.
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No picture of the nickel either.
Prescription painkillers like oxycodone are large recruitment paths to heroin as well as a cheaper alternative once people get addicted and cut off and forced to deal with drug dealers.

So people who are concerned about heroin abuse, should really want to find alternatives to handing out prescription opioids unnecessarily.
'Digital Disruption' Is Abused to Persuade CFOs
Well the idea of a DM critter implicitly assumes DM particles can interact with each other through other dark forces, but they can only interact with real matter through gravity.

The thought experiment of whether you can measure directional gravity from freely falling reference frames using only gravitation is more interesting.

>> You can only measure a gravity gradient by comparing it to another force

This is inaccurate. A measurement of tidal forces only requires the ability to measure space and time between events/particles.

>> They can't see redshift because they can't see photons at all.

Gravitational redshifts affect all clocks, not just photons: it's a statement about spacetime, not literal redshifts. All pieces of matter are clocks ticking at the Compton frequency, so DM particles can be used as clocks to measure redshift.

>> dark matter is simply energy, there is no extra particle

I feel that 'simply energy' would be something like dark energy, causing spacetime expansion. You really do need mass for gravitational attraction, and what we measure is gravitational attraction.
Though you'd think it would be worded more like "you may use the Hovalin design files for commercial purposes...."
> Let me guess: "I could care less about it".

Did you mean "couldn't care less"?

> Did I summarize it well?

no

> You know when you see Linus piss on security so easily, you start to wonder - maybe that joke about allowing the NSA backdoor in the kernel was actually true?

Are you referring to the article you didn't read here?

Actual takeaway:

> "The only real solution to security is to admit that bugs happen," Torvalds said, "and then mitigate them by having multiple layers, so if you have a hole in one component, the next layer will catch the issue."
Thanks.

Yeah, I'm in the process of putting in spinners conditioned by InteractionManager. I'd prefer rendering to be fast enough by default, but there's no free lunch.

I am coming from the web, where I usually don't have to think about animation frames when implementing basic functionality. React Native's way of implementing navigation animations with repeated timer calls between JavaScript and iOS makes this a problem.

The performance slowdown is caused by lists, texts, and images. I am not doing any animations or fancy interactions. Moreover, we chose React Native exactly because it would let us use JavaScript for these things, since that integrates with our web app "isomorphically."

I'm hopeful that with release build mode and InteractionManager-based spinners, I'll be able to get acceptable performance. I'm just a little surprised at how many performance gotchas I've run into.
Well, you will be surprised how much can be classified as critical.

I will just put one copy of windows in a powerplant. Somewhere.