skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what VC investment does to a company. The investors make you go for hockey stick growth, which means instead of just having a good service for selling content (that makes the owner a very handsome income), you need to take on the likes of Facebook and Pinterest. DHH's article from yesterday is right on:

> Part of the problem seems to be that nobody these days is content to merely put their dent in the universe. No, they have to fucking own the universe. It’s not enough to be in the market, they have to dominate it.

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3972-reconsider
The "substitutes" (pre-built binaries) are signed: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Substitute... . We use a SPKI-style PKI: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-g... .

The package recipes themselves are in a Git repo, which has signed release tags (but not signed commits.)

Lastly, the new 'guix challenge' command helps users check whether binaries provided by a server genuinely come from the source it claims to have built. See http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-g... .
* MI5.

* GCHQ/Tempora

* SIS

* GDS (Government Digital services)

* Anti-encryption laws being chased through the houses of parliment.

* It's illegal to not provide, when questioned, the encryption key of a device in your possession.

* ISP Logging.

I've wanted to be in tech all my life and I felt that british people have facilitated a lot of good things in the tech world- but I have never been so ashamed to carry my passport. This country is one that had great laws for librarians especially after world war 2 which aided in privacy of the people.

but now, we seem to have forgotten that once data is collected, it can be used to target and harm people in swathes- it can be used actively to destroy individual people- or even, in moderation, can cause people to self-censor (which carries it's own problems).

I'm a British citizen, I will not return to the UK while archaic laws and boneheaded policy makers are eroding the very fabric of computer culture. Looks like the next election is in 2020.
> virtualizations started supporting PCI-Passthrough

To get a graphics card actually capable of this, you either need to buy the commercial grade versions (Quadro and FirePro) with are much more expensive, or buy a specific card for this purpose and deal with tons of issues[1] like not being able to restart the guest without crashing the host.

[1]: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_VGA_Passthrough_Tested_A...
Google updates Play Services dev toolkit with faster sign-in and new location API
Here is also good list of 100 best FinTech startups http://www.fintechinnovators.com/
That's because unfortunately the FBI have a dual role - the FBI and Secret Service should have been merged/split into the traditional policing roles and into the roles performed in the by MI5
> I used to want to visit the UK

I used to want to move to London. Now I know I won't.
Landmine or Coke Can: Deep Learning with GPR Data
Sounds like that is an excellent opportunity for this person to invest some time into honing one's technical skills.

> why not just stick with Windows?

Hm... because Windows is essentially a platform for Microsoft and assorted 3rd parties (most of which are not even affiliated with them) to spy on and meddle with you beyond any reasonable control or limitations?
How long is it going to take people to realize there is nothing wrong with an ad supported economy and many products, services and media would go away without it, even if relying solely on subscriptions.
Why improving kernel security is important
"It's strange how much it looks like web development" - It looks a bit like a browser for native app development. To me it looks like it could be the solution to a lot of problems. What is good about the web for applications is that it is write once run everywhere (because people do not expect a native look and feel) and also that it is zero install. What is bad about the web for applications it is that it is designed for content presentation and not applications. For mobile it has a number of things that limit it for performance. To get something to even approach decent performance I have to try to understand a complex and opaque machine called the browser. Compared to native app development this is a lot more difficult. The machine is working against me because its primary concern is document layout.

So it looks to me like a browser for applications in resource constrained environments (mobile). I see nothing wrong with this; We used to have innovations like this all the time but since the browser came along its been a bit of a tyranny of orthodoxy. Why not have a browser for documents and a browser for applications? I certainly don't like web apps in my browser for content sites. (They don't work at all, or the scrolling is all over the place or they burn up my battery).

For the moment though they seem to be clear that flutter is for application development on android and ios only and won't run everywhere. Plus Apple will probably never allow zero install (which knocks out half of my "browser for applications" theory, the other half being write once run anywhere)
I find it a bit strange to write down 100 ideas of what I could develop. I think it would be much better to just develop some missing software or make a better version of something existing. But just collecting ideas without a real, deep interest in it sounds a lot like the beginning of abandoned projects.
How to ADDRESS IOT SECURITY ACROSS MULTIPLE LAYERS
That's not really relevant here. Any company with compromised access to an important email account stands to have lots of trouble, regardless of tech or industry.
Didn't know this was a thing but normally (it requires time) I learn like that - often being scorned by more experienced people, saying it is inefficient and/or I I'm rude not to hear their advises.

In the long run, this actually builds confidence to attack any (engineering and more) problem you face and being relatively independent from a teacher.
Well the current laws passed in Australia mean a large array of government departments can see our metadata.

That aside, we know the intelligence gathered has been used for parallel construction... perhaps just selectively I guess.
Grantland and the (surprising) future of publishing
A review of current popular programming languages. (1984) [video]
Child abuse and neglect.

Children left alone for lengthy times and not being exposed to enough language to learn it within the critical period = autism.

Being raised by parents who are autistic themselves (which guarrantees extreme emotional neglect and abuse) = aspergers.
That would probably be a sensible stat for measuring marginal applications to a school. But when it comes to measuring portfolio startup companies, none of the bottom decile are expected to be worth anything in the medium run, and all the results that actually matter are in the top quartile...
Chibok+refugee+shelter+expansion+and+feeding
> It's amazing that we can grant revokable, read-only and audited access to our social accounts, but not our bank accounts.

The UK is moving in this direction. The ODI/Fingleton report into Data Sharing and Open Data for Banks[1] recommended creating a open banking API standard and suggested using OAuth, using Twitter as an example (see p24 of the report). Work has begun on defining the roadmap towards creating an API standard[2].

1: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-sharing-and-...

2: http://theodi.org/news/open-banking-working-group-uk-experts...
Follox – A One Click Solution to Export Medium Followers to CSV
People used to think the Eiffel tower looks out of place.
One theory would be race. The US is all about race. Some of it probably has to do with white guilt (white Americans killed the natives, white Americans enslaved black people, white Americans heavily discriminated against black people, brown people and yellow people). Prior to paying attention to American culture I didn't understand that for Americans "latinos" are a race and all black-ish people are "black" and that "white" people are "Caucasian".

Another would be that the US has barely any culture or history of its own. You can only go back a little more than two centuries if you want to talk about the US and only a little bit more than that if you want to talk about the Americas. Worse yet, the US is a nation of immigrants so most people's ancestry hasn't even been in the US that long.
If privacy is crucial, it's better to run Linux hosts and Windows VMs. But that doesn't work so well for high-end graphics, whether games or CAD. Or when even the fastest CPUs are too slow.

So then you run Linux VMs in a Windows host. In my experience, VMware is a better choice on Windows hosts. But it's been a few years, and maybe VirtualBox is doing better on Windows.
Tech authors you should know
I think it needs to be said that while external ad networks can increase the surface area of a hack like this, the major issue is email security and having tight access controls and MFA in place for all major services.

The same thing could've easily happened to economists own website and CDN.

There have been dozens of stories including major studios, politicians and the CIA that show how losing access to an email account can cause major damage or even cripple a business, if not get them shutdown completely.

It's something that seems to be overlooked a lot but with the prevalence of email access everywhere on mobile devices and the amount of phishing attempts and surveillance, this should be one of the highest priority security issues.
In Haskell, if you don't do anything weird, you don't have to declare types either in the norm case: it can all be inferred.
Or Ionic which can be used by AngularJS developers easily.

http://ionic.io/
How does it compare to a cheap $125 violin from Amazon?
I don't understand why you don't give that security advisor by name?
> By default, any users are able to install firmware to removable hardware. The logic here is that if the hardware can be removed, it can easily be moved to a device that the user already has root access on, and asking for authentication would just be security theatre.

- http://www.fwupd.org/users.html

But it is not given that a user has physical access to the machine, is it?

Well... I guess that's why it says "By default", and you can configure it? Seems targeted at desktop installations?
I use a music production program called FL Studio, which is Windows only, I've used it for over 12 years and am really productive with it. Switching to OSX would also mean switching to different production software with a completely different workflow and losing the fact that I can almost use my current program with my eyes closed. Linux is not a viable option at all for music production.
"It’s now in the final phase, with just another 11 years until completion."

Interestingly, 11 years is the time it took to completely rebuild Frauenkirche in Dresden (1994-2005), which had been destroyed in WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Frauenkirche
We should really retire sRGB as the standard monitor colourspace and use 16-bit linear floats per channel. Every single image operator gets really tricky if you work in 8-bit sRGB and most don't bother, i.e. they treat 0-255 as linear values and everything from anti-aliasing to blitting to blurring is absolutely broken in all standard desktop applications. It's a bit better if you do 3d rendering with OpenGL/Direct3D, since their entire pipeline is linear and all you have to do is set the "this texture is in sRGB colourspace" bit on every texture and convert the final colour from linear RGB to sRGB in your shader.
I've only had a short look at this but here are my impressions :

It doesn't pack a huge VM/class library like RoboVM/Xamarin and doesn't try to gap two VMs/GC like Xamarin on Android - instead it uses IPC for talking to system services using it's custom service definition language to define the IPC API/schema in cross language way.

Dynamic language/custom VM lets them do a better job at development experience (dynamic code reloading) as opposed to buggy/complex one you get from trying to statically compile bytecode or bridging two VMs to share objects.

IPC architecture then lets you write performance parts in portable native code (eg. C/C++/Rust) or system specific language (eg. Java/Swift/Objective-C) and it should be easier to make cross platform - hiding the dirty FFI crap.

Dart is much closer to C# than you think, go look at some examples - it's quite a productive language from my experience with it so far.

Custom GUI framework means it doesn't behave/look the same as native framework (just like webview tech) but at the same time it can also mean higher performance (certainly better than WebView), consistent behavior between platforms and versions (faster development), etc.

Overall I like it, I can see a GUI framework on same tech built for desktop (custom widgets but same rendering principles) and doing client side development in Dart sounds great - fast prototyping and iteration because of it's dynamic nature but the optional type system gives you same guarantees as C#/Java type systems.
> If I'm understanding correctly, the new test is based on a single data point from each group, rather than an aggregate statistic (like mean)

Both the mean and the minimum are a scalar-valued function of the whole sample.
What are the alternatives, and how much can you trust these alternatives?
This completely ignores the "evil maid" scenario.
Where's my star? Now I feel left out.
No, you see, the display shows you what the grass really is and what it would look like to you if your eyes could pick out the vibrant hues in real life. /s
ATI consumer cards do support PCI-Passthrough, it's Nvidia that you need Quadro.

But the setup is not a simple one of neither.
As cute as illustrations in "Schemer" book series. Love it.
The article says the targeted completion date is 11 years away. Like almost all long-term projects, it is likely to run much longer than expected.

I live in Barcelona, twenty minutes walk from Sagrada Familia. I enjoy watching it ever change as the development continues. 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.
> ISPs regularly send customers routers with known security flaws, already-exposed backdoors that hackers can break into and use laughably weak WiFi security by default (if any at all).

In Belgium, one of the big ISP (can't remember which one) delivered router with open wifi ...

In Spain my ISP only uses the router mac address to 'verify' the equipment.
That's why I mentioned PCI-Passthrough. Then the guest can directly drive the graphics card, with it's native drivers.
Could it be too expensive?

A good, precise injection mould is many tens of thousands of dollars, and several are probably needed. That's a lot of upfront cost for a low volume product.
From the FAQ: You may use the hovalin for commercial purposes if you agree to send 10% of your gross revenue from use of the design to HOVA LLC every six months.

It may be open source, but it's not open source as I've ever encountered it before.

(Also, I don't think I've ever heard someone claim that copyright law allows them to demand royalties on the use of a musical instrument. Is a musical performance a derivative work of the instrument design?)
With a large enough sample size, someone might find a way to break the -100% barrier.
Don't we have enough cross platform dev kits anyways?I fail to see the need for so many more platforms.The state of the ART/DVM is going to become like that of the JVM. Maybe as devices become more powerful,it would be capable of handling such needs.But why would you want to develop such apps which you would have to wait till the native platforms release updates which are then ported to these platforms.Android updates happen every 3 months.Maintaining evergreen apps in such cycles is a task in itself.

I understand the evolution of Javascript based frameworks considering the large number of developers available.But now days you have to spend more time learning a framework in comparison to developing something with it.

The only feature which seemed to grab my attention was :

> Can I update my app over the network, outside of the Play Store?
Yes. On Android, you can update your app over the network (via HTTP), without first publishing to the Play Store. This can be useful because it doesn’t bother the user with a notification, ensures your users are on the latest version, makes it easier to run A/B experiments, and more.

This would be extremely useful. But I think there would be a catch to this too.I am actually tired of seeing new frameworks come up everyday,especially orgs like Google.
Microsoft Office is available on OS X.
How I delete my account?
I was about to rebuke, but then I retread the headline. Not even half-way through had I forgotten that this article was about how the company became an authority and not how it became a pop culture thing. Which is also an interesting point in its own right.

I actually fail to see how an honest headline wouldn't have been just as good at attracting readers.
Maybe he's zer0defex is equally torn on the margin between Britain and country x.
Crack the cryptic crossword enigma
Neuroscience is changing the meaning of criminal guilt
I wander why Qt/QML doesn't get much attention.
I+found+flights+to+Faro+on+flychecker+at+€+135.+I+arrive+at+18:20
Is it just that the head is smaller than a typical wooden violin (no scroll etc)?
That would be next version of this.
It's a shame then that hardly anyone will see it. Readers of The Economist are affected yet there is no mention of the problem on their home page.
Awesome. Thanks for the feedback! Will this simply be a new tab under the SSL options for a virtual server?
CryptoWall 4.0 released with new Features such as Encrypted File Names
Who decided the move to rose gold? It seems like Apple released that color at exactly the right time, so I thought it was a fashion industry decision they had bought access to.
Is it feasible to buy the sensors as a hobbyist? I've been dreaming of getting into chemical sensing ("computer olfaction"...) and spatially structured heat.
Tangentially, I keep seeing those figures, but can't figure out how it happens. I mean, how is there enough work for every single corporate drone to work 70 hours per week, plus an additional 20? What the heck is it that all those people do?

Not trying to be derisive, I'm just genuinely curious if it's actual work, or if they clock in, spend 5 hours playing Fate/GO and 5 hours adjusting the spreadsheet a bit.
RECONSIDER DHH
Hey mate,

I feel like it has been ages since the two of us have talked bitcoin. Hopefully you've made some cash in the recent run up. Funnily enough we're both in NZ at the moment though I'm just here in Auckland for the week before heading back to Sydney so no overlap. I'd love to revisit some of our topics from last year though to see which ones each of us were right about. I have a feeling though it's a pretty even split.

Enjoy your travels. My wife and I did our own at northandsouthnomads.com and give me a shout on my email in my profile. I did always enjoy our debates.
the vga arbiter stuff went away with UEFI based cards (about 2 years ago), consumer level cards now work without issue.

NVIDIA attempt to detect the VM and artificially disable the driver, but works perfectly if you tell KVM to hide the fact it's a VM (requires a flag to be set in the config).

the technical difficulty of pci passthrough consists of clicking "add pci device", then selecting your graphics card from the list.
I think you'll find that the other commenter, mkhool, has made it clear that you're spouting nonsense and it's a diet problem.
I really liked visiting it. And also wondered about the super long queues, when all you have to do is buy a ticket online and skip the queue entirely.
PepeGomez, the other commenter, has made it clear that you're spouting nonsense. He's made it clear that it's a problem of not talking to children enough.
> [...] HTML doesn't give as much typographic control as TEΧ, but when you compare to the full web suite, including CSS and SVG, that conclusion can't be sustained

And the very formula that was a proof that HTML+CSS+SVG is enough shows that
it is not enough. In my browser it looks terrible, subscripts and
superscripts are mixed, font is uneven, and what not. The formula is simply
unreadable, in the sense that I can't decipher it, not merely it's awful to
look at.

Moving out of TeX ground to HTML+stuff, you instantly give up plenty of goods
that were implemented in TeX well (kerning and hyphenation among the others),
you give up consistency of behaviour (font rendering), and in exchange you get
source code that looks obnoxious compared to pure TeX or LaTeX.
What's painfully not funny, is that the vast majority of the British public won't see this as a problem, and won't see any need to do anything about it.

There is a reason why all the data and calls go through the BT Tower in London, and why it is guarded like a fortress. All the taps are there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Tower
Ask anybody who works with autistic children. You won't find an autistic child whose parents aren't either mentally ill or autistic themselves.
Ah OK. It was too original and extreme to be true. :)
I wonder why Apple doesn't simply implement the same window snapping as Windows and most Linuxes - it has pretty much become a standard UI metaphor.

Instead, they built Split View, which I think isn't very intuitive.
To me it seams that they just don't care.

Either they know, that the other countries will follow anyway (because the politicians are (select one or multiple): incompetent, bought, blackmailed, Pro-US, incompetent, ignoring their own countries interests) -- or the things told about the importance of the treaties are not true, but it is just a vehicle to transport the antagonizing bullshit, because some big corporations want this to be installed.

In the EU (TTIP), my impression is, that at least at the high levels of politicians, the list above just must be applied. Many leading politicians are just hitting so hard to get this installed, that it seems they are mad, when I see what negatives they are ready to swallow. They let the US dictate the treaty and just don't seem to recognize, how the EU is hornswoggled.
I would rather say we should be not so much impressed with pagefair.

Running stuff on an externally managed CDN without 2FA is simply stupid and dangerous. And even more as they are a third party script used by dozens of news papers.
That's not what I said. I said children not being to exposed to language, that is, other people talking. It's a well known thing that if language isn't acquired within a specific period, the window of opportunity closes and it's no longer possible to (fully) learn it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period#Linguistics
What exactly is your issue with GDS? I thought they just build tech infrastructure for public services with a more modern approach.