skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's extremely hard to find a Firefox OS device with acceptable (as in "> 512 MB RAM") specs in Europe.

I looked for months and I ended up buying a Moto G 2014 and installed CyanogenMod (which took me ~3hs because newb).

I couldn't be happier today and I sincerely hope FirefoxOS offers its OS on newer hardware if it ever wants to stand a chance.
Great book and over view. A few weeks ago the LA Times wrote up a how-to / lessons-learned from the experience developing a Journalism VR feature. If you enjoy the Virtual Reality Journalism book, well worth checkout out this article -> http://graphics.latimes.com/mars-gale-crater-how-we-did-it/
Cashing in on female entrepnreneurs
Ah yes, I remember reading this back in 2012. It's a good document, but you can't take it too literally or go around accusing everyone of being a shill. Interestingly, I'd say HN is probably one of the least-threatened online communities for this kind of disruption, as administration is stringent and relatively consistent and transparent about the rules. A small, tightly-knit userbase also makes me doubt that HN is heavily targeted by these types of programs, however there are still a few issues (Israel, Russia, the NSA) that predictably draw out people who may not be legitimate. This gets noticed quite frequently by posters here, though.

A site like reddit I would classify as high risk. I would say with certainty that reddit is heavily targeted by various propaganda/control programs, potentially with some degree of complicity from the administration. reddit has a large, free user base that isn't likely to have expert level information on certain topics-- new accounts can be made easily, developed, then used for propaganda for free. It's easy to manipulate voting system, and reddit is known for its openly corrupt moderators. I happened to browse reddit in the past, during the Russian invasion of Crimea-- the shills were palpable in every related thread. The same could be said for the volumes of accounts with little history that (on reddit, the largest Snowden-friendly place that exists) were openly calling for Snowden to be executed and other stuff like that. Then there's the perpetual corporate advertisements that are disguised as posts or submissions. The unfortunate reality is that reddit is fully locked down and propagandized, and has been for a few years now. The size of reddit makes attempts to control it inevitable.

My point here is that the techniques discussed in the article are real, and actively practiced on audiences similar to our own here. The remedy is knowledge of propaganda, harsh moderation, and critical thinking. I think a new killer app would be a form of automated shill-detection for forums... the trouble would be reducing the false positives to zero. The reality of our era (and, in fact, any modern era) is that people can be convinced of insane or unreasonable things by powerful outside forces very easily.
Wouldn't that require a nation state to:

1. Get a signed CA certificate for your domain at gun-point.

2. Send a forged DNSSEC record?

In which case, it's not significantly worse than the current state? And even though we can't burn a TLD, we can burn the CA that signed the certificate in the first place?

Or is there some magic in DANE that subverts CA verification?
Which will result in going back to good ol' pirating. Again.
Tmux Chess
Flycut [1] pretty much works just as you describe including the keyboard shortcut (shift+cmd+v is the equivalent on the mac). It's installed on every single Mac at my office and works really well. Now go buy yourself a shiny new mac today and report back... for science!

[1]https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut

(It's MIT licensed and also in the app store... there is a link to the app store version on the github page)
PR piece.

"Because I want to win in the start-up lottery and cash out." would be more honest - and there is nothing wrong with that.

but this claim of making the world a better place - oh come on.
> They focus on one platform, because game programming is more than the graphics API, the hardware architecture and OS are also part of the whole equation, and what means being able to extract every single byte and ms for a few extra FPS.

Not according to experts who actually work on cross platform games.

> A publisher that targets PC, XBOX, PS4 and Nintendo has already by definition supported 4 graphical APIs

That's exactly the point. You can't claim they are happy about spending x4 times more on supporting their engine on each system and have a very limited ability to share code. It's always extra costs. They do it because vendors of those walled gardens limit developers' choice and artificially force incompatible APIs on them.

> you can shout to the windmills how much bad lock-in and duplication of efforts are

They are bad and everyone knows it.

> no one will care

Those who care more, work on breaking that lock-in. See what Oxide Games developers have to say about this lock-in idiocy, and don't claim they aren't professionals.
I cannot vouch for the accuracy, but there's this:

http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/commerciallength.htm
It's absurd that one can pay for premium cable TV, and still must be forced to listen and watch advertisements. I refuse to watch cable TV advertisements. HBO is the only network I can stand to watch now. I have the most basic cable package because my Internet came with it, and it also came with HBO. I get so annoyed by advertisements on TV.
It changed. There's an ad-free option on Hulu now.
Its an urban legend that modern humans are not evolving because, medicine. The bone record for the last 50,000 years shows more evolution than the previous 1M. Probably because civilization has selected for a smaller, lower-calorie, less-aggressive social individual who can thrive in a crowded village or town.

There are side effects in any rapidly-evolving creature. Sports and mutations survive because they are helpful. But they can be hurtful in other, non-fatal ways. I think modern illnesses (need glasses? have a food allergy?) are unfortunate side effects of a rapidly-changing genome.
This is great news for those of us who want to see DNSSEC more widely deployed for three reasons:

1. CloudFlare already hosts the DNS for millions of domains. This is now making it VERY easy for those who use CloudFlare to sign their domains with DNSSEC.

2. Because of the competition within the DNS hosting / operator space, this move by CloudFlare will hopefully motivate the other large DNS operators to simplify their own user experience for DNSSEC.

3. For those of us who want to see stronger crypto within DNSSEC, this move by CloudFlare advances the use of an elliptic curve algorithm. Yes, ECDSA has its issues, but by getting it out there: a) it gets people looking at EC algorithms; and b) it gets software providers realizing they need to have their user interfaces adaptable to incorporate more DNSSEC algorithms. (I.e. to realize the list is NOT fixed and will grow over time.)

As I said in another comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10553383 ) there is a draft out there to add Ed25519 as a DNSSEC algorithm:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sury-dnskey-ed25519-01

This draft needs to be approved through the IETF working groups - and then deployed on both the signing and validation sides of DNSSEC. This will take quite some time and so we need to start as soon as we can.
The risk of injury is normalized by distance, so it even adds more to the argument that people should be using helmets for driving way before they should use it for driving.
Pretty nifty! Do you decide to go down this route?
And, of course, here is An Electric Storm, the album made by Derbyshire, David Vorhaus and Brian Hodgson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZG8CE2KnBQ

(I particularly like Firebird, but I consider the whole album to be required listening.)
Sad to hear they are just "discontinuing" it rather than porting it as an addon. Or is it killed because it's the kind of addon impossible to implement with the new WebExtensions API?
The problem is that being "open" is one deciding factor in 1000. I can't go through a checklist and say: "I want $screen_size, $battery_life, and make sure it's open as well!"

I have to first search which phones are open, then narrow down available size, battery, etc.
Ah, I had read they were going to bring it in, I just didn't think it had happened yet, I guess it's been longer than I remember since I've watched commercial TV.
No. (a) is wrong.

The difference between DNSSEC's government-controlled super CA and a normal TLS CA is that when Google spots a normal TLS CA misbehaving because of an alert from a broken pin or CT log, it can shitcan the CA, either evicting it from the trust store or placing onerous restrictions on it. Both of these things have happened and will keep happening.

Google cannot do that to .COM or .IO. If the government-controlled super-CA that runs .COM misbehaves, we have no recourse.

DNSSEC essentially takes the worst feature of the HTTPS trust model and bakes it permanently into the core fabric of the Internet.
Didn't he already do that? And maybe its some of both - help others, while looking for a good opportunity for self.
Well, JTRIG exists whether or not this article is real-- and it probably isn't real. There are people who do this for their full time job. Additionally, your dismissal of "conspiracy" wholesale is troubling; conspiracy is merely another interpretation of reality that draws intense dislike because it questions the accepted story.

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

It's also undeniable that the government does try to disrupt dissenting groups, even if they are nonviolent. In the light of the modern version of this, it's hard to say exactly what movements failed due to internal disruption, and which failed due to not having popular appeal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Corporate+Catering+Services+|+Hospitality+and+Food+Services+Catering
Hulu just started offering an ad-free option recently.
$90-120 for internet per month? that better be like 150Mbps+ up/down
And to get that feature all you have to do is trust that the government that controls your TLD isn't going to fuck you.

Because it's not like the USG would ever tamper with the DNS to further a policy goal, right?

http://gizmodo.com/5936870/doj-seizes-domains-over-app-pirac...
That's correct and even the private companies are not as far along as they predicted in 2011 when the article I linked was published. They said they'd be ready in 3 years for people. I get the feeling NASA isnt concerned with getting people in LEO anymore and they are developing something stronger.

>Q: Is there any other way to get into space?

A: Not from U.S. soil once the shuttles retire. NASA could eventually use the commercial rockets and capsules being developed by private companies. Two companies predict they could fly astronauts to the space station within three years. NASA is under orders to build a giant rocket to go beyond Earth orbit.
Yeah, I'm sure if the USSR had won the Cold War, students would be taught the the Soviets dusted America in the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik.
I like this answer
Send them to postgresql conferences. I'm serious.

They will come back after speaking with people at very large banks (if they go to PgConf NY), very large insurance companies, and very large enterprise tech companies. All of them are moving more of their business into postgresql. Many of them are moving away from oracle.

They will change their perception very quickly.
Probably at least some. It's not such a big deal, though. Pretty much everyone in modern society is operating on a set of ideas that were 99.99% not their own. The trick is evaluating the placed-ideas and then replacing them with better ideas if they aren't working.
I don't understand your question. If the government can't subvert CAs, DNSSEC is pointless; let's all just rely on the CAs. It can subvert them. Now, what problem is DNSSEC solving?
Interesting read! Makes you think about your future years.
No way. Volkswagen is a major proponent of diesel cars, and as we all know VW was created by Hitler.
Stanford CS183C:  Blitzscaling – Course Resources and IRC
this repo collates materials from Medium, with permission by the authors, and extracts mp3s of the session recordings from YouTube

Further, I registered ##cs183c on freenode to invite like minded others to discuss materials together

The repo is a work in progress and is open to your pull requests

Link: https://github.com/Dowwie/cs183c_collection
That's true until your battery ages a bit and now the on-board battery monitoring is inaccurate because it thinks there's 5% or so left in power when there is none. I have more than one laptop that will just let the battery run out because the on-board diagnostics think there's juice left when there isn't any.

I think if you're selling laptops, then you should worry about these types of cases. Not to mention cases like having Windows Updates run on battery which means the laptop can't hibernate when after its started these installs at shutdown.

Standby/hibernate is still far from perfect. A fifty cent capacitor shouldn't be a dealbreaker for ssd manufacturers.
from what i understand OTA channels are free because the public airwaves are a public utility and they are funded by the ads they sell. cable just took this model and decided to reverse the costs from the ad generators to the consumers.
I think you are wrong. Social processes are driving us towards less privacy and not technology.

If we consider physical strength disparity between men and women, then an average strength man could rape as many women he likes, there is no technical restriction. Yet this does not happen.
I think the opposite is true - we have too many words. And it's because smell receptors are of such high dimensionality that we literally have to throw arbitrary and verbose vocabulary against it to try and describe it. Just listen to the wine connoisseurs describing their beverages.
If you're checking your `node_modules` into the repo you're doing it wrong :\ should just check in package.json.
No, no. Not Facebook and Twitter. This is coming from everywhere. Because you can't sell the open internet as a branded experience. (And you can't force people to look at ads on it either)
Except that it's on webkit rather than Gecko, so none of the previous FireFox extensions will work on it. Looking at the app page, it doesn't even mention the option for extensions. So no uBlock Origin, etc.

Kinda defeats the purpose of even having an iOS Firefox, if you ask me.
Why founders that do sales are more successful?
I'm just trying to understand this attack that you implied.
If you disagree on strategy... do you think the company has any chance to have a favourable exit in a reasonable time frame? It might be better to keep your equity for now, and let them buy your equity at the next equity round. Cash out and never speak to them again.
I don't know what the primary reason is.

Facebook has directed huge amounts of traffic to external sites for years and that doesn't seem to have been a major problem.
Aurelia Pre-Beta Release
tptacek - the root keys will remain RSA-keyed for some time. The root Key Signing Key (KSK) is 2048-bit RSA. The root Zone Signing Keys (ZSKs) that are CHANGED every 3 months (a ZSK key ceremony is in fact happening TODAY) are 1024-bit RSA.

There was strong interest in changing the algorithm when the KSK is rolled (when that occurs is still to be decided), but for the moment an algorithm change will not be part of that.

I don't deny that deployment of ED25519 will take some time. Once approved it has to be integrated into the signing software. It's also got to be integrated into the validation side. It's going to take time. So lets get started!
~~You only get 4 usable at any given time. Either the big core runs (A57) or the LITTLE core (A53) runs.~~

Sounds like I'm mistaken.
Guy Deutscher argues that the reason that languages in industrialized countries have developed basic color terms is due to the rise of industrial dying and color matching technologies, and that the reason that human languages typically don't have basic smell terms is because we don't have things like painter's kits and color swatches for smell that would easily allow us to compare them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/books/review/Bickerton-t.h...

A word's meaning is a social consensus is about a semiotic relationship, and unless you have good means of comparing one thing to another, it's hard to reach social consensus about the meaning.

After all, human color vision perceives a wide range, but many languages only have basic color terms for dark, light, and red. 19th-century scientific racism even turned this into an argument for the biological inferiority of non-Europeans.

I love his question to his daughter: "What color is the sky?"... because the answer is actually almost never "blue". The sky may be the thing most varied in color in our day-to-day life.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/211213-sky-isnt-blue/
Like your work e-mail?
Interesting that they seem to have dropped Project Denver in favor of A57 cores. I guess the issue is that big.LITTLE has big power advantages?
Quality has nothing to do with it. If they were of even higher physical quality than mined gems but still reliably discernible, they would not have a significant impact on the market.

Look at it this way, the kind of person that places a high emotional value on a diamond is not going to feel the same way about a $50 diamond as they would a $3000 diamond. It's all about signalling and an inexpensive, albeit high quality, diamond does not send the same signals.

Now... if they could produce large stones that were indistinguishable from mined ones then you'd have a crack at eroding the gem market. But then the diamond cartel would just enact some sort of global "Certified Blood Diamond" program to prop up the traditional prices.
If we truly hit an exponential curve, won't standard sexual interbreeding become a thing of the past?
I think the big problem will be actually figuring out which DNA configurations yield a human/whatever that's acceptable by human standards? That is mapping DNAs to expected phenotypes.
With the current system, they can just seize the domain and get a certificate for it.
It is not just
power outages that can corrupt SSDs, it is any unexpected power loss without the preceding SATA commands, so I think this would include unexpected OS reboots, kernel panics, etc. [1]

I've recently bought a new SSD and was searching for information on power loss protection, and the only vendor documentation on the matters seems to be [1] and [2].
SSD reviews have plenty of performance numbers (that interest me less), and besides sometimes describing what the vendor says about power loss protection they don't perform any actual testing for power loss protection, and end up being fooled by the vendors sometimes [3].
The only actual test I found was [4].

Capacitors are one way of protecting, but for some reason even some of the newer enterprise SSDs sometimes have them, sometimes not, even if older versions had them.
Some SSDs claim to have journaling (on SLC NAND) instead, but given how the firmware is closed source there is no way to inspect it for bugs.

[1] "Storage devices require a graceful removal of power to ensure data integrity is preserved.
Graceful removal of power includes commands to signal to the storage device that power might
be imminently removed" http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/docs/Unexpected_Power_Loss_Pro...

[2] http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

[3] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8528/micron-m600-128gb-256gb-1...

[4] http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html
If the genetics of the species are changing over time due to environmental factors (diet, medicine, etc) then is that literally evolution though? Evolution doesn't need to be "positive" nor does it have any goal in mind. It's just how we describe changes over time due to what is or isn't being selected for.

edit: sorry to nitpick but it's just one of those things that always gets me
Turning the database inside out (Video, 2014)
I recommend Urubu (http://urubu.jandecaluwe.com/) for building static websites.
The best (somewhat) hands-off approach to prepare prospects to buy from you
I've experienced #2, with Plex you can make playlists and shuffle through them though which I find mimics TV pretty well (without the ads).
Synesthetic metaphors for sensory experiences are the norm, even among sight and sound.

Colors are usually described as "loud", "quiet", "cool", "warm", "hot", "soft".

This morning I read an album review that described the music as -- “radiant”, "textured", with a "shimmering glow", "a gilded set of songs", "seemingly to soar in a striking display of absolute iridescence".

That sort of language just helps us triangulate an aesthetic experience using the language of our other senses, it doesn't mean a sense is any less direct.
How about, instead of getting started, we accept that DNSSEC is a failed 21-year-long experiment, and figure out a better way to get the moral equivalent of HSTS and HPKP for email links?
No. Seizing the domain does not help them if millions of browsers have the correct certificate pinned.

Meanwhile: we're all pretty unhappy that the USG does just seize domains. How can it possibly be reasonable for us to support a forklift upgrade of a core protocol that burns that capability permanently and cryptographically into the core of the Internet?
I don't think this qualifies as true bait and switch.
Painless Type-Safe Data Views in Swift
I got same for 'Download Shuttle'
I don't think that ads as a way of finding things you may be interested in is necessarily bad, but it's certainly not the only way. If I want to find out what's current or upcoming in videogames I can go to Eurogamer, Polygon, Gematsu, or another site with that kind of focus. (Actually knowing which places are best for your interests and which should be filtered out is another issue, of course...)

If a random ad happens to be something I'm curious about then great, but I find that it's more often not.

2 is a fair point, though I wonder if your shared interests as friends (making assumptions here) couldn't guide your search?

Cable as 'a curated platform of best video content, being streaming 24/7' is interesting, but the current "best" just may not be someone's thing. Again I think it comes down to wanting to choose precisely what you watch, though I see your point that you don't always know (though if you don't know what you want to watch, maybe doing something else is the option?).
> The NAZI party was the modern german part of fascism, while the modern US part has no name yet

Not so sure about that. For me, the term NeoCon already sounds and smells exactly like the term Nazi.
Yes: assume one of the thousands of CAs you trust has been compromised by NSA.
Well there's a difference between evolution and natural selection. What I was implying was that our diet may not influence our evolution through natural selection because modern medicine may prevent us ridding ourselves of the bad mutations or may keep good mutations that will adapt to western diet from rising to the top. So it makes sense that we are more diverse because the best genes are less competitive. But genetic mutations occur no matter what we eat, so, yes, we'll continue to evolve.
It's also too little too late if you ask me. If this was the eventuality for Firefox on iOS, why did this not happen with the initial iPhone around 2008?

It's been 7 years, what's the point? Sync? Who uses that? Google accounts are far more widely used w/ Chrome.
Then again blind tests proved wine tasting hogwash
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-tas...