skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dev boards are usually priced much higher than consumer products since you usually don't have the same scale of manufacturing.
This is strange, because Editorial (which embeds python) actually allows you to download some snippets of python to add functionality.
Keynote at PyCon Brasil 2015 by David Beazley on Asyncio and Async/await
Or if you can't run ethernet cables, I've had quite good success in my house with a powerline adapter (like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-Powerline-Extra-Outlet-PLP1200...).

Couldn't vouch for how well it'd work in an apartment setting, though.
Forcing the use of a single rendering engines also minimizes memory usage (the code for the engine can be mapped in shared memory) and thus allows Apple to ship devices with less RAM, slightly decreasing power usage. It also speeds up the launching of applications that use a renderer (the code for the browser, its JavaScript engine, the font renderer, etc. will already be in memory)

I think that effect could be fairly large if Apple would allow applications to contain their own web engine, not because it would mean a second engine, but because it easily could mean a third, fourth, etc. engine, given that not all applications get updates at the same time. Imagine app #1 shipping with Firefox's webview version X, app #2 Firefox version X with bug fix Y, app #3 with Firefox version Y, etc.
I wonder if the marginal value of a TV ad impression declines as the number of ads per hour goes up.
> "Finally found an alternative to @firefox that supports Adobe Flash without all the errors - @Waterfoxproject works just wonderfully :)"

...no thanks, unless they want to share details of their sandboxing tech.
I've long been interested in the use of sortition in political decision making, and it always surprises me how little it has been seriously studied and considered compared to the potential it seems to have.

Much of the information there is is of pretty low quality. It might of course just be such a bad idea that everybody smart enough to give high quality contributions on the topic does not want to waste their time with the idea. But if this is the case it is totally non obvious to me, and most criticism I've read seem to be from people that do not have a clear understanding of the potential advantages sortition might have.

Very briefly, for the uninitiated, the main potential advantage of sortition is that it would make political decision making a lot more democratic. People representative of the population at large would actually discuss to make the decision, instead of the citizens making their choice by casting one vote every few years among a set of very similar parties (I know, this simplifies the debate a lot, but it is the main idea). This is very interesting if you are of the opinion (as I am) that lack of democracy is a big problem of our political systems. I believe that most time politicians go agains the will of people they do so for the wrong reasons and with the wrong goals, and way too often.

The law of large number makes sure the randomness in sortition is limited and predictable. Whereas with elections there is a big number of arbitrary factors that can greatly influence the results.

Of course sortition in practice might have a number of problem often brought up, but none seems unsolvable to the point where it's not even worth exploring the idea further.

How do you separate expertise from decision power, while still being able to make proper use of the expertise? How to implement sortition in practice? Would they ever let us? Would people be able to handle the pressure? Would they accept the position? And all criticism to democracy in general applies even more to sortition.

I think however that if you talked about elections to somebody who never heard about it, you could come up with just as a big number of potential problems. I don't know if sortition really is a better idea, but maybe it's an idea worth thinking about.

I recently read this article on sortition that appeared on the Atlantic which I think is really good: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/05/the-cas...

Another good starting point for further exploration is the blog Equality by Lot: https://equalitybylot.wordpress.com/
I agree that systemic forces are at work, but implying that people at oil companies or banks or other big institutions want "compel everyone to hand over part of their labour" adds more heat than light.

And if you actually want to change things, yelling "evil!" at the people you want to change is a terrible strategy.
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I wonder if the Apple Store will permit embedding Firefox (and/or other JavaScript-capable engines) instead of UIWebView now?
I suppose I'd be more enthused if Firefox syncing had worked from day 1. I've had Firefox as my desktop browser for ten years, and Firefox on my android devices for a couple. My experience was always that the syncing was irregular--i.e. I could have tabs open on my desktop window and see them from across the room, yet they wouldn't show up under the "synced" tabs on my tablet, even after manually triggering a sync on both devices.

So at some point, I stopped relying on that and just installed Pushbullet to bounce stuff around from my desktop to my phone or to my tablet. That has worked flawlessly.

Syncing logins has never really been something I've bothered with. I'm afraid of someone grabbing my tablet and then having access to all of my emails, message boards, payment stores, etc. All of my devices have LastPass installed, which is how I manage that.

So yeah, this would be a bigger deal for me I suppose if I hadn't already found other solutions for Firefox Mobile's old shortcomings.
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I read this as tech workers who choose to be buried under the highway "Bill" road will be paid mightily.

Deeply disappointed when I clicked.
> The centre of the island is an ice-filled crater of an inactive volcano.

Sounds like a combination of the Fortress of Solitude and SPECTRE's volcano base.
Actually, one way to see sortition is as a way of scaling direct democracy to large populations.
Wish there is an affordable ARM SOC board for building DIY Spark clusters, which has a 64bit CPU, 8 cores, gigabit ethernet, SATA, USB3, and 4GB memory (8GB memory would be even better), and under $100.

Spec-wise, Odroid xu4 [1] from Hardkernel is very close to meet this requirement, though still lacking in cpu and memory(only 32bit and 2GB memory for xu4).

[1] http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php
Firefox/iOS embeds UIWebView (or uses some other mechanism to get Mobile Webkit). Apple still won't let Mozilla use their own engine.
Public Beta: December 3, 2015
Unavailable outside the UK, or at least that's the message I'm getting.

My personal vote would be for the first Terminator movie, where Arnold was apparently running on a 6502 microprocessor.
The House of Lords: The Constitutional Dinosaur Britain Can’t Kill
Totally off topic, but when you look at the new mobile friendly HN with Firefox for Android is the comment nesting broken? Mine shows no text indentation but the up arrows are indented randomly. Been miffed that apparently nobody is complaining about this.
I saw the screenshot and was hoping for crapware-free Firefox, but upon downloading it, the damned Hello icon was there in the toolbar. Presumably later versions will add Pocket too, once they start working off a later upstream Firefox version.

Meh.
Strange, I thought this was the well known Onyx software for Mac system mainenance: http://www.titanium.free.fr/onyx.html
they kinda do already, and so does microsoft (application signing?), you can just opt out of it, and that's the key exception.

also, a general purpose computer is exceedingly different from a cell phone and they have notoriously bad security models.

Like I said, my phone runs my life, I don't have a reasonable means to keep it secure (not even on android), a PC, I can attach debuggers to processes and I can lock down my firewall, or I can sniff my network. - I can do none of this on a phone platform reasonably well (AF+ firewall on android requires jailbreak and breaks applications). and I shouldn't have to..

to put it bluntly; I can be responsible for my laptop, I can't be responsible for my phone.
You clearly didn't even read the article.
>$5 million in bounties has been paid to 2,000 contributing hackers for finding over 14,000 vulnerabilities

Thats an average of $357/vuln - or $2,500 per "hacker" -- or if you assume everyone shared the 357/vuln that would only equate to $.17 per hacker per vuln.

That seems really really low.

What % of the $5MM or the 14K did the top hacker or group take home?

How long is the tail of zero $$ per hacker in the community of the 2K?

(I met the founder on bart some time ago and was trying to get their services at my last company, and I was just literally this morning thinking about H1 as I need to have my PII SaaS system evaluated... but I am interested in the economics of this as well)
I can't find the link, but there was a good article about this recently (maybe in the last year) that spent quite a bit of time talking about the selection of the Doge of Venice. IIRC, they had a very complicated process that included sortition, nomination, election, and alternating large and small groups that allow them to select qualified officeholders while simultaneously limiting many of the problems with direct elections.

Does anyone have a link?
1) Apple is actually doing things that limit what you can do on your laptop. There's issues where you have to disable security policies to install OpenVpn or HomeBrew on El Capitan.

2) Apple sees laptops and iOS devices as serving different purposes. It's no secret that there are things you can't do on iOS. While Apple is trying to make iOS more capable in some ways, in other cases, their view is "go buy a laptop or desktop if you can't do what you need on iOS". It's not a crazy view. I'm giving the new restrictions in Mac OS X a serious side-eye--to the extent that I'm halfway considering going back to Linux on the desktop, even though I dislike Linux desktops. However, I find the restrictions on my iPhone painless. I'll just never even consider making an iPad my primary machine.
How to deal with the java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception?
I am getting java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exceptions thrown at different places in my app as reported by Crashlytics. I can't actually reproduce this on my device. But I'm guessing they are being thrown because of memory leaks. I have tried to use LeakCanary https://github.com/square/leakcanary to help track down these errors, but I found that it is difficult to understand exactly what the error stack traces mean and that tool ends up being difficult to use. Can anyone recommend the best way to track down these types of errors?
Personally I don't have a problem with that.

What I think is happening is that the hipster generation that grew with Mac OS X and helped save Apple is just discovering the Apple of yore.

The old Apple was quite proprietary, but they needed to sell an history to save the company.

So with NextSTEP adoption and increase of UNIX culture at Apple, they tried to cater a picture of standards adoption and welcome feeling to UNIX devs.

I value more cool tech than openess, but to each its own.
LoRa modulation for IoT [pdf]
You know what I wish would happen? Everyone would just get along - the burger guys, the tech guys. Just deliver the things with drones already guys, mmkay? I need that. I live in Europe. I haven't had a proper burger in decades.
The point doesn't seem to be getting a lot of people to call the number. The point seems to be getting a lot of people thinking about the consequences of calling the number.
They either don't sandbox at all or they backported the new 64-bit NPAPI Sandbox from Mozilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185532#c29
Mutability and Persistent Data Structures: Retroactivity
Leaving aside the whole USSR / USA thing, that you can have a couple of private companies competing for this is a huge step forward. But more important is that Boeing is not using "cost + plus" pricing. And that small detail is putting an interesting spin on the contest. Specifically that more rigorous cost reviews and more creativity is nominally allowed from the engineering team.

The goal here is to build a thriving, private launch capability which can serve multiple markets. In the US at least folks have started thinking about a regulatory structure for how that would work. That is important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is how do you manage multiple launches going up into LEO across the country not looking like a preemptive nuclear strike :-).
I don't remember if the following link was the site, but in any case it makes similar points (disclaimer: as far as I can tell, this seems to be a "helmet skepticism" advocacy site, so take it with a grain of salt):

http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1209.html

> "It's not a simple matter to draw conclusions about the benefit a broken or deformed helmet might have provided in a crash. However, the fact that serious injury to unhelmeted cyclists is as rare as helmet damage is common, suggests that most of the claims of benefit from damaged helmets are likely to be exaggerated."

> "The next time you see a broken helmet, suspend belief and do the most basic check – disregard the breakages and look to see if what's left of the styrofoam has compressed. If it hasn't, you can be reasonably sure that it hasn't saved anyone's life."

The point seems to be that anecdotes of the type "my helmet worked and saved my life, see? It's cracked" are not conclusive.
I think this should just be a builtin at this point, and in fact it would have been by now if it weren't for the walled-garden policies of the new gatekeepers of the modern technological world.
The increased use of fertilizer tends to lead to the forced increase of pesticide use IIRC (Source is in my library at home atm, sorry). It also leads to a decrease in nutrient value from the food as well due to the increased pesticide use.

From a pure efficiency note, pesticide and fertilizer use is the best solution in the short term. But I'm curious what the long term repercussions will be for both human and environmental health.
I think with the dev kit you're mostly paying for the motherboard-type thing and all the software.

The module itself doesn't seem that expensive, given that you're getting a top-notch ARM SoC. Personally I'd be interested in a group buy when it gets released (early next year, for $299 in 1k quantities).

The only Cortex-A72 chip that I know of is the MediaTek MT8173, and the GPU on that is nowhere close to a Tegra X1. So it's not like this is a previous-generation chip, despite being close to a year old.
It's looking more and more like the future will be various browsers acting as branding and UI Chrome around Webkit/Blink.
Ask HN: Forgo meeting a team in person for a new job?
I'm considering a Software Engineering role at a startup that is across the country from where I am currently located. All my interviews and conversations have been by phone, and their team is semi-distributed. I would be relocating to their office if I took the job (I want to do this).

I've got a good vibe from everyone I've talked to so far, I believe in their business model, they've been open about their numbers, etc. However, I feel nervous about saying yes to this offer having never met anyone in person. I'm going to ask for them to fly me out to meet people in person before I say yes, but plane flights to this location, from mine, are super expensive (1.2k+), so I don't think I would hold it against them if they refused to fly me out just to see their office and meet some folks for a day.

What are people's thoughts on the matter? Has anyone said yes to something like this before? Did it work out? What are some things I should be aware of, maybe I can ask some questions to make up for the lack of in person check?
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Make AttributedString extremely simple to deal with
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Thanks a lot! .. and you would think a lawyer who charges $700 per hour should know that. Motherf*$&er!!
This is a sad but expected capitulation on Mozilla's part. They weren't succeeding in their efforts to ship Firefox devices and they were blocked from shipping Firefox proper on iOS devices. If they didn't ship something, an entire generation of web users wouldn't even know what Firefox was.

Webkit browsers currently account for a 91.6% share [1] of mobile (phone/tablet) browsing. Ironic as it sounds, the only hope right now for mobile web standards is Microsoft. They're the only vendor that stands in the way of the idea that Webkit should simply become the de-facto standard for the web, in place of specs worked out in collaboration with other browser vendors through the W3C.

[1]: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

Correction: Firefox on Android ships with Gecko, my mistake.
Sortition and election are both ways of scaling democracy to populations too large to effectively use direct democracy alone; neither is any closer to direct democracy, and it seems to me that each can be viewed as mitigating the distortions imposed by the other (as our system -- in the US, but the same is true in most modern democracies -- tends to use election much more than sortition, it may be that it could be improved by increased use of sortition,)
That's even worse. PMTU detection is OK but not perfect. Fragmentation needed but DF bit set ICMP messages are important.
I like to accept what people say at face value until evidence suggests otherwise.

People go on about Bill Gates and antitrust, but do they really think Steve Jobs or Scott McNealy or even Page & Brin would behave differently?

Bill Gates' biggest fear was not losing the OS monopoly. His fear was of Microsoft turning into IBM -- always having to run everything you do by lawyers.

MS-DOS wouldn't even exist if IBM hadn't had the justice department watching their every move.
But that's true even on the desktop if we talk about browsers, and yet we do use extensions, ironically to augment the browser's security too.

While I do understand your point about rigorous review for a mobile app, I think that browsers should get special treatment in this regard and allow extensions.
That will probably get removed soon. I believe Apple already made him get rid of a similar feature in an update for Pythonista (I could be remembering wrong though… maybe they made him remove something else?).

EDIT: Oh, wait, found it:

http://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/06/12/pythonista-in-app-store-pe...

“So what was the problem Apple had with the previous version? Turns out, they didn’t like the Open in… menu integration I had added in 1.4 because that would allow you to import executable code from external sources. My theory is that this policy is in place to prevent apps that circumvent the App Store, e.g. by offering downloadable games that don’t go through Apple’s review (and revenue chain via in-app purchases).

[…]

I’m sad to see this feature go. It wasn’t just a convenient way to import scripts, it also enabled some pretty interesting automation workflows that could process the contents of pretty much any kind of file you could access on your iOS device.”
1 to 9 mile range. The receiver works like this, I think it's neat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirp_compression
Do you scan them frequently? Ever? Know anyone that does?
Read this article and was curious if it's always peach fuzz hiring someone back?
Reminder:

https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Emplo...

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/sole-proprietors-how-...
> I don't understand why the US allows it, and it screams of corruption/bribery/etc.

Seems to me like you understand it completely. The US is, like most countries, mired in a bit of corruption/bribery/etc. I am of the opinion this is simply part of the human condition, and is virtually impossible to eliminate.
I sat in on a couple of those classes. At the beginning of the class there were 50-100 people registered. At the end, there were 6 (including graduate students).
Deconstructing Apple’s Transactional NPS Survey
Take care of yourself. This sounds like depression - seek help. Respect yourself and tell those thoughts saying that other people "have it worse" that whether or not that's true, you deserve to be happy.

What you're going through is normal and OK. Reward yourself with little things and accept that something has gone wrong. If you had a cold that lasted a year, you would see a doctor. That's what this is. Lack of motivation and loss of interest in things you used to love is a physical ailment. It may not seem like it, because no one else can see it, but it is.

Accept the fact that noticing these bad feelings is not self-pity. It is genuine concern that something is wrong and you are rightly worried. It's OK.

That's the first step I took in fighting my depression. It's damned difficult to do. But you reached out, and that probably was pretty difficult too. I believe you're up for it.

Take care of yourself. Respect the fact that you deserve to be happy. Reach out to professionals, and friends and family if you can.

We're a community that takes mental health seriously, because there is nothing more important for the type of work we do than having a clear and focused head.

Take care. <3
> The reason selection by lot could work is that a large number of people were excluded from the pool.

Its clear that Athens excluded large numbers of people from the pool of sortition (just as most democracies before the 20th Century excluded lots of people from the pool of electors), but its not clear to me how you get from that to the conclusion that exclusion is necessary for sortition any more than it is necessary for election.
Made my day.
>steam machines could easily come to dominate the console market,

What extra value would it provide over existing consoles?
Collectivism vs. Individualism: The true path to character?
I'm a female who hated playing with dolls - they were boring. I didn't play with trucks or other toys either. I preferred hands on or sports stuff - bike riding, tree climbing, football, computer gaming(but not television which I could never stand). I required activities which were more mentally stimulating, otherwise my behaviour became destructive.

I'm quite lucky though as I was encouraged to do the things I was enjoyed - my female cousins were not. When their brothers went bike riding, she was told she had to stay home and make cakes. When she asked for gifts for Christmas she didn't get them because they were not socially acceptable for females, so she got dolls.

So, how many choose them because they genuinely like them? And how many choose them because it's enforced and they think it's the social thing to do? How many disney films are all about finding one true love to take care of you?
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> more familiar

To whom? There is still a huge number of incompatible text editor cultures. Mac bindings, Microsoft bindings, Wordstar, etc.

> better defaults.

There are dozens of "better" .emacs pre-cooked packages. Choose any. No need to stick to the out of the box defaults.

> OS-standard

Which OS?

> he result is that new users don’t have to learn anything to be productive

The "new" users had to learn all those "OS default" bindings and terminology first. Not that "new" in my book then.

> it requires up-front investment

They simply forgot their up-front investment into learning the defaults of their chosen OS. I understand that - I still cannot use Microsoft Office, can't be bothered to learn it.

So, the only advantage is familiarity to those who already invested a lot of time into learning something else. Nothing of a value for the new users.