skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that different from trusting whatever system delivers your desktop/mobile apps? Download over HTTPS from an reputable app store or web site. Or embark upon building and verifying it from source, which you can also do in the web app case.

The only thing that is missing is the ability to verify the download out of band on desktop. This might be addressed with a link/bookmarklet w subresource integrity?

With the client side web app there is still more transparency than a server side app, because in event of compromise the backdoored code must be served to your browser instead of staying invisible in the backend servers.

The other big advantage from P2P is operational independence, you no longer need anybody to bankroll the servers and bandwidth.
Boys are approximately four times as likely as girls to be autistic. That would tend to make a group that is disproportionately male automatically be disproportionately autistic compared to the general population.

I wonder if that was taken into account when determining that security experts are disproportionately autistic?

Assuming that this is based on a proper base population for comparison, and so autistics are disproportionate among security experts when compared to their prevalence in a group drawn from the general population with the same gender statistics as security experts, then a possibility to consider is that whatever it is about males that makes them more likely to be autistic might also be something that makes males more likely to be interested in hacking.

That would fit with Asperger's view that autism was at the extreme end of a spectrum of behaviors normally associated with "maleness".
Do you know how many people have fallen off cliffs WITHOUT taking LSD?
According to the comments on Matthew Garrett's blog, RHEL has an almost identical clause in its EULA: in order to redistribute open source code in RHEL, you must "remove and replace all occurrences of Red Hat trademarks". (Unless they've changed it, Red Hat also has a policy that redistributing their Linux kernel patchset they supply is a breach of contract and they will terminate support and updates for anyone caught doing this. Yes, they're working around the GPL to stop people redistributing GPL code.)

This is apparently why CentOS takes so long to track new RHEL releases: https://lwn.net/Articles/417849/
Meteor to build its new template engine on top of React
Customers are buying what's available. It's a feedback loop, but one that's sadly hard to break on the buyer side.
Ransomware will target also Medical Devices
You don't get to opt out of people falsely calling SWAT teams to your house.
should have taught yourself how to sail and become a pirate
I think it is rather binary, but I think your example in this case demonstrates a different principle.

Having my "needs" defined separately from my "wants" denies me my freedom. But that's different from you say, deciding to confiscate my things without due process.
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which is the rare holiday spot in India?
Not exactly, believe it or not it takes a sampled approach for most things.
Even Glatt Kosher might not have inspection for every animal slaughtered.
Many modern slaughtering techniques are compatible with Jewish slaughter requirements, the added costs are because the animals have to be inspected for certain defects/conditions before and after the slaughter.
You are not going to inverse and inflate the lungs of every cow to check them for lesions even for Kosher beef.
Beyond that it's just the question of how the meat is processed after slaughter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shechita#Bedikah
There is an F-droid repo somewhere of a fork that uses websockets.

Of course not embraced by the Signal team, but from what I gather it works most of the time. Sometimes getting messages can be a bit wonky, though.
Are any politicians explicitly defending the kind of Internet/technology-related civil liberties mentioned in the article?

The ones that are often written about are Wyden (D), Rand Paul (R), Amash (R), Massie (R), any others?
Yeah, not if you are an Australian. At one stage you couldn't even get Star Trek TNG on iTunes.

There's a thriving industry in Australia of people designing services to bypass geoblocking measures. It's pathetic that I can't watch a movie just because of my nationality. Hell, one day I wanted to buy the Dragon Book on compilers, I put in a U.S. address and I got an email from Amazon telling me that I couldn't purchase the eBook because I'm not an American. They asked for a U.S. passport. And they never refunded me.

Consequently, Australians pirate more content than pretty much any nation on earth. Yet when we get the content, we pay up. Whenever I hear someone say that pirating content is a crime, I think - discriminating against me because I'm an Australian should also be a crime.
I've been saying this for a while now; if you're using 'unicorn' as an adjective, please stop.
I disagree, in my experience as a OS engineering manager it is both cheaper and more effective to hire BSD people. There are a lot _more_ mediocre Linux people, probably even in smaller cities, but the really good ones are highly contested and you have a hard time getting them. Sweet spot is to go remote with BSD people.
"actually"-department: It's Svalbard / Spitzbergen, islands far north towards the pole. Technically Norway as it's on the Norwegian side of those islands.
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"This particular idea is pretty obvious. What wasn't obvious was whether it would work well, which was why nobody else got around to trying it yet."

Ideas are often obvious after you hear them for the first time.
The title should probably have an "a" prepended so it's not misleading if you see the first part.
Also try GetFlix.
It's more than that, the Labour party is substantially funded by Lord Sainsbury. Most political parties are mostly funded by a few wealthy individuals.

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-04-18/just-76-people-mad...
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Don't know, not a religious expert.
Gelatin might be a good example according to most Jewish communities Gelatin that is made from animal bones isn't meat but Parve as long as the bones have been processed to remove all marrow and blood prior to being used to make the gelatin.
Some very strict communities however do not consider it to be parve and it cannot be used for dairy products for that Gelatin from fish bones or non-animal sources will be used.
However both communities will not consider the Gelatin to be Kosher if pig bones are used because that will trump any other statue as pigs are specifically listed in the bible as forbidden (you won't see Jews using pig leather for example either).
The only allowed use of pigs according to Jewish religious mandates is for medical purposes e.g. temporary organ donations, using pigs as living dialysis machines and formerly pig insulin (not sure if it's still used anywhere) because saving one's live trumps everything.
> The Internet Dream is sadly not compatibile with profit-driven world.

I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by Silicon Valley startups.
Telegram lost it credibility in how they handled criticism when they firs launched. They were arrogant ("look at all the programming world champions we have. If you don't have an exploit STFU" type of talking). The criticism people came with was valid.

After half a year a russian guy found that the server could backdoor and later decrypt any newly started secret chat. That wasn't very confidence-inspiring back then. Looking at their security documentation now is _still_ painful. What better lesson to not roll your own crypto is there than having someone show how badly you borked it? They didn't learn anything.
If it just applies to mosques then it would almost certainly raise Constitutional issues. If it applies to all churches, then probably not.

Most states have or allow their local communities to have rules prohibiting liquor sales near various kinds of community locations, which are generally some subset of schools, churches, playgrounds, daycare centers, and similar. These have been around a long time and have been actively enforced, so I'd expect that if they were a problem they would have been challenged long ago.
They're open source, but they rely on so much ubuntu-specific infrastructure and patches that it's infeasible to get them running anywhere else.

Cf. the effort necessary to get Unity running on Arch: https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch

You have to rip out and replace a lot of software, all the way down to GTK itself, just to make it work.
What the Bible Says About? Part 5
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Dry counties are already banning what is already a controlled substance.
I misread "Theranos" as "Therac" in the headline, which would have been even more outrageous.
I think at the end of the day the better solution for most people would be to use something like Brightcove, The Platform, Ooyala, Adobe, paid Vimeo, or even Youtube.

Unless you're Netflix, I wouldn't bother with this stuff yourself. Even then, a lot of (A)VOD sites 'outsource' this stuff to Brightcove or The Platform.
The "almost any Asian restaurant" really depends on where you are. Especially Chinese, because of the massive regional adaptations of Chinese food (e.g. the same "Chinese" dishes in California, London, Oslo or Beijing can look and taste like entirely different dishes - I still find the constant presence of oranges in a lot of "California Chinese" food hilarious, for example).

I live London, and while I have no interest in vegetarian food, the few times I've been out with vegetarians to Chinese restaurants in London for example, it's been an exercise in frustration to the point that I won't do it again, because many places you'll ask if disk x is vegetarian, get told it is, order it and find out that it's full of shrimp or covered in fish powder, or cooked in animal fats, and when you bring it up with them they're confused and appear to not understand that this means the dish isn't vegetarian... I've been to Chinese restaurants where finding any vegetarian dishes other than plain boiled rice has been almost impossible.

(as for tofu.... I'd rather starve; I can stomach it in small quantities in addition to something else, but I can't handle it as a meat replacement)
There has been very similar articles "in tone" about Kiryas Joel. F.e http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/nyregion/kiryas-joel-a-vil..., http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/09/nyregion/a-hasidic-village...
SO is great for finding specific things. If you understand fundamentals it's easy to port your knowledge to some other framework by just googling, and you'll end up on the right SO question. What's the syntax for making a dictionary in some language? What do they call the dictionary in that language (map maybe)? How does the && work in the new c++? And so on.

It's much harder to learn stuff that isn't specific on SO. Things like working practices, what kinds of architecture are out there, and questions where what you're after is a kind of survey.

One thing I don't get is the speed with which the top answerers can get back to you. I've personally had questions answered by Hans Passant, Jon Skeet, Marc Gravell, Martijn Pieters, and probably a few others off that top list. Sometimes it's within minutes. Is their daily life substantially to answer questions about the technologies they are associated with? I work all day as a coder, and I don't have time to sit there and type out answers.
Linux FF 42.0 here. Playing notes works but nothing else like the knobs respond to mouse inputs.
coded it for myself to integrate with rss reader but then opened it public. hope this helps rss readers..
Well, there's this famous 2007 statement by Theo de Raadt that many took to mean OpenBSD would never, ever play this game: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582
The same argument was made (correctly IMHO) before as well. "The best minds of my generation destroyed by Wall Street and Hedge Funds."

Perhaps i'm naive but on average, the product shipped by the west coast is a whole lot more useful than the product shipped by Wall St, no? Certainly on relative terms, I would think on absolute terms as well?
Right but if it was literally the Tesco political party it would look weird wouldn't it? Isn't that what the co-op party is?
stupid question. of course they are.
Islam does not know a separation of church and state and does not consider itself a private matter at all.
With that religion there comes a mandatory political and societal system, with strict rules on Kuffar and Moslems alike. Wherever Moslem settle in great numbers, Sharia will follow and they will try to implement it.
>needs

If I tell you that you have a need to purchase an eleven foot swimming pool for you back yard, and if you dont have a back yard you now have a need for a back yard, how long will it take for you to believe you have a need for it? How many of your peers would it take to have the same, and for them to tell you that this need has to be satisfied.

What does that mediation upon "needs" mean?

We know about Maslows triangle of actual needs, comfort, security food. But what about all these other "needs" - people do pay to have these somewhat manufactured needs satisfied. This is how a profit driven world works.

It needs happy docile obedient workers, that are "not ashamed to be driven by profit" so do their ills with a clear conscience.

"I'm just working here"
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That's repeated all too often and it gets stuck into the mind of people. But is it actually true?

Ubuntu is still heavily based on Debian and still reuses most of the packages. There has been a gradual move towards systemd and systemd is default in Ubuntu 15.10.

To me, mjg59 comes out as a bitter person. He used to work for Canonical in the early days of Ubuntu. He shared the vision for a usable open-source desktop.

Then came the new GNOME 3 and the particular way that GNOME development works. It was not workable to offer to the users a stable and distinct user experience. So, Unity was created and all hell broke loose.

Now, when Mark farts, they scream "Terrorist gas attack!".
A couple of days ago there was some open-source appreciation day by the Ubuntu community and it looks very suspicious that mjg95 coincided his rant with this.
I think the previous rant was also coinciding with some similar positive Ubuntu announcement.

It looks even more difficult to get an open-source desktop. mjg59's attitude is like "if it is not ours, let's f* their efforts anyway".
Show HN: Wikifeat – a wiki/collaboration system made using Go and CouchDB
I've been working on a little side project and thought I'd share:

Wikifeat is an extensible wiki system (support for plugins and additional custom services, etc.) written in Golang intended for organizational/enterprise use. It uses CouchDB as its main database and Etcd for its service registry.

The frontend is written in Backbone/Marionette (using Bootstrap for layout).

Project site (running Wikifeat on FreeBSD): https://www.wikifeat.com

Plugin example: https://www.wikifeat.com/app/wikis/developer-documentation/p...

Github repo: https://github.com/rhinoman/wikifeat

I've also written a Blog post with some more detail: http://jamesadam.me/index.php/2015/11/03/making-an-extensibl...

Lots of rough edges and yet-to-be-implemented features to be sure (especially on the front end), but I believe it is at the point it might be minimally usable :)
At the end of the article:

Our next post examines how much urine splashes back on you when you use a urinal.

The range of articles is... interesting.
A guide to Linux signals
It also hijacks what seems to be every other single keystroke. None of F11, ctrl-W, ctrl-L, alt-D, ctrl-plus, ctrl-minus work.

At least on Firefox. Chromium seems to respect the user a little more.
Multiple discovery
The reverse of this is that the experts who work for free actually building the answers get burned out by bad questions: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19665/the-help-vampi...

EE.SO has rather brutal moderation in my opinion, but any solution has to take into account both sides of the equation.

* It's not even the asker's question anymore if another user edits it!*

Depends on how big the edit is, surely? Or are you claiming that having the readability fixed is humiliating?
Analog computer I saw in Berlin a few weeks ago, very cool stuff - https://twitter.com/maljx/status/650690241574080512
Either you're dishonest with "maybe 20 000 active jihadists" or just unaware. But that claim is laughable given the amount of support Jihadists have. You talk about News Room culture, but you miss there are two sides to it and now you're Chamberlain. ;-)

Also I am pretty sure Jews, African-Americans and Hispanics don't got doctrine that tells them to kill apostates.

A better comparison would be Westboro Baptist Church.
Except they are what, odd 20 people?
Islamofascists numbers reach the millions, obviously not all are active jihadists.
But many support and finance.

This isn't media panic. This is experience before the media even got attention to it.

EDIT: Yeah I saw the Wiki page just like you did. I was trying to serve a point. facepalm
Are there ways to counter the calls for prayer legally? I'd imagine they violate some noise disturbance laws, especially if they're played right next to people's apartments.

Mainly curious on that point because i'd consider going that way against a church down the road if they'd jangle their bells more than once or twice a week.
Tanzanian here.

I think calling the service "M-Pesa" is misleading since a lot of other people are offering the same service.

Here in Tanzania,

"M-Pesa" is the name for the service offered by vodafone,a mobile communications company.

"Tigo Pesa" is the name for the same service offered by tigo,a mobile communication company.

"Airtel money" is the name for the same service offered by airtel,a mobile communication company.

"EzyPesa" is the name for the same service offered by zantel,a mobile communication company.

For the above reasons,i generally call the service offered by these companies as "a banking service managed by mobile phone companies".

"Sim banking" is the name of the service offered by a "traditional" bank called crdb[1] so a more generalized name that accommodates both traditional banks and cellular network operator banks is in need.

Most traditional banks are also offering the same service.

The only thing they all have in common from the user's perspective is that the services are offered through ussd codes[1] meaning they are not tied to mobile phones and they work with any device that supports ussd codes.

I have an application called ussd-gui[4][3] that i use to manage by money at vodafone "bank" using a mobile broadband modem on my linux system.

[1] http://crdbbank.com/tz/alternative-banking/simbanking.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...

[3] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/ussd-gui/blob/master/icons/u...

[4] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/ussd-gui
I wore braces for 3 years, starting age 10. The idea was to "halt" the growth of my upper jaw, so the lower jaw could catch up.
I had a similar experience. I worked at a travelling agency in the early 2000's. There were days without a single customer, and I was the only employee at that particular office. Internet access was shielded (and monitored!), and we had no radio. On 9/11 someone barged in and told me the news, because I was unaware.

Anyway, I got some books about HTML, and later PHP from the library and started coding in notepad. To this day I think this has been a blessing, a lot of my friends learned by copy-pasting scripts, but I had to learn from the bottom up.

Long story short: I learned how to code and got the hell away from that dead-end job.
Completely agree. I live a few miles away from Hamtramck. We go their often for great Polish food. I don't need this kind of fear mongering.
It's not as simple as that. Fedora is used as a kind of public beta for RHEL which is much slower moving and more server-oriented; there's not a direct translation from one to the other.
This is indeed a quasi-racist (should be bigoted, not racist), fearmongering article. There are huge neighborhoods of Dearborn, MI and Dearborn Heights, MI that are overwhelmingly Muslim. Any gripes brought up by the Muslim residents of Hamtramck have nothing to do with their religion and everything to do with their individual attitudes.
Back in the 80s on BBSes and 90s on usergroups and finally the Internet a bunch of techies did whatever they wanted and normal people didn't get anything. Now they're getting more than any of us got back then and we're not standing still either, it's just moved on from the web. The Internet dream is alive and is evolving and whilst the original manifesto sounds a bit childish to me nowadays it's still part of what drives us. Wherever the mainstream catches up so do the old hierarchies and we move on.
In npmcdn the author of the package has to manually include the UMD build of the library.
This is great fun to play around with - if I'm not careful I'm gonna get completely distracted from doing any work today...

Just to chime in on others' comments, the knobs are pretty unpleasant to use, even with a mouse. I think though, Ableton has spoiled me with regards to knob/slider UX.

Awesome work!
Wouldn't Clutch be a better name? I mean if you litterally mean mechanical.
> I'm terrified of others prescribing what's "needed" because someone else has decided what what's "wanted" isn't the best for them.

I'm equally terrified of others convincing you that what they have to offer is the best for you, with minor tweaks to "cover your needs"; yet that's the basis of profit-based marketing.
Nice project. I wrote something very similar little while ago so I could see console messages on mobile devices where proper debugging with ADB or Safari isn't an option - https://github.com/onion2k/console.js - my version hijacks console.[log|info|warn|error] rather than just log.

That said though, if you have the option then the bookmarklet version of Firebug Lite is much nicer: https://getfirebug.com/firebuglite
Blue ice (glacial)
Why do you like the religious spammer? It's cringe-inducing and is a generally shitty behavior.
Yes, the same idea for Finance Industry. Loads of our brightest get drawn into there and never leave.

However, I was thinking more along the lines of these minds leaving these brain destroying occupations and making something better (e.g. something described in the article) rather than choosing between one and the other bad cases.
I know there's a big gap between the two. But again, given the duration, amount, and variety of the "heat", at least something tangible would be nice. What if it remains like this for another year? Ten years? Fifty years? Will it still be called "insecure, because it doesn't use what 'everyone' else uses"?