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Device encryption has been around since 8: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/using-device-en...

>the intended market of Home users did not need to be provided a way to lose their keys and brick their computers because nobody wants those support calls and the negative publicity about your data being inaccessible

So make the option a registry tweak, which is free, not an upgrade to Pro, which isn't.

I don't think freedom from corporate decryption abilities should be something charged for.
Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on DRPK's Red Star OS
There is Beaker notebooks which is similar to Jupyter. Haven't tried it but you can integrate multiple languages in one notebook.

http://beakernotebook.com/
> Architects, engineers, whoever...please, please, please, stop skimping out on noise insulation in new construction.

Noise isolation is expensive. Owners and developers rarely want to pay for it. The problem is rarely the architect/engineer, the problem is that it's an expensive up-front design+construction cost, and also difficult to achieve after construction.
Many cities have free WiFi in whole downtown areas, on many streets.

The use case is by now more than fleshed out.

Users connect to it once, and done. It’s cheap, fast, and simple.

You don’t have to worry about falling back to roaming when you walk out of the range of the network, as your phone automatically stops downloading that huge file as soon as WiFi stops.

But most phones have no way to mark a specific 4G network as "good roaming", cheaper than normal.
Boston Dynamics, the prime contractor for LS3, has bowed out of the military robotics business since being acquired by Google two years ago.

One feels that this might also have been a major factor, although perhaps it was easier to pin the decision on a technical issue.
How would connecting to it work? Seems like a much larger usability barrier than connecting to WiFi.
Amen...

I totally got the second job feeling.

I mean I love all the contributors - I do, but a few nights a week is fun, all of them is bad, when it starts to eat your Saturday, that's a steamroller.

There's reward, yes, but mostly there's a lot of people who (queue up the Sixth Sense voice) that WANT THINGS. I mean, everybody totally means well, they do... but so many people wanting so many things.

You could spent all your time just helping people who didn't read the docs, helping misunderstandings, restating the obvious, code review, website editing, so many things. And you have no time to do them all flawlessly, so you do them all the best you can, and get hammered on the things you couldn't be perfect on. Then you get into Catch-22 scenarios as the project grows and must please conflicting audiences.

Open source is really really really hard.

I think ones with very focused audiences (say, like, insect biology?) may have it easier - the more general purpose you are, the greater the demands from diverse audiences.

Programming languages may have it the hardest, I don't know.

Given, most people will probably think I succeeded at all of those things, but it also broke me in ways that would make me reconsider doing it that way again. Maybe everybody has energy to do it some, but ... it's rough.

There's so much more to it than just writing code too.
Given that the price calculators for Google Cloud, HP Cloud, Rackspace, etc are online, you can check for yourself. The key one is bandwidth cost for their services.
The story I heard was that Larry Ellison was driving his sports car down 101, when a cop tried to pull him over for speeding, so he called ahead to Oracle security and had them stop the perusing cops at the security gate when they tried to follow him into the Oracle compound.

Too bad the ATF and Attorney General Janet Reno didn't take charge of the situation.
I'd buy that game if it had input from the professions included in the game.
Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity May Not Really Exist
The Java plugin's mistake was to have a crap auto update mechanism, and be politically unpopular because it wasn't open source. That's it.

Both Firefox and Chrome ship massive numbers of security fixes with a high degree of regularity, but nobody cares, because:

1) It's the web, and The Web is close to religion for many people.

2) Their auto update mechanisms are pretty good, for Chrome, best in class, so people get the bug fixes.

The JVM sandboxing mechanism itself isn't the issue. The design is sound. All sandboxes have escapes especially where native code is concerned, and JavaScript sandboxes have proven no different in this respect. The issue boils down to auto update (lack of).
Show HN: Turning a Christmas tree into a low resolution display using WS2812B
Minor win: it's fantastic for tourists. Roaming kills, and it's great to have access to free wifi (maps, booking sites, e-mail, messaging, whatsapp calls, &c) in a foreign country.
This isn't a substitute for wired municipal internet connections, it's just a sitting-in-starbucks use case that doesn't require you to buy a coffee.
Getting the "Something is technically wrong" page on and off for the past 15 minutes. Seems like it comes up and goes right back down again.
SQL Hegemony – a sad state of affairs
+Lots to wanting to help heavy contributors first.

While there are a lot of "hey free software" people who don't contribute back, I love those non-contributor companies when they pay actual money for something. My experience is those are usually very reasonable with time-table on fixes and understanding, and the business relationship adds value. Maybe this is more about the maturity level of the company you are likely to be working with, I don't know.

If someone is however just a user, though, often they feel obligated to get infinite value rather than just the value they are paying :)
Nice informative quote is missing an attribution. Google finds it in an interview in Forbes with Dan Harrison, Google's head of M&A.
Yup, same experience (also for data science). The biggest helper I've had so far is jupyter-vim-bindings[1]

[1]:https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding
Agreed -- Vienna has free wifi (at least in the CBD) and this was awesome when visiting the city.
I live on the ground floor of a six-unit building in a university area. Not too long after the new semester starts, I find myself having to politely get the attention of a new student renter because they are playing music loudly at 3AM.

Every single time I've done it, they've apologized, turned it down, and usually thanked me for doing it myself instead of calling the cops.

I've lived here for about three years now. It's a smaller pile of anecdata than yours but I don't feel like I'm likely to see a different trend any time soon.
Microsoft patents a slider, earning EFF’s “Stupid Patent of the Month” award
You could say that Rap Started out as a modern take on Folk Ballards
Is it possible in browsers to turn off mouse events during scroll? This article uses it to good effect but in general the effect is very annoying. For instance on many websites when using the mousewheel to scroll you land up with the cursor over an element (lets say a map) and now suddenly you are scrolling the map instead without intending to.
Real Life Hoverboard
Using Fresco to Load Images Efficiently on Android
There are, actually. The Oracle JDK has some features that the OpenJDK does not. Look at the 'commercial features' to see what: examples include the resource management API, AppCDS, Flight Recorder, a few other things I forgot.
Sure. I thought of the general method.

I saw that this has been tried to some extent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Nick_Szabo
> that's kidnapping, in fact

Nitpick: false imprisonment, not kidnapping (kidnapping requires movement).
Except that your link explicitly states that "design debt" is also called "technical debt." This piece is trying to make a distinction between technical debt and something else.
I have most OVH IP's blocked on my servers because I get too many hack attacks from VMs they are hosting for their customers.
They do but there might be an important point embedded here. The OSS implementation is licensed for free use. That implies the API is authorized for that version. The two issues go hand in hand Im guessing.
ya mums a cunt
I have to disagree. There were movies every two paragraphs. It is hard to read when something is moving around an inch from the text. Further the movies took forever to load. I sat and waited 10 minutes for one. So I really had big panes that were still for 15 seconds and then suddenly jumped.

The article would have been much better technically if the movies didn't load or play until asked for. I'd argue it would have been better still if the author removed half of the movies and expanded on his point more. I didn't get much more than what it says in the title. Is it good or bad to hear so much in a library? What are the differences between buildings designed by architects that pay attention to sound and those who don't?
I meant to say that's about the price it needs to be to get people buying music again. It's gotta be well within the impulse buy range.
This isn't that hard to find. Here's a quick one.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/06/29/many-countries-po...

ryana posted a link re crime rates not really making a difference.

"While some have blamed violent crime for being responsible for police violence in some communities, data shows that high levels of violent crime in cities did not appear to make it any more or less likely for police departments to kill people."

Your turn to back up your claim that "Crime rate is correlated with amount of situations where use of lethal force is necessary."
So far APIs cannot be copyrighted. There have been lawsuits over APIs but no decision that protects APIs from being used by other people and companies.

GNU/Linux for example uses Unix APIs and Mac OSX uses Unix APIs, so if APIs are copyrighted then they would be sued for using the Unix APIs without permission. Then they would have to remove Unix APIs and lose Unix compatibility.

Sun went after Microsoft and others over Java IP before Oracle bought them out. Sun used a lot of money on lawsuits and ended up losing money to the point that Oracle bought them out. This is the same as when SCO was suing over GNU/Linux using Unix source code. It usually doesn't work and costs more in court costs than any settlement or rewards.
Yeah, it's all about what have you done for me lately on github. Even extremely well maintained libraries suffer from bitrot if they're not touched recently.
Another interesting wrinkle is that starters often get the credit or notoriety for the project, even if there is a large group of others now maintaining and supporting the project. Not to say that the project starters have abandoned the project or did anything nefarious, but when you think of projects like Rails or Backbone -- you think of DHH or Jeremy Ashkenas, not necessarily the other core committers now involved.
My phone automatically connects to wifi. An amazing use case is the beach. Sitting on the beach, streaming music on my phone via wifi.
5 SaaS Conferences You Need to Attend in 2016
Please explain it like I'm five: what is the big deal about lamdas?
Where is RLE encoding used a lot nowadays? Or is this code mostly an academic exercise?
Same, plus certificate error.
> Yes, but the problem here isn't that this number was recorded, it's that it was recorded at a garden supply shop with no real reason to believe that anyone at the shop was growing marijuana.

We all have a right to privacy. However, we all also have a long-standing right to notice and take note of things that happen in plain sight in public areas. Be very careful with how you propose to fix any wrongs here.

> The key bit is that it puts innocent people under suspicion and leads to wasted effort on the police side...

I'm having difficulty understanding what this has to do with surveillance of a parking lot that was publicly visible.

Anyone who has undertaken a non-trivial endeavor understands that one is likely to try many approaches that end up not working out. Police investigation is often non-trivial work. Sometimes, you'll go to a place, collect a bunch of publicly available information, sift through that information, and discover that it was all a dead end. This seems to me to be perfectly okay, as long as your motivation for gathering that information was good.

If incompetent or lazy officers are either spending an inordinate amount of time chasing dead ends, or they are throwing cuffs on the first name that floats in front of their faces, they should be corrected. If they can't be corrected, they should be removed from policing.

If incompetent or lazy officers end up jailing or causing someone to have to pay legal fees when that someone is obviously not the person(s) that they're after, the department should be required to compensate [0] the person that they fucked over.

If malicious officers are using their powers to harass and intimidate, they should face real charges and be removed from policing.

[0] This compensation would obviously go above and beyond compensation for direct costs and time lost and cover pain and anguish compensation as well.
Thanks a lot! New stuff is in the making :)
Ah, well that makes me feel better. I didn't write any of the songs I downloaded on bittorrent either.
Pandoc can probably produce docx directly, if that's your goal. Pandoc rocks.
Dalvik is already retired and replaced by ART.

Judging from the commits on AOSP, ART is still being worked on and has been adapted to openjdk.

It looks like it is here to stay.
os.js: JavaScript Cloud/Web Desktop Platform
Camera projections are very common technique in computer graphics and software often refer to this kind of terminology. When I try to get better understanding what they actually mean I often find wikipedia articles lacking. It's like looking up a traditional food and finding only receipe.
I don't think Bostrom or Yudkowsky believe this:

If one creates a human-level AGI with certain human-friendly goals, and allows it to self-modify freely, the odds are high that it will eventually self-modify into a condition where it no longer pursues the same goals it started out with

I think their idea is a rational agent would have no incentive to change its terminal goals, as changing your utility function has to be of negative utility save for in some extreme edge cases that aren't likely to be relevant. The hard part is giving it the correct terminal goal.

I also don't really think Bostrom is anthropomorphising.
Basing your AI ideas on Piaget's theory of cognitive development, that seems like anthropomorphism - though likely entirely appropriate when the human mind is what you're attempting to mimic.

Interesting article, brings back fond memories of Sl4,reading Ben, Yudkowsky, Robin Hanson, Gwern, and two Satoshi candidates argue was quite fun. I was convinced then that by 2015 nanotech or AI would have eaten the world. I'm a little more uncertain now, but we still have a couple days.
Broken link. This post from two minutes later has a good link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809914
If you distribute OpenJDK, then only the modules that are “derived from or based on” OpenJDK are required to be GPLv2[+CE] (the Classpath Exception allows you to link the library with an independent closed-source library). So I think it would only require platform/libcore itself to be released under GPLv2+CE. Probably manufacturers don’t need to modify platform/libcore too much anyway.

GPLv2+CE: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html

Again, the commit in question: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore.git/+/51b1...
>Well, so much for catching up on these issues tonight. Maybe I’ll just add DEPRECATED to the README, that’ll fix it.

Please, please, if you have too many projects like the author or myself, put a huge note in the README that it's not maintained. If you're lucky, there'll be an active fork you can point people to.

I wish GitHub had a proper UI for deprecating/abandoning projects and setting another fork as the canonical source.
Here's an interesting interview with Julian Treasure from a week or so ago about sound design:

https://youtu.be/_MORUgvdWTs?t=504
> Music changes peoples lives. It defines generations. To many, it is one of the most important things in the world.

I agree that music is incredibly valuable to us as a society. Ever since we crowded around the tribal campfire, our species has been almost pre-wired to appreciate music in this way. So the question I'd put forward, is how much of that value is created by the artists and how much of that value is created by the listeners? In the absence of the songs that "define generations" would we not have seen other songs fill the gap to define those generations? Or are those generation-defining songs so unique that, without them, there would be an unfilled void?

This is where I believe the current copyright laws err. While I'm genuinely posing the above questions, I've also mainly formulated my opinions on the answers to those questions and I believe that most of the value that you're recognizing in music comes from the fact that so many of us have, collectively, listened to the music rather than some inherent virtue of the music or skill of the artist. Once you accept that premise, it argues for things like vastly expanded non-commercial fair use rights or a loosening of the control that artists have to maximize the value realized by communities experiencing music together.

> artists deserve to be paid for their works

Most reasonable people would agree. Just how much and how often they're paid is an entirely different question and one where I strongly believe the artists (and record labels) shouldn't be the only ones with a say in the matter.
Yes, but the context of the article was in relation to the 37 API SSO's Oracle accused Google of copying.
Intel Gives the Etcd Key-Value Store a Needed Boost
I find that story challenging to believe. Fleeing an officer would be probable cause for an officer to enter the property to make an arrest. I can't count the number of times I saw it on Cops (when I worked at a TV station that aired the show)...someone fleeing from a minor traffic violation goes into their home, police follow and make a dramatic arrest. It's not like playing "tag"; there is no "base" that protects you from being tagged by police in pursuit.
But not only is that not the case, we don't expect that to be the case for most topics. Most people expect to go to Wikipedia, type in Caligula, and get an article about Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus that was titled "Caligula" and which mentions that he is commonly known as Caligula in the first paragraph.

If the people who edited the history subsections had the same attitude as the people who edited many of the math and science pages, there would be only an article titled "Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus", which wouldn't use the name "Caligula" anywhere, but somewhere deep within the article would mention that he had the nickname of "little soldier's boot." Because, hey, you need to have the knowledge of the parent topic, and if you don't even know the guys name then why are you even looking up the article?

I'm sure the math and science people would go nuts if the articles for other topics were written in a similarly opaque fashion. But they seem to mistake the clarity others write with as evidence that those topics are inherently simpler.
I empathize with the author. The root of the problem can be interpreted as the fact that a well maintained production-ready library is almost an engulfing charity service for the author. Ironically, economically, the optimal solution is for the masses benefitting from the library to return some of that benefit (perhaps in monetary form) to the author. But culturally this is not what free-software is about...

That's the irony and inefficiency of open-source software.
A good overview of all sides of the debate. It is a long article but it is still a relatively quick way to get up to speed. Personally, I think the danger from AGIs is minimal compared to the uncertainty and dangers in this world - not now so much, but during the Cold War we faced the threat of extinction. The world is relatively safe now and I don't worry about AGIs. By the way, I think that the singularity and super intelligent AIs are in the distant future, even with the accelerating pace of innovation.
|The last great band was Radiohead

Citation needed.
The only things that bother me are the fact that sometimes the earplugs get stuck and come loose as well as the microphonics caused by the wires.

I'm considering custom ear molds. Have you tried them?
http://www.etymotic.com/consumer/custom-fit/faq
Makes sense, thanks for the explanation.
When are we gonna get some invites? It's been a while since i signed up for the beta!
I want to maintain every good idea I have - but there are only 24 hours in the day. I definitely empathise with the author here.
^^^ This, SO much.

I'm single. I ended up in a house solely because every shared living space tried had serious noise issues.

I don't need all this room -- nor the maintenance. But I am most reluctant to share walls, ceiling, even a floor with someone else, ever again. Even if it's quiet, moving in, who knows what you're going to get next month, year?

Urban planners want us to live more densely and "efficiently." My primary response: Fix the noise problems. Then we can talk.
They still are. Have a look at flutter.io
It is supremely unhelpful when 1/3 or more of physics department tenure track positions are going to people who are not doing science, which is the present situation. As far as I am concerned, nobody needs a day job doing this sort of thing. It is recreational philosophical speculation, salted with mathematics. It would be far more productive to pay professors of physics to develop renormalization group theory for the game of go or something; at least that is testable, even if it isn't physics any more than the paper under discussion is.

You apparently don't understand the difference between "you know, like all of Einstein's work" and nonsense like this. Virtually all of Einstein's work was based on experiment (he won the Nobel for explaining the photoelectric effect), and all of it was/is testable both in principle and in practice. The sort of wanking in this paper simply isn't science in any sense of the word. It isn't even testable in principle. It is no more science than a ghost story or a damp t-shirt with an equation on it.
second this, great tool.
> The universal currency for exchanging units of time for units of economic productivity is money. (and not "oh, my employer gives me $5 a month to donate anywhere I want, we are so special!" but rather, $200k to $3m per year to projects that help run your company.)

This!

I would love to see this happening.
My ideal job would be as a GitHub janitor. Cleaning up and helping with projects that have become too unwieldy or need a little duct-tape to keep going.
I'm pretty sure that the optimisation barrier is a 'feature'. This can actually be handy, especially when replacing a complex subquery that the query planner turns into a nested loop.
Have you looked at Karma?
Just out of curiosity what's the motivation for these pirates to take these risks to share movies? Are they profiting from it financially?
There was a thread already a few days ago if you want to see other predictions about tech
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10795296
Better still people wishing to make a name for themselves could just peruse the deprecated/abandoned repositories, fix them up, and maintain them. Viola, you now have a great resume item and likely learned a large number of useful skills and production-environment experience.
Did you try Anathem? I enjoyed Cryptonomicon as well but I think Anathen was even better, especially for techies.