skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears the CEO was purportedly on international calling. Perhaps this wasn't an immediately available option.
StingRay and the cellphone surveillance
We don’t even have full 64-bit currently, actually current processors (Haswell series, for example) use only 48-bit for memory.
I came here to say this as well. I admit it, I like to drive hard on occasion. But does the fact that I know the limits of my car's abilities make me a more dangerous driver? Maybe. But I could also cruise ever so gently through a red light, mow down pedestrians at 10 mph under the limit, or smoothly swing wide across the center line into oncoming traffic. Are we tracking things that make dangerous drivers, or tracking things that are easy to track?
As long as people prioritize price above all other things, shenanigans like this will keep happening. If you're not willing to pay more for better service then your likes or dislikes don't matter in the end.
ZipZip – Easy zip file creator for Node.js
No, the biggest use case for depth sensors on a phone is a 3D scanning.

You'll be able to scan your Xbox or coffee table, it will identify it, and then you can do anything with that reference:

- List it on Craigslist (with detailed specs)

- Review it on Amazon

- Download the User's Manual

- Browse related accessories

- Request support

- Etc.

and you'll then be able to sell it on Craigslist or eBay in one click (including a relatively complete description with specs).

Think of it as an alternative to barcodes or RFIDs for things with unique and solid shapes.
Proprietary technology meant technology vendor technology bought and used by T-Mobile, not that it was proprietary to T-Mobile, unless Legere believes that T-Mobile's specific call flows or specific snowflake network configuration is part of this definition.

So other carriers sure could implement the same thing, but nobody is crazy enough to do that until they figure out how T-Mobile subscribers and the FCC respond.
Yes, I am familiar with them. The tooling has been really good of late. Android Studio has really improved and it is no longer as bad as it was with Eclipse.
A less-sensational article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/545146/battles-over-net...

The change isn't a ban on rooftop solar. It's a change in the metering for selling power back to the grid.
>(a) use one (1) copy of the binary portions of the Programs and any Supplemental Programs for the sole purpose of internal non-production and non-commercial evaluation and testing of the Programs, including, developing no more than a single prototype of each of Your applications;

How could someone with any dev experience think this is reasonable, let alone enforceable?
What's interesting is it's compatible with Web rendering probably at a relative cheap price, and it runs an OS which has WebRTC and stuff, so it can be used as a cheap terminal but which is still able to render internet modernly, and connect through WebRTC to any browser. So it could be used as a server and rendering unit in a network of cheaper C-only integrated circuits which connect to it, I think. Personally, I'm not an expert, but I'm intrigued. We're biased by the monstrosity of the thing, but I like the idea, and surely it serves its function.
I have a projector at home which casts about a 120ft image, I sit about 15ft away. So looks like I might actually see a difference at 4K, though I don't think my wallet would approve of me upgrading quite yet.

I have difficulty imagining a home setup where 8K would make a difference, assuming that chart is accurate.
Other energy industries receive billions of subsidies. An industry at its very infancy could use subsidies to become more efficient and lift off the ground.

We don't need to sponsor the most economical form of energy, we need one that is renewable and does not pollute on a mammoth scale. This is more economic in the long-run.
Most tap water in Germany is "recycled" water. I think this goes for most of Europe?
Drinking tap water and adding your on carbonate is even a thing here (German use the word as synonym for carbonated water).
"If anything, recycled wastewater is relatively sweet" - Said no tap water drinker ever
There are still worlds between the US and Europe..
"When called into Watson's office, the fellow said "I suppose you want my resignation." Watson looked at him and replied: "Are you kidding? We just spent ten million dollars educating you." "
Facebook, Google, Microsoft Balk at UK's Investigatory Powers Bill
Look how nice that 1915 room is! It's really a place designed to make the occupants feel ennobled. The ceiling is 20 feet high and there are huge windows. The 2015 classroom looks like a real wrist-slitter.
It's fine. Consumers are basically going to pay for the technology that is going to be needed for high-quality VR displays (at least resolution-wise), other other applications we haven't thought of. Some things are only possible until technology reaches a certain level.
Thanks for the recommendation. Your link is busted, here's a working one for anyone else who happens across this:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Korean-War-History-Chronicles/dp/0...

It looks like it's the /dp/081297896X part that's important, and the title in the URL can actually be deleted.

Anyway, I grabbed the Kindle sample and will see how it looks!
We're building a real estate research tool to help people find the right home based on their lifestyle.

This could be really interesting for us if ever there's traction. I'm particularly interested in ratings and reviews and the filtering capability.
Being smaller usually results also in being faster for the cache effect.
1) I like how great the benefits are, and how amenable my firm is to making sure that I don't totally hate my life (crazy, inconsitent hours and a good work-life balance). But at the same time, I find the stability to be stifling - I'm not opposed to working 14 hours/day if I know that I have a tight deadline coming up, but why do I have to sit at my desk to hit a 40 hour/week deadline if I don't have 40 hours of work to do?

2) I'm currently in a long-term project, and it's the nature of my firm and the projects that my group has that you tend to stick to a project over a fairly "long" time period (1-2 years for consulting might as well be forever). I am doing a lot of self-education during the times during my 40 hours/week that I don't have anything to do, but even so, there's only so much I can do. I've worked on harder projects that taught me more in internships. This is what I'm most dissatisfied with, but I don't want to rock the boat because I want to remain in the good graces of higher-ups.

3-4) My current project is in a field that I have relatively little interest in, and I've found that a lot of the people I am working with want to be lifers - something I DO NOT want to do. I want a creative and diverse (in thought) group of people, and I tend to be in a stagnant place.

Like you say, "working for consultants tends to be a great way to widen the opportuntity surface", but I haven't seen that so far. It may be that I am in the wrong place in my firm, but as I've already said, I don't want to rock the boat and possibly jeopardize the current stable state of affairs, which is significantly better than nothing.
My experience is that Python handles this wonderfully on the reading side, because code will always be consistently formatted.

But on the writing side, it's harder (impossible?) to have tools that format an entire file, because without braces, various things could be at different levels of indentation. You have to indent as you go, and changing the level of indentation can be a little painful.

In curly brace languages, you can sometimes work very fast by crapping things onto the page and then formatting the entire file.

I don't know which I absolutely prefer, but there is a tradeoff to whitespace based blocks. That said, I think C & Java suffer for the combination of optional braces and lack of a standard format tool.
And then, someone points out that your code doesn't work in Visual Studio, and that, of course, you have to support VS < 2015.

So, you're back to writing C89, in 2016.
Probably OT, but all things being equal the person that saves the $8 until next week's night off will probably end up in a better place in life than the person that gets a slice of pizza and a beer.
Well, representative democracy requires that a large number of people agree on a party/person.

Democracy by itself only requires that a large number of people agree on something. And not all "somethings" are party/people.
WiFi is the long-term winner of Binge On. And that may be T-Mobile's objective?

In most markets, TM can't compete head-to-head with the dominant LTE provider in that market. If other MNOs follow T-Mobile's lead (certainly not a given, but a possibility), then this moves the playing field to WiFi. And T-Mobile may prefer to play there.
Well, it may teach you why its a good idea to throw away old features every couple of decades :-)
Text only version:

http://pastebin.com/raw/A8T4MRGD (without text blurb)

http://pastebin.com/raw/t0CG2tzg (with text blurb)

http://pastebin.com/raw/Ud4Vc2hp (python code used to extract this)

bugs (won't fix):

- text blurb is not printed for items without g-secondary-name

- character encoding is wrong
Wow, that's a long reach to get to the OP's "de facto ban on rooftop solar".

If we take the OP at face value, then, it seems to be declaring that solar energy is completely impractical, and can't survive without life support.

I realize that other forms of energy generation are all subsidized in various ways, so it's clearly not as serious as my above interpretation, but still, it doesn't speak well of solar.
No, I think there's something there in Learning Styles, which may be as simple as Varied Learning Technique.

Going from Varied Learning Technique all the way to Learning Styles may do harm. I can't say.
Birth and death of privacy
FreeFileSync 7.8 Has Been Released, Install in Ubuntu/Linux Mint
Good presentation with a great, artistic style. Also liked her articles about speeding Java up and "A/A testing."

Far as this one, the only correction I have is regarding the slide that says you can't write an OS in Java. Several have been written w/ JNode and JX OS coming to mind immediately. JX is my favorite given its interesting architecture is mostly compatible with high assurance requirements. Just needs a high assurance implementation. A re-write of such an architecture in Rust might be interesting. Or SPIN OS as it was done in Modula-3 before.
Permission to explore and invent sounds nice and it is very educational. However, It is not a guarantee a good quality product. You need correct decisions and architecture to write any complex software and experience matters a lot in this space.
> finding that while 49% were willing to try recycled wastewater, 13% refused, and the rest weren't sure.

This is the end result of an education system that has not prepared people for the modern world, if we engineer a solution that produces water of a purity greater than water from a reservoir and and half of people are still not sure it is safe to drink then we have a massive problem.

For the record: I've no issue with grey water recovery systems, every drop of water I've ever drank has been through at least a few fish in it's time.
Nice work! Another demonstration of the amazing power of deep neural nets for transfer learning. For those interested, http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06681 demonstrates experiments with video coloring using a 3D convolution-deconvolution network with some architectural elements similar to that used by the author.
After that, they degrade services that are not paying them and zero-rate + allow higher bitrates for services that pay them.

"degrade services that are not paying them" and "allow higher bitrates for services that pay them" would even more blatantly violate FCC net neutrality in the US.

T-Mobile here is circumventing this by only zero-rating with an opt-out mechanism. If they tried to pull a stunt like Deutsche Telekom in Germany, they'd be fined in no time by the FCC in a clear and shut case. They are doing something far more subtle here in the US.

EDIT: For clarity, Deutsche Telekom is a majority shareholder of T-Mobile USA.
My accountant got one of these. We called the bank that we were to transfer to the funds to and talked to their fraud department. They wouldn't/couldn't do much, but the account was clearly in control of the criminal. Too bad no one cares, because they leave a trail and could easily be caught.
If you are looking at their website using a browser connected to the internet, you don't need to do currency conversions in you head and memorise the exchange rates every morning, you can just use that same browser to ask for a currency conversion from any of a number of sites, e.g.

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?#q=1%20chf%20in%20usd

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1chf+in+usd&ia=currency

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+chf+in+usd

If they are charging in CHF, then it's in both their and their customers' interests to quote in CHF, otherwise fluctuations in currency markets and variations in the exchange rates offered by their customers' banks will invalidate those quotes.
The trick is to stay at nineteen nineteen and six once you start making twenty five pounds :)
Sounds like this needs a brand change. "Recycled" kind of implies that there is still something "left behind".

Why not call it BluWater or something simple and marketing-like? Follow up with some blah text like "BluWater is the freshest and cleanest water humanity has ever drank! You can get it straight from the taps!"
Creating a multi-host overlay network sounds like a task with a lot of knowledge dependencies. In a moderately sized organization, there is a better chance that a sizable fraction of that knowledge is institutional knowledge. For a single developer, the odds of the pre-requisite knowledge existing quickly decreases as the size of the knowledge dependency chain grows.

There are tools technologies and tutorials designed for a team of size one. Those that aren't will probably require a team of size one to invest significant time working their way up and down the knowledge dependency chain.

To put it another way, if containers are going to change the world, then learning them is a long term project.

Good luck.
Why would something have to be the 'worst crime on the internet' to be a crime anyway? Just like shoplifting is a crime so is murder. Shoplifting clearly isn't the 'worst crime' in society, but that's not a reason why we should not put a stop to it.

I'm not sure what you're getting at with all this 'oh but childporn isn't so bad', it's almost as if for some reason you feel this is a subject that needs a strong defense without showing why you feel this is the case.

I'm not going to say 'rape isn't the worst crime so let's give rapists a pass' either, absent a motive I can't find myself to side with the criminals in this case.

Though I very much would like the law enforcement officers to stick to the legal side of the line when it comes to pursuing these people simply because I believe that is how the law should work. If that gets lost then we're all complicit in the crimes done in our name and I'd prefer for society to lose out on getting a few criminals caught if that means we get to keep the moral high ground. That's a controversial point with some but it matters to me.

You seem to have given the subject a lot more thought than I ever would, but then again I don't have much reasons to think really hard about what the implications of child pornography would be. My contact with it has been limited to passing it on to law enforcement when detected with as much documentation as I could find on whoever was spreading it around and from that perspective I have very little love for child pornographers no matter what the source of their material and no matter whether or not in your were not harmed because they can't be identified. That's a very very thin bit of ice you're skating on because it all rests on what you feel is the truth. Such a personal perspective at odds with the law and with what society generally believes to be normal can lead to a lot of trouble.

In other words, those people that have vast collections of nude pictures of other peoples children will not have to count on my sympathy if they start brandishing excuses like the ones you listed.
Agreed with my sibling post, that email would probably get flagged and dropped as spam before it got to the accountant.

I've seen an email like this aimed at the company I work for and it was something like ceo@yourrcompany.com (just one letter was doubled from the real domain).
Thanks for that explanation, as it makes it much clearer to me why people would use it.

I think its a different mindset that says "I want everyone to see this" for what would otherwise be mundane things. I know I never have the urge to broadcast to my friends regular everyday stuff like sitting around or working, but a significant amount of people do. Not saying if that is good or bad, I think it's just different.
> Emails are regularly used for approving large transactions.

In a corporation at least you can require an electronic signature, which requires you to provide your network credentials. Of course you have to have implemented this.

I have to electronically sign my PTO requests, for example.
Note the image with the wolves. I think the entire exercise is in that photo. This system seems very good at patterns. The animals do well when against natural backgrounds. That's because they match those backgrounds. Even though they are different colours, animals with fur all adopt some form of camouflage. So their patterns at some level match the patterns of their natural environment.

The wolves are rendered well, the flowers not. Wolves are camo. Flowers are the opposite. They want to stand out from the background. So the machine doesn't handle them well. The green stripe on the truck also fits this.

To take this idea forward, look at the image of the puppies against the grass. They are not camo. Their colour is the product of breeding, therefore they do not render so well as the wolves. There might be something useful here to measure whether or not an animal is being viewed in its natural environment.
2016 will be the year remembered as when Java finally had Window Functions
It's also the only one I've tried that allows me a taskbar per screen with only window entries from that screen, something I've done since Gnome 2, You can sorta do it with plugins with Gnome but they break all the time, KDE can do it in theory but KDE is awful (I'd like to like but never have).
Modern CPUs have 64-bit word and virtual address sizes, so by normal definitions they are 64-bit. The physical address range is not the metric here.

Besides, it would make no sense to have a 64-bit physical address bus. There aren't enough atoms in the universe to make memory to fill it.
Most microcontrollers let you configure a timer that runs while the processor is in sleep, then triggers an interrupt to wake you up.

In this style of coding you end up with

main()
{
configure_interrupts();
while(1)
{
do_irq_bottom_halves();
sleep(); // "wfi" in ARM
}
}
Excellent point. This paper provides some examples of similar behavior and a game theoretic analysis:

http://vita.mcafee.cc/PDF/feint.pdf
I don't understand how you would ever think it's reasonable to make a large transfer based on just a strange email from your boss. At least get them on the phone.
To play devil's advocate here, does this mean companies shouldn't even offer time-limited freebies (e.g. promotional offerings "Buy 2 data packages for the price of 1! Limited Time offer!")?

Or is the worry that only indefinitely free offerings can set the stage for trouble later? To me both viewpoints set the stage for trouble, except the indefinite free offering is a darker shade of gray.
"Human wants me to do something... Uh... Brown? Yes? Brown? You like brown? BROWN!"
Paul Vixie on DNSSEC
I'm not that old, but not super young either (38), and I can definitely tell a difference, I rented some movie on DVD instead of blu-ray and it was pretty horrendous. I try to watch SD on my TV and it's horrible. Granted, the difference between SD and 1080p is probably much more remarkable, but we have a 40" 1080p after having upgraded from a 28" 720p TV (I know, small) and I remember how going from SD to 720p was pretty amazing (got an Xbox 360 at the time, and playing some of those games were jaw dropping). When we upgraded to 1080p I was skeptical, but I was quickly a convert.

4k, I'm skeptical of, 8k, definitely; unless it's some weird 3D benefit (4k "in each eye" type of thing).

My parents got a new 55inch UHD (4k) TV and rave about it. It looks... remarkably different, but I'm not sure it's the resolution or the increased refresh rate. I don't think I like it, it "up-regulates" 1080p movies, and makes movement jerky or something is just off.

I'll stick with my 1080p for now. That said, I notice watching movies on my Retina Screen (mac) that movies from netflix are a bit higher resolution, though not 4k. It's noticeable for me even at that slight difference, though to be honest, I put the same show on both my TV and my laptop and place them so the screens are comparable size/distance and the difference is there.
Disturbingly, your extremely condescending idea is probably exactly the kind of thing that would actually work.
Respectfully as someone who has laid brick if I laid bricks that bad I'd be faster than that, mortar is splooging out everywhere. The advantage isn't the speed (it's not very fast), but rather robots don't have to be paid, and they don't get tired.
That chart ignores aliasing effects, fixed resolution can always cause noticeable issues with the wrong source image.

EX: Brick wall can show up with banding effects even at absurd resolution given the right distance.

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

Screen doors, and chain link fences are also fairly common examples.
Is there still a market for providers that only sell bare bone private servers?

I wish more would look into cloning Heroku in terms of features and ease of deployment.

It's not just easy to create, deploy and manage but it's easy to add a slave or replace Memcached with Redis.
I'm going with your assessment of things as I think that's why it stays stuck in my head to a degree. The other reason is it was a modern version of Oberon: a simple, GC'd, system language ETH wrote operating systems with. Given that, I still assume an OS can be written in Go in current form or with small changes (eg runtime, FFI).

Hell, people wrote OS's in Haskell, Java, and C#. JX partly put the device drivers in Java. I'd be shocked if Go was only one that couldn't handle it.
What did you do on the deployment/hosting side?
How Data Science Fuelled the Largest Outreach Effort in the History of NYC
Internationally wise, it's not. We have a long history of doing whatever other big countries ask us to do. Especially when the request comes from the United States. (I'm Swiss as well)

Switzerland has been hosting Onyx [1] for fiteen years now ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_(interception_system)

Edit: typo
Tell that to the homoeopaths /s