skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh - I remember back in the very late '80s or early '90s, my dad was working on the flight simulator for the "swing wing" F111E's new avionics package that Australia was getting.

The sim cockpit had a pair of Silicon Graphic Reality Engine^2s - one driving a projector that lit up a 5 or 6 meter diameter 1/4 spherical screen at low-ish resolution, and another driving a projector that was aimable and slaved to the pilot's helmet (and maybe even eye tracking, I can't remember) that projected a small patch of high resolution imagery exactly where the pilot was looking. If you knew what it was doing, it was easy enough to "catch out" that system and see the edges where the two images joined, but once immersed in flying it disappeared completely. It was spectacularly obvious what was going on if you were watching the screen while someone else had the helmet on.

I _so_ wanted one of those Reality Engines back then, I suspect my phone now has more graphics processing power though (I'm pretty sure my Galaxy S6 in a Gear VR does a significantly better job than that multi million dollar military project ~20 years ago...)
I pay for Netflix but never look there first for content..
There's some serious accusations of sabotage in that article. It hardly seems like a hissy-fit in that context.
$8,525 a month rent for an apt is ridiculous but I bet it's because no one is allowed to build new ones not because of income inequality.
> I always like to remind people that VLC can open youtube videos natively. CTRL+V and paste in url. Not perfect control but nicer than youtube player.

Same goes for mpv. DRMed distributors (like Netflix) and their players are just a major usability handicap. Let the age of legal DRM-free video begin (because pirates have been enjoying it for years already). One can hope.
Just another reason to isolate our Internet from China.
Netflix seems to spend a fortune in encoding and distributing this type of content. I think that distribution may not always be as simple of a problem and should not be marginalised as such. Especially if you consider the numbers in terms of demand and quality expectations for such services.
I think they're (at least at this point) meant to be used together.
I've switched from the GMail mobile app to Inbox, but on a desktop, the GMail compose view is just leagues ahead of Inbox.

I like the fact that if you snooze an email in Inbox, it is actually hidden in GMail as well.
Honestly, you could get most of the 'Inbox workflow' with just plain GMail and the archive button, but the snooze feature really is very useful.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905118
Upcoming 'Nerds' Broadway Musical Chronicles Rivalry Between Jobs and Gates
Show HN: Undead – a Chrome extension that filters out death on Wikipedia
Exactly. The house/real estate isn't the currency, it's the asset backing the currency.

When we had the gold standard in the US, gold was not our currency. It was the asset backing our currency (strictly speaking, you weren't going to go into a corner store with $0.10 worth of gold to pay for your bottle of coke, though I suppose you could've). Gold is simply too impractical to use as the currency directly. You have to back something like that with certificates. IN the case of a commodity like gold it's easy to accumulate those certificates into an amount that's actually worth exchanging for raw gold. But with real estate? How am I going to practically claim 100 sq ft of prime lakeside real estate?
It's a fantastic article. You've done a service. I think that's why it's received few comments.

One nit though: the low-contrast font color makes it unnecessarily hard to read.
1. Long-term return on the stock market, factoring in inflation and dividends, is a little under 7%. If you can consistently nail 12%, I'd like to know your secret.

2. It's possible that the returns from the principal are also restricted.
You can switch your country settings from Amazon US to Amazon DE and back with no ill effects. I did it several times. You get to keep all Kindle books you bought in both countries. Just follow the link at Amazon DE where the buy button should be and instead it says "Have you moved recently? You may change your country on the Manage Your Content and Devices page."
Great summary of the current state of bitcoin.

In the conclusion he states: "<i>Even if a new team was built to replace Bitcoin Core, the problem of mining power being concentrated behind the Great Firewall would remain.</i>"

Bitcoin's decentralized nature encourages power pool formation by promoting economies of scale. It is not surprising that like the production of electronics, clothing, toys, etc. the lowest cost center is in China.
Or the 3-clause BSD license, as it used to be known and avoided.

Edit: OK, not quite. :-)
I think gold prices are impacted by its industrial use as well. So when that component drops, prices goes down. Another component of gold investment is to compensate for inflation which is also down except in real estate. Yet another component of gold investment is to hedge against short term loss in stock markets which was also down because of tremendous gains in S&P. The real estate is a different beast: There is no industrial component and no short term hedges. Also unlike gold, real estate can generate passive returns in form of rents.
I have also tried put.io and it seemed good.
I see this exact statement repeatedly and it concerns me. F.lux isn't designed to make things "easy on the eyes." If you're having that reaction, and you feel it as strongly as your post implies, it may indicate a different health problem.

You should consider getting glasses or altering your prescription. And if you're suffering eye fatigue it's probably not a great idea to be reading on a screen late at night regardless of the colors. Research "eye strain" for other suggestions that may help you.
Promises about the future about Github’s roadmap is understandably difficult to make, besides by a very small number of people at the top. I don’t think this is the expectation. But visibility into past failure to address these concerns and the current status is long overdue. I assume when these maintainers reached out in private channels, they were equally detailed, and have waited years.

At present, I’m not sure how this response is different from the "empty response" that motivated the publication of this document in the first place, except that this response is also public. Comments like "happy to take a look into these issues", "considered in how future work is planned" and "ensure the right eyeballs are on this" uses a lot of words to say nothing. If the community department is not the right place, maybe it’s time to walk over to where the the product group sits and ask. They probably read Hacker New too.

I’ll also highlight a possible theory: the right people at Github have already looked at these requests and decided that is not what Github Issues is for. Perhaps Issues is prioritized for the masses, not the small minority of very popular projects (but not resourceful enough that they have staff). Each of these feature requests do add friction (if only in complexity) and the majority of projects that do not need and should not utilize them. Hopefully someone at Github will quash this theory but it is consistent with events so far.
Can anyone explain why CC recommends using other licenses for code? Why is a license change necessary in the first place?

[1] https://creativecommons.org/software/
Literal thousands of people are distributing various content, for free, right now. Out of sheer altruism most of the time - they get nothing back after their initial download. Pick your favorite torrent site.

The fact that the business landscape wouldn't tolerate this as a legitimate method is a failure of ego and imagination, not something inherent to the system.
But you do have social needs, that for civilized humans take form of the need to participate in your local culture. Local culture, which today is heavily based on current TV shows. Thus being up to date with TV shows becomes a need.
> Internet is a great leveller
I hope that the increased connectivity of our world will have a profound impact on the legal constructs utilised by parties to secure earnings. As you, I also hope that we will have worked through the issues by the time I'm old, but history tells me that profit is a great motivator to keep archaic constructs intact. Today's world is filled with business models that don't fit our somewhat more globalised reality. The money talks.
I don't think an isolated internet is the solution. That's what North Korea has (to the extent they have internet), and it is a problem in every way. The problem isn't really China, it's there are only a handful of people with the keys to this castle.
The folly of BitCoin is to believe that technical problems are somehow orthogonal to social problems. They never are. And never has this been more true in the history of our species than with the technology of money. Money is an artifact of the state; always has been, always will.
Because when you google most small businesses, yelp shows up on the first page. Other than downloading the app, I don't know how you'd find 4sq info.
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Not surprised it didn't catch on. I'd rather thumb through a paper catalog at home.
>Are you giving the green light to guilt via association? Just because someone worked at GCHQ that does not mean they have done something unethical.

If the NSA would like to declassify it's employees job history in a credible and verifiable fashion, I'd be keen to take this on a case by case basis.

It is possible that the NSA is hiring engineers for benign reasons. If that's the case, I assume they are not classifying that work. After all, the government should not be withholding information from the public without cause.

As it stands, it is reasonable, in light of the revelations of the last several years, to suppose that any engineer who cannot reveal their work history with an intelligence agency has performed unethical work. This is what's known as "preponderance of evidence".

>Who are you associated with that I (or society) doesn't like?

What a fascinating question. So many insights to your character. I'm entitled to associate with whom I like, and your seedy, toad-like implication that for even suggesting such a thing as personal accountability, I must be a state enemy has the delicious tang of a low quality KGB-centric TV serial. You know, the kind in which the plucky all-american hero fights back against the oppression of a totalitarian russian government. It would be funny if global law enforcement wasn't looking towards digitally predicted thought crime as a genuine goal.

So speculate freely, because the real answer is terribly dull: I'm a normal citizen, posting my opinions on an internet forum and associating with you.
They absolutely are involved. Apple views distribution of unknown compiled binaries as a serious security vulnerability, both because they can access private APIs that the App Store would otherwise block, and because Apple has no way to shut down an app distributed this way that turns out to be malware.

If the app is open source, you're free to compile it with Xcode and install it on your device. That's fine, because the open source nature means you can see everything the app is doing and verify that it isn't malware (and if not you personally, then someone can do it).

But for closed source distribution, barring enterprise distribution, it has to go through the App Store. Allowing anything else opens up Apple's customer base to malware.
Good to see that full (hockey face) shields have been dropped from the list.
Yes but they also like to build stuff with donors' names on it. There are few places in America that are more expensive for construction than Cambridge.

Besides, they can't plan on using the maximum from the endowment every year, because the endowment sometimes grows less than usual, or even shrinks.
While you are correct, the concern to which you have responded to is by no means the community's primary one.

Yes, it is true Apple rejected the app due to private API's. It was against the rules to use those API's, and Apple was within their right to reject them. Just as it is within the communities right to petition Apple afterwards and ask them to open up those API's.

The concern now is that without any form of communication, Apple has gone and released an alternative. It is a "ripoff", and there's no two ways about it. The people from f.lux were very diplomatic in their response.

(You can call it an inbuilt feature instead of an "App" all you want, but the US Department of Justice and EU Regulators have had long-standing concerns against OS vendors bundling in features in an effort to stem competition. To say nothing of the irrelevance of how the feature is distributed.)
It's possible that's the case. It does take far more than 10 days of devoting your time to something to truly make it a habit, especially when experienced in such a different setting that will be nothing like home.

My original post was just a thought/hypothesis presented without any data to back it up.
Minor quibble: Night Shift isn't an app. It's a new OS-level setting, similar to the Do Not Disturb mode that was introduced in iOS 6.
Don’t make it so easy to submit bad PRs

I recurrently refer to this[0] PR, and the subsequent discussion, as the reason why, if any project of mine gets any bigger - it will not be accepting Github pull requests.

[0] https://github.com/technion/maia_mailguard/pull/42
> about SF

They're based in NYC
We keep too many hacks secret, says ex-NSA director
You mean Microsoft, the company that was convicted for using private APIs all for themselves, and was forced to open them up? Good comparison.
Useless as hell!
>If the job doesn't meet your needs, move.

Absolutely. But you've changed the premise to fit your argument. Recall:

>He likes what he does, has no commute and practically sets his own hours.

In this case, a move after <1 year at BigCo is optimizing only for money. I'm starting to get the impression that there's something in Silicon Valley's fog that suppresses risk aversion -- or maybe it causes FOMO?
I can vouch for this. Not today though...
At the point when the system is unable to analyze the static environment (e.g. lane markers) due to poor visibility, it's probably unable to analyze and deal with dynamic situations safely.
Tweaking color temperature has been done in Hollywood since... well, color. You won't see a window on a set that hasn't been treated to balance indoor and outdoor light. Tinting flashbulbs is common. Film editors select different bulbs and gels in tiny cubicles during late night razor-and-tape editing sessions. When video got popular in the 70s, they nudged the tint control. Mid-80s Amiga video games shifted from day to night -- shadows too! TVs ship with day/night/game modes. 10 year old car navigation systems automatically switch colors at night. There's literally nothing new under the sun.

EDIT: yes, you can convert light to orange. http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
It's a big challenge for non-self driving cars too. If road maintenance programs aren't willing to repaint on occasion or provide lane keeping alternatives for more fallible humans, what hope do we have of them doing it for machines.
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How did Apple "fuck them"? f.lux depends on APIs that are not public, and probably never will be. There is no legal way for f.lux to operate on iOS short of being distributed as open source and compiled by every customer (the same mechanism they tried to abuse a few months ago to distribute a precompiled binary). Since f.lux cannot be distributed for iOS to begin with, Apple's not doing anything wrong by building the feature into the OS.
That's interesting in itself, but this is a discussion of general trends so perhaps I've missed the point?
I could agree if it was a case of being too cheap, but I am referring to when content providers refuse to release their content in an area. Shows coming out a year later in Australia for example. And just waiting for it to come out is not acceptable when the rest of the world is discussing it. People want to pay for the content but they are not given an option to, so I don't see how pirating is stemming from entitlement
use a seedbox
What's the actual license text? I couldn't find it. And is mandatory attribution GPL-compatible? The 4-clause BSD license is not GPL-compatible because of its advertising clause.
Very good visualization and explanation. Pretty fantastic.
I didn't see it as "narcissistic spiritualism". Rather, I saw it as a method of promoting meditation and this sort of practices in this community.

In any case, if someone is shows narcissistic behavior, don't you think there are better ways to point that out to them? Compassion might work better than resentment.
Thanks!

Some systems allow keys, but still expire account passwords.

Some systems also do not have NOPASSWD: for every group in sudoers. On those systems you are likely to have to use a password with sudo to elevate privileges.

Changing via SSH also updates shadow entries that are often used many other places, like console logons or local user references implemented in software.

Temporary passwords for firecalls.
Sidenote: Is there a hackernews or lobsters for automotive technology?
What makes you think money didn't exist before the state?

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html
Apple has quite a history of prosecuting devs who say anything critical about the company or its products.

Nothing related to Google at all(which is probably why you're getting downvoted).
The US Government Has an Internet Killswitch – And It’s None of Your Business
It's been a good run with a lot of interesting observations. Upcoming iterations will likely solve a lot of the (truly compelling) problems that bitcoin failed to solve.

This "people problem," as Mike calls it, is undoubtedly a result of the mechanics of the blockchain. Slightly different rules may lead to dramatically different (and less insurmountable) people problems.
Many schools will give alumni edu addresses as well
Yep. The problem is that some users are not aware of the conventions, and often you see on the Android Google Code repo "+1" or something along the lines of "Google plz fix this".

This becomes heavily apparent when someone posts an Android issue directly onto the Android subreddit. I suspect the same could happen with GitHub issues. When you see others posting "+1", then others follow the same practice.
Double-spending is detectable by anyone with a full Bitcoin node. It's not in the interest of the big players to double-spend; it would destroy their credibility and devalue their assets. My point is that in the arguments over block size, only what the big mining pools decide to do matters.
What is cuurently the top free or OSS alternative to tools like Simics? What can handle them all, esp with easy extensions?
Some very ignorant remarks and assumptions of people who did not watch the full live BBC video interview relating to him, music & the internet and are taking snippets - of course the internet was estsblished before 1998!!! Some folks do not have a command of the english language and think they are computer boffins. He was not talking "Microsoft" for example - relative to music , him and people (audience) ... Very smart man - also get the interviewer's question to comprehend his response ... People who were born in the middle 70s & after, unless savy and forward thinking do not get: "David Bowie, an internet pioneer" YES, most definitely I concur; he was & is ... You're programmed already & not an individual (thinking tech facts blah) nor creative as he was & he was the 1st "Personality" to offer himself as an ISP - #Fact RIP Mr. JONES
Code is used in ways that other works are not. For example, code has source code, or "preferred form for modification", as the GPL calls it. Code, sadly, may run afoul of patents, whereas a novel or a painting probably does not. Software licenses usually have clauses around these points.

Contrariwise, some licenses like the GPLv3 have intentionally broad language to cover works other than code.
Probably not a good fit for 18F then. Its a good fit if you want to work on open source projects that'll help the US government work more efficiently.

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I'm glad to see someone from github is actually replying on HN and not ignoring this. Thumbs up
4. People buying drugs.
Indeed. Try driving in certain parts of Dallas at night or in the rain.
Mike's just mad that he failed to sabotage Bitcoin:

https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange...

This appears to be the 89th obituary for Bitcoin?

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/
> Today we call on Apple to allow us to release f.lux on iOS, to open up access to the features announced this week, and to support our goal of furthering research in sleep and chronobiology.

I'm confused, why do they want this? Night Shift does what f.lux does. Apple opening up the APIs to allow f.lux to run on iOS seems rather pointless, since the OS is already doing the same thing.
An Internet for everyone except China and North Korea is hardly the same thing as an Internet just for North Korea.
Tesla has proven that electric cars can be fundamentally superior to their ICE counterparts in nearly all respects, except for cost (for now) and the speed to refuel (which is made moot by the convenience of refueling from home if you have garage access).

The trend toward EVs despite low gas prices should be no more baffling than the trend toward smartphones despite low flip-phone prices.
There are no secure smartphones
Why do things need to be more secure on mobile. Why can't apps have access to the deepest parts of the system on mobile and desktop?
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I assumed it had to do something with community involvement from here

https://github.com/blog/1521-rachel-myers-is-a-githubber

Github is a trailblazer here for tech companies taking social impact seriously. There is nothing derogatory about it. They do amazing projects in this area

eg:

http://connecthome.hud.gov/

https://github.com/detroitwaterproject/detroit-water-project

I was merely curious about how this fits into their grander strategy.
If bitcoin is such a disaster, why is the price holding firm or even increasing?
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That argument has been shown to be nonsense for years, it can apply to any mitigation technology or privilege reduction technique. The point is to reduce the amount of harm that can be done, because "just write software without bugs" isn't a solution at all.
"Akrasia": This word also means "incontinence" or "intemperance" [1]. In other words, unable to contain, unable to withhold, and hence mastered by personal appetites (urges). It is used by both Jesus and Paul in the New Testament.

[1] http://biblehub.com/greek/192.htm
0.0% of Icelanders 25 years or younger believe God created the world
If bitcoin is such a disaster why is BTC price holding firm or even increasing?
Got it, thanks. Interesting about Rust's design goals and tradeoffs.
Even though I really appreciate the idea behind it, I was never all that comfortable running f.lux on my Macbook. I never understood why it was free yet closed-source. It made me suspicious in a way, if that makes sense.

After a while I just gave up and uninstalled f.lux. Instead, I created a 4500K white point copy of the default color profile and manually switched to it at night, which seemed to have the same effect. It also prevented those big flashes whenever switching to and from full-screen apps.

I'm grateful that f.lux has pushed this issue to the point of getting traction as a built-in feature from Apple (and I do hope Apple brings it to OS X at some point), however unless f.lux becomes open-source, I don't plan to reinstall it.
Final nail in the coffin will be ride sharing services. You won't care as a consumer who just wants a ride, and businesses will purchase electric cars because it makes business sense.