skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah...I primarily use a desktop for anything demanding but at one point, I needed a laptop for occasional multimedia dj/vj stuff (nothing paid or professional, more personal or artistic endeavors) and I spent some time doing price comparisons.

There were a few things I specifically wanted: fast processor (preferably i7 due to the occasional 3d rendering stuff I was going to be doing), at least 16gb of RAM, a decent, discrete GPU, and minimum 1920x1080 resolution.

Other stuff wasn't as important. I could do without the latest "retina" screen since I was mostly just going to be looking at DJ/VJ software interfaces and hooking it up to projection. SSD wasn't absolutely necessary but I wouldn't mind one (this was a few years ago when they were considerably more expensive).

I had it down to an Asus (non-ultrabook) and a Macbook Pro. The Macbook had a nicer display, slightly more solid hardware (the Asus was only aluminum on top and on the top of the keyboard side, not the underside of the laptop), and may have offered a faster storage drive (can't remember the details now).

On the flip side, the GPU options were all lower-end than the Asus. Also, the MBP in a configuration closest to what I needed cost around $2499. The Asus was $999.

The Apple had some other features like early Thunderbolt support but those weren't relevant to my uses. As much as I liked the display on the Apple and the somewhat stronger build, I couldn't justify paying more than double the cost.

If this was going to be my sole/main computer then I would've weighted stuff like viewing angles and storage drive speed higher but as a secondary computer, I was mainly looking to get certain specs/features without spending too much dough.

So yeah, it's a "budget" brand to me. I could get the major specs and decent build for a lot less but I gave up some things that would've been a lot more important if it was my main computer. To this day, my only real beef with the Asus is that the display's viewing angles suck. It's not one of those awful 1366x768 displays that OEMs were slapping into cheap laptops for so long and it's not a glossy mess but you really need to look at it dead-on if you want a decent image. For techie art projects it's great but if I had to look at it every day for 8-12 hours I would go insane.
Why would the code be unsigned? If Apple wrote the backdoor OS, they could presumably sign it.
If you look at past cases where the All Writs Act has been invoked, the Courts have rejected this type of government conscription.

Effectively, the government is forcing Apple to take receipt of a device that it does not own or posses, then perform potentially destructive services on a device, and then perform services that could potentially require Apple to testify at a trial under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment.

I really think that Apple's in the clear here, and the AUSA's in the case are pulling all the stops to get Apple ordered to break the encryption.
I believe the Russian Government has considered/is giving them support so that probably helps. Otherwise, a passion for the project and love of the craft most likely.
This is an amazing meta-point here; the people on the other side of this debate seem to have no need for logical cohesion.

I might extend that a bit to ask 'what is the consequence of such lack of cohesion'? Perhaps first that getting agreement on anything needs to be done at a close to case-by-case basis since there is a weaker adherence to standards. This can introduce favoritism (e.g. some people get hit for pot and others don't). Another consequence might be up-front costs. Not needing to think too deep about edge cases and whatnot is clearly less time-cost to run first-time-seen cases. This in turn means people won't hesitate as much in setting new precedence because they won't notice when they do. Another consequence would be inability to get consistency across and entire system since not everything can be debated by all and there's not clear rules.
I realize most people are going to think of the Polish government as bandwagon jumping, but the more we can get past the simple fairy tale versions of history the better.
Negative. You need the passcode.
The OneTab extension can also be used to convert all your hoarded tabs into a list, saving you memory and CPU.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...
Not to mention the risk for an auto-immune complication... because the cancer is just slightly different from "self", any immune response will have a very high risk for auto-immune recognition.

That's why CAR-T treatments are considered only in the cases where all other options have been exhausted.
Interestingly enough - when I opened the Task Manager of Chrome, it was this article that was consuming the most memory / cpu of my open tabs.
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Sulong: Fast LLVM IR Execution on the JVM with Truffle and Graal
You should check out the Infinality[1] patch sets. Installation is extremely simple when using your distro's package manager. The improvement made on rendering text is astronomical.

[1]http://www.infinality.net/blog/
why load unsigned code? can't apple sign it?
Not just bad feelings. Lashing out and various forms of abuse are (partly) a result of such mental health problems. (And partly intrinsic to the forms of organization.)
Totally agree. As someone who is currently an Android fan, I find that Apple's apparent commitment to privacy is appealing, and it could eventually mean I buy an iPhone. Assuming I'm not the only consumer who has made this connection, then Apple has very legitimate business reasons for continuing to trumpet their commitment to privacy.
If the wellness program is offered as part of a group health plan, then the wellness-plan provider is a business associate of a covered entity under HIPAA, and PHI protection applies. So in these cases, the employer cannot have access to individual employees' health information and, more to the point, they usually don't want it -- they're trying to cut overall costs, not individual employees.

Having said that, I do think that more robust legislative firewalls are needed to prevent companies from trying to push the envelope in accessing individual employees' records (HIPAA controls covered entities' actions, but not employers').
I could see a more distributed food production, avoiding the production madness on natural soil. So country side could be countryside again, farmers could get a healthier life style while cities get cost less food with less pesticides too. I also wonder if this would be interesting on a per-house basis.
Hence the need for a validbOS from Apple.
Slides: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/llvm_sulong/attachmen...
> * There's no likelihood at all that other users will be impacted by the backdoor

That could not be further from the truth. They are trying to set a precedent that endangers the future of consumer end-to-end encryption.

They are trying to repurpose an 18th-century law (the All Writs law) to force Apple to help them break iPhone encryption.

If this case creates precedent, what is to stop them from, say, forcing Signal and Google to work together to deliver a backdoored app update to a specific user?

You are not a lawyer. Nate Cardozo, staff attorney at the EFF, had this to say:
https://twitter.com/ncardozo/status/699964225737748481
Auschwitz Museum launches add-on to correct “Polish death camps” mistake
> They don't overly care about access to this particular iPhone. They're taking this case through the courts so that they can establish a precedent that allows them to force manufacturer cooperation to unlock any phone.

This is an analysis, not an objective and demonstrable fact.

I could just as well argue that yes, the FBI really does care a lot about this particular iPhone, and that's why the asked-for update is to be keyed to this iPhone and only this iPhone.

At the same time, even assuming that is true, we're talking about the FBI going through a legal process, reviewed by a judge, to get the data off one phone at a time. If that's how it works every time, I don't see a problem; that is how the system is supposed to work. I am kind of baffled as to why we're cheerleading the fact that Apple is refusing to perform what appears to be a perfectly reasonable request that is being made in accordance with the law. If you are operating under the presumption that the government is always a bad-faith actor, then we have much, much bigger problems.

Also, apparently this 'precedent' has already been set; according to a link in the article, Apple had previously offered custom firmware images to law enforcement after a court order that bypassed the lock screen on earlier iPhones.

http://www.cnet.com/news/how-apple-and-google-help-police-by...
Sure ok...but here is a reality check.

The vast majority of people in the US agree that, when it comes to the illusion of keeping them safe, that Apple should bend over and give up the info.

Now, I personally do not agree with this stance, but it's obvious to me which way the wind is blowing.

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Could Microsoft try to ensnare this in its patent traps if it arrives in the US?
3G has a wide range of specs - at its lowest it is only twice dialup speed.

Developers should actually test their websites at 3G speeds and latency.
> why is it that recruiters seem to be strongly disliked by the HN community?

Chief complaints-- recruiters are spammers, individuals get treated like shark bait, and general lack of tech savvy/business acumen. *Of course, there are exceptions. Those guys can be GOLDEN. Always keep an eye-out for the exceptional ones.

> Cold calling? That's pretty old-school :)

Try using Linkedin Inmail & email first to warm-up the call. Keep in mind-- hiring managers can be crazy busy people. Try a few times to show you're serious. Make sure your message is buttoned-up.
So I've heard the name ReactOS several times on here but never really been drawn in by the posts about it. Can someone explain why they would use it over Windows/their preferred Linux distro?

i ask out of curiosity not criticism. it seems like a cool project so I'm wondering it's benefits over existing OSes.
Years ago, during the original dotcom crash, I was working in banking. All the banks were firing, not hiring. I got an interview at Morgan Stanley by contributing a feature to their open source A+ project[1]. Running code counts for a lot!

[1] aplusdev.org
Sketch App Essentials (EBook)
You probably don't want to use those jokes anyway: http://www.polamjournal.com/Library/Fighting_Defamation/The_...
Sorry, misinterpreted you, in over-literal mind mode right now!
Agreed. It will work in win/linux as well, as the Chrome Task manager is available everywhere you can install Chrome.
Pace Art and Technology Officially Opens as First Major Gallery in Silicon Valley
Not once in that article, or the comments, does anyone discuss the author attaching a license to their content, much the same way open source is GPLd.

Part of the issue is that almost none of the authors of this information have the financial means to initiate a copyright lawsuit, and the publishers know it.

That's why you should always publish your research work on the open web, in a manner that makes it very difficult for the publisher to put up a paywall.

Alternatively, if all these authors allowed publishing if access is free, but 50% of pro-rata revenues if not, such abuse of access as is outlined in the article (Sage, for example), would go away as a class-action suit would now be a viable option.
The Linux Foundation Announces Project to Build Real-Time OS for IoT Devices
As the original article mentions, it sounds like Apple has already engineered a situation where they can't get into their own phones. This Apple only backdoor option exists only in equipment that predates the secure enclave hardware (such as the phone in this case).
Governments are ultimately bound by the people. So no, it's not supposed to do whatever it wants.
That's what he did. He added the shebang lines so they'd run with sh. Although I don't know why that took months, I would have written a script to find executable files and check if they had a shebang line.
The FBI asked Apple to install a firmware update in the RAM of the iPhone, by booting the iPhone in the DFU mode.
Meredith L. Patterson, author of "Okay, Feminism, it's time we had a talk about Empathy" points to her perceived lack of empathy from feminist critics because while they are talking about pervasive gender discrimination she is talking about how good she's had it - it's okay, she is autistic and has "blazingly single-minded focus" that 'just allows her to get on with her work regardless, and other's should too'.
The scrolling seems fine to me.
Well, I can confirm this happens for me on laptop. When I came to work after writing this post, I checked the page mentioned in the article again on my ubuntu at work (desktop machine) and the metrics were nothing special.
You may have just made my morning!
Stable driver APIs (WDDM for graphics, IFS for in-kernel file systems, and others for other areas) are one of the big differences between NT's (micro-)kernel and Linux' (rather monolithic) kernel with no API commitment.

Of course, "stable" may vary. Microsoft introduced a new kernel graphics API with every OS after NT4 (XDDM, XPDM, WDDM 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.0; I wonder which ReactOS uses?) because of how significantly GPU capabilities changed over the years; while Linux changes its APIs more often than that, the changes are usually minimal enough that neither Nvidia nor AMD are complaining significantly about it. (The X¹¹ API, on the other hand…)
$550bil dollar companies do not allow themselves to "go bust and burn."

Way too many powerful and wealthy people are interested and invested.
Great story, and I love the author's initiative.

The author overlooked the first major factor in their success - finding the startup they wanted to work at! I actually think the more specific you get in your job search the more successful you will be. People often think that by being 'flexible' in what they want to do they are increasing the number of companies they can work for. That is true, but you aren't trying to work for a bunch of companies, you are trying to work for one. By being that general you will never find the place where you specifically are the best candidate.

To be concrete, I'd rather find the 5 companies that are really aligned with my skillset and target them very specifically than apply to 50 random companies looking for someone kinda sorta like me.
I just put Ubuntu on my 2010 Air and gained battery life and a lot of responsiveness. No driver issues.
The longevity of this project is really impressive. I remember seeing it in the early days of Wine and thinking that it was a monumentally difficult challenge.
> Rather than asking for legislative action through Congress, the FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act of 1789 to justify an expansion of its authority.

It's all about precedent.
New York Police Still Struggle to Follow Street-Stop Rules, Report Finds
I wouldn't worry too much about non-American apple users. Those of us outside the US know how tangled law and tech can be - and so people guarding information tend to use non-American cloud services for example.

If this goes through I just expect more people internationally to choose something else. Not a big loss to them, but the loss of business to Apple (a US company) might be felt.
If those software updates force it to erase its private key store, though, then it's functionally isolated from that attack vector. An updated enclave that no longer contains the data of interest has no value.
These phones need to start becoming recyclable, not just electronics recyclable, but plastic lot recyclable.

Screens are difficult to be made of plastic right now, but someone is working on a replacement to LED lights that uses plastic instead. So there is promise here.

That leaves the battery. I cannot think of a recyclable material (plastic or aluminum metal) to replace the battery. When that happens, I think such $4 smartphones will not be damaging to the environment.
Probably not an atypical use case on here :)
You're on HN, surely you've heard of satellite phones. Yeah, I'm sure.
This is a great perspective, I tend to think an affinity for puzzles is a good indicator of the SDET mentality I'm looking for; I was trying to attract people who'd be interested by that challenge.

However, the universally negative response to having the challenge this early has made me rethink a bit. I think I may make it much more optional and/or apply it later. Maybe look for places to hang it out on the web...
Lenovo is the #1 PC manufacturer in the world. Their new keyboards were released in 2011-2012 and they're not garbage at all.
I own one of these, and it's super-useful, but I still want a NexDock. The ports are awkwardly placed, requiring weird adapters (I had to shave off plastic to get both HDMI and USB to fit at the same time.) The USB port is also powered, and so tries to power the Pi, except at 500 mA, for some reason over-riding the 1A power input. And it has weird issues with not waking up if only the USB and not HDMI is attached.

The experience has been "good enough", but in my mind only justified the existence of a dedicated device for this purpose. It's incredibly useful to have a portable, self-powered screen+input that works with any arbitrary computer.
Guy spotted wandering London Tube skimming contactless cards with POS device
TeXmacs: Preserving syntactic correctness while editing math (2015) [pdf]
My XPS 13 with Ubuntu (dual booted) is a nice machine but still has problems (track pad, wifi, kernel panic waking from sleep).
We need to create devices that RESIST (warrantless,unconstitutional) mass surveillance and hide all of our data and metadata from everyone. Obama set a terrible precedent by warrantlessly scanning 'metadata' about who we contact. We're innocent by default, period.

I agree with the first post. We need to be creative and find a way to resist government surveillance, and the piece where the engineering seems impossible is allowing an occasional breach of security for extreme circumstances.

What's extreme? Well first, physical possession of the device should be required. Second, it should take resources only a nation-state would be able to afford. Want to decrypt an iPhone? It's going to cost > $5million in processing power. Any criminal would move on.
I spent a lot of time learning everything I could about the company, the people, their product, etc. I knew half the engineers by name from various videos they had posted and was fully convinced it was a company of amazingly talented people.
It's a binary-compatible Windows clone. If you don't need to run Win32 binaries, you probably don't want ReactOS.
I was not arguing that the two are mutually exclusive.
As a former preview user of Clubhouse, I can say that it's easily my favorite work/story manager to date. It gives you what you need for keeping track of your work in an agile environment, and more or less just stays out of your way beyond that. It's totally worth a try if you're fed up with JIRA, Pivotal tracker, et al.
To me it seems like a mindset issue rather than a predisposition - having gone through it.

Employment is mostly about taking on the burden of someone else's stress and handling it. When your stress becomes too much the employer hires peers and perhaps gives you some minions to make things better.

If you were never taught how to manage stress and your family hasn't ingrained stoic values into you (because they themselves were never taught them) then the body is going to become overwhelmed, give up and switch into protective mode, also known as burnout, anxiety, depression, breakdowns etc.
Why the Mac reference? last time I check anything from my ipaq to my nokia maemo to my ROG laptop to my thinkpad to my arduino behave the same way: they drain more power the more work they do.

Which is all again related to summatory of work over time = power consumed, same for humans, for ICE and electric motors...

I'm starting to think there is some troll creating entries with apple products just for the sake of almost divine apple status.

Edit: yay downvotes because I don't respect Mac cult.
Get over it; it's a Pc!
How to Enable Cross-Origin Requests (CORS) on Nginx
Easy, build a desktop.
> But physically access a single device in order to make brute-forcing it possible, that seems acceptable to me as that won't affect any other device.

Sure, they can try brute-forceing it, or even break open the chips and try to extract keys with an electron microscope. That's all within their domain. But why should anyone be forced to assist them?
> Any polynomial of degree n has n roots, but some of them may be degenerate, and some of them may be complex

This is not true with multiple variables, consider for example "x2 + y2 - 1"
These results were presented at a meeting. The final results will be eventually published in a peer-reviewed journal.

This technique is actually fairly well known and other groups are running similar trials. So this isn't some black box. There is a long history of peer-reviewed publications that got us to this point. The basic science behind these techniques has already been published. This is just the next step - presenting the clinical trial data for these studies.
Steal design but test
Odd. Seems like the concerns could be taken care of by a) not just giving them a straight copy of the database and therefore b) just giving them controlled access via user credentials (i.e., that particular user only gets access to certain sanitized views or certain tables).

Seems like the privacy concerns could be fairly straightforward to address by a competent DBA or two.
Ask HN: How to contact John Carmack
It has always been my dream to develop video games. But I don't know how to get started now, given my current career and the state of the industry.

I'd like to try to get opinions from people in the industry. I've always looked up to John Carmack.

I'm really interested in Amazon Lumberyard.

Does anyone have any suggestions to get involved with game development? Contact John Carmack?
Another thing is Americans have very little understanding of their own history; particularly how America went through the same type of tumult as China in its early economic development. Financial crises were the norm (and still are) and it was a wild place with loads of corruption and vast ungoverned / autonomous regions.

Yes, soon China will have a financial crisis. It will have to undergo restructuring and debt forgiveness. It isn't going to evaporate from the earth.

As an interesting side note, the US has the largest shadow banking sector (as % of all financial assets) in the world: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/gfsr/2014/02/pdf/c2.pdf
Macbook Pro is the first laptop that I've ever owned that was so hot on the bottom that you can't rest it on your lap. If anyone is doubting this, please try to do something that involves all cores for 10 minutes. Any kind of non-trivial parallel task would do that.
This feels like a more opinionated Trello, which is not necessarily a bad thing. One oddity on the pricing page. You say the standard plan is $8.50 for unlimited users. Then if you read the small grey text underneath, you see that this price is per user per month. This doesn't really make a lot of sense.
Exactly. The point is that even if you have 100 tabs open, maybe only 1 will eat 80% of CPU and other 99 will require the rest 20%.

My point was that you cannot simply see the things clearly from the Activity Monitor. And many people are not aware that the Task manager exists in Chrome.