skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well French isn't a bad guess, is it, considering she moved to France, married a Frenchman, became a French citizen, took his French name and probably spent most of her life in France?

You make it sounds like she did it out of choice, like someone who would take a nationality out of kinship, but the reason why she moved to France have little to do with French sympathies but more prosaic reasons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_curie#Early_years

> After Russian authorities [Poland was partly controlled by Russia at the time] eliminated laboratory instruction from the Polish schools, he [MC's Father] brought much of the laboratory equipment home, and instructed his children in its use.[11]

> Unable to enroll in a regular institution of higher education because she was a woman, she and her sister Bronisława became involved with the clandestine Flying University, a Polish patriotic institution of higher learning that admitted women students.[10][11]

> Maria made an agreement with her sister, Bronisława, that she would give her financial assistance during Bronisława's medical studies in Paris, in exchange for similar assistance two years later.

Also, as per wikipedia:

> While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska Curie (she used both surnames)[6][7] never lost her sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to Poland.[8] She named the first chemical element that she discovered‍—‌polonium, which she isolated in 1898‍—‌after her native country.[a]
Utilitarian philosophy argument. The benefit gained by solving one murdered loved-one case is badly offset by the loss accrued to everyone by no longer having the security protections they expected.

This specific case, in fact, is pretty close to "murder of a loved one;" the phone's owner killed people, and the FBI wants to find out if they were part of a bigger plot.
Thanks. I was thinking in FDE terms. So maybe what the FBI wants is doable.
Sugar cane is very much the exception. Most crop plants (which have over the years been selected for efficiency indirectly) manage 1-2%. No one is suggesting growing sugar cane indoors yet, just purely on the basis of it's height you won't gain much by stacking it.

Also you haven't addressed stacking, heat retention or for that matter nighttime light.
[In walk the drones]

"Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.

[Apple's hammer-thrower enters, pursued by storm troopers.]

We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts.

Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth.

We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause.

Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.

[Hammer is thrown at the screen]

We shall prevail!

[Boom!]

On January 24th Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984.'"

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Apple Superbowl AD "1984"

Transcription courtesy of George Gollin, 1997

Edit:Removed the link to the video. My goal wasn't to draw traffic anywhere it was just to point out that some of Big Brother sentences in an Ad aired 30 years ago still have strong resonance today.

"Our enemies shall talk themselves to death"
Hum... just read yesterday that NSA is believed to use machine learning over cell big-data to determine drone target...
Acadine Technologies releases first version of H5OS [B2G/FxOS fork?]
144 Kbit/s is legally considered "broadband" in Austria. Although ISPs are usually generous enough to offer 384k minimum.
I can't disagree with your point of view; I merely point out that a world where everyone who wants a secure smartphone needs to own their own smartphone factory isn't a very practical world.
Well you sure convinced me with your accurate statistics. You talk of benefits as if higher dpi cures cancer, it looks better and that's it. I really don't know what the big deal is, I have a HiDPI screen, works fine under linux as most of my work is done in terminals all I've had to "configure" was turning off hinting for my emulators and that was that. But they are waay more important things I would like from my machine so there's no need to be condescending just because you and your friends were impressed by the high res screens.
This looks like a good alternative for Trello. One thing I am missing from Trello is time estimation / planning / tracking. With a bit of help with extensions you can make it work, but it's not a nice experience overall.

Does this tool has this covered, and/or how do other people deal with this?
I love ASUS, and second your recommendation.

Watch out though - some of their cheaper machines are just weird. The X205ta being one example.
Er, they mentioned the Mac because that's what they were using? It's a personal story of discovery. It's just weird here, because it's discovering something so basic.
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"Castlight recently launched a new product that scans insurance claims to find women who have stopped filling birth-control prescriptions, as well as women who have made fertility-related searches on Castlight’s health app."
Could you expand a little on what you're referring to? Is this a specific vulnerability?
"We're not firing you because you're pregnant, we're firing you to cut costs!"
No. The word "remote" is not applicable to an attack that only works with physical possession of the device.

As far as I'm aware there is no known technique to prevent someone with physical access, a bunch of engineers, and the code signing keys from replacing firmware.
It's more like C than like assembly.

Different GPUs have different machine codes, Vulkan is abstracting away the differences, but tries (like C) to be simple abstraction close to the real thing.
And people still grow plants by hand. The future is still going to be automated farms just as the present day is mechanised farms.

The advantages that automated warehouse farms give will be too great to not do. Faster grow cycles, no need for fertiliser, pesticides, or herbicides, closer to consumers, space efficiencies and so on.
> Mantle was only available for AMD hardware

Its design was generic, and both Apple and MS used it to make their lock-in variants.
From Shader Code to a Teraflop: How Shader Cores Work (2008) [pdf]
Yes. But sometimes you will open up a website in a new tab. It won't be happening nothing special there, as least not visually. So you will assume it doesn't hurt performance/battery of your laptop.

But if the developer of that site left somewhere in JS something like while(true) {...} that page will drain your battery, even if you're not looking at that specific tab. And even if you are in other app than Chrome.
The the court says "lol, make it default then". It doesn't matter how much they charge, when courts can override the decision. What apple needs to do is invalidate any way for this to happen.
If anything, it is growing. Large companies are now adopting Python.
Nokia N900 or Nokia N9 running Linux?
Good point, we've removed that line. Thanks for your feedback!
Instead of fines and prison, let's bring back a modern form of the pillory for the CEO's of these companies. Build a cage in the town square and put these executives on display for a few hours with a sign out front stating the crime(s) they committed.
> Apple doesn't want to do it to avoid setting a precedent

Unfortunately that's exactly what they're going to end up doing with this faux resistance. It seems like in this case there is a master key that only Apple has. If the device's security is broken in this manner, then this is a terrible place to make a stand, as Apple will have no choice but to eventually comply.

Next time, with an actually secure implementation, the stance will be "you protested last time and gave in, do that again". And when USG realizes Apple isn't bluffing that time, their bolstered entitlement will result in the inevitable law for Apple to go back to the backdoored nearly-just-as-secure scheme.

To the first order, USG doesn't care about the argument that foreign governments could also compel Apple, since that simply reduces to traditional physical jurisdiction. And governments seem to be more worried about protecting themselves from their own subjects than from other governments.

We can only hope that the resulting legal fallout is implemented in terms of the standard USG commercial proscriptions based on the power of default choices, leaving Free software to continue to be Free.
You developed in a long weekend a MVP which does more than the startup's soft?
There is also the risk of ruining the signal. If people who vote are more likely to do that because they are less likely to be depressed and non-depressed individuals are more likely to take care of themselves, then encouraging people to vote will only ruin the value of knowing if they are likely to vote, it won't cause anybody to need less health care.
Not sure if the rat weight training routine was effective enough to test the hypothesis.
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{My random opinion from the internet} This is a really bad idea for a software consulting business because the incentives are grossly misaligned.

With fixed fee work the sales person's income is orthogonal to the company's profit. A $100k project with an 8% margin is better for them than a $12k project with a 50% margin, even though the smaller project's lower opportunity cost is probably worth the $2k difference in net profit. Of course if you are paying commission on sales, a $100k project that loses money is as good as a $100k project that makes money. That's the essence of commissions.

Suppose, on the other hand, that the consultants are billed by the hour with a nice healthy 24% margin. An 8% commission essentially amounts to 1/3 ownership for spare time work if and when the salesperson feels like it...maybe they go to the beach with their friends instead of chasing a $12k project because recovering from the rough week at their regular job is more valuable than $960 that they might make if the deal closes -- last week all their work to close a deal went to naught because there was no production capacity to complete the work on the potential client's timeline.

Typically, the principals of a consultancy do most of the sales work...though with multiple principals it might be some but not others as roles diversify. This is because clients are the principal's clients first and foremost.

If you can't resist hiring a salesperson, just pay the salesperson a salary, keep open books, and share the profits. A contract that intrudes on all conversations makes for bad personal relationships...it has to cover things like commission on change orders or simply when a previous client calls you about a new project.

For a one person firm, there is a reasonable probability that this will just turn into a mess and a distraction.

Good luck.
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Your GDP numbers are wrong. The gap is factor 2-3.
Glad to see they improved the software. Here's a video someone uploaded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBaY1UMOJs
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> (If anything, it should be 3X)

More then half of china lives in very poor farming villages - and the government intends for them to continue living that way.

The fair comparison you want to be making is the American urban vs Chinese urban population (Which is now close to the total population of America).
Very interesting project. I'll make sure to test it when they release 1.0 :)
I've got a bunch of old games that I can no longer run on Windows 8/10. If they can get some of those running smoothly, ReactOS will see a surge in new users.
It's free, it's open-source, it's Windows-like, and it can run Windows applications. It's very lightweight and has a live CD.
Learn to Code: It's a LOT Harder Than You Think
You can't compare across 4 year periods (General economic noise will swamp the signal), but instead look at declines in the run up. Basically take the first derivative.
> On the other hand 10...100 (note the three dots) does not.
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> On the other hand 10...100 (note the three dots) does not.

To be clear, 10...100 includes 10, but not 100. So, it includes one bound: the one mentioned first, the lower bound.

(10...100).to_a
=> [10, 11, 12, 13, ... 98, 99]
At least on mine, you can use Fn-Esc to engage "FnLk" and use the F keys as default. Also, somewhat related you can swap Ctrl and Fn in the BIOS if you prefer your Ctrl key to be in the bottom left, like me.
Keep in mind, it's not just the courts ordering Apple to do this on a whim. The owner of the iPhone in question has literally consented to search. It's akin to the owner of a safe asking the safe company to open it up because he doesn't have the combination, and the safe company can do it, but won't because of the fear of a slippery slope.
I did one openwrt-based CCTV for a client, it's certainly possible, this one seems using hisilicon chips.
ReactOS is an open-source attempt to re-implement Windows. As far as I know, no one uses it in production. I know the ability to load Windows drivers has been one of their primary goals over something like WINE, which only addresses userspace (and which ReactOS leverages).
Sorry to see that uneducated people are downvoting you. I know from memory that 1) she was Polish, 2) her exact birth name, and 3) the correct pronunciation of the third letter in said name. All this without speaking Polish at all.
Purely anecdotal - but Goto has been sucking more and more over the years I've been using it. Maybe it's speed creep - everything else gets faster - but Goto st
Wish more sites/companies/employees published this sort of information - really interesting stuff.

Are there any other examples of big (largely) Windows stacks? Stack Exchange is the only one I've seen discussed.
I find it interesting that immigrants are blamed for this. Lets take the hypothetical situation of a baby boom. 5 years down the line our hypothetical city needs twice as many schools yet doesn't have them. Now do we blame the parents who had the babies or government that didn't build the schools. Or lets take another hypothetical example a certain part of the country gets a new factory and there's lots of internal migration of people coming to work in the new factory. Now this hypothetical location suddenly doesn't have enough hospital beds to cope. Do we blame the people that moved for the government that took all their income taxes yet failed to build a new hospital.

TL:DR Governments take taxes from immigrants but don't spend the money improving services then complain that immigrants are overloading services. Blame the government not the immigrants.
It doesn't add anything, a Mac is a pc, there is nothing special on it, it's related to something happening inside the browser, so for discovery sake he can post

I 100x increase my Mac battery by putting it to sleep.

This post is newbie in all senses.
He could get a console over the webpage, check the javascript or offending logic and create a post like this:

Increase your users happiness (and battery life) by improving XYZ (e.g. polling behaviour) on your webpage.
-Improving responsive design with battery life in mind

which identifies a problem and propose a solution.
very high price point for a shell.
It's almost all a volunteer effort. They get the odd donation from time to time, and they had a crowdfunding campaign, but they really don't get that much money.
The biggest economic lie is the idea that somehow the US owns China something because of treasury bonds. When you sell bonds you are making a financial exchange at a particular interest rate. It is a trade where each side is getting what they need. And a treasury bond is very favorable for a country that issues bonds as the USA, because the US controls the value of the currency. In other words, in this case the US has far more control over the financial transaction.
Or just enabling subpixel-hinting and font-smoothing. I didn't bother with infinality after that.
Hi James --

Thanks for sharing your thoughts + experiences so publicly.

I've been working on a few resources to help the startup + tech community raise awareness about these issues. Check out blueperiod.co to learn a bit more.

Would love to chat more deeply about this -- my email is rob @ blueperiod.co :)

Best,

Rob McFeeley
For me the keys default to F1-F12 and multimedia functions require the Fn key. Works pretty well, I don't use the multimedia keys except for adjusting volume (this is a Desktop machine with the USB version of the keyboard, on a laptop the brightness keys would be relevant as well). Considering how often I hit F<something> (a lot!) and how often I adjust the volume (rarely) this works very well for me.

Instead, I miss the double-height escape and delete key, and PgUp/PgDown near the top of the keyboard. They're next to the arrow keys now, which isn't as nice as the back/forward buttons that used to be there.
They do. If someone contacts Facebook and let's them know that a person has died (with some sort of verification), they will memorialize the account.

https://www.facebook.com/help/103897939701143
A while back (maybe a year or so) I played with the early alpha/beta support for the whole "stick your Leap on the front of your Rift" thing. It was really cool and seemed like something I'd expect to see in future VR headsets.

I'll have to check out this new software since it seems they've continued to develop it.
Getting started with Jetbrains MPS: how to define a simple language (screencast)
Clearly there's going to have to be some evolution from a legal standpoint once accessing your thoughts is a mere fMRI away.
Those are all good of course, but how long before it is significantly better (faster, more compatible, easier) than e.g. doing the same with Wine? is it already?
I really want to buy a surface book. But it seems like everyone on /r/surface is having the same recurring issues: battery drain/overheating during sleep, tablet failing to undock, computer mistakenly thinking tablet is undocked, graphics driver crashes, slow SSD writes, etc.

It's also ridiculously expensive. The cheapest option with 16GB of memory costs $200 more than a 15" Retina MBP.
> They analyze things on a human level, not a mathematical level.

Courts analyse things on a political level. It has less to do with what normal humans think is right and more to do with causing the outcome the judge wants to occur.

The result is that the better judges are more consistent (and then get celebrated when the outcome in a specific case is politically popular but pilloried for creating "loopholes" when it isn't), whereas the worse judges find a way to make the politically popular thing happen no matter how tortured the logic it takes to get there is. And the existence of the second class destroys the rule of law, because you get in front of one of them and it doesn't matter what you did, it only matters if the judge likes you.
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With its NTVDM, ReactOS can actually play DOS games out-of-the-box, which is something modern (64-bit) Windows releases can't do.
Should we swap out "Big Data" for "Personal Information" or "Spying" in the title of this article?
If you physically have the phone, de-soldering and moving the flash memory to a custom board for modification is an option.
Someone from the UK here and I was taught she was Polish. But personally I don't think her nationality matters. She is better remembered for her contributions to science rather than which arbitrary border she was born inside.

At least with the war encryption crackers, nationality mattered in terms of which side those individuals were fighting on.
When a citizen has made their way to usually the largest, most well connected city in the continent already it's not much of a rescue.

And yes they were expecting a Saving Private Ryan moment.
The headlines keep changing, is it crypto, is it auto-erase, is it a purple unicorn? sheesh lets muddy up the actual issue with incomplete, or inconsistent data. Its the American way!
It seems like it would be easy enough to crack it open and replace the OS boot data.

That being said, I really WANT the data in this case. I hope Apple finds a compromise where they can help get this specific data without risking leaking a compromised OS.
Design for People or UI Revolution in the Making
Oh my yes! For the reasons mentioned in the article (laptop manufacturer suckage), I went back to a PC at home last year. It's been great. Great hardware compatibility, even with OpenBSD. I spent practically nothing for a whole lot of horsepower too.

But moreover, a PC forces me to do my work in a place I have dedicated to work. People are now recognizing the importance of sanitary sleep habits. Well, my PC helps me maintain sanitary work habits. Well, it did when I was working from home a bunch.

I started a new job a couple months back, which has me working from their offices on a shiny new Mac Book Pro. I hate it. I've grown to love the efficiency and instantaneousness of everything on my utterly predictable libre *nix desktop. Plus, even if I don't plan to do work outside working hours, there's a strong corporate culture of taking your laptop home--I don't know, to maintain optics of always being working or something. Either way, my employer could have saved a few dollars and made me much happier by locking a workstation to my desk.
The implications are quite important for future technologies. Neural implants for example. Neural implants are currently used for prosthetics and paralysis. A forced backdoor would kill all research to develop a co-processor directly linked to the brain. Who would want a government backdoor directly to the brain
The government wants Apple to disable the auto-erase after so many unlock attempts. Apple argues in this letter that with modern computing power, this amounts to a backdoor.

The details of the gov't request are in another story on the HN front page

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160216/17393733617/no-ju...
From what I heard later revisions won't accept a firmware update without either providing the passcode, or erasing the private key.

Arguably, the fact that the 5C accepts a firmware update without the passcode is a security vulnerability and ought to be patched.
There is a theory that distance running is intimately related to humans evolution and their brain development. The human foot is beautifully engineered to be used for long distance running, to help absorb the impact and transfer the force into our Achilles and larger glute muscles. The fact that we have feet designed to run for a long time, have the nifty ability to sweat (unlike our prey at the time who needs to stop and pant to cool off), and are social creatures leads some to believe that we were persistent hunters, akin to a pack of wild dogs; ideally chasing down our prey as a group during the hottest part of the day when the animal would have most difficulty cooling off. Some believe the introduction of animal protein into our diet also helped trigger brain growth. So some combination of sociability, persistent running, and animal protein helped accelerate human brain growth back in the day.

Recommend reading Born to Run or watching the Ted talk by the author for those interested.[1]

[1]https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_mcdougall_are_we_born_...
Sure...we would just print more money and pay them back.

QE programs have been propping up Wall Street for years now, and it would be just more of the same.