skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TED trivia: Chris Anderson, the founder, got his break in business by starting an 8-bit computer magazine called Amstrad Action. The magazine grew to become a computer publishing empire, Future plc, giving Anderson the funds and freedom to try TED.

(Amstrad Action was a great magazine. I was its freelance tech ed in its last years - gave me my start in journalism.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_Action
Developer Billy Ellis Hacked Apple Watch to Run OS X Yosemite Simulator
This site is a pile of confusion. Of all the benchmarks I'm interested, the HPC Challenge, the results are buried. No overview, and when you finally get into the results, the performances are all terrible. (Should be closer to 500GFLOPS per node, not 100!)

This also appears geared towards consumer use, which is akin to adding throttle body spacers and tall spoilers to your car... not practical applications.
Appeal to emotion implies that I want to change the guy's mind.

I don't.

I was simply commenting on my perception of his value as a human being.

That guy was basically saying that she should trade her mobility (sell her car), her privacy (get a roommate), and comfort (she stated that her $120 bill was because she turned on the heat) -- rather than complain.

And I seriously doubt he goes without mobility, privacy, or comfort.
That's a valid point. My previous comment wasn't considering that BI would replace the current means-tested welfare programs, mostly because I do not believe that a BI would actually lead to elimination of the other programs. There will still be people who waste their BI for a variety of reasons, and I don't think society will be fine with them living destitute with no additional safety net.
A usable front-end some may say...
It's shocking to me that people who ostensibly know something about software development take Apple at their word in this case.

Apple already has the backdoor.

Are you willing to guarantee that Apple will never lose control over their signing keys, giving whoever acquires them the ability to end-run the security of a locked device and install software that you, the device owner, are sandboxed from inspecting?
Oshkosh, by gosh
Location Based App for Sale
> That's how a free market works - if people are willing to do the work at an absurdly low wage, that's what'll happen.

Or if companies only pay low wages then the workers are screwed and have to live poor. There is a reason unions were formed.
From personal experience, most home routers today take the computer name and add that to a .local DNS entry only valid for the local network (meaning that .local is a reserved TLD).
Does anyone else feel like this is trying to soften the ground to demand the algorithmic feed?

Quotes like this make me believe that is the goal:

> It’s just an enormous time-suck for the amount of information you get from it.
Companies factor in local cost of living into their salary packages and the author is pointing out the business problems (i.e. high turnover of entry level employees) caused caused when Yelp failed to do this.

Salaries in New York are higher than those in Des Moines, and if companies want the benefits associated with locating in the Bay Area they are going to have to pay employees more. Even entry-level and lower-skilled ones.
Video Found in Belgium of Nuclear Official May Point to Bigger Plot
The task description is pretty dumb. It claims to be language agnostic but it is not because very language has a completely different threading model which greatly affects how the task would be solved. Threading in Ruby is not at all like threading in Java.

I've written threading and worker queue code in Java so I can kind of "see" what solution they are aiming for. But they are specialized domains, so if you have mostly written web code, you won't have had any experience with them.

Never the less, if you work on this problem in Java and you write a thread-safe solution, you will become a better programmer for it.
She totally needs roommates. It appears she has $221/mo after paying rent to go to everything else. That's financially suicidal. If she got just one roommate to share that $1245 apartment, she'd almost have the $600 she said she wanted.
Well yes. The thread was about what Windows-only programs we use in Wine. Blizzard games are examples of such, a counterpoint to Valve games which run natively. I do not understand your comment.
Sorry if I misread your comment. You seemed to be implying that people who make a living as artists and athletes "deserve" their living and that other people are not-so-talented. Maybe you were playing the character of someone with that sort of dumb bias.
Making GHCi scale better and faster (2013)
The client I use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10676685
Your CA should not be in a position to send you your private key. They don't need it in order to sign your certificate. Pretty much every CA I'm aware of allows you to provide your own CSR (which only includes your public key).

Sending the certificate (as opposed to the private key) via email is fine, since that only includes your public key, which is visible to every site visitor anyway.

(I agree that an automated process based on an open, standardized specification is preferable.)
Yes. That led to one of the more pathetic ads in the history of retail - "There's always parking at Sears".[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLmu98-wkmk
> If the situation is high-stakes, TBB comes with NoScript installed. And you should probably get a burner laptop, do all your web browsing off TAILS, and randomly change your physical location.

You are absolutely correct about practicing good opsec, however I have to challenge the usability argument. TOR is already less usable due to many sites blacklisting TOR exits nodes and latency (although connecting to a hidden service is a better idea, and avoids the blacklisting issue. And yet hidden services tend to avoid the JS requirement as well). If Joe Average is willing to put up with that in order to stay anonymous, I'm sure Joe would be willing to disable scripts.

On the other hand, if Joe doesn't understand why having scripts enabled is a security risk, then this might be a better reason to have scripts off by default, anyway.
I disagree that any question can be found on stack overflow. I see this service as filling the niche of answering questions I have that stack overflow ISN'T for. For example, when learning a new framework: "What's the idiomatic way to do _____?", or "From the documentation, it seems like [this feature] was accomplished with [this line of code], but in other tutorials, there's [this line]. What's the difference?", or "This paragraph in the get-started tutorial makes no sense. Could you explain this to me?" Just small lapses in understanding for subtle concepts, or practices in the real-world.

This site is actually something I've wished for in the past, while reading and learning new things online. I think the article explains it very elegantly: the service is like raising your hand to ask a question. I'll bet I'm not the only one who's wanted to raise their hand while learning by reading a guide or documentation before.
Unless this is different from the shellcode they used when taking down Freedom Hosting, I'm not sure what releasing it would do. There are already numerous analyses of the code:

- Vlad Tsyrklevich: http://tsyrklevich.net/tbb_payload.txt

- Gareth Owenson: http://owenson.me/fbi-tor-malware-analysis/

- My own analysis based on running it in PANDA: https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/1jpln2/... (you can also get the recording of the shellcode executing and step through it here: http://www.rrshare.org/detail/26/ )

It's not big, and we have a pretty good idea what every piece of it does.

Of course, I suppose we don't know that the malware it used in this case is the same as the one in the Freedom Hosting case, so I guess it would be nice to compare and contrast them.
The CLI version of the LE client is pretty simple to use. Literally one command line.
There is one thing the FBI is very good at, and that's writing a compelling narrative. It's possible that there are highly competently people who know everything, but it's also possible there are moderately but not dazzlingly competent people who are really good at writing a story that feels complete and keeps one from asking questions outside the narrative.
Hi! I wrote this.

General information about it can be found on the about page (https://www.pressrise.org/about). Basically it's a traditional, broad-base news aggregator (think Google News or Apple News) that ranks stories based on journalistic reviews submitted by the community.

The goal is for readers to be conscientious of and informed about the journalistic integrity of what they're reading, while they're consuming news items. The value being a more connected and informed public.

In its biggest endgame form, I envision it as being sort of like a Yelp for news media someday.

It doesn't require an email, so it's pretty easy to try out. Sign up with just a username and password.
I didn't realize that there was actually an issue here. Why is there explicit references to Ubuntu there in the first place?
You are saying the industrial revolution == repetitive factory work under horrible conditions?

The parent comment was talking about artisans losing work, not farmers.

I think technological progress and innovation increased overall quality of life, while many specific things, such as jobs many workers felt they had no choice but to take in the shifting economic reality, were horrible for the people involved.

Saying that most of human history was grinding poverty is again, cherry picking. In terms of personal freedom and free time, as one of the most fundamental measures of value, humans had it way better at many points in history and much of prehistory.
I felt the same about that sample text - I'm used to writing in cursive, and that sample was actually pretty easy on the eyes for me.

I think we're well on our way to a day when nobody writes by hand at all. It's a shame, but at the same time kind of cool that I can just speak a keyword and have my phone transcribe an email for me.
The client I use, Tweetbot, starts me where I left off reading, and gives me a number of intuitive ways to either skip ahead to "now" or read everything I have missed.
To be fair, the feds got where European authorities long failed to go. In Europe, everyone knew FIFA was rotten at least since the Havelange years, but there was no real attempt at taking down the Blatter mafia from any country.
This guy reminds me how normal i am in the grand scheme of things:
"I felt discouraged and depressed. I tried to buy myself some fancy clothes and toys to feel better about myself. I immersed myself in a shallow relationship with a model who would end up being Miss Universe China 2014. I took weekly hiking trips with my friends in the hills of Beijing on psychadelic mushrooms."
Here's why the eight-hour workday doesn't work
That's one of two explanations I suspect are The Real Story(tm):

1. As you suspect, maybe the iPhone is the easiest window to the lives of people that they have. If they could convince criminals to carry iPhones, it'd make the job of pervasive surveillance very easy.

2. The FBI already has that data.

But without being able to get into the phone -- they can't use parallel construction to manufacture a plausible story of how they acquired the data they already have.

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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Hmm, realized this after posting: my comment on /64 to /48 is rather off-topic, and the reason why the ISP allocates dynamically might be that they are using 6rd [1].

From what little I understand of it, 6rd calculates an IPv6 subnet by using the IPv4 address. So unless your v4 adress is static, your v6 subnet will be dynamic. Some cable providers are using this in Canada (Videotron). I hope they get rid of it soon, because it's really clunky!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_rapid_deployment
And my first day on the job was April 19, 1995.

Talk about a hell of a first day... We pretty much switched into full "get news about the bombing online in some form or fashion, however possible" mode for about 48 hours. This was before CNN had a huge online presence, so we had stuff going like a RealVideo stream of a webcam pointed at local TV news, a couple of people went down to take pictures, etc, etc...
Nothing on the other side, sadly.
Maybe he means >40. I have 29 uBlock and 14 Ghostery
Pretty sure. Many open source projects accept Bitcoin. The concern for you is whether you'll be able to turn it into cash in Ukraine. And don't offer it as the only option - even among techies Bitcoin is not that huge.

In general, though, by far the best option is just plain PayPal without intermediaries. The less friction you have, the more money you will collect. The thing about PayPal is most people already have accounts. Signing up for something else is friction. Providing financial information to a foreign web site is a complete non-starter. International SWIFT requires a trip to the bank, and a substantial fee, so it won't work either.

Also, I think it's a mistake to not offer commercial support contracts. Basically here's how you could "freemium" this: offer no SLA for non-paying users, offer guaranteed turnaround to paying customers (don't be overly aggressive - a couple of business days is fine). Encourage commercial users to purchase support. Encourage non-paying users to donate (like Ubuntu, I did donate to them several times). I don't know if you have much commercial usage at this point, but if you do, this might create a recurring revenue stream which will keep you afloat. Or get in touch with someone in Silicon Valley and work out a business plan. What you have right now is by far the best IoT development platform available. It might be not clear to someone without business skill how to make money with it, but I'm sure it can be done.
You don't think making calls to a DirectX implementation built on top of Vulkan would be more performant than coverting DirectX calls to OpenGL calls during runtime?
Am not an expert, but think Twitter is struggling because the signal to noise ratio has deteriorated significantly.

Solving this isn't just a matter of some UX tweaks, it literally speaks to the heart of a very hard problem...how to you structure relatively unstructured information in a way that enables machines to help humans navigate it
SHE LOST 89 KILOGRAMS IN 18 MONTHS, AND CHANGED ONLY ONE THING IN HER DIET
Agreed a thousand percent, but there are services that offer easy installs onto cloud providers that do know your private key - that's how they get it onto your ELB or Heroku.
If you're looking for consistency in the US legal system you're going to be sorely disappointed
I absolutely agree that the distribution of wealth from poor to rich is both real and crappy. And it's not just the "coercion" of having to trade labor for basic needs. The government (often at the behest of the very wealthy) has blatant poorer-to-richer income distribution policies. Virtually all subsidies of special interests are examples of this. Tariffs and other trade restrictions are examples of this. Social Security is an example of this (perhaps not by design). Inflation can be an example of this.
The thing that is most effective in reducing healthcare costs is prevention.

Easiest way today of increasing "overall health" in the US: better diet and more exercise

I believe this will also be automated and there will be a 'Computer doctor' that can give you guidance and maybe a basic Rx for the majority of problems that take people off work (a lot of which are resolved by staying at home for a couple of days)

Then you would have more complex problems dealt by a doctor
Let's assume she was getting $12 an hour to do that work. That salary is ridiculously low for the Bay Area. Granted, they are paying for health, life, and dental insurance premiums. Still, most companies in lower COL areas pay at least $12 an hour for customer service work.
Yeah, fair enough. That was not appropriate.
Another interesting stat is that it's mostly domains that didn't have https before.
You're right, that's a good point.
For me Twitter is 100% consumption. It is a way to discover new articles & views from the 400 people or so that I follow. It could be Bill Gates latest views. Maybe a couple of comedians. A couple of athletes. Probably a bunch of Entrepreneurs. It is just another stream that I check out for 10-15 minutes a day to discover new interesting stuff in niches that I am interested in. This use case is never mentioned. Are there so few people using Twitter like this?
people don't have to labor to produce anything for that thing to cost money for consumers. the people who own the companies will sell for as much as they can, and all the profit will go to them. the fact that people expend effort to produce things now has no bearing on the fact that thing costs money to buy. it's not as if human workers get a share of the sales now, they get a fee for their time, just the same as maintenance costs of a machine.
I read it as his drives were formatted as ZFS and the FBI couldn't read them because of their incompetence (probably only thinking to try and read them with Windows as FAT32 or NTFS.
Worse is Better
That's a clever way of perpetuating vendor lock-in: write shitty documentation that is still helpful for application developers but also simultaneously makes life VERY hard for interop layer developers (like the WINE project).
the forensics programs (EnCase, FTK) have a lot of problems but they don't assume that the drive is "windows partitions" though it's possible that they don't deal with ZFS.

you would think that national level stuff would have people take more care, but if you're dealing with state or local police, they will have someone who has taken an 8 hours Encase or FTK class driving a GUI to gather evidence and if the tool doesn't support it, there's effectively no evidence to gather.
> "Those 'elsewheres' will then see more employment."

Not necessarily. If a company can capitalise on those new opportunities without employing the levels of workers that are made redundant by the shift in the market, then this mechanism you're describing will not work.

A classic example is Walmart vs Amazon. Putting aside their side businesses, their core business is broadly the same. In the US, Walmart employs approximately 1.4 million people. Amazon.com employs approximately 230,800 people. Walmart is still larger than Amazon in terms of sales, but consider this...

http://time.com/4040160/amazon-walmart/

"Today, Walmart’s revenue is still much larger–although only 5 times larger now–and Amazon’s revenue per employee ($623,000) is nearly three times that of Walmart."

Why would Amazon seek to employ Walmart-levels of people when their business model allows each employee to earn 3x greater revenue (on average)?

That gap will get even bigger with automation.
> Are you willing to guarantee that Apple will never lose control over their signing keys, giving whoever acquires them the ability to end-run the security of a locked device and install software that you, the device owner, are sandboxed from inspecting?

No. But this doesn't mean I don't think there's ALSO harm in the FBI or any government agency being able to demand companies build tools that expand the use and usability of that backdoor to parties beyond the company holding the key.

It sucks that Apple has a one ring when it comes to iOS security. It's incredibly dangerous if a government can require them to wield that one ring for arbitrary purposes via a contortion of the All Writs Act. And it's just plain stupid for software professionals to base their opinions on a belief that anyone is capable of writing an unexploitable check for device identity.
Do you know how fusion reactors work ? You give it energy to heat it up and you get MORE (edit: transform) energy than you gave from this reaction.
Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online
I think the confusion comes from the use of the term 'basic income'. There is a difference between income assistance that is given to everyone in order to simplify the delivery of government benefits (generally to avoid having to have complicated needs/eligibility requirements and the associated enforcement mechanisms) and and a guaranteed income that is not just assistance but in fact a sufficient amount to live on.

I think the difficulty in evaluating a basic income mechanism is in understanding how such a program would work with different amounts of basic income, $200/month, $500/month, $1000/month? Is it per person? per household? extra amounts per child? Is it adjusted geographically? Depending on how you answer those questions you get different incentives and different costs for the program.

While I don't have good answers to many of those questions I don't think a basic income program can work if it is construed as a way to enable anyone to simply quit their job, pursue their artistic or intellectual pursuits, and have 'the government' (i.e. other people) pay for that privilege. That type of an existence, while desirable, is not a 'right' to be supported by forcibly taking assets away from other people (taxing/redistribution of wealth).
Stated another way, the law is being ignored because these particular criminal defendants' rights don't matter when they're inconvenient, based on the crime(s) they were accused of.

When the law is influenced by societal consensus the legal system becomes a farce.
This helped me enjoy writing in a notebook, increase my writing speed, and take pride in my writing.

# What I did

I spent an afternoon reading through the first couple chapters and doing the exercise and was surprised not only at the advertised benefits (ease in writing, faster writing, prettier and more uniform writing), but also at how much I learned about the mechanics of writing by doing the exercises.

As I was doing the exercises, as I positioned my elbows and paper and paid attention to the position and easy grip of the pen, the mechanics of writing, I thought about the mechanics of Star Craft. How the use of keyboard shortcuts, control groups, and double tapping numbers to jump to pre-set buildings or units drastically increases your actions per minute. I tried to take that same idea to writing and it worked.

There are two basic movements, up-down and circles. Each letter is a variant of the two. Even a circle is basically an up down motion with a more pronounced finger movement. Drill those like you'd drill 5-s-z to make zerglings, or whatever you use for larva inject.

# What I learned

I eventually figured out that the up-down motion is coming from your arm, not your finger. The fingers are used for fine motion differentiating each letter. The more regular the up-down motion, the more consistent your letters.

The big realization was that I could drastically increase my writing speed by drilling the up-down motion. You should be able to do at least 3 up-down or circles a second. Just do the drill to practice how it feels first, then the writing will take less effort to do quickly and regularly. That is what the drills are for.

# Why I think it was worth doing

I generally like the idea of doing things well. I used to be embarrassed about my writing. Now it is rare that someone sees my writing without complementing it. Writing has become a meditation for me. It helps me focus and slow down my thoughts. When I'm writing on a keyboard I can write a lot faster, which helps when I code, but I find the artificial constrain of writing on pen and paper help me write better, shorter first drafts.