skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for explaining. I'm still not clear on what the FBI's major malfunction is.

How would relaxing the tamper-resistent key protection help here? One needs the PIN to reimage the device. Chicken & egg. Creating a one-off OS image can't help without first having the PIN.

And the goal is to get the data, not crack the phone. Why can't the FBI use the backups? And what do they hope to find that don't already know (by other means)?

Just sounds like CYA to me. The more I learn about this silliness, the less plausible the FBI's narrative becomes. The FBI screwed up, is now just finding scape goat.

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Authoritarian already has a widely recognized definition.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/authoritarian

Playing Calvin Ball with vocabulary undermines your rhetoric.

If you would like to repurpose the word "authoritarian", I encourage you to petition the dictionary gatekeepers.
Based on the timing, I would imagine the threat model is ad purveyors taking over a previously relatively open application provider and engaging in soft-to-hard censorship of controversial topics until the only acceptable content is tweeting about how happy you are about #brands and #socialjustice.
Plus, you could always host your own image. No one is forcing you to use a centralized image-hosting service.
Hey, I'm the creator. This would probably work, you'd want to use a unique delimiter character that's not in the rest of the corpus --- so not a comma. (I'm using the pipe character.)
Samsung Galaxy S7 & S7 Edge Unpacked 2016
Transparency is necessary for security. Full transparency requires free/libre software---we need both transparency for the implementation, and transparency for integration into the system as a whole (and, as it follows, the whole system).

Even if the system purports to be secure, that doesn't necessarily mean that it hasn't been tampered with, or that a backdoor hasn't been installed---we've had a number of examples of this lately. A fully free, reproducible system is needed here.

There's an often-used argument to dismiss this concept: that free software can still have security bugs. And then they cite recent issues like "Shellshock" and "Heartbleed". Freedom doesn't guarantee security, but it has stronger assurances than proprietary systems, where you don't even have the chance to look at and study it (to any reasonable degree); and you (collectively) definitely aren't able to modify it to suit your specific needs, study its integration with the larger system, or build it reproducibly.

Any other arguments that can be applied against free software can be applied more strongly to non-free software.

Corollary: Confidence in the security of a proprietary, secret system is always less than a free/libre, transparent one, even if the free system is provably less secure overall.

In a fully free system, it is not possible to lock down users, as the OP was concerned, because someone will just modify the software to remove that anti-feature.
The whole "WSGI revision" effort is intended to solve the problem of websockets (and HTTP 2.0) across frameworks and servers.
This allows for the type of fatuous speculation that makes for decent conversation.

Well put. Brings to mind "Modern Jackass" magazine from one of my favorite This American Life episodes:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/293/a...
Show HN: Fray; Detailed Analytics for Your Instagram Campaigns
I feel this is the issue with Uber, the price doesn't take into account the destination and probability of finding a return route customer. For example, I've talked with lyft drivers in Seattle who have picked up people in downtown who then say their destination is Tacoma or even Olympia (which can take anywhere from 1 to 2 hours depending on traffic). That's 1 to 2 hours away from anywhere the driver normally operates, and with very little chance of finding a fare for the return drive. It would be fair if the fare was adjusted to take into account these important variations.
This is meaningless. Stress is a natural state. Human lives have forever been stressful, because stress exists for a purpose. To set out to eliminate all "dissonances" and "disharmonies" is a fool's errand.

The wisest people from vastly different cultures -- from Nietzsche who I quote above to the Buddha -- have recognized that suffering is inevitable. Sure, some stressors can be dealt with. But others can't.

If someone is having trouble coping, and he's a software developer in a developed country who has free time to write blogs, the best advice to that person is to seek help learning how to cope.
They know your domain, your IP address, your referer, your screen size, your OS, your browser version, your supported MIME types, your port number, your plugins, your ISP.

That should be enough information for cooperating servers to target an ad.
I was about to say this. It's interesting that it's taking so long to hire someone for.
More likely to see ad companies (Google, Facebook) start serving sites.
An important reason why the fight was so bitter over seemingly small amounts of land that this article (and others) seem to miss is that a relatively limited area of northern France amounted to over half of the country's industrial production. Coal and steel in particular, critical to the war effort were overwhelmingly produced there.

Any incremental part of this region lost to the Germans wasn't just a symbolic loss of ground or a moral defeat, it meant a real long term resource loss which could tilt the balance of the war in Germany's favour. In comparison, the allies were largely unable to strike Germany's industrial centers. It's quite easy to depict all senior commanders of the time as inflexible and stubborn (some of them were, to various extents anyway), but there's more to it than that.

Defence in depth just wasn't an option, and mechanised war was a fiction anyway. With the benefit of hindsight, and ignoring the industrial value of the North, it's easy to jump to simple but wrong conclusions about why the war was fought that way.

Edit: Link to English source illustrating my point http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/raw_materia...
>> We are stuck at an awkward time in digital scholarship

I'll add to that. It will still be an awkward time in 20-40 years. Let's say that "Professor X" is a pioneer in a field, and her computer, which has her last 40 years of activity (email, source code, draft documents, downloads, etc.) on it is placed in an archive.

Now I, as an historian of science, go through that blob and figure out the timeline for some event, which is based on recorded IRC sessions, git commit messages, etc.

How do I cite those individual locations in the archival data?
Having tried the CV1 multiple times I can say the headphones are surprisingly incredible. Every time I use them I'm impressed. I doubt I will ever use other headphones with the Rift.
This is lovely. Have you encountered any issues with Google Maps' usage limits? (Especially now it's on the front page of HN...)
Rant.

It really bugs me when consumers ask for more features regardless of their feasibility, here we have a great phone with changebale batteries and yet we ask for it to be still on while we swap the batteries! Hasn't it occurred to us that maybe it's technically difficult to add in a supercap. Just be thankful. This is like constentaly asking for phones with more RAM and processing power, I am really glad Moore's law has come to end, maybe now consumers will be faced with the harsh truth that it is not simple to keep on creating more powerful devices for them to watch cat videos on.
He's referring to Gavin.
What do you mean by Rails Omakase? All I could find is a blog post by DHH saying that "Rails is Omakase." Is there more to it than that?
This Is How to Sneak in Your Passion for Drawing Everyday
I don't see ads all that often, there is an element of choice to it.

It's just that people want the things behind ads more than they don't want the ads. In a way it's an example of capitalism doing well.

If consumers really don't want to see ads, they won't.

An example of advertising working well, I see the Massdrop mailouts periodically. These emails come in a predictable and respectful format which tells no lies about the product. Attractive products clearly win on Massdrop.
You could say the same with movie theatres vs TVs though right?

Having tried experiences like The Void I'm confident these out of home experiences will be able to offer significantly more features to warrant leaving the house. Features that may never be possible in a house.
Node.js can asynchronously make multiple (i.e. hundreds) database requests without locking the instance.
Relax. Within 10 years, we have AI that is strong enough to recognize advertisements regardless of origin, so that they can be stripped from any content, be it text, images, or video.

Make sure you sell your Google and Facebook stocks before that time.
Three gravitational wave projects unveiled in China
Does the potential existence of a backdoor justify its use against users?

Having to write software is very different than using existing software. Apple developed their software precisely to prevent situations like this---the backdoor is _undoing_ those developments.
Do elaborate please. (Not /s)
...the fundamental problem with these are that it's extremely hard to build big and complex software without making it look like a huge mess...

In my view, text based languages could be this way too, except that the habits of making code at least marginally readable (e.g., indentation) and modular (subroutines, local variables, etc.) are drilled into everybody who learns programming, or learned through "the apprenticeship of observation."

Also, those habits require only a bare minimum of physical effort, such as reaching for the tab button or enclosing some code in a function definition.

I think a problem with graphical programming is the sheer physical effort that it requires, encouraging sloppy work. Maintaining readable code as it grows in complexity is a major chore, involving physical and not just mental, effort. In practice it doesn't happen.
According to the article, the suspect may have been picking up fares for Uber while shooting people, so his employer does appear to be relevant to the timeline.

Also, Uber was mentioned in a quote by a law enforcement officer, as being part of the context of the investigation:

While the company did not address reports that Dalton picked up and dropped off
customers Saturday night, authorities told CNN that it was "certainly part
of our investigation."

"We're looking into his connection to Uber and whether or not he was picking up
fares in between the shootings," said Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley.

If the shooter had possibly been delivering pizzas for Pizza Hut in the same context, his employer would have been mentioned as well. Certainly a quote by law enforcement mentioning his employer would have been used. This isn't a hit piece against Uber, this is reporting being done the way reporting is usually done.
Seems to me like the real challenge in those framework (excepting performance, of course) will be in the orm component. Having a library that can query a db in a typesafe way is a must.

Another will be in the concurrency patterns ( promises ? Coroutines ?, etc).

But i get a great hope that they will succeed. Having a strong open source community will help. In fact, i'm so fed up with the sad state of uikit right now, that i see a brighter future for swift on the server side than on the client. Maybe an android sdk for swift would be a great idea...
It does have a forward facing camera to enable AR/Hololens- like experiences though. But yeah, it's using the Lighthouses for tracking (relative for seated VR, absolute when standing)[1]. Fortunately for other VR systems they're open source and freely available to integrate into any hardware system.

[1] http://metaversing.com/2015/03/23/examining-the-valvehtc-viv...
Discover Loverino
My thought is that we should be replicating the "pull" based commerce process of the shopping mall but doing it electronically.

So instead of bombarding people with stuff they don't want in a context that doesn't make sense - ads for products on the sidelines of other unrelated content - we build a platform where people can get as close to the in person shopping experience as possible from their home. Obviously there are limitations to this from a tactile standpoint, but by and large consumers have shown that they don't really need that to such high fidelity.
Well as the article points out, adding modules involves taking out the battery. There might be other design options besides an extra battery/super capacitor, but it kinda weakens the utility of quick change modules.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4973383
4 Ways to Use Smart Contracts
There is another narrative - government ran background checks on him as well before selling him a gun. And it let him walk around freely regardless of safety concerns.
Tell HN: Tech Industry and Tech Startup Books
Hello Hackernews!

So today I was experimenting with the Product Hunt books section, found here: https://www.producthunt.com/books

It's a great place to discover interesting reads, especially related to technology, tech startups, and the digital space.

Here's the books I submitted to PH:

The $100 Startup - Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better To Live More

http://amzn.decenturl.com/100

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Breached! - A Cautionary Tale of Cybersecurity and Intrigue

http://amzn.decenturl.com/breached

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The Industries of the Future - In the next ten years, change will happen even faster

http://amzn.decenturl.com/future

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Elon Musk - How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is shaping our Future

http://amzn.decenturl.com/musk

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Superforecasting - The Art and Science of Prediction

http://amzn.decenturl.com/forecasting

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So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Our world's most underappreciated forces: shame

http://amzn.decenturl.com/shamed

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Abundance - The Future Is Better Than You Think

http://amzn.decenturl.com/abundance

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The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

http://amzn.decenturl.com/jeff

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Note: yes they are shortened for tracking purposes, and yes, they have a referral code in them, so I get a small 'advertising fee' if you buy a book through Amazon. I hope you learn something from them if you decide to grab a copy :)
The link you yourself posted says "The most effective means of finding the current range of Google IP addresses is to query Google's SPF record." While this is intended to be mailservers only, it has always appeared to me that the SPF list is all of their servers that 3rd parties can't run proxies on.
But that argument is true for the Rift cameras too. You can place Rift cameras in a similar setup to Lighthouses and achieve similar tracking volumes.
I've been itching to try Keybase. Mind sending one my way too?
Producers are not necessarily consumers.

One of the most narcissistic people I know writes quite prolifically, but can't be bothered to read more than a paragraph or so of somebody else's writing.
I think calling softpedia "press" is an insult to every real journalist.

The fact that they're calling the bot "tsunami" just proves their incompetence. The bot isn't called tsunami, it's called kaiten and it's been open source for more than a decade.

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/25575/kaiten.c.html

They also managed to confuse FTP and HTTP

>the hackers have only altered the man.cy [https://gist.github.com/Oweoqi/31239851e5b84dbba894] file, where they've added a new function called tsunami.

Doesn't look like they just added a new function called tsunami to me.

>Selling the forum's database for a meager $85 is a sign of their lack of vision. The group seems to have mishandled the entire hack, opting to distribute a silly IRC DDoS bot instead of more dangerous and lucrative malware like Bitcoin miners or banking trojans.

Stupid speculation by writer.

Linux Mint remains compromised despite the current events, it's rather unlikely that kaiten is used as a DDoS bot instead of just a stager to execute shell commands on the affected computers. The presence of DoS commands is meaningless, the only reason kaiten is still used today is because it runs everywhere so it seems fair to assume that that'd be why the attacker opted to just use it instead of writing their own. (No real benefit to that here)

Also, bitcoin mining stopped being lucrative ages ago.

edit:
>One person seems to have bought the hackers' files and dumped the forum's config file on Hacker News discussions thread.

I neither bought nor sold the data.
I wish Apple had not ditched NeXT's EOF. It would make a fine open source project these days.
We don't know how much power the phone actually draws in use.
From the blockers side, this doesn't really help as domain filtering is just the first step, then dom elements, url fragments and finally HTML identifiers (like being a standard ad image size).

From the user privacy side it's also mixed as there are still large scale efforts to link up users across sites and devices.
I'm more worried at the point that we have AI strong enough to pass the turing test, and then spends years befriending us... just to advertise products.

Pretty far off, but this concept scares the hell out of me.
And if he was campaigning for Hillary between the shootings, that would also be relevant?

EDIT: on the second thought... yes, it would.
wow, this is more like a paid infomercial than a wired article about apple products.
That place should be relaxing and should feel like home, because it is. Keeping different levels of authority separated in different houses would be mandatory. Additionally workers living in the same house shouldn't be working on the same project[0] , even if that sounds counter-intuitive. The reason is that it diminishes possible conflicts, because in the case of unsolved argument, there is nowhere you can go, and humans can't always solve them.

[0]: but should certainly work in the same field.
Yep.

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

Learned about it in Psych.

I'm so happy I was a Psych major. (and I'm a programmer now!) It was so general and yet so awesome that it was like getting +1 in every RPG stat for life.
I made something similar:

https://github.com/surprisetalk/pommy
It's not true that better utility will cause the stores to stick around. Some utility will be external to the buyer or seller (for our society, for example), and some utility will possibly come with dis-utility to, for example, a distribution chain. But, from a strictly analytical perspective, there might be benefits worth preserving. Also there are studies showing that utility is often invisible to the buyer (consider sophisticated electronics with characteristics such as power saving or such as high environmental costs). To take a classic example, medical care allows no practical way for the customer to judge quality or to price compare - that is an extreme example, but many products have such aspects. The common justification that "markets work" represents a philosophical position, not one backed up by experience in real-world markets.
Red View Graphic System
> Perhaps the most significant change this year comes in the S7’s new 12-megapixel camera. It’s lower resolution than last year’s 16-megapixel shooter, but Samsung says its larger pixels let in 56 percent more light than before for better low light images.

What?
I don't want to be distracted by ads. And I don't want to be tracked. I would be happy to pay forgone ad income, at the going rate, which I understand to be on the order of $0.001 to $0.01 per view. But I would want that to be largely automatic, with just a quote and opportunity to accept.
The cab driver / customer relationship is one of the few places in our culture where we have to set aside the age old wisdom of not getting into strangers' cars, and any hint that that might not be a good idea makes for sensational news. It's the same reason that picture of Gacy in clown makeup is so popular even though he never shot up a birthday party.
wake me up when i can use VR headset and look around :)
Software Piracy and Linux Adoption
Very well done. But what do you plan on doing with it?
DARPA's SyNAPSE and then the self powered brain of an ant. That's computing. Everything else could find place on what's next in consumerist garbage.
In related news, county public health inspector kills 14.

(Edit: ...and an iPhone owner)
The title could be more _16 PL Kevin de Asis likes_. For example it didn't include Nim, but Nim is one of the more popular open source PL on GH. Crystal is also rising, even if the buzz generated in 2015 can be false buzz (like the buzz generated by GO 3/4 years ago). ALso the place of Matlab in this list is questionable. It's globally not used in programming, execpt in some niche, for example, DSP filter design...but in a general way you don't "need" it.
I read unconfirmed reports of ballpark 500USD
I've seen the blog post, I was just wondering if there was more to it than that.
I don't see this as an issue. I've been blocking ads on the web for over a dozen years and now somehow it's an issue? No, it's not. The publishers who can't make it in a world where people increasingly use ad blockers won't and the ones who figure out how to make it will. Economics 101. I've been waiting for this play to start for awhile--it's amusing--but I'm not really interested in reading about idiots who see this as a moral issue. The advertising industry has had a good dozen years to reign unchecked. They've gotten used to having nice things that shouldn't have been theirs. Now, either adapt or die. Truthfully, no one outside of the advertising industry cares either one way or another.

It's possible nowadays to live an almost completely ad-free life. Outside of live sporting events and billboards, we have so many ad-free choices, that choosing something with advertising at this point has to be deliberate or simply out of laziness. The world of web advertising is gone just like many worlds that are now outdated: CDs, DVDs, etc. It's just a matter of time till the companies involved realize this. They're like the coyote who, chasing the roadrunner, has run off the cliff but hasn't looked down at the abyss yet and thus hasn't yet fallen. Google and Facebook will at some point realize they're in defiance of gravity and start plunging. Perhaps they can rescue themselves with native mobile apps or other closed ecosystem allowances, but on the open web, they are finished. I'm just amazed it took this long for the final act to start ...
The hardware quality of Samsung's flagship products has always been excellent. However the software issues make the price ridiculous.

Good luck getting rapid Android updates for your carrier-modified Samsung Galaxy S7. I'm stuck with a T-Mobile Note 4 with 5.1.1.
That, and at the price point of this gear, it's safe to assume they'll have their own preferred headset/earbuds. It's an additional wire, but really not a huge deal.
Well, here's a story of French drivers unionizing AND starting a competitor service: [1]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/3/9841562/french-uber-driver...
My PhD advisor had a paper which was rejected by a few major journals, so he decided to keep it as a preprint and see how many citations it could acquire. It has hundreds now.

These days he'd stick it on arxiv. Arxiv doesn't appear to issue DOIs, you're supposed to add the DOI from a real journal after the preprint gets published.