skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes it's fatter than those newfangled flat things, but it doesn't watch me watching it, it doesn't record my conversations, and it doesn't report my viewing habits back to the mother ship. One day it will fail and I'll be forced to get a new one.

It's actually getting pretty difficult to buy a new "dumb" TV these days. The last TV I bought was in November 2014, it's a normal 50" Plasma screen TV with zero connected features. Some of my relatives liked the TV and asked me to find them one like it and I can't. Apparently TV makers have decided that making good TVs isn't important and packing them with smart features I don't want or need is the way to go.
You can't just say something is the best in the world (its not) without qualifying it at all. Yahoo advertising is some absurdly small amount compared FB, Google, or even Bing.
Another reason to take on debt, as an individual, is to leverage your position -- It's indirectly related to provide income in excess of interest payment. An example would be to take on debt to purchase a vehicle to broaden the area where you can potentially work. You have to make sure that you buy a vehicle at the optimal marginal return (so close to a clunker.) and I think that's where the problem resides: I see individuals have possessions that cost way below the optimal marginal return for status.
I adore "The Magicians", and have added "The Buried Giant" to my stack based on your recommendation.
Power Dressing Exists. Studies Suggest Clothing Can Affect Our Success
One use case: reducing ongoing bandwidth costs.

S3 bandwidth is pretty expensive. Even Akamai will give you less expensive bandwidth and their target market is enterprise media companies (e.g. ESPN) with deep pockets.

For someone with bandwidth costs issues who wants to use S3 as storage, they can put Varnish in front of it and serve the data with less expense.

What do you lose out on? HTTP/2, SSL, etc. unless you put another HTTP server in front of varnish.
Isn't the problem in Calacanis' phrasing? They didn't butcher the quote, they failed to clarify the intended meaning.
DoJ files motion to compel Apple to comply with FBI order
I'm following the snowball method now. The reason I like it is that I free up money faster. If I have $4000 on a credit card and the minimum is $100 a month. If I pay that smaller balance off quicker I free up that $100 a month to be used towards the next debt.
According to the article, that isn't known.

>The first possibility is that the Secure Enclave uses the same sort of software update mechanism as the rest of the device. That is, updates must be signed by Apple, but can be freely applied. This would make the Secure Enclave useless against an attack by Apple itself, since Apple could just create new Secure Enclave software that removes the limitations. The Secure Enclave would still be a useful feature, helping to protect the user if the main OS is exploited by a third party, but it would be irrelevant to the question whether Apple can break into its own devices.

If we assume this is the case, it might explain what McAfee meant when he mentioned social engineering.
Is there anything resembling road-rage on the Internet? If so I am feeling it as I am reading this comment. Please help me.
What if you asked them to buy half as much food? Would their default mode be less than twice as good as starving?
>Archaic news source does something to hurt their market penetration to internet

Great idea here guys
Trusted computing modules have been broken before. Someone presented a working attack a few years ago at BlackHat using an electron Microscope to figure out how to crack the TPM in the Xbox.
This is basically true ^^
How is modifying your own request headers any different than choosing to not display content returned in the response body?

Their server can choose to do what it wants with your request and you can choose what to do with the response it sends.

Are User-Agent headers legally protected identities?
User agent strings have a long history of being intentionally misleading. IE 11 claims to be "Mozilla/5.0". Chrome claims to be "Safari/537.36". The User-Agent string is all lies, and has been ever since the first site started doing UA sniffing.
Would be slightly interesting to know what happened to the other 5 employees Nest aqui-hired at the same time.
The government caused all of this. First they collect the communications of essentially the entire planet (including citizens) and now they act like a victim when consumers want data privacy.

I feel like they are using this case as the poster child even though they don't expect to actually get anything meaningful from the phone. Especially since this was a work phone and the guy's personal phone had been destroyed beyond repair. To me that says anything meaningful would have been on that destroyed device.
Yeah, I was really excited about the changes to movement and combat back when Civ V was first announced. After playing the game, my enthusiasm disappeared completely. The AI completely sucks at positioning its units correctly. The widespread simplifications to the economic model (global happiness) dumb down the city building to a large degree. The vast majority of the decisions you make in the game have now become dull, trite, obvious.
You are in fact being a huge literature snob saying that it's insulting to even compare the two. To Kill a Mockingbird was culture changing because it touched on such an important issue to American culture (race relations, etc.), while also being a well written book grounded in the human spirit. It is not objectively better written than ASOIAF, which has surprising depth and a keen understanding of the human spirit in conflict with itself.

ASOIAF has flaws, but so does TKAMB. Atticus could be argued to be quite a one dimensional character (not counting the sequel, which comes out of nowhere and is widely regarded to NOT be well written).
nothing wrong with zero % interest! If you have the means to get it paid off. That's called using other peoples money.
Here's a hint: if it's science fiction or fantasy, it's probably not considered 'great literature'.

Having everyone die in the end is bonus points for 'great writing'.
> I wouldn't be tempted

It's up to you (i.e. to each of us) to resist that temptation. Somebody else breaking the rules doesn't entitle you to as well.
Having x credit limit costs vastly less than x cash in a checking account.
People say that Mayer won't get another CEO job, but I wouldn't be so certain. There's a lot of defenders for her in the tech industry who just attribute her failed tenure as Yahoo being Yahoo. Plus, she has a lot of money and executive connections.

And if Fiorina could be CEO for two companies over a longer time than Mayer's tenure at Yahoo, well...
I had to check the date on the article to see if the web site was merely antiquated, rather than ridiculous.
I've recently been considering building an application that runs on a backend of Ethereum+Storj. The ability to store (and retrieve) data in Storj chain feels like a necessary component in getting a full DApp set up, right now I'm grappling with a concept that would (somehow) require the ability to provide users with a single-use key to download data from Storj.

The future of cryptocurrencies is bright, there's now a large set of tools in the toolbox to use to build resilient, permanent applications for people to use. I'm really excited to see what people build in 2016, the cryptocurrency ecosystem has been growing rapidly in the shadows, and they're finally breaking into the mainstream.
Some context, if you don't know what cryptocat is, or why the lead dev is shutting it down:

Cryptocat Considered Harmful (2013) https://datavibe.net/~sneak/20130717/cryptocat-considered-ha...

Except: Today, Cryptocat is not for everyone.

Cryptocat is under active development, and is suitable only for
debugging and software experimentation. It is not suitable for
those who desire communications privacy. (This may change 2-5
years in the future, following sufficient peer review.)

Cryptocat has had myriad errors in implementation, spanning the
entire time it has been under active development. Note well that
this is not a criticism: cryptosystems are notoriously difficult
to get right, and it takes a very long time, significant
experience, much peer review (on top of that significant
experience), and lots of sweat and iteration to build systems
that are safe to use.

(HN thread on that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990602 )

Schneier post on the adoring media coverage of cryptocat (2012) https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/cryptocat.htm...
I think the whole analogy is moot since anyone buying a TV would, at least, try for store financing.

A quick look up says that Best Buy offers 11.9% APR for select purchases, or 25% for others.
What I didn't see answered in the article was how content is discovered.

The only way we are able to productively use git is because there is a convention to have some state in a non content-addressable location (.git/refs, .git/HEAD, etc...).

Saying that IPFS could replace the web means either: 1) Introducing shared mutable state; or 2) full knowledge of everything on the network.

I'm guessing that the existing web is what provides that layer right now. Is there any work going on for novel IPFS-based content discovery mechanisms?

Another thought: Given the content-addressable, immutable nature of this graph, how does one discover that a new version of something is available without a central authority? How could we discover the tip of a blockchain with IPFS alone?
https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en seems to specifically ban this. WSJ is in violation, not fitting any of the categories there.
I take it you haven't read "Go Set a Watchman"...
"Managing debt" is an oxymoron. You have to manage your life better in order to reduce debt. Most things that talk about debt or money management or budgeting talk about it like it is a math problem. It isn't. It runs a lot deeper than that.
What? Any site can very easily not be in Google if they choose to. It's a very dumb decision for a news site, but you're free to do it.
Wheels Up Rushes to Be the Uber of Private Plane Travel
Argh
I guessed the OP meant repercussion 1) unintented consequences and 2) re emission of percursion ~= reverberation

While reverberation is kind of just the echo of a vibration.
Cryptocat is one of those awesome projects I'd love to support, but I just don't have the time or expertise to help. I hope Kobeissi finds some good devs to help him keep the project going.
What is scary is that "how to manage money" is secondary to "how to manage debt". For the most part I have thought about my bank balance first and figured that my credit score would take care of itself and that has generally been the case.
Casting a net for neutrinos
Yes, but if one is interested whether an IP is from Googlebot or not, they would check if it resolves to .googlebot.com and not to .google.
It seems like ultimately there will be an external protocol for distributed databases. For example bigchaindb.
Gamma rays are likely keeping us from knowing where neutrinos come from
WSJ is violating Google's rules referenced here: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en
This seems useful for cross-platform desktop UIs. Are there any Pascal compilers targeting iPhone & Android?
An Extended Comparative Study of Language Support for Generic Programming [pdf]
> Understand what? That her father and the Sheriff have decided to obstruct justice in the name of saving their beloved neighbor the burden of angel-food cake?

to which I reply

> Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice! [0]

By appealing to "justice", Malcolm Gladwell is making a deontological appeal. But as a consequentialist, I don't find it very convincing. Additionally, the critique reminds me of the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics: "Atticus did good, but not optimally good. Therefore, he was worse than Hitler."

Furthermore, I disagree that Atticus's impact on society was limited by his approach. Rather, his impact was inherently limited by the culture. I.e. I suspect that a lot of people imagine "if I had lived in the antebellum south, I'd have been more vocal than MLK jr". But realistically, there's only so much a single person can do to effect change. Almost by definition, the status quo has inertia. So given the circumstances, the "hearts and minds" approach may have very well been the most effective strategy. More than one history teacher has told me that we have to interpret people's behavior within the context of their own time period. This entails that it's misleading to judge the behavior of people from other cultures by modern standards.

(but thanks for sharing the article. It changed the way I think about "to kill a mockingbird" also.)

[0] http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Justice
Yes, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. I bought one of those for my wife.
> they have a lot of great products

They do?
It's intent that matters. Setting user-agent in order to properly render a page is legal. Setting a user-agent string to gain access to otherwise unauthorized content is probably not.
> > but their software is getting worse.

> You read this on the internet too. Please.

This (along with the ad hominem part of the rest of your post) is uncharitable. The GP is hardly alone in thinking that Apple software is getting worse; I think it, too, and not just out of conformity—if anything I'm frustrated by not being able to find enough people on the Internet who agree with my longing for the good old days of Snow Leopard.
It's great to see that they're taking such an active role in preserving this aspect of 'nerd heritage'.
Outlook takes on Gmail with huge new update
Why would wall street value a company at less than its book value? Struggling to understand how that could make sense.
This is correct. I have sat in legal meetings over this a few times.

The only murky area is how much of the original port constitutes a derivative. I would argue that any legitimate working kernel module ported from one OS to another is enough to show derivation. Others may argue that any large amount of adapting from one kernel to another (e.g. NDIS drivers) creates a new work. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
It doesn't work for me. They did say they're "testing" it, so maybe A/B testing conversion rates.

And yes, this violates Google's policies laid out explicitly at https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en
This is a blogspam version of http://www.profwoodward.org/2016/02/what-just-happened-on-to...
Eli5: what happens if your 301 redirect domains a to b and b to a?
U.S. files motion to force Apple to obey iPhone order: court
I think more important is the fact that she probably doesn't need another job. She's worth $380 million apparently - why would she bother?
All plant foods have a complete amino acid profile fit for human consumption.

That's a really weird phrase. I guess suggestions that a protein complete diet is easier when eating meat are also a bit overwrought, but it's possible to eat plants and end up not getting all essential amino acids which is usually what is meant when "complete" is mentioned together with protein.
I guess I'd summarize the feed conversion part as follows:

- Crickets are slightly better than poultry at converting poultry feed into protein.

- Crickets are great at converting processed grocery store waste into protein; poultry can't do this at all.

- Both species are awful at converting low quality food waste (a mix of chicken poop and straw) into protein.

- The efficient feed conversion of modern poultry comes only after years of research, development and breeding; the efficient feed conversion of insects comes "out of the box" and will only improve over time.
I use a Marble FX at home, they are wonderful. Hope it never breaks. At work I use an M570 which is also quite good (thumb-only trackball).
Interesting thanks for the heads up, I don't know why I thought Simple were a bank - good marketing I guess.
It would likely take more than 100 man hours just to provision the code sign; Apple probably has that all under controlled hardware that require multiple lead-engineer level crypto tokens across multiple divisions.

This isn't some Node.js box that a junior developer will monkey patch in prod—this is serious cryptography @ a large company w/processes.

"simply hand over the source code"
Ohhh, so you're arguing a private company should hand over all of it's private property (it's source code) to a public institution because... terrorists?! Then Samsung starts hiring more FBI agents for some reason... or the source to the iPhone magically shows up online. Also how many hundreds of thousands of hours of engineering time will it take to sanitize that codebase to make sure it's suitable for public dissemination?
The key differences now are that our devices' activities are more akin to sending a letter through the legally protected US mail, rather than disclosing secrets to untrusted third parties like cell carriers (no reasonable person, upon being shown a text messaging app, would think they were texting their carrier and not their friend). Thus, we expect a much higher standard of proof and accountability for accessing that information than has been applied of late.

Second, our devices are becoming effectively cybernetic extensions of our minds, and this cognitive intimacy definitely warrants a new discussion of boundaries that is not burdened by awkward analogies to historic traditions of the courts.

Finally, by whatever basis you want to argue (multiple amendments in the bill of rights, etc.), we should not be forced to deny the effectiveness of mathematics. We should have the right to use whatever algorithmic and physical security mechanisms we desire to guard ourselves against hackers, thieves, and foreign spies. If that slows the local spies down too, they'll just have to find some other way to do their jobs, and reconsider whether the scope and scale of their activities was appropriate to begin with.
Counter example: Git is immutable object store successfully replacing mutable CVS databases. The trick is to build mutable functionality on top immutable store. In case of git it is branches/tags that are light-weight mutable pointers to immutable objects. Additionally I believe access control and privacy can be built on top of immutable store using cryptography.
Pretty sure some federated social network is gonna win. Enclaves that are run by some tech-minded friend like BBSes, I dunno.
Unity has a job forum. Never used it, don't know the rules, YMMV, etc:

http://forum.unity3d.com/forums/commercial-job-seeking.48/
Don't get me started. The best thing I've ever seen is a site using Google tag manager to load an ad tag manager which loaded a different gtm instance which... Loaded the site's own js libraries.

This horror out of time and space was beaten, shot and stabbed, and the developer responsible for its invention was promoted to CTO and King of the universe.
Depending on the magazines, I'd recommend Texture (https://www.texture.com/, formerly Next Issue). It's a subscription service, but you get access to dozens of magazines and all the old issues for $10 per month.
Cryptocat was a good concept (i.e. it was USABLE!), but the execution was flawed. It grew a lot of criticism and Nadim made mistakes in handling some of his critics, creating a schism between him and the cryptographers who might have been able to help him. (Not all of this was his fault, of course.)

I hope that not only will this new product of his be developed with "A pure vision of democratized, pleasant secure messaging", but also that he has matured significantly. I hope that Cryptocat v3 will come out after it has been thoroughly audited by several reputable third parties.

Most importantly, I hope their crypto is boring.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6095/xkcd-936-s...

http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.10.05/slides-djb-20151005-a4.pdf
I've noticed that this has stopped working on WSJ if you've already hit the paywall and try to google the article to bypass.
Thanks for clearing that up, that's awesome. :)
>Right now our problem is too little labor, not too much. Maybe we should wait until we at least have enough labor before we take steps that will reduce the labor supply?

At what point would you know there is enough labor and how would you measure that? It would have to be once a certain goal is achieved, correct? What is that goal?

I'm curious because in a time where there are 7 billion people I have rarely, if ever, seen someone say on the whole there are too many jobs and not enough laborers. Rather it's more often said that there are too many laborers and not enough jobs. Which is precisely the type of sentiment that drives anti-immigration xenophobia.
I holistically agree!
I would say bad China, but given how polarised and politicised the Western media is, I find it hard to fault them.

Unbiased journalism seems such a quaint concept these days, and as the divisions between right and left take on an almost war like characteristic, everything becomes propaganda.

Hell, I might even move to China to get away from it all.
Justice Department Calls Apple’s Refusal to Unlock iPhone a ‘Marketing Strategy’
That may be true, but your assumption is that we would have an all cricket diet
I'd be interested in hearing what other people think of as Yahoo's great products. I personally like Tumblr, but I'm having a hard time thinking of another Yahoo thing I like/use
If you exercise, you might gain weight if you're gaining muscle. But did you notice that maybe your clothes fit better even with the weight gain? What sort of sandwiches do you eat for breakfast and lunch?
Do you think it is justified?

After playing a lot of it, the answer is: totally! The original game has some pretty severe balance problems: tons of spells are so underpowered that you never cast them and generally avoid researching them. Most of the units in the original game have so much resistance that nearly all of the unit curse spells have little or no effect on them. The disparity between the realms of magic was also way too high on the original game.

Also, I wonder, how did he go about improving the AI

With a hex editor. A bunch of the AI code in the original game is decently well written. The problem is that the game has tables of hard-coded priorities for things like spells, units, buffs, etc. that are way out of whack. His detailed changelogs go over the hundreds of adjustments he's made to these priority values.

He also just fixed a whole bunch of straight bugs with the AI. Some examples: it would cast spells without a valid target (wasting mana and spellcasting skill), build and disband units repeatedly, miscalculate combat odds and then carry out an attack that had no chance of succeeding, etc.
philosophical insight, subversion of macho values, a picture of childish insecurity/fatherly guidance, and dramatic irony for those who know the ideals of the speaker will lead to his death.

all that in 2 lines and you don't think it's great writing.
DOJ Files Motion to Force Apple’s Cooperation
Building 3D Transforms Visually
Test Report Points to F-35’s Combat Limits
My Windows anti-virus deletes the linked sample code automatically upon download, marking it as "Trojan:Win32/Spursint.A". Did anyone have the same experience? (I was actually more interested in using it as a template for writing a simple Chrome extension.)
New workaround: paste the article title into archive.is. I don't know what they're doing but they have a workaround of some sort.
Probably a dumb question but how does this compare to http://storj.io/?
Justice Scalia, the Second Amendment, and Judicial Conservatives
IPNS

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ipfs-users/fr6dlQ8we...