skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a further twist in that the only US rigid airship that did not crash, the Los Angeles, was built by the Zeppelin company specifically for the US Navy after WW1, in an agreement to pay down reparations. The Shenandoah may have been based on the wartime height-climbers, but I don't think the Akron and Macon were.

You are right about the Graf Zeppelin being a great success, but I have wondered how much that depended on Hugo Eckener's good judgment about when and where to fly.
Note, this article is basically a plug for Light Phone.
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I agree, but I think your position excludes the existance of "unknown unknowns". What really drives us?
Some PDP-7 source code
Warren Toomey from The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS) posts:

http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-February/006622.h...

With the link:

http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Mc...

From the Readme:

The structure of the kernel source code is very similar to that of the 1st Edition Unix scan at

http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Dennis_v1/PreliminaryUnixImplementationDocument_Jun72.pdf

Here is what I can glean from the files:

01-s1.pdf contains the kernel source divided into sections S1 to S9
02-hw.pdf has hardware details of the PDP-7
03-scope.pdf has information about the PDP-7 scope
04-cas.pdf seems to be a user-mode program that uses the PDP-7 scope
05-1-4.pdf user-mode programs: adm, ald, apr, as
06-5-12.pdf user-mode programs: bl, bc, bi, cat, check, chown, chmod, cp, chrm
07-13-19.pdf user-mode programs: db, dmabs, ds, dsksav, dskres, dskio, dsw, init
08-rest.pdf user-mode programs: ed. Also at the beginning some B code (?)
The reason why I brought it up is because it illustrates just how flexible "strict textual constitutionalists" actually are. Like most political arguments, it quickly falls into "Well, I like this, so there."

By a strict textual reading, without amendment, the Air Force has been unconstitutional since September 16, 1947, and so should be immediately remanded to several states, because there's no strict authority spawning from the 18th century for establishing an air force.

The second amendment, also talks about bearing arms in the explicit context of "a well regulated [state] militia" and nothing else, but that gets washed over because, "I like my hobby."
This is Java, it is strongly typed. You need to do:

Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, text, duration);
toast.show();
Hi, Jan here from SlimFAQ. Custom domains are coming soon (I will add this to our FAQ). Pricing now on the landing page. We don't expose the editor in the demo but sign up for a free account and have a play. Media hosting is included. The resultant FAQs are totally responsive and look great on all devices (will also add to FAQ). Mailing list is a great suggestion, will get this set up :-)

Thanks for the really constructive feedback, very much appreciated.
If an adversary made it and somehow got it in front of my eyeballs, that's natural enough for me.
One of the "knock it out of the park" features of icloud is that it lets you trivially share photostreams (It's the one service that I've found close to flawless) - so all those shared pictures are still available to the family who you shared them with should you pass away.

I certainly don't know if Apple should, without a court order, share any of my data that I haven't explicitly shared with next of kin if I passed away.

I'm wondering though - what happens if I stop paying my $2.99/month for 200 GB - will any of my existing photos be wiped out of shared photostreams?
fractured a metatarsal huh?
Possibly Mandrill/MailChimp employees flagging it because it's casting a bad light on them. They've disabled comments on their blog posts too.

There seems to be a lot of backlash against what they're doing and they likely don't want people to see that.
Apparently Github was impressed by her amazing community management skills and positive interaction with developers.

Shadow banning abusive pull requests, safe space repositories, perhaps even a search ranking handicap for underrepresented COBAL programmers.

I'm Excited!
It's not 99%; adoption of iCloud backups is not nearly that high.
You amd all the scientsts who study it. It's a giant bucket of symptoms for which we don't have a well understood mechanism or diagnostic criteria. And since societt can't comprehend too many things at once, anyone who wants funding calls their thing "autism"
A former Apple engineer said on Twitter:

"@AriX I have no clue where they got the idea that changing SPE firmware will destroy keys. SPE FW is just a signed blob on iOS System Part"

https://twitter.com/johnhedge/status/699882614212075520

Then Apple seems to confirm it:

"The executives — speaking on background — also explicitly stated that what the FBI is asking for — for it to create a piece of software that allows a brute force password crack to be performed — would also work on newer iPhones with its Secure Enclave chip"

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/19/apple-executives-say-new-ip...
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There are some success stories even just limiting it to enterprise software. PowerPoint, Visio, and many products in the Dynamics family started out as acquisitions.
Yep, that's next :-)
Hi, Jan from SlimFAQ here, custom domains are coming soon :-)
Indeed. Even Bernie doesn't make this point (or at least, I haven't heard him make it). To stand up and say, "Actually, terrorism isn't a big threat to the US, especially compared to ..." would be political suicide. Why? Because terrorism isn't about any real threat, it's about hurt pride, outrage at being vulnerable, outrage at being hated, and underlying it all a cultural animosity that ranges from dispassionate concern to visceral hatred. American's are very much doers and they want to "win the war on terror". Which of course is stupid since terrorism has always been around, and will always be around. (And in another twist of irony I am positive that the American Revolutionaries were called terrorists by the British.)

Anyway, a rational politician would have a tremendous uphill battle against both Pride and Ignorance. He or she would have to have tremendous skill as a teacher and a leader, not to mention the emotional fortitude of a Buddha to endure the onslaught of hatred.
The most egregious, for me, is that while they published the source code for their firmware as GPL (good) they were too lazy to incorporate fixes made by a third-party developer who was fed up with their buggy software and decided to do something about it. The AsusWRT Merlin builds are much higher quality and the source code to them is, per the GPL, also available. It's one thing to not fix security issues, it's another thing to have a single guy fixing your security problems and not even be bothered to take his work and pass it on to your customers. They deserve all the punishment they're receiving.
My father died in 2010. He would play Yahoo Games of Pool and Spades and other games. After he died his Yahoo ID expired due to inactivity. I was always having to update Java for him in order to play the games.
I mostly agree about HTML but it gives people too much rope to hang themselves.

Like you pointed out, it's also too easy to write bad HTML. Not so much with Markdown.
When I used GitHub Enterprise, it seemed to basically just be regular GitHub for businesses that wanted to keep their code on their own servers. What things would they be focusing on for large businesses that don't show up on the main GitHub site?
Uhh, well it's probably pretty high. Considering their adoption rate for new software is sitting somewhere around 95%. iCloud backups default to on - just like automatic updates - when the user sets up their phone. Not to mention most Geniuses would ask to turn on iCloud backup when upgrading the device for convenience.
It's absurd to think that white people as a whole didn't think Africans were people. You are confusing propaganda with what people actually believed.
The company I work for runs a home router based CTF at security conferences. So many of these products have vulnerabilities it's mind blowing. This IoT thing is a crazy trade off, we're getting really powerful devices but people are moving fast and really fucking shit up in terms of security. Some devs will know a good amount about security or their framework will cover them, but so many don't. The end result are networks with gaping holes in them waiting to be exploited.
I thought they started embedding full screen tomb raider ad through UEFI, my bad.
I worked at at place with a couple blind computer programmer types. I never talked to them to ask them how they did it, but they did it somehow, so I'm sure you can too.

I wish you the best.
Absolutely correct - keeping in mind that most of the (often undocumented) people cleaning your room in places like California are making around $10K/year or less.

Fully automated "Cleaning a hotel room" is actually an insanely complex task across tons of disciplines - solving that problem will also result in you solving a lot of the Artificial Intelligence challenges.

I think what we'll see much earlier, is a hybrid solution, where automated bots that can do 99% of the tasks send an interrupt to a controller when they encounter something they aren't certain of, such as, "Is that a lifelike doll laying on the floor, or a child lying very quietly."
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In some parts of the device industry there is actual competition though.
Hi Jan here from SlimFAQ. Yep you hit the nail on the head, a lot of non-technical people and support staff want an easy way to manage their FAQs without setting up Wordpress, managing scripts, media etc.
The use of teletext news, even among younger people, was a surprising discovery from my time living in Sweden a few years ago. I wrote some observations about it at the time: http://blog.meshul.am/2013/03/05/let-them-read-text/
The official site is here:
http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot

It is a good show that tries to get realistic hacking, and shows how a group of hackers plot to take down an evil corporation, and the main character is mentally ill and suffers hallucinations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11171954
The post does nothing to compare and contrast approaches -- "In PHP I will need to do X", show X, the post doesn't.

Seems to be upvoted because #Go.
You've nailed it.
Nobody cares that you're using an alphanumeric passcode on your iPhone.

Some corps require or strongly encourage it. My employer does.

And most parents I know use alphanumeric to keep their kids from wiping their phones and iPads just by tapping the numbers. (A four digit number code auto-submits on the 4th tap, so all it takes is 40 toddler taps. An alphanumeric code can be any length and won't submit unless the actual submit button is tapped.)
But you can make hydrogen from water and electricity.
Last time I checked, the problems facing web developers were(in no particular order):

Rendering HTML templates / JSON

Asset compilation / Cache busting

Caching

Sending Email

Previewing/Testing Email

Background Job queuing(with failure/retry/backoff)

Reliable and easy integration/feature testing

Connecting to database and modeling data

Authentication / Account signup / Confirmation / Forgot Password

Security

Payment handling

PDF / Invoice rendering

Deployment

Making pretty good money over here and how many ROFL scale GO routines I can run never really came up.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I think this article is less about "normal" and more about "average" person. The history of normality and curing/fixing abnormality has been dissected by Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison" and "The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception".
> don't have the resources to vet every line in every piece of software they run

For the same reason I do not independently vet every line of source code I run, but still reasonably trust my system magnitudes more than anyone could - and I argue, nobody can - trust proprietary systems. And that is because while I personally may not take initiative to inspect my sources, I know many other people will, and that if I were suspicious of anything I could investigate.

Bugs like Heartbleed just demonstrated... well, several things:

1. Software written in C is often incredibly unsafe and dangerous, even when you think you know what you are doing.
2. Implementing hard problems is not the whole story, because you also need people who comprehend said problems, the sources implementing them, and have reason to do so in the first place.

Which I guess relates back to C in many ways.

I look forward to Crypto implemented in Rust and other memory / concurrency / resource safe languages. There is always a surface vector of a mistake being made that can compromise any level of security - if you move the complexity into the programming language the burden falls on your compiler. But in the same way you can only trust auditable in production heavily used sources, nothing is going to be more heavily used and scrutinized, at least by those interested, than languages themselves.
This is interesting. In my experience any off-domain (i.e. workgroup) Win 7 installation which is taking Windows Updates (required, not optional) gets the GWX update. The relevant Update is KB 3035583.

"To install this update, you must have April 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 (2919355) installed in Windows 8.1. Or, install Windows 7 SP1" [0]

Apparently it also does not apply to Enterprise Edition.
[0]

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/3035583
You assume that your RAID implementation is going to actually read all of its parity bits from each of the disks, and check them for agreement, before returning a value to you.

You may want to validate that assumption. :)

(Prepare for an unpleasant surprise.)
I can't really imagine it being not obvious, though that's probably a factor of current education.
Jones fracture, specifically.
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Ask HN: iOS app idea – need developers
I'd like to work with a developer (or a team of developers) in order to build an iOS app. I have the idea and the wireframes, though I need someone to write the app for me. Do you have any recommendations? Are there services out there where I could share my wireframes, remotely supervise and of course pay for the development of the app? Besides google I think the hacker community is a very trusted resource.

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Could you be more specific? I've followed the NSA leaks with some interest, but not particularly closely, so I'd be really interested in seeing the actual presentation/document/whatever.

For reference I've googled every combination of "nsa apple mobile OS leak" I could think of and couldn't find a primary source.
I'd love to hear about it! It's a subject near and dear to my heart at the moment. My email's discoverable through my profile.
The Akron and Macon may not have been copied from height climbers, but they were certainly influenced by them in the sense that the US didn't know how to build anything else.

Regarding Graf Zeppelin, I have no idea how much Eckener's judgement came into play. But surely it must have braved a storm or two over that many miles.
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They are out of their minds. All of them.

Board of directors to ceo to product manager to project managers to designers to coders to the company that bought the advertising. All of them.
For some reason, your comment reminded me of Snow Crash
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Does anyone find it unpleasant how these new OSs are increasingly embedding online content everywhere, presumably opening many network connections and using bandwidth while increasing attack area unnecessarily? The start screen tiles in Win8, which continue into Win10's start menu, are the most obvious example here.

It isn't that I hate the Internet or anything like that; I've certainly spent long hours online visiting various sites. Nonetheless, the idea of some parts of the OS that --- by default and with no explicit action of the user --- at some undisclosed time, reaching out somewhere to some server that I have no idea of, and retrieving content to be rendered on my machine, just doesn't feel right to me. If some of that "promiscuity" resulted in malware being installed, it would be extremely difficult to determine the cause; according to the list in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053622 , Windows 10 by default contacts a rather large list of domains, many of which are third-party and not even Microsoft-controlled.

As I write this post I have a total of one network connection from my machine, an IM client; and at all times I am aware of what connections it's making, and which processes are doing it, so there is nothing unaccounted for. That's the way I like it --- my machine does not "talk to strangers" without me being unaware.
Yeah... I can't imagine any of their customers are happy about this. I haven't seen a single positive reply about it on twitter, HN, reddit etc.
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> The reason iCloud data will always be accessible by Apple, and thus governments, is not because Apple wants to make it accessible to governments.

Q: Can't I already encrypt my iCloud data via a keychain?
This gives Foxconn/Honhai a globally recognized brand to put on products, which is a big deal for the growth of Taiwan's economy.

Taiwan has gotten decades growth by manufacturing high-tech products for other countries (phones, lcds, etc). But Korea is now posing major competition, and China is investing heavily to catch up.

Strategically, there's still good runway to convert Taiwan's existing manufacturing prowess into a vertically-integrated set of brands that can reap nice retail margins (like Samsung has done).

I suspect this angle is a big part of this deal.
There's a valuable point made in that article, that in a lot of business reliability is more important than speed. That is, if you do something exactly as your customer expects, every time, that's better than being occasionally the fastest but unreliably so.
Speaking as an App Developer, we cannot touch stuff like that. We're allowed to ask Touch ID to verify things and process the results, but we don't actually get to use the Touch ID system. It's similar to how the shared keychain is used: We can ask iOS to do things, but then must handle any one of many possible answers. We don't actually see your fingerprint in any way.

Now Cydia and 3rd party stuff? I have no clue.
But this article isn't proposing to make a low-cost ultrasound for regulated life safety applications. It is proposing to make a cheap ultrasound imaging device for fun or other general purposes.
Maybe AIs attacking AIs is a Turing point, and your autocorrect was trying to pass the Turing test in the only way it knew how.
Isn't Ruby strongly typed (like Python)? Or do you mean statically typed?
They mentioned abuse of the free service as rationale - there are plenty of things they could have done to avoid this. Charge $1 for the free tier, for example. Massive slap in the face - we'll be reviewing our use of MailChimp for our marketing as well. Campaign Monitor might get a knock on the door.
It varies. Some developers right the software for embedded devices that power airplanes or medical machinery. Some engineers design speakers.
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#575757 text on a 'white' background, font-size 17px... "Reader Mode" is great, but hardly a requirement in this case.
Lots of good suggestions here. I won't say anything new but just wanted to stress on the data ingestion part.

DO NOT write to txt files and read them again. This is unnecessary disk IO and you will run into a lot of problems later on. Instead, have an agent which writes into Kafka (like everyone mentioned), preferably using protobuff.

Then have an aggregator which does the data extraction and analysis and puts them in some sort of storage. You can browse this thread to look for and decide what sort of storage is suitable for you.
It includes the magic upvote string in the title: "Go". The content is irrelevant, as long as it's positive.
Ultrasound machines of some sort is also pretty popular startup idea. I've heard at least of 3 people through personal connection who were building some sort of "ultrasound" device based startups. All have had proof of concepts and all have failed. I am guessing failing to deal with regulation, and other such red tape.
That doesn't sound like the relationship Miguel and Nat have cultivated with .net or MS, and they could have continued on saying "No." Xamarin didn't NEED MS beyond what it already provides openly, everywhere (.net market support both technically + marketing)

I'd almost be surprised if there were previous formal offers as I'm pretty sure the discussions between Miguel and various MS folks, especially Scott Gu, were frank, open, and mostly trusting. You don't throw out formal offers if you have Xamarin openly talking through why they don't feel the time is right.

My take is Miguel and Nat have always been "do right by the technology first." They danced the line with mono and old MS. They then made a compelling step towards where MS would head a few years prior to MS being able to start showing progress in that direction.
Like most free software I had to find information here and there and do some trail and error. But it was a way better experience then for example compiling something (with deprecated dependencies). I really love apt-get!
As I understand it, Secure Enclave firmware is just a signed blob of code on main flash storage that's updated along with the rest of iOS, which can be done via DFU without pin entry. I assume DFU updates are very low level, with no knowledge of the Secure Enclave or ability to prompt the user to enter their pin.

Making the DFU update path more complex increases the risk of bugs and thus the risk of permanently bricking phones.

You could imagine an alternative where on boot the Secure Enclave runs some code from ROM which checks that a hash of the SE firmware matches a previously signed hash, which is only updated by the Secure Enclave if the user entered their pin during the update. If it doesn't match, either wipe the device or don't boot until the previous firmware is restored.

This way Secure Enclave firmware updates and updates via DFU are still possible, but not together without wiping the device.
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