skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do apologize, I didn't realize we were talking about exclusively collegiate safe spaces. I was under the impression we were expessing something more common than that. Given that I haven't read any studies on collegiate safe spaces, nor have I extensively participated in many myself, I've got no opinion. Do you have any studies marking the style and results of a collegiate safe space you're claiming?
Hardly, he isn't being deceptive at all, it's that Amazon's categories are so easy to game.

Categories are normal in modern bestseller lists. Take a look at NY Times' Bestseller Page:

http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/overview.html

There is the Fiction and Non-Fiction list, but besides that are dozens and dozens of categories. And each of the authors in each category is a NY Times Bestselling Author.

Now, the NY Times at least has some gatekeeping done by human beings, Amazon has been easy to game for about as long as they've had bestseller lists. It's the same for all their "best selling" categories, some are just easier than others.
Daylight saving time could end in California
I think that's not entirely accurate. The VE was wanted, and clearly is needed. There have been valid concerns around Wikimarkup that lead to a less than great UX experience for many editors, and it is a barrier to entry.

It was discussed for a long time when I was active in the community. People who were active in the community championed it.

The execution seems to have been less than successful. The way that some things were introduced were also less than stirling. Rolling do,etching like the VE on a shoestring budget is also quite difficult, on such a massive project.

Sue didn't always get things right, and during her tenure mistakes were made. She was, IMO, amazing though. When she left, she had bedded down an amazing amount of important processes, including governance and other important organizational matters. Her technical skills weren't perhaps as good as her other skills (but actually, they weren't that bad really). There were issues that needed addressing by the next ED, but there always will be matters that need addressing! Nobody leaves an organization in 100% perfect running order.

Lila has not only left the WMF with issues, she has destroyed a good deal of trust, and left the WMF's governance, openness and transparency in tatters.
You will find that most fans of the CDDL are bigger fans of BSD licensing (e.g. node.js is BSD licensed), but there are a couple examples.

Offhand, I know that star and cdrtools are under a variant of the CDDL called CDDL-Schily, which is the CDDL with an addendum that software under it is "governed by the laws of Germany".
Wouldn't this still allow logging in without consent if they aren't logged in?
The agents working those machines and implementing the security protocol see that. And, they treat you differently.
Have you been able to make use of hardware accelerated path rendering? Like the stuff Mark Kilgard is working on?

(I mean, "painting on the GPU" doesn't say how you use the GPU, and I've been wondering if there's anything new happening in path rendering land after seeing a video on Kilgard's work years ago)
Correct. The ones I randomly picked don't cover plasticity. How does one measure (and convey) software plasticity to other [non-technical] shareholders?

Tech: "It's going to take x amount of time to refactor so that the software can easily change in the future"
BusDev: "What if we don't need it to change [like that] in the future?"

How does Tech and BusDev objectively measure the software plasticity if it can't be measured until change must occur? "Our software is X plastic" means what? "This change will take 1 day instead of a 1 week because we made our software plastic." What if you pre-optimzied plasticity and YAGNI'ed wasting precious time and resources. This is where things get real dicey... trying to objectively measure the importance and value of clean code. WE, techs, understand it and can feel it while trying to implement new features and changes but those that don't touch or understand code can't.

ADD: How do we determine the code is clean (and refactored) enough (but not too much)? "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." "Do as much is needed but nothing more"?
There is nothing "inevitable" about the process of history. Governments can and have limited the ability of companies to secure data in the past and they will do it again, given the chance.
How to keep your smart TV from spying on you
No rudeness taken; I just would rather people making the claims to have some links for people who don't really search for the reciprocity of fields of pseudoscience/science.

What would you call this thing in the article that people did then? Statistical analysis?
I'm surprised there aren't more comments here. Maybe it's because most agree, and there really isn't much more to be said?

Anyways, thank you very much for sharing.
I read the statement differently. The implication I picked up on is demand is slacking off so now's a good time to hire developers for reduced wages. I may have brought some baggage to the table.
You're not one of the original copyright holders.. Oracle is one of the largest copyright holders. Maybe you should stop posting legal opinions when you clearly have your own bias?
Using SaltStack to Create an Ubuntu Linode Cloud VM
Mark my words--this tool is going to be quickly hijacked by meme groupies who will submit dick pics and post the location results:

"Check it out, I'm Mogadishu!"
> I never found out what became of this

That's a common pattern in new (combustion) engine designs; there's a lot of them being published every year, but almost none of them actually end up being mass-produced and they dwindle into silence or as just demonstration models. Why? I don't know; the media only seems to focus on the invention and potential, not the failure (or if I were to put on my tin foil hat, the disappearance under mysterious circumstances). The only nonstandard engine that (AFAIK) ever got some leverage was the rotary wankel engine, and even that was (iirc) in just one car model.
> I apply "startup" also in the sense of "startup-like" teams in large companies who are required to innovate rapidly

I think we are in agreement - the applicability is likely to limited to 'small' specially chosen/specially tasked teams. i.e. it does not scale to thousands of employees (otherwise the army would be doing the same for conventional forces)
Interesting. Is this why login is usually on its own page, rather than right on the main page? CSRF seems to limit your ability to cache any pages that contain forms.
Happy contributor to this project. It's great! Small useless nitpick: It's "AVA".
Feel free to open an issue both for the http clone without .git, it seems interesting but I'm not sure how complicated it is.

Not sure about the git:// read only url, I don't oversee the consequences.
Thanks shaunol, glad to hear that!
Exactly from the article he said they used 500x more data (which I am sure is a total broad guess, but I could easily imagine 100x or more for someone hitting an airport up every day)
I concur. This is trivial to rewrite in more neutral language. Try this: "Microsoft Says It Backs Apple in Case Over Alleged Insurgent's Phone."
If you have Quicklisp[1] installed you can install the "infix" package and get infix notation in Common Lisp[2]:

$ sbcl
This is SBCL 1.2.4.debian, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

> (ql:quickload 'infix)
; Loading package
(INFIX)
> #i(1 + 1) ; addition

2
> #i(2^^128) ; exponentiation

340282366920938463463374607431768211456
> (defun factorial (x)
#i(if x == 0 then
1
else
x * factorial(x-1))) ; infix function call

FACTORIAL
> (factorial 5)

120
> #i(factorial(5) / factorial(6))

1/6
> '#i((a + b) * (c + d)) ; Put a ' before the #i() to see what code is generated

(* (+ A B)
(+ C D))

--

[1] - https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/
[2] - Don't know if there is a similar package for Scheme.
So what Apple is fighting against is the "dragooning"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intellig...
I hold copyright on a significant enough amount of the Linux port that the license cannot easily change without my consent. The same is true for at least a dozen other people/organizations, if not a few dozen. You cannot say the same about yourself.

That being said, I am actively avoiding any statements that are repetitive with other comments that I have made on hacker news because they are not productive.
I have never seen a functional non-profit.

I've seen quite a few.

For whatever reason, non-profits seem to attract all kinds of people who are motivated by things I can only describe as "weird."

Not sure how to put my finger on it, but your overall depiction does seem a bit, how to put this, "drama queen"-ish. As in, yes, we've all known of certain horror stories, meltdowns, etc, among non-profits. But overall your characterization (not specific to the sentence above) seems rather hyperbolic. People join non-profits with all kinds of motivations, just like they do for-profits. Yes, you do find narcissists -- but you also find a lot of solid, highly principled (and highly skilled) people. It's just that their stories usually aren't the ones that trigger open letters, blogposts, and interactive timeline visualizations.
What is an MVP? Why do you build funnels to guide your conversion process?

Any professional endeavor fundamentally is about scoping around a particular solution that will deliver value to your stakeholders.
Please don't get discouraged. People might have misunderstood what you meant. There's also the problem with asking other people to spend their time and money on your request. If you want this to happen, you should provide a proof of concept and get people excited about buying it. If you develop a market, others will implement your solution.
Jobs picked the right guy this time. The 1984 ad seems relevant now too.
The reference implementation's domain is vulnerable to MITM attacks between KeeWeb and CloudFlare until they set their CloudFlare crypto settings to "strict" and get some real certificates of their own (e.g. Let's Encrypt).

I submitted an issue here: https://github.com/antelle/keeweb/issues/111

Of course exploiting this would be very difficult, but it is possible to MITM the connection between the CloudFlare proxy and GitHub pages as long as keeweb.info continues to not use DNSSEC.
That's terrible. I really feel for WMF staff. They work in the WMF because they want to be part of something that improves humanity. Then people with their own narrow agendas come in, with no experience with the project, look around without listening to those on the coal face and make stupid, half baked changes in secret, which they then seem to have to change every three months, making it impossible for staff to do the work they need to do.

That's my impression anyway.

I have nothing but good will and the utmost respect for those who work at the WMF as employees.
The distinction is that one has a clear legal definition in a court of law and one does not. The judge in this case has examined the case and found that Tor users do not have the legal right to having any expectation of privacy. The fact that we use the term anonymous as a synonym for privacy in some cases has no bearing on the judges ruling.
You're painting with a broad brush and your characterisation is greatly at odds with many of the functional non-profit organisations I know here in Australia:

* the St Vincent de Paul Society

* the National Heart Foundation

* Cancer Council of Australia

* Opera Australia

* Unicef

* National Disability Services

I could go on. My point is, non-profit organisations encompass a huge spectrum of activity. Many operate like any other company and pay wages for the majority of employees. I would argue that 'the mission' actually makes a non-profit more likely to succeed, as everybody knows what they're working towards and what team they're on.

Wikipedia is a different beast entirely.
Rapid Urbanization of the UAE Desert
No those questions are not at all similar, one is about a device the FBI has, the other is about everyone's device.

The actual question is can the FBI force Apple to open the phone for them. That's it. Can the FBI force a bank to open a safe for them? It's not any different.

Just because there is technology involved does not change the fundamental nature of the question.

If you want a gun analogy can the FBI force a manufacturer to tell them the proper disassembly instructions for the gun. (For example if it needs some special tool, can the FBI force them to sell them that tool.)
Okay, I'll bite. I'm not particularly well-versed in AI issues, but this article is of the end-is-nigh variety and HN tends to be a technologically optimistic community, so I'm hoping someone can debunk this and give us reason to be optimistic rather than terrified of our future as human batteries in The Matrix.

Anyone?
You lose all the valve train.
> It is the morons who allow their workforce to be politicised and exploited that need be be reformed.

Can you explain more?

From a business standpoint, the leadership wants the stock price to go up. Their stock is worth more, and they make more money.

Historically, money going to lobbying has a very good return. Say $1 spent lobbying can give your business a $100 return or more if the right laws pass or don't pass. So I hardly thing the executives are "idiots" for telling their workforce to contribute. Do I have moral issues with it? Yes. But I think they are smart and working within the law. The only solution is to fix the law.
Wire-Free Electronic Prototyping Board
You are asking me what a search warrant has to do with the 4th amendment? I think you are equipped to answer that yourself.
This is a ridiculous concept because California, by practice and in keeping with national standards, has already been in violation of its own Constitution for decades in this regard.

The Constitution defines DST as from the "last Sunday in April until last Sunday in September", which, if obeyed, would already put CA with different effective dates from the rest of North America.
Yeah currently there are 50 upvotes and 2 comments. You see that kind of ratio when TFA is simply correct.
My Nexus 6 running Android 6.0.1 is encrypted and uses hardware backed credential storage.

If the software (Android) had the same type of protection (if the wrong PIN is entered 10 times it destroys the key), would this device be at par with the iOS approach?
Right, right. By "the case in question," I meant FBI v. Apple (ie, the case out of which the court order came, whatever it ends up being called).
I don't agree with the definition of "evil" used in this article.

Eichmann, for instance, didn't kill the Jews because he was "wicked", he did it because he was following orders. That's evil enough and he hung for it.

A while back we wargamed the idea of an "Evil Teddy Ruxpin" that would want to harm you with all its might but wouldn't have much might so it wouldn't be dangerous. It might be fun to battle with, but we figured it wouldn't be safe because it could always start a fire.
Airbnb admits to deleting questionable listings before data release
Glad to hear! How do you like it so far?
Report form the VMware GPL court hearing
I have to give wired props for this. Most people would just pull the articles and sweep it under the rug. Keeping the article up but putting a big disclaimer at the top isn't too bad:

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/china-hates-gmos-problem-is-chi...
It looks bad if a politician accepts a $1000 donation from Disney, but less bad if the politician accepts 1000 $1 donations from 1000 of Disney's employees. I believe this is the premise under which PACs operate.

What I find odd is that PACs only seem to accept contributions from a company's employees. Like, why can't just anyone contribute to the Apple PAC, or the Google PAC, the way that they can contribute to the Wikimedia Foundation or to the EFF to make political change?
You're too kind, and it wasn't just me, I had a lot of help from a large cast (see the Oscar speech section). Rob and I are definitely going to try to help!
There is indeed a warrant. The writ was issued to effectuate the warrant.
This app did sound to me like an enterprise business app. So I agree with other commenters here that the author didn't pivot soon enough to business users.
Without a doubt you can serve more traffic than that with python, more than likely, the bottleneck isn't your language. There's a good chance if all you did was port your codebase to another language, you'd have the same basic usage profile, maybe +/-50%.

Having done web development for over a decade. My experience is that algorithm is far more important than language. After that data structures trumps language. After that doing work you don't have to do trumps language.

First look for really ugly nested loops in your code. I can't tell you the number of times this type of things ends up in your codebase, especially since dev environments often have a small subset of data. Even an O(n!) algorithm is fast for small values of n.

Next look to see what kinds of datastructures you're using. For instance, dicts are a seductive way to store data, they have a theoretical O(1) lookup, but they have a drawback of randomizing memory lookups, which means that for subsequent looks for a large dict, you'll end up with lots of cache misses, can make each lookup 1000 times slower. Meanwhile, a tuple has O(n) lookups, but if you're finding that you need to iterate over the data, you're going to benefit from memory locality. So know your tradeoffs. Also code that had one usage profile at launch, can often have a very different usage profile a year later, so it doesn't hurt to revisit this occasionally.

Last look for code that isn't doing anything. Are you calling the database twice in a row, asking for the same data, and not using it? It sounds obvious, but over time these kinds of things have a way of showing up in a codebase, and they can really add up.

I also should mention caching at this point. It can be incredibly hard to get caching right, but the performance savings are pretty big. It goes under the bucket of not doing things that you don't need to. Do whatever you can to do page caching. Putting an nginx cache in front of the webserver serving python for the majority of your pages could easily get you to hundreds of requests per second.
This.

Apple is going to lose this, and it should, under the law. It should also be free to develop a Secure Enclave that prevents iOS updates in lock, which sounds as though it is already in development.
That is incorrect; the notation (op arg1 arg2) isn't the surface syntax that is preferred by some practitioners working in that domain. However, it corresponds 1:1 to its abstract syntax.

There are ways to provide infix independently. That is to say, one person can develop this domain specific syntax, and another can develop or customize an infix engine for it.

In Common Lisp, there is a well known "infix.cl" module that provides mappings like a[b,c] -> (aref a b c), f(x, y) -> (f x y), a + b -> (+ a b) and so on.

This isn't understood as creating a new language as such; it's just a sugar. I think it allows new operators to be added with custom precedence and associativity. Or you can hack it however you want.

I've never seen it used in any production code.

The main purpose it serves is to satisfy people who want to know that it can be done; after that it turns out that they don't actually want it done. They just don't want to work with a language that can't do it.

The only program I'm aware of which actually supports writing mathematics that looks like the mathematics mathematicians write (the actual 2D notation) is Tilton's Algebra: written in Common Lisp.

The various mathematics languages out there fail.

Oh, and not to mention that mathematicians have been trained to work with this:

$\sin{(\frac{\pi}{2}-\theta)} = \cos{\theta}$

That's not such a bad example; I can still sort of see the trig identity in that if I squint my eyes.
i think that is great.
Non-JavaScript skills every JavaScript developer should have
I'd love to hear more about replacing tomcat. Can you lead me to some info material on that topic. In our company we rely heavily on application servers, faster alternatives are always worth checking out.
I'm all in favor of credit where credit is due, but that's like saying "the Unabomber was right" because examples exist of modern technology being misused in the past 20 years. If anything, his advocacy has damaged the credibility of legitimate privacy and civil rights advocates.

Surely, SURELY RMS is not one and only person you have ever heard in your entire life warn about the dangers of putting personal information online, or the dangers of government surveillance. That's all just common sense and being relatively informed and skeptical about the world and the people around you.

RMS says a heck of a lot more than "don't post your pictures on Facebook", much like PETA says a lot more than just, "treat animals ethically", or Earth First says a lot more than just, "don't destroy the environment". If sea levels rise much more in my lifetime, one lesson I will not draw from it is, "Earth First was right!"

If you care about this stuff, donate to the ACLU, not the FSF.
In case you didn't know this, mass marketing is expensive.

You don't use the marketing channels you wish you have, you use the ones you can make a profit off of. If you have to ask, they probably won't reach you.
You can save music offline on your device, as if you owned it, so yes the cost of streaming is just $10/mo and cheaper than buying.

This was already pointed out, so I'm beginning to think you have some sort of cognitive bias against streaming services. Who are you really trying to convince, me or yourself?
I definitely agree. This, combined with Apple open-sourcing Swift, makes it feel like Apple is grabbing some of that coveted tech/developer-friendly cachet that Google and Amazon seem to have over them.
Was she making all those decisions about secrecy?
I wonder what other industry can benefit from a unified source of data - so far we have airline, real estate ... Any others?
Do tell, how badly are things failing?

Do you have data besides "look at all the vulns!"?

Do you have clear evidence of a negative economic trend that is linked to insecure software?
Woohoo thanks Dan for coming over to help us eat food! =D
They have convinced me to be honest. My next phone is an iPhone.
I'm not sure about how mainstream/supported C++ is in the Android world.
No, it's a problem with the thumbnail. Compare with the full size one, which is correct: http://smartmockups.com/mockup/47
You could improve the accuracy by using the timestamp of when the photo was taken & looking at the amount of daylight in the photo.
Reminds me of the rule "don't ascribe to malice what incompetence can explain."

Don't assume nefarious intent when there is a profit motive involved.
What's the canonical way of targeting Android with C++?
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/alphabet-passes-apple-to-become...

But both play a distant second fiddle to Saudi Aramco
Why Espresso in America Is So Bad
The suspects in this case are dead.
Some people were in debt and they took the paramount and stupid risk of starting a company and it paid off for them with huge returns. Congrats you pointed out some lottery winners.

What should also be mentioned are founders who go into even grater debt and destroy there lives attempting to create companies when they are not financially stable. Get your self in an position where failing won't ruin your life (like worst case scenario you end up back in your moms basement) but seriously, if you are in hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, statistically a startup will ruin your life.
Thanks!
I will do.