skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP is correct and more relevant than you think, because fuel efficiency is immediately linked with the hope of avoiding global warming. Unfortunately people believe too much that "we can maintain our lifestyle without breaking the emission limits that we set", and the truth has to be reminded: We can't.

We need to reduce our lifestyle. Live closer to workplaces so we don't need the car at all, which requires a complete rearchitecture of the cities where jobs are knit with housing and public transport, like Sydney or many places in Europe. US people have a difficulty understanding this, because petrol have been so cheap and untaxed for so long that they've built their cities around "1 car, 1 person" - and now they secretely hope for fuel efficiency improvements "to maintain their lifestyle". No, sorry, they're just killing the planet.

"What about China, who pollutes much more?" Yes, they should be allowed to reach their economic development, because US should pollute much less per inhabitant. An American emits 6x what it should, a Chinese person 1/6th.

This is why GP wrote this warning. And it's important because some people still don't believe it.

Similarly, cigarette packets still have to remind "Smoking kills", because a lot of smokers aren't persuaded yet.
True! That's why I don't understand the issue at all. It's probably the reasen the FBI went in the open, to get public presure to get what they want.

Anyway, China and Russia also act to their laws so we cannot rely on that. What if Trump takes his first shit in the White House and wipes his ass with every privacy law he can find?

Hackers should be independent of laws, provide for their own tooling which can protect people like Snowden.

People who care about privacy must take care of themselves. And if some terrorist decides to kill people and use a 4digit passphrase I won't defend the guy.

I'm not against privacy, on the contrary, having worked on compliancy/risk management software. (Some of) you guys have no idea about the crazy amount of data which is acquired about almost every person with a SSN. Kept in hundreds of databases, balancing on legal boundaries.

All made possible by law...
Neutrino, eBay's software load balancer
>You can only make the case that the law is wrong to the judge, and no matter how stupid the law is the judge can only agree with you if it violates the constitution.

Well, yes. It's not a judge's job to strike down bad law. We're already too close to a system where the judiciary acts as a super-legislature.
Nomad 0.3 released
SEO for Newbies
The reason to use this is really buried in the text: "if you want to use domain-specific engines, want more control over your search results...". I don't know that I do. I might do but it seems like an intermediate goal. Ultimately I think your value prop is more basic i.e. you believe you give better search results and these are just the mechanisms to achieve that. To sell that, you need to give me examples of bad search results and show your better ones. Even one or two examples would be enough to get your site registered in my "try after google" list.

What would help me is e.g.:

1. Split the landing page into two side by side gifs
2. lhs column showing a series of google searches & results
3. rhs column showing the same searches but with your results
4. Have a demo search box, above the fold, I can try without setting up social accounts. Its too much of a hurdle without knowing the value.
5. I'm not watching a 10 minute video without already understanding and being sold on an idea
6. I would consider dropping the security angle from the hero - it makes the already tricky to see value prop more unfocused.

Is there a niche where your results are particularly strong compared to Google e.g. politics, products, tech support etc.? It might make it easier to position yourself by pushing just that rather than as a head to head google competitor.

Best of luck!

p.s. I really dislike the font used for the logotype - bad fit for the site and makes it feel amateurish.
> ECC memory ... remote management ... often considered necessary in a server environment

Do note that an idiomatic Erlang cluster (where the distribution of the system is used to achieve fault-tolerance, rather than for higher throughput) doesn't strictly need ECC memory (though, obviously, it wouldn't hurt.)

Also, such a system should be plenty manageable on its own—insofar as even an Erlang unikernel makes for a relatively ops-friendly system. There's little "remote management" can do that can't be done from an Erlang remsh. (Erlang even offers easy ways to expose e.g. SNMP MIBs.)

If you're talking about being able to re-image the system into being a completely non-Erlang system remotely, that might be hard—but a cluster-of-inexpensive-low-power-nodes setup like this only really has this one niche use-case to begin with, so I'm not sure what else you'd want to change it into.
A lot of thoughts about lisp; are written by zealots; who like to create the impression that they are playing with some kind of dangerous mind amplifying meta language; and if you start using it; you might accidentally unleash creatures from the id. But then you look at it; and find it is simply a programming language.
Update: The author has reasonably mitigated this vulnerability. This isn't much of an issue now.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11180170
> Having said that, given the liberal arts classes I took at university I would not trust that group collectively with any detail of society that could impact outside of their academic world. The amorality of scientific knowledge would be a great deal preferable to that nonsense.

The point of my piece was not to advocate for placing either one group in charge of decision-making. The point was that the gulf between the sciences and the humanities needs to be bridged: scientists and engineers have serious ethical concerns they need to consider in their work, humanists need to think about how they can use technology to better understand and improve the lives of other people. Technology is a neutral tool, and its value to us depends entirely on how we choose to use it. The how is, to a significant extent, a humanities question.

(If it seems to you that the how is a question more answerable from a scientific point of view, then I suggest you ask yourself why you think so, and dig a little deeper -- you'll probably arrive at some sort of fundamental value or belief that you hold, which I would categorize as a humanities position.)
Lara, not Laura.
You need infix, but that's not enough.

Mathematics isn't written with infix operators alone. Mathematics is written in a fancy 2d notation with all kinds of operator types: infix, prefix, postfix, around-fix, sub-fix, super-fix.

If you look at actual software for maths - several famous ones were written in Lisp like Macsyma, Reduce and Axiom - they provide more than infix.
Pretty cool, but would love to see it compared with a newer xeon. I have a xeon-d in my homelab that would be cool to compare it against— 8 2GHz cores @ 45W. They have a 1.7GHz version @35W now, too.
PHP 7 now quick enough to run a gameboy emulator
If the keys being hashed are fixed-length, then a tabulation hash can offer better collision resistance and performance qualities than Jenkins. It's simple and easy to understand and safe to use.

The Power of Simple Tabulation Hashing:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/mip/papers/charhash/charhash.pdf
We do have a say inasmuch as we can vote them out every five years. This doesn't help if the rest of our fellow voters are wrong. Human Rights are for terrorists, immigrants are paedophile terrorists and benefit scroungers who are stealing our jobs, the EU lets terrorist immigrant scrounging paedophiles into the country, and so on.
Apple Hires Developer Behind Signal, Edward Snowden’s Favorite Secure Chat App
You can create one node kubernetes clusters on micro instances, if you need it just for the tooling or environment consistency.

Not sure if it's better to use larger clusters for unrelated stuff or this though.
I agree with you emotionally, but question your argument legally. What, 'is,' and what, 'should be', are rarely the same thing.

If government wants something forbidden, it creeps towards it. Expectations are meaningless without threats.
Anyone has any good resources (blog series, books, videos or courses preferred in roughly that order) to get started with Kubernetes on CoreOS?

Recently installed a three vm cluster in Vagrant (actually super simple, some things actually have improved a LOT in 2016) but I still need to understand a lot it seems to get rolling upgrades etc.
Let me read the paper.
Test Your Apps on the Latest Beta of iOS, WatchOS, and TvOS with TestFlight
> Spam the Ctrl-T (new tab) key for a while. See the difference?

And that's why browser vendors can never win. Too many cases to optimize for; if you don't get every extremely contrived (non) use case right, it's off to twitter/hn-comments-section to complain. FFS
Cmus: The best Linux music player I have seen so far
Nintendo Halves Annual Profit Forecast on Weak 3DS Sales, Yen
I think the comment isn't really about the technical merits, but more about the fact that Rust has gotten some major traction, not just in Mozilla but elsewhere.
Meet the Hardest Working Man in Porn
Its a great news. Congratulations.
Can we predict Oscar winners using data analytics alone?
The vulnerable web API for my Nissan Leaf
this is usually not called normalization, it's more commonly called dynamic range compression, or just 'compression', fwiw.
I was just reading that the Xeon D is still 5.5x faster than the AMD Opteron A1100 (which does not have significantly better TDP) so it seems like Xeon-D is where it's at.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9956/the-silver-lining-of-the-...

I built a home VMware server a while ago using a 4670T which has similar performance to a Xeon D but does not have ECC and tops out at 32GB. Works pretty darn well even with the multiple VMs I have running on it. I think I measured power consumption at the wall at 40+ish-55W so it's quite efficient.
It seems that the fight between Apple & FBI is not going to end so soon. FBI should respect company policy's and integrity.
In Republican Debate, Candidates Back FBI Over Apple
Watson premier mission is NLP.

It's designed to interact with humans using natural language it's designed to break down normal speech and build a cognitive process around it to get answers.
Controlling a LEAF without authentication
BloomFilter false positives costed us 100K $
I think this move shows that Apple is serious about security. They previously assessed the risk of a government ordered backdoor low and the potential for bugs in the Secure Enclave higher, and hence made the trade off the allow signed updates.
What would you expect the word "disappointing" to mean, other than that the speaker was disappointed, i.e. that their expectations, which are necessarily subjective, were not met? That's the exact thing the word means!

What is it about GP's comment that makes you think they assign blame?
Incredulity doesn't pass as evidence around here.
Mailchimp sent a further email yesterday saying they had updated their TOS and AUP with immediate effect. So I decided to re-read the AUP: http://mailchimp.com/legal/acceptable_use/

.. and it now says, under Prohibited Actions: "Send bulk emails, meaning emails directed to a number of individuals with the same content, through Mandrill."

I don't think it became news because not many people are as crazy as me and read pages full of legalese when they change :-D
Do you employ 'hand models'?
Government loans are supposed to be risky, or else they would simply be replacing private loans. The point is to put money towards projects that have large potential public benefit.
Salesforce just debunked an idea that was driving the entire tech market down
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11166852
I really wish there had been a bigger push towards some kind of standardized packet writing for DVDRW (CDRW had this issue with a one use calibration track), so that they could behave more like floppies (drag and drop file transfers etc).

The media itself is fully passive, while a SD card or thumbdrive have logic sitting between the USB interface and the raw flash. Thus optical media can be "rescued" by simply getting a new drive.

And you really need to mistreat a optical disc to make it completely unreadable.

Or perhaps someone could buy the minidisc tech off Sony and resurrect magnet-optical storage?
This reminds me of the "Beowulf cluster" slashdot meme...
I wouldn't worry... http://stackoverflow.com/a/4014407/51685
a relatively newcomer in the space is Nomad by Hashicorp, very promising and with simpler architecture. Of course it makes even more sense if used in conjunction with Consul and Atlas from the same company. It's still young and buggy though.
Erste Sees Loan Growth in Eastern Europe Supporting Dividend
Stupid question -- why wouldn't you need ECC? What does Erlang do special?

I've found C programs occasionally returning incorrect results with non-ECC memory, as a memory location got corrupted. Does Erlang have some magic to avoid that?
Well, it's only 4MB, but will this help? http://mac-guild.org/raid.html
Honeywell-UTC talks may have failed, but market still up for mergers
Ah, I get it now. Thanks for the explanation. This is the problem with the "deep web" not being indexable by crawlers. I've started looking at how to make this easier for users. Basically I'm got some ways to detect which sites should be searched in response to your queries, based on the category of words in your query and the site. But then I need to do a real-time search of that site, that might require JS to run, extract the links, and present them back to the user. It might be slow, but it's easier for the user to wait for the cloud to do it than click the links on multiple sites himself.

Thanks for checking out my site. If you have any questions or have any trouble please let me know at help@solveforall.com. And maybe we can explore brainstorming/collaborating since you've clearly put a lot of thought into search.
Four ways occupational licensing damages social mobility
Pro-ISIS Hacker Group Video Threatens Twitter, Facebook CEOs
I can understand how people want to put puzzle pieces together, but this is completely idiotic.

Whatever remaining security holes there are with secure enclave, they have nothing to do with a software chat app.

This is entirely coincidental and has nothing to do with anything.

TechCrunch should be ashamed of itself (again) for being such a douchebag.

Edit: I'm not saying Apple hiring the guy is stupid. I'm responding to the hattery from the article itself.

As a hire, it makes sense. But trying to decide that it means "Apple is now serious about security" is just a bunch of horseshit on both ends.
Nice visuals. Thanks for sharing.
This news is another +1 for Apple in my view.
Fox News: The Gov't Can Use Your Phone as a Hidden Mic
Panasonic Plans to Cut 50 Jobs at Solar Ingot Plant in Oregon
Very true. Here is a long treatise on the subject with some sources. http://www.iaff1775.org/the-truth-about-firefighter-retireme...

Clearly it is not a balanced article (since it comes from a FireFighters Union) but it definitely made some good points.
A talk by Joe Armstrong I watched recently indicated that around 50% of 3G and more than that of 4G infrastructure uses Ericsson technology, specifically with swoftware written in Erlang. He made a joke about 'sweating over every bit' sent over the network and then complaining that all the apps are going crazy with their JSON.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson#Products_and_services
The latter is a point that's often forgotten, and is very true. I used to do research a long time ago, prior to deciding I'm not quite academia material. If I ever get nostalgic, I literally have to pay between 30 USD and 100 USD just to get PDFs of articles that I wrote.

Of course, this is upsetting only on a personal level, but the entire process is extremely toxic to learning.
Is the rack [1] custom made? Would like to see a bill of materials for this setup.

[1] https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*KdGdonIRAPy...
Zuckerberg Asks Employees to Stop Crossing Out “Black Lives Matter” on Facebook
I'm starting to think Apple has found its first viable post-Jobs narrative.
Electric cars could be nearing a critically important tipping point
Juju destroys all your EC2 instances but it's not a priority for its developers
AVA also run test files concurrently in separate processes.
The URL is repeated for some reason. Correct URL is: http://www.details.com/story/shimiken-japanese-porn-star-int...
Apple says it would have to build a whole new OS to comply with the FBI
At 10 fps, with no graphics (ascii cli).
http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Prepare_3_Envelopes....

Why is Yahoo so politicized and who cares? I think Yahoo is no different from any other large corporation. It's just that the players are engaging and using the media a lot more for their stupid rich asshole power struggles that 99% of earth doesn't care about.
This is basically how ruby solves it with Gemfile and Gemfile.lock
No, but this is very likely to be them tightening up other parts of their software stack.
Same here. It was no longer available though.
https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/getting-started.ht...

Also
http://kubernetes.io/v1.1/docs/getting-started-guides/coreos...
Are you allowed to explain why exactly that happened?
Decoding the Facebook News Feed: An Up-To-Date List of the Algorithm Changes
That looks a lot like a standard 3.5" HDD case as found in many desktop computers with the Raspberry Pis possibly just lying in it? I might very well be wrong, but it looks a lot like e.g. http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/articles/2014/11/21055622736l... or http://www.scythe-eu.com/uploads/tx_cfamooflow/Gekkou-HDD-Ca... .
Facebook launches interactive full-screen ads called Canvas
So does all HTML5 video, it just doesn't show the controls.

Here's my bookmarklet (doesn't work on embedded videos in iframes, I assume because of same-origin-policy)

javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video%22).playbackRate=parseFloat(prompt(%22Set%20the%20playback%20rate%22))}();
Double ended market is a sweet position to be in right.
Pretty sure the cli thing slows it down rather than speeding it up.
php 7 is just as fast, or a teeny bit slower, than 5. Isn't that a rather interesting result, given how the php community has claimed huge performance increases in 7?
You can rebind variables in ghci, too. I certainly wouldn't say this is evidence that Haskell promotes mutable data.
The Game Boy, a Hardware Autopsy - Part 1: The CPU
That looks like a removable hard drive bay from a regular PC case.
Good catch! I had completely forgotten about that one.

For those completely oblivious to this: This was actually not about getting data written to disk, but to physically protect the drive from its own mechanical construction. The "park" command would cause the harddrive to move its magnetic read and write-heads away from the internal platters, so that when it was powered down and the disks stopped spinning, the platters would not be damaged or experience needless tear and wear.

Yeah, I'm glad we no longer have to do that exercise.
There are probably not many tech companies who would turn down an internship applicant with this guy's résumé. So, yes, no puzzle to be pieced together here.
can you elaborate on what happened?
it looks interesting. Tell us what happened.
It's not idiotic, it's interesting news given the climate. They didn't say what his role or project will be. What's wrong with reporting on Apple hiring a developer of one of the most popular secure messaging tools?
Conjecture: Isn't Apple's private signing key already a "master key to turn 100 million locks"?

I.e. the key they use to sign software updates. With that key, someone could create malware and sign it... Apple creating the malware just saves them a step. Ergo the "target on that piece" is already pretty high value, yet Apple is able to keep it secret / prepared for contingencies (like rotating the key..)

Thoughts?
If dark matter particles had a magnetic moment, how would we know?
The CoreOS (https://coreos.com/) security team, or just the core OS security team? If the former, I'm curious what Apple's involvement with that project is.
If that's the case then you were doing it wrong. False positives from Bloom filters are always possible, by design.
Presumably the Core OS layer (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Miscel...).
Caffe on Spark
Good for Apple. Maybe he can help critique Apple's security methodology. It will be interesting to hear what he works on and how he finds Apple's security systems.
Apple's internal OS development team is called the core OS team, totally unrelated to coreos.com
I see your point more clearly now, I guess we still differ on priorities. Having such a key player within the open source community normalize GPL violation seems somewhat urgent to me - if the current level of interest from the conservancy is overkill, what level of engagement would you consider appropriate?
KIA: an intelligent personal assistant
I would say that this has been Tim Cook's narrative for a while, and along this path we've seen iOS integrate things like WiFi MAC randomization and website ad blocking.
Breaking and Entering: Lose the Lock While Embracing Concurrency
>Then the public outcry would finally be enough to cause a repeal of the law.

If Apple pulls out, then maybe. If Samsung pulled all it's Android phones, some other company would just swoop in and replace them. You would end up with a marked filled with companies with no morals, who just do what ever the government asks, no questions asked.

You run the risk of companies that are actually trying to do the right thing going out of business, and you left with the ones with no morals. Apple might be a bit different, customers would complain bitterly if iPhones where no longer available in the UK.
The death and resurrection of the user persona, proto-persona, and more
This Week in Mobile Development Feb 19 – 26
haha, yes it was a bit of a underground thing.

From 2002 to 2006 I was listening mostly JRock only.

First we used Kazaa to get the music, since it wasn't sold in my country.

Later most people switched to Soulseek.

Was pretty nice... a bit like IRC. Only that the chat was rather bad.

Also the global search sucked, so you had to browse every person in the chat yourself.

But this made it also a bit more social, hehe.
Odroid-XUs maybe even more because of Sata?
Hmm is this our "we have skulls on our hats, are we the bad guys?" moment...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
Apple Hires Lead Dev of Snowden’s Favorite Messaging App
Oh right. All the other insecure parts of their software stack. You know, all that other insecure stuff that's notoriously insecure. That one guy who wrote a chat app is going to tighten up.

Come on. Don't pretend this is anything more than it is. A really hard-working guy worked hard and built a thing that worth while. Apple said, "hmmm, it would be easier to buy this person than to hire him." So they did.

There is no one-person fix to secure enclave or any of Apple's other problems. You are being delusional. Apple's problems, such as they are, are systemic and cultural. Apple cannot buy its way into better cloud services or better Siri, or better security, and certainly not with the purchase of a such a small company.
Was wondering the same. HelpSite says that 80% of the content is viewable worldwide. Fire TV app is also available in the German store.
https://help.curiositystream.com/hc/en-us/articles/204913267...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11177438
Thank. I must admit I thought the original title a little inflammatory. The key point is the amicus brief supporting Apple, which in hindsight should have formed the title.
Are you blind to the difference between reporting an event and interpreting the event badly?