skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I'm from Bozeman, and can think of more than a few friends who could find this useful doing field research out here. And to anyone who is wondering, the name is in reference to the Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness, an absolutely gorgeous expanse of land near Bozeman

http://www.outsidebozeman.com/places/wilderness-areas/absaro...
I would assume even if it isn't long enough to break the surface, it will at least get the humid exhaled air away from your face.
The Tax Protester FAQ
Awesome demo video and app!
It is largely due to the fact property taxes were largely frozen by a funding source under Reagan. Without that, really, the only place that would have an issue is SF because its surrounded by water and doesn't want to change.
Yet, I can still delete my home directory by accident (e.g. Steam patch). The idea that any rm can kill the directory I'm in is just bad. A flag on rm is the wrong solution. It should just fail.
Thanks for the information. So I assume Ubuntu now also allows parallel multiarch devel packages?

I've never tried Debian, and my experience with Ubuntu is very limited. I guess my comment on reboots was off-base, and maybe more of it. I meant that packages aren't densely interconnected with dependencies. (macports has it really bad, seems every time I want to upgrade python I need to recompile gcc or something.) Anyway, the simplicity makes it easy to modify packages. E.g. last week I fiddled around with lua packages to allow parallel installing multiple versions (lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 are incompatible languages which are often mistaken for the same language by distro maintainers). However I realise creating .deb files is also easy, so I guess I could do just the same there. Also, Slackware's multiarch support is a very simple hack using a small script that works 100% of the time as far as I've seen. It's telling that Debian still only supports 80% of packages after who knows how much work put into it.
To be fair, that doesn't actually limit the number all that much:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Horrible/VideoGameGene...

And much of:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Horrible/VideoGamesOth...

And everything on Hardcore Gaming 101's Weekly Kusoge series here:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge.htm

There's also the fact a lot of games are distributed pretty well (and sometimes even sold), legality be damned. Is there any more legitimacy to a bad (and likely illegal) app store game featuring characters from Mario or Pokemon than a game mod or fan game featuring the same thing? People sold Doom Wad collections in boxes in shops at one point, does that count?

Even assuming only legal retail games, there's an awful lot of somewhat obscure shovelware that could fill up an entire (very long) list. Like the tons of PS2 and Wii shovelware (the latter's games were often ported from the former) by companies like Data Design and Phoenix Games.

Like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8QzQp57oI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8qbSISQI4

A worst game ever list would be incredibly hard to make to any decent degree, simply because you have so many possible choices to include on it, especially if you go looking outside the most popular titles.
I can see this being used at parties
True it's certainly an option though for low rate text and data like the Beartooth is using WiFi is a bit of overkill and the power overhead makes Bluetooth more appealing than Wifi. That and how much they repeat 'pair' instead of something like tether made me think it was probably Bluetooth.
But in practice it's quite often the case that you know optimisations are worth it based on past experience.

For example, with floating point calculations, divides are slower (on x86 anyway) than multiplies, so quite a common one in graphics/physics is to calculate the reciprocal (1.0f / x) and multiply by that if you'd do more than one divide in the first place.

The compiler can do this in some cases, but generally only with fpmath=fast, and even then, not always.
The government having credibility now wouldn't guarantee that this would be a good idea forever going into the future.

But the fact that the government already doesn't have any credibility on privacy and data protection is a factor. It means that this is already a bad idea as of right now.
Atlassian is going after the enterprise market. They don't care about free software developers.
All Roads Lead to Rome: Exploring Human Migration to the Eternal City
LOLCOLORS: Curated color palette inspiration
I genuinely don't mean to sound passive aggressive when I ask, do you know anything about this subject or are you just guessing?

I don't know anything about it, but I can think of numerous ways to mitigate the issues you mention. E.g.:

* Does it actually matter that the absolute value of temperature sensors is inaccurate, or is it enough that they have good relative accuracy (do they?)

* Do you really need to tell if someone is indoors or outdoors given a large enough sample of users in a given area? That also seems like something you could detect with heuristics (work hours, jumps up/down in temperature).

There's a lot of ways to tease useful signals from noisy data. Is it really the case that smart phone temperature sensors in the aggregate are useless as an input into weather forecasting models?
Drunk driving isn't a pre-crime. It's just a crime.
Access control is not authorization. And re-encrypting with different keys every time the ACL changes is generally not practical.
As far as I know it’s not a “simple” text editor and it solves a pretty complex problem. This might provide you with some additional context:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11153935

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11153945

That said you’re absolutely not “required” to use it. It will be handy to React users because it fits into its component model and thus doesn’t have to implement the reconciliation from scratch. If you don’t use React you might not find it as handy. In this case you might like to use [ProseMirror](https://prosemirror.net/) instead.
Original article from July 2015: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-p...

The BI copy doesn't even bother correctly distinguishing pull quotes from the following text in its copy-paste job.
Your friends are happier than you, says new equation (Wired UK)
One of the items, specifically alleging that the 16th amendment wasn't properly ratified has some merit but there's an even better counter-argument.

The government will seize your property and incarcerate you if you don't pay.
Gravity waves are waves in a fluid that obtain their restoring force from their buoyancy relative to the surrounding fluid. See [0] for the gory details.

Some examples of gravity waves in the atmosphere: [1] [2]

[0] http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Gravity_wave
[1] http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/2051
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnkzeCU3bE
Is this really how Samsung's release cycle works, though? According to GSM Arena[1], they've released over 20 "Galaxy" phones since the S6 came out. Most of them I've never heard of, though the Note devices (released in fall, nearer the iPhone launch dates) also receive quite a bit of fanfare.

1: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung-phones-9.php
A light aircraft revolution is taking off
We still need to have a realistic idea of what's possible though and not make claims that are stronger than what's likely.
A vulnerability is a backdoor if it's placed there intentionally.

That's what Apple has done.
Hi! I'm one of the founders of New Byte Order (the company behind Luna). Do you mean that our website lacks information about who we are? Right, we will ad it there! :) In the meantime you can read some of the comments below, where I describe in details who I am and provide link to my linkedin account. Still I would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused by lack of these information at the website! :)
>The government absolutely should not be trusted. That's why Apple shouldn't give them a skeleton key to get into any phone, just the legally compelled access for this specific phone.

You are still trusting that the legally compelled access is all good and valid, ignoring rubber stamping by courts. Allowing access to this phone due to a court order, when combined with a history of abuse by the courts, is as good as any other skeleton key.
Apple Seems to Be Losing PR Battle Over Unlocking iPhone
Blockchain TL;DR
That's a science-fiction book, though. I'm still not getting how the ship could basically sail straight into the laser that's pushing it (e.g. decelerate). The main sail is still getting pushed forward by the laser, even while the second sail is pushing backward (with the reflected light from the main sail).
Short version: A bug in a Linux USB device driver can be caused to take over a Linux machine by plugging in a malicious USB device. An attacker would either use a custom USB dongle, or a programmable device with a USB connection such as a cell phone.

There's a narrow problem here, which is the bug in the device driver. That'll be fixed of course, now that it's gotten attention. But fixing this bug will not solve the problem, because there is a truly enormous number of different USB device drivers, most of which are poorly audited, run in kernel space, and correspond to unusual hardware. The real problem is that plugging in a device can cause any obscure device driver to load, without user confirmation. So for example, someone can plug in a cell phone, and the cell phone can claim to be an obscure kind of printer that no one has seen since the 90s, and the system will go ahead and load that device driver.

The solution is to require user confirmation before accepting any USB device that hasn't been seen before. Just a simple popup: You have connected [type of device], Ok/Cancel. The only tricky part is input devices like keyboards and mice, where this could create a chicken-and-egg problem with the confirmation prompt. (And devices pretending to be keyboards can be dangerous; they can type commands). Fortunately, there is a solution, albeit one which will take some programming work: accept keyboard input from keyboards that have either been confirmed by a prompt or have typed the user's login password. (Since some "keyboards" are actually things like barcode scanners).
You need to read "People's History of the US" by Howard Zinn. There never was a democracy here. The only times when people had the actual power was during the many armed insurrections, most of which were simply suppressed by force, but some of which did achieve at least some of their ends.
I wanted to make a similar comment but I don't understand what you mean by language choice. In my experience broad design choices can make it different to optimize later on, if you mean that.
I think it is good that people are thinking very far out of the box for this. Reason? What we think we can do now isn’t enough, so if we want to go to Mars, some ridiculous idea must eventually turn out to be practical.

For that reason, I would not worry too much about that 11%. _If_ we go into space, we will have to build enormous solar arrays in space, and they could provide order of magnitude more power than we produce now.

I would not aim for Mars, though. Instead, send it out to overtake Voyager. To do that, you do not need to decelerate, and you do not need to goto 0.3c, either.

(Actually, some billionaire should put a huge price on the first one to overtake Voyager and send a video of it back to earth. That could become a fun race, with later, faster, spaceships overtaking early entries.)
While this seems interesting, it's the average GDP. I don't believe that any breakdown by class or classification of economic stratification at any given time was conducted.

Thus it is difficult to see how much of the population of a given era is within a given quality of life (as would be afforded by having enough 'wealth') at any time, let alone compare that from time to time.

What I do see is that life today should be markedly better than it was about 500 years ago, but that it has largely flattened out within the last 100 years.
> just the legally compelled access for this specific phone.

You're trusting the government to not acquire the signing key from Apple.
That model came from a time where the state set somewhat more reasonable boundaries for itself and also a time when doing continuous observation of all members of society was not only moral abhorrent but also impractical. If you really feel that the state in it current incarnation should have these sorts of unrestricted powers, I'm not sure how to have a productive conversation. They've shown themselves wholly irresponsible from my vantage.
Hilariously, I am using a blocker (uBlock origin) and get no suck message.
You draw a distinction between public and private, specifically:

> IPFS probably isn't a good fit for private data, but public apps like a decentralized Twitter will probably use it for all of their data. Encrypting private data and storing it with IPFS will sometimes make sense.

This is actually a great example of where I can't see the IPFS model working, because not everything is black-and-white private-or-not.

For Twitter, for example, you have private accounts - this doesn't mean that nobody can see it, it just means that you need to have permission to see it. How do you implement an access control system that:

- Is mutable (ie. allowing new users to see your feed)

- Is private (ie. there is no public list of who can see your feed)

- Is revokable (ie. you can remove people's access to your feed)

... without having to re-encrypt everything using a secret set of keypairs every time the ACL changes, which is an unreasonable burden on resources?

I understand that you build applications on a different kind of architecture, and I'm all for usable decentralized primitives, but there have to be explicit solutions for these kind of 'business requirements' (whether commercial or not), for it to ever be able to "take over".
> American astronauts discovered that dirty water globules—some of which were roughly the size of basketballs—were casually free-floating behind some of the station’s service panels. These gross liquid orbs, which were alternately brownish or cloudy white in color

I was just putting my morning cup of coffee (Australia, 8.30AM) to my lips when I read that, luckily I managed to control my gag reaction and avert spilling it everywhere.
You are being downvoted for fairly obvious reasons, so I think most people don't see the need to tell you why:

First, you added a snarky, negative comment as the first response to someone open-sourcing a new library. There's no need for this, especially when spicyj is (as far as I've seen) an extremely gracious open-sourcer. Your comment's core complaint, about library lock-in, was actually a valid complaint, and something that should be discussed. But sadly, the way you brought up the idea means that no one else will want to engage.

Then, you replied to @spicyj's helpful response, which had I been him I probably wouldn't have even bothered with, with another snarky negative comment.

Finally, someone else jumped into the conversation with another solution, and you replied to their comment with a sarcastic non-question. Not only that, but you used a strawman of "to make a simple rich text editor work", when clearly that's not all Draft.js is trying to do.

And then after all of that, you complained about being anonymously downvoted. (And even in lodging that complaint you somehow managed to further subtly insult @tlrobinson.)

---

I actually think your original issue, about library lock-in for text editor's a valid point. I see a lot of work going into separate rich text editors that are all reinventing the same sorts of things, with no clear best solution being developed for real-time use cases like Google Docs or Dropbox Paper. I really wish the perfect, easy solution for those existed.

That said, I'm excited about Draft.js because I think anything that Facebook wants to throw their open-source weight behind will get more love, even if it encourages others to make more competing editor libraries.
Interesting memories indeed. I took it as part of a special program in 6th grade. We split into two groups and the group I wasn't in found a corpse just off the trail, which cut our orienteering exercise quite short. I got to explain to the school psychologist that "No, I didn't see anything, I wasn't traumatized."

I should go do some more, I'm fairly confident in my map skills but I bet there are some assumptions of mine to knock down.
Yes, very illegal. Which makes me remember to ask: how did Todd Humphreys get permission to transmit a spoofed signal [1] in the middle of a thriving metropolis, within a couple of miles of an airport?

[1]http://alcalde.texasexes.org/2012/06/ut-demo-reveals-drones-...
Sorry, by simple I meant from the user's perspective. I don't mean to downplay the complexity of the actual implementation; it's a very hard problem to solve which is why I'm lamenting the React dependency.
Oh no, crypto backdoors are quite effective at their stated purpose - letting an authority break it when they desire. See also the Clipper chip, DUAL_EC, and so on.

The problem is that we're no longer talking about physical devices like a gun or a safe, we're talking about math. Breaking crypto is basically solving a math problem. If for any reason the problem is solved, it's forever solved, and expecting that solution to stay in a few trusted hands against nation-state level actors (or hell, even motivated security professionals) is absurd.

The issue here is that the FBI is demanding that Pandora's box be opened. There is no closing it again. Are you ready to sacrifice the safety of every iPhone everywhere based on a promise from the FBI?
For more on Cray's Aries interconnect used on the Cray XC-30 referred to in the OP, see this paper from NERSC, which has one: https://www.nersc.gov/assets/pubs_presos/NUG2014Aries.pdf

Depending on topology, you can get ~1 µs latency with Aries. It's based on PCIe-3, so it's different from InfiniBand.
While systemd bugs are often cause for rejoice and schadenfreude by its critics, I think you're underestimating the argument. "The other side", that is, the vision that the Poettering et all have for the Linux environment is the issue that the critics have against systemd, not the bugs and other occasional issues.

I say as someone still ambivalent, not pro nor against it.
> They may not even have a way to limit firmware to specific devices

They do. The new firmware may not be distributed, but it should be easy enough to make it such that if it was distributed, it wouldn't change security at all on phones other than the target.

For example:

function handleWrongPassword() {
if (deviceId = 1234) {
return;
}
//do the normal phone stuff, like a delay or wipe
}

Since the firmware is signed, no phone will run the firmware if you change the hard coded 1234.
If only that applied to pretending that your company is headquartered in a tiny office in Bermuda.
`font-weight: 100` and `color: #757575` for body text? It's barely readable on a retina display. It's an eyesore on my PC.
Fellowship to build tech that makes a difference
> Encryption could also help obstruct justice and let criminals get away with things.

That's fine with me. The actions of the few does not justify the loss of privacy for all.

> Most people won't understand till it impacts them personally but imagine if you are robbed of all your money and the answer of who did it lies in a computer you are able to get your hand on. Wouldn't you love it if the police had a backdoor now.

No, I don't. Because that means the police can get into my data at any given time without any oversight and without me ever knowing it. It also means that anyone could attack my system and get that money as well.

I've been in this situation many times in the past, I've lost a lot of sensitive data because I forgot the password to my encrypted DMG files and I've moved on and I still encrypt my stuff in the DMG files.

Do I think the police and others should have a backdoor into my DMG files? No, and there is absolutely nothing that will ever justify it, not even terrorism or even the life of my family.

More Americans have been killed by Americans in the past few years than the entire history of terrorist attacks combined.

How about we take actions to ban guns in the country and see how it works.

> The question is how much liberty are we willing to give up for protection.

None. I don't deserve protection if I don't care about my privacy.

> We can't let a corporation or the government anchor our opinions on the left or right.

Sure we can, by voting and with our money. People trust Apple because they do focus on security of their devices.

It was the same thing with RIM/BlackBerry.
Watching Periscope. It isn't going to make me a better programmer, but I think it represents the future of something (like all TV in the future will be live, because who wants to watch recorded stuff that already happened and you can't talk to the people in the video?).
You can use superconductors for energy storage. An inductor stores energy, but can not be used for long-term energy storage due to resistance. A superconducting inductor can be used to store energy, as there is no loss due to resistance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...
Logitech Gaming Mouse Teardown Showdown
Naw. You're over-thinking it. It's an appropriate viz for how it fits in your back pocket, which talks to its size.

My gripe with the video's how it hides volume controls.
How else would the FBI compel Apple to do it? If there is some other way, why does doing it the legal way make the illegal way more likely?
> Searching public data is already decentralized: anyone can run a web crawler and search engine.

That is nice in theory, but not how it works in practice. Searching public data generally involves a significant amount of investment, both financially and effort-wise, to have anything approaching a usable search engine, even for relatively small sets of data.
How the algorithm economy and containers are changing the way we build apps
She pretty much listed off every reason I would never ever move to the Bay area. Housing prices are stupid, every food venue is expensive, not to mention I can't stand "brogrammer" culture and I hear that's quite prevalent there from friends who do live there.
Because that's definitely not hotswapping.
An OpenStack Crime Story solved by tcpdump, sysdig, and iostat
Serious question - was this person downvoted because of the particular argument they presented, or because of the quality of the argument? Maybe it's the latter, and I'm just biased. Hacker News bills itself as a civil, open minded discussion forum, and by and large it works out great. However I certainly feel that certain views are not very accepted. If the "taboo" views were explicitly laid out, that would be fine. At least we'd know where it stands.
I enjoy reading articles like these for these reasons (in priority I might add):
1) I am and have been a space enthusiast since my first space shuttle Lego set
2) I am a big sci-fi fan
3) I am an Engineer
4) My dream is to go to / work in space and possibly other planets
5) I believe space and exploration can bring the human race together
Accounting in high-profile USSR projects was often a joke and didn't represent the real cost.
The whole point of NSLs is to have the same level as CALEA, but not publicly. Apple is requiring the FBI to lay down its cards and submit them to public examination, rather than act in secret, which is a progress for democracy in US.

I say US, because I don't see any mention of foreign countries about either the iPhone 5 or the Secure Enclave. Apple is probably legally required to spy on foreign nationals, isn't it?
Correct the GEM_PATH is conflicting. Thank you for the information provided and your help through our support channel. Here is the public issue for future reference: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13689.
Epidemic Algorithms for Replicated Database Maintenance (1989) [pdf]