skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a systemd bug, it was just exposed by systemd. This was what most everyone seemed to completely miss in the prior exchanges.

Another thing that was missed was that Lennart wasn't being unreasonable, nor was he saying it wasn't a problem (he specifically stated the opposite, in fact). I had a feeling at the time (based on his responses) that the reason he wasn't specifically stating he was going to fix it or open a bug report for it in systemd was that he was going to push it up-stack to a more appropriate place, and it looks like that's what happened.
This forgot the 2 month waiting period between the onsite and the offer.
While Telegram has wonderful UI/UX, their server code isn't open source, and replies from support have been spotty, at best.

I fear it could eventually become another closed garden.
> For a newbie in this domain, how do we start doing our own toy forecasts (lets say for Bay area)?

There are some available weather modeling packages, such as WRF[0], as a mesoscale (few km to 1000 kms) model, that one can download and run. You'd obviously need to find a resource for the appropriate input data. I don't know how easy it is to get up and running, though.

[0] http://www.wrf-model.org/index.php
For example, a lot of people complain about issues on GitHub. GitLab handles those much better, that could be a compelling reason to move, but somehow it doesn't seem to be enough.

Private repo can be useful for early stage of OSS projects.

Agreed though that it still feels too much like a clone of GitHub. The UI for example is way to close to the original.
Good point. But we should let them age a bit. Right now they're a bit young for production code with deadlines and all. I hate C++, but I like the certainty that comes with tools I know.
But without top-level inflation, there is going to be a definite cap on that effect.

And it's not every consumer that has $X,000 more. It's only the poor consumers. The middle class has their BI taxed back. And the poor are a very small portion of the economy.
So, ndg-httpsclient, mrjob, numpy, scrapy, monotonic and possibly others do have python3 compatibility.

Then there's a bunch of deployment tools like ansible, fabric, and marionette which don't really need to be python3 compatible for use.

Then there's tools like MySQL-python, python-gflags, python-cjson, INITools, filechunkio, which have python3 compatible alternatives, often in the standard library.

That brings the total up to 331

That leaves basically 3 categories of things left: mozilla tools, database connectors (many of which probably have python3 bindings though I haven't looked), and single sign on tools. Those account for 12 of the remaining 29 libraries.

That's pretty ready.
My theory on this:

Identify gifted young people with an idealistic streak, high in empathy, people like Aaron Swartz.

Give them a guaranteed basic income, technical education, guidance and connections.

They will go on and fix the problems of the world with an urgency and purity you won't find anywhere else.
If you're looking for improved TLS support, have a peek at esp-open-rtos[1], which is a re-implementation of the Espressif provided rtos sdk and is aiming to be fully open source.
It ships with the mbed TLS implementation, which supports TLS 1.2.

[1] https://github.com/SuperHouse/esp-open-rtos
FYI ESP8266 doesn't run Python, but it runs MicroPython: https://github.com/micropython/micropython
Thanks for the clarification - it does help.

However I still disagree with you on the point of standing against Apple for their 'evils'.

Apple is simply exercising their freedom. I agree that there may be better ways of doing things, but the failure of free software to produce these alternatives is nothing to do with Apple.

If anything, I'd say that standing 'against' Apple, works against the cause of producing a free alternative because it focuses people's attention on misplaced anger towards Apple, rather than on the constructive effort needed to build what is required.

I find it hard to see how someone reconciles a belief in freedom with an agenda that involves standing against Apple.
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The meta-analysis cited at the beginning of this article has problems. But even if it didn't, you only need to read the conclusion to know the headline writers are getting this wrong.

As alluded to in that conclusion, the study isn't so much a comparison of organic vs. conventional as it is a comparison of grass fed vs. grain fed animals. The article does refer to this in passing and then continues along.

And it is odd to tout the increase in omega-3s anyway. "Yay, we raised the omega-3s found in beef from a tiny-amount to a statistically-interstingly-higher-but-still-tiny-amount."

Going on to the next study cited in the article doesn't help it. Note how the article shifts from saying that the compounds are potentially beneficial over to saying they are. And then it ignores the evidence mounting that maybe all of our hopes that lots of dietary antioxidants would help us live longer/better may have been sadly misplaced.

Bah...I hate the state of health news reporting.
I was thinking more "self-funding prole monitoring device program".
I'm thinking about world-scale adventure and combat games.
> For many concepts there are four different roots: one Anglo-Saxon, one Norman French, one Latin, and one Greek.

Funny how he left out Norse, since that is where English gets the word "root" from.
I don't think it can. If witch hunts are still common and private armies are a thing as well as foreign powers intentionally destabilizing the region there is little open data can do.
I have actually done a fair bit of dev work on this chip (a custom C++ IDE), it is a neat little device, with the emphasis on little. That is both a plus and a minus. Plus, it is cheap, minus, it is little, not a lot of processing power there. (forget Python if you are doing anything serious).

The way I worked around it is put all the processing in the cloud and basically the vpn passes straight through it. Interestingly, it actually is being used in a number of consumer products, but for very basic iot apps (I believe there is a wifi enable light socket and an automobile ODB link device things like that).

Fun device to mess with :)
Don't Make Me Code Ep.#3, DX for Different Developer Segments
> How is a cell phone supposed to communicate with the Beartooth?

Given the name, I would presume Bluetooth.
Smart phones are good at collecting live barometric pressure data but not much else. Temperature sensors aren't very useful because they are poorly calibrated, you can't reliably tell whether someone is outdoors, and the reading can be thrown off by the heat generated by the device or the person holding it. UV sensors are seldom pointed in the right direction. And I haven't seen a phone with a wind speed or precipitation sensor yet.
It shouldn't be possible to brick UEFI if it was sanely designed. That's a bad firmware.
Very helpful right now having words, that have the same meaning, to convey a different meaning.
> but the developer's thought that it was working as intended

Really? Is that evidenced by Lennart's response to this, which stated "The ability to hose a system is certainly reason enought to make sure it's well protected and only writable to root."[1]? I think it implies the opposite.

1: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
Well, yes?!

Your implied complaint was that their work is not very scientific. The team having PhDs in neuroscience is irrelevant/unsatisfactory/bad?

What would you like to see? Would it have seemed more scientific to you if they'd done it at a hackathon?
I agree but have a glimmer of hope.
Taoism has good advice for this kind of situation. You have to come to the realization that you can never control the outcomes of what you do in life. If you base your happiness on outcomes alone then you are setting yourself up to be disappointed in the long run. Find value in doing good work for its own sake, learning skills to be applied in other endeavors, things like that. 30 is young, despite what you may think.

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then let go.
The only path to serenity.
> Not my idea - it's been around for decades.

> It works because you can treat the two kites as one system, because they're both connected to the ship.

Care to supply some citations?
Tell HN: New Starbucks Rewards in April
http://morestars.starbucks.com/#section-1

To me, as a gold member, this seems like they're making it harder to get "free drinks" - what does it seem like to you?
Using a Baofeng radio on the FRS band is illegal. Transmission on the FRS band is limited to 500 milliwatts using FCC-approved devices only. Baofeng radios are not approved and can transmit at up to 5 watts.

However, if you get an Amateur Radio license, you can transmit in the 2 meter and 70cm bands at full power, legally, using your Baofeng radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-meter_band

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70-centimeter_band

http://www.arrl.org/getting-licensed
Is asking you to disable your ad blocker really paywalled?
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hi sean, we say about 2 miles in all of our documentation. we agree 23 miles isn't realistic. i have personally seen 2 miles plus results hiking, skiing, etc. hope that helps
I've been using SimpleTax for the past four years and it's top-notch.

I've also been working on @suter for about that long to get them to make the years before 2012 available via SimpleTax, for those of us who have friends that have let their taxes slide for a long, long time. Hopefully one of these days the cost/benefit will work out.
Yes, it seems pretty certain the Apple is going to lose this in court, and will be required to break the security on the 5c. But newer hardware with Secure Enclave could be rendered Apple-proof by preventing an update to the Secure Enclave firmware without first unlocking the phone (or still allow a locked upgrade, but wipe all user data when upgrading in that manner). The fact that they haven't said unambiguously that they can't get into newer hardware at all definitely makes it seem like they allow non-destructive updates to SE on a locked device.
Who's Tim Cooke?
> and don't overcharge people paying for shipping

Do you necessarily believe they do this? Because I wouldn't be so quick to give benefit of the doubt...

Lots of (much smaller) companies do offset their free shipping in this way, even if they can't totally even it out.

Source: ran an online small business shipping small physical products.
I am not a security expert, but my understanding is that the main problems for the FBI are: a) There is a timed delay for trying new passwords after enough unsuccessful attempts and b) The phone will wipe itself after 10 unsuccessful attempts.

It's pretty much only sufficient to have (a) since the delays will make it take years to guess the password by brute force.

I just ctrl-f'd for "delay" in the security guidelines[0], which claim that the secure enclave is the one that enforces the timed delay[1], so I guess the only attack vector would be if you could somehow backdoor code onto the chip. I can't find anything in the guide from a quick skim, but I'd suspect the code is on a ROM chip or is somehow prevented from an upgrade without an unlock?

[0] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
[1] Page 12
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Recruiters could use this to find engineers...
> Iterative loops are much easier to analyze and reason about, by humans and by computers. For example, they always terminate.

It's a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison to compare (proper, bounded) for-loops to general recursion. A more appropriate question would be whether humans and computers find, say, primitive recursion or structural recursion easier to analyse and reason about than for-loops.

The difference between general- and primitive-recursion becomes very apparent when working in Coq, for example!
I think it has to do with a kind of black and white thinking that is common with people in technology. 2+2=4. 2+2!=5. Your code either compiles or it doesn't. A function is either correct or incorrect.

It is either acceptable for Apple to bypass a security feature or it is unacceptable. Tech people seem to have a real hard time with the idea that:

A) It might be acceptable some of time time but not others

B) There are competing values at play here and even if we decide it's (un)acceptable there are some downsides to either choice.
Fanboyism is such a hip with HN crowd. Not ready to listen to anything, as if downvotes and upvotes could really do anything!
I don't know what to say to this, except that I'm glad I'm not in San Francisco -- and my thoughts and sympathy are with everyone who is. (Except the Boomer homeowners who've voted themselves an exemption to property tax.)
Why Instagram Will Never Allow Automated Posts (+Options to Hack It)
The firmware author(s) should not brick their hardware when EFI variables are deleted. That is an invalid behavior.
To be honest, I have only limited experience with vectors at the moment, so I'm not entirely sure. I scanned the ABI[0], but in my current sleep-deprived state I can't make all that much sense of it, sorry. You might have better luck!

[0]: http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi-0.99.7.pdf
I'm not sure if anyone can answer that question.

Personally, I hope we can eventually move to a federated system, perhaps one based on ipfs.
Except people prefer to text these days.
Thank you for the link, I didn't see them pop up when I was searching but I am looking at them now.
This is exactly how I feel about this. There would be an actual interesting debate to be had about the powers of the state versus corporations versus the rights of individuals to perfect end-to-end encryption if the state hadn't been using warrantless wiretaps and National Security Letters for the last 15 years. As it is, the state has shown it can't be trusted with that power.
From what I know of world it appears that being a country that is a great place to live for the average person is strongly correlated with having a good social welfare system. (I understand that correlation does not always imply causation.) If this is true, and my perception of the world tells me it is, then it's reasonable to desire a society with strong social welfare programs.

I think we all win when each of us, even the undeserving, get to live at a base level of existence without fear. Off the top of my head my understanding of history is such that societal stability is best accomplished when there are lots of people living in misery. It's worth the expenditure of tax money to ensure my neighbor is not living in misery.

Solzhenitsyn said that the quality of a society can be determined by how it treats its prisoners. I expand upon this a bit by including the poor and powerless.
And even a slight sea level rise may make large parts of Florida effectively uninhabitable due to repeated flooding. If you want to build a reliable computing facility there then put it on stilts, not underground.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-mi...
> "Mass was highly critical of the federal government's lagging computing capacity in recent years.."

Perhaps he should have been having a chat with the NSA boys...
1) I don't understand what you are hoping to show with that link: the court opinions seem to all side with PayPal. When companies settle out of court you can't really use that to show the side paying the money is wrong: I've settled out of court myself in situations where I was told I could win the case, but where the settlement would have been cheaper than continuing the battle.

2) I have done tens of millions of dollars of transactions over PayPal. I also once had my account put on hold back near when I was first going into business.

2) You are not allowed to capture funds from someone using a credit card until you are imminently shipping the product to the customer. You say "had the product to ship", but then I'm going to have to ask: how did the company "almost go out of business"? If they already have the product ready to ship, then all we are talking about here is a delay in compensation. If the company needed a loan, PayPal is not a company whom you are allowed to get a loan from, and money collected from sales is a loan until you deliver the product. Your worst-case scenario here is that you should be able to get the loan you need on extremely great terms given if you can really show to someone that you have a ton of money that will be coming to you in 180 days (and the fact that these people could not obtain a reasonable loan really then undermines the entire premise that they had good documentation for PayPal's underwriting...).
No, the firmware is the right place to fix the problem. A BIOS that bricks itself because of within-specification deletion of variables via a standard API is just plain broken.

But in the real world no one ever fixes firmware bugs, so this is the best we can do.
There is no accused. They're both dead.
I'm the author of acmetool.

It's quite interesting to know that people are using the design to its full potential. Ideally, I should probably make something more library/daemon-based for these largescale, custom solutions, though of course I'd like to do it some manner of modular way that allows the existing codebase to be leveraged. For the time being only the acmeapi package within acmetool is stable and suitable for use by other libraries. Something to think about...
I just wanted to say how awesome it is that you mention Gogs, a competing platform. It shows that you're focused on your domain, not closed-mindly discounting every competitor, and are open about any shortcomings in Gitlab.
I've found Linux is better at Bluetooth than Windows.
And then watch competitors come back. I look forward to the return of some competition.
VERY interesting. Thanks for posting. I wasn't familiar with CALEA.

For clarity, a CALEA type approach wouldn't compel a company to ACTIVELY subvert their own systems (as in Apple creating new tools for the Gov't to achieve that end under All Writs).

Instead, CALEA would force companies to create LESS secure systems from the start which could then be subverted passively (no All Writs component) on request to allow for "lawful intercept". Is that a fair characterization?

But in sum, a legal argument based on CALEA. Makes sense. Thanks-
Your sense of smell might be on point here. I dont know. But I've noticed that I tend to sometimes over-engineer things. Maybe because I did the exact opposite in the past and had to rewrite large parts of a hobby project because it was to tightly coupled.

Took a while to answer because apparently I submit my comments too fast. :O
It looks like this product is less aimed at being relied on when you're in a survival situation, and more about extending the benefits of your cell phone when you're out of range. For example, in Yosemite Valley, there is no cell service, but there are mobs of people everywhere. This tool would be nice to get some auxiliary benefits of cell phones when hiking with your family.
> If a full time Yelp 'job' does not allow an individual to afford basics like shelter and food, let alone education, healthcare or family on what basis does it qualify to call itself a 'job'?

It's an entry level position that typically pays about $20k-$30k/year. While this salary may provide every 20-something with no prior work experience the lifestyle they desire, it's definitely a livable wage. Regarding healthcare, she writes: "I’ve got vision, dental, the normal health insurance stuff — and as far as I can tell, I don’t have to pay for any of it!" Did you even read the article?

> This is exploitation.

Oh, please. She accepted the job offer and salary, and then leased an apartment she couldn't afford. Now she is blaming her employer for her financial predicament, without taking any personal responsibility in the situation. It's hard to muster much empathy.

> The individual is not demanding luxuries from life

Make no mistake, if you're in an entry level position and have no prior work experience, living without roommates in one of the most expensive housing markets in the world is a luxury.

Her claim that she's starving should be taken with a grain of salt, in light of the photos she shared online:

http://alotofrice.pixieset.com/thatsalotofrice/

Traditionally, when somebody wants to live in an apartment/city they can't afford, they find roommates, a second job, or a better job. Publicly shaming your employer online for your own bad financial decisions is a new one to me.
Once again, I ask for hard statistics and facts, with references. Data, my friend, show me the data.
FaceKat
Maybe Apple should have just stated that its impossible to create a backdoor (the way actual encryption should be). But since we all know that its possible to create one, the fact that there is an option will always spur debate.

The most important thing that the author mentions though is "How can the government regain the trust of the people?".
That's awesome! We're excited to have you giving it a try.

Thanks for the feedback. I absolutely agree regarding the ranking/rating system. We've really just recently launched, so right now we just don't have many reviews. We do have the system in place, though, and we'll be building up those reviews.

Regarding the preparer locations - we plan to add the ability to sort/filter preparers, but we do only show you those that have specifically indicated that they can handle the type of returns required based on your quote. So, if you said you worked in NY and lived in NJ, the listed preparers will be able to handle both states. Same goes for rental property, capital gains, etc.

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You also get Music, Video, Photos, Now and a bunch of other stuff. No-brainer at $100/year.
Why work hard? Why not just work?
Root is certainly capable, traditionally, of completely hosing all levels of the software stack. Usually it's the OS's job to protect even root from being able to hose hardware/firmware, especially by easy-to-make mistake.
No. Think SMS, not Messages app.