skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say bespoke (which implies written from the ground up from scratch), but with possibly different environment and other configuration variables and, occasionally, slightly different shared library files.

And while there is no official documentation available, there is plenty of good guesses from hordes of brilliant reverse engineers.

Still, there are only a handful of error codes that are thrown, and you have to make your first guesses from those and the logging is pretty terrible when you do decide to dig a bit deeper.

And inserting your own code into the spaghetti mess is a bit of a crapshoot.
I just added Gitlab as a new remote, and pushed. Easy as that. Keeps the entire repo history. I then just removed my old Github remotes.
CVE-2016-2384: arbitrary code execution using the usb-midi linux kernel driver
I noticed that as well when trying to run their full site even on the Kindle Fire HDX. Luckily, it seems less of a problem since it seems to fall back to some less intensive setup, but if I go on Firefox or Chrome then it behaves oddly at times. I think Bezos needs to issue another edict against the "new hotness" when it comes to JS and UI libs for websites. IMO, less is more when it comes to making a website. But maybe I just have some weird extensions that don't play nice with some of those libs, who knows.
Typically, TANF benefits went to the elderly, disabled, or to new mothers. Do you really want to force them to work the gig economy?

Also, don't forget that the "T" in TANF means _temporary_.
Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition available for pre-order
Amazon uses a surprising number of dark UI patterns considering how solid their market dominance is. And they really push their branded credit cards, too. I'm not interested and I never have been, but I've still been forced to turn these offers down for more than ten years now.
I didn't know I could log in from my mobile browser. Hopefully the sound works in the background, thanks!
When Apple says that they’ve never unlocked a device for the authorities one should keep in mind that the authorities have and use the power to force entities to respond this way.
...and they give it to the FBI who then changes that ID as they please? Remove signing altogether? Its the fear of a blank check that drives this issue.
That's not the case – if Apple produce a signed iOS version that allows the passcode retry limit to be bypassed on a single device, then in what meaningful sense does it operate on another device?
An interesting article however where are the numbers?

A few anecdotes of how it helped some people does really tell us that much.
A few weeks ago, I made this small experiment https://github.com/juanpabloaj/markdowntorrent , distributed markdown content in http over bittorrent
NASA proposes new propulsion to cut Mars voyage to 3 days
No – iOS is signed, and changing the ID would invalidate the signature.
Assange ask Swedish court to overturn arrest warrant
C++ MFC in Visual Studio 2003. No STL, no Boost, no templates. Like mid 90s C++ in fact, because the codebase dates back to the mid 90s. It's a contract gig on a legacy mortgage system.
A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To
The next logical step is stackoverflow-powered code generation :)
How to Fix the Go Package Management Problem
Austria. The competition is around $15, actually.
What the most common startup jargon actually mean
Friendly nanobots to fight them? The same way we fight normal viruses, I guess.
> If the early 80's was good, then something else must be bad.

If programming from one era was good, why do you think that means programming from another era "must be bad"? Why can't good programming exist in both eras?

> But a reasonable guess is good compared to today

If you insist on guessing there's more to my final sentence, why isn't a reasonable guess, "as well as non-amazing programming back then" or "just as there is amazing programming today"?
> You are not going to have room size experience with any of those headsets at home at least it's not feasible you are tethered with so much crap that you need a man servant walking after you ensuring that you don't hang yourself on that tether.

Depends on the size of your play area obviously, but looks pretty good from this[0], and this "crap" you're talking about doesn't seem very bothersome.

> If you want a room size experience just hook up 2 OR cameras it will work the same way (but better) as the lighthouse approach that HTC took, and you can hook upto 50 of those cameras currently to track I believe up-to a 100 players.

Better how? I haven't seen a good comparison of them yet. I'm curious tho, how do you intend to scale up to 100 players using USB3 connections? That would be a MASSIVE amount of data flowing through the computer powering all of this(, the reason it requires USB3 is because it needs 60Hz high resolution image to have good tracking). The Vive takes a completly different approach by having the headset (and controllers) catch and interpret the (infrared) light emitted by the (dumb) lighthouses.[1]

> you can't currently track more than 5 people at the time

Do you have a source for this? I can't seem to find anything about this. Is it a limitation of the hardware or the software?

> Vive only supports 2 trackers per space it's also going to have issues with commercial applications that aren't a single open room.

I'd be very surprised if this was true. Everything I've read seems to indicate lighthouse is built to be scalable from the ground up. The whole idea of it being wireless, only requiring a power outlet, makes it infinitely more scalable than any USB3 solution.

Again, would appreciate sources for any of your claims because I can't seem to find any of them...

EDIT: Here is a more indepth look at how the lighthouse technology actually works, because you seem slightly misinformed: http://www.hizook.com/blog/2015/05/17/valves-lighthouse-trac...

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIEuB7H9TOE

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/40877n/vive_lighthous...
Sometimes they are the shows you watch--as in, you may be watching a large advertisement with several smaller advertisements inserted into it.

Example: the Disneyland 60th Anniversary TV Special. Disney/ABC is particularly fond of advertising cross-medium Disney properties/investments on Disney-controlled television and radio broadcasts. For instance, Radio Disney definitely plays a disproportionately high number of DMG (Walt Disney Records + Hollywood Records/DMG Nashville) recordings.

My spouse was watching it. I saw 30 seconds of it and said, "this is a long format ad for Disney parks," before tuning it out.

The long-format ads are rather common on the local news broadcasts. Some stations show more than others.
Ubuntu Gnome - works VERY well - if you enable the "window list" plugin for shell, it works as well as cinnamon.
You can also use some other distro like debian or fedora that also provides cinnamon.
If only the authors of the article thought of that. Then they might have written this:

Work requirements, however, should not unfairly punish people who are physically or mentally unable to complete gig economy jobs. The gig economy can often provide flexible work for those previously considered unable to work, but exemptions would still be available as needed.

Why not read the article to see what it actually advocates rather than criticizing some unrelated idea no one advocated for?
If you call secure an OS which can crash process without giving meaningful errors.

I have lost hours debugging mysterious crashes because of SELinux, and it is really not safe to have components unexpectedly crashing when they are part of your core infra.

Plus I guess that like every security frameworks it runs with priviledge, it has a lot of lines of code, is hard to audit, and thus highers the surface of vulnerability.

Hint: they use for instance strcmp a lot http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24353504/whats-wrong-with...

Their code mixes if(){} with the if() else (without braces)

They are sometimes using enums, sometimes #define sometimes magic values to refer to constant values.

You should really read the source code.

Definitively above the average of C code in the wild, still having well known code smell.

I would like to see if PVS studio could confirm my intuition.

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
I don't think their days are numbered. I find them to be pretty competitive price wise against the likes of Amazon, with the advantage that I can get the item right now. Like you said, that applies to supermarkets, but if for example I wanted to purchase a kettle in my local Sainsburys I don't think they have a website that lets me check out reviews and order for my local store. I'm sure they could delver something but so could Amazon.

Also, if you order before 6PM you can get same day delivery: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/ArgosPromo3/includeName/fast-t... and they cover much more of the country than Amazon PrimeNow service. It's service like this that makes me think Argos are seriously fighting back against Amazon now.
My first reaction ("Wowza!") was tempered by the fear that this sort of intervening layer may erode participation (and thus quality) of Stack Overflow. I suppose such a thing will never be popular enough to make this sort of effect.
It's be fun to have a tunable one that could simulate other atmospheres as well. There are days retiring to Saturn seems a good option ;-)

With the added benefit you could use a low-power light for those distances.
There's a fair bit of sleaze when you use TurboTax, at least this year:

* If you enter any IRA contributions, including Roth IRA, it suggests you update to Deluxe to get "your biggest refund" even though Roth IRA contributions don't qualify you for deductions.

* They plaster "e-filing your federal returns is free!" everywhere while obscuring the fact that they want $20 to help you e-file a state return

* The audit stuff you mentioned

* They no longer include one free state as they have in previous years, but this fact is not mentioned anywhere in the product description
Chris Dixon – What's next in computing
Ah, ok. So the issue is mixing binary packages from different distributions or different releases of the same distribution (the Debian doc mentions mixing Debian stable and testing for example). If that's what Mint are doing then I'm surprised they aren't stuck in perpetual dependency hell.
I didn't find it well written. It was grammatically and typographically correct, but that's not enough to call it a compelling piece of writing.

You could argue that the article stirred up a debate, so in that sense it achieved its probable purpose.

However, by and large, the reactions across the Net have been quite negative toward the writer. The typical reaction: "You shouldn't have posted that. You should have gotten a roommate. You shouldn't have taken the job in the first place."
That sounds like 64% (a majority) didn't?
Nice, I'll take a look.
If the court decides that they're obligated to comply, then that should apply in all similar cases. Resisting that order would be more difficult because they already lost the battle, not because they already created the tool.
Because some things are broken in xubuntu - like wacom tablet configuration is missing :(
Me too. I'm disappointed, this would be THE killer feature. Hope they are working on it (they should imho.)
Presidential executive authority is vast. There is much the president can do without permission from any single other person and it has only expanded in recent years during the administrations of Bush and Obama. He could put every Muslim American on the no-fly list (or anyone considered 'subversive', for that matter). He could send in the military/national guard to lock every American citizen who doesn't fit a particular criteria into interment camps. He will be ordering drone strikes. He can sign the death warrant of American citizens. He can authorize surveillance, order intelligence agencies to disrupt and try to destroy his political opponents.

All of these are things that the sitting US president has done in fairly recent history solely by power of the executive branch. There are many things the president can't do alone, but there are many, many things he or she can.
Person: "I'm starving and barely able to get by working for Yelp in SF."

Yelp: "You're fired." (Good luck paying rent without a job.)

Yelp CEO: "The cost of living is too high here, so we're going to instead move offices to Arizona and pay the same wage."

Does this mean that Yelp is going to...

a. Help all of its employees move to AZ where they can enjoy
a lower cost of living?
b. Fire all of its employees and hire replacements in AZ?
c. Something else?

Because if they're going with option B, wow.

The cost of living in SF is one of the reasons I refuse to ever move there for work, but it seems like a scapegoat in this case. Why not just pay your employees a livable wage to begin with?
> Are search warrants oppressive?

A search warrant doesn't require me to create a new capability that did not exist before.

From the FAQ:

The digital world is very different from the physical world. In
the physical world you can destroy something and it’s gone.
But in the digital world, the technique, once created, could
be used over and over again, on any number of devices...

The only way to guarantee that such a powerful tool isn’t abused
and doesn’t fall into the wrong hands is to never create it.
Nice graph! Thanks!
http://news.slashdot.org/story/16/02/21/2035225/yelp-employe...

> And I am sure it had nothing to do with her getting alcohol delivered to her while at work [archive.is] or bragging about making sexual jokes to the companies twitter account [imgur.com]. It's either quite a coincidence or she knew she was in trouble and wrote the letter to try and make the company look worse.
It's not just that H1B has lower salaries, but that they are locked into the employer as it is difficult for them to get new sponsorship and change jobs. You have to apply in March, but can't start working until October and cost to the employer is $5k - $10k or more depending on if they hire a firm that bribes the right officials so their candidates win the "lottery"

The system as written by law isn't bad. It's companies that flat out abuse it and violate the law and get away with it. There is no way Disney should have been to openly admit they were replacing US workers with H1B's as the whole system is setup so that you have to prove you can't find US workers for the position.
This is really cool..hope to see it succeed :)
And can Apple guarantee that the ID can't be changed inside the device? If they can't it makes a lot of sense for Apple to refuse creating such a tool.
What's the plan for publishing?
Number of pieces Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly?
Selling them, or posting them free, etc.

Threw your link in the "almost sfwa" submissions bucket for now, but certainly interested in hearing more.
CEO: "I've not been personally involved in Talia being let go and it was not because she posted a Medium letter directed at me."

A coincidence is possible, but doesn't sound at all likely ("the CEO didn't personally get involved" sounds like a very specific claim). It is, OTOH, indeed possible that other events were at work - "post hoc, ergo propter hoc;" that the two events might have another (undisclosed) common cause.

In other words: the data we have is of the "he said, she said" type...and a lot of emotional filters on all sides (inc. the readers). A strange game.
Free TV for life? It's here, and it may even be legal
I think you're inferring something different from what I'm saying.

If you're a writer and you're not inspired to write, you're not going to write your magnum opus. However, you still have to write something or another - spend 3 hours writing uninspired writing just to practice your skills. If you're a musician and you're not inspired to compose, you'll still have to practice your scales and do little throwaway compositions to get better at it. Thinking that inspiration can flourish when you don't have practice with structure, realistic dialog is unrealistic. In fact, the more you force yourself to write the more easily you can recognize when real inspiration comes along, and the more you won't waste it.

As for your second example, we're seeing it all over the place in San Francico right now. A lot of people didn't optimize their financial situation, working as artists or painters and social workers, and now are being forced out by people who did optimize their financial situation, the programmers. Is that right? That is personal opinion, but the fact of the matter is had you been prepared with more money from savings or a more lucrative job or a cheap home somewhere else that you bought, you have options that you currently don't have.
That's certainly a risk, but it's less likely to happen than the alternative and all serious distributions have a QA process in place which is designed to catch those issues.
I can't imagine any sane person actually blames him for his work and not the company that decides to put one developer in charge of writing such an important game in such a short space of time.
I guess when the FBI compels them again. Or once they have a foot in the door, compels them to remove the signing requirement, or wants their own ability to sign.

This is not mysterious. Can the FBI require a software company to subvert their own security guarantees? Should they? Do bank vaults have back doors for the FBI?
I'm actually wondering this, too. Is there a technological reason why Apple fulfilling this request makes their (not subject-to-warrant) customers less secure? Why isn't their private code-signing key the linchpin?

I fully buy that there are legal, cultural, and diplomatic reasons that this could make Apple's customers less secure in the long run by setting a precedent, etc.

I guess one argument is that whatever code they write to tie the "weaponized" iOS update to a particular device could have bugs.
Entirely possible. But this is not "reality vs dogma"; it's one person's (or group of people's) judgement vs another.
I hadn't, but I'd be surprised if that were the case. Usually bands want to get as many fans and gigs and as much publicity as they can. It seems odd that they would only want programmers as fans, unless they were especially pretentious.
Why so much emphasis on Robots. Why can't we have the following:

1. A Human Being may not injure another Human Being or life-form, or, through inaction, allow a human being or life-form to come to harm.

2. A government entity must obey the orders given to it by a Human Being, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A non-government entity must obey the orders given to it by a human being except where such orders would conflict with the First or Second Laws.
It won't have 'bugs'. It'll be written to allow FBI access at will. That's the next step, right?
Is there an issue/PR migration path as well?
How did you go from "can't do anything about it" to "not necessary after all?" The stealth is what makes the aircraft harder to shoot down, that is what makes it "necessary."
> A search warrant doesn't require me to create a new capability that did not exist before.

I don't see how that's relevant. If I invent a new kind of lock you've never seen before, you'll have to come up with a way to break it.

I'm asking for why a search warrant would be oppressive, even if it involved creating new firmware for a safe.
> nothing (OS-WISE) changes hands, it doesn't 'get out'

It would have to 'get out' if it's installed on the phone. You are assuming the FBI (or other interested TLA agencies) lack the ability to extract the the compromised OS from the phone and/or retarget it to other devices. An even more nefarious scheme would be to modify the current code on the iPhone so that it logs Apples signing as they apply the update, but that edging into tinfoil territory
> It's not so much the value of life as much as the life experiences pain and suffering.

So, how do you quantify the "experience of pain and suffering"? Is the scream of a mammal any different than the chemicals of "screaming" that plants emit when they're being hurt?

Or is the sickness (and chemical whimpering) of a cucumber somehow foreign to someone familiar with the whimpering of some sick human or animal?

It seems to me that your value of pain and suffering is only limited to your human experience: in other words, "if it's not a mammal, I can't empathize, and I refuse to acknowledge that non-mammals can also have pain and suffer."

I figure, given how militant you are about veganism, that you would also do your homework to see if plants also have the similar attributes animals have. Alas, I'm wrong. I expect too much scientific thought and critical assessments of world-views. I can only conclude that your position is that of a political one; as it's certainly not scientific, nor will you consider the ethical ramifications.
If you import from GitHub, your issues, PRs, wiki and all code will be imported.
Switch to manual mode and drive it with the joystick. Self-driving cars will have to come with a manual override for unusual situations. For instance, suppose I am parking in a vacant lot for the ball game. Where in the lot does the autopilot park? Or how about parking in my garage which has inches clearance on each side?
Scrape websites visually. No code required
That doesn't seem very logical.

First, I think you mean "less valued". That's generally what happens when there's little demand for something, or when there's a good substitute at a cheaper price.

Second, if all the free, evil ad-sponsored content on the internet is of such "low quality", it certainly would make such services more valuable, as it would offer something scarce. Their conspicuous absence seems to indicate something is amiss with this analysis.
You can just `sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment`.
You missed the entire point of my post. If I was designing a protocol I intended to be secure, I would add code that would fail if the password was changed and then changed back. I'm not saying Apple did this, but it's entirely possible they did.
Ask HN: What machine learning consumer product you are using?
What are the best products on ML you are using (siri for me , if it counts ) ? Also where can I learn ML, what skills are required ?
-1 for disabling pinch zoom on mobile devices
People who give up food stamps will be prevented from going out and seeking work on their own, and buying food with the proceeds?

I totally missed that part of the article.
Even if there is no malicious intent, well-meaning hobbies have ended in heartbreak before. I hope this is legitimate and succeeds but the skeptical side of myself is always there.
Ask HN: Can you help me test my HN iOS client?
Hello everyone. I'm the author of HackerWeb (http://hackerwebapp.com/) and have been working on a native iOS port for the past few months. It's built in React Native and it's 99% complete.

I would love to get some help for HN peeps to test the app with TestFlight and give feedback. If you're interested, submit your email on http://externaltesters.com/app/hackerweb or email me at cheeaun(at)gmail(dot)com or tweet/DM me @cheeaun.
Why does it matter if party A or party B is "the establishment?"

Personally I think nobody should be able to mass-surveil the entire population. And I don't trust the tech giants at all (especially on matters of privacy) but in the words of Henry Kissinger: "there are no permanent allies, only permanent interests."
How was this person screwed, in particular? Was it not simple jealousy stemming from the fact that she worked in the same building with high earning engineers?

It's fallacious to suppose you deserve more money, merely because others in your proximity make more money. This is pure entitlement, devoid of ambition to achieve through hard work.