skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that link. Always worthwhile to read Kerr's analysis.

ISTM the right outcome is for Congress to weigh in with specific legislation that can supersede AWA in cases like this.
Yes but the idea/hope would be to minimize form factor as well as having the microphone and speaker being cordless. And for emergencies (unlike others I'm not looking to be social but to have another channel of emergency communication).

That being said I do own a marine vhf radio.
Scaling ElasticSearch at Synthesio
Mir was also rather neat in that it was mostly self-assembling: All big modules were built from TKS space craft and rendezvoused and docked fully automatically, with kosmonauts only required for the final touches. While it did limit available living space (as fraction of total volume), it's a much more flexible concept than requiring a Shuttle to haul up everything and dock it under human supervision. Maybe not for manned space stations, but e.g. long-range interplanetary probes could be launched in parts and self-assemble before departing for the outer solar system. (Anecdotally a few NASA engineers were itching do to that for decades, but with the US not having the necessary technology, it was always rejected.)
Just don't see a value prop to make this feasible. I go to festivals, skiing, camping with friends 2-3 times a year.

At a festival, cell service is fine. Camelback with gatorade/water mix is the crucial piece of equipment. Just keep an eye on it, as random people will try to drink from your straw.

For casual skiing we set times/places to meet up in case we get separated. Again, cell phones work fine on most mountains. Don't want to throw this bulky, expensive (not water/shock proof?) thing in a plastic bag in my pocket. If I'm going back country, go with a buddy. Keep an avalanche kit (shovel, beacon, air tube) in the backpack and bring a $30 pair of 6 mile, 2-way, replaceable battery, shock/waterproof radios.

Camping, the point is to get away from constant communication and leave the phone off, in the car. Again, bring the actual radios if you're going in deep.

Smartphones are great for day-to-day life and work, but I feel like half the point of the vacation is being able to untether.
The iPhone in question doesn't have Secure Enclave, but has similar principles to it. Like others have said, the users password is entangled with a key unique to the phone, which can't be read through software.

On iPhones with Secure Enclave, not only is the device-specific key stored there, but also the logic which keeps track of the number of and time between repeated failed attempts. On older iPhones, this logic is a part of iOS itself, hence why Apple is capable of overriding it with a modified iOS.
> Think about every single iPhone and every single Galaxy S in the world as a useful sensor array _and_ a parallel processor...

Sadly, until we have a breakthrough in battery technology, all of those will be parallel processors programmed to be asleep as often as they can.
nice, hope these videos will be archived for later watching.
I bet this is related to another quirk, where "sort by price" doesn't really result in things being in the expected order.

I suspect (because I have a similar challenge in our own ecommerce system) that the model underlying the representation of products has at least one additional layer of specificity, that's not directly revealed to the user. Consider that you're looking at Products, but what they're really manipulating are products as sourced from a particular supplier.

Each of those "supplier-items" has its own price (because with Amazon marketplace, the supplier gets to set their own), as well as its own potential shipping destinations.

When you project that into search results as a list of Products, what you wind up with is a list of "Products for which there's at least one supplier willing to ship to Iceland". And the sorting is something like "order by lowest price offered by all suppliers". When you click on that product to go to Product Details, and then just click "Add to Cart", they've lost the thread of "I need to select a supplier of this product that will ship to Iceland".
If the managers or executives you work for often make choices that contradict the evidence, it does matter. Their unwillingness to follow the evidence could have a negative impact upon you as the employee. It drives many employees to switch careers and find managers or executives more willing to follow evidence-based decision-making.

It is the job of an engineer to present the various trade-offs inherent in different options for solving a business problem, including the way those trade-offs affect the business bottom line.

If an employer asks an engineer merely to execute a given decision, and never use critical thinking skill to evaluate the appropriateness of the decision (which is precisely what they are hired as an engineer to do) then it does represent a red flag about that manager, and is usually a strong signal that it would be unhealthy to remain working in that capacity.

In the few times when I have managed others on projects, I've always encouraged them to question my decision making and to reach agreements about our mutual efforts based on evidence, never on authority. I admit it's only a limited set of projects that I oversaw this way, but it always produced good results and the people working with me said they felt it was a positive way to be managed.
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about just email spam [email spam is actually something we outsource the handling of].

I'm talking about side projects that are little more than forums to 9 figure/year eCommerce companies I find big providers to be more of a problem with comment, review, etc. spam.

Whether they spend a large amount of money mitigating it or not, the fact that the quality of Tor [proportional to traffic] is not substantially worse compared to a VPN provider on those networks in my experience doesn't fill me with confidence that your solution would actually work.

> But that's why the big networks have outbound abuse teams (what I used to work on) and do spend significant sums of money on trying to keep their networks clean.

Any suggestions on how to get them to actually respond within a reasonable amount of time and with a substantial response (rather than a brush off) to things like people testing out credit cards to place fraudulent orders via their IP Space / VPNs?
IBM partners up for cloud-based virtual machines
Wish they would stop using the library of congress' collection as a reference...

I know it's big.. no idea how big.. it's not tangible to me.. never visited.. I'm sure most americans have not visited.
>Outside of that, found a social movement that shuns this sort of thing. At the end of the day we are apes that have been herded into these systems without any choice. The only thing to do about it is organize yourself into a group and fight for the reality that you want by shutting out mass society which is out to know everything about you to sell you stuff.

The same could be criticism for most social contracts, and there are groups like the Mennonites who live happy lives with levels of technology they deem fit.

Edit: Why did you edit your comment?
The US Has Gone F&*%ing Mad
Hello all, our director of infrastructure gave a really interesting talk on running elasticsearch at high scale, particularly some of the challenges we ran into, and I thought the slides might be of interest for the community.
Same here. Teacher and two in my class competed on national level, but I never caught the bug although I was happy to learn to use maps and compass as it is useful (and was essential back then) for long hikes.
Thank you, this is very helpful. I will be adding much more information to the submissions page based on the great advice I've received on this thread!
The 5c still has the secret UID baked into the chip.

The escalating artificial delays are implemented by the OS and can be circumvented, but the secret UID is designed to make it impossible to extract.

Without that UID, then you're brute-forcing a 256-bit AES key, not a 4-6 digit passcode. Practically, the brute forcing can only be done on the actual iPhone.
> An increase in the money supply is the only thing pretty much guaranteed to increase inflation.

An increase in the money supply _is_ inflation - the very definition of it.

> BI will definitely have localized effects on prices.

Yes, I said this in my OP. It will lead to increases in prices for consumer goods in particular, as opposed to other goods. If every consumer has $X,000 dollars to work with that they didn't have before, then demand for consumer goods is going to rise, leading to lower inventory and therefore, higher prices.
I advice checking out this tutorial
http://www.whatimade.today/esp8266-easiest-way-to-program-so...
I found it very helpful
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!

There is discussion about extending the trial, and I agree completely.

And we're almost done with both the iPhone app and the Android app! Stay tuned :)

Good point about Spotify. I could have sworn I pay $10 for it. Around $8 for Netflix, unless I'm mistaken. At any rate, I try to stay out of the business processes that go into making those decisions, for my own sanity, with the exception of occasionally giving discounts to my 10 twitter followers ;) haha. I've relayed your feedback to Junaid my co-founder though. Thanks again.
30 dollars is insanely cheap. And technically a new computer that is sometimes used to work from home is not a work expense unless you own your own business and use it >50% of the time.

She's betting you won't get audited.
Why Neutrino Detectors Look So Damn Cool
two-way walkie talkies I would have said two-meters if I meant those. My dad has been a ham since the 1960s.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UE6MIO/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_d...
You do not get an idea of how big it is by visiting; the stacks are off limits and much of the material must be ordered in from suburban warehouses.
http://imgur.com/WNP6O3o
or, like, GFY and I'll go read everything else on the internet that isn't pay-walled.
State of the (Online) Nation
Some of the Snowden leaks showed that the NSA was intercepting servers in transit and installing firmware with a backdoor.
"Won't someone think of the children" is a battle cry used almost exclusively to subvert our liberties.
Don't worry classic nano-tech robots were pretty much a scifi pipe dream. And if it does work we just have a friendly immune system of bots inside us fighting back. See Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. The nano-bots there are a pretty reasonable end point for if nano-tech ever actually works (and we don't immediately die to grey goo, though parts sound like there were times in the book where it almost happened but the good bots won).
64 KiB of instruction RAM, 96 KiB of data RAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266

For whatever reason the Make dead-tree-edition of the original article posted has a "Table of Boards" in it and they list the ESP8266 as having 1MB of "Memory".

It's also a new article. It's recently run in the February/March 2016 edition of Make: Super (Cheap) Computers.

Edit: While the OPs link is not the new article, it is in the current edition of Make. I was /confused as I had picked it up in the airport and was looking into the ESP8266 referenced in it.
I'm not a hardcore JS dev, but it probably has to do with the speed of objects vs. arrays. In most languages, arrays are significantly faster (because they're basically one contiguous block of memory).

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17295056/array-vs-object-...
Thanks, I wasn't aware that this was the exact type of propulsion that NASA was proposing. Mote In God's Eye is a classic book! I'm going to have to re-read it sometime soon. Getting a nostalgia kick just thinking about it.
> Providing a base minimal level of living for each person tends to produce nice societies. What people with money get in return for supporting the deadbeats is definitely worth the, not large, cost.

Hate to do this to you, but if you were on the other side of the issue someone would have asked, and I honestly haven't seen data on it. Do you have any stats/facts/references to back this up? To be blunt, I'm just old enough that I remember societies that tried this, and in their implementations it drove everybody's standard of living toward what we would consider poverty, so I am expressing a bit of doubt here. "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work" (old Soviet political joke).
E.g. Bitcoin has reproducible builds in the wild.

https://github.com/bitcoin/gitian.sigs
A Seattle supergroup of developers is trying to crack VR's trickiest problems
Email the team at shelfie. They rolled their own very complex OCR engine. I bet they know someone.

I've had reasonable luck on upwork, but probably not people at the level you need.
Of course, I was just arguing against the OP that all loops terminate.
"GitHub failing hard".

GitLab is great, but it's kind of a copycat project. Nothing wrong with that, it's just there really isn't a compelling reason to join beyond "less-predatory pricing".

And the people who care about that use private repos, not OSS.
That stuff (checking hashes, etc) is currently mostly theatre because, as you say, a nation-state can easily serve you different hashes to check.

But it's pretty easy to imagine a feature where, similar to cert-pinning, many clients report the hashes that they see on the website and if you see something different from what everyone else does, you know something is wrong. It wouldn't need to be a "techie" feature - it would simply show a package as broken and refuse to install if it wasn't verifying, etc.

And the goal isn't some impossible 100% security, the goal is enough security to end mass interception and make the government rely on warrants and targeted tactics again.
What a useless HN link title
Sure, that's true - but they can just as happily run their GPUs if they are plugged in and charging without any battery issues. Although for the moment you are right, they aren't that useful as a powerful distributed supercomputer. They ARE, however, really really good at collecting live weather data and sending that to the supercomputer to process. One step at a time.
There's LoRaWAN. It's becoming very popular for city-wide IoT networks, and there's an mBed compatible board so it is easy to use.

http://www.multitech.com/brands/multiconnect-mdot

http://thethingsnetwork.org/
Can Open Data Keep Politicians in Africa Accountable?
Serious question, given rulers like Uganda's Museveni who have been president for decades and yet living conditions haven't improved for citizens.
I heart Gaia GPS, thanks. I find the interface a bit confusing, but that's a tough problem to solve given a large feature set and a small touch-only UI.
1 Simple Hack to Blogger Outreach, or How to Find Friends
They are much farther then line of sight. I certainly get two miles in heavy forests and other side of hill. These work great for groups hiking and climbing.

http://www.buytwowayradios.com/blog/2006/07/the_truth_about_...
Prefix – Code Made Visible (from Stackify)
It's too bad that Realm's core technology isn't open source, it would be interesting to see what other immutable databases (e.g. Datomic) would do with the ideas they've come up with. Also grafting Datascript onto Realm for a datalog competitor to sqlite would be sweet.
The copyright and patent issues involved with those packages are still valid in other countries though.
Maybe you should dispense with ad hominem attacks and read the linked thread, where a CloudFlare employee specifically addresses the GET request idea:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#commen...

Your post is exactly what I meant by "little understanding of what abuse teams have to deal with".
This is exactly what I've been looking for since Parse announced they were suspending their service. I've been taking a wait and see approach to migrating until something easy to use comes out and this looks like it might be it.
I've used TurboTax the past few years, and completely echo the sentiment expressed by others regarding the hidden charges that get tacked on when starting with a "free" return. Turned out that losing money on the stock market also cost me extra on preparation fees as well...

Partly because of the negative experiences with TurboTax, my co-founder and I just launched a company [1] in this space. We're actually "replacing" a TurboTax product that was recently discontinued called "Personal Pro". We're something of an "Uber" for tax preparation, acting as an online marketplace and platform for clients to get their taxes done by professionals. TurboTax had tried this for a few years but it appears they're betting on a continuing shift to DIY.

Has anyone had any experience here as a client of Personal Pro? Would love to hear how it went!

[1] - https://www.taxaroo.com
The question I'm most interested in is whether newer iPhones are still subject to this attack. Unless I missed it, no answer to that question is presented here.

It sure feels to me like Apple is dancing around that issue. I'm betting that newer iPhones are still vulnerable, and Apple is a bit embarrassed at dropping the ball there. (The Secure Enclave stuff doesn't necessarily protect against this attack, it depends on how it's implemented and the official documentation doesn't quite say.)

If nothing sooner, it's going to be interesting to see what happens in the fall when iOS 10 and the iPhone 7 presumably will ship, along with a new version of Apple's iOS security guide. Diffing that with the 2015 edition could prove quite educational.
Hey, happy to answer that. Do a page find for the word "emergent" here and you should find it. I've explained it a few times, though briefly. I did a write-up of it a while back that I need to find and post somewhere. But anyway, feel free to reply here if you have any questions at all.

heh, "emergent." Sounds like I'm asking you look up the latest Hunger Games knockoff.
seems interesting.
No of course not, GP just sucks at French, but doesn't notice this.
I read various articles about Mir and related topics on Wikipedia. The conclusion was that they had time to do far less experiments because of various problems. Because of the issues, some modules that were constructed for Mir, later formed the basis of ISS initial modules.

It's probably depends who writes such articles, someone born in the US, someone born in former Soviet Russia/CCCP or someone born in another country.
Graphene becomes superconductive
just curious, do you have references to smartphone sensors being utilized in numerical weather prediction?

i'd been browsing through some WMO reports and other associated NWP lit recently and i'd seen stuff on GPS-RO, but nothing on anyone assimilating "smart" devices.
Hey everyone, one of the Bonsai co-founders here.

We're former freelancers who realized there's way more to freelancing than good design, development, photography etc.

Freelancing is a business and many freelancers lack the interest / skills to create effective contracts, manage cash flow properly, etc.

Our first two products are contracts & payments. We had a Stanford lawyer who writes novels on the side draft solid, plain English contract templates. We built a simple, helpful mad-libs style workflow to create the contracts. And finally, we have invoices that can be automatically generated and sent from those contracts.

Our initial users are getting paid about two weeks faster than they were before Bonsai.

Would love to hear what you guys think and answer any questions you have about Bonsai or the freelancing business in general.

Edit: Also, in TC: http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/22/bonsai-wants-to-be-the-free...
>>That's well beyond the remit of the OS developers who are only responsible for FreeBSD,

That is exactly the point the author is making by declaring that "packages are not secure". they are not maintained by the OS, but are distributed as "official" thus giving some users the illusion they are supported or "in the remit" of the OS Developers
Ah, you're talking about VPN providers. Sorry. I thought you were talking about networks like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook etc.

Some VPNs do fight abuse. Others are basically like Tor: they ignore it. The best thing you can do in those cases is indeed just block their IP space. Cross-checking the global routing tables can be a good way to enumerate their IP space. Sorry.
"How One Creepy Company Uses Smartphones to Secretly Track Voters"

Not exactly a selling point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMN8REGJXaA
Most patent encumbered codecs have patents worldwide, including in most EU countries. Go to the MPEG-LA website and take a look at the patent lists if you're curious.
Pandas on HDFS with Dask Dataframes
Leads Tunnel
The last time I checked it out, there was no easy way (via some existing component) to do a native dropdown in Android so I gave up. Is there a lot more support for Android these days?
Toki Pona: A created language that has only 100 words
Which school was this? I've never heard of such a requirement outside of say, Scouts or the military.

Along with basic financials, I inclined to agree that'd be a very good add for required classes.
Are there any blog posts about techniques used to improve performance you guys would care to share? Thanks!
While this is a very cool chip for hobbyists, it is quite hard to do real TLS with this chip making it basically useless for commercial applications.

It CAN do TLS but it leaves very little left over if you have any kind of real business logic.
Go for a dictionary that defines dodge wrt to taxation:

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/ta...

It's a technique that can be illegal. That's not what Google has done. Google has used tax avoidance.

More info on Tax Avoidance vs Evasion (which is what a Tax Dodge commonly refers to):
https://www.translegal.com/legal-english-lessons/tax-avoidan...

Sometimes I wonder why people think USA is that different from Russia. Ethics are non-existent in both countries.

You're confused about the greater ethical question here. The ethical question of whether or not a company should pay its "fair share" of taxes is below the ethical question of "How should laws be enforced by a Government that can use deadly force and incarceration to achieve its aims?"

The Government writes the laws and has all the power. It is absolutely incumbent upon the Government to make the laws clear and not try to enforce their whims based upon flimsy unwritten "spirit of the law" arguments.
Ok. I guess the difference is I would never suggest RBAC to be "relatively simple". There are so many considerations (are negative permissions required? are there many to many required? separation of duties?) that without making things explicit it's hard to know what is meant by "role/permission based authorisation".
Interesting you say this, need a narrative. Oddly one person I have heard making an issue of this is Rush. He is so solidly on the side of Apple it is amazing. I am curious if this will translate into the primaries if not general election.

I would love to get the transcript to today's show, it has been very enlightening to hear it and one thing to note, probably ten to twenty million people will have heard it too
The article also describes another more complex language. Toki Pona on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona

Both languages seem to encourage thinking about language and how we describe things and the world. A bit like E-Prime (of which I'm a fan).
The 1MB is likely referring to the SPI flash device that the ESP-01 modules use. Many of the other boards feature larger SPI flash chips up to 4MB, and I believe it's possible in theory to boot of an SD card with them too if you remove the flash chip.
Darksearch – Search engine for hidden material