skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also this account of how ketamine is proving to be profoundly, shockingly effective in treatment of chronic depression:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-one...
OS updates OTA need your PIN, but using DFU mode connected to iTunes doesn't. I assume this is so a broken OS upgrade can't brick your phone.
well, in this case, the reason would be that I imagine Mexicans are not too thrilled when other people dress up as Mexicans because they think its somehow amusing to look like a Mexican. I am not for banning this, but it does seem to me in poor taste
Ohh, so you actually have to work to achieve something
http://i.imgur.com/DS57Lrk.png
The question is whether we should trust proprietary software even if it is downloaded securely. I consider "hard to get proprietary software into the official repos" as a feature. Unfortunately it's not as hard as you make it sound in most distributions.
> questioning the government gets you labeled a conspiracy nut or traitor

Happy to see someone else pointing this out. For someone who grew up in the 90s it's weird how conventional and pro establishment the mainstream and especially more educated mindset is today.

I think it's partly hidden because it's masked by the social liberalism. But ignore gay marriage and legal pot and this is the 1950s. Any serious and deep questioning of society or the power structure of the world is seen as either nutty or futile, whether it comes in the form of more educated criticism or its rougher more "punk" forms like conspiracy theory and counterculture. Today is like some bohemian version of the Eisenhower era.

There is a kind of goofy new age "alt" thing with GMO food scares and such but it really strikes me as not only niche but unserious and toothless. It's almost more a form of entertainment than a serious counterculture. It also strikes me as a distraction with people getting angry at paper tigers like GMO food or nonexistent things like "chemtrails" instead of real issues.

Edit: I also realize that this matches the tech cycle. The return of pro establishment thinking after 9/11 coincided with the end of the first PC era and the rebirth of the mainframe rebranded as "cloud." To what extent is cold sober engineering actually art, an expression of who we are at the time?
Autodesk once had best office layout. Individual glassed in office with room for desk/chair and even 2 chairs for visitors. Even junior workers one had them. Returning to it would be some good investment for the future.
100,000 Stars
I'm not really sure if, during a national wartime it's always just so easy for millions of potential soldiers to just pack up and move across the border at once.

Otherwise, your option is only for those who are economically, and mentally prepared for such an undertaking. Economically of course including things like important connections.

And your other option which I think is jail for draft dodgers isn't exactly fulsome and charming.

So the soldier either loses his way of life through exodus, forced incaceration, or being sent to fight.
Amazon's abuse teamight help, but the DMCA would not relevant unless you can show copyright infringement in this.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model
Animations look tidy and I'm sure you learnt a bulk of CSS3 in the process and hopefully had fun, but Im not going to include 558 lines (517 sloc) 26.9 KB to get animations for hamburgers that change to X. Infact it's not even the size it's the added dependency and risk of such dependency (as browsers evolve) that concerns me.

I also didn't find the last one jarring, why would it take more than a blink to slide out side menu (or vice versa) on an SPA unless doing some ajax loading for side menu content (can't see why this can't be avoided though)?
Minimization should certainly help some of that.
At least from all the preliminary studies I've seen, electric power is not really practical for all but the smallest diameters. FYI I'm referring to the use of a rock-melting penetrator rather than a traditional cutting head. This is maybe just science fiction at this point, but it came to mind as the sort of technology that would make these sorts of projects economically feasible.

http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/4687637

http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/4444905
>can you please give us a rational reason except zero tailpipe emissions for buying a Model S over, say, a Mercedes S-class or a BMW 7-series?

Well, here in Australia, MB and BMW are ripping their customers off with prices nearly TRIPLE the US price. Tesla has priced their Model S similarly to US. So yet another reason, to add to the excellent list already posted, is the better pricing.

On top of that, I have no idea why you think Teslas lack tactile feedback (or at least are worse than BMW 7s), are only good in straight line speed, or have headspace problems in the back if you are 5'8".
There are certainly software hackers who are not interested in hacking mechanical devices, working on cars, or even understanding them. I'm not one, but most of the other software devs I know are. Their cluelessness about how cars work is almost funny.
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Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering
> Ndiswrapper is GPL-licensed. The resulting modules are probably not, but they are usually not distributed anyway.

I was referring to modules wrapped by ndiswrapper. Of course they are distributed.

There are other examples as well: nvidia being a salient one.
It is closer to a safe designer (Apple) who sells a safe that destroys its contents when broken into. And the state compelling the safe designer to participate in cracking it open.
> > Open source software is especially vulnerable to this kind > of stuff.

> Give it 2 or 3 years and stories will come trickling out about how most OS apps have had commits from hackers, governments etc. So far most source checking - to the extent that it happens at all - is all about buffer overruns and the like; micro stuff that's easily catchable. Well, you say that, but, you know, heartbleed etc. But what about whole modules designed with two purposes in mind?

Free Software has existed for over 20 years. Not to mention the fact that the same problem you describe is far more trivial for proprietary software. There's no straightforward way to find out if it's backdoored (although, luckily quite a few backdoors are done badly so we can find out). The point is that if you assume that all free software is compromised, you have to assume all proprietary software is compromised. I'd prefer to have some free software be compromised because then I'm not at the mercy of the vendor to fix it.
> 5. American designed, American built, no $$$ going to questionable oil interests.

I don't see what that has to do with America, except for 'Murica f'yeah

> 7. Over-The-Air software updates that actually add useful features. No, I don't need to go to the service center to update my software. LOL!

ROFL

> 8. It drives itself? Autopilot! Nice!

Don't many cars have that to the limited degree already allowed by law?
Developers will find parse-server should they desire it without acquiring a premium domain name (parse.com is alone very valuable - in terms of single word purity and in terms of SERPs / links backs). Any kickstarter cash would be better going to develop community momentum and support contributors imho.
I'm well aware your business strategy's oriented contrary to the advice, but Nick Szabo and Clay Shirky's arguments against micropayments are very solid and should be considered.

I'd suggest looking at a payment aggregating rather than disaggregating system. It's the direction publishing's been headed for about 400 years.

Of course, you might just be the exception as proves the rule. But I doubt it.
> Your computer power supply has a ~400 volt rail in it. Are you unwilling to ever open a desktop computer?

If it's plugged in and turned on - yeah, sure, I don't want to muck around in there. The thing is, my computer power supply:

* Can be completely physically disconnected from the rest of the computer

* Doesn't have a battery in it

If I pull the plug on my desktop, disconnect the power supply, and maybe if I'm being really paranoid touch a lamp to it just to be sure there isn't anything trapped in a cap or inductor, I know that that 400 volt rail is actually at zero volts relative to anything near me. Batteries? Especially power batteries that I can't guarantee are physically disconnected, and that can't really be grounded because they're inside an insulated mobile platform? It's more like looking inside a microwave oven or a CRT, and you're damn right that I don't open those up.
Besitos.
I don't agree with the complaint.

I would be much happier if more companies actually tried on security, competed on that vector and then bragged to high heaven about their successes. Usually when you hear a company touting it's security, it's snake oil. The companies who are actually putting forth a solid effort to compete on security, and I think Apple has a reasonable claim that they are one of these companies (even if there are nits to pick), have my blessing to brag as much as they can about it. I'm talking multimillion dollar ad campaigns touting their (actual) security advantages versus competitors. Have at it. Donald Trump style. Go wild!

edit: grammar
Yes it was. Satya made some additional changes later (mainly downsizing the hardware division and merging it with OSG/Windows) but the basis of the organizational structure still essentially follows the 2013 reorg - in particular, it's still organized functionally.
Modern drawing libraries are limited to single threaded drawing.
You don't understand what I meant by "incoherent". I am very pro free movement. I consider my homeland to be the multi-ethnic region consisting of the SW USA and northern Mexico and viscerally hate the idea of some man made wall dividing it.

However, it's a perfectly coherent idea: it has a concrete meaning that is easy to understand.
There's a lot of messy use of words in this case.

Apple can't circumvent its own encryption (not that we know, anyway, and that hasn't been claimed). The FBI knows that the govt have tools capable of breaking the encryption, with time. They essentially scan for the correct key.

Apple has security in addition to the encryption though: in this case they have two: one is a timing system that limits the guessing rate, and the other is a 'self-destruct' system that destroys the data if too many guesses fail. These are the systems that the FBI want compromised. They would then set their normal password cracking toolchain to work.

It's disturbing, because the govt are definitely not the only ones with such a toolchain. And when you increase the number of devices that can be scanned (by producing and signing a version of iOS without these protections), you increase the ability to crack at least one. In general 'the bad guys' have it easier, because they are rarely interested in cracking a specific phone, they are interested in cracking some of a larger set of them.

The aim is to have these kind of security features on the silicon, so we don't even trust them to keep the extra security in place. But that's not the case here.
I have sympathy for Apple's position but when they resort to hyperbole they seriously undermine that goodwill.

The "if we make this software, criminals will get their hands on it" argument is absurd. Does Apple have no faith in their own security? The FBI has at no point suggested the modified firmware would ever leave Apple's possession.

Does Apple have a problem with theft of internal code that I am not aware of?

Further, I'm just waiting for someone to transpose the argument, for example: "Apple says guns shouldn't be manufactured for any reason because they could kill someone" or "Apple says cars are unsafe and should be banned because people are killed in accidents."

facepalm

EDIT: Behaving like a bad actor even if you believe your cause is just still makes you a bad actor, albeit one with good intentions. If they want to win the argument they should stick to realistic positions and leave the manure shovelling to "those other people".
I'm from Arizona too and lived in Tucson for four years :)

I'm genuinely surprised by your experience. Maybe I was simply lucky enough to only talk about border issues with more educated than average people. I guess it's because I was in college when I lived there, and mostly hung out with Latino college students.
Yes, of course, the people in Thailand do it to survive.

I was thinking more along the lines of first-world people, especially children. E.g. exposing "European children on holiday in Thailand" to what I stereotype as the fetid waters off the coast of third world countries.

It may be a stereotype, but that doesn't mean it's not true. I'd venture that the phrase "sewage treatment plant" is not part of the vernacular there.
Oh ok. I can't speak for Shapiro as I don't know him outside his research papers and such. However, it seems like he's parroting the blunt, mocking style Linus uses to counter Linus's own claims. That there was a ton of counterevidence [1] since Linus last made those... which the opposition quotes in these debates... means he's intentionally ignoring evidence in favor of speculation. Hence, it might be right to slam him.

Far as coherency, remember that the context is operating systems and applications on one machine. Both AST and [1] show plenty of examples of their approach working without the problems Linus indicates they'll have. Whereas the Linux kernel and apps have experienced most of the problems they (and I) claimed it would due to design and implementation choices. Still experiencing many of the same. So, Linus's confidence in his original beliefs and same misconceptions about alternatives in 2016 isn't justified.

"On a related note, does anyone know whether Linus is interested in operating system research besides linux or if he leaves no time for that? I mean, he started linux as a vocational research project, would seem fitting if he started another one on the side, for experiments. Buit then I'm not sure how much he's writing code or mails."

I have no idea. He didn't indicate it in any I've read but I haven't seen clear statements against it aside from microkernels or anti-UNIX. Seems more like he's got his life-long project he maintains and has made to do about everything well-enough so why bother with more work. Just my guess until I get relevant quotes from him.

[1] http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2016/01/01/0/
Since this is trending on HN here's my CRO public service announcement:

Hamburger menus have been conclusively proven to be shit UX elements.

They lose on every metric against similarly sized, but clearly labeled "menu" buttons along with other permutations.

So if you care about users actually using your menus, study-up on the alternative formats and, as usual, test it yourself:

(1) http://moovweb.com/blog/hamburger-menu-handy-tool-or-useless...

(2) http://exisweb.net/menu-eats-hamburger

(3) http://conversionxl.com/testing-hamburger-icon-revenue/
My guess: by diverting attention from the fact that they are hiring an outsourcing firm. "We chose an ITIL-compliant contractor" sounds a lot better than "we chose the lowest bidder," doesn't it?
Well said! This is a discussion that needs to be had (regularly) on places like Hacker News. I know of only a few small communities online (for example, /r/EndlessWar/) that openly discuss what is absolutely the most significant topic of our time.

I left the US some years ago and I am strongly considering renouncing my US citizenship. That I would have to pay to do so, is one of the few things stopping me. It won't happen, but if Obama and Bush are imprisoned for murder, among other crimes, I would think about going back.
Very useful demonstration. thanks for sharing.
> Whatever produces the FRB can't be destroyed by the burst, because otherwise, what would produce the next pulse?

How about something behind or in front of the first pulse?

From our perspective they come from the same spot in the sky, but in 3D space they can be separated by light years, and years in time.
Their "truth" is a little sketchy. Their argument is essentially "you can't trust us to protect this software if we make it, and if we failed to keep it out of criminals hands you could be harmed by it". Phrased that way it doesn't really sound all that great.
Inline functions aren't guaranteed to be inlined. There are compiler specifics that add stronger hints to the optimizer to inline but behavior isn't always consistent from one compiler to the next. The only portable way to force something to be inlined is to use a macro.
Duolingo primarily uses a text interface, so knowing the script is a key part of their methods. Japanese and Chinese scripts are among the hardest. So we'll probably see those added on late. Hebrew is a recent addition, and Hindi is on the anvil.
If this were part of some consistent design language, used by many web sites, it might be worth it. Lacking that, it's not helping.

Some classic animated menus: [1][2] These are in Flash, but could be replicated with CSS and JavaScript. (With difficulty, because they need graphical design tools, not just code.)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070903002623/http://www.girbau...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130326200424/http://www.girbau...
they are treating Cars like Software. Where you are licensed to use software but do not own it

Why do they sell the cars at all then? Why not just lease them?
Heh, I was in this same boat two years ago. Servo used to build its own Rust back then, and that involved building llvm. I hadn't yet discovered ccache[1] and I had an old 4GB RAM laptop with a Core something processor. Took 4-6 hours total IIRC. This was also a really old laptop, so that was understandable. But very very annoying, since sometimes I'd need to rebase over a rustup and then wait hours for the build to work. This was a large part of my impetus to move servo to a state where we download Rust snapshots.

[1]: Btw, if LLVM compile times are getting to you, Use. Ccache. It is amazeballs.
Parkinson's law
> Yes, they are getting ready for another war. Why shouldn't they?

A couple notes on the war drum:

The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force [0] targeting the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks has been invoked to deploy US armed forces to Afghanistan, the Philippines, Georgia, Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraq, Somalia and Syria. [1][2]

A new proposed Authorization for Use of Military Force [3] targeting ISIS, "its associated forces," and "any successor organizations" is arguably more open-ended.

The author of the proposal, Lindsey Graham (Senior Senator from South Carolina), seeks to grant the next president "the ability to go after ISIS without limitation to geography, time and means." [4]

[0]: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-107sjres23enr/html/BILLS...

[1]: https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/aumf-071013.pdf

[2]: https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R43760.pdf

[3]: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/sjres26/text

[4]: http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/congr...
While I kind of agree, I think it's a bit sad how socially sterile some work environments are. God forbid we occasionally say how we really feel.
Apple head of software engineering says FBI compromises safety of all iOS users
Thomas Rea dies at 86; dermatologist paved the way for treatment of leprosy
The Code Doesn't Lie
After reading your comment all I can think of is: this is why we can't have nice things.
The order explicitly states Apple will keep possession of the modified software at all times. Nobody would be "giving the key" to the FBI.
I don't understand this attitude, the Transmission team responded immediately to the problem. There's no indication that this was the result of some problem specific to the application or its developers.

Transmission was and remains my favorite torrent client on OS X, although I still like the torrent information presentation uTorrent had, and I still will run my old pre-adware 1.6.4 if I want more detail on a swarm.

Given that older versions still work, it seems exceptionally silly to delete an old version because of a site compromise.
Er, "novelty" not "novel".
He took the prize (and the prize money of 1 million dollars) as far as I can remember.
Disclaimer: I work at SUSE.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is rolling-release and we use all of the same (free software) QA and build systems we use for OpenSUSE Leap and SLE to build and test it. Not to mention that SUSE essentially mirrors packages between OpenSUSE Leap and SLE (our enterprise distribution).

I've been told by some of the people working on Tumbleweee that there's been a lot of people switching from Arch to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because the packages are released much faster (which appears to be the case from my usage of Arch and TW). But if you're looking at having minimalist installs, there's still some work left to do (minimal "server" installs are still a bit too bloated, and --no-recommends isn't the default).

But yes, there is a rolling-release distribution backed by a company.
It's not so expensive for families with lower incomes due to an initiative started in 2008; the Institute has backed off on that a bit, here's the current generic figures: http://affordable.mit.edu/
All government programs tend to work like that. Recession ? Private players to be blamed and government needs to act. Economic boom ? Government programs caused that boom.

Recession? Poor private companies groaning under the massive burden of big-government regulation, and idiotic government "interventions" in the market are to blame! Economic boom? The miracle of the free market succeeding in spite of all obstacles! Hail the market! Down with big government!

The difference, of course, is that I don't know anyone who actually takes the "government is always the solution" line, but I do know plenty of people who take the "government is always the problem" line. So, um, nice straw man you've go there.
How does this compare to Kibana/Grafana?
Sure. What was especially unusual about Obama is that he had taken absolutely no action as a president and got the prize in a pre-emptive way. Which is, honestly, stupid, there is no other way to put it.
I did a 50-books project last year. http://theuforce.blogspot.in/p/reading-list.html

http://theuforce.blogspot.in/2016/01/the-50-books-project.ht...
It should be noted that not all flag parsers support it. But most people use getopt so it's not a big deal.
Read "Don't Make Me Think" a few years ago. It really put into words what I hated about certain designs, whether it was physical or on the web. All the extra steps, things that doesn't make sense, things that are convenient for the business but not for the user.

Wish more places invested in design. I had to help my dad with Massachusetts new design for their tax homepage. Just awful. You go there to pay taxes monthly, to come close to accessing that page is 3-4 buttons deep.