skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that this was tone-deaf of them, I just find it fascinating that we picked this one instance of tech industry rich guy tone-deafness. Seems to be getting a lot of play for some reason. But it's everywhere if you look.
On the other hand, new launch vehicles are good for jobs. Well, probably only in Huntsville and nowhere else, but Sen. Shelby will see to it that nothing happens to that work, even if its to the determinant of NASA as a whole.
Sensitive to nearby farms? That sounds interesting. Could you elaborate?
You need to find a more healthy relationship then! Seriously though, in my experience, for what it's worth, my wife has never been interested in being married to someone who was wealthy, high status, and so forth; she is more interested in my being responsible and available. If I was to make a ton more money it probably wouldn't help our relationship much, but if I was to lose my job by being irresponsible that would probably hurt it.
There's a study I want to see done: take a bunch of people, dress them at a whole bunch of different overall "looks". Put them in different contexts holding several different smartphones of varying prices.

Then, bring in the subject group: and ask a question - how much do you think the phone is worth? How wealthy do you think the person is?

My hypothesis: people have no idea what phone's cost at an average viewing distance (say 3m+).
Interestingly enough, mandarin oranges are used by medical students as practice for laparoscopic surgeries. The task is to remove the pericarp (white stringy stuff) from the orange with minimal damage to the outer peel, then suture the opening.

So oranges might, in fact, be more repairable.
Absolutely true... as another anecdotal example, one of my mechanics in his 20's is also an Uber driver and has a brand new iPhone 6s Plus. Also, the prevalence of gold-collar workers splurging on old (and increasingly expensive to maintain) Lexus, Acuras, BMWs, Mercedes, etc.

Contrast this with folks whom have wealth and do everything possible to look fashionably broke (or at least "if you've got it, hide it"): torn jeans, Urban Outfitter, etc.

People tend to project the opposite of their insecurities, and in so doing, reveal them, consciously or not. Peter Thiel describes a number of bad pitches whereby founders describe how big they're unlikely to be, whereas projects with actual traction tend to feign smallness.
> What percentage of those 600 million five-year-old PCs do you really think are being thoughtfully maintained by modders?

I read the article and did not get this "modder" subtext into my head anywhere. There is simply none of that there. He is talking about regular people.

There is one small blurb about parts being replaceable. So are parts in cars. Not everybody who goes to a mechanic to have a part replaced is a "modder". When my 70-something parents, not techies, have issues with their PC they take it to a local shop and they replace a bad disk or whatever.

Maybe you just throw out entire machines when they break but I think you underestimate the extent to which other people, yes regular people, try to avoid that if they can.
Open Observatory of Network Interference
A free software, global observation network for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the internet

https://ooni.torproject.org/
> It can't really be Bitcoin, because the value isn't sufficiently stable

Why does that prevent it? Just exchange it immediately via an automated service (look at BitPay for an example), they take the minute to minute risk for 1% profit and you don't have to worry about it.
There is something interesting (if you can say "interesting" to the idea of writing, say, an e-mail client in PostScript):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
The right-wing states want higher crime?
I would like to believe the answer is yes, but to be honest I'm not so sure. I don't think patents are the main driving force of innovation and research, and we would come to a halt without them. But even if they are, when you are the first to come up with an idea you are still in the best position to turn a profit off it without patents. Sure, your margins might be smaller, but society as a whole should benefit from a more competitive environment, compared to squeezing every drop of money to a single company.

From previous discussions I took away big pharma R&D and PR cost breakdown is usually very sad. You can defend a case like Solvadi, that Gilead is entitled to maximize their profits, but it is not in society's best interest after all, as I think it is not directly looped back into innovation.
Would love to but @izs deleted his tweets a couple of hours later.

The entire ordeal happened back in January (I think), around the same time as some other npm drama (e.g. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3959 and https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/21 and https://github.com/nodejs/NG/issues/26, leading up to https://github.com/nodejs/NG/issues/29) -- the twitter incident gets referenced in some of the comments.

There are however plenty of comments by NPM representatives (including izs) that they see it as a moral obligation to uphold their CoC even beyond the scope of NPM itself (implying what izs proposed).

There's a fundamental divide going on between people who think open source (code, not communities) should be attached to certain moral values and those thinking it should be agnostic of social issues. Similar to the Open Source vs Free Software divide in the 1990s.

Except while the FSF was the one arguing on moral grounds before, the new movement is actually in conflict with one of the main concepts of the GPL: authors should not be able to restrict how code can be used and by whom (i.e. you can't prohibit people from using code for evil if it should be GPL compatible).
I have an old Nexus 10 I use casually for watching videos, browsing reddit etc. Its battery usually lasts like 2 weeks without use which isn't tooooo terrible. iPads are still better though.
Did nothing interesting happen in the tech world today? This is such a non-story, it's really weird that this is on the front-page twice.
I swear, if a modern tech company went up and said 'We think you should buy our product", someone would start yelling about how its insulting how a company is endorising capitalism and materialism.

We've gone from "Won't somebody think of the children" to "Won't somebody think of every single possible group that is possible to somehow offend in some way"
Single core is a lot worse than I remembered. I had booted up my wife's college desktop with a P4 in it. Pretty unusable experience, I eventually gave up on trying to reinstall Windows before giving it away.
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I have some v6-only services that I only use myself, but if I run a VM I do expect to be able to do this. And even if I'd always be able to fall back to v4, that's no reason for this not to be a bug.
The simple 'Barcode Scanner' app on Android handles it easily. Here's a screenshot of the output: http://i.imgur.com/ELXvBqu.png

Failing that, just use an online reader and upload the PNG image of the QR code. Your pass rate should be 100%.
Okay. So this is essentially the "eval is slow" problem all over again. If that's the problem, then it's endemic to all Lisps. Fexprs just encourage that style of programming.

According the summary of the Wand paper, though, another problem is that optimizations can't happen without full-program analysis. And now the question becomes, if fexprs can be trivially implemented in lisp using macros, or just hand-quoting args, then why don't non-fexpr lisps have this issue? And if they do, why don't we just add fexprs, and first class environments, and eliminate macros entirely?
Your footnote is still missing the context. The iPhone 5c launched at Rs 41,000 back in 2013 too. While the SE is obviously a better value than the 5c was, it is still priced out of reach for most people and the impact will be marginal in international markets. More likely it will result in more of the Indian elite getting the SE, instead of the 6s, resulting in a lower ASP.
Can you elaborate on how nearby farms have affected microchip fabs? Something to do with airborn organics from their animals or chemicals?
Hey Hacker News! Myself and three others are on the SecretSet team, let me know if you have any questions about our process and specifically things we did to get it built and off the ground. Hope you liked the read!
One thing most of us here might agree on - beyond everything else - the iPhone is a status symbol - carrying some social value.

So one interesting question is - how can this be disrupted(by a phone costing half the price) ? Is it even possible ?
I'm confused about the payment model. Isn't all Bloomberg Businessweek content, for example, available for free on their website? Or, even if some fraction of their content is behind a paywall or not available, shouldn't only that content be paid in Blendle?
Clickbait title but Zurb Foundation for Emails 2 have a DSL that eliminates table...
One of the first things I did at my current place was to add a Nagios check "Is the most recent backup size within x bytes of the previous one". It wasn't comprehensive, but was fast to implement and was later replaced with full restores and checks, but nevertheless a few weeks later it caught a perfectly formed tar.gz of a completely empty database due to a bug that would have continued creating empty archives until it was fixed.
I'd likely donate if it helped the effort. Project Zero has been very successful in terms of vulnerabilities they've had fixed.
I'm not sure what you're arguing any more. Your argument started as that only Silk Road was a "notable" onion service, which you appeared to define as having "publicity". Then the argument became the Facebook doesn't really need to run an onion service. Now the argument seems to that there may be some reasonable alternatives to running an onion service for some notable use cases and that few people use the other notable onion services (and I don't see how you can be so sure of that - I and many people I know use them not infrequently).

But I think your original point has been effectively rebutted: there are several notable onion services other than Silk Road, and some of these are quite beneficial.
Webmail.

Penango (the company of the author) is a webmail company and so I would imagine that they wish to declare a mimetype so that they can default to supplying a MIME part that is text/markdown as the body of a message.
"rekeying all our accounting data from printouts"

I am cringing.
I use 7 year old PCs because they run Linux just fine.

Also, I think it's bad for the environment and humanity in general to buy new igadgets every year. So, I use a 4 year old refurbished dumb phone that I bought for $9.99. It works great (just like my 7 year old Linux PC).
Network coverage has little to do with the phone (it can, but it's minimal). Poor camera and image quality are not purely Apple solvable. The Sony xperia range have brilliant cameras and image quality (unfortunately the Sony UI is sub-optimal in other areas).

Also, An iPhone 6S would be more reasonably compared to a Nexus 6P, not a Nexus 4.

The iPhone doesn't have a monopoly on quality,
If anything its a fairly strong statement on the ruggedness of the PC platform. I have a 2500k i5 in my old desktop. With a new-ish videocard I play all the newest AAA games at high quality. Its incredible how the x86 world really hasn't had any huge performance bumps and how a Q1 2011 CPU is still competitive.

Also, there's the larger narrative of people buying tablets and putting off PC upgrades, so the PC ages. Don't worry Apple, you're still getting their money. Its just people aren't ready to replace a general purpose computer that they control and can run pretty much everything with a walled garden mobile device designed to get ad impressions and consume media.

If anything, this is Apple's frustration. They have all this success but people and businesses keep buying PCs. They'll never crack this market. They're too invested in the Jobsian "closed" ecosystem philosophy to be as agile as the PC platform. Mocking those who don't drink their kool-aid just makes them look like sore winners.

edit: I'm aware I can buy a newer chip, but from a single core vs single core perspective its not that much faster. Very little consumer software is properly multi-threaded so this is why my expensive work computer with the newest i7 doesnt feel any faster than my 5 year old desktop at home. Most things are pegged to one core and at the end of the day single core performance is what's going to matter.
This is insightful! Maybe you could say that people seek to maximize freedom (potential upside) while minimizing responsibility (potential downside)?
That segment was detailing how they'll recycle your old kit and even give you money towards a new device for it.
There is a section comparing Duplicacy with others: https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy-beta#comparison-wit...
It is not insanity. It is actually what many sane package managers do. Allowing someone to "unpublish" something that many depend on - that is insanity.
at 1MBaud UART Tx will be switching at max of 512 KHz (if transmitting 0x55).
Myrtille: an open source, native HTML4/5 Remote Desktop Protocol client
Shypmate idea is great but there are some obvious risks, like unwittingly becoming a drug mule. I wonder how they counteract that.
>If anything we should work to get smart phones in the hands of the poor.

It sure as hell won't be iPhones we get into the hands of the poor. There are regional mvno's/prepaid carriers here who pretty much give away cheap android phones to get on their cheap plans.
Only functional lisps, and those are few and far between.
It could be that, or the researcher really didn't think to try it with an address that's completely unrelated to the domain.

Personally, I find it hard to believe that an audited CA has a system where the web frontend can make a decision as to what would be an allowed verification email address. I'm leaning towards believing their story, and would assume they have a backend system which is responsible for checking that input (and which happened to be out of sync with the options offered by the frontend). That's a reasonable explanation for the complete lack of validation in their frontend code.

Then again, some CAs have had a terrible track record, so I guess we'll never know for sure now that they fixed the issue (whatever the issue actually was).
Ask HN: Do you need another Docker based PaaS, but not for Web servers
We are considering building a service that,
like PaaS, can run your programs (in containers, like others) and charge for unit resources, not servers;
but unlike existing PaaS, is not designed for long running programs, e.g. Web servers (but still can run them, of course), but rather, short running programs which still require server level resources, like compilations, software building and packaging, continuous building/testing/integration, simulations, data processing, scientific computations, etc. and provides some post-processing for produced data.

As far as we have observed, there is no existing service of this kind. AWS Lambda may seem similar, but it's mainly for long running purpose.

So, is there a considerable real need for it? If you have this need, would you tell us more? Thanks.
obsoletion built into the product roadmap
Not even that, the question is if there will ever be more than one or two more "ticks" in the traditional sense. Apparently the sizes of the elements on the chips are roughly the same on Intel's 10nm and some other 7nm. As an example of what people in the field say: if nothing changes, at 5nm, 80% of the transistors would have to be "dark" (unpowered) all the time. EUV, often presented as the new solution in the processes, would also possibly be too expensive under 7nm even if it's still not even introduced.

So the "tweak-tweak" can become the major cycle soon on more levels.
Spend the $10 and use linode. They are the best, and they don't mess with the "fuck-the-customer dial".
Then it seems to be working out for both of you. You avoid the ads and fortune.com avoids serving content without ads.
Nice app! I tried to finish task by long press, but you have another way. May be idea will useful.
Some people need to feel offended just as I need my morning coffee.
I'm not even counting how old is my pc/laptop and that's the thing I like about PCs - there's hardly anything new that triggers my Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
Web viewable: https://github.com/n3k/CansecWest2016_Getting_Physical_Extre...
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Myrtille, a new open source project to connect remote computers and applications from any browser, without any plugin, extension or configuration whatsoever. Feedback welcome! :) http://youtu.be/l4CL8h0KfQ8
Are you speaking about just the code samples or commenting on the general approaches used in the book?
no, not at all. I know most people are not capable of setting this up. but this is not the point:

the parent claimed that you pay for these cheap phones with your private data, which is not true. if you care about that (which > 99.8% of the population don't do) you are able to use those phones with those features without handing over your data to google.
This one really tells a story:

"A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately."

Both sides of the issue. Doesn't matter how right you are if you can't convince anyone. While bad plans can persist in sucking up resources because they were 'sold' well.
Thanks for the tip, the non gpl fork is not from the original creators of the GPL codebase.
a key design trend left out in this report, is something called ‘Co-Creation’.

This powerful new UX enables once passive ‘zombie’ consumers to become ‘activated’ and take part of the design process, thus adding greater meaning to their purchase/creation..and effectively transforms them fundamentally over time.

Successful examples of “Democratized Design”:

Polyvore.com, Cava.com, JuicyCanvas.com
Has_secure_token to generate unique random token in Rails 5
I've got one particular project that usually fits these questions. And if it doesn't, I can tell enough interesting stuff about it to satisfy the interviewer anyway.
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Yes there are things that are sad about it. A 5-year-old PC is probably not running a recent version of Windows, and has a higher likelihood of being compromised. And if a person wants a new computer but can't afford it, that is sad too.

That said, it was an obviously stupid stat for Schiller to cite. But now we're going to be subjected to a long series of Apple-bashing articles that overreach in the opposite direction. By the end of today we'll see multiple "actually, I'm proud to be running 5-year-old PC" posts.

Why? Because when mining for pageviews, there are few veins as rich as bashing Apple.

Edit to add: If we want to talk about the tech industry and poor people, let's do so. How many new companies are variations of "let us bring things to your door for you for an extra fee" or "let's give you personalized service so you don't have to go shopping/ride a bus/interact with a human"?
Actually a lot of homeless are turning to smartphones to help with their day to day lives.

http://www.business2community.com/tech-gadgets/the-us-homele...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/upshot/fighting-homelessne...
And advertisement is made to make you feel insecure so you feel compelled to purchase which ever product is advertised. But psychological pressure is regarded as ok in a consumerist society when it serve to sell product and support the view that economical growth is the only way to go.
We want slaves without enslaving humans.
IMO, this is a typical Apple troll article.

"<vendor> mocks poor people" is the dumbest possible analysis of this data. I work for an organization with something like $1.5B in IT spend. Our 40th percentile PC is 8 years old. The 80th percentile PC is 4. Our desired refresh for a desktop PC is 40 months.

Why? The post 2008 recession killed discretionary spending. Then Microsoft failed utterly to deliver a compelling desktop strategy from 2008 to the present day. They finally got their shit together with Windows 10, but their fantasy world where the universe is transitioning from Windows 7->8->10 makes that more friction-prone than it need be.

Consumers are in the same boat. People skipped upgrades because of the friction involved in the transition, which is why Microsoft is dragging you to upgrade kicking and screaming.

Personally, I use my elderly in-laws as a proxy for non-technical consumers. They are technophobes -- a retired fireman and nurse respectively... not rich, not poor. When I met my wife in 2000, they were still leasing a telephone from AT&T. They made the PC->Mac transition in 2009 and were actually able to use their computer without worrying about the typical PC woes (AV, updates, etc). That Mac is aging and it's was starting to turn into the time to go.

With the iPad Pro, my father in law ran out to the Apple Store by himself, got the stuff he needed and got everything going on his own. Long story short -- he loves it. It does everything that they need to do, and is a more convenient form factor than the laptop. He hasn't touched the computer other than syncing music from the Mac to the PC since.
They seem intrigued and eager for further investigation from what i see, the paper showed up on my fb feed through a famous senior physicist sharing it and calling it interesting. ;)
Markdown is a case study in "worse is better". It's a great idea, the fact that human/machine friction must be reduced to the essential for this kind of application, and that 99% of the times you need just the basic features: titles, italic, bold, lists, unformatted code blocks, and a few more. But this initial intuition, was not supported by a good design, since the evil is in the details. I hope somebody will build a new syntax based on this initial intuition, but doing a better work.

The key point to understand, IMHO, is that Markdown is an user interface. That's why strongly-engineering-minded people fail to provide something that people want to use, and why instead Markdown won.
Group chat is just digital meetings.

I think of group chat as more akin to a digital open-plan office, with both the good and the bad connotations of that.

For example, what if we could schedule group chats?

You can: https://meekan.com/slack/
> “This is an amazing statistic,” he says with a serious look before revealing that there are more than 600 million PCs in use that are over five years old. “This is really sad.”

Maybe people are still using old PCs because they still work and are fully functional? I'm using a 4 year old ThinkPad and guess what? It's not only still fully functional, it's still quick, snappy, the screen is still bright and looks nice (I did splurge for the upgrade at the time), and it's been super low maintenance (been running Linux on it the whole time). It could use a new battery (capacity has gone down over time), but hey, it's a removable battery so I can do that.

I imagine I'll still be getting a few more years of use from it, there certainly are no signs that I should upgrade at the moment. I mean, if I were to be a little greedy, I'd buy a new laptop with a wicked video card and give this one to my wife (after she made me throw out a fully functional 6 year old desktop we didn't use very often), but is that necessary, not really.

It's pretty plain that Apple simply plans for its products to be replaced quicker than 5 years, to make more sales, and they're speaking to the faithful.