skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presuming security is when someone says "restricted data should not be [handled] on a mobile device". Spills happen, intentionally or otherwise. This security hole should be fixed before a field agent gets his iPhone hacked by the Chinese.
Genuinely interested: will I be (in near future) run Linux native docker on Windows?
My linux machine does not make it look nice- but try it on chrome or firefox on windows.
Oh, you're right, I messed up.
Development of inflatable volumes is a reasonable step towards us becoming a spacegoing species. If you have a decent bag and enough air to pressurise it, you can have as much room as you want in space. There's no external pressure working to collapse it.

Of course, there are questions to answer about safety, shielding against debris and radiation protection, but that's the point of doing the research. I love this kind of stuff. It serves to remind people that space travel isn't just launch vehicles. Part of, as you say, providing a place in space for humans to live, is providing spacecraft that aren't utterly cramped.
Two habitats with an engine in the middle spinning around like a top could provide gravity, and absorb the engine impulse. Under no acceleration the three bodies would be co planar, and under acceleration would deform into a cone shape.
Turning Content Viewers into Subscribers
Just curious; how closely you are involved in Vector development? Do you think Vector tackles the issues you mention?
German satire upon erdogan with subtitles
Practical Deep Learning
People like latest and greatest things, so they see a pop-up "Hey, Windows 10 is here! Click here to upgrade!". And the person is like "SWEET! GIVE IT TO ME!". After 1 hour of upgrading, user is back in Windows 10, "Damnit, some of my shit ain't working! Goddamn automatic upgrade!"
Yes of course. Anyone who doesn't recognize that your opinionated development style is superior has to be a shill.
Citation/explanation needed.
I haven't read anything that indicates that it will support GUI apps, but anything purely CLI based should work.
Cardboard VR View for the Web and Cardboard iOS SDK
Right, but then (1) your VPN will have a browsing profile which aggregates your otherwise ephemeral, anonymized and un-correlated browsing sessions; and (2) it would be easy for adversaries to extract that very helpful profile. If your threat model does not include (2), (1) is still bad!
Microsoft's Build keynote was full of khaki-wearing cringe
I wrote a few 10- to 20-line scripts, but got lost in the documentation every time. You have to wade through mud to get anything simple done. Statements/command lines easily wrap around an 80-character window due to their verbosity. The worst is that every command has about 40+ options, most but not all of them the same as for other commands. Sorry, not for me.
Show HN: SwiftFirmata – Program Your Arduino Using Swift
Can quick sand suck you to death?
The Fastest Man Made Object Ever
Are there more characters like this?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130829091122A...
Asteroid Impact on Jupiter
Point. I'm developer, not ops. I'm comparing PowerShell to true programming languages, not to Bash.
If they do, would you use it on you mac, linux or even on windows?
I don't have hands on experience, but Dell XPS 15 looks like an interesting option for thoaw looking for Windows laptop that is close to 15" Macbook Pro (quad core, sleek etc).
Agree. Usually, the more one uses a product, the easier and more intuitive it gets. Slack is a great example of this. Asana is not.
> command names, command switches and switch values (if they're a strict set).

So can bash. How is this different from bash's autocompletion?

> also ... object properties

Well, there aren't objects in bash, so I can't translate this.
This is a "Windows Subsystem" implementation. There are no open subsystem implementations and it hasn't been documented. Therefore it's a little far-fetched that they would release this as open source. Not impossible though.
Yes, but I've found it to be lacking usability-wise (e.g. it doesn't load the current project's dependencies, and it doesn't provide an easy way to load in dependencies from your project [someone please correct me if I'm wrong!]).
I'm puzzled as to why all mature GC doesn't have "permspace."
I thought it was a screen refresh glitch. Here is how it looks like to me http://i.imgur.com/MUtL0cX.png?1
Does Windows 10 still ship with the OS/2 subsystem? (os2ss.exe)
It's what happens when you have very vocal team members with zeal for shoehorning a particular technology.
> GitHub is suppose to be synonymous with innovation

I'm not sure I agree. GitHub's core service - git - is one that they did not create. I'd argue that if anything, GitHub is synonymous with accessibility and reliability.
It's not about bash on windows, it's about any Linux command line tool on windows (in bash).
To have a second, larger, market. Window userbase is huge, much bigger than Steam's.
Yeah, but 90% of the time that can be fixed by just having grandma reset her machine. It's stupid, but it generally works.
But they're also required to be relatively small, because of how they're treated on disk and inside the system as opaque at the storage layer. As a result of this, and a smattering of other reasons, they're also not very fast.
It's actually really funny, because before I saw a lot of this hitting the news, I was working on my own home automation system, and trying to figure out a quick temporary solution to reach it from the outside world, without developing client apps.

And I thought of email. A well standardized message queuing platform that could easily implement a basic text command interface. So I ended up with a rudimentary chat bot. (I could've done SMS, but didn't want to find and pay for a service for that.)

And a few weeks before this announcement, I'd been thinking about how to handle queries to my chat bot my software didn't understand, and I was thinking "Hey, I wonder if I could have my bot ask Cortana stuff if it doesn't know". And Microsoft's picked up and really ran with this model with Bot Framework.

Obviously they've been working on this behind the scenes for a while, I'm not trying to take credit for the concept by any stretch, but I thought it was funny that I had been thinking along those lines myself before I heard about this.

Good UI isn't hard. Generally, it's simple and universally understood. I instantly understood where Microsoft was going here because I had the same thoughts. That being said, I want my system running mostly locally/self-hosted, so an Azure-based platform like Bot Framework probably won't work for my own system, though I might very well send requests to other bots using it.
Yes, it can. What's your point?
When Non-Scientists Contribute: To “Science”, or to “Paywall Science”?
> but you still have to go out of your way to find Android devices that are purely FOSS.

Can you elaborate?

I'm not aware of any physical Android devices which are able to boot and function as an Android device (e.g. with a hardware accelerated GUI, can make phone calls over GSM/CDMA) that don't require proprietary vendor blobs.

I am excluding the Android emulator because I don't think it qualifies as a "device"
Build Bot for Skype
As an end user it was pretty bad (with all the libraries they were using). It mainly seemed to exist so Windows only shops could develop/test their websites on iPhones and iPads without having to own that hardware.

As iPhones and iPads became ubiquitous (as well as the popularity of Macs with developers) that didn't seem to be enough reason to keep it going.

I don't think Apple ever intended to win the browser war, I assume it was a means to an end. Maybe I'm wrong and someone was somewhat delusional. As a Mac lover who had a strong PC at the time it was quite pokey to try to use.
But did they use "app" instead of "program"?
I don't like it and I think HN should make it impossible.
Haven't had a chance to watch yet, was this integrating into consumer-grade Skype, or Office 365 Skype for business? The latter would be huge - I've been banging my head around the lack of openness there for years now, and at this point, anything would be an improvement on the crazy stuff I've been doing.
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality aren't the same coin. XBox One is defeated
Virtual Reality is everywhere in the news. People are really excited about it. Wallets are open.

Sony has gone hard on VR and it's likely there will be alot of people going with the PlayStation because that's where the VR is.

But where is Microsoft and the Xbox One? Not only does Microsoft not have a virtual reality device, it has no strategy and no communication that indicates it will ever have VR.

And thus the PlayStation will streak ahead in the next few years. As things stand, in the battle between Xbox One and PlayStation, the Xbox One is defeated. After all with no possibly for VR, why buy an Xbox?

"But Microsoft has Hololens!" you say.

VR and AR and not "either or". It was a mistake for Microsoft to treat them as two distinct alternatives upon which it should bet this way or that.

The conventional thinking is that there is a battle between VR and AR, and that consumers will choose one or the other. That's wrong. VR has already won the hearts and minds of consumers - you need only open the front page of any tech news site and count the number of references to VR to see.

It's possible that Hololens might be a success. But that is an entirely seperate issue to whether or not Xbox One should have a VR strategy. Current evidence of consumer interest means that people want VR. They might also want AR in the form of Hololens, but that is yet to be determined.

Microsoft has a very short window in which to come out with strong support for VR. Because right now, without a VR strategy the Xbox One has been defeated by PlayStation.

Google Trends:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=virtual%20reality%2C%20augmented%20reality%2C%20hololens&date=today%2012-m
Very true. I am not saying it's rational but I spend much more time on airshows or on the beach watching birds now that I have spent 2k on a big zoom lens.
That's why I was hoping it would ship with iOS 10. =)
Look at the design of the ship from '2001', it's like that for a reason [0]. No SF like hard SF!

[0] http://2001.wikia.com/wiki/Discovery_1
They have technical testers, SDETs (or Software Development Engineer in Test) in Microsoft slang.

UX testers on the other hand... not so sure.
-n for negative or negate or not-in probably would have been more intuitive, but yes fundamnetally 1-character parameters is a bit limited.
Well, that's a whole lot nicer than their website is currently telling me. I did look for updated instructions as this has been a bit of issue with contractor supplied software.
Amazon cracks down on dodgy USB Type-C cables and adapters
It's almost a certainty that the MDS (metadata server) was situated on a mirrored RAID (prob RAID10). I'm guessing that the RAID system itself (software MDRAID or some HW array, DDN or something like a NetApp E-Series) corrupted the data under the FS that the MDS used, which I'm also assuming was XFS.

Lustre, for those who don't know it, is a cluster meta-filesystem, with separate metadata and object servers, each sitting on top of host file systems/RAID/storage.
That's what Update 2 brings: "You can now initialize the C# Interactive Window with a project's context, allowing immediate access to types inside that project."
wait what is going on here?
The locks I'm talking about are common throughout Western Europe.
> Remember React-Native is currently on version 0.22, and over a year old. IMO it currently offers much better ux than TK/Swing/Qt/...

The day it offers something like Expression Blend, Qt Creator, Netbeans Matisse, Scene Builder, Storyboards ... I will believe it.
I wonder how long they'll stick to UWP. In 2 years they probably have another cool next thing.
It's standard operating procedure to cherry-pick a number that looks good.

https://news.microsoft.com/2007/03/26/windows-vista-debuts-w...

> Initial sales figures from Microsoft show its new operating system Windows Vista made a splash in its debut. In the first month of Windows Vista’s general availability, sales exceeded 20 million licenses, more than doubling the initial pace of sales for its predecessor, Windows XP.

https://news.microsoft.com/2013/01/21/net-applications-windo...

https://news.microsoft.com/2012/12/04/windows-8-touch-pc-dem...

It's fun to see how they spin things like an Iraqi defense minister. No matter what's happening, it's the best X ever! (X=december, absolute sales, relative sales, adoption rate, market share change...)
Thinkpad T460s. I have the T450s and like it plenty. It's definitely up there with macbook build quality.
Smart Cities Need to Get Smart About Local Food
They've written a whitepaper explaining their reasoning, listing over a dozen benefits.
https://www.finextra.com/finextra-downloads/newsdocs/embraci...
This is the area we (www.converse.ai) are focussed on, as it's solving a real pain point.

Semi or fully automating realtime customer service is definitely a real use case :)
Plenty of people haven't taken Microsoft seriously for some time now :-)
AFAIK, Windows 10 registration amounts to generating a hash based on your hardware and storing it online. If you reinstall Windows 10 now and try to register again (and have not updated the hardware, e.g. replaced the hard drive), the same hash will be generated again and your machine will be recognized as already registered. So there should be no extra license cost involved.
There's nothing wrong with "Windows Subsystem for Linux".

But there's a difference between "This is Ubuntu running on WSL" or "This is Ubuntu running on our Linux compatibility layer", and "This is Linux".
No, I just did the online update.
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Scorex 1.2.2 and Ergaki
Thank you for the UserVoice link, I added in my vote, hopefully others here in HN who enjoy SUSE do as well. I would also love to see SUSE more in the cloud, it is definitely a great distro.
... what changes in later kernels?

Remember the holy edict of Linux kernel development: you don't break userspace.
Coincidentally I've spent the past week re-learing how to develop on windows. I wanted to avoid cygwin if possible, but the experience has been painful. I had some hope for Chocalatey, and it seemed encouraging that MS had ported OpenSSH over, but my first ssh to a Byobu session on Ubuntu was disastrous... I'm sure there is some TERM parameter I can fiddle, but I don't know what or where in 5 minutes of searching. I needed "grep", so I tried "choco search grep", and there are a dozen choices for grep-like tools.... with GUIs, written in Perl,... oh christ.
It's not easily possible yet (no API access to ASK) but I find it hard to believe Amazon don't have similar plans in this area.
I don't think it's redundant. Many people want to remote into Windows' native shell without having bash present.
I agree adding sections is annoying.

FYI, any task that ends in `:` becomes a header. I find this easier than pressing the hidden button.
Some web view based apps forced me to take the battery out to regain control of my smartphone...
Meteor framework moves to NPM
I.e. if extremism is flammable and tends to explode, the US figured out how to harness it and built an internal combustion engine fueled by it...
This is based on a new paper published today in Nature. Here is the NYTimes piece about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/science/global-warming-ant...

And direct link to the paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7596/full/nature1...

And note, this is separate from the paper last week by James Hansen et al, which discussed the newly researched effects of new feedback loops in ice-melt-surface-waters shutting down ocean circulation (and also increased the amount of sea level rise in shorter time periods).

These are scary times.
In Germany by the way "app" almost always means "mobile app", while desktop apps are still being called "Programme" aka programs in English.
> you can't get away with it just because it was done through a third party.

To get away you probably need a third party plus good lawyers. Which your training was successfully in teaching you that lowly programmers can't afford, so they should not take bribes.
The APIs perform cognitive tasks, like speech to text, identifying objects, and so forth. Yes, underlying it is applied math, but what they actually perform are things that (for the most part) only humans are cognitively capable of.
Scoop up those ISOs while you still can! This happened to me too, but they'll get to yours eventually.
Introducing Dillo Technology Preview
Chinese investors are less educated in general. A lot of investors in the venture space are actually just wealthy people without a high level of education who is skeptical of the stock market. There is also a high level of fraud in Chinese startups.
So, max path length in Linux user space will be about 215 chars? (for it to be accessible from Windows user space)

MAX_PATH in Windows = 260

Path to Linux file system root from Windows user space:

"C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Lxss\rootfs\" - about 45 chars

Max depth reachable from Windows user space = 260 - 45 = 215
"It becomes intuitive" is a phrase a previous client used to say when he'd insist on ... odd UI layouts and buttons.

"This makes no sense," we'd say.

"It becomes intuitive" was his reply.

It never became intuitive. You just adapt your muscle memory to the weirdness.
I don't think it's an unreasonable complaint, just that it seemed you were in a multi-day enraged frenzy with "3 FUCKIN' months" bouncing around your head :)
Ubuntu (not Linux) on Windows: How it works
Oh, that's a shame. When was it removed?
Can someone explain how is an "NT subsystem" or "NT personality" (which the linux ABI is supposedly an example of) different than any other library?

Answers I've received before is "it can call the native API", but any program can call the native API. So, what's in a subsystem?
From the bot framework FAQ: "In order to provide the I/O service, the Bot Connector collects and stores your ID from the service you used to contact the bot. In turn the Bot Connector may additionally store anonymized conversation content for service improvement purposes."
Does this mean that MSFT is collecting the chat data to improve its natural language understanding models?
> It's like everyone forgot there was such a thing as SFU/SUA

Well, it's not like Microsoft made much of an effort to remind people. It was discontinued as a separate project after about Windows XP. It continued to be part of Windows Server[1], but AFAIK, it was no longer present in the client versions.

[1] at least until 2008 or 2008 R2, I didn't check later versions.
just some feedback: I got stuck in the tutorial at "Give a title to your map." - it just sits there and won't go away (no next button). yes, I gave it a title.
No problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahqKXbBVjpQ
Netherlands Moves to Only Allow EV Sales by 2025 – End of Gas, Petrol
* "Free" keys
* ISO's
* Azure allowance per month
* Pluralsight videos (not all, 45 hours worth)
* Microsoft E-Learning
* MSDN Magazine

Other odds and ends...
How Reading Fiction Can Alter Your Brain Chemistry
No, it hasn't yet.
Spittle Bug.

Expanding: Space craft and stations should be modelled on the spittle bug's nest, a cluster of bubbles.

These metal cans are a conceptual hold-over.
Interesting! thanks.
The original Unix fork() was found to be somewhat expensive in resources (a little surprising since it was the only way to create a child process), later there was vfork() (copy-on-write) (maybe innovated by BSD), and I read Linux's clone() does even better, though not looked into it in detail.
The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman
I think lobbying equals corruption because although the definition of lobby is "the act of attempting to influence decisions made by officials in a government, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies." the reality is to do this for special interest groups, and to use whatever means necessary.

I get that to look at lobbying in a pedantic way there is no way it could be corrupt. And of course, there are white knight lobbyists who are trying to ofset the damage done by lobbyists whose clients are seeking change to increase profits.

But on the whole (in the USA) lobbying stinks of legitimised corruption.
Essentially, the choices are not "Standardize DRM descriptions in the w3c process or don't have browsers supporting DRM at the HTML-model level."

The choices are "Standardize DRM descriptions in the w3c process or have an ad-hoc collection of binary blobs, de-facto standards implemented by the dominant browser vendors, and external mobile players." If the w3c doesn't standardize the DRM descriptions, it just pushes the standards a little bit towards irrelevance as the industry interprets silence as damage and routes around it (especially given the current ecosystem where ever-more "web content" is actually vended through mobile apps).

This may very well be the principled stand that the w3c should take---it may be correct to curtail themselves to only standardizing things that can be openly implemented. But we should observe that their lack of a hat in this ring isn't going to kill DRM-protected video streams---the owners of the content want that and are willing to pay a LOT of money to be lied to.
And some Windows drivers for HP deskjet are written in a way that makes the scanner/printer work only with a single USB port (first one it was ever used with?), whereas the same device on the same computer works with any USB port. This is in addition to the wait anytime you plug in a random USB device and Windows decides it has to do "enrollment". It's not what I'd call user friendly.

This may all be a little rant, but on top of everything, Windows usually does much more I/O for the same action vs Linux. With or without antivirus overhead.
Yet companies like LexisNexis get most their data they resell this way.
The Mozilla Firefox Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page
Microsoft is reported to announce Ubuntu Linux runs on Windows 10
Hey, I'm one of the co-founders of Opsee. Part of our beta is collecting enough data to figure out a reasonable pricing structure. We're leaning pretty heavily towards charging based on the number of health checks you have setup, independent of the number of instances you're checking. So it'll be much closer to how pingdom does pricing than a new relic, for instance.
AppCode 2016.1 released
>The reason they only allow calculators is to avoid cheating.

Ah this appears to be the root of the problem I was looking for, the game rules.

The question begs: what would we rather have our children have aptitude in, closed and isolated paper-and-pencil exams using obsolete technology, or open and collaborative problem solving using modern technology?