skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If WhatsApp is so evil that they've backdoored their product, it is ... stupid to leave that backdoor in their source code.

Reproducible builds[1] are the solution to that problem. Everyone doesn't have to build the source if a) building the source produces the exact same binaries every time, and b) source can be built by a trustworthy party to verify that it matches the build being distributed. This way, you only need one good build cop to warn the rest of the population about bad binaries.

Signal for Android supports reproducible builds[2] so it seems entirely possible an open source WhatsApp client could as well.

[1]https://reproducible-builds.org/

[2]https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Reprod...
Zappos signs its first ever shoe deal with an NFL offensive lineman
The true subsidy vis-a-vis real journalists is the lack of consequence she faces for being wrong. It's unlikely she'd face a lawsuit regardless of what she said. If she were badly misinformed or made up elements of her story no one would care (nor should they -- she's nine) But 'real' journalists can have careers and livelihoods ruined by such events.
This sounds like an idea. Get your local school kids to cover local news. A subscription would be fairly cheap since you don't have to really pay the kids a salary. And some of the kids would enjoy it and learn something.
I'm not sure how GH solved this, but consistently updating refs in that simple k-v store seems to be the main challenge.

I wonder whether the receive-pack operation offers a natural boundary for transactions?
Your argument would be better received sans-ridicule.

I think the OP's point was that Garret hides a lot of features that are built into git and then attempts to paper over that fact by re-implemting those features within its own system.

In your first paragraph, you defend Garrit's rebasing procedure and then you implicitly accuse the OP of not being willing to "suck it up and learn something new".

Why should we learn a new tool that makes (arguably poor) attempts at re-implementing the features of a tool that we already know and love?
Agreed. This mentality doesn't only lead to being denied a bank account; it leads to murder, literally.[1]

How is this any different from any number of discriminatory practices in the past, which are now (at least superficially) illegal, such as "red-lining" black neighborhoods to deny home loans?

‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’
[1] http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-based...
I know that's a joke but it fails when you match someone.

It's much easier to run it on an Android and just use adb shell to simulate taps on an area. iOS devices take a bit more effort but still doable.
styse, you are a great motivation for the product company I run. I checked your strategy page and you are planning to integrate with NetSuite. Why not something open source for finance? ERPNext?

disclaimer: I am the founder of erpnext
You save and invest.
Well, NYC is also 10x bigger than SF.

This article http://newyorkyimby.com/2015/01/the-yimby-report-2014-adds-a... suggests that in 2014, NYC added 44.8k units and in 2013 it added 22.9k units -- call it an average of 34k units.

This article http://sf.curbed.com/2015/7/16/9939720/sf-is-set-to-add-more... suggests that SF is adding about 3.6k units per year right now.

And NYC is 10x the population of SF. So. Sounds like they're expanding at around the same rate. (NYC is only 6.2x the land area of SF).
Fixed server side: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/04/05...
Typically, floppy disks and other magnetic media use some kind of encoding system, rather than write 1s and 0s directly to the physical media. This encoding system serves multiple purposes, but mostly clock synchronization and error detection. If you put garbage data on the actual track, you'll get an error when you try to read it because it has an invalid encoding.

Imagine that I handed you a piece of paper and asked you to tell me which letters were written on it, but the paper just had a bunch of squiggles on it. You'd tell me that there aren't any letters written on it, just squiggles. That's what it's like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_code_recording
Having read various police forensic reports, I'd say this is normal. They need the hash of the image to do a forensic sweep of his computer. The search for porn would be mostly automated, especially considering they are searching for one specific image which is probably what the warrant was limited to.

Then they would probably want to compare the image itself if it was detected on the harddrive, instead of relying purely on the file hash.
No, just the header of the commit (i.e. just the SHA-1) is signed. The signature you used on the valid commit would work if tacked onto the malicious one.
I love that science is catching up to the intuitive understanding of "you are what you eat". The western diet often takes a reductionist mentality that food can be reduced into macronutrients and micronutrients, and recombined in whatever form to generate "nutritious food". In this approach, a carb = a carb (plus/minus some fiber). However, now that we are exploring the microbiome, we are beginning to understand things like fiber playing a huge role in shaping our gut colonies, which can very heavily affect our lifestyle. I hope to see more of this science enter the mainstream!
It depends... if you are picky and can sell yourself well, 80+/hour as a senior. Unsure of junior rates but maybe 50+. PHP may be less in demand on angellist in particular though as compared to JavaScript/Ruby
Just sign new commits with the new key. Signing a commit also signs its history.
I don't know if they sell day tickets.

All videos will be recorded so you should be able to watch it online. I'm planning to give a similar talk soon at a Python SD user group meeting to practice for my PyCon 2016 talk.

You can find my sliders for tomorrow here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P2WsmwGSSni4gAriY5IA...
Thank you for writing this. I'm about to become a new dad and this is very reassuring and I have seen exactly what you describe in my brother, ie needlessly sacrificing himself for the "sake of his kids".
Anyone else reading the headline in Emperor Palpatine's voice?
I'll grant that we don't need locally developed news platforms. For all I care, local news could be distributed by reddit.

What we do need is some way to keep our local government and businesses accountable. We need reporting on that factory that's spewing waste which affects the health of 20 families. Or about that town government decision to buy cheaper water (and how it looks brown and might have lead in it). Or about that corrupt police chief.

If there is a local AP equivalent in your area that does this, then that's great. But in most areas this would not be profitable.

Someone needs to do this work, and if we want it done reliably and done well, it needs to be payed for.
I tried googling, but AFAIK, Tinder doesn't have an official API. Everything I've seen is undocumented calls to their private API.
the cheating / jealousy market is a huge one. People with money that are insecure or suspicious may spend billions each year in private investigators, spy apps, etc. This page may be already making a killng, specially with all the free publicity from the medias that featured it
I don't understand why they just didn't use ceph. Ceph has all the features dgit was invented to solve.
Does this work even if you have webp? Can you explain the errors in more detail. e.g : http://pageweight.imgix.com/jobs/fb65b0e2-c316-4555-8eef-638... is what I got but not sure why/what happened
If you believe giant US companies should pay lower taxes, I have some bad news. That'll be hard, because they already pay little or no US taxes now.

How much did Pfizer pay in US taxes between 2010 and 2012? Zero. What was Apple's US tax rate in 2014? 3.7%. These taxes don't sound like much of a burden to me.

Like most Fortune 100 firms, through legal maneuvering, Pfizer has been offshoring profits for years in order to avoid paying US taxes. At present, that has now added up to over $148B in offshored tax-free profit. Apple and most other giant US corps are little different. None are exactly being taxed into oblivion.

In fact, all these firms could repatriate those monies at tax rates substantially lower than the nominal (high) tax rate. But that fact is conveniently overlooked when US corp. tax rates are publicly bemoaned.

For example, I've heard there's a substantial tax savings when investing in US R&D. What's wrong with that option when repatriating profit while lowering taxes? And the sundry other imaginative ways available within existing US tax law, if CFOs weren't so damned intransigent about paying the obligatory dues of doing business in America?

In the end, you can't pretend corporations like Pfizer are aggrieved innocents in the current legal stalemate of unrepatriated profits that US corporations so volubly bemoan. They knew the deal when they launched their business in this country. It's way too late to insist on changing the rules now.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/26/report-pfizer-dodging-35b-in-...

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-apple-avoids-p...

http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/29/10-companies-that-dodge-cor...
I finished the levels during beta. I had already been in communication with Patrick via email (giving beta feedback), and after I finished the last level I sent him a note saying that I was actively looking for work.

We had a chat over skype, talked about my experience and what I was looking for. He very quickly lined me up an interview with a very well-known company (well-known, in this case, can be interpreted as "thousands of search results on HN").

I had a 15-minute non-technical phone call with an internal recruiter, and then we scheduled an onsite interview straightaway.

I ended up not getting an offer. Not sure whether that's due to my having an off day, or them picking up on legitimate qualities they didn't want, or merely the tendency towards avoiding false positives at the expense of false negatives.

In any case, I have since found a job I'm very excited about (starting soon), to which I was connected through Triplebyte. Triplebyte's model for recruiting is slightly different from Starfighters and won't appeal to everyone (though they are probably closer to one another than to any other player in their field). Triplebyte does have an advantage in that they got started a bit earlier, and, importantly, have more clients. (Though only YC companies currently, I think.) They used this advantage concretely by lining me up with several interviews at once. I don't think that that's something that Starfighters has done; I think they've been connecting candidates with companies in serial.
> ...which cannot be changed by the attacker.

That's fine on your personal system, where you manually update your package's dependencies and manually update the hashes of your package's dependencies.

Now, what happens if an attacker compromises the repo where people download your package from? Or what if he executes a MitM attack on the repo or a user who downloads from it? He can change the entire package, including all manifests, all hashes, etc. Users who download it will be none the wiser. By the time someone notices and corrects it, people will have downloaded the compromised versions and be infected.

The only thing that protects against this is strong crypto signatures. For example, if a Debian mirror were compromised and an attacker uploaded compromised packages, users would be safe, because apt would refuse to install the packages, because they would fail signature verification.

Please read the link I gave. It explains everything in detail.
What's a good alternative?
Penny Auctions
How is the WhatsApp contact list data handled? Is it completely encrypted too or does Facebook have access to it?
Oak Ridge N.L. surges forward with 20-kilowatt wireless charging for vehicles
Consistent with Equals and Unique Values in a Set (Java)
As an almost 30 year old male who is very anxious about the prospect of having to have children in the next <5 years due to my girlfriend's biological clock, I find this very reassuring. Looking back on it, my childhood was similar to what you describe and I gained a huge amount of independence from it.

Granted, as a single child, it seems that being left to my own devices so often while growing up may have added to my introverted tendencies. However, having some siblings around should help my future little introverts find balance.
From the article:

> But [the app] doesn’t do so by hacking into Tinder, or even by “scraping” the app manually. Instead, it searches the database using Tinder’s official API, which is intended for use by third-party developers who want to write software that plugs in with the site. All the information that it can reveal is considered public by the company, and revealed through the API with few safeguards.
gotcha, thanks for the perspective
"What do you mean my four-year-old car has been end-of-lifed?"
You missed the point, parent commenter is saying that communication technology should enable you to build a successful tech company with a geographically distributed team.
Anecdotal, of course. And I'm bitter because I wanted to get an EV. :-D

I live in a "green" (LEED certified at some level) high-end apartment complex built in 2014 just south of downtown Denver, CO. There are zero electric car charging stations in the gated, enclosed garage. If my apartment complex didn't have the foresight to build at least a few charging stations I can't imagine the hope of retrofitting on some 10, 20, or 30 year old building. Nevermind the vast number of apartment complexes that simply don't have the garage space.
No, the way it worked for me was that I had a short non-technical chat with an internal recruiter and then we went straight to an onsite interview.
The scariest thing is my mind is the potential for this to become self-reinforcing. Marginal people are marginalized even further, and forced to turn to crime to survive, thus "justifying" it even more.
FYI, that 404's if you aren't logged in.
> Construction workers from "all over the world" can't move here -- we have an immigration process, and it's not one that's favorable to construction workers.

Process, shmawsess.

Look what actually happened during the real estate bubble years: a large number of laborers just simply came to California from foreign countries to build houses and condos.

A large number of these workers went to California when they felt like it and left when the bubble burst. The government was scarcely able to impose anything resembling a "process."
Just stick with basic thermostats and controls. Using these over-engineered devices will be a nuisance if you decide to sell your property or temporarily hand over control to someone else. Never mind the problems with cloud based vendor lock-in.
Sadly, these are multi-family homes in a single family home. It's a lot of 7-8 people (multi-generation) families under one roof. Not stereotyping, that's the demographic. It's also why you get a lot of growhouses and brothels out there. Immigrant families almost never call the police.
“Holographic Skratch”
random pauses, buffering, dynamic drops in resolution

I get that on cable TV now, since they've gone digital. Granted less than streaming, but it does happen.
I've found Vischeck to be helpful: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/
> I didn't downvote you (else I wouldn't be able to post a reply!)

Eh? Yes you can. Why do you think you can't?

In fact if you downvote you are encouraged to post a reply to explain why.

It's actually the opposite: You can't downvote people who reply to you.
So, I experimented with Skip-thought vectors (as question), to embody the the semantic knowledge about the question but that performed poorly, I mean very poorly. Tbh, I was surprised with that.

Currently the way system works, is highly biased towards the individual words in the question, whenever it sees the word "color" in the question it is going to pick one of the 'colors' as the answer, even if the question is not asking about colors. This is certainly due all the priors from training data.
Actually Google does, it's called the support library and its very much used.
Chiming in with the crowd, I've taken 17 Uber rides (16 in NYC, 1 in Austin). I have never had a white driver.
I recently learned how the SNS, pSNS and SNS are linked to every part of your body. Changed my mind about the potential spread of psychosomatic disorders.
>Companies are going to stop incorporating in the US

Yeah probably not. Don't underestimate the regulatory power of the dollar.
Worldwide military spending reaches $1.7 trillion
Also, there is a lot of people who think that companies would like to change tax laws. Here is another surprise for you: they don't. If the tax laws were a problem for them, they would have changed them already -- after all, solving big corporation problems is all that congress members do. The thing is that big companies want people to think that they pay a lot of taxes when in fact they already know how to legally evade pretty much every tax you can imagine.
> The whole Panama Papers data will be released in early May with Linkurious. Follow the stories!

This is incorrect, according to other ICIJ statements. Not only because of the pure logistics of distributing 2+TB of data, but out of concern that the file trove contains a lot of information about private individuals (nevermind private data for everyone, public and private), and because the file trove might contain metadata that would inadverdently expose the whistleblower:

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/reporters-pulled-off-panama-pap...

> Ryle says that the media organizations have no plans to release the full dataset, WikiLeaks-style, which he argues would expose the sensitive information of innocent private individuals along with the public figures on which the group’s reporting has focused. “We’re not WikiLeaks. We’re trying to show that journalism can be done responsibly,” Ryle says. He says he advised the reporters from all the participating media outlets to “go crazy, but tell us what’s in the public interest for your country.”

In past investigations, ICIJ has not released the raw file troves that have been leaked to them. For example, in their Offshore Leaks project, they released a 100MB cleaned, machine-readable dataset, but not the actual raw leak itself:

https://www.icij.org/blog/2013/04/why-we-will-not-turn-over-...

Likely, they'll produce the extracted machine-readable data they've been using to do their in-house querying. That's still substantial, of course.
Lyft’s Logan Green on Building Uber’s ‘Happier’ U.S. Rival
Coming from LA, whenever I visit SF I always use transit. With Google Maps on phone it works amazingly well, comparably to NYC MTA. I don't miss my car in SF at all.
Why shall we?
Parent commenter claimed that "the choice not to locate your company in SF is a sign of competitive intelligence". I argued against that, and in my opinion the available data appears to back me up on this.

Communication technology hasn't so far enabled, at least in the general case, geographically-distributed tech companies – otherwise we would be seeing an increasing trend of successful tech companies headquartered elsewhere. I don't think we are. Put another way, whatever advantage is conferred upon SF by physically housing an outsized share of tech workers is clearly giving it a competitive advantage that other locations have yet to overcome.
Nvidia Unveils Massive Chip to Target ‘Machine Learning’
Surely the fact that a huge portion of startups start in SF could account for the fact that a huge portion of winners came from SF? You're also biased because you're paying more attention to startups in SF - the Bay area doesn't even come up with half of the big startups, and yet you failed to name a single one from anywhere else.

A quick scan of Fortune's unicorn list* shows 12 out of the top 25 are from outside of California, and two of the Cali ones are LA, bringing SF down to 11 (after generously counting Palo Alto in SF, because I assume you meant the Bay Area). Without numbers on how many startups are started in various places, I'm not sure what these numbers mean, but it doesn't obviously favor your winner-takes-all argument.

* http://fortune.com/unicorns/
Wireless Charger Refills Battery as Fast as Plugging In
I personally don't have any issues with Gitflow but it seems the OP does.
> It used to be that when you bought an appliance, you owned it, and you could take it apart, repair it, and plug in whatever accessories you wanted without the manufacturer's knowledge or permission.

That's some glorious equivocation the EFF is pulling here.

You can still do this today. Nothing stops you from taking apart, repairing and tweaking devices you buy.

What you can't get today and that you could never, ever get before either, is the guarantee that the company you bought that device from will keep its servers alive for any given period of time.

Anyone who thinks that open source is the way out of this dilemma needs a reality check.

The fact that the source is open gives you exactly zero guarantees that a company will keep paying for servers that runs this code. Zero. If you're lucky, someone will pick that source up and deploy servers to run it, but again, no guarantees.

> Customers likely didn't expect that, 18 months after the last Revolv Hubs were sold, instead of getting more upgrades, the device would be intentionally, permanently, and completely disabled.

Then they were naïve customers. If the terms of service don't include such a guarantee, then you don't have it, period. It doesn't matter if the source is open or closed or if the company that provides the device is worth billions or just an angel funded startup.

> In an ideal world, Hub owners would be free to point their devices at a different central server, run by a third-party competitor or a trusted friend,

They can do this today, the world doesn't need to be "ideal", there just needs to be a financial incentive for a company to run such software. That's what happens in a free trade economy, supply and demand rule. This economy gives us a lot of benefits but you need to be ready to face the reality that sometimes, it won't give you what you want.

> But there's another way to push back against untrustworthy devices, and that's refusing to buy electronics and software that prioritize the manufacturer's wishes above your own.

What a great idea. Now, can you give a few examples of alternate devices that give us the kind of guarantee you are advocating?

I would certainly love to hear about them.

Sometimes, I wonder if the EFF lives on the same planet I live on.
Wow! I think this is actually pretty huge. Granted it puts a lot of pressure on Twitter to execute. I have a ton of questions to ask, so you can ignore the following, but I just wanted to put some of these questions out there.

Where in the current Twitter UI will users be able to access this? Are they going to all of a suddent develop AppleTV/Roku viewing apps? Is the stream using Periscope backend? Can it even handle that quality? Will there be a push for Periscope at all? If Twitter is paying for rights to show the games, where is the monetization? So it's just to acquire users? How will acquiring users to view games translate to users that will use Twitter? Will advertisers be streaming live tweets that are dynamically relative to what's going on?