skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To the German authorities it was officially known as the Grenzhochspannungshindernis ("High Voltage Frontier Barrier")."

How German. And by that I don't just mean that it's a long word per se, but also the bureaucratic, almost euphemistic, but also overly precise wording. Informally, people would simply call this an "Elektrozaun" (electric fence).
This article could've been at least twice as short, than it is now.

Though there are too many facts against Miller:

- Photographers have not seen her twice on the running laps

- Competitors have not seen her

- The photo evidence of 1.4/13.8 mile running checkpoint shows that she was there in ~86 minutes from bike finish. Either she crawled those 1.4 miles or she had a rocket pack on her back as the best male result for 13.8 mile run was 90 minutes.

- If she really would've seen after the bike stage, that she is missing her timing chip, she or her assistant (if she had one) would've informed competition staff. Because competitors know 'no chip - no time, means disqualification'.

- Not giving GPS data of her Garmin sports watch (athletes of this level save their sports data and log in their diaries religiously, and they simply 'not loose it' or their 'dogs eat it'). If you are clean, you will happily show your GPS logs, easiest proof and everybody is happy.
Are people really bothered by this? Matroska is hardly new and is well-supported in modern media players. It is also free open-source software, and technologically equivalent or even superior to MP4.

MP4 on the other hand is patent-encumbered, and supports DRM — not things people who take a radically different stance on intellectual property tend to appreciate.

But all that has nothing to do with the actual encoding of video. Matroska is a container format, so if you have an MP4 and a MKV video file encoded with the same audio and video codecs, you get the same quality. From what I understand from Matroska, it has better support and flexibility for including additional resources such as subtitles.

So what kind of ancient media player are people using that makes this switch relevant to them at all?
Their source: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/119/13/10.1...

Looks like this will lead to new physics discoveries? And better electric engines?

Does anybody think this could extend to antennas too?
Google should do it on 8.8.8.8 just to make it more famous, but in general think about the meta websites defined in the W3C/IETF standards, such as: http://example.com
Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
Is it just me or is there at least one other person laughing their ass-off. Honestly, I am not sure to know if I am laughing at or feeling sorry for the FBI director. I felt that the director of FBI would not be scared of anyone monitoring him.
This is why I love the German language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_words#German
That's correct, they have this 'perpetual fallback' model which I wish more companies would offer, it makes it feel like you won't lose out on your investment even if you grow out of the subscription; though they are (mostly) offering IDEs without cloud services to host and maintain which no doubt makes this an easier thing to deal with.

They've some nice diagrams illustrating how it kicks in here: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
>Voltage does nothing. It is the current that kills you.

Yes, but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xONZcBJh5A
The NSA publishes standards for how to protect against this kind of attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

We can speculate about whether the tech exists, but read their guide to securing your Red Hat box and decide for yourself how good they are at publishing defense against attacks they won't tell you about: https://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf
Which is the editor?
The subscription model allows the vendor to make strategic, long term-ish decisions around hiring and enhancements, knowing with a high degree of certainty that the money will roll in each month to fund these plans of world domination. It wouldbe very hard to run a SaaS business with totally variable monthly revenues.
That's because Google rewards on page speed, and SSL used to make you lose the game. So if you want your wordpress to be well referenced, it used to be better to have it insecure.

Additionnaly if you published both on HTTP and HTTPS, you were flagged as duplicate content. Fortunately they've reordered the incentives now.
I prefer scrolling to a bunch of separate pages. Also the 'find' thing works.
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There's also https://www.scala-js.org/
They should write GPLv4 that requires your software to have GNU in it's name.
Based on the two pizza rule i should work on my own. Yum yum scoff burp!
The funniest thing is that he uses a fetish s/video/demo with half-naked bondage women in it to demonstrate running a program directly from dropbox.
Yes, I read that story. But you are missing the point. I do not trust in the security of my laptop implicitly, or any laptop for that matter, but I weigh my risks proportionally. I care a lot about the security of my laptop because I care about my bank accounts, my files, and things that I discuss in the privacy of my own house. Out of all those things, people stealing pictures of me in front of my computer are not even on the horizon of my concern. If you have my bank account, all my passwords, and all my files, why the hell would I care if you also happen to have a picture of me in my underwear? The problem with the tape over camera "solution" is that people feel safer when they have tape over their webcam, and they should NOT feel safer, because, unless you are a celebrity, no one gives a flying fuck about your pictures. Tape over webcam my FEEL safe, but it's dangerous when it's "implemented" instead of actual diligent computer security. I know, anything can be hacked, no matter how careful you are. But some tape over your webcam isn't going to stop it, or mitigate the damage in any significant way when it does occur.
It had a file_id.diz file in the directory. I'm thinking this is a legit 1990s Amiga program downloaded from some dodgy BBS.
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Some laptop do. Most? I'm not so sure of that.
I am using a small sticker from some apples brand.)
\r too ?
I would love to see how it compares to a Linux VM for tasks that involve a lot of shelling out to run other tools.

The native Windows versions of git and CMake can be awfully slow [1].

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jibsen/7ebeddde3bc2bfd421b96ae53a824...
Bash on Windows 10 starts automatically with root permissions
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Encryption which can be decrypted by third party is not encryption but encoding.
There is certainty no royal road to type theory. Ugh!!
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There's one sentence that stands out:

LambdaConf cannot live up to its goal of being a “friendly community of like-minded souls” when it does not protect current and potential members of that community who are vulnerable to those who would deny their humanity.

I would love to know how those members of that community are supposedly vulnerable. In the end, it is one voice against many. That voice will, in a big group, be drowned out. And the speaker this statement is aimed against is at the conference for his technological/theoretical knowledge - not to spread his non-technical opinions. Therefore, any likely violation of the community members' personality(?!?) is simply an assumption.

Furthermore, the speaker was previously banned from another conference. I have yet to find accounts that such violations have actually taken place at a conference where he gave a talk. Shouldn't the basic assumption in a system based on the rule of law, that you're innocent until proven guilty be the case here as well?
Wrapping on the <pre> tags is broken. You need to specify white-space: pre-wrap;
You may not care about naked pictures, but many people do.

They aren't idiots for realizing that humans are, above all else, sexual animals.
I stopped reading "the news" (as presented as a product) earlier this year and haven't looked back. I don't miss major events, because they're everywhere anyway, and I can look up the facts the way I want, not according to the rhythm of the narration of sensationalist media outlets. I have much more time to read in-depth books and articles that I select for myself. I feel better informed since I have stopped reading newspapers and online news.

This is actually basically what I read in Nassim Talebs books years before but thought it was a bit over the top at the time.
Wow sounds like the kind of thing patio11 touched upon in a comment about where there is a spreadsheet being banded about there is a potential saas.
Yes, we're working on it now. We have to both make it seamlessly integrated in the interface (a popup might be too intrusive), and unfortunately the state of open source dictionaries is not ideal (which we plan to change also).

Cheers!
1. Comcast (the US ISP) inserts advertising in http webpages, to the point that it breaks webpages, delivers malicious content, or replaces a 404 with a "Do you want to download [that IE toolbar/Chrome extension which inserts ads in every page]". ISP are extremely bad-behaved. This is active spamming.

2. Hey Joe, I've seen you've consulted wikipedia pages about unionizing. What about we give you plenty of free time to unionize yourself?

2. Have you ever downloaded the pic of a sexualized person? Do you have his/her ID card on file? If not, does she "look like" <18 years old? I don't mean is she actually, but what would a jury of average blokes (who neither care about truth and want to have the trial over soon) vote for if they had to vote? Boom, you're jailed as a child pornographer, even though the model was professional and over 25. That's the beauty of blackmail. This could happen as soon as you have professional secrets, or you are annoying for a competitor or a colleague, so as soon as you do anything meaningful in this world.
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Correction:

"It is user space linux, not the kernel linux that is running. This "root" means you have all the power of the Windows user."

https://twitter.com/ozaed/status/718737460050731008
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Justice Department keeps pushing Apple to unlock iPhone in New York drug case
Huh! How do i know the robot wont eat my meal?
That was not a video but the 64k Amiga demo Fetish by Ozone released in 1999: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=171
What SpaceX is doing is raising the bar. Not to where it needs to be, but at least a little bit out of the deep hole it is currently buried in.

As a child I was fascinated by technology and sci-fi, because of the unlimited potential held by it. It seemed to me like people could go anywhere, achieve anything, if only they set their minds to it. Growing up involved being told over and over again about all the things that aren't possible, all the ways in which that is naive thinking. The bar of what could be achieved was constantly lowered.

All that lowering of the bar? It is BS. Things are only impossible because they're believed to be impossible. We don't need more technology, we don't need more resources, we just need to believe we can do better. SpaceX is demonstrating that with every launch. Any spacefaring company could have done what they did, but they simply lacked the ambition and the belief. When (not if) they put people on mars and turn a profit doing so, it is a challenge to the rest of us to raise the bar in our own line of work.
When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves (2014)
Reminds me of Kip Litton:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/06/marathon-man
How will payment work? Who will the customers pay, Siri Rooms or the hotel directly (or both)?

If the customers pay you, there's the question of payment methods or the use of payment processors.

If the customers pay the hotel, how do you collect your fees?
As Dr. Zubrin once said "I think societies are like individuals, we grow when we challenge ourselves, we stagnate when we do not." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Mu8qfVb5I

I truly believe the whole point of going to Mars is to challenge ourselves. New skills will be required; new passions will be planted in future generations. The benefits will dwarf the cost of the program.

But above everything, humans are wired to explore. Obviously we're exploring things in many other fields, but "exploring other planets" is a different kind of exploration.
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> cut-and-choose

So, OEM buys 10k units, chooses a few samples and tests them. Then he sends all the units on to his logistics warehouse to fulfill customer orders. The shipment from the testing facility to the warehouse is an interesting target now. Alternatively, the outgoing orders from that logistics warehouse.

An induvidual customer buying one laptop is no closer to his goal of ensuring no outside party tampered with it.

> published specs

I'm curious how published specs help a regular user verify his laptop does not contain manufacturing backdoors.

I've seen many suggestions for hardware integrity, but none of them enables the end user to verify that his hardware exactly matches with the published schematics/ASIC masks. They all simplify the problem description to only reach part of the way, requiring trust on part of the end user in all the later links in the chain. Or they just assume that the customer is buying 10k units - which does nothing to help individual end-users.
You're overlooking that bricking the device may be illegal. If it is to have an expiry date, it should be printed on the product - all radiation-based smoke detectors already have this.

Bricking the device remotely may be a criminal offence if it's not specifically permitted in the EULA. And if it is permitted in the EULA, that term may not be enforcable. And if it is enforcable, then all consumer reporting/review organisations should point advise you never to buy the product.

Certainly if one of my devices got remote-bricked I'd be taking legal action.
You jest, but being an immigrant is a very American thing. Visit it sometime if you had not, it's quite a different place from what many people imagine from media dramatizations.
Bureaucratic German is very ... special. In cases like this one, it is cynical in covering up or disregarding human suffering and death. As Thomas Pynchon says, "a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it".

In some cases, Bureaucratese can be quite funny (but never intentionally), and mocking it can be very enjoyable. At work, we call our trouble ticket system the "Störungsmeldevorrichtung". ;-)
Happy that it's public now, I'm a regular Android Signal user and was waiting for this. It seems to work fine, my desktop and phone messages are in sync.
>So then make Europe the country and Germany the state. That works. Wave the European flag and chant: Europe! Europe! Europe!

That tends to be the opposite goal of those nationalistic flag-wavers.
There is a long history of tampering with the mail. It wasn't merely the preserve of the Stasi et al. It's one of the reasons most countries sought to retain government monopoly until comparatively recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_censorship
SpaceX successfully lands its rocket on a floating drone ship
They understand them, just don't give a fxxk. They get what they want the rest is not their problem.
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On Firefox your edit strikethrough makes the page very very wide.
We have worked on making the tracking part as efficient as possible(code optimizations). Also the tracking will be on for a very limited time 45 mins to 1 hour(around decided time to meet) and the interval for location updates will not be very small hence helping in battery preservation.
It's a good book, although I'm not so sure if they fact-checked the historical details, at least for some chapters. Some of the stuff concerning Germany looked a bit questionable, but it doesn't harm the overall quality of the argument.
I wonder how much established HN accounts sell for - another reason to opt for a real name policy.
I'm off to NPM to post "dna-fs". Storage capacity is huge but read/write latency is on the order of days.
Could extend this to underwear, razor blades, bobby pins, printer paper, etc
Yeah sorry now that read what I wrote I get how it is perceived. Forget the word "video" in my comment and replace it with "demo"
I was in a tri team in Australia as a teenager that had a bunch of people compete in the Hawaiian Ironman, and my experiences match yours: about half the team owned well known mall franchises.
Take car2go as an example. Their product branding scheme achieves

1) chrystal clear advertising
2) differentiation in value vs. an unbranded car
3) easy recognition for users that are trying to find their car2go

DriveNov/ReachNow are nicer cars, but also more expensive and that places their buisness plan under different constraints. Just to prove 3): driveNow's placement of branding on their cars feels more premium than car2go's. But this low-profile labeling comes with a cost. Drive now had to implement a feature in their mobile app for making the car honk or flashing its lights because otherwise you've had a hard time finding your booked car between all the other black or white BMW1s.
I have to say, that's a poor use of a line graph. The line implies a progression. Without reading the axes, it appears to be a graph of readership over time. I only noticed it wasn't because it made no sense that the print line was increasing.

A simple bar graph with different colours of bars for print and online would be much more intuitive.
What sort of supporting infrastructure is required to reliably store it for a long time? Infrastructure such as cooling, dessication and warehousing.
Or read blogs by military strategists/economists/scientists that have some actual knowledge of the stuff they are writing about, rather than a bunch of ignorant journalist types.
I wonder how it relates to https://mycroft.ai/
That phrase is a lot like, "It's not the gun that kills you, it's the bullet". Yeah, technically true but it really is the volts that drive current through you.
A few years back I watched a lot of videos on nuclear tests (one can find them at archive.org - the video and audio quality is terrible, and the resolution is tiny, but it is well worth the time), and I was struck by the same thought - if only we could spend that much effort, money, time and creativity into building a better society, ending hunger and disease, what would the world look like today?

It is really depressing to think about this for too long.
So this is pretty much a ban on encryption. So would gpg4win be required to take a copy of everyone's private key who uses their software to generate private keys? Have they thought this through?
I would think better than bigger is more stable; instead of a conventional barge, they could use a semi-submersible or some other optimized hull form to ensure a more favorable motion response in a given sea area. I think I remember reading that they use a run-of-the-mill cargo barge, which is probably ideal for logistics compared to a highly specialized vessel.

I'd love to hear from naval archs or hydrodynamicists who are working on this (surely there are some).
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Only time will tell, signed up. I love RethinkDB. Keep up with the awesome work!
Sounds like Rosie Ruiz winning the Boston Marathon by taking the T.
FWIW, the tis-interpreter doesn't flag that code (aside from the missing semicolon). I think you're right, though, that it has UB.
Very surprising data. I would have expected that in the two under-35 age groups, online readership would be higher than print. Especially in the youngest age group, although I wouldn't expect either to be particularly high there.

Interesting that they're specifically speaking about "in-market" online readership. Does this mean that there's significant out-of-market readership that isn't being counted? I know personally I generally read top national and international papers online far more often than the local paper.

Of course, part of the answer is people getting news in different ways. Like HN! But also various social media, blogs, etc. But that doesn't account for the relative popularity of print news over online newspapers among young people. Again, surprising.
> - The photo evidence of 1.4/13.8 mile running checkpoint shows that she was there in ~86 minutes from bike finish. Either she crawled those 1.4 miles or she had a rocket pack on her back as the best male result for 13.8 mile run was 90 minutes.

One of the things that I didn't like about the article is that it doesn't provide Davis' reported times. Quote, emphasis added:

> Davis, who comes from Carlsbad, Calif., and is one of the top triathletes in her age group in the world, had been first out of the water and first off her bike — she was sure of it.

It would be fairly easy, and more transparent, if the author would have simply provided the data from other competitors to compare against the times that Miller had registered from before the marathon portion.

About Miller's cycling end-time. As it seems, there is no photographic evidence of Miller at that checkpoint, to me, that suggests that either A) the time is correct and she took a 60-75min break from the competition, or B) had an accomplice take the chip to the check-in before her actual arrival time.

The former is the more likely explanation assuming that is when(if) she tampered with the device. She would have needed time to get out of eyesight, lose the device, and then, have a rest.

The latter would be more insidious, but shouldn't be too hard to rule out. There are records for every competitor at the location, and the volunteers there should be recorded too; I would imagine coaches and bystanders are roped off from the area. Did any of people have a close association with Miller?

Although, that may be beside the point because she has had several questionable past events. You could look at these other events to see if there is a correlation of volunteers or if Miller's time pairs too closely to another competitor would be extraordinary.

EDIT: It hadn't occurred to me until after writing this up that there's another possibility, in support of Miller's claim. That is, the chip could have been found by another competitor and delivered to that checkpoint. I believe the article states that Miller explains that it was lost between changing from the swim portion to the biking section.
Adobe has already announced a 20% price rise in Australia for Creative Cloud Photography (Photoshop/Lightroom), starting from 1 May 2016.
Same here but I'm definitely going to be keeping an eye on it. If it does succeed and ship, and looks like it's trustworthy I might seek one out. I'm currently using a Smartthings hub and while it's a lot better than the wink i had previously i'd love one that doesn't need the cloud to do so much.
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If putting tape over your camera makes you feel safer, by all means go for it. My guess is though, given that you are on HN and such, that your security efforts didn't stop at pealing some electrical tape and applying it to your laptop. The problem is (anecdotally, in my experience) many peoples efforts stop right there. The FEEL safer without actually being safer. This boils down to perception of safety vs. reality of safety. This is how they sold us the patriot act, because it felt safe. We need to stop feeling safe and actually make efforts to be safe.