skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone says that, and that's right, but does that situation happen often? A typical "cloud" service like Heroku or Travis CI does NOT give you an unprivileged user outside the jail!
And the US...

"Any company with operations in the UK -- including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter, which have submitted written evidence calling on the British lawmakers to revise the bill -- would have to comply with the rules."
You're missing the entire point.

You think it's safe by 2016 standards, in the same way we thought lead in gas, or agent orange was safe by the standards of those years.

In 50 years we'll know a lot more than we do now, and hindsight will be a magical thing.

By 2060 standards, we're downright uneducated. Think about how little we knew in the late 1960's, and the stupid stuff that was done based on "we know what we're doing"
Saudi Arabia's problems are an indication that Islam is a bigger problem for Muslims themselves than it is for anyone else.

Innovation and technology just doesn't thrive in an illiberal society.
I seem to recall sinks being in there in the mid- to late-80s, but then the brain cells from that era aren't in the best shape.
Free as in free 500MB and then you have to pay.
They are, trying to get to the next speed-limited section as fast as they can ;)
Yeah, but people aren't tweaking the autoexec.bat files and frigging around with virtual memory settings, tweaking drivers and dealing with crazy work-arounds for their social smartphone games, the way a lot of us did cutting our teeth on PC games.

I picked up a tremendous amount of various computer trivia digging around making games work, and basically internalized a lot of debugging techniques before getting out of short-pants, so to speak.
BW filmmakers were, of course, well aware that they were filming in BW and would select colors for sets and costumes that would look good in BW. For example, chocolate milk was used for blood. You wouldn't want a colorizer to determine the actual colors, but the intended colors!

Even today, directors rarely seem to want to film in actual color. They'll tint everything sepia, or that hideous blue-orange scheme that is so popular these days.

http://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange...
> how many lines do we need to draw to give the impression of a person, or a tree?

Context sensitive, but yes, surprisingly few.

大 is three lines.

木 is four.
This is why I would love to see a Visa card that anonymises you to corporations, but not necessarily the government - and available to those overseas. Don't suppose such a thing exists?

Edit: Scratch that. What I'd like is a high speed consumer cable account that I could proxy into.
Tech Firms Dominate the Top-Paying Companies in U.S
This happened when I lived in California and it was my understanding that for any potential 'third strike' (any serious crime that could be a felony) a trial was mandatory. No deal could be offered. The judge explained this very briefly and I didn't read up on it to clarify afterwards.
You could argue that Wireframe shows functionality, whereas Prototype tests functionality.
Short answer: They didn't.

Back then lives were being ruined as well. And the availability and affordability of dangerous drugs has only increased since then.

People just didn't make such a "fuss" of addiction, and especially in the case of poorer people, nobody really cared.
> It doesn't make that big of a difference to most people.

It'll be interesting to see whether it starts to make more of a difference. Rides may be a commodity now, but so was coffee until Starbucks made people "feel good" about drinking over-priced burned coffee. Kimmel did a funny bit on this: https://youtu.be/HxlGI4OzeBk

If Uber has an Achilles heel it's branding. I like and use both Uber and Lyft, but every time you see Uber in the news it's because cabbies are rioting in some European city or because a driver sexually assaulted someone. Their recent logo redesign was cringe-worthy. It's all bad optics. Not sure that will ever make a difference, but history has shown that consumers are stupidly open to "feeling good" about their consumption, so we'll see.
A list of everything that goes in the HEAD of your HTML document
Uberblack is the side project at this point. The big money is in the majority of people that need to get from point X to Y cheaply.
Also:

> Joanna is also a core contributor and author of the high security Xen hypervisor desktop "CubesOS".

it's Qubes, not Cubes. Spelled correctly right in the URL the paper link to.
I'm not a specialist, but you can start by researching how the Opera company makes money.
It would seem to me a possible future "catch" would be that they could charge selected advertisers to let their ads through...

From their own FAQ:
http://www.operasoftware.com/press/faq

"How Opera makes money"
Opera provides cloud-based mobile services and
solutions to operators, publishers and advertisers
and enables hundreds of millions of consumers, via
the Company's global cloud infrastructure, to
connect to the internet content and services that
matter most to them. Along those lines, Opera has
different revenue models, depending on the
customer type:

*Operators.*
Opera's revenue sources from this
hosted solution include active user fees, data
fees, NRE/development fees, hosting services,
advertising and maintenance, and support.

*Mobile consumers*
(via partnerships with search
providers and advertisers). The primary driver of
mobile consumer revenue is revenue from mobile
search, the Opera Mobile Store and active user
growth.

*Mobile publishers and advertisers.*
Revenue comes
from Opera's mobile advertising services and
technology solutions, offered to premium and
performance advertisers, ad agencies, publishers
and developers.

*Device OEMs.*
Revenue comes through license
agreements with a wide range of
consumer-electronic-device OEMs.

*Desktop consumers.*
Revenue comes primarily from
search and e-commerce partnerships.
How is gathering more data on citizens a good thing?

Do you want to live in a police state? How will this benefit European people?

This rubbish is what leads to civil wars. You (and people like you) think you should know everything about everyone. People fought and died to protect Europeans from that.

You want to go back to fighting for basic rights that were hard won with peoples blood.
I use Uber because it's the only good cab company in Europe.
Yet another example of "terrorists hurt you, so we're going to hurt you to compensate".

Can we please think of something to stop this?
Intel has been making some very... unusual SoCs recently. As I understand it, this one has a 486-like core at 32MHz. Too bad it's not PC-compatible, because something of that size, performance, and power-consumption would make a great retro PC to play with old software and experiment.
We're really living in the age of overreaching surveillance. Law makers seem rabid and unable to consider reason: Just because surveillance is possible, it also has to be taken to the very top. They cover their asses while ruining everything else in the process.
You're a bit out of date.
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"Game changing"? No. This doesn't actually change the game at all.
One issue with this strategy is that you can now only deploy that container/image on hosts with the file containing the image-specific secrets.

If you want to have a large pool of generic hosts that can run any image, then you've just reduced the size of the pool for some images.

If you choose instead to make every secret available to every host, then you've just spread your individual application secrets across many hosts.
You've just underscored my point, however, by reducing potential communication to "vocalisations".

Then again, perhaps you are just a well trained markov chain, and not actually a person.
Unless you consider someone who managed to break into a Heroku box but doesn't have root. They spin up a Heroku instance and now you have root. That's a security flaw.
Another take on the same topic:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/19/how-intel-lost-the...
I am in middle Europe, in the sort of country where the lessons of these sorts of shenanigans are not, generally, over-ignored by the general populace at large, and the citizenry indeed feels genuinely responsible for not letting these apparat re-emerge as a means of social control.

Alas there are generations and generations of Westerners - after all, we are stateless here in the HN frame - who are, moreover, completely willing to overlook the crimes of their state and just let it all happen, "for whatever reason". This is why I, also, choose not to ever live in the US. (It is the only reason: that I chose not to.)

Members of states currently erecting apparatus of human social control, with explicit intent to violate human rights of any individual, no matter their non-/statehood, need to do one thing to change it all: move. Keep moving. Abandon your culture, and acclimate to a new one. Repeat, ad inf.
Thank you for mentioning this podcast. It's amazing!
Release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes

Always worth a read before you fire up the installer...
Not sure why no one's selling to the general public a computer that's "twice as fast as the competition" because it has a SSD in.

I'm waiting for cheap usb-c powered laptops before buying any more
EU “science cloud” aims to give Europe a global lead in big data
I actually think this is good news for them. Aside from the self-promotion and the dick-size contest that is typical of the region's princes, laying money for investments away from oil is going to force them to change. They can't really expect free trade without also free flow of people, and ideas. For a society that essentially keeps its citizens in the infantile stage this will be quite a shock. Bringing the relative openness of dubai to SA sounds quite revolutionary for their standards.
If you have just one country, you have to accept that there is big likelihood that it's going to be shitty. End of the day you have fallible people in charge.

If you have less cohesion among voters, then you have less cohesion among leaders. Which leads to corruption and cronyism, as every leader thinks "fuck this country, I have to secure the benefits of my voters and myself".

I seriously think smaller is better in every respect.
My favourite answer is that the question of machines thinking -- and in this context, dolphins thinking -- is about as meaningful as the question of whether submarines swim: Not the same way as we do, but if they get the same result does the mechanism really matter?
Great time to start a capital efficient venture and as mbesto says exit in the next cycle. In the meantime, a world of pain for high burn ventures
I really disagree with thinking about the interactions that late into the process. I think that, today, interactions are at the core of an application instead of just being eye-candy.

Putting your wireframes in a prototyping tool allows you to quickly test and figure out if the interactions that will drive your flow are good or not. You really don't want to know this only when you're done choosing your fonts/colors and aligning everything.

With the "wireframe prototype" you get a good idea of the structure and the main interactions. The mockups can give you the look of the app. The final high quality prototype is also not always super useful, and should be used, imho, as a communication tool with the clients if they need it.
For example Scala Map uses Brie. On each update it creates new tree, while old tree still hogs memory. Immutable EC collections are way more optimized.

EC immutable API is a mess because it implements mutable java.util.Collection. I like Kotlin because it removes this mess.
Why should there be a democracy why not be replaced by X?
what are they going to do when they run out of letters in the alphabet?
There won't be any reason for UK tech companies to do anything, because nobody is going to be buying that tech if it means its usage will be usurped by the UK government for their own means. This assumed power - indeed, entirely imperial - of possession over items of trade means that you won't, actually, ever be able to buy something "from the UK". You'll be actually leasing it "From the Uk Gov't".

That is rather a huge show-stopper, for rather a lot of industry. Ownership matters.
>I feel it makes it easy for the law enforcement agencies to track down criminals if they used the SIM card to commit crime.

No, it doesn't. SIM cards registered with false identities are available for about R50 apiece in central Johannesburg, without any need for the buyer to provide identification. The police are aware of this.

>Our government doesn't have history of invading privacy of their citizens, which makes it easier to trust them.

That's naive, there have been a number of stories showing just how badly the government abuses the privacy of ordinary citizens. Amongst these was a story by the Mail and Guardian showing that the government had performed over 6 million electronic intercepts in the first years that RICA was active, along with testimony from current and former intelligence officers stating that they often hid unauthorised intercepts amongst the multitude of authorised ones.

There is also clear evidence that a number of journalists, including two at the Mail and Guardian, have had their phone calls, text message and internet usage intercepted by SA intelligence agencies.

As for authorisation, all the state requires to perform a broad intercept is the say-so of a retired judge appointed and paid by the Minister of Justice. That means that unlike a regular court judge, whose remuneration and service depends on an independent entity in the Judicial Services Commission, the RICA judge is subservient to the Executive.

The access for those intercepts is easy too, given that RICA requires that the major phone companies, internet exchanges and ISPs create real-time data feeds into the various Interception Centres managed by the Office of Interception Centres. This allows them to snoop on the internet and phone traffic of all South Africans in real-time without the need to even inform the companies providing the data.

RICA's main purpose was to make it easier for the state to legally surveil as many people as it wanted to without too much in the way of opposition. It's not a good law.
And? People aren't less manipulatable than their grandparents were. Just look at the recent election successes of the AfD.
Isn't he saying the 'standard' M/L ratio for galaxies is 50... and that by looking at a lot of galaxies at different distances you see a trend that the more distant ones are more >50 ?
Logically, there has to follow a law that forbids using hardware, software, or anything else for that matter, that wasn't built in accordance to the new rules. So go dig up grandpa's type writer and slide rule...
If there's one thing I really missed during my time in Korea, it'd probably be Ikea. There's just no good alternative.
I'm hoping for Uber and Lyft to take over the world and put the traditional taxi companies out of business completely, to the extent that I dislike going to places where Uber isn't present.

Most recent example - Athens, Greece, where a 15 minute ride to the airport is 50 euro, in a stinky old cab, with driver not speaking English. I've already contributed a couple k to your economy, but you still need to fleece me on my airport ride? Will be avoiding that country in the future.
My favourite is parallel construction.
libpq (Postgres's client library) has an asynchronous interface as well.
Arguably, Clementine is a counterexample to your argument.

Many years ago, the Amarok music player was very popular on Linux; I used it extensively, as did many people I know, even though none of us used KDE (the desktop environment on which it was built).

Then, the Amarok developers decided to revamp the project for version 2; using newer technologies, removing bit-rotten code (apparently, due to the large userbase, there were many "drive-by patches" from one-time contributors, who were never heard from again) and, most significantly, completely rethinking the UI.

If you dig around a little, you can find a lot of documents following this process, e.g. from the (now defunct) Amarok blog https://amarok.kde.org/blog

The result? The snazzy, powerful new music player known as Amarok 2 https://amarok.kde.org

Yet, a huge number (most?) users abandoned it, the Amarok 1 codebase was forked and renamed to Clementine, and years later this "horrible" music player is still going strong; so much that it appears on the front page of Hacker News.

Personally, I tried Amarok 2 for a while, but never really liked it. These days I use cmus ( https://cmus.github.io ) but my non-technical partner prefers Clementine. The only problem we've had with it is trying to use a RaspberryPi as a file server; building the player's database over a networked filesystem is painfully slow. It would be nice if there were some way to create the DB on the RaspberryPi and send it over to the machine running Clementine; but I've since been looking into Beets and MPD.
"This is why we today have more engineers than ever before working on new features for our desktop browser."

Is this true or just PR BS? Because my understanding is that they had laid off most of the desktop browser team a few years ago and there were only a few left working on it.
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It may not be true anymore, but it certainly was when the Xbox division was first conceived.
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We already know now much more than we apply. Global warming is the most obvious example. It's true, the hypothetical people in 50 years will consider the current and earlier generations barbarian in their approach to the use of the fossil fuels. But we actually even now know fantastically good the exact effects the electromagnetic waves, and that at least since 1905 work of Einstein for which he received Nobel prize. So there was a lot of time already to check if we got that wrong. Don't worry about a few watts your phone produces, worry about the Sun and anything that produces that kind of radiation (or worse, but in that direction), the one which is on the opposite side of the radio waves and visible light and the one for which we know exactly how damaging it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymine_dimers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_index

Regarding lead poisoning, it was since forever known that lead is poisonous, the "safe level" was something that was better established in last 50 years and enforced by better policies. There's no parallel for infrared and radio waves (that is, lower frequencies and energies of photons) but there is for UV or gamma rays (that is, higher frequencies and energies of photons).
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The most irritating thing about Clementine (I assume its the same for other players too), aside from its visual ugliness, is that if you play song from Spotify you can't scrub, just play and pause.

Other than that it's still probably the best GUI music manager/player on Linux.
Sometimes it's really nice to see a multinational corporation. They can help reduce corruption and set higher standards for all sorts of things. Yeah, they sometimes displace local entrepreneurs, but the consumers generally benefit (though there are some downsides for consumers as well).

If you travel enough, everything starts to look the same, whether it's a multinational corporation or some local character.
How about we put you in jail? You might be a terrorist, so at least we are trying to stop terrorism!

If not, why not?
As of now it's working in China. I'm able to access Facebook/Twitter/Youtube/Google without my normal vpn or ssh tunnel. Will be pretty useful if it stands up to the constant changes. Great work!
I love the part about simplifying packaging via 'snap'.

Now, I would love to know, if I'm a maintainer of Foo (and you can get it today via `apt-get install foo`), how will I be able to start packaging using snap rather than relying on deb packages that come from debian? I'd love any feedback, cheers!
...10.6 grains for 1 planted!

And growth over the last century truly means we don't understand how drastically easier it is to grow food now. In Missouri, bushels per acre increased from about 10 in 1915 to about 55 in 2015! (src = http://crops.missouri.edu/audit/images/WheatYields_MO.jpg)

72 percent of the American workforce was in farming was 72 percent in 1820. (src = http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/20/us/farm-population-lowest-...) Now it seems to be between 1-2 percent.
I've gone through every music program on linux (including Celementine) and found the only one possessing sanity across the board to be QuodLibet [1]. Everything is simple, customizable and no behavior is forced on the user. I used to use rhythmbox before it was dumbed down for Gnome 3's sake.

[1]: https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
You kid, but the kremlin went back to purely mechanical typewriters a few years ago for this precise reason - and even they can be bugged.
Now they're based on Blink, so the they don't have to work on the core features of a browser engine. I imagine that means they have more engineers working on what they class "features for our desktop browser" as in user facing features, rather than W3C spec implementation.
I assume the original author meant to say: draining /dev/random does not affect the cryptographic quality of the random numbers produced by both devices.

But yes, since there's only one entropy pool, attackers can drain /dev/random, causing other programs that rely on /dev/random to block.

All I can say is: on newer kernels, attackers can still drain the pool by using the getrandom syscall, so unless you block that syscall, not mounting /dev/random does not increase the security.
> I think it is sort of pointless. You have free wifis pretty much everywhere now.

Not where I was going in Australia! The Optus network only worked when it felt like it, and that was just 350km from Sydney.
Obama's plan to prevent future IT disasters like the Healthcare.gov rollout
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They laid off most of their presto team but they did higher more for the new blink browser. It doesn't matter anyway I'm sure the Chinese buying would have given them a temporary revenue
A toppled government in a fundamentalist region suffering economic fallout from the falling global demand for oil does nota democracy fuel. While I agree with everyone that sees SA as a terror-governed state, perhaps you've been around for some portion of the past 50 or so years and have witnessed what Western-exported democracy looks like in the Middle East right now.

SA's problems are plenty, but it shares the entire region's SPOF economy. Tackling that shouldn't be dismissed because we don't like the government. Suffering the hardest happens to the least of people, so making the transition to a post-oil economy as smooth as possible - House of Saud in tact - still prevents an incredible amount of suffering.
>it would be a fun side effect to see the color change between different scenes :)

Now that's a horse of a different color[0]!

[0] http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/Horse_of_a_Different_Color
They literally have an advertising division as Opera Mediaworks
I'm wondering why we're not seeing any accusations of malfeasance. 126k voter registrations disappearing on election day seems a bit fishy to me.

I'm all for streamlining voting processes to make it easier on the voter, but I'd also like to see advocates get on board with streamlining the rest of government - streamlining the tax code to make it easier (or unnecessary) to file, streamlining business formation to make it easier to form the entity, register the name, and get the first trademarks and/or copyrights registered, streamlining vehicle registration so you never have to leave your house, etc etc. Voting is quite fluid when compared to other interactions with the government.