skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the issue as being one of 'drones'. It is more one of 'cameras' and surveillance. No one cares if a med-flight chopper goes over your house at 1,000 feet, but as soon as you slap a camera on something it becomes an invasive tool, generally against your will. The real driving issue behind people buying drones is the camera. Take the camera off (or restrict it) and you'll see a lot of these issues disappear.

When Gov't puts a camera on a plane, there is an uproar (maybe not as loud as it should be, IMO). I'm sure some have issue with Google Earth. People just want to be left the F*uck alone. so as far as I'm concerned, anything within range of a 12-gauge is fair game (though i also have a big enough yard that it wouldn't effect anyone else.)
The security and platform lock-in risks are really quite high. An attacker who finds a security flaw in Android being able to silently run their code on devices, from web-sites, means that system attacks can then be done drive-by from the web. I really hope there's an opt-out for this feature.
Out of all the titles listed on there. Split/Second suffered the worst fate. One of the best arcade racers when it released with an excellent MP (on PC at least).

If managed properly, it could've ended up as popular as CoD4 or CS. Every person I know who played it loved it. It could've been the one franchise that would've unseated NFS as the undisputed champion for arcade racers and put them on the map for a new multiplayer experience. Instead, it suffered the worst possible fate for a product of its quality.
That, and Pratchett.
A lot of people believe Nokia was about to switch to releasing Android phones and Microsoft had no choice but to buy them or exit the phone business. Nokia was in dire straits at the time.
There certainly are. For example things like modified gravity you might say are in the next tier of popular.

edit: good example discussion

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-matter-modifi...
The solution to Google's dwindling advertising market is to increase the size of ads on content I watch?

Noooooooooooooooo =(. Sounds like a good chance for competitors to jump in.

Thanks for sharing this though, I didn't know that =)
If you look past the attention-grabbing headline, this shows some pretty cool stuff with ZFS, using source versioning as an analogy to explain what would otherwise be quite abstract when it comes to filesystems. The only thing I knew about ZFS was the name, this helped me see some of its impressive features.

Of course, I'll take reliability & stability over fancy features any day, but I'm glad there's active development in this area, and look forward to seeing these features mature. They could contribute to some interesting simplifications.
Not to mention, a password can stay the same, but if you break your arm or lose your nose, your biometrics or swipe behavior may no longer be the same.
So, java applets? :)
I never, ever travel without a towel. It is the first thing I pack. Not a large towel, mind you, but a towel nonetheless. It has been used countless times while on those trips.
Doh! Thanks, fixed.
Yeah, hopefully this kind of question is handled in a phone screen before bringing them in.
You could certainly make a strong devil's advocate case for that. That guy came out of that traffic jam rested, instead of annoyed and fatigued.
What about the Google Maps api? Will companies be able to use the maps to display things, unmolested by google-sponsored ads?
Can we start saying Ballmer was a better CEO than Nadella?
We can't divorce the need for human labor from distributional concerns. For all we know, in the future the extremely rich will place a premium on "hand-made" luxury yachts, even if the autonomous robots they own could do it far cheaper. Human labor won't be totally unnecessary in such a world, but it would still be a miserable world.
Some of us were lucky enough (and old enough) to have heared the radio series when they were both first broadcast...
I've done it on almost every one of my employment contracts (didn't do it on the last one because it was entirely reasonable). I'm fairly choosy about what I strike out, though. For example one contract I had stipulated that I should compensate the company for any losses they incur if they terminate my employment. This is clearly unreasonable and I struck it out. They complained and I offered to GTFO if they really thought that the clause was that important to them. It turns out it wasn't.

I admit that in the past I have always had the luxury of feeling like I could turn down a job if the terms weren't right. I've never had to, though. Having said that, I have witnessed people failing to join companies I've been at because they couldn't come to terms on the contract. It happens.

I work on contract now, rather than as an employee, so I have a lot more flexibility with the contract. I suspect it will have to be that way forever because I'm at the point in my life where I refuse to sign an inventions agreement.

One side point that I think is important to point out is if your employer tries to get you to sign something new after you are already on contract, they usually have absolutely no leverage. They can't threaten to fire you over it because that would be considered duress and contracts can't be signed under duress (where I lived, anyway).

Whenever I get handed new agreements to sign when I'm already under contract, I always ask for compensation. No compensation, no contract. Usually the documents disappear in a wink. One time they didn't and all I had to do was phone up the legal department and say, "HR has given me this thing to sign, but I don't want to. They seem to be implying that I won't have a job any more unless I sign it. Is that really the case? I have my employment contract here and this isn't in one of the termination clauses..." In less than 5 minutes I had an apology from HR (Ha ha! I should have framed it. I'll never get another one!)

Obviously I'm not a lawyer. This is not advice (legal or otherwise). Consult a lawyer if you find yourself in similar situations.
> Except you'll lose all the data since you created the snapshot...

Yes, but that's the point

You're right about LVM though
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This article gave me some confidence in finally trying to boot Arch Linux on ZFS. This will either make my life very easy or very hard.
That's the point. If you mess up your db doing something you want to lose all the data since you created the snapshot.

>You've been able to do this for years on Linux with LVM anyway.

What's the point of saying this in that tone? I could achieve the same goal in a number of different ways - that doesn't make any of those methods invalid because another one exists.
Use Adaway ..

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway

It blocks at the Hosts file level.
Samsung launches Galaxy Tab Iris, a tablet with iris-recognition technology
The problem being that if you're in a job with standard hours, the hour a day you have to spend on advocacy happens during the time your representatives and their staffers are not available.
If something like this is going on, only a few select employees know about it. Facebook is not dumb.

When it comes to "speaking out"... NSA started surveillance projects long before Edward Snowden was employed. There will always be people who will develop things like this and who will not speak out. It's just a matter of correctly selecting these few people.
i hypothesize that the votes aren't about right-ness or wrong-ness, rather it may be more akin to "yes, we know, we've seen the betteridge link in every other post". it's also not clear that the article is "clickbait nonsense".
I think with UWP, the phone team lost control of the platform, and the core team working on UWP weren't that interested in making compromises needed for the phone. Hence the terrible and poor builds.
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WikiLeaks releases Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) documents
"Ciphersuites" simply should not be a thing. Each version of the protocol should hardcode one set of crypto primitives.
If the snapshot is atomic as it should be, then yes.
Highly unlikely, but exciting nevertheless. A 17-MeV anomaly is rather large. It would be nice if it did shed insight into dark matter / energy, but the connection does seem to be a stretch.
I loved the book but was really disappointed with the hitchhikers movie, particularly the casting (with the exception of Martin Freeman). And they ruined my mental image if Marvin. But I guess that's why books rule; you can picture characters however you wish.
People are not downvoting the comment because they believe that the headline is not clickbait, and the article is not nonsense. They are downvoting because the comment adds nothing that has not already been discussed many times already in other contexts. Headlines are often click-baity, now let's move on please.
Sadly requires root, which is a higher bar than I'm willing to clear.
Nice narrative, shame about the facts.
This guy just wrote an article with things he heard. Instant apps don't JUST WORK. As a developer you need to build support for it. Google didn't release yet how this is done actually.

About the user experience.. He is probably right.
"The problem with the way you advocate is that you don't act like professional lobbyists"

I wonder why it is, that normal citizens with jobs and kids and mortgages, aren't able to effectively lobby the way full time paid lobbyists (with expense accounts!) are?
Um, are you sure we are there yet? For me it seems that the only atoms it has learned are the long-lasting static scenes, rather than eyes or mouths. Maybe it is just a matter of scoring and can be improved, but still...
> Android Instant Apps uses runtime permissions model introduced in Android 6.0

Is there a user-configurable default policy for Instant Apps, or do the apps prompt for individual permissions as needed, like iOS?
Bonofa+Scam+News+Update:+Owners+arrested+violations+of+the+German+Banking+Act
Peter mentions Robert Gordon and his theory that all the good innovation is done but the one I'm looking forward to is the coming revolution in brain research.

Wait until procrastination, anxiety, depression and fatigue can be turned off by a device behind your ear that controls your amygdala and instantly puts you in the zone.

See see how much productivity goes up when everyone has the energy and motivation of the Richard Bransons of the world.
> The proposals about multi-generation living are worth considering, but they can't be used as an excuse to bone the younger generation and call it "the norm". And that's what I observe happening.

What does bone the younger generation even mean and how does that manifest?

See my comments elsewhere in this thread. I have one and soon two older children living with us and the circumstances are in that comment. There are no excuses used in my house.

I don't see society saying kids need to live with their parents or saying they don't. I see individual families with circumstances that make the multi-generational living arrangements advantageous or even necessary. However it is not all positive. There are pluses and minuses.
My password manager currently has 153 passwords in it. I was surprised too once it started filling up.
Permissions are asked for as needed.
Talk for yourself, I've read VLC and LibreOffice documentation...
> If I understand this correctly, the search for another fundamental force is attempting to explain dark matter using the standard model?

No, the standard model is just three forces (electromagnetic, weak, and strong) plus gravity. A fifth force would be beyond the standard model.
you can also install seafile on your own VM and use your own storage
Only ~130MB here

$ git clone https://github.com/footballradar/VueReactPerf
$ cd VueReactPerf/
$ npm install
$ du -h -d 1
820K	./.git
1.9M	./dist
133M	./node_modules
16K	./src
Played around with it today. Made some progress here: https://github.com/poynt/traildb-node

Let me know if you have any use cases that are in the API but not covered yet by this library :)
Who knows. If Google's revenue slips, investors get upset and make leadership changes.

It sounds like leadership is out of ideas if their only ones are to increase the size and frequency of ads on existing apps. That's a bit sad considering the talent they have there.
You’d Be Surprised at How Many Foods Contain Added Sugar
I always felt that the first two novels, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", where far better than the last three. Almost to the point where the three last novels aren't worth re-reading.
Android 6 introduced individual permission prompts when they are needed.
So if I get the gist of this correctly, this makes proofs that are applicable to finite sets/structures/objects easier to translate to a proof that's applicable to infinite sets?
There was one primary candidate who offered better than that: [Dennis Kucinich campaigned on a single payer platorm][0]. However, for various reasons, he never topped fourth place in primary polling.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich_presidential_c...
That's the "nothing at stake" problem. The Ethereum team claims to have solved it.

I'm no expert but the basic idea is that stakers bet on which block will become part of the chain, and the block that does is the one that gets the most bets. Stakers start with small bets and progress to larger ones as the bets converge. If you make a large bet on a block that doesn't get included, you can lose substantial stake.

What makes this possible is GHOST, which makes the blockchain aware of forks instead of just the final linear chain. (That's already part of Ethereum, and is what enables the 15 second block times.)

There's more information at blog.ethereum.org.
My priorities are: Reliability > Size ~= Price > Performance

Reliability of a database is always no.1, without it, nothing else matters. So the customer must have enough access to the machine to setup replication and failover themselves (eg. using something like repmgr). Or have damn good guarantees that you're doing it well for them. ie. multiple replicas, verifiable backups, offsite backups, etc.

Secondly is size. This is a major sticking point for me when looking at hosted postgres solutions - they're mostly for relatively small databases <1Tb or so.

Closely in third is price. Even when you do find a service that provides a decent size like when RDS eventually went up to 6Tb (still not quite enough for me), the price they charge for it (and the ram) over buying dedicated iron is exorbitant. Given that 6-8Tb drives are mainstream now, it's a real head scratcher why they'll charge $750-1500/mth for a 6Tb drive that costs $250 outright. And then charge you for the IOPS on top of that... Even factoring in multiple redundant drives/replicas, SSD vs HDD, it's still very unfavourable. I can install 5 machines (at least) in a cluster for the price of 1 on RDS; giving me not just price savings, but my no.1 need - reliability.

Finally performance. The number of high IOPS workloads out there is rather small. You're far more likely to have a high storage need with small IOPS, than high IOPS, smaller storage. Everyone overestimates the amount of traffic they'll get, and generally if you have an IOPS problem, it's better off fixed elsewhere in the app. Usually some bad code or ORM is thrashing the DB.

Take a simple login DB as a thought experiment, just 10,000 IOPS is upto 864 million users logging in per day. Whereas the storage for that number of users, at a very generous 1Kb per user, is 864Gb. Size is way more important than IOPS. And if you've got that number of users, you've also got your own datacentre :)

You might also run into the problem that the kind of organisations that need high storage + high iops are also the kind that wouldn't use the cloud for it in a million years (banks, high freq. traders, etc).

In summary, I think the main thing that would attract me is high capacity storage for a decent price. Reliability is a given, but it must be easy to manage. Ideally I'd like a mixed storage system, with the ability to arrange the tablespaces across the drives as I need. 50Tb is great, but I need the ability to put the high IOPS tables on an SSD, then spread the infrequently accessed tables onto large HDDs.
I get the sense that we're talking about two different things. I'm talking about keeping dialogues open in an attempt to avoid xenophobia-driven dehumanization of another culture. You seem to be (and correct me if I'm wrong) talking just about protecting Chinese culture from Western influence.

Whether China needs to be improved or not, and who needs to do that, is actually irrelevant to this discussion. I just want to encourage people to work together instead of starting Cold Wars.
For the view that it would have been better without Microsoft, I'd recommend Tomi Ahonen's blog.

I agree with him to the extent that, in hindsight, it would be hard to make more destructive management decisions than what actually happened. The people inside Nokia often seemed to be trapped in a nightmare. It was a sad, hollowed-out place well before it was sold to Microsoft. Stephen Elop killed several projects that would have provided alternatives to Windows Phone. Nothing was allowed to encroach on that failing product.

All that said, Nokia had missed the boat in modern smartphone OSs, much in the way Blackberry had done. There is no guarantee they would have found a good answer on their own.
Modified gravity theories might be second in popularity to dark matter. What should be added is that it is a very distant second place. Vast majority of researchers currently favor dark matter. Observations like those from the Bullet cluster are hard to explain otherwise.
Google can't kill passwords, they can simply make it more convenient to login for users like TouchID. Biometrics should simply be an additional part of 2 factor authentication. Finger prints are something we have, passwords are something we know. Police or criminal or a partner could simply put your thumb on your phone to login into it without your consent (or knowledge if you are asleep). Where is people without arms, hands or lose or damage them later in life wouldn't work. Passwords are compromised all the time but you can simply change it. If your fingerprint is stolen eventually you have no realistic option to change it. Biometrics should simply be an additional layer of security as it is today.
You need faster load times: seeing this wasn't too great.

http://imgur.com/clft4LH
It actually makes Firefox hang for a few seconds.
In France the idea of a young adult living with parents was so alien that it was enough to make a movie about it in the 90s. Now it's the reality for half the population.
Even IF this was true, do you really think the executives on their meetings go like: "Okay, if we deny this, we will go to jail. So let's tell everyone that we are spying on them!"

No. Denying is the only smart move here.
Even if the AMD chip runs 100 watts hotter and you're encoding constantly all year that's still only $100, small compared to the chip price difference. In datacenters where you have to think about density, cooling, etc then power efficiency gets more important but not so much for consumers except in terms of fan noise.
Scientists have created a new CRISPR-based tool to swap single letters on DNA
Do you have an example where that hapend?
Love the "pools of thought" phrase. Is that in common use?
I Have a Face for Radio and a Voice for Silent Movies
How do we know this isn't double speak?

Maybe they aren't listening to the conversations per se, but for an audio beacons in television and radio?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/your-p...
A big reason to consider AMD is that they tend to always just enable pretty much all their features for every chip rather than cherry pick what they enable for each market segment like Intel does.
Which sources do you read? Every news source has a bias. The ones that feel like they do not may align with your own personal biases.
This will be great stuff when combined with the next 'echo "rootmydevice" > /proc/sunxi_debug/sunxi_debug' ;)
> the article title, per HN rules, should probably be "A2: Analog Malicious Hardware [pdf]".

Absolutely it should, mods, dang, please fix the title.

Moreover, matthewmacleod (1) shows that Thompson didn't predict exactly this level of subversion and anything specific to this method, so the title is even thus inappropriate.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11769190
NoScript fixes this.
The artists rendering mentioned above:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Titan_render.png

And a few of the murals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oak_Ridge_-_Kraken_%28Cra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jaguar_supercomputer.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Titan_su...
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I tried to give my reasons by using only appeals to objects of our common understanding. You have countered my claim by appealing to "the well-definedness of the TREE function". Do you expect me (and everyone else) to know what that is? In order for us to be able to follow your argument you would need to spell that out in a bit more detail.

If I'm not thinking about this properly, which of the assertions I made was incorrect? Where is the error in my reasoning? Is there an error in how I am conceiving things?

> This paper shows that a certain class of statements about finite objects

From what I can gather, it's not that simple. For a start, the initial set is the set of natural numbers. This is not finite. The procedure for generating/enumerating them is. The paper deals with pairs of inequalities based on the natural numbers and sub-sequences to be found therein. This set of pairs is also non-finite (but I'm happy with the assertion that in some sense it is a different order of infinity from the natural numbers). We are now trying to reason about the nature of the sequencing of these sub-sequences.

Are you saying that sometimes the sub-sequences are finite? If so, their complement would be infinite. And it is the partitioning that makes this so.
I find 'Reader Mode' usually makes for a better experience on Firefox (especially mobile).
IBM’s Watson: What’s the Difference Between AI and Cognitive Computing?
It will be interesting indeed to see how it goes.

If the prices are lower than a real restaurant for the same or better food cooked and served faster - I'm not so sure what they will choose.
that's something great
Lately especially. It is exciting.