skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding openstreetmap, it might be a good idea in general but I suspect that OpenStreetmap details would be really poor in Cuba because of the lack of contributors. So I am not sure it would be that useful to Cubans (who still have restrictions to travel IIRC).

Just checked, I was wrong : it is actually not that bad:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5252057#map=17/23.104...
Apple Brings Back Encryption and Security Expert Jon Callas
Inline looping video on iPhone Safari
I like ZFS a lot, but it's no replacement for Git. Snapshots are really handy for a lot of things, but not for a group of developers collaborating over some source code.
Yeah, you can't print that halfway through and get the killer performance (not that printf is fast)
Sad state of Romanian Wordpress blogs
Only entry I can find says "Currently unavailable" and does not list a price. But looks just like the Sony DP, hopefully it's a lot cheaper?
If you haven't yet read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I'd do so when you've got the chance.
It doesn't require ALL repositories, just those that contribute to the mobile app. I don't know about Facebook, but where I work there are hundreds of employees who have access to the source code of our mobile app and a few tens of employees who know the deployment process well enough that they would know if other code were being added as part of the deploy process.
I can't read a lot easily on my phone, but two observations:

A) they don't name the license they're using and I don't recognise it. They claim it's open source but the wordage I saw references lots of "personal use" "no reverse engineering" "no redistributing without explicit permission".

B) their faq and comparison pages are inconsistent - faq says ldap/oauth is in both editions, comparison page says those features are enterprise only.
No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

I'll wager a pint (or suitable non-alcoholic equivalent) on it :) Win-win, since if I 'lose' I buy you a pint but something truly wonderful will have been discovered :)
Hard to understand. They buy the one company division in the world who was pushing the Windows Phone brand, a company who was innovating in terms of design and cameras and who had finally cracked their own decent brand and product line etc, and they immediately start winding them down. And they're going to work on their own hardware now anyway.

At the same time they throw their own stable OS in the bin and release a buggy beta version which has ruined the experience for WP users.

What was the point of this whole exercise? A convoluted way of getting Nokia's masses of IP rights for mobile? Why not just leave Nokia to keep pushing WP?
My favorite line is the one about British sandwiches.. [1]

> There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

> “Make ’em dry” is the instruction buried somewhere in the collective national consciousness, “make ’em rubbery. If you have to keep the buggers fresh, do it by washing ’em once a week.”

I ate some sandwiches in the UK. They were dry and rubbery

[1] https://norighttobelieve.wordpress.com/tag/douglas-adams/
The license is AGPLv3,

you can find its full text here along with the source code:
https://code.rhodecode.com/rhodecode-enterprise-ce/files/946...
But they still run locally, right? Or are you just connecting to Google's cloud to run them there?
> Who needs Git?

> Notably missing is support for merging

So, it's almost like a car except it's missing its wheels

No, it's not like Git
Cool. A quick search landed me on https://robots.thoughtbot.com/how-to-share-a-session-between... it discusses sharing session using config.ru.

Even after using rails for so many years, learning something new every day!
IoT Toilet paper that can match your stains into something like images from a search engine and turn it in to a picture....... With gaze tracking
Twilio Console
Sony Smartwatch 3?

I had one for a few days, it has GPS and internal storage. I passed on it because of the backlit LCD screen, replacing it with a watch that has an OLED screen but no GPS -- but then I cycle, and always have my phone with me.
Well I'm just glad it's not Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays...
Did you read the article?

"Of course, I'm not seriously suggesting you'd ditch a "proper" version control system
> Among the pieces of evidence that Google suggests the Trust API could use are some obvious biometric indicators, such as your face shape and voice pattern, as well as some less obvious ones: how you move, how you type and how you swipe on the screen. With the service continually running in the background of the phone, it can keep track of whether those indicators match how it knows you use your phone.

I wonder how this would deal with changes in your behaviour, lets say, due to illness or disability.

If I'm ill and high on painkillers, will the system lock me out? If I lose my right arm in an accident, (or even if my right arm is pinned under something and I desperately need to use the phone), will I be blocked from using the phone?

I think this stuff sounds like a good idea in a vacuum, a vacuum in which you can presume you'll always be in the same state of mind and body as what Google consider 'normal'.
What makes you so sure that many thousands of Facebook engineers would be aware of it?
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If you want an example of how the civil court system can easily be subverted to harass people to malicious ends that are bad for society, just look no further than Scientology. Which is only one of the best of many examples.
I don't see how this really suggests a new fundamental force, but certainly it's known that everything about nuclear physics and radioactive decay are not fully understood. Hopefully this is a signpost to some of those answers.
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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But this is nothing new, and not even an especially blatant example of it, since Hogan had an excellent case, and Thiel had personal reasons to sympathize with him (as opposed to economic or other self-serving reasons).

Remember the SCO saga? There are much, much worse examples of legal harassment via strawmen already, so this won't make the media any more afraid than they already have reason to be. Unless possibly in the area of publicizing sex videos without consent.
At least it makes a nifty headline (like the faster-than-light neutrinos[1], but without the PR disaster) and encourages a lot more research.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...
> too much light attenuation from the fact that the colours are side-by-side and so only let a third of the light through the colour filters

If you mix the pigments, isn't the effect really the same, but on a microscopic level rather than a macroscopic level?
Always... and I mean ALWAYS know where your towel is.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/91/9d/2c/919d2cc01...
"Developers just need to modularize their apps and Google play only downloads the parts that are needed on the fly" - I assume this means they will be downloaded and run locally
ZFS is excellent for database development! Create a snapshot before you try something that mess up your data and instantly restore it! If your development database is a few gigabytes, this will save you a lot of time.
Okay, I wasn't aware of that, but _he's wrong_. There's a lot of problems required to colonize Mars they're not even working on. The ISS is, but to date no-one's really got any idea what to do about the fact that that people's health deteriorates massively in a few months out of our gravity well.

Getting there is pretty hard too, even if you're in earth orbit.
"Oracle's (previously Sun's) next-generation file system"

That's why you need to stick with Git.
Yes. But you can do this weekly. And spend tons of time getting others to do this weekly. Dozens of calls about X have more than dozens as many timed as much impact as ome call about X.

If you get a bunch of people with the same concern to form an ”organization“, and then you spend weeks making repeated requests for your congressman to meet with your group, they'll eventually do it. You can write a op-eds and publish content on the internet to try to generate political will. You need to convince your rep that (to go with the example from the article) thousands of their constituants think that the ACA is a terrible idea and that they would enthusiastically support this other policy in its place. If there is a sensible policy that a large fraction of the country would support that hasn't been proposed in a bill yet then they might consider trying to look good by being the one to propose it.

I'm not saying it's easy or that it's guaranteed to work. I'm just saying that most people's civic engagement is about 0.001% of what it should be if they really want a voice in the government.

Picking a candidate for President (a position which isn't even in the legislature) is not the most effective way for you to drive policy.
Also, it would be cool not to have a "power saving" mode engaging and disengaging, taking time.
Database change management tool Sqitch support for Amazon Linux
I usually recommend seeking out the original radio series first.

That usually gets people hooked enough that they don't need encouraging to go find and digest most of the rest of they have time.
I use Passpack's free service which will store a maximum of 100 passwords for you. I have been at max capacity for some time now, but you're right, a lot are not used regularly and I can generally find an old one to delete when I need to add a new one.
Where Did the Bernie Sanders Movement Come From? The Internet
So it's going to get even slower? Awesome!

I needed a bigger kick in the butt to try something else.

Honestly, what a sell out. What was once neutral territory for businesses is now available for bidding.

Does Google need this revenue? What is the problem with the existing maps that they are solving?

I see the full keynote is here [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW1LS94wLJw
Must have BigCommerce apps of 2016
The Luddites were right: all other things being equal (they aren't), more productivity means less jobs. Right now, not everyone can work full time, and it shows no sign of ever getting better: demand simply does not grow as fast as productivity.

This means lots of free time. The question is, how do we allocate it? There are only 2 ways to do it: have everyone work less, or have less people work at all. Really, this is a no-brainer. Yet somehow, we're still opting for unemployment (have less people work at all).

We can do better.
Ok, so not a physics expert so this might sound stupid, but could this mean that radioactive decay is not truly random, just that we can't currently model it? If so, that could have some interesting implications for crypto systems that use radioactive decay as a random seed...
>For instance, you receive a link on food recipe from Buzzfeed video app on your whatsapp and you want to view it. You just need to click on the link, instead of asking you to install the app, it will open the link itself like a website and video starts playing and you need not require to download an app.

I'm confused as to why this isn't just a link to a normal website. A cross platform, open standard that works perfectly well for playing video. I don't really want a big split into some simple websites and some bulky app partial downloads to do something as simple as play a video.

> Suppose you are searching for a particular camera you want to buy in Google search engine, you type the model in search engine and you see an offer from B&H Photo, with one tap the B&H app opens up deep link right to the camera you want to buy.

Again, websites work perfectly well for this.

How much of the use of this will be cases like these?

Edit I should really add some more to this. I'm frequently having to switch to desktop version of a website as it is, and that's really frustrating, am I going to have to find a way of opening links in a third way dependent on who they're pointing to?
I don't think the creator of flappy bird gave a damn about IP violations.
Ether's long-term inflation is uncertain, but its maximum inflation is known. It's 26% of the crowdsale amount per year, or about 22% of the initial supply (so as the supply increases, the rate decreases). The devs have reserved the right to lower the inflation rate when they transition to proof of stake, but they've guaranteed not to increase it. That guarantee is enforced by the community just like it is on Bitcoin, plus it's actually written in the legal documents for the crowdsale.

Right now the ether inflation rate is under 20%. Bitcoin's inflation when it had a $1 billion market cap was 33%.

As a currency, ether works just as well as bitcoin, but with higher throughput and much less latency.
ZFS has been around and stable on Linux for years, I doubt it's going to be the next big thing. It's usefulness is pretty limited for VMs. Btrfs on vms is at least useful for docker.
I'm just waiting for the first fast-food-robot-kitchen to appear.

Where you go up to a window and pay with your smartphone, choose an item from a menu and watch the robot make the food and then serve it - perfectly fried, cooked and spit free.

How would you compete with that?
> "Not cool" starts being a lot less relevant pretty quickly after getting out of college for most people, IME. Suburban houses are bigger than apartments. They're less noisy. They're more pet friendly. You have a garage for storage/workshopping/whatever.

Amen! You get tired of living in basically a post-college dorm scene really quick, all the meanwhile paying 1000-2000 for the "luxury" when you can turn around and put that same money into 4x the space, and be actually building equity in the process.
Sounds great. Can you also duplicate versions of a database to coworkers on the same machine without much cost?
Money transfer company TransferWise raises further $26M at $1.1B valuation
This is a terrible attitude to have if you care about the long-term viability of your family.

My parents have inherited a little bit of money - it'd be a fortune where I grew up, although you couldn't buy a house in SF with it - but that money isn't really theirs, just like it won't be mine when they are gone. It's the slowly, painfully built fortune of the entire lineage, going back to before 1900, and it's something to be carefully grown and protected. If any generation blows it, there goes the cushion that we've worked for decades to climb out of subsistence farming to the middle class.
Electrocute the user on errors
I did a stint in a mountain house about a hundred miles away where I used to spend a lot of time when I was a teenager. Forests and a river. It was for one week, I took one book with me (Smirnov's "A Course of Higher Mathematics - VOL I").

All I have to say is that after one week I came back and people hardly recognized me. My skin tone changed, my face became lively, I regained my weight because I didn't skip meals, I slept early because I'd be sleepy early, I woke up early and fully rested (the best sleep quality I had in years), I did maths all day long lying on the grass in the shade of trees, and hiked to the river or ran across tall grass to stretch my legs.

The ability to think without interruptions, not because I was fending them off taking extra measures but because there truly were none, is what really did it for me.
Learn to code in less than 5 months, get hired, and have fun along the way
Regarding "CVE-MITRE-SAYS-NO" - this seem to be a known recent problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11768516
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1367/
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Absent coercion, I'd assume that was that person's free choice and that taking whatever state subsidy was implied plug $40/week is better than just the state subsidy.

(Work provides a way to fill the time, have social interactions, and a sense of purpose and accomplishment, in addition to the financial aspect.)
i always think this sort of thing is for the tax break
As my friends who recently moved down here (Charlotte) from Brooklyn who worked in NYC tell me: still way too much, especially to have to deal with that traffic every day.

Rent in Brooklyn got them 12 acres 40 minutes away from Uptown Charlotte, and a house to boot.
My assumption is that layouts/graphics are downloaded to the device, but application logic is run remotely.

Can't find any confirmation though.
Never going to work. Who is going to invest millions in user acquisition in a decentralised system with low fees?

What about customer service? Who mediates when there's a problem with the driver or rider? Who vets and background checks the drivers?
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I'm very much enjoying listening to the original radio series: http://www.induceddyslexia.com/hitchhiker.htm
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How to deliver that idea to elites? They own land /capital / intellectual property , robots are not different.
Same, but we use raw binary columns (i.e. "BINARY(16)" for MySQL and "BYTEA(16)" for PostgreSQL).

Conversion between the database-native UUID type and the application-layer UUID type is often so flaky (particularly with Java and JPA).
Jspm support for Capistrano
Seems clear to me. They executed on a strategy and consumers weren't interested.
This is really cool. It proves something that anyone with a reasonable amount of knowledge about hardware and software should understand intuitively; that the ultimate trust for any computing platform is put in the hands of not the hardware designers, but the actual hardware manufacturer. That doesn't mean Apple, that means TSMC or some other foundry.

It's great that is proven, though, and not just intuited. This looks like some stellar work by the team.
Douglas Adams on David Letterman (14 February 1985):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2fZ2iOXhk

The interview contains a version of one my favourite stories of his starting at 2:55. The whole video is worth watching.
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The cpu is not the most power-consuming component of your device: the radio and display both consume more power than the processor. According to [1], the cpu typically accounts for only 10%-20% of power usage.

However, a secondary stream from the app to a different endpoint would be detectable, so there are other practical challenges to the GP's scenario.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/event/usenix10/tech/full_papers/Carro...
So yet again the FAQ has conflicting information: https://rhodecode.com/faq#communitylicense

Being AGPL means my interest in this is now extinguished anyway, but the information on the site doesn't inspire confidence either.
A better title for the article: "Google wants to replace your password with the analysis of your private life".

Of course, since it's always running in the background, you can be sure it will be (ab)used for way more than passwords.

And I know a lot of people that will let them do it.

And that depresses me.
Thanks! Added the license information (we're AGPL) and links to the source code.
Douglas Adams' grave has bouquets of pens & is often strewn with tiny gifts: #TowelDay

https://twitter.com/peachesanscream/status/73542173543307673...
Good for Ken!! Who? lol
Google Maps are practically unusable when not in lite mode (which they turn off on every occasion), so I don't use them. And even when I try, the UX is horrible and features are broken.

Luckily, most of my map needs are met by a local competitor (mapy.cz). They are not perfect, but are still much superior, at least for what I want from maps.

Coincidentally, their Android app (which supports offline maps) got really slow few months back. I wish I could easily downgrade to an older version (as I did with online Google maps before I gave up).
Startup idea: always connected towels with GPS modules.
Should You Be Allowed to Prevent Drones from Flying Over Your Property?
HPE spins off Enterprise Services to merge with CSC
I found myself rarely using google search partly because of paid ads already. Looks like they are making decisions which will push me away from another product I enjoyed.
Yes, if they have ZFS too, it is basically snapshot, send & receive. Or you can clone it and rsync it to them.

Do not try to snapshot a running database though. Before you execute the snapshot you should make sure everything is flushed to disk. For example with PostgreSQL you need to create a checkpoint before the snapshot, so you write:

SELECT pg_start_backup('prepare_my_snapshot');

AND when the snapshot is done:

SELECT pg_stop_backup();
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In practice I wouldn't say that's ether's main use. If you add up the total gas fees so far, it'll probably amount to less than the $150 million in ether raised for TheDAO, the $5.5 million raised for Digix, etc. And if you look at the code samples on ethereum.org, one is for a crowdfunding app that raises funds in ether.

And of course, if you're paying miners with ether, then ether better be a functioning currency or it's a worthless payment.

You're certainly right that Ethereum has lots of uses beyond simple value transfer, but if you want to transfer USD instead of ether, you need to trust someone to back tokens with USD, and trust governments not to shut them down over KYC issues.
But can you pay on a website using Android Pay like you do with the B&H app?
You can overclock 5960x and 6700k nearly to the same frequency. In my test single-thread perf is about the same (I managed to run 5960x at 4.6 and 6700k at 4.7 GHz)
Thanks for this, just added it to my Zotero backlog. I don't see what this has to do with Ken Thompson though. Did he believe that undetectable hardware backdoors would be possible in the future, or what exactly?

I applied for a PhD at UMich this year hoping to work at MICL[1] under Prof. Dennis Sylvester, who co-authored this paper, but I was sadly rejected[2]. MICL is one of the best places in the world to do IC design, and Prof. Sylvester is absolutely amazing.

[1]: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/micl/

[2]: I got a funded offer at GA Tech, so it's all good :D