skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even wider, almost everything in the modern world was invented at Bell Labs.
I still think there's a need for passwords depending on the context. For example I would worry if Google employees didn't encrypt their work laptop with FDE as there are very motivated people who super want access (even a tiny slither will do) to Google's internal infra.

Google has enough dirt on people anyway to implement a passwordless system because they practice very rigorous fingerprinting of individuals regardless. You don't even need a Google account. Google knows who you are as you traverse the web in any meaningful way. They do this through fingerprinting captchas / supercookies, and subsidizing core internet infra like Blogger, any number of vanity URLs (goo.gl), and they have others at their disposal.

But do note: Google are not 'too big to fail' like a bank.

The great Alphabet Leak of 2030 is upon us and we better be ready.
Why Do Flammable and Inflammable Mean the Same Thing?
I guess that is yet another feature they wanted to have for free. :)
> Of course, I'm not seriously suggesting you'd ditch a "proper" version control system, but it gives a good sense of what's possible at the file system level.

> Using ZFS as a replacement of Git for is probably not a good idea, but just to give you a sense of what ZFS supports at the file system level, let me go through a few typical git-like operations:
Peter Thiel Rumored to Back Gawker Lawsuit
Finitistic Reducibility
Well that's what the permissions are for right? To avoid "arbitrary" code.

I think we've gotten a bit better since the Flash days at writing VMs that don't leak like a sieve. Would be nice if someone could go in and write the entire Android VM in dart or something though...
HP Spinoff to merge with CSC
Might just be a typo/autocorrect for "schools of thought".
This is a short document which I hope gives a bit of intuition about [1], which I think contains quite a lot of misconception at the moment. If you have suggestions for its improvement, I'd love to hear them.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11763080
sounds like https://xkcd.com/955/ :)
That reminds me of the Stanford marshmallow experiment: give a kid a marshmallow, and tell the kid that he can eat the marshmallow now, but if they can wait 15 minutes, they'll get two marshmallows.

They found that there's an excellent correlation between the kids who wait and future life success.

But it also turns out that there's also an excellent correlation between kids who eat the marshmallow without waiting and kids who grow up in an environment where adults don't keep promises...
The Injector: A New Executor for Java
Everything was in place for UWP to take over the world, but they failed to produce a good phone OS, or produced one that was worse that what it was supposed to replace.
Just few weeks ago, Nokia announced that Nokia branded smart phones and tablets will be entering market soon. This time they are based on Android OS. It'll be interesting to see how well they'll sell (compared to Windows Phone).

http://company.nokia.com/en/our-businesses/nokia-technologie...

http://company.nokia.com/en/news/press-releases/2016/05/18/n...
Startup Weekend NYC
No buyer in an acquisition ever understands what they're buying. They believe they do, and usually the seller believes they do too.

It usually takes a year post deal for everything to come out of the woodwork. Sometimes it ends happily, sometimes not. It's down to serendipity.

Actually, generally, nobody has a clue what they're doing, ever, but they believe they do, and that's good enough, more often than not.

Acquisition deals happen almost by accident, and for reasons which are rarely rational.
Help, My Fusion Reactor's Making a Weird Noise
How would you have recommended I title this article? The app is very likely listening to its surroundings.
Also a discussion from yesterday on Schneier's blog:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/05/google_moving...
What would *you* use to create this chart?
Poll: Would you prefer an OLED touch bar instead of traditional function keys?
I guess that the governmenet doesn't even need a backdoor in the Facebook app... Since Google has admin privileges on your device and is in bed with the NSA, they could go that route instead.
Heard this for the first time, so being really curious (I always have the most recent year in a range on my sites)

What if the page is dynamically created on the fly? What copyright should I have? If page contains snippets/work created in different years?
Internet of Towels
My password manager has 500 entries. Around 75% of them are website passwords.
How production ready is ZFS on Ubuntu (Debian?) ?
Is there any risk of Oracle fighting back open source zfs as for Java with Google and Android ?
Ken proved himself right 32 years ago, this is just another variation.
> But it also turns out that there's also an excellent correlation between kids who eat the marshmallow without waiting and kids who grow up in an environment where adults don't keep promises...

Citation for this please? I don't remember that being mentioned in the marshmallow paper.
Why a video? And why such an annoying voice? Too many questions.
Google have access to all your mails, web search, documents, travels, habits...
Facebook have access to your friends, family, pictures...
And you guys worry about them listening to your conversation...I mean most of the info they gather with that they already have them by other means
>> "Submitted to a NASA competition for students, the design for this electric aircraft had to meet certain requirements, the most important of which was that it could be manufactured within five years."

Is this plane going to be in production?
oh: a surprisingly powerful Unix shell
ZFS is also great for teams that work on ginormous code projects.

When I was a contractor at IBM in the 90's we had something similar so we could work on OS/2 source code. The entire build project was made up of hundreds of other sub projects and it was way too big to fit on a single developer machine of the time. Plus the reality was that individual developers only edited small portions of any part, even though they needed the whole to build and test.

In later years, I've found myself thinking about ZFS for other big project scenarios. Like legacy enterprise websites that have gigs of static files and scripts that integrate with parts of webapps, etc. it's a pita to sync an 80gb mirror to every dev and a horrible waste of space. Much more efficient to simply mount the production mirror once and then store small edits locally.

Note that these kind of legacy sites are usually not checked into source control because they are too big.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766621
I wrote a short note [1] to try and clear up some of the misconceptions in this thread. Feedback welcome; Hacker News thread for the short note at [2].

[1]: https://www.patrickstevens.co.uk/finitistic-reducibility/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11769425
The above phrase doesn't really mean anything...
Ash HN: What are some cool JavaScript projects that would impress kids (7-12yrs)
How to Install Android Wear 2.0 Preview on LG and Huawei Smartwatch
duplicat, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766621
Human Control of a Bicycle
An example of how not to do Twitter
> Disney should just let Square Enix handle their gamibg ventures.

That's actually pretty funny, with SE also being a shadow of it's former self.
YMMV, but I just finished laughing my way through the unabridged, author-narrated(!) "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" audiobook; for me, the experience stands up to the best of his treasured early works. The opening chapter (getting to the airport) is singular. Don't miss it! :)
My beliefs include that I'm able to share or gift my surplus capital as I see fit (and said so explicitly above).

You can disagree, you can certainly fight it, but you can't really morally condemn me for sharing my earnings with my family.
All I see is a blank master branch? what the h?
A nicely readable dissertation, and thumbs up for reproducibility too (see his github).
Pop count returns the number of set bits. So it most useful for figuring out if a number is a power of two. If there are more than 1 "set" bits, then it is NOT a power of two. However, a non portable way of determining how many bits are in a object would be this expression, assuming 8 bits are in a byte. `sizeof(object) * 8`
My coworker has had a towel hanging from his cubicle for months. Today I ask him why.
Don't forget that the perceived value of incentives varies. Tell the kid he'll get a bag of marshmallows and even if he thinks you're a liar he might wait the 15min. However, the kid that once got sick from eating a whole bag of marshmallows might not be so inclined to wait it out. The parallel being that kids who's parents went to college (graduated or not) and didn't move up in the world might not see paying attention in high school to be as valuable because "I'm going to be an electrician/whatever, I'm not going to college, I want to get to work and get paid" You see this in college too "I'm not going to grad school, I'll load up on classes/party it up, graduate and be done, C's get degrees, nobody cares about my transcript once I have the diploma"
The personality psychologists I know tell me that Martin E. P. Seligman, the originator of the idea of "learned helplessness" and the author of helpful books such as The Optimistic Child, advised his student Angela Duckworth to call "grit" by that term as a marketing move to make people pay more attention to the idea. In the psychology literature, people have been writing for a long time about the personality dimension "conscientiousness," and grit is very little distinguishable from that. I'm a homeschooling parent of four children, and it's plain as day to me (and consistent with all the statistics in the research literature) that conscientiousness matters at the margins. Two equally smart children (per IQ test), one conscientious, one less conscientious, will differ in life outcomes. Everyone knows that.

The HUGE question that is well worth investigating is how much parenting or good teaching or anything else can change a young learner's level of conscientiousness. Conscientiousness changes over the course of life, so it isn't completely fixed for anyone. It varies (somewhat) among identical twins, so environmental influences do matter in development of a given degree of conscientiousness. But so far we don't know a lot yet about what kind of parenting or what kind of teaching might work best to develop conscientiousness. That's well worth learning about. Calling it "grit" is regrettable because that prompts people to neglect the prior research literature.

AFTER EDIT: Comments below this comment asked for definitions of "conscientiousness." I'll put a few links here.

http://pages.uoregon.edu/sanjay/bigfive.html

http://http-server.carleton.ca/~tpychyl/011382000/BigFive.ht...

http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/popkins.html
Supercharger vs. Turbo
If you keep up with security mailing lists and similar, you'll see that we've not gotten significantly better. There are major security flaws found in well-used software all the time. It's going to take us a long time to dig ourselves out of this hole.
Here is Tristan's post "How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds" in Russian (translated): https://wob.su/blog/ekonomika-vnimaniya-vzlom-umov/
Are there any beginner resources for learning about file systems? Would be smart / harmful to reformat my whole macbook ssd to ZFS?
Its worth remembering Doug Adam's book on endangered species he wrote late in life: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/03453...

Fondly remember meeting him briefly at the big bookstore near ULU in London to sign it when it was released.

Sometimes I regret I gave it to my then-girlfried ;)
Hacker Interviews – Speaking with Samy Kamkar
> 2.)We are talking about SCIENCE and whats great about SCIENCE is that to do it well requires SKEPTICISM. The article itself even says that the results haven't been confirmed by a different specialized lab. I would be floored if we discovered another fundamental force but like all things we should ANALYZE all points of a subject.

I think you're being too generous with regard to the OP's comment. That comment appeared to be mostly a throw-away attempt to reference Bettridge's law, rather than offering any substantiate thoughts on the potential discovery or its likelihood of being a spurious result.
You wanna get high?
See my other comment - if you want to transfer wealth to the poor you can do this with EITC or other programs that don't discourage work. A job guarantee is my preferred policy.

(And keep the borders closed - poor brown people don't even count for 3/5.)

Also, you seem to be imagining that if landlords of poor people would rather get $0/month in rent (with houses going vacant) than reduce rents. When did landlords become so non-greedy?
The Impacts of Big Data on Love, Relationships and Behaviors
The Case for Planet Nine Just Got a Whole Lot Stronger
> if my right arm is pinned under something and I desperately need to use the phone

I have pattern locking today, and "emergency call" button on the lock screen is already a thing.

I would imagine this would be option #7 or so for the lock screen. Depending on your phone's hardware, etc.

I used to treat my phone like my wallet, aka no lock at all beyond anti-butt dialing swipe, but some obscure corner of VPN setup required more extreme measures.

I assume that any lock technology on my phone is on the level of a kids diary book lock, and act accordingly. Anyone with physical access to my phone owns all of it, so I'm pretty happy with "swipe to unlock" and not happy about big brother authoritarianism WRT vpn configs and lock screen choices. I don't find a bunch of security theater about "wiggle analysis" or facial recognition to be interesting or useful and mostly want to know about it so as to avoid it.
Podcast on the topic and interview with the same author

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/grit/

I am not sure what I think. There is a definite correlation between grit and success. The people that try to do something once and quit are the people I know that are, 15 years after high school, working at the local pizza shack. The people I know that could try and try and try to get something done, are the pizza now doctors and programmers and lawyers.

But I also know that most of the people I see as gritty had the "better" parents. So maybe it was indeed a trailing indicator.
This is content marketing for SolFS so clearly bias but I can appreciate the article.

One place I might take issue is the "easy backup" part. This may be true in SolFS, I don't know. But the reason backing up databases is hard is because you have to deal with writes happening during backup if you want to avoid downtime. Thus you need locks and logs. Rsync helps with this on the filesystem side but I don't see a mention of it.

In fact every disk-backed database I've seen you can just do a copy of the folder for a backup iff (not typo) you stop the database first so you know there won't be writes.

Also, the statement "In DBMS to have versioning you need to maintain a separate table or two as there are no built-in mechanisms for versioning." is not true for many NoSQL databases (and possibly some SQL databases).

The "Exposure to other applications" is also a bit of fluff. A file system driver is still "external assistance" and for the many NoSQL databases that allow a REST interface it is easy to deal with.

This article should probably be "7 reasons to choose a file system over a relational database for managing your data" as many of the arguments don't apply to most NoSQL solutions.

Sorry, I got up on the wrong side of the bed. Their products actually look pretty nice. Although I prefer open source for code audit-ability and accountability I would consider their products. But this article doesn't convince me not to use a database. Some quick feedback, the product pricing is terribly complicated, I kind of gave up.
It's not the infinity of the subset of Ramsey pairings that's the central point of interest in this proof. What is mainly interesting is that their proof can show this, using only finitistic methods. Their proof shows this without explicitly using any concepts of infinity, for example, without assuming an infinite superset.
Of course 'grit' correlates with success in an environment where the payoff is way beyond the horizon, things are hard and there's ample opportunities to bail. Of course it matters much less if the payoff is visible, things are easy and there's things in place to prevent/dissuade people from bailing out.

Seems obvious to me.
"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."

No thank you, no. I think now is the time to realise, that Google is really building the all-seeing eye - and by forcing this stuff, they will eventually get it.
This whole thing is just a few chained together straw men.

Libertarians do not say "people should keep their money because they worked hard for it." They say that "people should keep their money." No qualifier.

Libertarians are not "against force and for voluntarism." Libertarians are fully in favor of force, particularly when it comes to the defense of personal property. Some libertarians are in favor of voluntarYism (the y matters) but that's a totally different thing than whatever Bruenig trying to reference here.

It's partisan screed that oversimplifies concepts and twists words to appeal to people who don't actually know enough about libertarians to spot the bullshit.
Yes, and he's also a genius. So what?
Yes, you are right :(

I just haven't fully processed his death yet, I am currently reading all the 30+ Pratchet books in my collection.
GCC's Signed Overflow Trapping with -ftrapv Silently Doesn't Work
Procedural Dungeon Generation
Anyone else see this as a way to keep selling 16GB phones?
Data Extraction with Scrapy and Python 3
Way back in the day when offices had 'on hold' music on their phone systems, we had the Hitchikers Guide radio show on regular rotation on our hold system for years. Customer would actually get angry when a worker took them OFF hold and ask to be put back on so they didn't miss the next bit. Others were completely mystified and ask us what the heck they had been listening to.

Alas, our office was broken into one day, and about the only thing the thieves took was the little CD player hooked into our phone system next to the reception desk that played the series which we had on CDs (the thieves also took the CD boxed set after smashing one of the discs on the floor - making the stolen set basically worthless). Sad day.
I'm a bit confused. Currently trending #9 on the front page is: "Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? (news10.com)" >> basically same article. Seems as if the language is approximately the same. I don't expect an answer here (I don't think that you can see my responses)... but I am posting my question for posterity.
Bringing up alternatives is the norm around here. Some people don't know LVM.
Called a "proprietary eponym", for those curious.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proprietary_eponym
Remember how 42 is the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? And how everyone's searching for the Ultimate Question? I think I've figured it out.

According to Prak, it is impossible for both The Answer and The Question to be known in the same universe; should someone know both the question and the answer, the universe would cease to exist and would be replaced by something more bizarre and inexplicable. The narrator teases the reader that another theory states that this has already happened before.

I posit that the Ultimate Question is, "How many times have the Ultimate Question and Ultimate Answer been known, and thusly the universe been eradicated and replaced by something more bizarre and inexplicable?"

Answer: Forty-two.

https://scott.arciszewski.me/blog/2013/10/ultimate-question-...
ZFS is actually one of those features that are officially supported on Ubuntu but not on Debian. As far as I know, Ubuntu 16.04 is the first popular Linux OS to support ZFS out of the box.[1]

As the article notes, ZFS on Linux has been production-ready and stable for over three years. For in-depth info see [2].

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS

[2] https://clusterhq.com/2014/09/11/state-zfs-on-linux/
If you want to keep track of similar geeky events, I maintain and curate a "Geeky Events" Google Calendar:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=9t07jqib63if4...

Let me know if there's anything I'm missing.
I could see these coming back into style. Tissues have no strength
I agree that this is a really interesting exploit, but it requires a lot of expensive part-specific work to get it right, as well as the assumption that the foundry does their own masks. Of course, our attacker could work for the mask shop instead, but then he has to do it exactly right the first time, which makes it even trickier. This is all to say that, when we see this attack in the wild, somebody with very deep pockets will have been responsible.
You should consider installing an ad blocker like uBlock Origin. I haven't seen ads on Google Search for years.
EquipmentShare raises $5.5MM for peer-to-peer marketplace for heavy equipment
A database should handle a snapshot gracefully. I think you should only expect corruption if you are taking a non-atomic backup with something like tar.
I'd heard this was in the pipeline, but didn't believe it given how invasive (aka no privacy), problematic (you can't backup how you behave), and insecure (given a motivated attacker, I've yet to see a biometric control that can't be attacked).

Why's Google doing this?

It's not obvious to me, since I'm guessing they know all of this, likely already have they data on users, etc.

Why's Google doing this?
Yes. Every factor is overrated, except genetics which is greatly underrated.

Our culture demands that we do not accept "biological determinism" and so everything else needs to be (rhetorically) stretched to cover for it. That's how we get papers and thinkpieces on grit, stereotype threat, etc. These will be found to have minimal impact if the findings are replicated at all and so new factors will need to be invented.

Anecdotes from the OP aren't particularly damning but you can already see the authors angling to be the ones who feed the next cycle.
> He was creator of B language, thanks to which we have C language.

That's not something I'd brag about... ;)
Because, like Google with Android, Microsoft enable this behaviour. They deserve to take the flak.
'Society at large has decided that it likes suburbs and McMansions just fine.'
No, the people with the money and land have decided that they like suburbs. I am sure that if a millennial could buy a small patch of land and build a small house on it for cheap, they would.
You mean when they removed their warrant canary a few years ago under the guise of "new security policy"?

When they were found to be tracking GPS positions even with GPS disabled? (Sorry it's impossible to find a link to this anymore)

How about the Bluetooth vulnerabilities their desktop computer suffer -- I've seen keyboard connections trivially hijacked.

I'm not suggesting that Apple has made a deal with Facebook (I think you're right on not being incentivized to do this), but to say Apple is "pretty good" at protecting a user's privacy, I question that.
Have you guys thought about giving Windows ZFS volumes over iSCSI and then take ZFS snapshots? For example with SQL Server, it should be possible to talk to the SQL Writer Service and create a consistent database snapshot of a live SQL Server database with ZFS.

When this snapshot is taken you can send & recv the diff to a remote backup server.