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For those unfamiliar with the case :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive
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Probably the only answer anyone can give here is "poorly."
Which in turn means that the only way to check whether code you're using is GPLv2-only and cannot be combined with GPLv3 code is to check the license header in every source file. I guess that's not too hard - I mean, Linux only has 40,000 or so source files?
The criterion by the FSF is: If you can't replace the firmware (by somethings free), but someone else is able to change the firmware, the firmware has to be considered as malware.
is that it? Didn't there use to be tons of app deals during WWDC?
How would LastPass protect you against another TeamViewer breach?
[citation-needed] - unless you're talking about some alternate-history medieval Europe, your claim is patently wrong.
Not in the least surprising. I think it stems from something like...

Too professional = corporate, paid scientists telling you tobacco is good for you, politician, used car salesman, style over substance.

Less professional = honest craftsman, technician, artisan. It's more likely to be about the actual food than an empty brand experience.

Of course there's also the chance they're just not very good, but it's probably not a bad generalisation.

I'm sure there is research into this, but all I can find is blog opinions.
> Tumblr by all accounts is just a porn aggregator site at this point

As opposed to some vapid meme aggregator, Tumblrs pron communities are actually of value (to me).
Am I the only parent who feels incredibly guilty every time I have to foist my kid onto my parents? It's not like they don't have their own lives and their own shit to do.
Freedom 1 of the FSF is (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html):

"The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish"

In this sense you should be able to change the firmware (since it is open source in the sense of the OSI definition) and remove the monitoring for ad targeting. If this is not possible, Google's firmware is not open source (see https://opensource.org/osd).
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One example source: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/product-brief/mobile-co...

I guess they don't (yet) have embedded mobile phone tech. I guess they use wireless cellular modem integrated in many laptops.

EDIT: Here the relevant part from link above: "Notification via an encrypted SMS text message over a 3G network. For this option, the laptop does not need to be connected to the Internet. This feature works even if the OS in not running or has been reinstalled, thanks to a hardware-to-hardware link between the 3G card and the Intel AT system."
Yeah, in cases like these we immediately jump to the legality argument, whereupon the question swings on the reasonable expectation of privacy.

But, for me, there is something beyond strict legality. It's a question of what kind of society we want, and what kind of relationship the government should have with its people.
I'm working on an Android app.

I use react-native solely for the UI which I update, redux-style, with a state-tree. The state and all it's transition and event-handling is done in Kotlin/Java.
I've written a small helper that generates kotlin-Interfaces from the react/jsx-files and automatically connects everything.

This way I have react's HotReload and the other benefits for UI-design and a proper typed language and IDE for networking and everything else. Including compile-time checking of events and properties of the UI.

Plus: Kotlin can compile to JavaScript, so if I ever want to port the whole thing to iOS, i just have to switch out a few APIs.
Of course you can execute your own code, you just send a National Security Letter to Intel; or did you mean "you can't execute your own code unless you're the NSA"?
Yes, came here to say the same thing. The (unconscious) brand recognition usually outlasts the (conscious) aversion against it.

That said, I'm still not buying anything Sony -- almost fifteen years after their rootkit scandal.
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What about taking the 128 MSB vs 128 LSB, is there any research into how secure that is?
Hi Mark! Fullstack seems to be focusing on MEAN stack, is there a requirement for the startups to be based on that technology or do projects using e.g. Golang have a chance as well?
I love how they throw in a link to picasa instead of google photos. Anyway, this is really good news with the EPFL and ETH next to it, it's perfectly placed next to the core research centers of Europe.
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Ask HN: What are some examples of successful companies rejected by YC?
Naturally, YC cannot accept everyone that applies. We know that many YC alumni have gone on to be successful, but we don't hear too much about the companies that were rejected and have now gone on to become going concerns. YCombinator is not the only way to launch a startup. How many that are turned away actually continue working on their startups, and successfully?
As of right now, the second highest top comment is the "exploiting black people" thing.

I think the parent did well in exposing how people seemingly want to make a witch out of Zuckerberg no matter what he does.
This ship has sailed. The WSJ has already run adverts as editorial ( http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/oct/12/wall-street-jou... ). Moreover, it's a Murdoch paper and therefore reflects the prejudices of its owner.

The idea that the old printed press is some sort of politically and financially neutral arbiter of facts is convenient but has never been entirely true.

The same has also happened to the Telegraph in the UK: https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-...
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It's sad that if some attempt to do good, often it's not good enough, but if they do nothing, it's okay.

It's unlikely I ever agree with how other people try to do good, but I am grateful that they try.

Go some go good; today!
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Pure Chat Bots or more correctly ICR (Interactive Chat Response) systems are a niche UI for a limited number of use cases.

The more interesting is the App-in-an-App concept and Android Instant Apps.

But experimenting with the new types of UI is a good thing.

I predict that all those experiments with chat bots will lead to the adoption of Multi-modal interfaces (integrated GUI, menus, chat, voice, VR, etc.)

Eventually we'll switch to Neural interfaces using brain-implantable chips.

Currently the advantage of chat bots, that they are much easier and cheaper to prototype and develop than web or native apps.
The agency will charge you $50K for a high-quality native app, but only $5K for the same quality and functionality chat bot.

Another advantage is the free distribution channels: Skype, FB Messenger, Telegram, Slack, Kik, WhatsApp, etc.

If you plan to build a platform or another bot enabling technology, you already late to the party.
Just guessing;

It might be really valuable to acquire a team of people, known to work / accomplish together. I think talent is not in short supply but god teams are hard to come by.

Also, the patents they acquire might be important in the long term too.
Additionally, she had a nursery built in her office.
Name one that doesn't. Sorry, name a modern, useful hardware platform that is 100% guaranteed not to have a backdoor or vulnerability of some sort.

It's about mitigating threats, because it's impossible to do more than that today. If you don't design and build the hardware yourself from the board and chips on up, it's not guaranteed to be safe. Even then, without being tested by the masses, you're bound to accidentally design a weakness in your system that you won't discover until you've been compromised.

So yes, I'm happy that I have older platforms with known, documented, manageable vulnerabilities to fall back on should ME's mysterious, undocumented vulnerabilities become compromised by a bad actor.
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I've never bothered to really look into the BH information paradox (ie I might be missing something that's obvious to all those legions of theoreticians that have), but just from a cursory examination, it never made sense to me. The no-hair conjecture really only applies to stationary BHs, so once you introduce Hawking radiation, the conjecture evaporates right besides its subject.

The analogy I've come up with to illustrate my point is the 'thermodynamic information paradox':

An isolated system will tend towards a stationary equilibrium state, uniquely described by just a few macroscopic parameters. This is our version of the no-hair conjecture.

Now, instead of a completely isolated system, we allow interaction via absorption and emission of radiation. We assume that no matter the incoming radiation, outgoing radiation will obey totally probabilistic thermal laws as there are no hairs. Now, if we were to radiate away all energy (eventually reaching zero temperature), information will have been irretrievably lost.

However, this is clearly nonsense as it tries to apply conclusions drawn under idealized conditions to non-ideal situations: Real thermodynamic systems fluctuate and have hairs. In fact, outgoing thermal radiation necessarily disrupts equilibrium, so the whole question is ill-posed.
>Is talent really in that short supply that acqui-hiring makes sense?

If not, the alternative seems to be that Yahoo is buying up companies for no reason. My guess would be that they've been buying companies on the off chance that those companies had something that would turn Yahoo around in an afternoon.

Yahoo is a desperate company, in search of a money making scheme. It understandable. It can't be easy to look at the competitors and realise that you're on the path to becoming the next MySpace.

Yahoo do a few things well, their mail has at least earlier been good, Yahoo Finance is a great service, but there's no profit to be made from either.
Opera has a market share of <2%.
I don't know what kind of tumblrs you're looking at, but this is certainly not my experience.
IME is on the motherboard chipset, not the CPU. The i3 vs i5 is controlled by fuses set at manufacturing time on the CPU itself.
Sure. But same can be said for pretty much any garbage collected system.

If you don't create objects or cause objects to become unreachable, you also won't be creating garbage. So you won't have GC pauses. Unless the GC system is braindead and runs even when there's no heap pressure.
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Since Apple refuses to use some open source software with certain licenses, wouldn't it be good then to release two versions? You wouldn't really need to change any features, just the accompanying version and open source license would be different.

Maybe it's not much of a concern?
Yes, Blendle is a step in the right direction. It includes the ability to demand a refund if you feel you've been baited. It also charges per article, not per page view -- although the prices are higher than what you quoted.
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Would like to ask what features are most important for users?
> I've personally never encountered or seen it's use, which makes the ME's inclusion (on all chips, for about 6 years) seem like an odd decision from Intel.

I consider it as quite plausible that the reason why Intel included ME into all chips is that it is much cheaper to add those unnecessary gates to any chip than to create two different versions of it. The much more interesting question is why ME cannot be disabled. It is clear (see http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/product-brief/mobile-co...) why Intel has a reason why ME should not be possible to disable on some chips. I can imagine that Intel fears that if it can be disabled on some chips, hackers will find a backdoor to also disable it on those chips where it shouldn't be possible.
Endurance launched an open-source DIY robotics program
As I wrote before in my threads Endurance launched an open-source DIY robotics program for anyone who would like to improve skills in practical engineering.

http://endurancerobots.com/en/robots/diy-selfiebot/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH9DDAjLfts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O77JpXoBin4

Right now we are looking for a software engineer who can help us and improve our app.

1. Make is stable for all Android versions
2. Rewrite for iOS
3. Add some features like enabling using face traction and video skype call (need probably some sort of camera split hack)
4. Enable auto-reconnect. Sometimes program fails to receive incoming connection in 15+ minutes idle mode.

Anyone who is interested, please email me: gf@EnduranceRobots.com
Problem with this is when you need a password with a capital letter, or with no symbols, or only 8 characters long.

Additionally, how do you determine the service name? e.g. I have a wordpress.com account; do I call that 'WordPress' or 'wordpress' or 'wordpress.com'? I guess using the domain name is fairly robust, but then you get stuff like Stack Exchange, or the service changes its domain name, or international variants - google.com vs. google.co.uk.
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How much time did it take you to create the course and how much to promote it?
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This really makes me consider moving my family to Zurich.

Looking back at growing up in Germany/Europe made me really feel disadvantaged compared to people growing up in more tech friendly environments. I would want my child to grow up somewhere where technology is not overwhelmingly debated about in a negative light.

So much good stuff is coming out of ETH that it really seems to be a place where people talk more enthusiastically about tech in general.
Ideally the payment system would be in the browser. You deposit some amount the a payment provider, and newspapers sends a 402 Payment Required http code to the browser, when you land on an article.
We are secular homeschoolers. For us, there is no summer break and when the kids get bored during their free time they come up with the most creative things. Ex: They decided to build their own mud cafe with menu, prep kitchen, seating etc. Every food item was essentially made out of mud. Another ex: my daughter was bored and tinkering around with a snap circuit set. All the sudden I hear a faint sound of sports radio. She had built her own AM radio without any help.

Over-scheduling, scripted play, etc in my mind hampers a childs ability to develop deep imagination and creativity.

Checkout the unschooling or self-directed learning movement.
Yeah, it'd not be very nice when DMA start bit in some DMA control register is poked before DMA address is still unset!

Those architectures that do this typically provide specialized always serialized instructions for communicating with memory mapped devices. If not, you need to have proper fences to ensure right order.

X86 stores are always in order (except for some specific instructions, but they're no concern in this context), so it doesn't need this.
"Microsoft tried to enable "do not track" by default and the whole advertising industry went nuts."

Did they? I thought the advertising industry didn't care about this feature or it's default setting at all, since they just ignore it anyway.

It was privacy-conscious people who didn't like the activated-by-default setting. Because in the rare case some service actually did respect that feature, they most likely would choose to ignore it for all IE users, because in most cases it wasn't the users active choice.
The project seeks to both accept OSM.org data and to contribute back:

>Here’s what we would like to have soon, to better interoperate with the rest of the Open Street Map ecosystem:

> import public osm data from a region into osm-p2p
> export osm-p2p edits back to public open street map
This is true. We offer deblobbed Linux (linux-libre) by default.

However, it is very simple to customise packages, including the kernel package, e.g. to apply patches, use different sources, or to exercise your right to disagree with the Linux libre upstream on what blobs should be deleted from the kernel.

That said, I consider freedom by default a feature and it works very well on most of the hardware I use (an exception is an on-board Radeon graphics chip in a desktop machine I don't use much).

Creating package variants is almost trivial; it's certainly no harder than, say, customising Emacs. Guix blurs the lines between user and maintainer, so using custom package definitions is a supported use-case. At work even our scientist users create custom packages in case they are not available in Guix upstream yet.
This sounds like an excellent idea, except switch it on by default. You're describing ublock origin.
Talk to your parents about it. I know many grandparents who'd love to spend more time with their grandchildren, but don't want to intrude on their children's lives so don't offer.
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I thought you were joking, but apparently I haven't been following this. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is an LLC with no association to any 501c3.
Just to mention, if you enjoy Kotlin - you might want to try Anvil+Bansa. It is like React+Redux, but for Kotlin (or Java). Resulting APKs are much smaller than React Native and don't rely on jni code.

http://anvil.site/

https://github.com/brianegan/bansa
A good choice, it has become more stable over the last few months. A while ago i had so many crashes it was unusable.

I get less crashes now and the speed up from running uBlock Origin on my old S3 is very noticeable.
Apparently obligatory: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is not a non-profit. It's a family office that wraps itself in a cloak of philanthropy. It's not a charity, it's a for-profit business.

Maybe at some point it will grow a 501c3 arm but thus far it has not.
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KeePass2? There's a portable version that you can drop on a USB stick, and it Works For Me™.

http://keepass.info
> allowing the execution of libre software doesn't worsen security

It does if I get temporary physical access to your machine and flash something that can spy on you, or if the method of flashing it can be done via your OS and I hack that. Those are two HUGE flaws.
I wish the European Commission study this problem and if found guilty impose a fine in such a way and quantity that in no way those firms can continue exposing their clients to possible economic damage.

The previous imposed fine was of EUR 1.06 billion.

Someone with the required knowledge should submit a detailed record of this potential hazard to the European Commission emphasizing how this system could expose clients to possible threats, its anticompetitive nature, since it could allow hackers gain access to economic secrets, and many other important points.

The FSF should stand up and speak clearly. I hope and wish that the FSF execute its mission, that is to gain and gather the necessary strength to expose the nature and extend of these problems and how to fight against them.

Those that impose on us tools that allow them to control our business, steal our ideas and plans, and ruin our enterprises plaguing with chaos. Those that thrive to submit our future to their will should be fined.

I certainly hope that a new economic fine be imposed. That initiative and measure would set up a strong message and a new precedent targeted to those threating our liberty and economy. A message encoded into an economic hammer with the power to make them shape their will to respect our freedom and integrity.

To be Free and Survive we should Fight. FSF.
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Here's a list from a couple of years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7122999
I think AMD and ARM have similar features though. ARM with TrustZone for example, hiding the "secure world" from knowledge by the "normal world".
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I suspect it's a little from column A and a little from column B.

Not all employees can work remotely for sure, but I suspect if they were to audit the various teams they employ they could pick out some that can in fact work from home and save the company overhead in the process.
So maybe we need to start funding the acquisition of large public datasets in academia?
China is definitely way better than Japan. Maybe imitation of all western products year over year could help them to have more western way of working style and etc but still culture is workaholic, robot like obeying, not criticising at all.
FB are using Reactive Native for their Groups, Ad Manager and F8 Conference apps: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html
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fantastic!

now a site has been breached and your username/password was leaked... yay, you'll have to either start using a traditional password manager for this special case or change every.single.password.you.have.

so useful ...not!
Agreed. I find I have to scroll them out of view to be able to read the text.
Some more discussion:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3059484/mind-and-machine/this-rob...

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36517340
>where technology is not overwhelmingly debated about in a negative light

Was this really true for the place you grew up ? It sounds so luddite.
I bought the new one on the basis of the sample chapter that is available to download at any number of places. It's a much much better book in terms of readability and structure, and has a lot of additional content compared to the previous edition. A lot has happened in electronics since 1989. I recommend you go read the sample chapter and decide accordingly.
> The CDDL has a provision that if any part is held unenforcible it will be modified to make it enforceable. As a matter of licensing, that's incredibly devious and bad. There's other super dodgy parts of the CDDL that make it a bad license purely from a license point of view, let alone from "freedoms given to users" perspective.

Wait until you discover the BSD license, which lets you do whatever you want with the code... you might get a stroke (:-D)

GPL gave me no freedoms, it gave me the GNU userland tools and GNU/Linux (illumos / SmartOS and AT&T SVR4 tools are just fine, thank you, do not want GNU!)

http://www.blinkydog.com/wp-content/uploads/Dogs-Do-Not-Want...

GNU / GPL: DO NOT WANT!

> Your position is also wrong.

Luckily I don't have to license anything under the GPL, GPL cannot take that away from me as long as I don't link with the kernel code licensed under it, or derive code / work from it.

And I'll be extra careful I don't ever land myself in a position where I would have to license something under the GPL. Any other FOSS license is better than the GPL, I have no problem with open sourcing, and cannot wait to clean up my code in order to set it free.

But not under the GPL license.

Finally, CDDL is both FSF and OSI approved: the open source initiative looked over the CDDL license and deemed it to be in compliance with open source. I will take what is in my view their expert finding over your position, but thank you for sharing your opinion.