skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The kernel and the root FS are now unencrypted - but not other things, such as the bootloaders (iBoot, LLB) and the firmware for the SEP (Secure Enclave Processor, used to handle things like Touch ID).
Well yeah but since Audi bought them they actually have decent guts as opposed to just being really pretty show ponies.

The Aventador was an R8 with a really good bodykit and there was NOTHING bad about that, it was the first Lambo in a long time that could actually take a corner at speed.
The best minds of my generation
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to manipulate people into buying things they don't need.

This is a modified version of "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make me click on ads." My attempt was to make this more direct at the intent of clicking on ads.
Money and greed. It's as simple as that.
Personal Computers had a 15 year adoption cycle. VR will be even longer. We don't really know who is affected or unaffected by it. Only a few dozen people have used real VR on a regular basis. By "real" VR I mean a facility with at least a $M price tag. Let's assume that this raises the percent who find it utterly tolerable to 50%. That's still way higher than the rate for amusement park rides - which is a multi-billion dollar business.
Yep, that's a huge problem with "sustainable" OSS: it's wonderful to get a one-time $50k grant but if you expect to spend the next 10 years maintaining a reasonably complex/sized project, that $5k/yr is still minimum wage.
So, GTA brought in 2.5B, not all of Take-Two.

By mid-2013 Candy Crush had over 500m downloads, and in 2015 was still pulling over 340m monthly players. By comparison, GTA 5 sold about 235m units total so your apple-to-apple comparisons are not so much.

As for "playing their game," I've been in this business since before the iPhone. I didn't choose to work in an industry that raced to the bottom for pricing. Mobile gaming is fun and enormous and provides opportunities for small devs that consoles never did. That said, there is a wide range of free-to-play monetization, not all of which is pure pay-to-win. But this is the industry - you can bury your head in the sand, but you'll go out of business.

You may think jumping from one industry to another is easy, but you'd be mistaken. But you know, compare us all to King if it makes you happy. There are many people beating that drum, but they simply can't grip the economic realities of software and the mobile industry as a whole.

We work to make games people love to play. We have a lot of players. They've all told us how they prefer to pay for our games so that our families might eat. That's fine with me, and with our employees who love making games.
It's the people who made the robot that are bright. The people who use the robot may or may not be bright...all you can say for sure about them is that they had enough money to buy a robot.

As robots get more and more autonomous, and so are able to take over more jobs and need less human supervision, you reach a point where the owner of the robot is not really contributing any more to society than the people the robots have unemployed.

This will be especially true a generation later when the owners who actually bought the robots are gone and the new owners inherited the robots. The danger there is that we end up with a society where the the robot owners are like medieval lords, the robots are the serfs, and the rest of humanity are beggars, and your place in the world is largely fixed at birth except for a lucky few who are able to marry into the robot owner class.
Standoff over guns. John Lewis is an absolute hero
Isn't it more the case of them being a different joke than the CA system and cert pinning?
Show HN: WebGL Cube Snake Game – ES6 Rewrite with Enemy Snakes
Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you.

I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!
Or perhaps the three-letter-agencies demanded they do such a backdoor (i.e. a deliberate but obscure security hole), so they are open-sourcing it so hackers can find it.
It's not illegal for a company to offer an alternative to the NBN. I think it is however mandatory for a provider who can service a dwelling with NBN to upgrade from a legacy technology (i.e. DSL) to the NBN.

This does not preclude other high-speed internet options servicing those dwellings.

For example, https://www.lightningbroadband.com.au offers or plans to offer 100/100 (actually, some pages have mentioned 200/200 but maybe that's coming later or business only). A salesperson explicitly told me they plan to service NBN-connected areas too but that they'll probably prioritise other non-NBN metro areas first, because the demand will be stronger.
I've been through this a million times before.
If they refuse to act with me as a single entity, they're dead to me.
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Great comment there. "Taste creates groups, or at the very least polices their boundaries..."
I will address these with respect to domvm [1]

> What about state within a component? How do you encapsulate that state so that other components can't muck with it?

Solved.

> What about passing data to that component?

Solved.

> What about type checking that data passed in in debug mode?

Could be solved if i rewrote in TypeScript. But this has never been a problematic issue in 10k+ LOC apps.

> What about a formal API for components to talk to one another?

Yep.

> What about knowing the explicit amount of the view tree that needs to be re-rendered based on what data changed?

Obviously, that's what virtual dom is.

In addition to all of this and much more, materialized views are independently refreshable, can be composed between disjoint components. There are async lifecycle hooks, a router, mutation observers, ajax sugar.

All of it is 17k min, requires no special tooling or IDE to write, is isomorphic and is 2-3x faster than React.

I have no doubt that React brings a lot to the table, but I hesitate to treat it as the final word in frontend frameworks for all the above reasons.

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm
true, but the difference between a 1080p and retina displays are quite stark. as is the difference between LCD and eInk. that might change things?
> By taking the soybean gene that encodes the heme protein and transferring it to yeast, the company has been able to produce vast quantities of the bloodlike compound.

GMO is OK now?
No, but the point of this thread was that there is room in the middle to make money, you don't have to be in the top 200.

We use rewarded video and advertising and IAP in free-to-play games our users play, but we have no desire to be exploitative.

The amount of room between basic free-to-play and psychological warfare on your players is enormous.
The Business Implications of Machine Learning
Tesla's Plan to Buy SolarCity Has Major Flaws
I freed an innocent man from prison. Hacker News failed him.
About 9 months ago, I asked Hacker News to help me free an innocent man serving a life sentence for murder. I shared my letter to the DA's office and asked for feedback.

People responded to complain that my headline broke the rules. But nobody took the time to read my letter.

Good news: I won anyway. The DA's office just announced that they got the wrong guy. Tomorrow, after 11 years in prison, Ray Jennings will walk out of court a free man.

Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10323025

Today's story: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-conviction-doubt-20160622-snap-story.html
Gowers argues that even without considering generalizations of the reals, it is not "obvious". He argues that if the Theorem were "obvious", we should quickly be able to say that 23 x 1759 != 53 x 769, without multiplying them out.
Is there any way to use this information to confirm that the current kernel on a phone is legit?
> so that even rogue states can benefit

Dude, human factors like personality and mood quickly render safeguards moot, within the atmosphere of a despotic dictatorship.

Open source any amount of safety protocals, and pray that they get used, and you'll acquaint yourself with disappointment.

People who concoct nuclear programs are toying with suicide, and their level of interest in safety can be understood by their decision to weaponize such a thing to begin with.

Meanwhile, cap such a program with a lone psychotic emperor, prone to fits of cruel and unusual punishment, and see what he does on a bad day, as his body ages, and he grows crankier with every waking morning. Now surround him with an echo-chamber of eager-to-please, hawkish, testosterone-fueled military upstarts.

Sounds like a pretty cool video game plot.
Once you go to filibuster, you've already lost.
Broken URL. Looks like it should have ".html" added at the end:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/business/dealbook/teslas-p...
From a browser, you can also use bangs to search a specific site from duckduckgo. Stackoverflow is !so.
Movement with arrow keys is a bit buggy right now. I just wanted to show progress (smooth animations, AI, mobile performance).
Is your compiler deterministic?
TinyURL was established in 2002, Twitter in 2006.
$60/month now but I agree with all your points.
Heard about it because of this blog. Very excited to see more.
I agree. Alread read several hundred of them. Looks like I gotta come back for anotger 200 or so. Just so many interesting subthreads here with who knows what impact waiting to happen. Thanks to you and HN for arranging it.
Your comment reminds me of an article written by Peter Norvig, Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years (http://norvig.com/21-days.html). I like how you said to think about one's career as an apprenticeship. This allows a person to be mindful that they are always learning and perfecting their craft.
I use this Chrome plugin to open links to any external site in a new tab

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/open-external-link...
Instructions for applying for MOSS grants can be found under each of the three tracks listed on https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS
Author here - The massive growth of big data talent is not spurred by the government, but by the fact that the Chinese market place is many times bigger than the provincial markets that Silicon Valley often ends up targeting. Within a year of launch,our client Tantan would have accounted for a very hefty percentage of ALL the traffic that Mixpanel disclosed that their clients were recording.

The data is bigger here because the market is bigger here, and the internet is more modern here. If you haven't walked a day in the shoes of a Chinese person with WeChat and Alipay, you haven't seen the future of the internet.

It's time for Silicon Valley to catch up.
ESP 8266 Mailbox Notifier Using DeepSleep and Blynk
Apple is using developers as an R&D arm
Nitpick: they are not open-sourcing it; they are just leaving the compiled binary unencrypted.
I would be interested in seeing "confident prescriptions for human life" in an actual paper. What I have seen, and when I've been present at Q&A sessions with scientists presenting their results, was a lot of discomfort and equivocating when someone would ask the question "If we do <x> will it mitigate or reverse the changes in climate?". I watched one poor guy not answer the question "If I had a magic wand and removed all anthropogenic CO2 from the air, would it stop global warming?" The questioner was clearly a climate skeptic but the truth is that science doesn't actually know. That was the root of the resistance to the iron fertilization experiments[1]

As a result we have a lot of research which clearly indicates that humans are destabilizing the climate which will induce it to change, but no one that I have found has been willing to stand up and claim they could drive the climate in a particular direction or speak definitively on what the eventual result of our destabilizing influences will have.

Our ability to predict outcomes is limited by our understanding of the complex interactions (which is why I like the recent Nature article, it really gets to that point) We can make fairly mechanical predictions of the form "If this much fresh water was dumped into the ocean, it would go up by this many meters." Some have also speculated that the increased weight on the mantle of all that water will cause a massive increase in volcanism as magma is compressed.

The most definitive statement I have ever read from an actual scientist is that by generating fewer green house gases we will destabilize it less. The elephant in the room then is without human participation the planet has seen warm spells and ice ages. So at best, our influence is eradicated and it goes back to what ever was previously changing the climate before we came along.

As a result I don't think telling anyone to accept lower growth and poorer health by curtailing fossil fuel use is a reasonable strategy. You can tell them that the more energy efficient they are, the better their economy will be able to support them. Telling them to suffer because it will stop climate change does them a disservice. Telling them to get off fossil fuel because they will be healthier and more prosperous if they can live on renewable sources benefits from being demonstrably true.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7229/abs/nature07...
GitHub's Game of Life (userscript)
Or explain why swans are black in one environment, white in another environment. Here is where knowledge increases. Otherwise, we would be counting all generalized claims, stereotypes as scientific hypotheses.
Longtime lurker, thought this might be fun to someone else. Cellular automata for your Github activity map
And for all we know there are also documents prepared in support of Bernie Sanders which, if leaked, would paint the parallel picture of DNC supporting him.

And that's assuming these documents are complete and unmodified. Nothing stopped this hacker from selectively editing and selectively leaking to support their agenda.

It seems relatively obvious that the DNC would have had teams preparing for both scenarios. The only difference is that Sanders has been a viable candidate for a shorter period of time.
> From my perspective I can see that there are two distinct unique individuals having different thoughts saying different things and doing different things.

Can you though? Assuming the cloning process works, and assuming they wake up in identical rooms, why would they think, say, or do anything differently?
i don't know what to make of this. so you correctly predicted that 5-10 years of lurcrative sales in a closed system didnt feel right to you because you were a big fish in a pond that woud become larger, so you stopped /dead/ and did what? again, I am not trying to be rude, just trying to figure out what provided a better opportunity cost and was more interesting for you to work on that you gave up 20-30 years in the mac ecosystem?
Here is a personal anecdote that will hopefully make clear what I'm talking about. When I first used LDA I was blown away at how context could disarm homonyms. This type of insight isn't exactly mind blowing after the fact, but it's still compelling enough to expect that statistical models produce insights that are broadly applicable without having to resort to proving it.
How does this differ from any other file hosted on the web? I could make an address that just serves a .exe file, but people wouldn't say that Microsoft is kneecapping the web because of it.
As far as I can tell, the Start menu in Windows 10 is XAML, not HTML.
Until they don't with better DAOs.
#NoBillNoBreak
Sounds like a trump presidency.
Google actually acts as the censor in RTBF. While the government has publicly set the criteria for processing RTBF requests, Google itself is tasked with making the decision whether or not to remove a site from search results.
US Copyright defaults to the author, it is only with employee contracts/agreements that one can forego the default and assign to the company. Something like the google license is there to help with making a clear distinction between google-owned copyright, author-owned copyright and author-owned copyright permanently licensed to google. Meaning that google will never be required to pay any kind of royalties for the author's work even after they leave employment at google.
I don't recall anyone getting mad at the FBI hacking an iPhone.

What I think you're referring to is when "we all" got mad at the FBI for trying to force Apple to hack an iPhone. "We all" objected to the idea of a national government compelling a private company to invent new lock-picking tools.
We have not yet outlived the Club of Rome's projections. Globally, oil consumption continues to increase as if renewables did not exist. We live inside the OECD bubble where oil consumption is declining, and that's not the global trend.

There are some rays of hope in the form of population stabilization. But whether we're screwed or not depends quite a bit on what the number is: Is it 9 billion, or 15 billion? Are we already so far past long term sustainability ? Are we screwed due to climate change?

Maybe we'll be eating and burning stuff made in vats by CRISPR-ized algae and 15 billion will be OK, if by "OK" you mean everyone eats, just don't look to hard at the environmental degradation. But without some breakthroughs things could get rather tight.
A few I noted: Neural nets don't emulate the brain. NIPS is not an obscure conference, it's been the top ML conference for decades (sure, it's an obscure conference to laymen, but so is pretty much every science publication conference).
Spoiled: Ruin Game of Thrones for your friends, automatically
They've banned WHAT??

Oh FRACKing...never mind.
Liu Dong: Openness+ Open Source Will Stir a New Wave of SDNFV Innovation
Really makes you consider the anthropic principle.
And most of the "regular" sportbikes are under $20k.

For the price of a Honda Civic you get the performance of a supercar - plus the experience of riding cage-free, which in itself is pretty awesome.
that is not true. again, we aren't talking about a coursera course and paywalling information and vital self-learning here. We are talking about a dollar for a luxury game on a device that costs nearly $1000 and $100 a month for service. This is leaving aside that the economics of $4-5 a game would be better than a free game that is unwinnable unless you spend > $10.

I believe the parent, and if not then certainly I, am talking about games that are subsciption based and promote full releases that get upgrades and create community. not a 0.99 clone. this market is largely rich communities anyway if you use the world income scale, but we aren't using that scale, we are talking about iphone owners with discretionary income already willing to spend 1-30 a year on games...
I wonder what 911 that was, the only million dollar ones that come to mind are either a rare racing version from the 70s or something like a 911GT1. As a daily driver a Ford GT would be way better than either, as a race car on a track I would argue otherwise.
It is not "mesh wireless" gear, but it is a mesh at the routing layer (ECMP). My old building had PtP wireless to multiple other buildings.

Edit: I always speculated the difference between 100Mbps and 200Mbps on-net buildings was if that particular location was multihomed.
Well if there is a bug in the Ethereum software itself, it would be different. In the sense that miners could decide which branch they want. To be honest they could do this with the current proposed forks as well.

The huuuge problem I see here is that it is the Ethereum Foundation, and Vitalik Buterin himself, who are proposing the fork as a remedy. They should simply say "well duh, fire burns."
Also requires javascript served over http. I just closed the window. I can live without it.
Yes I... totally did that on purpose...
> The spokesperson is talking out of their ass regarding performance.

I'm fairly certain that this statement was vetted by Craig Federighi himself or, at minimum, a high-level engineering manager.
I don't think splitting a project up into libraries is what the philosophy describes. If I filter out the 1600+ issue in the Docker project right now, I can see many related to Swarm. Your users now inherit all of the bugs and necessary features of swarm even if they're only interested in using Docker on a single host. The Unix philosophy would also not commend the amount of duplicate effort that the Docker team is pouring into swarm when the problem of clustering have already been tackled by other companies and teams. One unix tool does not develop half of another unix tool, it just uses that other tools and relies upon the experience and expertise of the community. No, If Docker grows a sub tool to solve every problem, it no longer qualifies as meeting the requirements of the philosophy, and it certainly doesn't reap the benefits of compose-ability at the user level. I vote for separate tools and freedom of choice any day over one giant, precomposed tool. I think it's also discouraging that we will now see swarm slowly grow all the features of its competitors, when that engineering effort could have gone elsewhere. To summarize: Don't reinvent, prefer choice to lock in, composition is at the user level, not the tool level (libraries don't count). Plugins were a great step forward, built in swarm was a step backward.
Quite the opposite. Firstly, despotic regimes are by their nature control driven, one common characteristic of which is an inability to act without central directives from leadership. Iraq is a classic case. Despotic regimes persist for the purposes of preserving and enriching the despot, where even the intent to use nuclear arms in an age of deterrence is extremely counter-productive to that goal. North Korea, Russia and other nations demonstrate the futility of preventing proliferation. But there has been some success in educating fledgling nuclear states on safeguards (reportedly Pakistan). If you can't eliminate it, mitigate it as best you can and manage the risks.
Poor and stupid - Simple you are. In a civil society those that provide a utility (or "fun") to others are rewarded and incentivized.