skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After looking at scrollytelling.io, I am now even more confused about their claim. Their pricing model is based on hosting, with bandwidth and upload limits. Along side that monthly hosting service they offer a one off service for "in-house production" of a story. So. Their model is to collect the production fee for a one off or let the user "produce" the story and profit from the volume savings on hosting.

I can not determine how in either model having the story that has already been paid for hosted remotely would be not a good thing, unless there is a license were somehow scrollytelling retains the ownership of the product they were paid to produce.

I am not sure why they would want to bare the cost of an AJ level distributed, if they are a hosting company. But, if they are a content creation firm maybe they are not actually creating content for the purchaser, but allowing the purchaser to use scrollytelling content, which the purchaser already owned?

Edit: In short I don't understand why the purchaser would not be able to redistribute.

Anyways, I have no idea how the model works inside its industry context, and if I am confused even with the current context provided by the OP, I can not imagine that a journalist would not be.
I think the 'too far' is simply the sample image you are using for 'Besties'. Five friends laying on the ground covered in colorful paint and making silly faces says "we are having an extremely fun time at this event" but doesn't make me think "I feel like playing games on my phone" ... it makes me think "I want to go outside and enjoy real life".

If you used a much more toned-down image of some friends having fun together, maybe simply holding their phones by their sides and laughing at something, it would make me feel more at ease that this app knows its place in my world.
In the "Exploitation and Public Announcments" part of the linked article, it says that this vulnerability was discovered in the documents leaked/hacked from the Equation Group, which appears to be a group either within or extremely close to the NSA, although neither their actual name nor their existence has been acknowledged by the NSA.

I don't see any reference to this exploit being used 14 years ago though, although the code being exploited is that old.
It just is. I work for a German company as a remote team in the US, and we certainly underproduce in comparison. Not by being incompetent, simply by being remote.

Time zone differences really hurt things. As much as we try to find ways to make the value the same, it isn't the people, it's the time.
I used to live near an old historic town with buildings standing since the 1850s. New people and businesses are moving in all the time and stuff needs to be built. The town uses color codes and other design elements to preserve both the older buildings as well as making newer buildings match the historic tone. This is explicitly done to promote and keep tourism flowing into the town, which is a HUGE part of their income.

If an industry or contractor balks at these ideas (and they do every now and again) there are several other larger modern cities a few miles away with access to the Interstate and train yards. These don't share the "historic preservation" codes of this little town.

If the town allowed a free-for-all on design it would wreck it's main source of income and likely cause decay over the years as tourism dropped off.
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Google Apps for Business is good and affordable. $5 per email address. They only charge per email address, so you can add multiple domain support to each address.

Just in case, they do offer phone support that is very helpful for emergencies.

We have been using them now for several years and have never had a major problem. Several months ago we had to merge another Google Business account into our existing account and late on a Saturday night we had a support rep working with us through the entire process to minimize downtime and also ensure we didn't lose any email along the way. They followed back up with us several days later to see if everything was working properly and if we had any more issues. I was pleasantly surprised considering the horror stories you hear about Google in general.
A few comments on this:

First, as etendue says, it is not easy. The problem of mixing “Boolean” verification with probabilistic, less-deterministic verification is especially hard. I discussed this a bit in [1], if you care to take a look.

Also, I think most current AVs are not driven by DNNs at the top level (comma.ai [2] is one exception). See [3] for some discussion of that, and of verifying machine-learning-based systems.

Finally, one possible way to check that AV manufacturers “do the right thing” in correctly verifying the combination of DNNs, Misra C, digital HW, sensors and so on is perhaps to create a big, extensible catalog of AV-related scenarios, which ideally should be shared between the manufacturers and the certifying bodies – see [4]. I think there is some hint of that in the DOT pdf – still working my way through it.

[1] https://blog.foretellix.com/2016/07/22/checking-probabilisti...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...

[3] https://blog.foretellix.com/2016/09/14/using-machine-learnin...

[4] https://blog.foretellix.com/2016/07/05/the-tesla-crash-tsuna...
https://switch.co works pretty well
Surely this is based on 0 personal direct experience with the people that write these kinds of regulations.

I have worked with engineers that write technical regulations. They are generally focused on doing a good job at the task at hand. To think some mid level person that is hired into a normal job and never meets a politician in their career cares about campaign contributions is asinine.

What do you think the people at NASA and NAVSEA and NIST do all day?
Anyone have any more information on the actual fraud that was perpetrated by the owners of coin.mx?
A number of comments here cover how one would use something like this to benefit security of real-world systems. After all, it's a building block you have to combine with other things. This was demonstrated by team behind Nizza in the paper below with examples including digital signatures, VPN's, and so on.

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/nizza.pdf

The first to get certified to high assurance under recent models and delivered in products was INTEGRITY-178B. Like Nizza, they implemented desktops that virtualized the machine with Windows/Linux partitions side-by-side with native apps directly on separation kernel. Runtimes for Ada and Java subsets let you write critical components without common errors from C. Special middleware applies security policies to interactions between components.

http://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity-do-178...

A recent product that's more accessible is the GenodeOS architecture that builds hierarchical, desktop system on top of components like seL4, NOVA, and Nitpicker GUI. They're dual-licensed with open-source available. Work in progress.

https://genode.org/

It should be noted that seL4 itself is aiming for embedded. Many of the top teams are also focusing on language and spec-level models for verification of holistic properties. The isolation approach isn't enough for the level of correctness they're aiming for. Anyone interested in such work should check out Galois's project or CertiKOS.

http://smaccmpilot.org/

http://flint.cs.yale.edu/certikos/mcertikos.html
Slack? Might not fully replace Skype as I don't think there is screen sharing. But for calls and chat, Slack does an outstanding job. Plus all the possible integrations with their API etc.
I'm not. Autonomous cars will face strong competition from regular cars and the manufacturers have got to be worried about liability. Hence, the private sector in this case has it's interests more or less aligned with the regulators so you should expect fairly effective regulation, like with the FAA and commercial airlines.
Wikimedia changes mobile site to save an annual 450 terabytes of mobile data
Ramda is pretty cool. It's also a really good introduction to use-cases for partial function application ("currying"), vs silly "adder" examples. (think of partial function application as dependency injection for FP)
Are there any states where turning on the headlights wouldn't satisfy the law? Using headlights all the time probably won't kill the bulbs in a year, but none the less, is $40 a year really a massive problem?

Similarly, most people don't care about tint. Those that do but are agonized about being able to travel to other states can simply figure out the maximum allowed in the region they plan on traveling in. I guess that reaches the level of irritating, but what are the massive consequences for Joe Driver if he can't darken his windows?
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But then you lose one of main reasons why so many programs were written in a mix of BASIC+assembly. BASIC's tokens were effectively a "virtual machine" with more functionality and a more expressive/"memory efficient" assembly language. Many of the basic programs on the apple ][ simply couldn't have been written in straight C/assembly without running out of RAM. Of course, its possible to build another virtual machine in assembly, or simply call directly into the BASIC routines in ROM, but that doesn't really buy much over just writing the application in BASIC looking for the places where BASIC is to slow, or doesn't support an operation you need and calling assembly.

I remember the day I broke into Ultima and discovered that it was mostly BASIC. I was like WOW, game programmers write in basic too. It validated the way I had hacked together my own ultima clone. (many years after the initial ultima, I was to young in the early 80's to be writing code).
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This felt like a completely pyrrhic victory. Not only did they expose how unnecessary their own product was, but they exposed how unprofessional of a shop they were by leveling accusations over Twitter [0].

I'll take scrollytelling at their word that they were doing this to take a stand for software copyright. Sure, I can respect that. But if you're fighting for a world where SaaS/PaaS developers are properly paid and valued, the most convincing victories are when developers (particularly ones that depend on open-source) and such platforms attract loyal, deep-pocketed clients who show everyone else that such a business can be viable.

This isn't like the case when The Oatmeal burned the HuffPo [1] for hotlinking. The Oatmeal presumably doesn't survive by syndicating to places like Huffpo. But clients who are somewhat unskilled at web production/hosting are the sole source of potential customers for ScrollyTelling, and ScrollyTelling demonstrated that it would rather burn them than mediate technical fuckups.

[0] https://twitter.com/Scrollytellio/status/769971459263459328

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/28/cartoonist-the...

edit: fixed typo in Oatmeal/Huffpo
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If there's no free will, why do anything? Because I can't not do it, because I have no free will...
Lets see what they do. I'm hoping they show some work and are not acting like a petulant child when someone shows an interest in their toy and says "mine!"

I'm going to guess that Java isn't giving the double digit profit margin that Larry gets with his other product lines, so they appear to be just let the money flow in for as long as it can.
Their name is apparently "scrollytelling", not storytelling. FWIW I misread it as that the first time this issue aired, I only just noticed it this time around.
It's a new article. I received it via Patrick's email newsletter today.

Of course, Patrick is all over HN, so parts of the article may seem familiar.
There is Skype for Business :)
See my comment. It has top approaches to that which already delivered implementations.
Indians have been speaking English for a real long time now! That's another stereotype/generalization that keeps getting thrown around! It's not the English - it's the culture that is different and there is relative ease of finding bad Apples over good ones. None of that is closely unique to teams in India. You can find perfectly well English speaking candidates here that don't fit as easily as anywhere else.

Point is if you want to have a remote team for whatever reason you can't expect it to magically save you money and do everything you need. It's a process, you have to have upfront investment in terms of efforts and trying things out. In my experience it works if you give it time and efforts and it can save you money if that's what you're after. And of course remote teams are not fit for every type of project either - so there's a trade off to be made depending on various factors.
So if I had a friend in North Korea and they told me about one of those domains, I would not have been able to resolve it in my browser?

But now that this has happened anyone can?
Define "microwaved from space". Are you talking about the power production, or the power transmission?

If you're talking about production, it's always going to be stupendously cheaper to install solar panels on the ground.

If you're talking about transmission, just look into why we don't already use microwaves for bulk power transmission. One cable can carry gigawatts and lose a couple percent per thousand kilometers. You could go a third of the way around the planet at 75% efficiency. Microwaves are at 75% efficiency to transmit halfway across a room. They're dangerous at high power, and even then your capacity per dish is not going to be very much. Focusing it at such an enormous distance is not going to be easy, and there are extra losses when it travels through the atmosphere.
Scenario One: the value is in the product.

Talk to users.
If there are no users,
Get some users,
Then talk to them.

Scenario Two: the value is in intellectual property.

Develop the intellectual property.
Protect it with patent/copyright/trademark.
Pitch the intellectual property to organizations
with a history of purchasing intellectual property.

Good luck.
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But, you have to search for it though for some reason.
Perhaps you saw a slightly different version of the article, which didn't get as much click-through and so was replaced with this one.
precis: Seattle to Vancouver, 10 year phase in,
starting with HOV lanes.
Self-driving vehicles 80 hours/week - M-F 4am-8pm;
overnight (8pm-4am) & weekends still open to human drivers.
Is is worth spending time on PR when you know that your customers never read tech news.
Right at the bottom of the disclosure.

> The exploit of this vulnerability was publicly disclosed by the alleged Shadow Brokers group for Cisco PIX.
Inspiration is not something that just happens. Children at play aren't being distracted by HN or Reddit. You have to sit down and put the work in.

Bad writers wait until they have an idea to start writing. Good writers know the ideas don't happen until after they've started writing.
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Detecting analysts before installing malware
because Thorium is pretty much free too, as it's everywhere. and meltdowns just stop the reaction and you can recommission the system easily, or just stop the meltdown before it happens.
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"If you work at a software company. . . you should be doing A/B testing for the same reason you have an accountant do your taxes. It is a low-risk low-investment high-certainty way to increase economic returns."

Spot on, and you should 100% support Patrick & Nick and buy their books / videos / etc.

But A/B testing is not as simple as hiring an accountant, running A/B testing as part of your corporate culture requires:

- Front end developer to install / manage testing engine.

- UX designer to measure / understand where holes may be in your flow.

- Competent web designer to execute instructions from UX designer.

- Statistically sound processes to know when to "call" a test (no Optimizely does NOT do this)

- SEO / marketing people to make sure that your A/B test didn't just break marketing flow

- etc

Yes, anybody could go run a headline test.

But running A/B testing with any sort of regularity, scale, and success is a complicated problem.
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We finally have tolerable garbage collectors.
I've worked for mobile gaming and fintech. Would I voluntarily do either of those? Hell no. But I love the experiences, the learning, and my awesome coworkers. I got insights into problem solving methods I wouldn't have encountered otherwise. I got an appreciation for new problem spaces. In short, I had a great time and wouldn't change a thing.

I'd work on my current engagement for as long as they'll have me because it's an intersection of the life interests I keep coming back to. I love going to work every day. But wow, am I ever glad I played those other "2 years, tops" roles.
macOS Sierra is now out
It's not landed on the featured tab yet but you can download the official final release by following these instructions:

1. Go to the Mac App Store.
2. Find any App made by Apple
3. Click "More Apps by Apple"
4. Download macOS Sierra
The contrary perspective is appreciated. My outside take was the MS acquired Skype for the reasons you mention and in addition they also thought they had a VoiP solution that would be the killer app for Windows Phone. Then that ran into the obvious telecom incumbent push back that Apple and the iPhone seemed to navigate with such ease. MS arrogantly disregarded the telecoms positioning in this time period period since the telecoms were going to lose their voice revenue before having worked out mobile IP pricing and caps. The telecoms didn't want a voice service competition. So then Windows Phone was without its killer app and everything started to atrophy (Windows Phone/Skype/Nokia).
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Not just the dialect that's tough to translate, but also the diction. DPRK propaganda tends to use a lot of bombastic language -- it shows in their English press releases as well.
This is more true than many here may realize. If you're not familiar with how microkernels work, remember that everything is moved from kernel to user space if it's at all feasible to do so. In L4 and related systems, that usually means that the kernel doesn't even include the memory manager (the "pager"). So even page faults are handled by application code, which IIRC is not part of the current verification.
The article discusses some great points. I think one of the big issues effecting college grad underemployement is also that there not as many people going into technical schools. Those are careers which are almost always in demand much like the STEM fields the article discusses but there is somewhat of a stigma about going for technical things vs. liberal arts or the full on STEM areas.
I will be happily dancing around the flames of Skype.
That feels more like firing a team for not producing, not making bottom-of-the-stack-rank cuts because you need to free up budget.
Flow understands some TC39 proposals, if you use the right flags:

esproposal.class_instance_fields=enable

but it chokes on ones it doesn't understand. I tried using Flow and RxJS in the same codebase. RxJS makes heavy use of the pipeline operator:

stream::map(thing) vs map.call(stream, thing)

Flow will stop checking types as soon as it sees ::. Babel parses it, but Flow runs in parallel, so it needs to be able to walk the AST itself.
We have primarily focused on our iOS/Android apps. That's where 99% of our funnel takes place.

Because everything was already built with HTML5 (or actually: WebKit's HTML5), we got Chrome/Safari support almost for free and that's why the web version exists.

Getting firefox and IE to behave is something that still needs some attention. Thanks for trying out!
That's not what isolation is meant here: if there is a connection between applications that allows cap transfer, they aren't isolated at the cap level. See www.nicta.com.au/pub?doc=7371 for more details, page 35 ("Authority Confinement and Integrity"). If there is any shared memory or potential for shared memory via the vspace caps, there can still be info flows (see page 38, "Confidentiality: Information-flow security").

The theorems are somewhat technical, but your intuition is correct.
They even took the motto.

Pageflow - Interactive Storytelling
Audio compression optimized for psychoacoustics, I figure.

I doubt you'd be able to plug a dial-up modem into skype and achieve a working computer connection. Pure tones (as from key presses) is a less extreme case, but it's a conceivable problem.
Is the Z3C getting Android updates? How is the Sony software/skin/bloatware/addons compared to the cleanness of the Nexus line?
duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535072
Perhaps menu-driven refactoring is overrated?

(much like IDE generated getter/setter code, which is solving the wrong problem)
There is an old idea that the visual cortex involved when we visualize past experiences or memorized material. It probably has a recall machinery.

With the blind subjects, perhaps, this activity (dealing with abstractions) has been registered as a distinct (due to lack of sensory input), while in the control group it is drowned in the noise of normally functioning visual cortex.

So, it is interesting but inconclusive. Also fMRI can't be used as a method of discovery, because it is based on very approximate statistical models. Something is going on there. Well, there always something is going on.
If I'm not mistaken, it's a completely different product with the same name. It was lync for a long time, and they just basically changed the name but kept all the innards intact. I'm fairly sure it's on prem.
Given how much people schedule "play dates" for their kids, I wonder how much your point may still hold :)
`defer` mostly makes sense when there's multiple exit paths (returns) or if there's a chance any of the code panics. Neither is the case in this instance, so just doing it like that is fine. There is also a slight overhead for deferring, as it needs to allocate some memory on the heap
Isn't Skype for Business just Lync with a new name? I'm not sure it has any relation to the original Skype?
[Edit: see child comments, this isn't right]

Rather than using CCS, one can use gcc or clang targeted to cortex-m3 (gcc target: arm-none-eabi + `-march=cortex-m3`, clang:thumbv7-eabi) to build the code (with the usual caveats that you're targeting a bare metal system).

The PRU is just a cortex-m3 core which is connected in interesting ways to the cortex-a8 on which linux runs. Nothing too exotic.
Stripe support is very responsive to questions: https://support.stripe.com/
Is one really needed? Facebook has VOIP, Slack has VOIP, most modern games have decent built in VOIP. It's not an interesting problem anymore and it's available everywhere.
What makes you think comparable services are not equally compliant with intercept regulations?
And this is just one of the disclosed 0day tools. Supposedly, the Shadow Brokers have quite a bit more that has yet to be released. Should be interesting in the future as more comes out.
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