skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this means I can go to a public performance and no longer have to try to look past the sea of upthrust arms and glare of 1000 brightly lit screens to see what I came to see then it can't come quickly enough!

Particularly since I feel it will inspire the next product which is an IR flood light that renders all digital cameras useless, since there are so many people oblivious to the fact by trying to capture the experience for themselves they're detracting from the experience for everyone else.

Letting people who need a digital memento silently get one without intruding on the experience of those of us just there to enjoy and be in the moment is a great compromise.
I wonder what is the intended use case of this. The response will be lackluster which will make creating a V2 harder.
Or just getting further away, or closer.
The article mentions that the oldest actual computer in use by the government regards nuclear strike operations, and that it's actually being upgraded sometimes next year. I find this...concerning? Says they're upgrading terminals and data storage, which seems pretty harmless, but I feel like in terms of nuke-launching tech, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a pretty good philosophy to live by.
4 Dead in Shooting at Mall in Washington State, Police Say
Agree to an extent. Personally, being aware that this only records for 10 seconds and requires a tap to activate, I can feel pretty confident nothing is recording.

Then again, even if I know someone is pointing an empty gun at me, I'm still of the mindset "don't point that at me!"
But don't forget that Manhattan was a three-country effort. Don't forget where the uranium came from, or the number of scientists brought in from all over the allied nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
we will see a few more acquisitions play out in this space over the next year or so but I do believe Google will have a hard time acquiring the companies in the space as tons of people are jumping ship and some are even starting their own self driving startups with prolly no intention of going back to google like Otto
It could still be merit based, but in an underserved VC segment. I like this idea and wish them good luck.
Slate, now 20 years old, reflects on the value of taking the long view
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.enabled
I was just talking about how terrible Youtube's recommendations are with my brother today and I realize this idea is naive but I think it would work better than the current machine language system:

- Gather up all the channels that are followed by channels that I follow and/or have liked videos on.
- Recommend me videos from those channels.

I'm pretty sure in my case this would be much better results than what I currently get shown at any given time.
Must be a bug or other error. US presidential terms end on January 20, so it definitely wouldn't be before then. According to Wikipedia inauguration is held on the 20, unless it's a Sunday in which case it's held the next day.
The DOD one ("Strategic Automated Command and Control System") claims to be 53 years old and run on a Series/1. But Series/1 first came out in 1976, 40 years ago. Anyone understand the discrepancy?
Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast
Largest DDoS attack ever delivered by a botnet of IoT devices
Comments like this always remind me of when camera phones were controversial and had to make a loud clicking noise when they took pictures so everyone knew it was happening. Fast forward 10-15 years and do you really know whether that person using their phone across from you on the bus isn't recording you?

Nope.
> when trying to build things and learn programming languages you should either build something you know in a language you’re learning, or build something new in a language you already know, but not try to do both at the same time.

This makes a lot of sense. I learned this the hard way.
How is it different from the first edition?
How do you feel when a stranger in public know is holding their phone as if they are filming and pointing the camera right at your face? Now transpose that feeling onto someone wearing these glasses simply looking at you. Because you won't know if they are filming or not.

It's not similar to someone just having their phone out in their hands looking down at their screen. It's similar to someone with their phone camera pointed at you.
These glasses are going to be a huge hit thanks to their style. The main userbase of snapchat are product-hungy 12-25 year olds without much conviction; they'll jump at the chance to get a product that looks cool and represents their favourite timesink. I am very impressed with this move because it gives Snapchat a supplement to ad-based revenue. I hope this makes them a lot of money.
What about the alternative of building up wealth? It's the conservative view, but if you get to 30 or 40 with significant assets, you have a lot more flexibility to explore what you want without worrying about money. With the supply demand curve favoring devs for the time being, why not jump from job to job taking the compensation increase each time? I think my 2-3 year stints will catch up to me at some point, but if I have 1-2m in liquid assets, I think I'll have a much wider set of means than if I had optimized for experience. You'll still fail and learn, but you'll be sitting on cash instead of worthless options
I think he's actually saying that it got winamp loved, but music match and nero reviled.
It can only film for 10 seconds, so if they have not tapped it in the last 10 seconds you know you are not being recorded.
This is probably the best case of out-in-the-open open source developers of similar-but-different tools collaborating on a new standard and implementing them in record time that I have ever seen.

Keep it up all (rg/ag/sift)!
The two platforms are completely different. The users of FB (and LinkedIn) put their real information on the website, allowing advertisers to target effectively which raises the average ad value on the website. Intuitively, revenue = ad value * # impressions.

Twitter is in between anonymous forums (unfortunately they all died) and FB/LinkedIn in terms of ability of advertisers to target users. They're living off of high impressions, and they've basically already saturated the market. Now they need to somehow raise ad value, which would mean integrating hundreds of free, quality services to gather data like Google or tying Twitter accounts to real identities (like the Google+ attempt)
There is a way to salvage the term (and preserve its distinctive meaning from "liberal" etc). Most libertarians already speak of minimal government, as opposed to no government - ancaps are a vocal but small minority. So the question simply becomes, what exactly constitutes "minimal". And that is very much a subjective assessment.

I posit that there is a broader category, which is distinct from what people usually mean when they speak of or self-identify as libertarians, that adheres to the same principle. Basically, the idea is that government is always, by its very nature ("all power comes from the barrel of a gun"), an intrusion on some liberties - and so any extension of government requires a solid justification and thorough vetting. However, some freedoms and liberties have to be intruded upon in order to maintain others. Again, most bona fide libertarians would agree - say, the freedom to violently coerce other people is clearly not the one that you want.

But once you get into this mode of thinking, and ditch ideological stereotypes, there are many other limitations that appear perfectly reasonable. More importantly, you realize that whether some limitation is justifiable or not depends on your [inherently subjective] assessment of what is good and what isn't - but that is orthogonal to the minimal government principle. In other words, there are many different kinds of libertarians, who all agree on that basic principle, but disagree on what outcome they desire (and hence on how much government is "just enough").

So you can be a libertarian, but still consider public welfare programs to be a good way to spend money, because the alternative would be worse, in terms of overall individual liberties.
>Truth though is fly ash isn't really that much more radioactive than any common sample of soil (1 to 10X). And uranium and thorium aren't particularly problematic.

Radium is an issue here. But like I said, the air pollution from burning coal is orders of magnitude greater than the risk from radiation exposure from coal. The only interesting thing about this is that the anti-science crowd that is afraid of nuclear power doesn't realize that if the NRC regulated coal plants, they would immediately be shut down due to excessive releases of radiation.

>...As your link shows coal isn't growing very fast as a source of energy.

yes, but your original comment was:
>... Bonus, coal is going away and soon[1].

Most people wouldn't consider a slowing of the growth rate to be "going away and soon". Hopefully they will be gone before they cause an environmental catastrophe.

>..R.ight now taking a 30 risk on a coal fired plant vs a 5 year risk on a natural gas plant, the choice is pretty obvious.

Replacing a horrible fossil fuel with a less bad fossil fuel is not a huge improvement when there are safer non CO2 emitting power sources - nuclear for base load power and solar/wind as intermittent power.
From your points:

> Australia's DSD said that just patching stuff and using whitelisting would've prevented 75% of so-called APT's in their country. Throw in MAC-enabled Linux, OpenBSD, sandboxed (even physically) browsers w/ NoScript, custom apps in safe languages, VPN's by default, sanest configuration by default, and so on. Residual risk gets tiny. What I just listed barely cost anything.

That's a lot more invasive ongoing work than "add piece of hardware", or "add this DNS record".
The iPhone is a particularly bad example. It did so much, phone, SMS, web, email, maps, compass, iPod, weather, stocks, and a lot more.
Not to mention uboot, busybox, etc.
Interesting that user time went up as well.. not sure if that's significant.

I guess it's not too surprising that mmap isn't much of a win these days for anything... SIMD can copy a memory page pretty fast these days.

I just installed rg from homebrew and it's quite impressive... about 2.5x faster than ag on my macbook pro. Interestingly I get another 25% improvement by falling back to -j3 even though I'm on a quad-core machine. Not sure what is bottlenecking since it's all in cache.
The C++ codebase was originally written because Java didn't run on iOS. In fact, MC:PE has sold more copies than the desktop version. Not sure about MC:W10, probably a desire to unite under one codebase.
> but shouldn't the browser only write to disk when that actually happens

The problem is that it's happening continuously. Any page with analytics or ad engines (I'd guess easily 95% of the top visited web) is continually logging how long you've been on the page, scroll position, idle time, etc. And then setting a cookie to remember the session info/last time it was updated.

It would be interesting to see what installing an ad blocker would do to these numbers.
I don't know if you can say it locks out vendors. Earlier this year, the reports were that Palantir had problems retaining commercial contracts. With their "forward deployed engineers", the image that's emerged is that Palantir is a contractor house with a patina of spies.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/inside-palantir-silico...
So if an young guy who you rated as attractive came up to you and started filming you , that wouldn't make you at all uncomfortable ?
A fully open source business workflow engine, pre-built with a great UI for the users to execute the workflow. Mobile friendly is a definite plus.

Almost all government software are essentially workflow engines. This would instantaneously solve loads of problems.
Here's another (less life-threatening) example: The Conspiracy Behind Your Glasses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7H-_8UkmFU
Ed25519 is fast, but I don't think the speed is significantly faster to be an argument for using it. Running the borgingssl speed tool on a skylake mobile processor:

Did 1083 RSA 2048 signing operations in 1017532us (1064.3 ops/sec)
Did 29000 RSA 2048 verify operations in 1016092us (28540.7 ops/sec)
Did 1440 RSA 2048 (3 prime, e=3) signing operations in 1016334us (1416.9 ops/sec)
Did 50000 RSA 2048 (3 prime, e=3) verify operations in 1014778us (49271.9 ops/sec)
Did 152 RSA 4096 signing operations in 1000271us (152.0 ops/sec)
Did 8974 RSA 4096 verify operations in 1076287us (8337.9 ops/sec)
...
Did 6720 Ed25519 key generation operations in 1029483us (6527.5 ops/sec)
Did 6832 Ed25519 signing operations in 1058007us (6457.4 ops/sec)
Did 3120 Ed25519 verify operations in 1053982us (2960.2 ops/sec)

RSA key verification is still extremely fast.

(also don't look at these numbers purely as speed, but as CPU time spent)
There is a considerable ongoing research effort in formal verification of learned systems. Once an ML system has been trained, it becomes deterministic and can be tested.
I think you're saying the problem is that the camera is pointed straight at you, and you're taking this as having the intention to film you. But phone cameras can have a wide angle. You can film people without pointing the phone straight at them. Someone walking around with a phone simply pointed vaguely in your direction could very well be filming you, and you won't know. Plus, CCTVs certainly are filming you, and like I said, I don't see the parent poster complaining about that.

With Glass I feel it's a matter of interpreting their intention. Someone with a camera strapped to their head will naturally be pointing it straight at you if they talk to you, but this isn't necessarily the same as them having the intention to film you.

Plus, you know, there's no law against filming in public. Maybe that's just the goldfish bowl we're all living in now. Maybe Zuckerberg was right and privacy is dead, or at least a luxury most of us can't afford.
Yeah, figuring out the optimal thread count has always seemed like a bit of a black art to me. I can pretty reliably figure it out for my system (which has 8 physical cores, 16 logical), but it's hard to generalize that to others.

-j3 will spawn 3 workers for searching while the main thread does directory traversal. It sounds like I should do `num_cpus - 1` for the default `-j` instead of `num_cpus`.
With greater money comes greater power. With greater power comes greater responsibility.

Publicly traded companies already have to disclose salaries of their CEOs, but not their janitors. Same logic.
I wish we could have a web assembly backend for tcc. Emscripten is awesome indeed, but having a lightweight C compiler allows for many possibilities, such as online compilation within the browser.

If only I had enought time I would try doing that myself :(
This will take "it's just a prank bro" to a new level.
Based on the number of vlogs I see on YouTube shot with DSLRs, I don't think many people care about being filmed.

I probably show up in hundreds of videos from bike commuting over the Brooklyn Bridge. It doesn't matter. I'm guessing 99.99% of the videos go unwatched anyway.
I don't understand why all these software companies are in a rush to make hardware. With the lone exception of Apple, all hardware seems to resort in a race to the bottom commoditization resulting in paper thin margins.
Making a Twitter Bot Using Google Spreadsheets
I don't think it's a worthwhile effort in the slightest. You don't see people as individuals, rather as categories.
"I'm making an impact by helping minority/women"
"I'm white"
Nothing will get better by doing this. Instead, judge each human by their unique characteristics. People don't want to be recognized because of these attributes, but instead because they really accomplished something worthwhile, or did something extraordinary. Not be born with X genatalia or Y skin colour.
Not sure, but my guess would be that the yellow was a hardcoded constant in the code in a few places and modifying it involved opening up system files in a hex editor and doing some edits, amateurs + hex editors = bad times.
TTIP trade deal could be re-launched under a different name, say EU ministers
Why? You need to seriously question the motives behind such a launch. IMHO:

[1]Snapshot is an online multimedia application.
[2]The infrastructure required to move from online to hardware requires significant investment (beyond the $1.8B they recently raised) - that of which I don't believe Snapchat can fund without a serious re-monetiziation strategy beyond Ads. It is only a matter of time before FB makes the move into Snapchat's market more than they already are.
[3]This is an unproven market. Google tried it and didn't succeed. A better play - let someone else test the market a bit more and then move in with a solid Ad monetization strategy around the Spectacles.
[4]Why Hardware?! Seriously? I believe Evan is overplaying his hands with so much VC capital coming his way.
I've just installed ag. It defaults to case insensitive searches when the pattern is in lowercase. Is there a way to change this default? Perhaps a config file of some sort?
Will RL take over Deep Convolutional Networks as having the best results?!
Mmmm, like getting a ticket to exchange for your coat.
About how I feel whenever someone's holding up an actual camera, filming. It's obnoxious, but it's not the end of the world, and it's not going to make me want to punch someone.

It's kind of funny to listen to people get over-dramatic about this stuff. It'll be really funny to watch them get arrested for assault if they do actually get themselves worked up enough to punch someone.

The impression that I get from comments like yours is that you're almost picturing someone following you to film you, or getting in your face, or something. That would piss me off. But seriously, someone hanging out with friends and posting pictures online where I happen to be in the background? That already happens almost daily. I don't think it's worth getting worked up about.
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I think by people you mean the hacker news crowd. Remember many people don't even see much of a problem with mass NSA surveillance.
> With the lone exception of Apple…

And why is Apple profitable with hardware? Because the company that makes the hardware also makes the software.

Just like Snap, Inc.
Hotz has described his product as 'fancy cruise control', and it isn't much more than that. I think he's about as legit as he says he is.

If he gets it out for under $1000 before 2017 he's a man of his word, and I think he'll do it.

After pulling off that impressive stunt, though, he's going to have to figure out how to turn comma.ai into a real company somehow. I'm not sure how he's going to do that.
Test your skills VS friends, co-workers and companies
25 years ago, I'd be right with you. 15 years ago, too. Since then? I think your anecdata are outdated. Things just aren't going to be caught by signature-based scanning anymore. In terms of automated detection, the bad guys won. "Good" AV detection, if there is such a thing these days, are the tiny vendors that infections aren't designed specifically to fight against. All the big names get disabled, or otherwise rendered non-functional.
I'm not sure how long they will remain there in their unedited state, but I do know they will be archived on YouTube after editing is done.
.gignore? .ignore is way too generic. .gignore as in grep ignore, rg ignore, ag ignore, they all have a g in their names somewhere. Well, ack doesn't but what kind of name is that anyway; it sounds like someone (the author?) got annoyed with grep's lack of pcre. .gignore seems generic enough, yet specific for these tools. Expecting a single .ignore file to rule them all text search tools is rather too optimistic.
That sounds neat. Can you link me to a paper?
"We did indeed find the oldest computer in government, but it’s not really a computer at all; it’s computer software."
By the strict definition of subvocalize, definitely yes. I don't move my lips, though. Also, it's nothing at all like reading English. I'm trained to read logic directly as logic.
My parents moved across continents and had the same problem. It finally fixed itself after a couple weeks/a month. This was with Apple devices though (not Google), so a different database.
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The gist of the comment was whether GCC automatically made something like WebKit + JIT + Native Client work on very, different OS by a simple compile. I doubted that was true or that the work was easy.
This happens a lot more commonly than people might think. Not sure if this is still the case, but Florida DHSMV (motor vehicles department) used a Honeywell mainframe as recently as a few years ago, and the word around Disney World Ride & Show was that the parades in Magic Kingdom ran on a DEC PDP-10 as recently as the late 1990s and early 2000s. Both of these may no longer be true, but I haven't checked in awhile. Both of them might still be true...
Yes. This used to be a problem every time. In the last month or so this has happened to me only twice.
This is definitely the result of Snapchat's acquisition of Epiphany Eyewear back in 2013[1], which was a startup that made something very similar.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_Eyewear
Good cameras (well, practically every camera now) come with IR-cutoff filter, so the IR light to "blind" the cameras would be pretty much useless.

And the IR-filter is actually a problem for those of us who like astrophotography and have to resort to modding or (expensive) special editions of cameras.
This post is FUD. Her argument contends that the trial determined that because the Java APIs were open, they can be used anywhere and be considered fair use. Therefore code licensed under GPL can be used anywhere and be considered fair use.

A lawyer that has practiced in IP has commented with a rebuttal:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-free-software-how-googl...

...

(1) the jury's verdict concerns the APIs, not the software itself. The APIs should never have been subject to copyrightability, IMHO (see http://epiclaw.net/sean-hogle-articles/oracle-v-google), but setting that aside, your assertion that the jury somehow killed software licensing or open source licensing is baseless. Only the APIs, i.e. the labels and classification methods, were at issue in the trial, not the code implementing those APIs. (2) "Google is an advertising company": I've seen this comment before, and it's an obvious back-handed slam at Google. Google is a technology company whose business model relies on advertising. Google has not only contributed more to the advancement of humanity with its innovations than most companies ever have, but it has also been a force for good in reinvigorating fair use in the digital age. (3) "You can kiss GPL goodbye". Google has adopted the OpenJDK Java implementation licensed under GPL. Android is GPL-based.

...
I prefer clang.
Add this whitelisting software with your main apps on the list. Install updates when available by clicking update. Done for 75% of it. Your admin using OpenBSD or Linux install instead of something else for backend is invisible to you. The developers writing apps withbone framework or library use a different one. I'm not seeing this invasive nature of easy stuff. Straightforward.

Seems more do given the number of companies with 1-5 IT people that do stuff like this. They just care, Google tech X plus security/hardening guide, and follow the advice. Apply patches, check logs on occasion. A little less apathy goes a long way.
It does not, at all. Working with the only available option is not the same thing as wanting to work with it.

Read the mailing list and driver discussions. This conversation is repeated twice a week. They HATE working around the GPL.