skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It could be nothing, but it also could be one of the deepest corruption scandals in the history of the country.

That seems to be the theme of Hillary scandals. It's always some superlative outcome. Either she is going to be exposed as a mastermind or "oh nevermind I guess that's not a big deal after all." It's absurd. An opponent of Clinton making a more modest critique than "she is the antichrist" would be very refreshing.

Conservatives and Bernie supporters spent months fuming over how email servers showed exactly how evil Clinton was and the most that came out of it was apparently "extreme carelessness." Years of Benghazi and nothing to show for it but words to be poorly scrawled on protest signs for at least another year or so.

I am definitely not informed enough to determine whether or not there is or isn't merit to any given controversy or scandal. There are probably a handful of people who could possibly know for sure. She is definitely one of the most powerful people in the world. She is certainly capable of conspiracy. But I know there are also powerful people who are would benefit a lot from harming her career and her image.

Honestly, it's at least worth considering that innuendo, accusations, and connecting dots that aren't there, or are there in a much less dramatic form, are all much cheaper than actually pulling off conspiracies.
Israeli hacking firm selling the keys to your WhatsApp messages
Make yourself at home with Google Home
> But reading and deep understanding aren't that correlated, so speed is secondary to me

With a book, it's easy to speed up and slow down as needs be.
The latest rev of the GearVR headsets has a more generalized touch input on the side (what was originally a 4-way controller is now a square touchpad with support for swipe gestures). Oddly it seems a variety of content on the Oculus store is actually using this as an in-game control now, e.g., swipe/tap on the side of your head to shoot your laser pistol. I haven't tried these for long enough to tell if it's an effective control scheme or gets tiresome, but it works surprisingly well on first blush. Curious how much of a difference this remote makes; without in-world positional tracking I'm not convinced it's adding much to the experience.
Frameworks are not the only form of abstraction. You should also not confuse frameworks with libs. They are kind of opposites. With a fw you comform to a rule imposed on you and have less work to do while using a lib you are free to do whatever you want but you have to write the "glue". There are tradeoffs on both sides but I like the freedom more.
I already see a bunch of people posting and upvoting Bret Victor's "Inventing on Principle", but I think his "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable" is better.

https://vimeo.com/67076984
This is the hope I have too. Nicely put.

I have been coding in JS since JS landed in a browser and right now it's just too much, with a new build system every six months, to new libraries and frameworks. This continous evolution is necessary because JS wasn't designed to do the things people are using it for 21 years later.

So I've been looking at Elm. A lot of people really don't like the syntax. But if you get past that, there's a lot of things there. There's a great architecture, a sane package manager, static typing, and all the other things people bolt on. And it sounds like while it currently builds JS, it's going to move towards WebAssembly when that's more widespread.

Even if Elm doesn't become "the next big thing", maybe it'll spawn something that is.

I hope Elm, or something like it, does sweep the table clean.
One can't get to the most efficient energy source without bootstrapping. And dyson swarms may be one of the easier ways to get there. I like this video [1] that explains this pretty well, from dyson swarms to kugelblitz. I do not understand enough from the paper to know the difference between kugelblitz and black hole star lifting though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW55cViXu6s
Keith Winstein presenting mosh at USENIX 2012 is easily the most entertaining tech talk I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsIxNYl0oyU

Scott Meyers' talks are fun to watch too.
If anyone here hasn't listened to his "protocol for dying" episode of The Changelog from several months ago, you really should: https://changelog.com/205/
Online Tracking: A 1M-site Measurement and Analysis [pdf]
Oculus has been making a phone headset alongside Samsung called the Gear VR for years.
Google Unveils Pixel Phone, Smart Home Hub, and More at AI-Focused Event
i don't think private property was the main problem, but just people getting into dangerous spots anywhere, including public property. making a map of private vs public is hard but not impossible; dangerous vs not dangerous: impossible.
I agree! RSS is kind of a magical thing, that's only really happened a few times - the widespread implementation of a standard that provides a better user experience at the cost of somewhat less control for content owners.

My headline is in response to certain voices in the industry which seem to be rooting for the end of RSS in favor of proprietary APIs - essentially, the YouTube-ization of podcasts. There's lots to unpack there, and to a certain extent it seems likely that more things will move away from open standards, but I'd prefer to hold the line to the best of our ability.
Got a moto g4 for under $250. Works perfectly for me. Good specs, stock android more or less, unlocked.

http://www.motorola.com/us/products/moto-g
It takes lots of effort to learn to read Braille at a later age, and you may have to do it at a very stressful time ("count on losing your mind for a year or two when you lose your eyesight", I've heard it described by a psychologist familiar with the matter)

Reading Braille also requires sensitive fingers. Cut your finger? Read a lot slower for a few weeks.

Nerve damage in your fingers? You may have to forget about reading Braille. And that's incredibly common among those losing their eyesight, as they predominantly are elderly and/or diabetic (neuropathy is a common side-effect of badly controlled blood sugar levels)

So, let's say you are sixty, diabetic, and losing your eye sight. Are you going to practice for a few hours a day without guarantee of decent results, or are you going to focus on all the other tasks to relearn, and try enjoying, say, the company of your grand children?
0MQ is fantastic. It's how I first found out about him, too. That library is an absolute pleasure to use.
The article explicitly states that the drastic decline report rates were the same in weeks where they weren't wearing the cameras.
I've had the worst time since switching to the OnePlus 3 and from what I've read the OS on this phone is very close to stock Android.

The only way to have a good experience with email, calendars and contacts is to use Google Apps – which I refuse to migrate to. The stock apps have no support for IMAP IDLE, CardDAV, or CalDAV. You have to resort to 3rd party apps for these and they are without fail either slow, buggy, very unappealing visually, or all three.
Raymond Hettinger's talk about good code reviews -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M

Carmack's talk about functional programming and Haskell -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A

Jack Diederich's "Stop Writing Classes" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

All with a good sense of humor.
Great point -- there's a pull request addressing this issue just now: https://github.com/liviu-/ding/pull/4
Open Whisper Systems is a nonprofit founded by Moxie Marlinspike in 2013, and it's a different entity than the "Whisper Systems" Twitter bought earlier.

Yeah, I wish he went with another name, too. Not only is Open Whisper Systems making it more confusing, but it's also quite a mouthful.
This is actually something I did with one of my products. I was not sure how valuable it would be, so I made a smaller product, gave it away with the intention of it driving sales to my main offering. As it turned out, this loss leader was able to stand on it's own and generate revenue.

That is why I'm thinking my whole business could be useful to someone with the right skills. I don't have the knack for this sort of thing.
GearVR doesn't have positional tracking, has a slightly worse field of view than the rift, and obviously can't compete with a gaming PC in terms of graphics performance.
That being said, not being tethered is a huge plus. Carmack likes to talk about how great the Gear is with a swivel chair; I think he's completely right on that point. You're not going to get the 'presence' you can achieve in the vive, but there's something to be said for the type of immersion you get when not getting tangled up in a cord.
Its great for viewing 360 photos and watching videos, and if you like the low-poly aesthetic there are some diversionary games.

Edit: also, as others have mentioned elsewhere, the focus wheel is fantastic feature on the Gear, especially if you're passing it around in a group.
For the commuter rail case, where there is a lot, would you be willing to hop in your car after getting off the commuter rail and turn on uber and be a driver for one ride on your way home? Would uber allow you to be a driver with such low volume?
I totally agree. I guess once details you mentioned are added, these assistants would look more like dreadful nag than clever companion.
Rupert Sheldrake, "The Extended Mind, Experimental Evidence", Google Talks 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hic18Xyk9is

If you are in for something out of the ordinary.
No daydream has a whole set of new standards in terms of features and performance a phone has to meet to be labeled "daydream ready."
USN-3095-1: PHP vulnerabilities
More like Google Cardboard was a toy Daydream. As in, Daydream was always the intention, but some hackers did a quick proof of concept in cardboard and it kinda took off.
"God is Us, God is the Community."
Exactly what I thought as well. We're not all crazy to think that'd be a good idea, right?
Ding has `--version`, and a help message too :P

To be honest, a big chunk of it is just handling user input and attempting to provide useful error messages.
The most damning part of this story is that Mayer decided to comply without telling her chief security officer. That really does make it look like Yahoo rolled over without a fight.
>maybe you're thinking about Apple's laptops?

That may be my mistake. Thanks for the links and information.
I was honestly a bit unhappy when Stamos left Yahoo in the middle of a bunch of (what seemed like) cool projects for users -- seemed like he was just jumping ship from an objectively pretty crappy company to a continuing-to-accelerate rocketship, presumably for career reasons.

However, if it went down like this -- he did probably the least destructive thing possible. I probably would have gone public or done something stupider, but at the very least not being a party to ongoing abuse of users' trust is necessary.

I'd like to see what other senior execs at Yahoo! were aware of the program and supported or at least tolerated it, so I can avoid ever working with any of them.
But it's owned by Lenovo... a Chinese company.
Linus Torvalds on Git. It's funny, and it really does tell you a lot about why Git is the way it is.

Bryan Cantrill's 2011(?) Lightning talk on ta(1). It's fascinating, but it also shows you just long-lived software can be.

Randall Munroe's Talk on the JoCo cruise. Because it's effing hilarious, and teaches everybody the important art of building a ball pit inside your house.

Finally, an honorable mention to three papers that don't qualify, but which I think you should read anyway.

Reflections on Trusting Trust: This is required reading for... Everybody. It describes a particularly insidious hack, and discusses its ramifications for security.

In the Beginning Was The Command Line: If you want get into interface design, programming, or ever work with computers, this is required. It's a snapshot of the 90's, a discussion of operating systems, corporations, and society as we know it. But more importantly, it's a crash course in abstractions. Before you can contribute to the infinite stack of turtles we programmers work with, you should probably understand why it's there, and what it is.

Finally, The Lambda Papers. If you've ever wondered how abstractions work, and how they're modeled... This won't really tell you, not totally, but they'll give you something cool to think about, and give you the start of an answer.
Yes, RH's Beyond PEP8 is great, even if you don't do Python. Will put the others in my queue.

I'm reminded of Crockford's "Good Parts" of Javascript, I believe where he introduced me to the "Mother of all Demos."
You cannot be serious Google?
$1079AUD for Google Pixel when it's $650US....At current conversion would be $853AUD. Of course there is shipping, projected volume of sales in Australia etc... but $226 in shipping is a bit much...
https://store.google.com/config/pixel_phone
Totally true. If it came across like I meant EVE has no sharding mechanism, my bad.

> One system cannot scale over more than one server.

In this regard, Blizzard's dynamic realms are really interesting. Ideally, we can move to a world, where even single "systems"/"zones"/"areas" are able to scale horizontally.

I have zero experience with it, so I don't know if it can practically scale to solve this problem, but http://www.paralleluniverse.co/spacebase/ has a really cool set of features that MMOs could take advantage of.
This really doesn't sit well with me on multiple fronts:

"Company technicians were able to replicate Radcliffe's findings, confirming that a hacker could order the pump to dose insulin from a distance of up to 25 feet, Levy said. He said such attacks are difficult to pull off because they require specialized technical expertise and sophisticated equipment."

Specialized technical expertise and sophisticated equipment? Based on what I just read from the product manual, this attack appears to be capable of being done with two HackRF's since none of the frequencies used by this device exceeds 2.4 Ghz. Is a HackRF really as "specialized" as what is being implied by the manufacturer? Further, I get it, I've used GNU Radio. It's not easy, but it's also not terribly difficult to pickup. Yes, if someone wanted to kill someone with an attack on an insulin pump like this, there are likely easier ways, but ultimately, for anyone that has any reasonable level of technical ability, developing an attack against the system isn't much of a barrier and would leave little trace - certainly none that would likely lead to a murder conviction in most jurisdictions. Further, once someone does develop an attack, if they then publish or sell that attack, it becomes instantly available to anyone.

The other problem here of course is the statement about 25ft. Ultimately radio is radio and it's hard to make definitive statements pertaining to range since that'd dependent on the power of the transmitter and sensitivity of the receiver, both in control off the attacker in this kind of attack. Is the insulin pump actually somehow measuring with atomic clock precision the time it takes for a message to traverse the air from the remot and if it's longer than it takes to travel 25ft, cutting off communication? Doubtful.
The problem with fabric is that it gets dirty pretty quick, you can wipe plastic easily, but with fabric, it will be a dirty mess in a week of use.
I don't like them because they are growing horizontally. You have an idea and boom google whatever, boom apple whatever, etc...
Big data helps Moscow to build new public transportation network
I'm sick of phones as the basis for VR. I tried Cardboard, it has real problems. The battery life is bad when you're doing 3D things, the phone gets very hot on your face, and the GPU is underpowered for pretty much every purpose including rendering a realistic enough scene for VR immersion.
I have used Google's hardware support before for Nexus - and they have been excellent.

Very responsive, and yes, a real customer service agent picked up the phone.
You're right, not being carrier-locked is another attribute of a developer-friendly phone. I wasn't saying developer equates with cheap, but typically "developer" phones are secondary devices that people feel comfortable hacking on without risking destroying their daily driver. Therefore it wouldn't make a huge amount of sense to pay for a top-of-the-range phone when it will likely be a secondary device.
After using a phone with stereo speakers ( http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08... ) there's no way I'm going back to mono. What's frustrating is that the bottom part looks perfect for a second speaker.
I'd like to apply ML to healthcare, I think it's the holy grail.

However, I feel like you're making it much simpler than it really is. You've got a cadre of PhDs at UCSF, how am I going to compete with your all-star team with all of your wealth of knowledge to release something truly innovative?
They should make a shorter list of just exactly how it's different from cardboard.
Renovo Motors is hiring software engineers to work on automotive systems. San Jose, CA. Full time, onsite.
Renovo builds both hardware and software for next-generation vehicles and the automotive applications that run on them.

Renovo has already launched an electric supercar and an autonomous drifting Delorean in partnership with Stanford.

Currently hiring engineers to work on both embedded/OS systems and cloud based applications.

Check out http://www.renovomotors.com and https://angel.co/renovo-motors or contact me directly.
The design reminds me of a nice, snug pair of underwear :)

Clever distinction from the standard devices out there!
Richard Hamming's You and your research.

https://youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw
I mean, Adobe Suite programs have a history feature where all your alterations to the image are listed chronologically. I don't know how that system works personally but it is a similar class of application & feature.
What sort of issues did you have with udf?
Good on Stamos for leaving.
Not every topic can practically be reduced to a layman-friendly explanation.
I would use other news sites, but that doesn't mean they would have the same culture. The culture of a site is allowed to exist by the site owners and if no site owner wanted 4chan's culture than they would just weed them out as they attempted to migrate.

We could get rid of 4chan's culture by extinguishing the voice of it, and as long as no one else allows that voice on their site then it ceases to exist.
Then I suppose we disagree about what qualifies as compelling. If you're one of the people concerned about how cozy politicians are with moneyed interests, than I have a hard time seeing how the Clinton's relationship with such people isn't troubling. [0] [1] [2] [3]

I don't think your characterization of their expenditures is necessarily accurate (or wrong!). It's hard to tell, because the whole thing is so opaque[4]. This is a common criticism of the Clintons, even from supporters. They are so opaque about everything that things that would be innocuous end up seeming far worse because of their inclination to hide things.

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-...

[1]: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/82df550e1ec646098b434f7d5771f...

[2]: http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clintons-complex-corpora...

[3]: http://nypost.com/2016/08/11/hillary-played-favorites-with-h...

[4]: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Clinton-Foundation-...
It looked like it was even fabric on the nose area, while very comfortable, I'd imagine that is where a lot of sweat would gather.
What are good examples of UX designer portfolios?
The Zuk Z2 is good for devs. Costs around USD 260 from online Chinese retailers. Great specs and battery life, easily unlockable bootloader, and lots of unofficial cyanogenmod builds available if you search github.
What I loved about the nexus phones is that they were cheap enough that I'd stop caring about the hardware. They were cattle instead of a pet. They really should have gone further down this route. Rather than compete with apple on hardware, play up the awesome web services and the fact that dropping your phone in the toilet is no longer a big deal.
Most of the media I consume (movies, series, articles, books, podcast) have been in English for the past ~10 years and it did not help much my communication abilities. I actually have a vast vocabulary (sometimes people mock me for using fancy words) but I still struggle writing "natural" english because, for the most part, I still have to translate from Spanish (or Mexican, rather :P) to English in real time.

As for spoken communication, what I needed was a boost of confidence. In my last job I always avoided talking to people because I was too self-conscious of my accent and constant pauses for real-time-translating. Then, one day, a friend noticed it and said to me: "Dude, don't worry about your accent. I live in Manhattan, everybody has an accent here and it's no big deal." And I was like, "yeah". And just like that I started speaking more and slowly became better at it.

So, it was confidence for me.
I replied above with another example of sonification of a StarCraft 2 game in real-time. There's a link to a video of a performance there and here [1] is the paper we wrote for the NIME conference.

[1]: www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_146.pdf
This Pixel is really no different from the previous Neuxs phones, except that they're not emphasizing the manufacturer as much. The hardware is made by HTC, and Nexus phones were also sold directly through Google.
Or we could discuss standardization right now and not waste billions of dollars trying to trick developers into building on ephemeral platforms via prison-inspired app stores that don't have their best interests in mind https://webvr.info/
I was confused -- I think that the home-screen edit was unnecessary in the context of the joke; assuming he means that the hardware, not software, looks like a knockoff.
True. I often wonder if it is intentional or if it is just a result of running software which was designed for faster hardware.

Either way, non removable lithium batteries usually take care of the obsolescence issue anyway. After two years, devices seem to barely hold enough charge for an hour.

This is the most frustrating thing for me. I have a three year old HTC M7 which works beautifully (running a stripped down ROM and I avoid all app updates). However, the battery is starting to get weak, and I’m afraid to take it apart.

I wish the LG G5 was more competitive. The removable battery is a huge deal to me, especially now that everything supports rapid charging, which I’m sure wreaks havoc on batteries.
So does this come without tracking and more privacy because for that price you can't play the "they need to recoup the costs through user data" card.

Apple it seems can do it for devices in those price range.
iPhones arent the one to beat though. Android has had a much larger market share since 2011 [0]

0: https://infographic.statista.com/normal/chartoftheday_4431_s...
I like it when driving.

"Text my wife <message>", "Call my wife", "Play <band> on Spotify", "Open Waze" (after playing music on Spotify, Waze is no longer on the screen so I can switch back to it).

The reservations stuff? No way, I want to choose my seats and price point.
Yes, but there's a huge difference between a computer "seeing" your email and a human being searching for keywords within your email to decide whether or not to follow you around and/or arrest you.

This report isn't complaining about unencrypted emails. It's about them giving an intelligence agency the equivalent of a `grep "terrorism" | tail -f` for all their users' email. Without a warrant. (Not that a warrant could even be granted for something so broad, anyway.)
Hardware manufacturers have in fact regularly changed the meaning of the keys.
To be fair, a good portion of that (£100?) is likely to be from the £ losing value against the $