skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this seems like nonsense.

To clarify: not all of it is. That's the smart part about hacks like this. The screenshots of individual donor lists they've provided look quite plausible. But then, a lot of that information is already publicly available.

But a directory named "Pay to Play"? A spreadsheet that conveniently matches up donor amounts to the amount of TARP funding allocated to that company? Come on. It's absurd.
This seems like the more interesting question.

Whether Mayer went around him willingly or by legal requirement is basically unanswerable, except to note that the email team chose to do the same. There's not much to say when we can't tell collusion from compulsion.

The question of accidental discovery, by contrast, is a fascinating one. A gag order couldn't possibly compel someone who made the discovery on their own (for the simple reason that they wouldn't know about it to be compelled). So circumventing the security team, instead of simply including them in the NSL, raises an interesting discussion about the nature of the NSL and why the matter was kept from Stamos' team.
> When you make something a political issue, you are guaranteeing that it cannot be won with any kind of finality.

But you also set up the infrastructure to fight the good fight forever. Which is what it takes to make democracy work, and work well.

Because everything important is a political issue, whether you want it to be or not. The Superconducting Supercollider, which was as clear a piece of pure science as you could imagine, was killed by politics. End to end encryption could be too.

Honestly, a major reason we are in this mess now is that for decades Silicon Valley has avoided politics and tried to pretend that the federal government does not exist. Now that it can't be ignored anymore, the tech industry does not have any of the civic institutions needed to build broad public support for its issues.
>Sources with a political bone to pick can too easily plant or modify data in these "dumps" to craft an artificial narrative.

Which is where traditional news organizations come in play. When the tax returns for Trump were dropped off, they had to verify them. For example, they were particularly worried about a number whose first two digits were not the same font as the other numbers. That seemed to indicate that maybe someone had doctored part of it, but then they found the tax preparer who worked on it and he explained why that was.
> All in all I’d recommend PC as a starter cancer

That is basically how it feels when I recommend Angular to people wanting to try a JS framework.

Happy to hear you are doing okay.
Yep! Works pretty nice actually, even with an iPhone 6.

The classic ViewMaster lever is there too, but it allows you to "click" the screen. It's fun.
Anyone remembers this?

> Barack Obama: NSA is not rifling through ordinary people's emails. US president is confident intelligence services have 'struck appropriate balance', he tells journalists in Berlin

edit: link fixed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/19/barack-obama-n...
Single core performance is still the single most important metric for most users, especially since things like web browsers tend bottleneck on single thread performance and browsing is one of the most common things people use phones for, especially given how commonly native apps use embedded web views.

Measuring browser performance is hard because there's a lot of different functionality but notice how routinely we see reviews where the device the Android flagship phones are trying to beat is the iPhone 6 or even 2013's 5S:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/iPhon...
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/iPhon...

(from https://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/iphone-7-and-7-plus-re...)

Some of that reflects the considerable amount of work which Apple has put into Mobile Safari but a lot of that is going to come down to single thread performance.
When Google Reader died, I ended up deploying my own RSS aggrigation service. I haven't looked back since.
Yes, though interestingly DXOMark seems not have reviewed the iPhone 7 Plus yet. Perhaps they're waiting for Portrait mode to be publicly released? Regardless, Google is on slightly shaky ground to claim that they have the best smartphone camera when a top contender hasn't been reviewed yet.
Of course I did. And presuming one explanation for the stats is more likely than another because of background knowledge is not unreasonable.

I'd go edit in "interpretation of", but it's too late to edit.
If we reject the $80 VR thing lets make it $880 or so, including the cost of a phone. That's still a lot less than the ~$3000 it costs to get a legitimate VR headset plus a gaming PC. Add onto that the fact that virtually everyone is going to own a smartphone anyway, and you can basically eliminate the cost of the phone in there. It's definitely value VR.
My first thought (esp for the "slate" and "snow" colours) was star wars cold gear as seen on Hoth:

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/2/24/All...
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Ask HN: Will react native create an opportunity for a new mobile OS?
Currently there are only two major mobile operating systems: Android and iOS. Attempts to create new operating systems, such as Firefox OS, have been met with initial fanfare then quickly followed by disappointment at the inevitably nonexistent adoption.

It seems that the biggest barrier to entry for a new mobile OS is the App Store and Play Store. Why would anyone spend hundreds of dollars on a phone with no access to the most popular apps? And why would anyone build apps for a phone nobody is using?

This barrier to entry would be substantially lower if it were easy for developers to port existing apps to a new mobile OS.

Toolchains like Xamarin, and more recently, react native, have made it easier than ever before to cross compile apps from one codebase to multiple platforms. Currently these tools only target Android, iOS, and web. But is there any reason they could not target any new mobile OS that arrives?

As cross compilers begin to reach feature parity with native compilers, and more developers build apps with them, will there be an opportunity for a new mobile OS to take advantage of the prevalence of this cross compilation?

Maybe this is even Facebook's plan for react native. Build the tooling to decouple app development from OS target. Then once adoption is high enough, release a Facebook Phone and FBOS that can take immediate advantage of the many apps built with its tooling, to launch with an acceptably full App Store.

What does HN think?
Seconded – Newsblur's training feature actually pulled it ahead of Google Reader for me since it allowed me to improve the interest/disinterest ratio for certain feeds.
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> "Seems to me this should be verified as legit data before we start disseminating this info, no?"

Whilst it makes sense to check the data, does it not make it easier to verify by leaking it? Many hands make light work.

That said, I don't think this leak is likely to change the outcome of the US election. Anyone who has been paying attention is well aware of the corruption widespread throughout politics, and the level of integrity in mainstream journalism is so low that politicians can get away with blatant lies with minimal blowback.
Oh, come on! A new good looking android phone with a cool camera, vr, and super advanced AI assistant is not good enough for you? How revolutionary was the last project that you have developed?

What qualifies as "new technology" by your high standards? Do you expect it to be able to mine uranium while giving you a blowjob? I'm pretty sure it'll be able to do the later thing when new cool VR apps come around =)

Creating new things is hard. Creating new complicated thigs is incredibly hard. I think we would live in a much better world if people, instead of bitching, would support and cheer for anything new that is being created.
Seems that way. Some of us were expecting a Tango powered, positional tracking VR workhorse, but instead got a cloth cardboard, with only inertial tracking, but with a much needed controller.

Seems okay for a cheap 1st gen consumer device, but people who want to game in VR are probably going to go the PSVR or Vive route.
I guess it depends on your experience. In most Europeans cities you are faster with public transport, bike or even by foot.

> Their quality of life just declines.

In my experience and imho this article comes to the same conclusion life gets better for most if you ban cars from the city.
> HRC's guilt or innocence in the emailgate matter.

Guilt or innocence likely doesn't matter; like Sanders said, I'm sick of hearing about the emails. The fact of the matter is that, well, they don't matter. DOJ will not prosecute, and a ton of people voting for Clinton will choose her anyway, even if she did something illegal, because Trump is basically an American Duterte.

Nothing short of full-blown, violent-crime-felony-type scandal will derail the Clinton train at this point, and even then it would end up with a lengthy impeachment process vs. destroying her chances in the election.
It feels like people are being negative just to sound all intelligent, skeptical, and subversive. In my opinion, there's no wisdom in naysaying. Haters are just as much a part of a groupthink as fanboys. Negativity, by itself, does not make discussion more interesting.

I think it's okay to have an intelligent, critical discussion about new things. But what I am observing on the recent Hacker News threads does not feel like that. It feels like another mindless trend. People in pop culture enjoy picking apart failures of celebrities. People here enjoy finding flaws in anything new released by a big company. I do not like this part of human nature. Putting it on hold would make HN a more fun place to hang out at.
It's hard to buy that argument. It doesn't appear Material ever attempted to be better than iOS, just different. And now Google Design is quietly backtracking (dialogs are transitioning to iOS action sheets, hamburger button is being phased out for bottom tab navigation). And now the phone even looks even more like an iPhone. Let's be honest, there are only two rules for design at Google: "Not Apple" and "good enough".
> Android app quality is much worse.

Where are you basing this on? Out of some social media apps (Facebook and Snapchat) I have found that Android apps are on-par with their iOS counterparts.
I wonder if the next generation of braille will be not just this, but in the smartphone with a taptic engine like that in the iPhone. I can imagine that the engine becomes sensitive enough to deliver minute changes as the user runs their finger across... In any case, it's really cool that things like this exist, because it makes being blind a little bit less bad; instead of a $15,000 printer, you can buy this ink for much cheaper.
Isn't the "previous year" part usually interpreted to mean that the benefit is in the past year, rather than the work being done in the past year?
I am sure there is a way to do that using VOIP or something to receive calls on both phones. But for most test cases, you don't need an active phone number on the phone, no? You can just buy the phone unlocked with no contract and test it out.
Not at all. https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/7168220
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Just like I thought - you have no proof. Come back when you have actual proof to substantiate your bullshit.
OnHub works with Google Wifi and will receive all of the updates announced today. https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/7168220
If they fail at doing it, then you'll be able to tell by market share or percentage of industry revenue. But profit share as a metric would have it that even if Google succeeds and lowers Apple's market share and revenue, but in doing so causes itself serious losses, that's somehow good for Apple.

Which is stupid, and particularly so in the case of the competing platforms market of this, where even if a strategy ends up being long-term bad for Google, if it lures people into Android and away from iPhone, there are barriers to switching back, and Google's hypothetical loss is more likely to be Samsung's gain than Apple's.

But this is all by design. The profit-share metric -- a metric that you never, ever, ever heard about before iPhone became a highly profitable phone with a low market share -- is a vanity metric that's made precisely to make a low market share/high profitability phone look good. The flaws of the metric are baked into it.

Apple's profits are amazing for them. Their market-share is not great, and their percentage of industry revenue is not great. Trying to hide the latter fact by using one metric to report both of those things is stupid.
There is no claim this is the private server. It says right in the title "HACKED CLINTON FOUNDATION."
> It's not really newsworthy that data from an email provider is sent to NSA under secret court orders and NSA can search the full text of it.

It absolutely is newsworthy. We may have suspected it beforehand, we may suspect it happens at other providers, but we have specific proof about Yahoo now. This is new and important and we should be making a fuss. If we play the jaded cynic we are joining the enemies of democracy.
I mean, some would say that a large FBI investigation clearing her, hours spent answering questions in front of congress, and every major media organization being unable to find anything criminal would be as clear evidence of her innocence as you could ever hope for? I mean, what are you looking for for proof at this point?
Modern Vespas actually have an immobilizer device that prevents the scooter from working without the right transponder key, so it's even more difficult than just "hot-wiring" them.
I use a Belkin with no issues. If WiFi drop outs were such a major issue all of the major vendors would have released products years ago.

This very much has the feeling of a "marketing" product designed to trick people into thinking it will solve internet speeds. When really the issue is the ADSL connection.
Really disappointed that it does not support the current line of Google phones - in particular the Nexus 6P. At least it is not listed as officially supported on the website - which only lists the Pixel:

https://vr.google.com/daydream/phones/
Try googling the article name and opening it from the search results.
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Newsblur has a text mode which does that and can be enabled per-site or when you're viewing a story. On the website, you also have the option of the classic load-in-an-iframe mode which is good if you want the full site UI but don't want to have to manually poll for new stories.
Dunno what's in there or whether it's anything at all.

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I always enjoyed Ryan Dahl's casual at-home talk on the history of Node.JS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAc0vQCC6UQ
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My experience in Italy: it's not about "ban cars", it's about transportation becoming a "right tool for the job" thing, rather than "only cars". Does that make sense?

* We could walk to: supermarket, kids schools, pizza, pastry shop, ice cream place.

* We could bike downtown when it was nice out, and preferred to.

* Public transportation took us downtown conveniently, with the kids or when the weather was inclement.

* We had a car to go further afield, or haul a larger load of groceries.
I simply cannot wrap my head around the direction of the Unicode discourse.

We're discussing the appropriate code-point for different smiley faces,
obscure electrical symbols[0] or, in the present case, half stars to express
film or book ratings, yet we have no complete set of sub- and superscripts!

Am I mistaken in thinking it odd, that there's a complete Klingon alphabet but no
representation whatsoever for most Greek or Latin subscripts? Or what if, heaven forbid,
I'd want to use a 'b' index/subscript? Tough! Not even the "phonetic extensions",
where subscript-i comes from, provides it.

Refer to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...
or look for SUBSCRIPT in
http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt

Surely there's the one or two actual scientists on the Unicode consortium?
Or even the one odd soul still sporting a notion of consistency who finds it
only logical to provide a "subscript b" if there's a "subscript a"?

How am I wrong?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11958682
Isn't this way too steep to be Mt Fuji?
This wouldn't solve that problem. Switching to Ethernet or finding a free channel (good luck) is the only solution.
>For VR to really take off, we do need a "good enough" experience for the mass

Says who? VR has the Vive, the Oculus, and soon the PSVR. Later it will have an Xbox headset. So you have the PC and consoles all supporting games. Exactly what else do you need? As a vive owner I don't understand why people think there's this natural market demand to have these in every pocket and every home. They are specialist devices. Most people aren't drawn to VR, even if it was made super simple and super cheap. This is like saying the Fallout series is a failure because its not on mobile. We need to stop this mobile-centric thinking. Mobile has its own use cases. Its not a universal thing.
In that case you should consider Galaxy S7, it has somewhat smaller dimensions than Pixel, but has a bigger screen.

BTW, this is another con for the Pixel a 5" is a DOA for most users these days.
Please, I am absolutely for protections of data privacy even more stringent than what the USPS does with parcels.

I would be for something akin to "Swiss Banking requirements for Data" - where companies are NOT allowed to share data unless given exception in writing/cryptographically. I'm sure we can expound on these ideas collectively.

I'd also be OK with services that DO treat data as a semipermeable membrane. Think of what Google has done with all their free services. They make neural models that they (and others they choose to release) can exploit to great effect. In cases like this, there needs to be a simple chart; think of something like this https://tldrlegal.com/license/apache-license-2.0-(apache-2.0... . I also think of these services as bringing technology to me when I could not afford it... And yes, it has been a wonderful boon for me, and I'm sure as for Google as well.

I also want to be able to request all the data on my account, sent to me in a reasonable format (multiple of: Zip, ftp, file share, mailed DVDs for reasonable price). European Union already has that law, to great effect. I should also be able to legally command a company to remove my content. If copyright is so great, I should be able to revoke their rights to it as well due to copyright.

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I get privacy. I get how networks work, and how the Internet works. I know how mailservers work, as well as file deduplication. And I see a glaring hole in the technology that allows an action, a-ethical companies that will do anything to get ahead, and a government hell-bent on dismantling privacy and data security all to stop today's big bad monster, terrorism.

I'm also guaranteed on watch lists. I'm a minor Tor developer, and greatly utilizes Tor in many ways. In fact, my network resides in Tor-Space. I've figured out how to get Linux to resolve .onion addresses seamlessly, and have .onion endpoints on all my Linux machines. I also work with IPFS and Zeronet, both technologies that have some very... interesting content as well.

It's my little corner of the Net... And if I help others with my tech, awesome. If enough of us do this, then we can start stemming the tide of data insecurity. But I also remember, parts of these issues are with the Political system, and not of technology. Until these older, technologically ignorant politicians die or retire, and Millenials come in, we're stuck. At least we've grown up with it.
Flagship SoC (SD821 vs SD808) and a metal body are the main things that make it worth the price to me.
You can't say this without knowing how much the respective cores use.
People are finding it offensive that someone robbed the bank while watching the video footage and saying that it was not legal to film. But they are ignoring the fact that something wrong happened (bank was robbed). Of-course there is an issue of trust with the source but in that case why is Clinton and Clinton foundation not coming forward and discussing what happened and be transparent about it.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. I've no doubt that you love walking and biking, but if your neighbors felt the same way, they wouldn't need to be coerced into it by car-unfriendly design.
Not quite, SEC and other regulators do not really have the force of law, more the force of licensing and permissions

If you are a vast major bank and don't like the SEC you can try not being allowed in the doors of the private buildings of the NYSE, LSE etc.

They have the power not of law but of losing billions