skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> F.B.I. agents on the case, advised by N.S.A. technical experts, do not believe Mr. Martin is fully cooperating, the officials say. He has spoken mainly through his lawyers, James Wyda and Deborah Boardman of the federal public defender’s office in Baltimore.

It sounds like they're just mad that he didn't confess immediately, instead of doing the smart thing of having professional handle everything. Do they really expect someone to cooperate gladly when repercussions could be severe?
Artificial Intelligence Regulation: Let’s Not Regulate Mathematics
Why don't we film everyone at home to determine if they engage in risky behavior like climbing roofs or using chain saws?

We could determine their liability insurance premium more accurately!

Why don't we film everyone in bed to determine if they use condoms?

We could determine their health insurance premiums more accurately!
Mad Max: The Game Is Out on Linux
The exception being the European arrest warrant. Assange was going to be extradited from the UK to Sweden for something that is not a crime in the UK. (Failure to use a condom is considered extremely rude but is not a crime in the UK.)
I don't know if any amount of data collection and model refinement will allow self driving in ALL situations. We always see self driving demos in California on very large roads, I'd like to see one in a small crowded street of Napoli or on a crossroad in Ho-Chi Minh.
How many layers of irony are in the article?
Most people don't know or care about ://

However, I'm not sure what the goal is here? Even if you make a logo that the general public likes, they won't care about Mozilla any more. People care about Firefox. Firefox is the brand here. If they want more publicity towards the organization, they should just rename it to "Firefox Foundation" and put the Mozilla name to history.
on mobile most of the browsers hide this part from the URL. And yes, you don't have to type it in most of the times ( eventually switching from http to https )
> I really doubt many people even use "http://" anymore.

I see you haven't used/been forced to use IE in a while :)
Excellent! Thanks for the detailed description!
Thank you for reminding me.

Again - design for usability, not to look "fresh"
40gb is still low. I've seen people that use terabytes on their phones.
There Are No True Rebels
For someone working in the watchmaking industry, there is nothing new here.
Another post on this managerial crisis, it's not due to financial crisis or smartwatches entering the market.

It's pretty sad that CEOs doesn't want to speak clearly about the real problems (except one [1], in french).

>> The [Swatch group] recently warned that first-half profit would plummet more than 50 percent. Really?!?

They can repeat THAT again without being bashed?

Maybe they could just shut up and be happy they still have profit...

[1] https://www.letemps.ch/economie/2016/09/28/crise-horlogere-n...
Ask HN: 'Nomad' startups?
I've recently become interested in the 'Digital Nomad' lifestyle of living in places with a lower cost of living while working remotely.

I'm interested in any examples of whole teams doing this together. Have you founded a startup in a lower-cost country? Started off in your home country and moved somewhere cheaper?

'Nomad' is perhaps the wrong word as a company is more likely to stay in one place for longer than an individual, but you get the idea.

I ask because there seem to be lots of resources out there for the solo DN (e.g. NomadList) but seemingly not so many examples of companies operating like this.
Is it what people really want, or just something that was made easy by latest tech and everyone jumping on it as a fad?
You think we'll be snapping constantly and adding retro filters in 2025?

And even if that's so, do they also want to have those photos tagged, their friends face-recognized, and everything ending up searchable online?

Looks more like what Google, FB etc wants -- to collect even more data for ads and stuff.
What makes you think people who could afford that have trouble finding a date?
Apple Sues Mobile Star Over Counterfeit Adapters and Cables Sold Through Amazon
Ok thank you, but that doesn't seem to be the case here, because this doesn't appear to be auto-posted by some HN bot? Normally when I try to post an article that has already been posted in the last 24hours then Hacker News redirects me to the original post, so I was surprised how this could be duplicated so quickly after the original post. Also why does my question get down voted? Was I wrong to ask that question or do people feel offended by my question?
Designers and community managers sure as hell are not going to fix Firefox's speed.

Programmers are surely not going to focus on this.

Mozilla has more than one team. The speed has nothing to do with the logo.

That's like saying: Samsung's new flagship phone is exploding, and they're focusing on making washing machines?
It's not a new concept - see asmallworld, who are an "elite" social network, who started charging exorbitant membership fees a few years back.
have they tried getting chinese la mien chefs to duplicate her work?

Also relevant: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299605105_The_Compu...
Maybe it's time for swappable wireless transceivers? Something along the lines of SFP?
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72% of OpenStack Users Cite Cost Savings as Their No. 1 Business Driver
Mozilla has such a wide range of brands and products. Renaming it to Firefox Foundation is simply disgraceful to the organisation and the community.
As a Linux-Novice (as the user name suggests), what would you recommend to maximize security? I don't feel like the Ubuntu dev's are focusing enough on security and simply banking or hedging on Windows being the main target for hacking. Ideally, I would want to know how to install grsecurity on a Mint distro and try and configure the settings myself.

Any tips appreciated.
Did you ever consider that maybe the branding isn't targeting you? Perhaps a different market?
In 50 years you could go to jail for doing kill -9 and then rm -rf
The Brainstorm Session
Schiaparelli Mars probe's parachute 'jettisoned too early'
Because they might still be socially awkward,, super busy, just having a difficult time finding a partner? There are entire dating agencies and tv shows dedicated to these people: http://www.wetv.com/shows/million-dollar-matchmaker
What? Whenever I try it, Chrome's font rendering is outright atrocious compared to Firefox...of all the reasons that one might prefer Chrome this has got to be the worst possible, by miles.

Is it possible you got used to the incorrect rendering or something? How do Edge and Safari look in comparison to you?
tl;dr;

Schiaparelli has crashed
In fact, regular luxury watch will last a lot longer. Omega will happily fully service/restore any of their watches, no matter how old:

https://www.omegawatches.com/customer-service/service-prices...

In my mind, a nice rolex/omega/patek is something that is passed on to children, while even the top end Apple Watch is a product that one would expect to replace after few years.
That flame logo is really weird, but the others are so bad that they make it look pretty good.

Why don't they test it against the old dinosaur [1] or the star [2]? OK, they probably already made up their mind and don't want that, but it would be honest to at least compare. The dinosaur mascot has much more character than every other option, and at least some brand-recognition (even if people don't recognize it, when given the name and the picture most people will say, yes this picture looks like "mozilla").

Another option would be to just drop Mozilla and rebrand as Firefox foundation...

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/7/74/Mozilla_Found...
[2] http://plaza.ufl.edu/darklite/Portfolio/Images/star.png
I think Burst is extremely generic, not sure why it's even considered.
> 1. There's a bunch of objects that need to pass down the ffi boundaries py->go 2. compute 3. There's a bunch of objects that need to pass up the ffi boundaries go->py 4. Python now continues as usual with a bunch of processed objects

You can look at the library in question. An object gets created in Rust but the ownership of that object is held in Python. When the Python GC runs we clean up the Rust object.

> It may _feel_ like a hack but ultimately its the same approach if you were to make a "sourcemap server" making python code communicate with it over RPC.

Sure, but that significantly complicates the problem. To the point in fact where I question if the Go solution makes any sense at all because it takes away the advantage you have where you can just drop an extension module in without much work. Once you need to restructure your system to be message based you might as well go in and run a separate process and use a unix pipe to communicate. We used to do that for a few things like our debug symbol symbolication and the downsides are just too big.
Seeing as how Opportunity is [..] still operational

It is? That's astonishing. I guess I lost track after the main press shifted to Curiosity.
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Here's the thing. Even our most advanced ML models are quite simple mathematically.
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Was that any different in yesterday's or day's before yesterday society? Ever?
It's was an alpha/beta/prerelease product, you should expect change.
Edit: A bit later, I was all the more convinced about the Nat Geo episode, so I dug up the series url[1] and looked through all the episodes of all the seasons but couldn't find it. But interestingly, the whole season 6 is somehow missing from the drop down!!! Any thoughts?

[1] http://www.natgeotv.com/uk/shows/natgeo/air-crash-investigat...
Also presumably the other projects might live on even if the browser inevitably dies out.
This looks too good to be true.

- My first question is if this is machine learbed or algorithm. I doubt its algorithm as it needs "object detection" then needs to know the cloths "resting state".

- Does it detect changes based on shadows or are the multiple cameras? If shadows, this may be gameable/corruptable. If multiple cameras, how many?

- I saw xy rotation, xy skewing and multiple objects. Folding in the xz plane and could detect a "front and back" to a t-shirt when he did the jump spin. I didnt see how it adapted to xz rotation or a combination. I also dont understand how it knows there was a "back" and a "front" without mapping the object in internal 3d spacewhich may or may not work for some arbitrary shape. I did not see adaption to depth though in great degreee

If I understand correctly

- machine learned arbitrary 3d blobs into 3d space. Through multiple cameras or lighting or blth

- machine learn changes to the blob as not "new blobs" but changes to existing ones

- create image to match that of location and polygon of the fabric. Merge certain pixels when condensing. Duplicating when expanding. Employ anti aliasing techniques

- send image to projector

Im not sure the application but it is certain unique, fun and interesting technology.
Don't have a link to such a project, I didn't really look. I am seriously considering starting one though, perhaps it's necessary.
Modern computer security is all about who has the keys.
At least in the nordics the system seems to be something like this:

1G = NMT

2G = GSM

3G = UMTS

4G = LTE
This isn't a getting started article, thats your problem.
>>A $50/month "social network" would be beyond the budget of a large part of the population. Not many people have $600/year to spend on a communications tool.

You do realize many cellphone plans cost that much if not a lot more, right?
There are some devices that can help you.

http://petapixel.com/2016/07/01/anti-paparazzi-scarf-makes-f...

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.obe...
For that, you might as well hire one of the many matchmakers who cater to the wealthy.
Apparently I'm in the minority preferring the flame logo. I mean, it's not great, but it's considerably more polished and attractive than any of the other options IMO. (Not that a re-brand is necessary at all...) The flame makes sense, and has a subtle tie-in with Firefox. Instead apparently they're going to go with a geek pun that makes the name difficult to read? And the majority of people prefer this option?
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I saw one of the core developers tweeting that he hates dinosaurs because they're ancient meat eating predators that are extinct.

The developers are not the ones running this I'm sure but it gives some idea as to why.

I disagree. Dinosaurs are cool. Dinosaurs are what we like when we still have dreams.
They're in the best position to create an IoT / home server OS that does self-hosted calendar, email, pocket, facebook clone, baby photos backup, etc.

It's so sad they didn't go down that path and play to their strengths (openness/open source) and against the weaknesses of the other behemoths and instead decided to compete with android head on.

There's a dire need for a product like this with a lot of engineering muscle behind it (and not just because of snowden) just as there was for a real smartphone OS in 2007 that ordinary people could use.
>Samsung's new flagship phone is exploding, and they're focusing on making washing machines?

Their washing machines are exploding, too.
The name of the pasta in the article is: Su Filindeu
There's loads of people who pay insane membership prices(sometimes a lot more than $1000/month!) just to be members of an exclusive country club where they know only similarly wealthy individuals are allowed. The only thing that is surprising about this social network to me is that it took this long for someone to get the idea.
complete waste of time - even if you do all that, you'll be back next year or two and do it all again.
Did you try Firefox recently? I switched back to FF three months ago and it is actually often faster than Chrome (on Linux at least)
Great idea, I'd love this one, too. "hjkl" is a given, "x" to complete, "D" to delete. Any additional suggestions?
His instagram: https://www.instagram.com/i.tak.soidet/ (43.7K subscribers)

via http://www.currenttime.tv/a/russian-hackers-instagram/280642... (in Russian)
You can read certificates via the BIO system with PEM_read_bio_X509() or straight from a buffer with d2i_X509().
So.. what about drinking wine with a placebo? Why not include a control test with for example a buttered toast.
The "Protocol" design feels a bit too geeky for ordinary people who don't care what all://_the <symbols> mean, as well as a bit too cheap/amateurish for people who don't wear college jerseys anymore. Seriously, the Facebook screenshot looks like a page for a high school football team. Oh, and curl already played the :// trick with its new logo.

The dinosaur one looks like it was designed in the 90s.

The other two look more modern. Although I'm not a big fan of the "ultra-thin sans-serif font with random polygons on the side" fad, I could live with it if it means that more people will consider switching to Firefox.
It will be a long time before Teslas can drive on dirt roads or roads covered in snow. But most daily driving happens on pavement either on the highway or in the city. Both of which it already handles quite well and will just get better.
The more interesting question is why it crashed, or rather:

- why did it eject its parachute too soon?

- why did the brake thrusters activate for a shorter time than planned?

Does anyone here know if the landing steps were timing-driven or telemetry-driven? Was it supposed to eject its parachute after N seconds, or when reaching M meters above the surface?
Doesn't this restrict the rich kids to competition to other rich kids?
I would've thought the fun part was being a big fish in a small pond.
Who talked about abolishing?

If the only way to change the status-quo is to completely discard the current system, that means it's clearly not flexible enough and indeed has to be abolished. But I doubt that's the case. Open up, experiment on small scales, improve incrementally.

We keep calling that system "Democracy" as a shortcut(/newspeak), maybe it'd be good to indeed try pushing it toward a real democracy?
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phk had a talk (at fosdem I believe) a few years ago in which he stressed that the easiest way for the NSA to "create" vulnerable code is to push out bad, unnatural APIs with horrendeous defaults into OpenSSL.
Silicon Valley companies are struggling to adapt to European laws
Indeed. It's surprising how many papers you can find for free just by going to the author's website.
Show HN: Docker Hub in Your CLI
Why saving it? Mechanical watches fall into the same category of crappy swank for poor people as golden jewelry and chains. Swag for salesmans from office ghettos.

Even design of these watches is complete postmodernist nonsense. Lots of clock hands, bells and whistles, glittery things.
When both parties pay the fee that filters out people that date someone only for the money.
Although I think it's trivial to disable Apple Music's service in the app, thereby putting the focus on local content, you should try Ecoute, an alternative iOS music player that shows your music in an easy to understand grid, uses your existing library and is consistent with the play state of the default app so that you can use both apps interchangeably.
The Obama administration's white paper on the future of AI [pdf]
Buzzword things, MSBuild, project.json, csproj, sln.

Those, except project.json maybe, aren't buzzwords by the typcial definition of it: they have existed for >10 years or so and are the names of a build system and a bunch of project files readable by that build system.
What does $50 get you in Huaqiangbei, the world's largest electronic market?
And the people who can't afford it have cheaper plans, and use mostly WiFi for data

edit: just checked US mobile pricing. Damn you guys are getting ripped off hard
"oh my god, using native code is faster than interpreting, such exciting and revolutionary news"
Based on what observations? Around here most people pay half of that as far as I'm aware - and I'm hoping that this number is even lower in low income countries.

Plus, comparing a general internet access & phone plan with a specific online service seems odd. Even if I'd trust you with this number, paying $50 for 'the internet' or paying the same amount for WhatsApp 2.0 doesn't seem direcly comparable.
This will be a future example of why open source brand identity projects aren't a thing. You can get better results on 99designs..
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To clarify: I am not a native English speaker and I hadn't thought about the words themselves before seeing that quote. In German, there is no clear distinction like that. Of course, I also need my solitude.
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I have an initial version for people to give feedback now, which supports querying repos and tags. So, posted a new 'Show HN' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12751086
> That's like saying: Samsung's new flagship phone is exploding, and they're focusing on making washing machines?

The difference being that Samsung's repsective divisions are run as self-funding corporations. The Android development team in their bubble don't have any financial impact on the shipbuilding folks or the washing-machine QA teams.

In contrast Mozilla has essentially only one revenue flow, orders of magnitudes greater than the secondary flows. So every dollar that Mozilla spends on 'rebranding' or flailing around with The IoT is one dollar less for paying developers to fix Firefox bugs, or maintain Thunderbird or Persona or whatever.
Despite being a web developer for some time, I have no idea what Mozilla's brand is. I'm obviously aware of Firefox, but I'm also conscious that Mozilla do lots of other things, but without looking I don't have any idea what the collective visual style is.

I know it doesn't really seem important, but a good visual identity can help make it clearer who is supporting particular projects – and for a positive community organisation like Mozilla that's probably a good thing.
Honestly, I kind of want to drive in those situations. (I enjoy driving for the most part.) It's exactly on long stretches of highway or during an urban commute that want autopilot.
I just think multiple levels of capturing scope into closures is a bad idea - if something with that state goes wrong it will be hard to debug. I also hardly see any benefit in doing it.
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Mars lander lost signal one minute before landing, ESA confirms
What's a management person?
> Small sites usually dont use CDNs so there it is.

I think it's easier to use a CDN like CDN77 than to convert the average site to AMP.
I liked the sportiness of it.
Didn't know there are BBC pages that you cannot see in the UK! http://i.imgur.com/rUaBZPy.jpg
Blocked in the UK. Can someone help us read our own website?

Edit: why is this at -3? You guys are assholes.
So cache-busting Javascript will be needed, which will kind of defeat the purpose.
I understand. So now if I may backpaddle a bit, why go through the trouble of having python own the objects? why not let Rust (or Go) deal with the entire bulk of the job at hand?
Didn't they commission a professional design house for the proposals?
As a Sardinian this is the first time ever I hear of this pasta, and I'm truly shocked of how it's made, it really sounds like lots of work.

Now I'm super curious about it, but the preparation in sheep broth and pecorino is one of the best combinations to have with pasta IMHO, very promising.

Btw if you've never been to Sardinia make sure you visit at least once in life, you won't regret it :)
I find it reprehensible that the article is blocked to UK users. BBC worldwide wouldn't exist without license fee payers, yet they feel like they can block content from us.
As this is a link to the BBC, I thought this might be talking about the spaghetti tree incident of 1957: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax
They were tested, but it didn't catch the bug unfortunately. I got bit by the fact that I was testing with synchronous callbacks, but real world use was with asynchronous callbacks.
It's a shame that the results have come out like this – from a design perspective, the 'burst' logo is bad. It doesn't scale or scroll well, it's indistinct in knockout and monochrome, it doesn't stand without the logotype, and it's far too fussy and detailed.

As ever, public feedback can be challenging to use constructively.
While you can write very fast code in C, that doesn't imply that if you spend the same amount of effort solving the same problem in C and in Rust, the C version will be faster, because Rust's type system lets you write programs that exploit traditionally error-prone things like unique ownership and multi-threading in much less development and debugging time than C.
A lot of services are based on exclusivity. Without a pricing barrier to entry you loose that.
As a stubborn Firefox user, and the user many of their products some positive critics: there are a lot of open source projects which do miracles with less than 1% of what Mozilla earns each year. I find, Mozilla as an organization to be slow, inefficient and lagging in innovation.

Mozilla can be more aggressive and productive:

* Being an umbrella for succesful open source consumer software

* Using kickstarter and other funding sites better

* by evangelizing and implementing more browser features in Firefox (HTML5 and beyond). Things like web components or whatever. Caniuse.com is a good place to see that Firefox is a lazy follower of Webkit/Blink leadership.

* Confronting Apple for not letting their rendering engines inside the app store.

* Giving up copying Chrome visual appearance in every new version.

* Focusing obsessively on performance (JS, rendering)