skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shadow Brokers dump reveals NSA targets
I regret being timid with doctors when my daughter had an issue. I knew something was wrong but didn't want to be obnoxious and insist I knew more than them. I let them delay important scans because it was late Sunday and they convinced me it wasn't a big deal, that'd it be OK, nothing would happen overnight. That was incorrect and she died two days later. It was a minor issue that should have been caught, that I almost certainly would have prevented just by insisting a bit, risking a bit of embarrassment of being a pushy parent.

11 years later and this still destroys me any time it crosses my mind.
I'm trying to recall the Antennagate scenario with the iPhone 4, which forced Apple to hand out bumper cases for free. Did they officially claim responsibility for that design flaw?
For a concrete example of what exploitation of a JS engine bug looks like, PlaidCTF2016 had a challenge that allowed people to run JS in a patched version of V8 that deliberately introduced a bug in array index checking, with the goal being to run x86 machine code.

The patch to v8: http://lpaste.net/317342

An exploit: https://gist.github.com/sroettger/d077d3907999aaa0f89d11d956...

While this bug was artificial, there were (and can still be) bugs with similar consequences in actual engines (see https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224... or https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=spidermonke... for historical examples).

While a bug in most of the components you mention are bad by themselves, their impact is magnified by the presence of javascript, which allows an attacker to interleave calculations and interactions with the buggy components,
bypassing many mitigations.
Wow, CTL already go Tier3 right? They now got Level 3. They pretty much have half of the telenetwork industry in the U.S., correct?
I've been drooling over the new Razer lineup since they were announced. If the MacBook Pro had anywhere near these specs, they would be destroying the market. Love working in MacOS, but it's basically becoming cost prohibitive. My 2008 MacPro tower isn't going to last forever, and SOMETHING has to replace it. Ideally mobile.
The apps and games you mentioned aren't part of the OS. And remember, Windows 10 was free if you got it in the first year.
OSS runs by different rules. It's more about how many Devs can you attract you your project. The number of users is less important in a sense, though that usually has an effect on the number of Devs contributing to a project.

So Gnome and KDE need more Devs to become better, and people only have so much spare time, which is why having corporate backers is also critical to projects.
Here is a media report quoting climate scientist Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University that Arctic sea ice may be completely melted as soon as 2015:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarm...

Language in the article is quite similar to the language in the OP of this thread: "[L]ast year Prof Wadhams said such predictions failed to spot how quickly climate change is causing the ice to thin" vs. "NASA scientists suggest we've been underestimating..."

Climate science uses the West Antarctic as its poster child of global warming. Here's a scientific study that finds "an absence of regional warming since the late 1990s", and that instead "The annual mean temperature has decreased at a statistically significant rate... These circulation changes have also increased the advection of sea ice towards the east coast of the peninsula, amplifying their effects":

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v535/n7612/full/nature1...

Of course, we don't call it "global warming" anymore since we're not really sure that's what's happening. Now we just call it "climate change", because if there's one thing climates do, they change, and we don't even have to make specific predictions for that. If the temperature goes up, it's proof of anthropogenic climate change (global warming). If the temperature goes down, that's also proof of anthropogenic climate change (humans messing with nature makes world temperatures more unpredictible). If the temperature stays the same, it's just the calm before the storm, and nature will be back to mess us up in a big way to make up for lost time next year or next decade.

Most of our researchers are too savvy to make testable predictions based on this, at least not any closer than 50 or 100 years out. By the time it'd be time to test these, they'll be dead or retired. Meantime it's easy to excuse by saying "climate science is an inexact science." Then you can call it science and you don't even need testable predictions! But you get quicker tenure and better pay than you would with a degree in phrenology, parapsychology, or cryptozoology.

I'll close by saying priests and shaman have traditionally held similar sway over the masses to what our climate scientists do today by predicting things like solar and lunar eclipses (although, to their credit, their predictions were a bit more on-the-money than our climate scientists have mustered yet. Our moderns rely on confirmation bias and rejiggered data from NOAA instead). It's nice to know our old ways haven't left us.
Technically, all advertising is arbitrage between the value of the eyeballs and the cost to reach those eyeballs...Adwords and Facebook were swamped with arbitrage advertisers until they got better at relevancy.

Arbitrage by definition will stop working eventually. you are exploiting information assymetry and a market inefficiency.

Once better targeting is in place and mainstream advertisers crack the native cookie youll see the arbitrage die out like it did with Shopping comparison engines in adwords.
I suspect that was when they began to concentrate their efforts on ads & the associated tooling.
Weightlifting is definitely injurious -- but also provides you with a lot of strength and physical fortitude that prevents injury doing other random things/sports. Like other physically taxing activities, it's a bit of a double edged sword.
Mostly because I'm not benefitting from it :)

But the real problem is that Windows 10 is simply awful to use.
Ive been a mac user since i could crawl in the 80s. Die hard power user. Loved the brand and product even though i have no real brand loyalty.

Switched to full linux and windows around osx 10.3 and never regretted it. Even without final cut or imovie.
> a) means it has to be reasonably powerful, but also thin and light for road warriors. But why is a single device better than a range of device -- really light Air for those who need portability, and a beefy 17" for people who need power?

Computers are finally powerful enough that they think they can manage both at the same time. Having replaced both my travel netbook and my 18" gaming laptop with a Surface Book, I think they're right.
To what exact cases are you referring? Do you not use an ide with a test runner? What exactly is desirable about triggering and monitoring this from a second display on the keyboard--where you're looking all the time, naturally--over clicking a button on screen?
What are the odds of there being 'a single record for a user that aggregates all that is known about them' for Google services?
> have a perpetual ozone hole

This was avoided the obvious way. Hardly an indictment of the prediction; the prediction was a necessary part of attacking the problem.
I purchased a new car 6 months ago, and quickly realized one of my key buying points was (well, not CarPlay but) Android Auto. I very quickly stopped looking at any cars that didn't have it. This eliminated some entire companies.

Interesting data point: one of the Ford models I was considering _still_ has it listed as "Coming soon". Glad I skipped that one.

Having used it for the past 6 months, it's now a basic part of my car-buying checklist.
This is still the case as far as I know. This is not a viable option for a business entity. Probably not even for an individual depending on what you do with it and how ok you are with breaking the EULA.
Wait, are you complaining that an app you used and had pinned to Start put an image you didn't like there? Why not unpin or uninstall the app?
Test, automate, and debug web APIs and AWS Lambda
It's getting problematic in the home as well.
You should be able to take a sledge hammer to your laptop, buy another and not miss a beat.

For most I think that's the wrong target. Establishing & maintaining totally seamless, push-button rolling restore costs a lot of effort & money.

In the event of failure (which is not guaranteed), you burn a day or three getting things back to normal. So long as failures are rare, this can be cheaper (though availability suffers)
Must say the algorithm is working better than the common bot. But it still has some work that can be done to make it better.
Stoplight Scenarios lets you use scenarios to test web APIs, automate processes and tasks, mashup APIs, create demos, trigger lambda functions, and more. If you are familiar with Postman, Paw, Zapier, or IFTTT - Stoplight Scenarios are like a beautiful combination of the best parts of those products. They are free to use, shareable, and flexible enough to cover most use cases.
> means it has to be reasonably powerful, but also thin and light for road warriors

I like a device powerful enough to do development on while still being able to commute with it. And these new machines might finally be the ones to make this possible, so that's great in my book.

> If the next iPhone switches to USB-C, that would start to make sense

it won't. They want to keep Lightning in order to keep their MFI licensing program going (asking for $4 ish for every unit sold). However, they will quite possibly ship an USB-C to Lightning cable, so existing headphones and friends keep working - you'll just be able to connect your phone directly.

This cable already exists (http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0X2AM/A/usb-c-to-lightni... - priced outrageously, of course), btw, so you don't need an ugly dongle to connect an iPhone.
It would likely violate their TOS.

No creation or augmentation of data sets based on Google’s Content or Services. You will not use Google’s Content or Services to create or augment your own mapping-related dataset (or that of a third party), including a mapping or navigation dataset, business listings database, mailing list, or telemarketing list.

There's probably some other issues.

https://developers.google.com/maps/terms
Around 30 I started with surfing and dancing LindyHop. I should have done that 10 years earlier. Cannot stress enough how much more both activities added to my overall "outer" experience of life. The vibe, the people you meet and the places you go to are amazing. The social experience of these communities alone is such a positive influence.

The other aspect is more of an "inner" experience. Somehow in dancing and surfing, the connection of your body with your mind through music/nature of waves is, for a lack of a better term, opening up a new world.
Both Utah Republicans and Democrats Should Consider Voting for Evan McMullin
Watching now.
Pretty surreal

Will he end on a positive note or send countless liberal techies to the self-medication cabinet this afternoon??
I got it in the first year (was actually running all the insider builds before the retail release).

The free license was tied to my motherboard which promptly died, so I had to buy a new one at full price.

EDIT: And besides, just because they're not an essential feature doesn't make me happy that the previously included things have been removed. Say what you will about Apple's hardware, but they went the opposite direction with bundled software. Keynote/Pages/Numbers used to be an optional package ($50 IIRC), but shifted to an included feature. They don't even have banner/video ads shoved all over.
The main point of the article is for a noted tech industry observer (and one-time Apple employee) to say what he sees when he looks at Apple right now.

The magical idea is just a lark thrown in for amusement. Cringely often tosses out semi-crazy ideas as entertainment.
The Preamble doesn't delegate any power from the several states to the United States, though.
Dell is updating the XPS 15 with a NVIDIA 10 series card soon-ish (December?). Any one shopping for a decent dGPU on a light laptop should consider it.
Meanwhile, everyone is complaining that Apple just released a laptop that standardizes on USB for all IO and charging.
Approval voting is better than plurality voting, America
Twitter tests new ad-blocking Reader mode on mobile
> In corporate politics that would be a suicide. Only Jobs was powerful enough to make mistakes.

To wit: an insignificant change (dropping skeuomorphic UI) was coincident with Scott Forstall being canned.

> Many people overpay for Apple products because they want to look as real professionals. Majority don't care which laptop is the thinnest, they use products used by opinion leadres.

I used to think this way, until I went through 3 PC laptops in 2 years. Macs are worth every penny of the premium Apple commands, and more.

That said, to keep me as a customer they are going to have to do a better job convincing me they aren't planning to discontinue the Mac lineup. And they'll have to offer a more convincing spec bump over my 2014 15" rMBP, which remains borderline-overkill for my needs.
The limit is enforced unless an application ops out of it.
While this sounds nice, I don't think it's correct. If people really bought products because they wanted to use the same thing professionals use, then everyone would be running around with Thinkpads and Latitudes, not Macbooks. And they would have turned their noses up at iPhones and bought Blackberries instead. Apple stuff is just fashion accessories (though for the iPhone, I will grant that it was a quantum leap over the state of the art at the time, but not any more, and this doesn't apply to the situation with notebook computers). They use their marketing to convince rubes that their stuff is the best made, but it's not actual professional gear.

As for Mercedes S vs. Tesla Model S, that seems like an apples-and-oranges comparison there. The Mercedes isn't electric. EVs are fundamentally different vehicles from gas-powered cars, and someone who really wants an EV is not going to even bother looking at gas-powered cars in the same price range. That would be like looking at a really nice microwave oven and then buying a really nice set of stainless-steel cookware instead; sure, they can both be used for cooking, but they're really different approaches to the problem and not normally used for the same thing.
To troll or not to troll... that is the question... BAHZING!
I have CarPlay on my Spark and all the audio controls for audio playback are mapped to the steering wheel. The rest is controlled by voice using Siri. E.g, "open podcasts", "call Jesse", "directions to work".

The interfaces car manufactures build are horrible. Once you try CarPlay or likely the Android equivalent you'll never go back.
Sure, headphone cables are a mess. So use wireless ones instead. For me; not having to ever charge my headphones far outweigh that hassle. As well as any issues with pairing and sound quality.

> I'm looking forwards to when wireless headphones are more ubiquitous and cheaper.

So wait for that before you remove the port. Otherwise we're just trading 3.5mm cable hassles for Lightning adapter/cable hassles.
Yeah, I agree. I have a 15" MBP from 2008 and that thing is heavy. Was eyeing the 13" only for the weight.
Well...this is a surprise. I wrote SQL Explorer :)

Glad folks are finding it useful!

Happy to answer any questions or take feedback/feature requests (I'm cc@grove.co)! We use the heck out of this thing internally.

A couple fun notes:

1. Every SQL statement is logged as a QueryLog object. This really simple data model enables a ton of the functionality:

- unique, bookmarkable URLs for every single query (including ad-hoc queries)

- historic runtime/query duration reporting

- query versioning

- 'popularity' in the form of run-count

2. The 'snapshot' feature is incredibly powerful. Tick a box on a saved query and (assuming you have Celery), Explorer will the run query on a cron and save the results to s3. Super useful for mutable data. Like, if you have a product catalog and the prices sometimes change, but not very often, it's great to have a query of 'current prices' that snapshots once per day.

3. Queries are all exposed as CSV and JSON endpoints (with token auth). A great way to shuffle data between applications.

4. The only 'django-specific' part of this is that it introspects the Django app metadata to build the 'schema viewer' on the right hand side. If not for this one feature, this would just be a totally general-purpose query tool that happened to be built on Django. One day...
You're forgetting about the phablet market. Apple insisted that the puny iphones were the prefect size for all people. I bailed for a Note2 and never looked back.
If i have it closed for more than an hour, i need to hit the power button to wake it (opening it won't wake it up). If it's closed for less than an hour, if you hit the power button it re-sleeps the device while it's waking up.

So i need to stare at a black screen for a few seconds to see what it's going to do. (the macbook is literally on by the time it's fully opened)]

But even then I also have problems where the device will restart while it's hibernating or sleeping, or where it will tell me it needs to restart for an update literally minutes after I start it up.

It's a minor thing, but it's one of the examples of where the Apple side of things has prioritized that stuff working more than not, and it's clearly a "checkbox to check off" on the Windows side.

I never felt that it was a problem until I used a macbook. I had assumed that sleep and things like it just sucked with computers. It sucks on linux, it sucks on windows. I figured it just was doomed to suck. But when I started using a macbook every now and then, it blew me away when I could just open the lid, and have the computer there and running instantly every single time.
"However, the exponential effects of aerodynamic drag"

quadratic?
otherwise we're in trouble
I'm seeing a whooole lot of posts about laptop hardware poorly supporting Linux distributions in this thread. I've been considering moving to a Linux-based laptop for basic computing once my old MBP inevitably dies a horrible death, but these reports about poor hardware interfacing, broken features, missing drivers, etc. is making me less interested in doing so. Is this really such a widespread problem?
When it comes to what side of the road we drive on, one side might be marginally better than the other - but the major benefits come from everyone agreeing to use the same side, regardless of what side that is.
Currently in class, anyone been capturing the stream? I'd definitely be interested in an offline version.
>I used to think this way, until I went through 3 PC laptops in 2 years. Macs are worth every penny of the premium Apple commands, and more.

Maybe you should stop shopping for cheap, consumer-grade crap and get a real laptop like a Thinkpad or Latitude.
Repository: https://github.com/erikh/box
I pretty much realized by Middle School (6th grade) that sports weren't for me despite having fun playing them on the playground in Elementary school. I instead started fostering a lifelong appreciation of music as my extracurricular activity. This is probably because my dad was very musical and never showed any interest in sports. Growing up I never played ball with my dad, but I would jam with him and his music friends regularly. In middle school I hung out with a strange blend of jocks, nerds and punk rockers and never felt like I missed out on friendships because of my lack of sportiness.

I don't feel like my life is any less rich because I chose to not be obsessed with sports. My wife who grew up with a sports fanatic for a dad gives me shit sometimes, but I try not to let it get to me. I can now enjoy my passion wherever I am, while I work, while I'm exercising (blah!) and I have a hobby (playing guitars/drums and listening to music) that I can do pretty much until my deathbed.
I have been using a good pair of bluetooth headphones for over a year and am perfectly happy with them, Audio quality is never an issue with a2dp. Likewise after getting a decent 802.11ac router that provides stable 5GHz Wifi way faster than what my 100Mbps internet connection can provide, I haven't used wired ethernet for ages, apart from wiring my NAS to the router.
10 years is a long time, very sure the Audio Jack will be gone by then or a rarity like Vinyl today.
Looks nice, but an opposite tool would be more interesting for me.
These are good exercises, but you'd think that Franklin would have figured out some principles to writing beyond just trial and error.

If there's one thing which can vastly improve writing, it's knowing how to write in simple manner. And by "simple", I mean "keeping your parse trees[0] short". I don't know how computationally intensive parsing is on an universal computer. But I know from experience that trying to read a text with long run-on sentences or with obnoxious grammatical features (like an overuse of subordinate clauses) can feel like pure suffering.

And I think this advice largely emcompasses those recommendations like "keep it short", "be direct" or "always use a period, never a semicolon". Because if you keep away from baroque parse trees, at least you won't be a bad writer.

In the popular sense, at least. If you're writing literature, you can do it freestyle. You can do a whole page of flow of consciousness, have footnotes on footnotes on footnotes, whatever.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_tree
I ditched the I2C driver that ships with Windows 10 on my XPS 13 9350 and installed the Synaptics Analog Driver, the difference is night and day.

I still prefer to use Ubuntu (I think it defaults to the Analog driver), but I need Windows sometimes.
I'm not going to tell my kids anything if they want to get into the entrepreneur life. Every company is different, everyone in it has a different experience and every period of time in history is different for those starting ventures.

They currently have a front row seat to the show. They see my travel, constant calls, late nights early mornings, product testing, team dinners at the house etc...

And that's the only thing that will be the same 20 years from now when they want to start their own thing.

The same skills needed in a startup are also necessary in corporate or government work if you want to be a leader. It's just the boss that's different.
I find "What will your grandchildren think?" to be a decent heuristic. For example, I admire my grandparents a great deal for their community service. My grandmother is in poor health, but she still gets around for charity board meetings. In her prime she was a pillar of civil society in my home town. Thinking of what future generations will appreciate pushes us to think outside of ourselves.

I know less about my great-grandparents, but I admire them for emigrating to America and struggling to make a better life for their kids.

Granted, on the cosmic timeline their actions don't amount to too much (because nobody's do). But I definitely feel the impact of my great and great-great grandparent's decisions.
I would say a good start is tonymacx86 - Hugely valuable resource fro all things hackintosh:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/forums/laptop-compatibility.114/
Reversibility is the clearest benefit to the end user. Also it's a much more durable connector than most, the cable end is just a flat piece of metal as opposed to having pins and whatnot.
Conspiracy theories don't make good arguments. MS has been one of the most vocal and active in pushing for limits on and public disclosure of government subpoenas for user information.
One year replacement cycle, why bother though? I mean of course it still performs excellent, it's nearly brand new.
why is that ? I'm 26 soon 27, I don't have a girlfriend (not looking for one currently), and I'm wondering what would be the ideal age ?