skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"With Sonder all your settings are saved automatically to the cloud."

Just what we need. Computer peripherals slaved to some external cloud server. You have a computer right there, able to store stuff. Run programs, even. You don't want to be tied to some here-today, gone-tomorrow service. Also, how do you know it isn't sending your keystrokes somewhere?

An API would make more sense. Programs which change the meaning of keys as you change mode should be able to change the keyboard. Think Blender, with 10 pages of keyboard cheat sheet.

Also, it says "Pre-order. Available Q4 2016." Well, it's Q4 2016. Is it shipping?

How do they send power over "braided fiber"? Whatever that is.

As a hardware device, it may be perfectly reasonable. Ship the product, get some popular programs with too many function keys to talk to it, get the price below $100, lose the ego trip over how cool you are, and dump the "cloud" thing.
They are probably located in a country where it is easy to bribe the policemen, and factor that into their cashflow calculation.
Google Drive keeps old versions of every file for 30 days. Enough time to recover the plaintext versions.
People in real life are often contradictions.
Web Bluetooth a privacy shitshow?
>But now the problem is: How do you level vast portions of terrain in the first place, in a scalable way? blasting through TNT and such. Which wasn't discovered either.

Wouldn't slave labor solve that issue?
Sure it's easy, for the two or three applications you use each and every day, and for the shortcuts you use all the time.

Want to use a shortcut you only need every once in a while, which is non the less buried in 3 levels of confusing menus?

Want to use shortcuts in a program you only use from time to time?

Want to learn how to efficiently use a new program, without popping over to the (potentially long and confusing) shortcut list all the time?

Do you have to write in different languages from time to time, and aren't that familiar with the keyboard layouts? (Think spanish, german, japa/chinese/...)

This can be a big benefit, if applications support it!
I just use TeX, never LaTeX. With TeX, the documentation is shorter and, IMHO, better written. That is, get to concentrate on just Knuth's The TeXBook -- nicely done technical writing.

With LaTeX, I suspect that really should also know the underlying TeX, but with some understanding of TeX can do just fine without LaTeX and all its extra considerations.
Yes, Emacs is very light-weight no matter what you're doing. Although I must admit that my copy is using 3.45GB of memory at the moment; I opened a 1.8GB tar file... that was on a remote machine.
I'd opt for flask if I were using python, but that's just me :)

the thing about the above-mentioned JS stack is that it's barely the tip of the iceberg. most of the dependencies in those python apps are built using standard libraries that simply don't exist in javascript. glazing over the whole "you're about to download a bunch of random stuff from npm that may be unmaintained or malicious" thing doesn't do a service to a junior dev.

it's also not a "modern" stack. gulp? webpack. npm? yarn. react? vue. and in another month it will be something else. what you would opt for in python, is well-established, built on libraries that are part of python's core, and maybe except for the testing stuff has been around for 100 javascript years.

I'm criticizing neither the article nor its author, simply remarking that javascript in 2016 is, in practice, completely fucking brutal.
There is a HUGE monetary and time benefit to having developers spin up docker/vagrant environments to run integration/etc tests on their laptops before it hits CI/CD systems so I completely disagree. People thought we'd offload developer computing to the "cloud" 5 years ago. It's not coming soon, I doubt it's coming in the next 5-10 years if you're making applications that now rely on microservices, kubernetes, etc.

AWS charges by the hour, GCP charges in 1 minute increments after the first 10 minutes. That all is extremely costly if you have a number of developers sending all of their tests through those systems.
For that kind of writer I have to "click into the appropriate gear". Ranting and raving for ranting and raving.
Please... the automotive market is a joke.

They have the experience and the product lines vetted for military and aerospace. That's a different league entirely.
It's too late to complain now.

I did like gevent/greenlet a lot, but the wider community, for many years, was unforthcoming to it.

Now asyncio is in the stdlib, including the language changes for coroutines, better than the status-quo.
Wow. Those photos are fantastic.

It would make sense to start thinking about an online foto gallery of historical interest.

We have the storage capacity now, and those old fotos will rapidly disappear if left in closets and attics.
Before the Flood
I am not saying anything very deep. We can try to count all the different ways 5 (or 100) people can have sessions on a website

#1 |--------------------|
#2 |---------------| |---------|
#3 |------------| |---|
#4 |----| |------| |--|
#5 |---------------------|

Each of these channels have overlapping event. Some sessions happen strictly before the other. Sometimes, one logs on before the other one logs of. Etc. The more channels we have the more complex behavior. That is all the paper is saying.

Sorry about that.
Are you arguing about the case in this article or about general issues you have with the Amazon marketplace? Text is a crappy medium, this is not my native language, but you seem to have a problem with Amazon regardless of the issue in the article?

If 30 million isn't enough, what would be enough? "All the profit of this product"? "All the revenue based on this product"? And .. would you award that to some random party? Because that's what this is about as well, no? Someone was hurt (financially, emotionally) and now there's supposed to be a pay out. Would you suggest giving the "victims" 100 houses for the one house they lost? One party/family should be able to own a small village of luxury houses to hurt Amazon?

I'm going to retire from this thread - it's past midnight and I was confused a long time ago. Further arguments make this process only _more_ alien and I certainly don't want to convince the US population that they Should Not Do This.

But there's no way in hell to integrate this process with my upbringing - it feels entirely wrong and far too much like a cash grab. Chalk it up to cultural differences?
I've used this site in many personal projects. Very nice and easy to find what you're looking for.
"You could not compare the West conquest of the US(and the extermination of the native population)"

Somewhere around 90% of the indigenous population of North America had succumbed to disease before the United States even existed.
Does anyone know if there are ongoing efforts to reign this in? Like a standards working group for a UL-like certification process for IoT security?

Maybe a group like the Linux Foundation or Core Infrastructure Initiative could take this on and lay out some goals for IoT manufacturers to aspire to (product update guarantees, secure communication, secure coding practices, signed firmware...)

One of the biggest problems now is the free-for-all nature of developing IoT products. Though I personally don't see a complete solution unless there is regulation or a government agency like the FTC steps in. I view this as kinda similar to bans on other not-immmediately-visibly-harmful things like CFCs.

But I don't see them having any traction themselves to get started. I think if the industry developed a standard certification process they could latch on and help manufacturers and distributors solve the problem.
Zadie Smith: dance lessons for writers
Toyota invests in GetAround
Movement keys in other IDEs like JetBrains is still lacking in my opinion. I haven't seen another IDE which lets you move between buffers(documents) as easily as Emacs. I've tried a bunch of IDEs and will support one style of movement like move split right / left but lack something like move other split etc...

Another thing is that Emacs movement is also very fast relative to some IDEs which sometimes pop up other windows which you have to interact with like in JetBrains Switcher.

That being said if you write IDEs just look at how fast, easy to configure, and complete buffer movement is in Emacs. We want these features!
> Regarding #1, socialism distinguishes between personal private property and productive assets.

There is no moral distinction. It's an arbitrary distinction to justify robbing people of the value they generate. It's slavery.

> Nobody is advocating for violating personal private property.

But communists are advocating for violating private property.

>And #2 is not something most mainstream socialists advocate for either, so it's mostly a strawman.

Socialists universally support economic regulations. You have not thought about any of this carefully.
Is there any case where versioned backups wouldn't completely solve a ransomware situation?

Assuming, of course, that the ransomware doesn't somehow spider out and compromise all your past backups as well. Let's assume your past backup versions are safe.
See also "Mouse Tracking with Javascript and Perl [2003]": https://pts.50.hu/0304tpj.pdf
The annoying part with Linux on rMBP's for me isn't the display - it's the fact that my palm rests on the trackpad and causes all kinds of issues that macOS is immune to.
Have a look at the way C# does it. I think it comes pretty close.
Not to be argumentative, however :), I'm primarily a programmer but have been involved in producing two feature films in Hollywood, and do not know of a single professional editor who uses FCPX. Admittedly, the majority seem to be using Avid and may not have been using Final Cut Pro previously.

I would like to add that I don't see the Apple garbage can as a suitable hardware offering for serious editors.
It's good that the bank set up a separate counter for her.
> The manufacturers have to comply

They don't have to do shit. They chose it themselves. IoT market is pretty much pure marketing/hype creation. Current solutions don't make any sense, and are pushed to people who don't understand it.

There are deeper problems here though. Current smartphone model doesn't make any sense either, but this is something even many techies are blind about. Like apps, third of which shouldn't exist in the first place, and another third should be OS-level components. Interoperability sucks because everyone is trying to make a lock-in business out of their small part in the solution.

But I'm just a grumpy techie myself. Until the world gets its shit together (i.e. never), I'll continue to build my smart home out of Raspberry Pis and DIY components, while also telling everyone to avoid anything that's done over cloud.
Corporate email will become more about interacting with the outside world and less about team interaction. Which makes sense because inside the organization, you have a contained set of actors, whereas outside there are billions (and also apps, mailing lists, etc).
Apple demolished by Microsoft at PC events
If there are certain restrictions to how far you can go back, they will likely find a way around that. If it's 10 versions of the same file path, they'll overwrite each path with a different single-byte file 11 times.
Dropbox has a help article on ransomware: https://www.dropbox.com/help/8408

For mass deletes that are cumbersome to recover using Dropbox's interface, that article mentions you can contact customer support to get assistance recovering from mass deletion events.
You make an interesting point. I will (no snark, I'm serious) try to figure out how this works in my home country and in Europe in general. Because .. I assume they have a strategy for this as well and 'pay a private party a lot of money' isn't something that's possible in Germany.

But .. I'm too ignorant to know WHAT the strategy is over here, how companies would be/are being reigned in. Homework.
> Yes, I think a weapon that requires no strength reduces the disparity between men and women

That wasn't the question.

> raising the risk of rape

Will it though? Or will it just change the way women are attacked?
Not to mention things like disease that spread more in equatorial areas. How many Einsteins died of something like malaria?
indeed, the early wittgenstein thinks that the world is must be one of those things we must pass over in silence, while how the world is is exactly the kind of thing about which we can talk and reason.

the later wittgenstein (still?) thinks that explanation comes to an end somewhere, and just wants to make sure one doesn't append "and isn't that mysterious?" to the end of a good explanation (ie one that sets out to answer a precise question, then does so).

but who knows. wittgenstein and mysticism is an interesting topic... for the early wittgenstein, it's crystal clear that he's saying there are 2 domains: stuff that admits of being talked about in a propositional way, and stuff that doesn't. all the latter stuff is mystical; it's not necessarily supernatural, it's just that we can't get anywhere talking about it with true/false (or satisfaction-condition or whatever) talk.

but what about the later wittgenstein? he thinks that the domain of things we can talk about has opened up considerably, because he no longer things that language functions as a mirror of "the world", nor should it even try to. now he thinks that utterances are tools to get this or that done. this does not neatly carve out anything to be called mystical.

---

relating this back to the article, the idea is that we sort of put an air of magic about the mystical, and when we treat something for which we can create an adequate explanation as mystical or magic (or "strange"), we lead ourselves and others into getting perplexed.

and if there is something to be said for religion or purpose, it's not to be found in something we can explicate adequately by adverting to neutral drift, etc. that being the case, we want to be careful about what we call strange. what are we endorsing when we see strangeness in something we can understand?
President Obama has met plenty of resistance during his 8 years
That's probably what GP is implying, because that's how it works. More and more devices require Internet connectivity for no real reason except ensuring vendor's business.

See e.g. a laser cutter featured once on HN, that offloaded its basic computations to my butt, turning it into $2000-worth big paperweight if you lost your Internet connection.

I mean, I understand that people need to make money, but some of the business models today are so user-hostile that it's no longer funny.
This wouldn't really help, because much like spam, the costs are extraordinarily asymmetric, it costs essentially nothing to infect somebody and they need 1 payout in 100000 to make it worth it.
> instead of a brand with a Samsung lithium ion battery they believed they were buying from Amazon

Plot twist: It was the genuine Samsung product...
The thousand-dollar-per-strawberry market cares a lot about latency, and not one jot about bulk handling capacity.

Getting from Napa Valley to New York, New York in an hour without sitting in a box in the sun would be a big win.
I already spend most of my day writing an IDE (GNOME Builder) and making it Wayland ready out of the box.

However, I am responsive on #gtk+ answering questions to people working on this.
Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life
There's a new type of ransomware which threatens to release your files to the public if you don't pay. No amount of backups will help you there. :/
The term "industrial revolution" refers to what happened in the West. Japan industrialized, but the gigantic set of scientific discoveries and technological inventions and economic and governmental innovations that allowed Japan to industrialize were borrowed from the West. The link is about why this all happened there and not in China.
Doesn't office space lag a slowdown considerably? I mean, from the first rent default to the suite being on the market takes a while.
Even if such a programming language existed, does using both paradigms in the same program mesh very well?
No I am not confusing anything. Marx laid out what mainstream Communism is, and that includes expropriating property from people, and denying the people the right to engage in voluntary economic interactions.

You may be confused as to what 'voluntary economic interactions' means, so I'll explain:

This would be any kind trade enter into by two consenting adults, like for example, doing a number of hours of work in exchange for a number of units of currency. By denying the right of employers to hire workers on any terms other than giving workers all of the revenue generated by the business, communism denies the right to engage in the aforementioned class of voluntary economic interactions.

I really recommend you think about these concepts. You seem to have a very shallow understanding of what communism is, and the implications of what it advocates for.

To advocate for radical reconfigurations of society, brought about by force, without thinking through the moral implications, is very reckless and morally irresponsible.
OT question: is there no way to flag that bitcoin address in any way (so it gets locked / they cannot withdraw anything)?
Instead of the hassle of putting together a high-end PC with Vive/Rift, one simpler option could be a Google DayDream [1] (or Samsung Gear VR [2]) and a latest gen Android. DayDream still in pre-order, but will be shipping in a few weeks.

If you live in NYC, they are are available for testing at Google NYC Pop-up store [3].

(Disclaimer: I work at Google, but no connection to VR team)

[1] https://vr.google.com/daydream/headset/

[2] http://www.samsung.com/us/explore/gear-vr

[3] http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/20/13346950/google-pop-up-sh...
I've got a Dylos DC1100 Pro and it seems to work great, however I don't have a solid way of verifying the accuracy of its measurements. Supposedly it's one of the most accurate devices available at that price.

Empirically it works; running a HEPA filter in a closed room for 15 minutes will eliminate almost all particle readings. Cooking bacon in the kitchen will make the meter read 100x higher than normal, etc. I'd recommend buying one if you're interested in monitoring air quality, if anything it will be useful in giving relative quality measurements.
It could go over Wi-Fi too. The problem isn't the network - the problem is that devices require a connection to things outside your LAN.
And why is that?

Because usually there's absolutely no reason to do so, because it's static and you you have the layout in muscle memory.
My only problem with the design is the lack of maximize minimize and close buttons in the windows. I could care less if it looks like Mac or Windows or whatever I just need to have those three buttons otherwise I'll just use my phone if I want some "revolutionary different way of interacting with things" (tm).
Tsfresh – Automatic extraction of relevant features from time series
There are a wide range of solutions: https://sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=577... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pipeline/peopleevents/e_quakes....

Sliders https://www.quora.com/Why-do-oil-pipelines-that-transfer-oil...

Now doing this without bending the long pipe is going to be harder, but you really could design this thing so riders don't notice a magnitude 9 earthquake.

PS: In the end you get into cost benefit designing it to survive an aircraft impact is probably not worth it let alone a nuke, but predictable earthquakes are not that hard.
It's more like a part of a post-sales than customer support (a cost centre).
It's a refinement of the old MacOS though. I agree it's very similar, but even as a designer I feel like you don't have the reinvent the wheel, and that MacOS did find a lot of saner solutions to most problems on desktop. There are innovations in it and stuff cribbed from Windows as well.
>Someone really should drill this into the head of every reporter and journalism student. Talking points put forward by political campaigns and special interest groups, if they are untrue or deliberately misleading, should not be given air time. Simply parroting such false statements does a grave disservice to society.

It's more the fault of the lead editors than the reporters. They're the ones who put the time pressure on (which means fact checking is often impractical) and they're the ones who deliberately introduce editorial slants.
I'm kind amazed at the tone deafness of several comments in this thread. I get that as a larger effect, reducing the success rate of scammers hurts their business, but if I'm dealing with someone who's been hit because they weren't adequately prepared, I'm gonna recommend they pay the ransom if they want their stuff back. Because I'm trying to recommend what's best for them. People could be losing their entire family's memories for the last two decades here. (I find for many consumers, photos is their singular valuable on their PC.)

Most of us in this thread ARE adequately prepared with backups, so it's easy to forget that yeah, someone should probably value their family memories over an infinitesimal effect on the scammer business by not paying. A lot of people here seem to suggest lying to or misleading people to believing they can't get their stuff back is a solution, while ignoring that it leaves people... unable to get their stuff back.
Don't challenge the Musk hero worship!
In the West we had glass - glasses to see with and therefore people able to read/write into old age. This was an important advantage, we could learn from the writings of our elders and our old folk could still learn and research even if they had poor eyesight. Meanwhile, in China, they had 'china' instead of glass to make stuff with.

The China that existed before the Communists took over had this absurd foot binding practice that took 50% of the working population off the 'job market'. Meanwhile, in the West, women did most of the harder work, with their children in cottage industries that pre-dated the full on Industrial Revolution.

Selling opium to China probably didn't help with their economic development either.
I wouldn't call it a "Revolution". The fact is that USB-IF is not able to keep up with the industry and forced manufacturers to either roll their own standards or add questionable pseudo USB extensions like Fast Charge / Quick Charge that are well outside the specs (e.g. 9V instead of 5V) and can damage other USB devices.

I welcome USB Type-C but I really hope the USB-IF is able to control the market. I can almost smell the smoldering power cords coming.
> Which government? The US government, which is the representative body for the affected victims? The Chinese government, which is the representative body for the manufacturer? The different governments of the countries where the actual devices were in use and where the actual traffic came from?

Do it the same way you handle contaminated food, appliances that cause fire and sales of illegal goods. Fine/jail the locals selling dangerous crap, and leverage international law to move against the people who manufacture it. There need to be safety and security standards developed, just as they are for almost everything else you buy.