skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse battery life. Really though, the applications you need should dictate the OS you use. If Linux works for you, by all means, use it.
"What?" for "this statements confounds and confuses me" is very different than "What?" for "I didn't hear you."

This difference can be very confusing in a lot of circumstances though. I wonder if perhaps a new word is needed.
The allegation is that she was using private email to conduct official government business while she served as Secretary of State (one of the highest-ranking positions in the government; chief diplomat).

This was likely done to avoid requirements to turn over emails in cases of FOIA requests, or I think a few other conditions. There's supposed to be some degree of transparency in government communications.

By itself, that alone isn't too bad, I think. But the other reason why government officials should use government infrastructure for communications is security.

Messages that were classified after-the-fact (not at the time) were found to have been sent to/from Clinton's private server. I believe some messages that were classified at the time were also there, but were improperly marked, so someone could plausibly claim they did not know they were classified.

EDIT: There were in fact many emails properly marked as classified at the time. Some marked top secret. This definitely demonstrates carelessness. http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/286513-fbi-direc...

Further, after she received a subpoena from the FBI to turn over all emails on her server, 33,000 emails were allegedly deleted. This doesn't necessarily mean anything, but could indicate a cover-up of something shady or even illegal.

For the most part it's just a lot of speculation and character judgment. Even if this second investigation doesn't find anything illegal, it shows someone trying to shield themselves from public scrutiny at best, or potentially trying to cover things up at worst.
I would say there have been numerous smoking guns, but most of them have been ignored by those who should have brought charges. To claim that the law wasn't broken because she didn't mean to leak classified information is incredulous and wouldn't hold up in any legitimate criminal trial.
I agree with what you said, but high variance research means high variance outcomes... not just scientific but also professional, and not just oneself but also one's grad students and so on. It is a chance we should all take from time to time, but not without calculating the odds and potential consequences, good or bad...
No one is suggesting this, you are implying this. Stop distorting the conversation
How is this news worthy? Intervening in foreign elections has been a cornerstone of US foreign policy for centuries. Would be more surprising to see high ranking officials opposed to this practice.

For starters, check out this timeline of US intervention in Latin America since the mid 1800s:
http://www.zompist.com/latam.html
I tried going to a 'hacker' meetup in my city. It was disappointing.

I was asking people if they were programmers, the median reaction was "a programmer? oh lord no, I'm a [marketing/UI/non-technical] person".

It seems the term was coopted and gutted by some in the startup scene.

(I'm aware there are legitimate hackers in the startup scene, this was just one particular event in one particular city.)
fantastic, thanks :-)
It's also difficult when using programs that emulate Vim's keybindings, because they tend to only use ESC by default.
What was the largest one then?

"Dyn estimated that the attack had involved “100,000 malicious endpoints”, and the company, which is still investigating the attack, said there had been reports of an extraordinary attack strength of 1.2Tbps."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/26/ddos-atta...
Does anyone else think that Soylent in and of itself is kind of ridiculous? I mean, I'm sorry that people are getting sick, and I'm thankful no one has gotten gravely ill- but come ON. You're seriously too busy to eat your meals now? The only people who would truly be too busy to eat are not the people who work in tech. And I say this as someone who works in tech. The people who would actually need Soylent couldn't afford it. /End rant
This is exactly right.

Apple's rising tide lifted all of us: it forced every other computer manufacturer take a look at the quality of what they were selling, not just feature lists and requirements.

We've all benefited from this tremendously: android was quite literally unusable crap until the last few years (queue rooters and apologizers), laptop pc's were similarly crap, and you just never got the feeling that someone who cared put these things together.

Now? Everyone is starting to put effort into the little things: the packaging, the presentation, quality of materials, usability, etc. It's a tremendous win. I'm almost tempted to say we owe Apple, but then I remember their coffers are already full.

I imagine there are other stones still left unturned, and the next Apple will be the ones to pay similar attention to detail and craftsmanship in an area where there previously wasn't any.
If you think the NSA has everyone's emails squirreled away in their teensy little data center then you do not understand the scale of email.
it's also 17", has an nvidia 1080 (!) and comes with 32gb of RAM, that is definitely the type of specs that would be nice to have in a development machine... wonder what the battery life will be for it as there are currently no reviews available yet that I could find.
+1 on the XPS 15. Windows 10 with "Bash for Windows"/WSL flies and looks amazing. I think Dell's work with any Linux distro as well. Buy from the MS store and you get a clean version of Windows.

Edit: New Surfacebook also looks nice.
This reminds me more and more of Julius Caesar and other Roman Republican officials having to stay on the treadmill of the cursus honorum to maintain legal immunity and avoid corruption charges committed while in office.
> while Tesla's vehicles had no video input.

This is factually incorrect.

Tesla vehicles rely on Mobileye [1] cameras to do its environmental analysis. These cameras come with the processing hardware to analyze the sensor data they're getting, and spits out environmental information that the driver assistance [2] can use to navigate the car.

Whether Tesla had access to the sensor data directly rather than just the analyzed stream is not public information. Now that Mobileye broke up with Tesla [3], it's unlikely they'll ever have it.

Mobileye has years of experience in dealing with the kind of visual data you need to have on the road, such as crazy HDR (you want to be able to extract useful information when the sun is glaring at you as well as in the dark woods in the night, and be able to switch immediately as when you're going through a tunnel). They've developed dedicated hardware to reliably and quickly do object distance and velocity detection: this is exactly the scenario that a "Real-Time OS" is made for. You cannot afford to be pre-empted and lose 5ms on your analysis and miss an action frame.

Thinking you can pull this off reliably with a non-RTOS and consumer cameras is... naive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobileye

[2] Mobileye's equipment was never rated for full-on "Autopilot", which is why they were very unhappy with Tesla marketing their systems as such

[3] http://www.wsj.com/articles/mobileye-ends-partnership-with-t...
The planning, including relevant applied math and physics, maybe some of it original, have been the keys to astounding DoD and many other projects done at low risk.

Like anything else, the planning can fail, but typically it is much cheaper than cutting metal, digging big holes in the ground, launching rockets, etc.

And if the planning fails, then just stop there -- cost so small it often won't be noticed. If the planning is successful, passes various reviews, etc., then are in line for some great results at low risk. In the commercial world, that would also be high ROI.
There are many good hardware choices at this point in order to replace a Macbook. What is entirely not clear is what software to use to replace a Macbook.
> At the most basic level, the entire "thought space" of a computer lies within the instructions fed to it by a human programmer. Until we can figure out how to build a general AI, whatever the computer decides to do or ends up doing is completely bounded by the content of the instructions.

(emphasis mine)

How would this change if you built a "general AI"? Assume I don't believe that a computer, even a general AI, is ensouled.
Quite coincidentally I watched that yesterday. Other great quote “I find it hard to believe in a ‘disease of machinery’!”
Using Linear Regression to Find “underpriced” World Series Tickets  Chicago
Please a democratically elected presidential candidate from a major party getting elected cannot be a threat against democracy, it IS democracy.

Democracy is not getting the leader you want, it is not getting the best leader and it isn't pretty - it is a way to guarantee legitimacy by getting the leader most people vote for, no more, no less.
It sounds crazy, yes. I imagine you're exposing it to a ton of oxygen very rapidly. Not just letting the wine breath but hyper ventilating it!

I suppose you could pour it in a carafe and shake it as well. But trying a blender sounds like fun!
I like that saying; may use that at some point...
This article, like many security articles, shows an unwillingness to reason about security in a non-extreme manner. All aspects of life include risk, internet or IoT security are just one axis of risk that must be weighed when making decisions and, well, living. I find The Wirecutter's advice to be perfectly sound and reasonable.
Whelp, I just learned HN has a search box!
It's only hard to use if you care about those things, and aren't willing to simply "cash out" when you want to spend on other things.
I feel like you and I have had a vaguely related conversation before, but do any of the remote desktop access protocols support piping sound in addition to graphics? That might be a quick-and-dirty way to prototype something. I've been looking for a reason to play with Elixir/Phoenix, and if there's interest in this then I may try some sort of one-click Orca VM that pipes everything back to the browser. Interesting idea.

Also, I feel like there was an early version/prototype of NVDA Remote that ran in the browser. I remember going to a page, turning on forms mode or whatever NVDA calls it (I've been out of the NVDA loop for a while) and I could send keys/get audio from the remote machine. I think that was before the addon was available so I'm pretty sure it was web native, but I could be misremembering. I don't think there's anything preventing transmission of the Insert key, at least. Capslock or other esoteric modifiers may be trickier.
C-[ is available by default; it's the actual control sequence sent by escape in many terminals.
Interesting that they don't mention expanding the information being logged to make the multiple joins they had to do unnecessary or more deterministic.
From the article ...

"Isaac Asimov's remark that in science 'Eureka!' is less exciting than 'That's funny...' applies equally to security vulnerabilities."

That should be on a poster in every security engineer's view. I cannot count the number of times a really big problem was uncovered by a very small, yet unexpected, anomaly. It was also the core of Cliff Stoll's quest to find the hacker who hit UC Berkeley. Bottom line, never let that sort of observation go until you fully understand why it happened.
I highly question the claims that soylent is better for the environment. This product's primary ingredient is soy. Imagine we replaced a good chunk of the currently consumed food with this. That would require field after field of soybean crops. The lack of diversity in this kind of growing would result in an unprecedented level of industrial agriculture, which is one of the great issues we face as a world population.

We should be encouraging less monoculture, with larger and more diverse crop variety. It is also possible to do in a sustainable way while still consuming some meat. Large-scale production of products like soylent is exactly the opposite of the direction we need to be going to help the environment.

This has some further background material: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html
Not here, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I read the quotes from Comey, I would not characterize this as being reopened at all.

I am not sure why he did this, the timing is suspect.

Its pure speculation, but perhaps he is hedging his odds of keeping his job?
Except that you still don't know which generation of processor the MBP has- I still see tons of deceptive Craigslist ads for MBPs that have a "2.0Ghz" processor, with no indication that it's a model from 2011, which is not at all comparable with a "2.0Ghz" processor from 2015.
>> Since Lenovo preinstalled spyware/malware they can no longer be trusted.

> support https://minifree.org. Same hardware, but you know the software is under your control.

Maybe this is purely my own sentiment, but the manufacturer can install whatever it wants, so long as it's just on the disk. I buy the laptop for the hardware, not the software.

If their behavior in doing this implicates them doing worse things, such as malware on device firmware or in the BIOS, or system management mode code, then one would be right to avoid this.
That is a perfectly reasonable point of view for yourself and I totally get it.

But I would take a job with a 50% chance of making 200k and a 50% chance of making 100k over a job with a 100% chance of making 125k even if the outcome was determined by a coin flip. +EV is +EV whether I am responsible for the impact or not.
Cheaper food? Are you serious? Soylent is not cheap, not at all. It's much more expensive than the average diet, let alone low-cost options.
If I can get everything to function in Linux and it not be unstable or buggy, I will do that.
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Some of us are. Once, a long time ago, using the $ was "cool." And "so it goes" with all forms of online culture. (Has Kurt Vonnegut gone out of fashion yet? I used to coxswain crew boats past his summer home.)

I would be quite amused if young "Microsofties" suddenly decided to co-opt "Micro$haft" but with a Richard Roundtree vibe.
Was thinking about Lenovo X series 3 years ago... until I've found out that their IPS display is not that good, it's comparable with a good Macbook Air display (although that is a TN one). For the price of a new X series better get a Macbook Air, it's the more comparable one (also nearly same price region) to Lenovo than the Macbook Pro (this is another league).
What I don't understand is the apparent oxymoron: Classified Emails.

Email is horribly insecure. Why would anyone use it to exchange classified documents?
How is a consumer supposed to answer any of these questions for themselves?
"It usually means either 'do some free work for us'"

Your comment seems to have an off by one error. What is the other option?
I'm not a lawyer, but what I remember from talking with self-employed family members:

There are different parts of German law/government that are affected, retirement is only one of them (and just because one authority noticed/thinks you qualify doesn't automatically mean that the others do).

Tax avoidance (since payroll taxes on your salary weren't paid) is another angle.

For the employer, not paying their part in your social security contributions is similar to not paying you your full salary, and thus a criminal matter as well.
> boston.gov

Interestingly broken on mobile. Open menu, swipe and the whole page looks weird.
Not to dispute your point, which I agree with, but --- argon metering? How can that be a safety or environmental hazard? You don't want to lose it overboard because it's expensive, but it's a noble gas, so it should be inert, right? What am I missing?
I'm fine with government run by people.

Giving some people a lot of discretionary power of others does worry me a lot. It might well be unavoidable sometimes, but it's really naive to not see the potential for abuse.

The calculation needs to be "if this agency is run by the usual corruptible and imperfect people like you and me, will it be a net gain for society?", rather than the "assume a selfless set of civic minded experts..." mindset I think a lot of people have.
You cash out because cash has this property. And, at least in the US, you never need to subject your self to daily currency fluctuations to go about your business. IF a crypocurrency is going to be used it needs to be able to be used as is on it's own just as easily as US Dollars are used now.
I, too, have enjoyed our discussion.

Moving towards IPNS namespaces would probably be a great start.

Example content sites like the below one (found in another comment) are a disaster just waiting to happen:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmU5XsVwvJfTcCwqkK1SmTqDmXWSQWaTa7ZcVLY...

This brings us back to my original point. Even with trusted IPNS namespaces, IPFS needs to protect its users. If nothing else IPFS should have some kind of content policy engine that warns or blocks the user from unintentionally leaving safe namespaces and/or retrieving random hashes.

P.S. 555.555.555.555 isn't really a great example IP :)
Sounds unlikely. People aren't that valuable. It's much better to be able to hire someone to replace the fellow who just got in an accident than to sink half a million in today dollars on some guy.
Buy from the Microsoft Store and you may get a bios-locked laptop that can only run Windows 10.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_micro...
>supporting a food company that makes tasteless gunk that makes people ill.

Tasteless by design - and that allows it to be mixed with other things that can provide flavor. I've mixed mine with bananas, peanut butter, cocoa powder, blueberries, and more. Some things mix better than others - I'm particularly fond of including a banana.

If it came in a strong strawberry flavor, it would be tougher for me to make it the flavor I want it to be.

>The primary selling point was that it allowed the customers to pretend (at least to themselves, if not to anyone else) that they were too busy even to eat food. If you're THAT busy, you must be an important, happening guy, or gal, right?

This is why I downvoted your comment, so you're aware.

Most people I know who use Soylent simply can't be bothered to prepare or cook meals. It isn't that they're too busy for it, but rather that they dislike the entire process. Whether it is the cooking itself of the cleanup required [0] after.

I cook a single meal a week: spaghetti. That is literally the only meal I have cooked in four years. I make it four or five times a month, every single Monday, and only on Monday. The other 6 days of the week, I don't cook. Which means 6 days of the week, I either (a) not eat at all or (b) eat unhealthy fast-food or food from a local cafeteria (still mostly unhealthy).

I'm not busy - I'm just lazy. So lazy that I've even stopped preparing my Soylent 1.5 because I can't be bothered to clean the blender every-other-day after preparing two day's worth of meals. My ideal level of food prep is two steps: Open, Eat. Granola bars are great for this - Soylent 2.0 is also ideal. I haven't gotten around to ordering 2.0, although I did try Coffiest.

I figure if there is something healthy for me that I can just grab and eat - it's healthier for me than my current eating habits. Soylent checks both boxes as far as I or the FDA is concerned. I've also never felt or gotten sick from my consumption of Soylent.

ps. The answer most people give me is "Learn to cook and make quick and easy meals!" and those people miss the entire point. I know how to cook, I had to cook for my mother and siblings nearly every night since the age of 9 until I moved out of the house. I have over a decade's worth of experience of preparing and cooking meals. The problem is I hate cooking and don't want to do it and hiring a personal chef is outside of my budget.

[0] I'm assuming they're apathetic towards cooking, not they they are slobs. :)
Gotcha, but you haven't tried a GUI or anything?
I think they'll get along just fine. "Would you like to see an invisible sculpture?" http://elevr.com/would-you-like-to-see-an-invisible-sculptur... How to Bootleg http://elevr.com/all-about-the-context/ I'll warn you up front, the videos on the page are not... exciting. But the ideas in the article, about how we can experience physical spaces augmented by AR/VR, are really cool.
I don't know the word for what you've done, but Canadians isn't a language. I believe you meant to say was "Today a greater percentage of Dutch people than Canadians speak English." Or something more different and clearer yet.
Control Flow Guard Improvements in Windows 10 Anniversary Update
There's a whole class of workers want the flexibility. Students, people who can only work a few hours. Etc
Are you aware of any third-party keyboards that can replace those in a Lenovo laptop?
From the paper:

"Our goal is to select a subset of the input sequence as a rationale.

In order for the subset to qualify as a rationale it should satisfy two criteria: 1) the selected words should be interpretable and 2) they ought to suffice
to reach nearly the same prediction (target vector) as the original input. In other words, a rationale must be short and sufficient."
RDP can carry audio.
Yes, but I also know a lot of people who don't use function keys or need the extra ports. Apple still has good build quality, and the out of the box experience is still first class.

Most non-technical people I know might use Windows at work, but most of them can do everything they need to with Safari, iLife and iWork. I may be a Windows user now, but I still don't think anything can compete with Apple for the "normal" user. I haven't seen any free software bundles that even come close to iLife and iWork in terms of power or usability.

A well equipped Mac today should be powerful enough for a "normal" user for at least 5 years. Who knows what tomorrow brings? I am pretty sure a Mac can address a "normal" person's current needs for that time frame very well though.
Having seen a lot of founders who are just poker players, or full of hot air, this article provides a good objective way to unemotionally evaluate a startup.

This is important, because it's really easy to get excited about something that just isn't going to go anywhere because the leader is charismatic.
There's a guy who has a book on computer vision, and he sells more expensive versions that come with test images, so it might actually be worth it.

See-
https://www.pyimagesearch.com/practical-python-opencv/

I've been working on a search engine for lectures (https://www.findlectures.com) and accessibility is an area I'd like to explore, but it's tough to know how to test something as an end user would see it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation

It can displace air, causing death.

Here's one example of a death, although here they deliberately put the argon in there: http://maritimeaccident.org/2014/08/safespace-argoninert-gas...
Linux? Hackintosh? BSD? Windows? TempleOS?
The pink noise in the video has some strange dropouts and is compressed. If you want to listen to real pink noise I suggest this:
http://stenzel.waldorfmusic.de/post/pink/
Source Code:
https://github.com/Stenzel/newshadeofpink
disclaimer: I made this.