skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That assumes that others people even do exist, and how do you know that? You could be in a computer simulation of some kind.
It does actually. You have to disable web browser code signature checking and start some program (Agile1pAgent.exe iirc) which then runs in the background.
Full instructions: http://eduardosanchez.me/2015/01/25/1password-on-ubuntu-linu...
> I think it is different. In south American there was usually enough chaos for the US to march in an pretend they were restoring order.

Yeah, I used to think like you. Until that one time when the USA landed the plane of the president of Bolivia because they thought Snowden was aboard. That's not the USA doing its shit in a far away place, to "bad guys" in south america or iran. I know hijacking a plane isn't toppling a government, but do you see what I mean? They certainly have the power, it's just a question of are they brazen enough? And to me this shows that they are.

> I think US governments today as simply nicer than in the past.

I see no evidence of that. Look at what's happening in Syria.
"If it gets out that you paid and you didn't get unlocked then no one would pay."

Sounds like an easy way to get rid of ransomware. Just spread rumors that you didn't get your files back even though you paid.

Somehow I have a feeling that wouldn't work, though. Many people would still pay.
I completely agree with you on this one. Telecommuting can change everything, because suddenly a town with no outside basis of jobs could support a community and have a tax base.

(Also, some people work better remotely, away from politics and open office nonsense)
> Three-pin appliances require a ground to be safe

Can you elaborate on this?

My MacBook charger has both a two-prong and a three-prong cable. Why would it be any more dangerous to plug my MacBook into this power strip using the three-prong cable than to connect it directly to the wall with the two-prong cable?
Car manufacturers generally telegraph their intentions for introducing new technologies in advance of actually unveiling the new models. People who buy a new 2016 Honda Accord generally can find out exactly what's going to be in the 2017 model just by googling around a little. Not the case with Tesla.
Television is moving to the internet. Some people don't even use broadcast/cable/sat, just internet.

Other than that, most every appliance you can get non internet options. In fact, internet options are rarer / premium items
Ease of shooting yourself in the foot

The most underestimated cost!
Actually, I think that a great deal of America's success is because member states are NOT free to leave. Otherwise, they can abandon each other when it becomes convenient.

Edit since I can't reply. It's hard to imagine, but it wasn't always so, and rich states always have a net tax outflow to poorer states. It's the political equivalent of burning your ships; you have to make it work, for no other course is survivable. Slavery and economics forced the question, but the American Civil War was first and foremost to answer the question: can a state leave?

Note this is only about your last sentence, I agree with all the rest.
I really like logo dust, thanks for the link!
To add to this - a lot (maybe all?) of the functionality that is described by the concept of "overlays" maps to the design and implementation of the programmable logic in a coprocessor system. To use Xilinx terms, this would be the block diagram that describes the periphery that connects to either a soft- or dedicated-core processor. The block diagram will control the usage of programmable logic cores and provide hooks for the BSP generator and SDK to wrap these in ways useful for software development - memory maps & base addresses, associated drivers, etc.

The big value add that I see here is that the management of these overlays has traditionally been painful, especially when trying to swap overlays at runtime - this is always sold as one of the big benefits of SoC processor+FPGA, that you can do things like dynamic hardware accelerators based on what software is currently running, but more than some assembly has always been required. This seems like a nice step in the direction of having reasonable mechanisms to reconfigure based on application.
Yes, agreed.

I am seriously thinking there might be a market for lobotomizing smart appliance. Niche market, but still.
As a software developer, the thought of using ipad or any iOS device as a work machine sounds utterly laughable to me. In fact, I don't even use it for play/reading device, because it's too restricted, for work - it's not even in the same galaxy (no pun intended :). I admit, I may not be a typical user - but come to any software conference and you'll see a lot of people like me.

What worries me more is that it seems like the Apple laptop line - which has captured a lot of developer segment by having the right combination of polish, power and flexibility - now seems to begin the move away from the power user and towards the same segment iOS devices are serving. They start to remove features and restrict power and flexibility to add more polish. And that's where our ways will be parting.

My last two work machines were Macbooks, but it looks like the next one won't be.
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What's a joke is "journalists" making blaming comments about a company they'd unlikely be fit to work at.
It doesn't ignore any of the things you said. Yes, it's most likely better for you to pay. This kind of selfish thinking is, like many other kind of selfish thinking, what enables this type of crime in the first place.

Sure the criminals will release your files. Just like with regular, "meatspace" ransom, only a stupid criminal would not release hostages after having their demands met. It's in their best interest to do so. But if people by default don't give in to ransom threats, the whole business model becomes unviable for criminals.

So yeah, this advice is kind of like with vaccination and quarantines - it's not just about you. It's about all of us.
Can someone explain the appeal of so-called "slim SIMs"? As I understand it, this allows you to load two accounts on a single device? And carriers don't like this aspect---or is it a security concern on their part?

It amuses me that these slim-SIMs, and SIM cards in general, are one of the few pieces of technology that are utterly opaque to the user and yet are so widespread.

Edit: For example, I recently upgraded to an iPhone 7, at the Apple store. This required a new SIM card, but the salesperson was very careful to return the old SIM card to me. Why? What am I supposed to do with this old SIM card?
Your MacBook then is prepared for ungrounded operations. Now take a laser printer, it uses very high voltage on the inside and if something gets dislodged and touches an outer facing metal part and you touch that in turn, you are dead. That's why the outer parts are connected to a safety ground. Do note Xerox warns you not to use a "cheater plug" http://download.support.xerox.com/pub/docs/4400/userdocs/any... . Laser printers are also a great example of when that C7/C8 connection is a fire hazard because laser printers need a lot of power when heating up their fusers. This is also why you must not connect a laser printer to a UPS.
Are you really suggesting that the North should have killed everyone in the South who was white? I think we have gone past the limits of rational discussion here.

People in the south don’t call the US Civil War the War of Northern Aggression for no reason. Taking people’s property without just compensation and imposing your values on someone else at the end of a gun generates a backlash. It would have been much better to follow the English example and just buy out the slaveowners and end slavery that way.
Same in Lithuania. Have been using mobile signatyre as it is called for yeats, very convenient.
I use Google Hangouts on Linux all the time. No issues at all.

Sleep-on-lid-closing works reasonably well nowadays; I can't remember the last time I've run into a laptop which has issues on that front. However, I'd definitely do my research before buying a new laptop, especially if it's a very new one (in other words: you'll have better chances of power-management compatibility on laptops that are a bit more battle-tested).
That demo is unrealistic. The entire end of the tube isn't going to open all at once. Instead, any realistic leak would be pretty small in comparison.
Don't believe Debian's lies, xscreensaver just got an update this month.
The two things Microsoft needs for me to switch back after 10 years with a Mac are:-

1. Really good Linux sub-system support.

2. A clear story with regard disabling all telematics and phone-home monitoring in Windows 10.

If Microsoft could get its privacy stance sorted out in an upfront way I'd seriously consider them.

Personally though I'm not happy with current reassurances about privacy protection in Windows 10.
Hmmm, thinks back to some of the support contracts I've been involved with (or heard about from trusted friends) with "big 4 consulting firms" or "enterprise IT partners".

Nope, doesn't check out.
IMO. Amazon marketplace is a disaster.

What brought me to use Amazon a long time ago was that they were selling themselves. It was one of the first reputable seller on the internet, that soon sold all kind of stuff. It was much better than buying from a dozen of unknown weird sites (depending on the product) for which I didn't have an account.

Now it's mayhem. There is no guarantee who is selling the thing, where it's coming from or what is the product I'm buying BUT everything is advertised as AMAZON.com.

I might as well buy stuff on eBay. At least it's clear who's selling.
> The fact of the matter is that manufacturers are too cheap to provide decent security.

Out of curiosity, imagine I decided to do a Linux based IOT device today. What liberally licensed reasonably mature security and updater framework would I use?

I can find numerous competing communication frameworks, but nothing around doing updates or the higher level platform. It looks like this has to be re-invented by each IOT vendor, which is going to be a lot of work.

Heck even just trying to do SSL on a LAN is very difficult - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11956088
I think that the real reason is the weather, until the advent of the premier league and the huge cash injection that came with it pitches deteriorated to mud patches by november. Passing balls around in the pouring rain on mud with zero drainage is a mugs game.

Two things; ok there appears to have been an obvious fallacy in the reasoning, but the data was gathered at the wrong time - the game was changing, TV was becoming fundamental to it, chopper Harris was disappearing and strange things like fitness were becoming important. Secondly and most importantly, the analysis revealed something that was quite widely believed already. Ok it was wrong, but it was believed, and immediately evidence of the success of the strategy was assembled. I see this all the time; confirm someones ideas with data and you will be loved. It's rare that you will be found out, and even when you are it might be 20 years before it happens.
Mine isn't, because I always forget to activate rain delay. And under our water restriction, we could get fined for watering within 24 hours of rain.

I'm assuming you always remember?
The other issue is the bottle-neck of the Isthmus of Panama. _All_ trade between North and South Americas would have needed to transit this corridor, unless some more complex system involving Caribbean island-hopping was developed.
They've always supported third party displays, but this is the first time that I recall that they've included third party displays in an Apple event / presentation. To me, it's a pretty sure sign that an external 5K display from Apple isn't immediately forthcoming (else they would have announced it now and not mentioned the LG display).
I know you asked for VR, but are there any options via a wire and harness? Something that prevents falling but lets him really try out skateboarding in a safe way? They have this for learning gymnastics, for movie stunts, so why not for seniors as well?
Contrarily, I'd feel more comfortable if "idea guys" like Musk would leave the engineering to actual engineers.
I don't understand why a tube section couldn't come away? What if a bomb went off, a truck hit a support beam, or an earthquake caused a section to topple over...

I don't think it is unrealistic at all.
These rely on libspotify which Spotify have not updated for years. Sadly they recently also removed the download links from their site. The new Linux SDK has been promised for a couple of years now but nothing has emerged. The future for Spotify on Linux looks bleak.

https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/libspotify/#libsp...
Is Pitivi still written using Python to gtk bindings? I found it really really slow using Python for GUI apps, eg Ubuntu software center and every RPM took redhat rewrote every fedora release but it has been years since I've used it as I moved to macOS.

Has it improved in that area?
Thank you. I just spent 30 minutes reading some of your past comments, as well as stuff on the subreddit on your profile. Must have been the best 30 minutes I've spent in a long time.
Hitler wasn't democratically elected. The Reich Chancellor was appointed by the President. It just so happened that then president Paul von Hindenburg was convinced by people on his staff to form a coalition government with the NSDAP, which had around 40% of the popular vote.

Point is that, although people often point to the Nazis as some failure of democracy, they didn't sweep into power by a landslide election (Hitler ran for president against Hindenburg and lost). They were strong, but nowhere that strong. It took a lot of political maneuvering and dirty tactics until they finally seized power by exploiting the Reichstag Fire [0] in order to pass two decrees [1][2] which essentially made Hitler a dictator.

Furthermore, although Nazis were anti-intellectuals, I don't think that was the key to this whole process.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

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

[2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
Remember, we just elected a black man who was the head of the Harvard Law Review. Whatever you think about him, he did not succeed because of know-nothingism. We have bifurcated in some ways, but there's still a lot to be excited about!
And you can't remap things in Vim because ... ?
It does. Regular customer support is on wage/salary, and otherwise have zero economical interest in helping people. Also, they're considered cost centre, which doesn't help.

Think of criminals doing ransomware as if it was a small startup, for which profits are strongly dependent on reputation, and where your "customer support" is actually handled by the founders themselves. They have every reason to help, because it literally keeps their business model alive.
At this point Hyperloop would have to support Intermodal freight transport to even have a chance. The technical limitations of container ships or the containers themselves would need to be considered. Hard to be beat taking a container off a ship and dropping it right onto a train car.
"Their warehouse policy of arbitrarily mixing stock is actively customer hostile in practice"

There isn't a "warehouse policy" per se. As a seller, you can choose "Stickerless commingled inventory" as an alternative to individually barcode labelling each item before you ship it to the Amazon warehouse (or paying Amazon a handsome premium to label them for you).

The risk as a seller is that your items are commingled with counterfeit equivalents, and that your seller reputation could be affected as a result.
I trust them not to be behind ransomware.

I don't trust them to make good quality software which works quietly and efficiently in my interest.

They basically sell a security theatre product where their motivations are to popup "PROTECTED BY ____" at all times so I don't forget it exists, and to look busy - typically by scanning the same files over and over even though they haven't changed in months - and to hook into everything to add more sales buzzwords to their product.
Nobody here is trying to crush dreams. The author, and many others, are simply trying to point out that there are much better uses of time and money.

The factors (i.e. physics) underpinning the economics of freight shipping in all forms are well understood. Can a hyperloop be built? Sure. Is it better than existing intermodal cargo shipment infrastructure? Yes and no. It certainly offers speed, but doomedly at the expense of economies of scale: https://www.usmma.edu/sites/usmma.edu/files/docs/CMA%20Paper...

Here's a thoughtful assessment by Olaf Merk posted last month that draws the same conclusion as the author: http://shippingtoday.eu/musk_maritime/

Bottom line, if you can find enough high value bulk cargo that benefits significantly from high speed transit to only two or three "ports", then hyperloop is your answer. However, that's a very (perhaps nonexistent) niche in the industry.

What we (transport engineering community) need to be expending resources on is: a.) eliminating greenhouse gas emissions, b.) designing a system of transport that scales with global trade demand (vice building 20K+ TEU megaships that can only be served by a few ports and promote trucking congestion in ports). Autonomous shipping, AI implementations in both freight forwarding (the logistics side) and transport control systems themselves, and applications of H2 fuel cells are technologies with great promise.
Can this be run on the mac just like windows parallels? Would love to try it out for some design experiments I am doing.
No, not for me. Running Windows 10 on the exact same macbook (just a reboot to bootcamp) and I get an hour less battery. Probably something to do with Apple's aggressive app nap?
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Another way then: create a script that sends hundreds of emails to the victim from different addresses (wallets) and different amounts; the victim cannot identify which email is from the actual scammer, therefore he will pay none and the scam chances of success would reduce, and with it -eventually- the number of scammers.
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You have 3 "holes" in your power strip outlets: Line, Neutral, and Ground. Now, a figure-8 can only have 2 wires inside it.

So, it's likely that you have Line and Neutral connected, while Ground is "floating" (not connected). Which means that, if something goes wrong inside the appliance, it can be dangerous for other appliances, and more importantly for you, too.

Especially if there are exterior metal parts inside the appliance that are grounded and a wire is touching the metal from the inside, too.
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I can see this now being downvoted. Sadly, we still have some medieval revisionists also in 2016!

Please take some time to read more on the subject rather than to just say "this never happened" just because you don't like it (i.e: revisionism).

What I posted was a way to challenge the western view of "we figured it all out ourselves", where in reality, we borrowed inspiration from many cultures and then erased the ones we didn't like from history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12th...

Crediting the right people for their achievements is fundamental for being a real meritocracy. A racist theocentric revisionist view of the world is not a meritocracy.
> Of course, the incentives themselves arise within immense cultural and technological contexts.

To twist it even further, note that the shifts of culture and technology are directed by aggregated incentives of people. What a nice and strong feedback loop there. Only shows how little control societies have over where they're going.
Nobody says lawyers or journalists or road workers or electricians or barbers or Macdonalds cashiers don't work. However, Apple products in the past were well-tuned to work needs of many software developers, IT workers and other such professionals, for which there's a lot of evidence if you visit any suitable conference, for example. But, it looks like recently Apple has been de-emphasizing the importance of this use case, which would mean the above mentioned professionals may want to look for a platform better suited to their needs.
the goal of high speed rail project in California is not taking you from SF to SJ. it's the bay area to LA area. this is not a train for within Bay Area commuters

Caltrain with express trains works very well. sfo and oak have trains that go into the airport. caltrains goal of electrification if it ever happens should make SF to SJ a lot faster. trains in the Bay Area are not as bad as you make them out to be.

personally I think high speed rail should go from Santa Clarita to gilroy or south San Jose. once you pass up the Central Valley you can take bart or Caltrain to your final destination
Well, the fire is proof that it was a genuine latest generation Samsung battery. /s
> Or we could be slightly less nefarious and create ransomware that decrypts everyone's stuff after the allotted time but leaves a congratulatory "thank you for not cooperating with criminals" message to the people that didn't pay...

Please don't do this. People (some would call them victims of cyber crime but not me) are EVIL and if they can trace it back to you, they will sue you. Doing this is not a good idea except as a thought experiment.

It is probably obvious to a lot of people but there are still good people out there who believe in the goodness of people so I thought I should spell it out.
One option gives an immediate, personally beneficial effect - "you get your files back".

The other option gives you an immediate, personal loss - "your files are gone" - together with an all but unobservable, mid- to longterm benefit for society.

You can of course hope for the majority to take the second option, but hope is the first step on the path to disappointment.
No, I got it because of BDUK. I'm on a long leg to a hamlet, which makes fttc difficult (dslam is expensive and you have to run the fibre almost all the way in any case). Then it was option 4 infinity. In your case have you looked to an Openreach community build or Gigaclear?
That is certainly an interesting example. I'm somewhat tempted to say that that feels like a consequence of colonialism moreso than capitalism, though?

I'm not sure. It seems like the British forced India to export its grain. They may have been paying higher prices, but that's not made particularly clear, at least not from the article. And of course, they'd have to be paying pretty substantially higher prices to cover also the very high costs of transport at that time, especially for such a bulky commodity as grain.

That being said, it's certainly possible for something like that to happen in principle. That is, a country exporting a product that its citizens need because others are willing to pay more for them.

I suppose though, the capitalist would argue that that would enrich the exporters of that product, causing them to spend more money in their hometowns, thereby enriching the local population sufficiently to compete with the prices paid by foreigners for whatever the product is.

Two potential problems with that, I guess are:

1. The means of production of product X being owned by foreign companies, which is not uncommon.
2. Even if they are owned locally, the owners of the capital might buy mostly imported items, stimulating the economy comparatively little.

It's certainly an interesting issue. One that is probably best resolved by an empirical analysis of foreign investment and laissez-faire policies in relation to income growth for the poorest people of those countries. Certainly there are great success stories, e.g. South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Brazil maybe to a lesser extent? Cuba is probably the closest thing to a success story in the contrary case (communist policies), and that doesn't seem like much of a success.