skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounded like this was condensedware/liquidware (what's the opposite of vaporware?), namely that the event had actual houses with actual manufactured, installed solar roofs in the form of traditional roofs. Presumably there were at least four of them, the four tiles pictured. There is a picture of what appears to be an actual house, presumably with a solar roof.
> more or less than having to go fire up their password manager and find the service from dozens of entries?

Definitely more. All good password managers are so well integrated that the username and password are pre-filled in most sites noawadays.

> Most people these days who understand password security have either developed a personal algorithm for deriving passwords, or use a password manager for literally everything.

Yep, passwords suck.

> This is the same workflow, but without having to use notepad to stage the new "password" for entry into the confirmation field.

Exactly. This just removes all pretense.
When you plug it into another cable instead of a device, then it becomes a dongle.
Ok. Obama. Thanks as always.
Disclosure: I live in Florida.

The first sentence I interpret as: The power company (mostly Florida Power and Light, but there are some smaller utility companies that largely resell FPL, like Lake Worth Utilities [1]) cannot restrict or prevent property owners from installing solar power. The second sentence I interpret as: the government can restrict or prevent property owners from installing solar power (in the same way it restricts homeowners with building permits and building codes), but subsidies for solar power will be ended.

Not having followed the story [2] I'm inclined to vote "yes" on this (why should I pay for my neighbor's solar installation?) and don't see what's so bad about it. At some point, if solar is going to compete with traditional power sources, it will have to do so on its own terms without subsidies [3].

What do you see that's so insidious in the amendment?

[1] I had them when I lived in Lake Worth. Power cost twice as much, and it took forever to restore power after a hurricane. I refer to it as Lake Worthless Power.

[2] I've stopped listening to the news. It's horrible fear mongering on all sides (a pox on the 24-hour news cycle!). If something important happens, it will filter into my view. My stress levels have dropped dramatically.

[3] Much like electric cars. One subsidy they get is avoiding the gas tax, which goes towards maintenance of roads (on the theory that those who use more gas use more of the roads, and it's generally taxed at the geographical location of use). At some point, that has to change.
Eric Schmidt on how to identify, meet and update profiles on voter (real id.)
well, like they wrote, they want to support small, power limited devices as well.
The paper ballots that caused the 2000 debacle really wasn't any better the problems with e-voting we have today. The problem isn't the medium of voting but who is in charge of creating and maintaining the ballots.
This is an awesome product and a big disruptor. Has anyone done the math on the revenues and profitability for Tesla? On the one hand it will sell for more than the typical 10-20K roof job. But then it is supposed to last 50years. What are the chances that Tesla will even be around in 50years?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: you can't apply Silicon Valley disruption to every industry because most software has a failure-rate that would be considered appalling in any real engineering discipline.

And building a control system that can follow a perfectly black asphalt road with bright yellow and white lines between the lanes isn't even 1% as difficult as building a system that can actually be relied upon to safely convey its passengers under less ideal circumstances.
Part of the problem is that the incentives are skewed. Visa has incentives to have a strong auditing trail and to perform constant audits because they bear part of the cost for fraud. Merchants are also heavily incented to carefully manage credit card data, because they are responsible for bearing much of the cost of fraud.

What are the incentives for voting machine manufacturers to do a good job? Engineering a trustworthy system is tough, and it's expensive. If the machines cost twice as much, no one will buy them and it won't matter if they're more secure. And the market itself is unhealthy. If you spend 10 million on voting machines, you won't replace them the next year even if a bunch of security issues surface. You'll "demand" the company fix them, they'll issue some half assed patch, and you'll go on using the junk you bought.
"That’s one reason why I’m so optimistic about the future: the constant churn of scientific progress. Think about the changes we’ve seen just during my presidency. When I came into office, I broke new ground by pecking away at a Black­Berry. Today I read my briefings on an iPad and explore national parks through a virtual-­reality headset."

Those changes are relatively minor.
Large companies tend to be bad at keeping up-to-date. I know of a bank that still uses OpenOffice. No, not Apache OpenOffice: they still use the real OpenOffice.org.

Workstations are often locked down, so employees can't install or upgrade anything.
I ran my own independent experiments, usually designed to help a graduate student with one of his projects, and was then left to my own devices. If it was done in 2-3 hours, it was because the cultures needed to incubate overnight anyway.

I did group lab work with an instructor as well, but my university had a pretty vibrant undergraduate research program.
I keep asking: if you're a serious publisher, shouldn't it be your job to create/curate the right content for your readership? Isn't it your job to know your readers? Leaving screen real-estate (and really substantial amount) to random third party algorithms who most likely than not will be spamming my eyes with unrelated and sensationalist content is disrespectful.
My PFU HHKB external 'board has an Esc key, and there's usually a way to map things anyway. Not sure what the fuss is about.
Exactly. Take the same thing, but applied to startup culture. It's true that 50% (actually much more than that) of startups fail spectacularly. But I don't see anyone saying we should stop doing startups.
The goals for this new OS are quite vague and uninteresting. It seems set to repeat most of the problems with existing OSes.

Let's take the package manager for example. Wouldn't it be great if instead of yet another package manager that is a glorified system of install scripts... we had a declarative functional system ala NixOS? That's just scratching the surface.
> isn't it basically a django-allauth/passport.js/omniauth/... packed as a [micro]service, with an "click link in email" for the fallback algorithm, and a planned "self-hosted" option (not sure how it would be any conceptually different from classic OpenID)?

Yes, in the same way that everything is composed of other things.
Unity has already developed their own AOT compiler.

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/05/06/an-introduction-to-ilcp...
Yes, it's far better to not inform the public that their computers are being infected by an active Windows zero day.
Can he be please be President for the next 4 years as well?

regards
the rest of the world
It sure beats being in Europe 100 years ago.
...unless the military of the USA has decided that you need to be annihilated via drone strike.

The man commands more violence than most of us can comprehend. It feels out of place for such a person to tell the rest of us how great things are going. The cost of progress of the United States is measured in human lives and the ones doing the killing are the ones deciding it is justified. That's some nasty accounting.
I think they update that separately from Chrome versions. My Chrome already updated to 54 so I can't verify that, but you can check chrome://plugins/ to see if you have the fixed 23.0.0.205 version.
This sentiment coming from Barack Obama plays directly into Peter Thiel's claims that the liberal elite are ignoring the plight of so many Americans. The fact that nearly 50% of the population support Donald Trump and his message "Make American Great Again" should make that clear.

See Thiel's pro Trump speech from this afternoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfYLEPRiIyE
Life is perpetual movement, evolution, adaptation. There is something profoundly disturbing about these projects of freezing elements of the biosphere we're busy destroying.
According to some geneticists, it's a fool's errand.
>> Once-quiet factories are alive again, with assembly lines churning out the components of a clean-energy age.

Has he been to the rust belt? How can he say that with a straight face?
So they've made $3bn per year from the App Store (averaged). There are certainly development costs, personnel, bandwidth, etc.

Apple suggested last week they expect around a 40% profit margin, and sold 45m phones last quarter. Assume an ASP of $500 that's $200/phone profit. Multiply it out you get $9bn in the quarter (not their strongest, they expect winter to go better.

But that's a quarter. So take a quarter of 3bn and you get $750 million, which is only 8.3% of the phone profit.

They make some money on the App Store, but it's not like it's 30% of their busines.
Man, this is a great followon to the article about Intel's business model that floated up to the front page a few weeks ago. It really illustrates how Intel is betting the farm, year after year, on reliable performance increases. Even with how many semiconductors I build into products, I can't help but boggle at the sheer scale of the semiconductor industry's investments. $1.38 BILLION dollars committed to a research project that's not set to pay off for three years is a rare thing in the private sector.

On a less fanboy note - I'd have loved to see a more detailed description of how they ship the EUV tools. I can only imagine the logistical headache involved for Intel - they spec out all of their fabs to be identical for quality reasons. Shipping nine school-bus-sized, vacuum sealed containers to some far corner of the globe has to be a shitload of work. And then you have to set it up when it finally gets there! In vacuum! And then when you're done, you have to do it again for each Intel fab!

(Fanboy rant over now, I swear, I just get really excited about making all these miniscule things for some reason.)
The search results are based on user-submitted tags, right? So the quality should be expected to be shaky.
Yes we should totally incentivize publication of negative results / failed experiments. If anything, we need more publication of negative results, that are likely to not be cited ever for the most part. It's a big problem that many failed experiments go un-noticed because researchers are dis-incentivized to publish negative results.
What I want to know: who is creating these logs where, why are they allowing the researchers that have access to them to talk about such details, and what does privacy legislation in the areas they operate in has to say about it?
100x faster sounds like a remarkable feature to me.

(I haven't tried this yet, though I do use tokei, which is faster but not this fast. Been meaning to try it out.)
So someone at a bank in russia stayed at a trump hotel once, and now he gets spam from a trump marketing server. Can someone explain how this is a sinister consiracy to stop Hillary's war with Russia in Syria and Ukraine?
I found the article interesting in the forensic details (in spite of the political details), in the same way I found Mark Bowden's "Worm" interesting. I can see how some might not.
The paper is totally opposite (but make sense to me with increasing fiber deployed) what Cloudflare is saying[1] and the reason for removing PoPs from their free and pro plans

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world...
One problem is measuring what we mean by "paper". I can quite believe this is we include all the fake journals, which feature huge numbers of junk papers.

By the same argument, 99% of webpages are never visited by anyone but bots, but that isn't a "crisis of the internet", just a lot of junk.

It would be nice (and I don't know how) to provide a clearer division between junk and real journals -- I now basically ignore all new journals, unless I know someone involved personally (either as editor, or author). That's the only way I can stay sane, but it doesn't seem like a good system.
Or Syria now.
If you can find a counterparty and that's the only way to get the bet done, I'm glad to ask. But the theory of Long Bets is as a registry for accountable predictions. Accountability is tied to identity. So my guess is that they'd say yes for a well-known pseudonym with a body of work, like Lewis Carroll or Voltaire, but would say no for a throwaway name.
A friend of mine working for the government told me that in one major government agency, the most popular version of IE used on their website is IE11.

The second most popular version? IE 6. Not even 8. IE 6.

Who still uses it? Employees of other government departments...
> “I’ve never seen a server set up like that.”

Probably only uses Microsoft Windows Server 2012.
There needs to only be two examples for the statement to be true. I know of Tesla's Fremont factory, I'm assuming there is another?
What I find more interesting than the story itself is how this DNS technique could be used for surveillance.

Could anyone elaborate at a technical level what someone could do to prevent this kind of metadata in communications from being detected? E.g. are there any messaging apps that can obscure traffic analysis like this?
Or Libya now, to name another country improved by our esteemed Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
The article is incredibly vague and they say the data is incredibly sparse. My sense is that they should release the data if they want to make a claim as they are. It could just as easily be a software vendor in Russia.

Consider if the company used Kaspersky anti virus, for example. You would see very rare transmissions (checking for virus updates). They could restrict their firewall to only allow IP's for the antivirus. And it would show connections to Russia (where Kaspersky is located). And you could easily construct the narrative found in the linked article.

Now I'm mot saying it was Kaspersky, I'm saying that this example would produce the same fact pattern as the one in the linked article, so we can't assume that the fact pattern implies what they're implying.
Come my people! Let me lead you out of the darkness, away from your bike shedding ways!

But first, I'd like to know what you all think about my choice of shoes. Are they the right shade of brown?

We can have a round table meeting to discuss it next Friday.
Nefarious, evil and tricksie people who might actually get things done.

For shame.
I try to not regret anything in a stoic way and I am quite good at it lately. It is just a waste of time because the past can not be changed.The only thing we can do is learning from our past experiences.

@ OP: If the fate had wanted to work that guy at FB so had he opened that email "by accident".
> that is 100+ times faster

is that not enough?
Any sort of software for voting machines really ought to be open-source. Anything less than complete transparency is a non-starter.
So much for the possibility of WoSign coming back from this.
I note again that you didn't answer my questions, and don't really seem interested in understanding viewpoint vs bias, so I'm not seeing much future in this discussion.
Bank accounts are verifiable: you can look at the list of withdrawals and check if there are any unexpected transaction, and whether the computed account balance corresponds to the sum of transactions. The concern with electronic voting machines is how to provide a way to check their work.
Whatever it takes to get the spotlight off HRC being investigated by the FBI.
There are 1000's ...just google it....
I think that helps, but only if there's a system in place to audit at least some percentage of the votes. When I voted in Mississippi, the voting machine wrote my results onto a roll of receipt paper. I have little confidence that anyone ever audited that paper.
People steal identities to withdraw money from bank accounts and credit cards every day though, the consequences of fraud really aren't the same. It's easy to go back and fix the numbers in a bank account, and it's also pretty easy to notice there are transactions you didn't make and money is missing from your bank account, it's much harder to notice fraud when it just results in extra votes.
Peter Thiel: 'What Trump represents isn’t crazy, and it’s not going away'
> how do you convince developers to move to Cloud IDEs

Well... to be honest that's a pretty tough sell. Especially in light of this (reasonably) popular one shutting down with hardly any notice.

As a former IT Exec I don't know of any development Directors who want to trust their critical path development to someone else's cloud based IDE.
Because we need more Libyas and Syrias...
I guess that title is one generous way to put it!
You are right. They should have expanded the list significantly.
Since Minoca seems to be a Corp., does anyone know what their business strategy will be? I could imagine a) a paid enterprise edition, b) paid support or c) paid consultancy (as in "contract the actual maintainers to implement device drivers for your servers").

Whenever a project is corporate-backed, I like to know the business plan upfront before I consider contributing to it.
I carry an iPhone issued by my employer and a personal Android phone. You're absolutely correct about the feel of the device itself, smoothness of the software, etc. It's a very pleasant device to use, and I do use it every day, sometimes in situations where I have the choice between the Apple and the LG.

But none of that matters. If I bought a personal iPhone, I'd miss a few things. I like installing software that isn't on the Google store (specifically, F-Droid, Amazon, and Humble Bundle, in my case). I like having a little Linux system on my phone, and being able to remote into it. I like using scp to get files on and off, torrenting on the phone, being able to expand the device's memory when my needs change, and plugging it in like a giant USB key if I'm somewhere that my laptop doesn't get wifi.

Tellingly, I just bought a new Android phone that took some pretty blatant design cues from Apple's hardware. I think the choice mirrors the choice of which device I use in different situations, in a way.

My first preference would be a desktop computer: powerful CPU+GPU, comfortable inputs, very nice outputs (multiple large monitors, a nice speaker system), and enough storage for everything I want, with room to spare. My next would be a laptop; it's not as nice, but it's certainly easier to carry into the living room. Past that, my phone isn't as capable, but it's easier to put in my pocket...so I'm stuck with whichever tools fits my requirements in my current situation.
That section goes for 10 seconds. I guess if Tiesto only ever played for 10 seconds that would be cool.
That's what's crazy. Some of the US wants Trump to be president, 99% of the world doesn't. What's the disconnect?
Advertising the details of an exploitable vulnerability before the vendor has patched is protecting users now? I don't buy this motive at all.
I think the solution is even simpler. I'll call it "Market Driven Decision Making"

- Define the problem statement with your customer

- Brain storm solutions with your team and advisors

- Stack rank solutions by time to implement and completeness

- Present the top three solutions to the customer

- Execute on the one the customer chooses

Managers / Leaders should do this continuously in my opinion. Either you are solving a problem for a customer, or your ego. One pays, the other doesn't.
> If your posts don’t get traction, HackerNews allows a small number of reposts spaced out over time — you’re not spamming (so long as you’re not spamming).

Interesting to watch. This article has been posted by the same user twice already in the last week, with a different title, and got no traction either time. It's hard sometimes to figure out when what you're offering isn't wanted, and when you just hit the perfect storm that stopped you from getting the attention you deserve.

I'm not calling johnwheeler out on this, clearly he's eventually hit the right nerve. But, well, it's a line to walk: taking the hint that some content doesn't resonate with an audience vs. needing the effort to make them realize it should resonate.
> Finally, I'm sick and tired of POSIX I/O.

How do you feel about kqueue or I/O completion ports? Are those something like the "interface of the future", or just greasing the old machinery?
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it"

What a time to be a lie, sorry, alive.
> Well, for an extreme outlier, Jay Leno has something like 200 cars.

Ye gods. :|
i used the native osx disk utility to create a partition. i'm using archlinux on a mid-2012 macbook pro.

which kernel were you installing?
Cipher security summary – Wikipedia
I'm wondering if the data are outdated. Running through some ES2015 features like classes or arrow functions I noticed Safari was still "in development" while Safari 10 has shipped for over a month now with almost full ES2015 support.
POTUS handle to be passed on to the next president
I imagine writing like this in the present century would read rather strange. Is there a modern equivalent?
Nearly 50% of the population also would have supported Vogon Jeltz and his message "I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon!" if he were a Republican. I don't think that proves much about Thiel.
>That sounds pretty strange and extreme. So Amazon is checking up on who's friends with who on Facebook?

That portion of the article was unclear. The sentence from Amazon he's referencing says "Our data shows elements of your Amazon account match elements of other Amazon accounts reviewing the same products. In these cases, we remove the review to maintain trust in our customer reviews and avoid any perception of bias."

That doesn't imply GoodReads or Facebook to me. That sounds like they're trying to stop people from creating multiple Amazon accounts in order to review the same products multiple times.

>It's not just people promoting one book, they also have many cases where someone sabotages a book.

I'd always assumed the fake one star reviews were mostly political books being panned by ideological enemies and such, but I read a blog post in which a published author claimed competing authors do this because a book is more likely to be recommended if it's rated highly relative to others in the same category. So it's just the flip side of creating a bunch of accounts to give your own books good reviews.
But that would be easily detected by looking at the source code or disassembly. I think the concern here is that the "weighted" election mode provides an easy way to manipulate election outcomes while providing deniability ("oh, that code is just used for weighted elections in California").
She is an actual demon. She's a corrupt psychopath who is currently in the middle of three FBI investigations, all of which have to do with undermining the democracy and freedom of the American people.

I implore anyone who thinks otherwise to just watch the House Committee on Benghazi. She has absolutely no remorse.
I agree with you in general but IIRC Lua only depends on the C standard library and does not need POSIX to run. There are even versions of it that can run inside the kernel!
TL;DR: "Head of an advertising company recommends organisation doing advertising use techniques common in advertising"? As much as I dislike this stuff, it seems kind of "obvious" that they are at least try to do it (on both sides).
People do not respond to authenticity. Obama was the greatest president of my generation, and from the looks of it, that is not going to change anytime soon.
Is president taking credit for successes of private enterprise?