skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW, the manufacturer is running a promotion [0] that, if you buy the ResQlink or ResQlink+ (or Aqualink), you can get a $50 rebate. (Or get a ResQlink+ for free if you buy a $700-ish GlobalFix iPro). Check the promotion [0] and rebate-form [1] for details.

[0] https://www.acrartex.com/info/2016-usa-promotions/

[1] https://www.acrartex.com/media/1377019/epirb-us-rebate-form-...
I doubt it would have caused as much of a fuss.

The problem was that they picked popular low-bandwidth public-good informational websites (like Wikipedia, mostly text), and Facebook which isn't either. All US websites.

The website selection was almost comical. No Google Translate, but ESPN, which is only relevant culturally in America...

And there's also a problem related to having large companies harm local ISP markets, which only providing just the non-profit Wikipedia would have mostly avoided.
> $900. They told me it involved replacing the entire bottom half of the computer as the battery was glued in.

WTF? This is nonsense.

Apple prices for battery repairs are clearly outlined on their web site[0]. This has always been what I (or relatives/friends/coworkers) paid for France[1] when I had to change a battery.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/mac-notebooks/repair/service/prici...

[1]: https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/mac-notebooks/repair/service...
You say that, but I've seen a few too many people delete random system files because they didn't know what they were and needed space. Granted, they should've read the "keep out" signs and have only themselves to blame.
how does it handle cache invalidation, eg when a page gets updated?
From all the beautiful graphs present on the D3 site, the demo shows some boring examples. Why not dazzle the audience with a force-directed layout?
> This flurry of stories about 'fake news' looks more like a coordinated media nariatve then anything else.

I have seen this fake news first hand. I live in Sweden and time to time my friends contact me to ask me how bad is here and how chaotic is the situation. I don't know what they are talking about until they point to some obscure news site that talks about "chaos in Sweden" because 1) Women equality 2) Refugees. It is annoying and has been going for a while.

For sure just the fact that media talks about this instead , for example, of talking about the increasing wealth inequality is biased. And shows how much no one with resources wants to talk about the real issues. But that doesn't makes the fact that fake news are more widespread false.
Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande. It changed my outlook on life.
Here's a link to the judge's decision: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2016/2859.html

This case about cryogenic preservation of a 14 year old has some really sad parts in the decision.

The father, dying of cancer, has experienced the death of his child, was unable to see her body after she died, and has suffered the breakdown of his marriage.

> Despite this, during the course of the first hearing, the father, who was then unrepresented, changed his position, saying: "I respect the decisions she is making. This is the last and only thing she has asked from me. I would like to have written confirmation that I will not have to pay the costs as I have cancer and I live on benefits." However, by the second hearing, the father was legally represented and his position had changed again. He said that he was prepared to agree to what JS wanted on four conditions: that he and other members of his family could view her body after death; that the mother would not pursue any financial claims against him; that the mother and her family would not make any contact with him and his family; and that he would not be pursued for any contribution to the costs of the cryonic process. The father's last statement at this hearing was that he wants the court to know that he respects JS, and that he will respect the court's decision.
>Free,

Not free according to Musk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeZHyOnsm4&t=12m37s

>Well it can't be free. Because then we'll, like, we'll go out of business. [laugh]

>No, no, it can't be free to the user. I don't think so.

>This would be... this would cost a lot to build. Ultimately over time to build the full version of the system, we're talking about something that would be 10 or 15 billion dollars to create. Maybe more. And the user terminals would be at least 100, to maybe 300 dollars, depending on which type of terminal.

>And this is intended to generate a significant amount of revenue, and help fund a city on Mars. So looking into the long term, and saying, "what's needed to create a city on Mars?" Well one thing's for sure... a lot of money. [laugh] So we need things that will generate a lot of money.
How many founders does k8s? I thought it was Brendan Burns
(Caveat) I'm more familiar with satellite-based navigation systems.

Beidou/Compass is another out of China.
India has their own navigation system called IRNSS or NAVIC as of 2016.

There are an additional bunch of augmentation systems, known as SBAS, in operation around the world.
QZSS from Japan, WAAS in the USA, EGNOS in Europe.

Some places also have differential GPS satellites in orbit, like MTSAT in Japan.
Unbreakable?

From a company based in Russia?

Really?
Wait, so you mean security issues were found in a security conference where google pays top dollar to researchers who find security issues so Google can fix them ASAP?

Why is that a bad thing?
And it was considered dishonest way to count views since then too:

https://medium.com/@hankgreen/is-facebook-lying-about-video-...
What a sensationalist title, I was expecting a comparison with other surveillance law in others countries and the result to be something outrageous.
Turns out it's just sensationalism and it ends up being the kind of surveillance that has been enacted around the world in the last few years, mandatory ISP data retention has been active for 10 years in France[1].

It was even a European directive, directive 2006/24/EC or data retention directive[2], for all members of the European Union from 2006 to 2014 when it was invalidated through the Court of Justice of European Union. Interestingly this directive came into existence while the Uk had the presidency of EU in 2005.
>According to the directive, member states will have to store citizens' telecommunications data for a minimum of 6 months and at most 24 months.

Why is zdnet trying to put this UK law as if it was something out of the ordinary ?
Switzerland[3], Canada's bill C-51[4], Germany[5], Australia[6], Italy[7], and more [8] (Estonia, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Ireland) all have mandatory data retention law.

Then again none of those are actual democracies (the closest being switzerland) and that's pretty much the reason these laws made to spy on citizens are possible.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_on_the_fight_against_terro...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
[3]: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37465853
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-terrorism_Act,_2015
[5]: https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2015/10/16/german-parliame...
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_(Intercepti...
[7]: https://edri.org/edrigramnumber3-16italy/
[8]: https://www.purevpn.com/blog/data-retention-laws-by-countrie...
update

23Gbps * 4425 satellites is

- 100k simultaneous 1Gbps users

- 1 million 100Mbps users

- 10 million 10Mbps users

Doesn't seem like much of a subscriber base to recoup a fraction of the costs

(My) Estimated cost for satellites and ground stations: 50-100+ billion, maintenance cost: few billion/year?

Might I propose instead genetically modifying insects to pass photosynthetic light signals in massive swarms controlled by ground stations (just for cool visuals) and spend the rest on ground microwave towers or anything else.
The Wikipedia article is missing important context, resulting in it being substantially misleading.

We had a net neutrality law in place before Wheeler joined the FCC. This was the FCC Open Internet Order of 2010 (the 2010 order). The 2010 order was based on regulatory authority that came from Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Verizon sued to have the 2010 order overturned. In 2014, Verizon won, and the 2010 order was dead.

Wheeler then set out to restore as much as possible of the 2010 order. His first approach was to mostly reinstate the 2010 order, but modified by the minimum amount necessary to remove those parts that the courts had found exceeded the FCC's authority under Section 706.

It is quite misleading to say that his proposal would have made paid fast lanes easier, because with the 2010 order struck down creating paid fast lanes was as easy as it could possibly be. The correct statement would be that Wheeler's first proposal did not ban fast lanes (I believe it did add some restrictions on them), because he was operating under the constraint of keeping the regulation within the power of Section 706 as interpreted by the court.

He stated that he was open to considering reclassifying ISPs so that they could be regulated under Title II of the Telecommunications Act instead of under Section 706, if the limitations on regulation under Section 706 proved to be too limiting.

Title II gives much more power, and so would be a much harder sell politically. Title II was called by some "the nuclear option", and using it would guarantee that Congress would try to reverse it, and would also guarantee another long court fight. If adequate regulations could be done staying under Section 706 and avoiding the issues the court had with the 2010 order, they would have a very very good chance of surviving any court challenge.

During the comment period, enough commentator said they wanted to see Title II based regulation because they didn't want to give up the things that had to be given up to make Section 706 acceptable to the court. Wheeler then revised his proposed rules to be based on a subset of Title II, and put in the stronger limits on fast lanes, and brought them up for a vote, where they passed 3-2.
They've had that program for prior phones of theirs, that were not directly bought through them.

Source: I first heard about this program from my reseller-purchased HTC One m8.
Good enough for Pizza!
I remember thinking about a similar concept a few years back. It would be good to have a p2p archive of human knowledge for end of the world scenarios.

The problem is Bittorrent isn't the protocol for it, it doesn't allow incremental changes. You also don't want the complete history like git, you want something that passes a diff around.

It would be great to have a p2p network with Wikipedia, a load of academic papers, maps and recipes, which anybody with a computer could contribute drive space to storing.
> Countries can break up, dissolve, or form too.

Not that often, and even when they do it often means very real issues in terms of governance of internet infrastructure.

> I'm not sure that making all domains depend on things that exist in the real world is a good idea.

But domains already depend on things which exist in the real world! Not only are they leased by real-world entities, but even the names of domains already refer to countries, companies, brands, products, activities, clubs, and people.

The real difference with what we have now is that it's a weird global monopoly that has shown it's willing to erode organizational principles in order to make a buck.

Splitting it up by sovereign nations is actually moving back closer to the decentralized principles of the internet, avoiding a single point of (political) failure, and creating subsections which can evolve separately and cover for one another.

Ex: Turkey's emerging dictatorship refuses to let anyone register erdogansucks.net.tr ? Fine, go register erdogansucks.net.de , and advertise with that instead.
These files are hidden by default, so not only didn't they read the "keep out" signs, they tore them down and said "See? No sign." and then ran into the hole.
This is the preferred style for error handling in the Linux kernel.

I assume these guys know a thing or two about programming, so who am I to question it?
Do you make the same remarks when Google, Microsoft, Apple or Palantir releases software?
dupe, please check before submitting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981736
Ask HN: Are there any 4g/LTE dumb phones?
Are there any 4g/LTE dumb phones?

I've recently gone back from smartphones (Note 7 and iPhone 5) to my Nokia 6310i and have found it to be a very good move.

The only thing I'd like more than my 6310i is a 6310i which I can use as an LTE modem - either via Wifi, Bluetooth or USBnet but not RS232 (115200 is a bit slow).

Does anyone make such a phone? (Googling for LTE dumbphone does not turn up much.)

Two weeks+ on standby is the essential feature of the 6310i.
This is the bit that really gets me. $2,495 for a domain I can understand. If somebody is willing to pay that, more power to them. But once they've bought that domain, pricing should be at the registrars listed rates. It's unconscionable to charge a premium price for renewal, and even more so to jack up the price after it's already been purchased.
Should probably be named "Unbreakable Linux"... oh wait, that name is already taken by Oracle.
Please, no. Keep your political views to yourself. Respect the others. We don't need more "democratized" countries like Lybia or Siria.
"In order to hack this platform a cyber-baddie would need to break the digital signature, which – any time before the introduction of quantum computers – would be exorbitantly expensive." I loled
Does Russia make backdoored hardware and software? Do you have proof of that?

But we do have proof USA does that. See Snowden leaks.
No, this is a rather cynical thing to say.

In a free society, the rule of the people is only one of the pillars of freedom. Other pillars include the rule of law, certain inalienable rights, etc. Without these, the rule of the people descend into majoritianism or ochlocracy.

The textbook example of ochlocracy is the French Revolution between the Insurrection of 10 August 1792 and the Thermidorian Reaction.
Ask HN: Composition vs. Inherance in ES6
Which one do you prefer to use?

According to some SO question composition is much more favoured (not linked to ES6).

But I heard developers thinking that is a very important question for ES6, and that composition would be prefered.

I totally miss the point of this question? I don't see why. (First my background is years in java so I'm thinking in a inherance way all the time)
Bit into the video they mention explictly that "Facebook is cheating" and "they autoplay and count 3 seconds (even with no audio on) as view", meaning that if you are scrolling trough your feed slowly enough, you count as viewer, event if you don't.
Are you able to fix much at where you are now? Is it going to get any better?
France’s Sigfox raises $160M to expand its IOT network to 60 countries
> What's wrong with market based prices?

Both LIBOR and this chicken price are _supposed_ to be market-based; however the price negotiations are all confidential. An alternative is to mandate total visibility of all bids and offers, as is generally done in equity markets. This brings its own distortions: you have to pay people to operate the public venue; it enforces a bid-offer spread. And many people don't like regulations forcing them to do business a certain way.
The database dumps are surprisingly small - can store the whole thing on 2 TB hard drive incl media - or 64GB SD card if you just want the SQL database with text and metadata
So for what you paid IBM monthly for 5 MB, today you can pay Amazon for over 600 TB (or 120,000,000 times more storage)
What a surprise. Because people who are gainfully employed are all itching to get the Brandon Eich treatment.
Looks kinda the same indeed, although they focus more on 1 day activities. A good alternative if you don't want to do 1 activity for your entire weekend trip.
I think after Microsoft is part of Linux foundation now, and now your telling us that you have a powerful and secure CLOSE source OS !!! .. I think Open Source already won the war!! and your somewhat 14 years late...
Not sure if the parent meant this specifically, but the commercial version of L4 was ported to ARM to host Android, and was then used in some commercial phones -- deployed in millions says Internet: http://linuxfr.org/nodes/88229/comments/1291183
But then, a "normal user" wouldn't use WSL. Developers and power users do.

I create a file in my WSL home directory, and want to edit it in Sublime. So I google "where is the WSL home directory stored" and get `%LOCALAPPDATA%\lxss`. I plug that into WIN+R, and get the files in explorer. At no point was I stopped or even warned.

The reason is clear. WSL is grafted on to Windows, and has low priority. The windows shell and filesystem teams are currently not working to improve integration from their side (at least not publicly visible).

The shell people could put up a banner in explorer, like you got in Program Files in previous windows versions, that you shouldn't edit these files (e.g. via desktop.ini). From the filesystem side, it should be possible to make the kernel know about WSL and prohibit writing to those files from windows.

WSL could also have been implemented with an image file, instead of individual files in `%LOCALAPPDATA%\lxss`. The reason they did it this way, I believe, was to keep open the possibility of future two-way-integration. But this would mean change-listeners not only in Linux land, but in Windows-land... which again would need deeper integration from other groups at MS. I suspect once WSL has proven itself a bit, they'll add full transparent two-way-integration, i.e. you'll be able to edit lxss files from windows one day.
Owning Our Shit
This is laser based? Are the building ground stations everywhere too?
Look I don't think you understand, the internet did this, so let's just shut it down and go home.

(Does anyone have a map?)
If you don’t blow up a debug session sometimes, you’re not debugging hard enough
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That's a valid position though. Maybe iOS is for those folks.
So ... speaking as someone who a) supports the use of free software and open formats in all Government departments, and b) currently runs GNU/Linux ... is it just me or is the iconography on that page bordering on Communist?
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Android vs. iOS development: Which platform should I develop for first?
I'm reall
The Statfor hack showed that the USG has contracted out the development of "persona management software".
Isn't Kubernetes used 100% at Google, IBM etc? Isn't that already Enterprise? What is the market Heptio is targetting here?
Exactly the same here. It's 4:16am right now and I just fixed a problem in my code that seemed baffling last night. I used to try and push myself to finish things at night but have come to realize that most of the real thinking happens in the unconscious. Reading Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow" really changed my view of the power of the unconscious.
Fake news targets people based on popularity if you look at the popular vote Hillary was actually more popular and thus the biggest fake news target. They're going to destroy Trump next it's not about politics it's about traffic and money , he's setting himself up perfectly to get torn to shreds if he can't deliver on practical issues like jobs and health care costs, if he brings in single payer he won't be so vulnerable but if he reverses his economic promises and goes for scapegoating vulnerable people the fake news will amplify his hypocrisy. Most likely he's planning in using scapegoating to have to cover for throwing his followers under a bus in order to please Wall Street.
> So basically "there is a gaping hole in the middle of the street but it's ok, I've put a 'road ends here' sign in front of it so now it's the drivers' fault if something happens"

What you're describing there is road works and yes of course it would be the drivers fault if they drove into the middle of the work. Even aside the obvious point about the work being sign posted, it's the drivers job to be vigilant of hazards - including those that aren't signposted (eg potholes).

> In this case this results in a lot of files not being editable by windows programs, plain and simple - such as the entirety of /etc and /home. That's a pretty bad situation.

Think about it more like using the right tools to edit the right job. You wouldn't blame Windows / Microsoft if someone screwed up their registry because they edited that binary blob in Notepad instead of Regedit. Equally if someone is clued up enough about Linux to install and use the Linux subsystem then it's reasonable enough to expect them to use Linux tools to modify the files on the Linux filesystem.
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Also, in a microkernel-based system, verifying the kernel itself is but a start.

To make a verifiably secure system for network infrastructure and IoT-devices, you need, at the very least, a provably correct IP stack. Want a nice web interface? Now you need to verify the HTTP server, too. Want to talk to other devices? You probably want a DNS resolver. And so forth...

Simply signing code and having the OS refuse to execute code without valid signatures is not going to be sufficient to convince a lot of people that it's a significant improvement security-wise.

(If, on the other hand, they make it open source and provide proofs of correctness for all these components, that would indeed be a significant step forward.)
It is preferable to even outright include the link in the original post when making that sort of statements.

Without specific details, it sounds pretty much like any random Glassdoor report from un unhappy employee.
Thanks for the pointer to NetRipper; tinyapps.org is the best!

Fiddler MITM's creating a self-signed cert for each domain, which fails on apps that do cert pinning. I didn't get far enough to try but it also sounded like it didn't support smart cards for client certs in this mode either, asking for the private key in a file.

Just turning on the 'open dev tools for new windows' setting in Chrome is often enough to get what I need easily.
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD_security_features has good security features
Facebook, Salesforce, Google (just the HBase client APIs, though), Flurry (now Yahoo), Yahoo, Apple (Siri), Pinterest, Twitter, Rocketfuel, Huawai, SiftScience, just to name some.

I work at one of the above :) where we run many, many thousand HBase servers.
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I had a problem with this before and figured out that it was due to reinstalling from Titanium Backup - could this apply to you?
There are some other potential fixes posted here:

Android: http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21463462...

iOS: http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21313245...
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GFX HEAVY
It burns CPU like crazy for me. Would not use it on battery.
Kaspersky is too smart to have such point, but their target markets might require different marketing.
It only takes a majority, though, to change the rules to limit what can be filibustered. This has been done on occasion.
Updating my plane’s very old GPS data in a very modern way
Addressed it? How?
If you factor in the overhead of p2p, it is probably cheaper, if operating systems come with a few hundred MB of the more popular Wikipedia pages.
Why the “Read and change all your data on the websites you visit” permission?

Also, the “Fork me on GitHub” banner on your website is behind the fancy canvas so we can’t actually click it (Chrome 54).

Great idea otherwise!