skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
doesn't matter, if the police stumble onto incriminating evidence in the course of the ordinary and legal investigation of a crime, it can be used in court.
Can properly setup apparmour/selinux profile help migitate this vulnearibility?
It will be interesting to see if people eventually normalize 'smart watch' into 'watch' and old school watches become referred to separately as 'timepieces' (for example).
I hate to bring politics into HN, but isn't Dotcom's character highly reminiscent of Trump? Same ideals, different skills.
Didn't they switch to the subscription model because people weren't upgrading enough to sustain the business?
In economic terms, it is beneficial for companies to "commoditize their complements." If flights to Miami become cheaper, hotels there can raise their rates. When web browsers became free and ubiquitous, it allowed web applications to prosper on the new influx of people with access to the internet. Google built an empire on this principle.

GitHub commoditizes (or more accurately, pressures costs lower to commoditization for) several complements that would otherwise reduce the profitability and viability of software based businesses. It provides widespread, free access to software as a hosting provider of open source software. It also provides widespread, comparatively low cost access to proven software talent as a sort of professional social network. As the costs associated with one part of an industry fall, the company that causes that decline and the companies that are complementary to those costs benefit greatly.

It is hard to start a new company offering a product for a market inefficiency that has been thoroughly solved for most use cases by commoditized, open source software. However, companies with a complementary relationship to that software will benefit greatly, either because they will have a wider market potential through new customers or because their own costs will drop precipitously. Similarly, developers commoditize themselves and their own costs to a company if they cease differentiating themselves or make it easier to find a supply of them. As an exercise, who do you think is better off in the video game industry - video game studios who make games with a de facto maximum price of $60 (ignoring DLC and in-game purchases), or Microsoft and Sony, who can charge for access to all of those games on an initial (hardware) and monthly (network) basis? Do you think it is in Apple's favor as a company that sells expensive hardware to have developers on their platform charge more or less for their software?

Anyway, my main point was acknowledging that, yes, GitHub makes a lot of other software companies easier through this principle, but no, I don't really agree that venture capitalists have this as an explicit investment strategy. That attributes to them spectacular market forecasting ability and there is a much simpler explanation, which is that they actually believe the company will do well.
But ignoring the years you've done at other companies that are not hype enough and any experience that was not in the USA.
An oral history of 'Get a Mac,' Part 1
Thank you for the link.
A lot of the suggested resources seemed to be coursera videos in this blogpost, and I much prefer to read books rather than watch videos.

Good blog post though. I liked that it was interactive, nice touch :-)
Well my company is paying GitHub a lot of money right now so I'm not sure this really applies to customers that are real businesses.
I would be surprised if students are funding the library to any substantial degree.

Most research universities charge F&A ("facilities and administration")/indirect costs on sponsored projects. This is essentially a "tax" on grant money that is supposed to cover things like utilities, the library, and so on. While the details vary a bit from place to place (and funder to funder), this is often a pretty sizable amount. Yale, for example, charges a bit under 70%, so if you need $100,000 for a project, you'll need to get the funders to pony up $170,000.
Can you give a high level sketch of how it will work?

I'm particularly curious if these would have a "write only" capability, and if so, how that would work with devices that assume the ability to seek (camera previews, writing WAV files, etc)
They do to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's a bit puffed up in the obtuse humanities style, but I do get its meaning.
Tests are, by definition, checked dynamically. And setting aside terminology, there's a small issue called the Halting Problem that makes most tests unable to be checked statically.
I once met Chris Wanstrath. He is the most arrogant guy I ever met.

I travelled for an hour and he sat there staring at his phone between looking at me like something he had trodden in.

At least pointing tens of companies at Gitlab has made me feel better.
At that point just throw down the gauntlet and ask do you want that $165 or not? The price is irrelevant and the value is apparent. If not then move on. The guy's not being reasonable. You have to realize that consumers are insane. Treat them like mental patients.
Is this more than a website / idea at this point in time?

Will the firmware be open source?
If that was the case, I think you would expect small investments from VCs and strong calls for sustainable spending. Github had a $100M Series A and a $250M Series B, so the VCs were not playing around when they invested. Even if a VC firm has a $1B fund, a $50M investment is 5% of the fund and has to be a serious investment.
I don't know whether it has anything to do with being left-handed, but I used to mirror-write notes whenever I was bored in class and didn't find it difficult with the exception of letters that required me to lift the pen off the paper and that went away with some practice.
Yes, thanks. We weren't expecting to end up on HN today. (-:
It's a pledge. People put their name on that list by choice. They want it to be on there, and they want it to be publicly visible. The point you are trying to make is not very well thought out.
I don't understand, is it nicer for you to speak for them?
graph.cool is like iPhone,they are so stable in the services they provide and scaphold is like Note7(just explodes, when you try to push it further). We have been using graph.cool for 4 months now and it just works as it promises to be...!
Small CEE country: I have 1 Gb download and 300 Mbps upload (900/270 effectively). 15 USD per month.
> If you were around for LiveJournal, it's more like that.

LiveJournal is a good comparison here - it never went away, is still popular in some communities (Runet), and is not worth very much money because most Internet users in the United States that advertisers care about decided to move on to other social networks.
Matrox appears to still be alive and kicking:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/
The whole VC structure in Silicon Valley sounds closer to "Planned Economy" than socialism does. Just a handful is deciding what is to be "disrupt"
The laws of physics aren't interchangeable with our understanding of them
That's what I do, though care should be taken that you can't then login against the old passwords by putting md5(password) in the password field.

Usually you do this by decorating the bcrypt(md5(p)) entries in some way so you can recognize which ones are tested with bcrypt() vs bcrypt(md5()).
FOR NOW. We have a plan for making the indentation checked but it's not been our top priority, but it is on our stack. Languages take a while to cook. Welcome to the kitchen. (-:
So basically, the granting of local monopolies in the cable TV era, plus other historical circumstances in the USA have resulted in big companies overcharging for substandard service.
I definitely don't need that 1% usually, a long long time ago I thought I read they were massively (like months) behind the plugins, so it's good to know that's not the case.
> basically it provides infrastructure for other startups

The good news for them, is they can become much more. GitLab learned earlier on, the value of selling to Enterprise as opposed to startups. They (GitHub) really should have gone on a hiring blitz a few years ago, to find people who understood Enterprise.

GitHub, way over estimated the value of "social programming", when it comes to Enterprise. I would say 80% of programmers in Enterprise, are not passionate about programming and have no interest, in the "social" value, that is offered by GitHub Enterprise. The vast majority of Enterprise programmers see it as a job, and really don't care about what others are working on, unless it directly affects whether or not they can leave work on time.

What GitHub needs to focus on, is doing the hard things, that GitLab and Bitbucket will not be able to do, without serious R&D. I personally think, they should abandon Atom at this point, and use those resources to work on solving harder problems, that Enterprise would gladly pay for. Like better searches, better analytics/reports, better code reviews, and so forth.
Meanwhile, just today some group of wizards divulged that according to a machine we invented that traveled five hundred million kilometers on the heavens, a faraway planet is full of minerals and ice, which combined after being blasted by a supernova.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?year_h...

Ireland, Luxembourg, Sweden, Iceland, Poland, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Spain, the UAE, and Israel (although there are more depending on your definition of a developed country).
I also hate empty speak, but I think the issue here is not that it doesn't communicate anything, but it does so with overly flowery language. What I'm reading is the "material" concept unifies 1) location in space and 2) motion, and it's based in objects in the real world (e.g. paper and ink) but is a framework that can be creatively extended and built upon.
> As if Google, FB, and Palantir don't have us all in a NSA or CIA database.

They don't.
112k here for a fresh load (no caching).
No, that's the cool bit: it's like a cell phone on your wrist!

The 4g connection is pretty good, and I think the call quality is pretty decent. Battery can only handle maybe an hour and a half of call per day (between charges), but I'm not too chatty, so it works great for me.
New Report from U.S. Copyright Office: “Software-Enabled Consumer Products”
> This is false sharing

You probably know this is the official Computer science term for it, but for those who don't and want to learn more about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_sharing
Cheers! Gonna read this. My SO (scientist) and I were just recently discussing the idea of funders as an alternative, but not to any level as detailed as this proposal.
Have you used Z? How does it compare to TLA+?

I'm thinking of trying out TLA+ this holidays to spec a couple of algorithms at work.
I have been using GitHub for maybe 4 years and I feel like the number of features rolled out this year blows away the other years.

Review groups and Projets (kanban) have both been great.

GitLab started applying pressure and I think GitHub responded well, staying competitive in the face of a competent challenger.
How US Students Get a University Degree for Free in Germany
Because who committed a crime and who owns the firearm are often very different people in reality.
Science doesn't hurt wonder and imagination.

https://xkcd.com/877/
So, this is exploitable if you're running an SNES SPC backend in gstreamer, on a linux workstation.

That's a big stretch, and a lot of hype for this "0-day". How many people are going to be realistically affected by this? Why is arstechnica making such hype about it?

Yes, it's novel that someone's been able to break out of gstreamer's sandbox using unimplemented (or poorly-implemented) 65816 opcodes, but that's about as far as it goes.

Thankfully, my Calculate (Gentoo) Linux KDE desktop with a VLC backend is completely unaffected by this "0-day", and everything on my network is safe.
By that logic, businesses would never employ people because it's a cost that doesn't go to profit.

And the fat on that OPEX you linked is the writeoff from the Tumblr purchase.
> Following users/social network-y things, we haven't really focused on this

Good. Please don't waste resources trying to be Facebook-but-for-devs.

> Also I want to mention that we value diversity, I disagree with the grandparent comment about how inclusivity shouldn't be rewarded.

Strongly agree with this.
I think that's taking it a bit far. I especially don't see how being explicit about the problem you're solving (teaching computer science to newcomers in a collegiate setting) and focusing the effort towards that problem and iterating on the methods used to teach it (building better tools and iterating without importing unnecessary baggage) is "actively harmful."

Simply looking at text in a different language is not going to impart magical understanding. Things you haven't actually used in a non trivial program will seem complex at the beginning. And sure, you can rationalize that away by treating this like a special case, but it's just a general bias in our brains. And depending on your background, certain languages may seem more complex than others due to simply lack of exposure.

I'd rather propose putting it up to a damn test. Compare the computer science knowledge of outgoing students to other students in similar circumstances who were taught using a practical, heavily-used-in-industry language. Use a short test maybe, along with interviews to get at qualitative unknowns. The results of that could then be used to pick the best strategy to teaching going forward.

But also, in general, why not try to solve the problem better, without pre-supposing all the sunk costs and existing ideas? And not everything needs to be on the freaking altar of industry either. It's not like your college implementation of heap sort is gonna be mainlined in a company and used forever more. What're you optimizing, the couple of weeks it'd take for someone who already knows this to learn python? You already saved it probably by skipping the b.s. until it actually became relevant to learn about.
It is the water getting into chips and micro-cracks in the glass. Not instantly breaking, but growing into cracks over the years from freeze thaw cycles.
`BinTree` is a type. There are two kinds of BinTrees. There are `leaf` BinTrees and there are `node` BinTrees. A leaf has no fields. A node has three fields. Thus, here are some BinTrees:

leaf
node(1, leaf, leaf)
node(2, leaf, node(1, leaf, leaf))

and so on.
Exactly, the key is "testimonial evidence," as in, is the piece of information the government is making you tell them testimonial in nature as defined by case law. Testimonial seems to be defined by case law as giving some kind of real information. . . which to me is a vague standard, I mean, doesn't all communication, aside from incoherent blathering give some kind of information. The court in my reading hasn't really clarified how much or what kind of information has to be given up before becoming testimonial.
The supreme court has previously found that signing declarations and consents, (like if they government were to force you to sign a consent to a bank to turn over your banking info), wasn't testimonial because a declaration doesn't communicate any real info. I don't know if the same reasoning can apply to cell phone passwords but they really need a clearer standard.
The Internet Is Broken
You also have to wonder how WW2 would have turned out had the USSR not been in such a rush to industrialize (not that they knew at the time)? Then again, they may have had more people to fight the Nazi's.
DockerSlim: Optimize and secure your Docker containers
"Can't quite understand" in an intellectual sense (i.e. "where they're coming from" or "how they think"), or an emotional sense (i.e. "what they're feeling" or "what they want")?

I can perfectly-well understand being content with the first kind of disconnect—that's the kind of puzzle that drives you to learn more about your partner.

The second kind seems a lot more fundamental, though: if someone had completely different preferences or feelings from me, to the point where I couldn't even understand those feelings/preferences, I'd just feel like they were an alien.

And I mean, maybe I'm imagining something too far out-there; I can perfectly well understand the feelings and preferences of e.g. autistics or sociopaths or narcissists. But, say—someone who enjoys things, but then this enjoyment doesn't translate to doing those things ever again? Can't connect. Just don't get it. Bizarre alien mind architecture.
GitLab has a migration feature that "just works". Was painless here
"Amazon is eating the world" gets a new meaning today
I would agree with the analysis that "At the very least ... the government is absolutely in the clear to compel you to enter your passcode and not reveal what it is."

As a matter of policy, I can think of three important principles at play:

* If we want encryption that the government and the tech companies themselves cannot decrypt without your consent, then the passcode is the only way to get in.

* The justice system should have a way to see inside locked places if it reasonably believes that there is important/relevant evidence inside.

* The person who might be coerced to give up the passcode is likely the only person who knows the passcode.

I can't think of a better compromise that lets you have all three things without some sort of compromise, and a combination of compelling you to open the box without revealing the passcode as well as some limits on how much the government can examine once inside seems like the best balance.
It's just vectorizing calculations so that it's faster than pure iterative calculation. 64 bit version doesn't get this probably because that optimizer isn't SSE2 aware yet (just a guess I actually don't know) and can't do SIMD arithmetic with 2 64 bit floats
What's wrong with their sharing? I don't understand your comment in [1]
Is it really necessary though? I've been using bitbucket at work, and their UI is the worst. I mean, you can't even close a PR after a rebase. Yes, it's seriously this _BAD_. So, we're just using cli tools and gui clients, and it works fine.

I understand that people would be annoyed by a forced switch, github has a working issue tracker, wiki, and not to mention the awesome github pages. But, I just think loosing them is not that dramatic.
It think you took predicting a bit too far and singular. It is not just predicting that is conscious, and it is more simulating or considering or even pattern matching.

This is what I think: Consciousness is continuously self observing past actions, past plans, actual outcomes, planning new actions and predicting future outcomes. That feels like something to the thing doing such a process, because practically all of those steps involve simulating/predicting/checking what something means to itself. Our brains do this because it is a self correcting mechanism.

> You can see color of red and don't predict anything at all, while still being consciouss.

I don't think so, when you see that color, you cannot help observing its context, what it means, check if something needs to be done, etc. All that is what I meant with predicting. Maybe the color is of no significance, but the only way you figured that out was by "predicting".

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Even if consciousness is 100% material (as I suggest), we can not prove it exists in others. We don't need consciousness as another dimension for it to be improvable.

As a matter of fact, if it is another dimension, then our brains are "interacting" with that dimension. So the hypothesis predicts that certain configuration of matter can have some kind of interaction with that dimension. That should not be hard to proof.

But since we have no such proof, and more mundane hypotheses, we must conclude that the other dimension hypothesis is extremely unlikely.

Another line of thinking on the dimension hypothesis is this: we have brains as small as from C. Elegance with 300 neurons, to ants, 0.25 million neurons, to mice, 70 million neurons, to humans, 86 billion neurons. At which neuron count does consciousness come in? What if we simulate the full neurons of any of these, will it behave the same? Will it be conscious the same?
Great - feedback welcome!
BitBucket is owned by Atlassian now. Stash is rebranded as BitBucket and while it has its issues, its integration with Confluence and Jira is at least as good as any of the other Atlassian integrations.

So if you're hosting your own tools, BB still gets paid and you don't have to switch vendors.

(my personal feelings about Atlassian rank somewhere between dislike and dread, but the BitBucket integration is one the least offensive bits).
Considering the piles of venture money they received it sometimes startles me how few new features they have pushed to production in the last two years. Gitlab, on the other hand, seems to push a new major feature every other month. Of course it helps that they don't have to worry about running a SaaS service for several tens of millions of users, but still it seems that Github is too focused on minor improvements and might just lose the game against the open-source approach of Gitlab.
What about my Garmin Vivoactive 7 to 10 days battery life?
Anecdote to back up what you wrote:

When I bought my first home my loan (P+I) payment was $1300 per month on average (paid every 2 weeks), which was not only affordable but cheaper than what I was renting at once you accounted for interest deductions! But the taxes were somewhere around $500 a month after the township raised local property tax by the maximum year after year. Due to average daily balance laws and escrow regulations, we often had a substantial amount of money "invested" in to our escrow account.

There was no amount of deductions to make this home an asset. It pushed a good quality home at a great price to something that now remains completely unoccupied.

My situation is 100% atypical - but I more meant to illustrate how big of an impact property taxes can be.
That's not really true. Look at the ads that are targeted at you, and you'll see that adtech data is really quite inaccurate.

Ad companies collect the data so they can make impressive promises to investors and clients, or just tick a box in a spreadsheet somewhere. Anyone in the industry will tell you that they are bad at using it, and bad at vetting it. Ad company data is nothing like what you could get from Google or Facebook.
Where Neuroscience and Art Embrace; the Neuroaesthetics [pdf]
Languages take a while to develop. Pyret will develop over a long time. Over time, it will surely grow to be much more than what it is now. But while it's growing, we need to chart a growth path. That path is dictated by the constraints of teaching computer science to beginners and slightly-more-than-beginners.

Every language you name and love and use had a growth path. This, ironically, includes Python, which also evolved from ABC: a teaching language.
But this doesn't happen to teaching languages. Because they don't have to work with real applications, they can change, and do their best to stay clean, and they be very minimalist (like Scheme), and only specify the bare minimum, ensuring a clean learning environment.
Amazon is moving forward with a GREAT momentum to dominate consumer market and extends its monopoly. It is not Amazon vs small businesses anymore. Amazon is in a ferocious battle right now with big players in various domains (Google, Walmart, Apple etc). So far it is turning out to be beneficial for an average middle-class consumer who conveniently gets to purchase cheap products and services. The way Amazon has extended its tentacles deep into TV content (Netflix vs Prime Video), produce (FreshDirect vs Amazon Fresh), Amazon Basics and Amazon elements, Alexa in home automation, e-readers, Spotify vs Amazon Prime Music, Rackspace vs AWS cloud, (failed) cellphones venture, and now Seamless vs Amazon Restaurants. Is it becoming more possible for Amazon to either acquire FedEx/UPS or create its own shipping company? I mean why not? This seems like a missing piece of puzzle.