skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your interpretation of the blog post is not what the author had in mind. The problem is that for politically correct matters and other "pre formed" ideas people tend to attack certain ideas solely on the basis that they are against, even if supported by facts, from what the society or the "good thinking" society thinks it is appropriate, auspicable, and so forth. So basically there are arguments for which it is not possible to get a real discussion on the table (or on the internet) but only insults because for certain topics the % of people overreacting is going to be over the signal/noise acceptable ratio. So I can't see any request for immunity here nor she is claiming to be silenced. She is just saying: it is not possible to share useful things because there is a percentage of people not ready to have discussions only using arguments and facts. I totally agree with her.
They lead with this, which is probably why others aren't considered...

>> both are in a race to become the world’s first Universal Map — that is, the first map used by a majority of the global population
And GOOG-411 (didn't have a smartphone yet when they killed this, it was still useful), Google Labs (public access to experimental features in Gmail and other services), Buzz (jk nobody misses that), Reader, Code Search, Q&A, iGoogle portals, and plenty of others.
What changes are you referring to?

cppreference[1] (which, granted, is not authoritative) does not document any changes in inline semantics in C++14.

[1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/inline
> And you start noticing things like -f and --since that have no good analogs in the text log world, and it seems like it has value.

-f is `less +F`, no?

--since is neat. You could hack it up with a sort and an awk, but it's nice having it built in.
This looks incredibly similar to a WM I'm writing.. except mine is written in Go using literate programming, as an excuse to try to do something substantial with LP.

In the last screenshot, what's the header at the top of the screen? Is that from the WM or the program running inside of it just drawing at the top of the screen? (It's too low resolution to tell..)

And is stumpwm autotiled or manually tiled?
Since you were planning on leaving anyway, what's the concern? Enjoy your severance, relax, and sign up for that government money (unemployment.)
Petition only work if there is actual political power behind them.

There is at least one country that allows petitions to force a referendum on any law. Switzerland.

Naturally such a system develops to a consensus democracy. The reason beeing that a group that is big enough can force a referendum on any law that is passed. So the laws that are passed are usually some sort of consensus.
Yeah one thing that I'm really hoping to see in the graphics community is a nice selection of standalone pieces that you can combine into your own rendering pipeline.
> In fact, I'd be surprised if they hadn't granted themselves some special capabilities with regards to the content of the communications. Touting their end-to-end encryption has enticed many people to trust the product, sometimes with strong conviction, while giving themselves a monopoly on access to communication perceived as secure by the end users.

It reminds me of this PR puff piece[1] by Google, banging on about how secure their data centre was, the limited access by employees, the amazing information security team, the underfloor lasers to detect intruders, etc. while totally ignoring the elephant in the room, i.e. NSA backdoors which Google is forced to comply with and can't reveal publicly when they do so.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZmGGAbHqa0
It's news that Facebook still hasn't fixed it (and they're saying they won't fix it).

What do you call a known vulnerability that can be used for eavesdropping that a company refuses to fix ?

1) A mistake

2) A bug

3) A backdoor
Maybe the very fact that you want to be notified of key change events got you marked as suspicious ;-)
> I wonder how long it would be before we could reasonably send a probe to explore a potential rogue.

New Horizons took around a decade to reach Pluto, which is about 50 AU from the sun.

The nearest distance Planet 9 could be is approximately 200 AU. Right now, waiting seems to best bet before sending anything, so that we can hopefully find ways to send probes faster and meanwhile try to better identify its location.
The simpler solution would be simply to break up America into a bunch of smaller, more ideologically homogenous countries. (Federalism isn't the answer, because Maryland won't put up with Alabama making abortion illegal while flying the same flag.)
But are there phones out there that are capable of playing graphics intensive games on normal-high brightness with sound and everything for longer than three hours? I don't play many games on my phone but when I used Pokemon GO, my battery was drained from about a hour of continuous playing.I remember reading online that an iPhone can't even playing clash of clans continuously more than three hours. Clash of Clans doesn't even seem like a graphic intensive game.
1 month for each year served? That is common?

I've heard 1 week per year is common.

I have been with my company for almost 10 years. You're not really suggesting they'd pay me almost a year if they laid me off.
I believe you; I hardly know the first thing of the process - and should've made it clear that I didn't. (the comment being intended somewhat tongue-in-cheek)
As long as more and more features get added the more the attack surface increases on firefox and all other browsers.

Feeling safe, and being safe are two different things.

Same goes for self signed (or expired) certificates and 'not secure' connections, they are not per definition 'not secure'.
I've used both React and ExtJS. Overall React is much easier. ExtJS becomes a mess of event handlers, just take a look at all the possible events when working with their trees. In theory it looks great, in practice it's hard to follow the code and performance is terrible. The two way binding causes all sorts of headaches including the usual remove listener, update model, add listener type code. It's difficult to follow what code updates what part of the DOM. With React I only need to look at a component's render function. Same with the component's state.
that's probably https://stumpwm.github.io/git/stumpwm-git_7.html#Mode_002dli...
I totally agree with the article and I think that the great short-circuit here is that the same people that will mis-interpret this and say "it is terrible to see her silenced" (which is not what she says) are for the most part the people that over-react when certain topics are taken, that is ultimately why Jessica does not feel like to share certain things.
I'm not a crypto guy, but I'm trying to understand how this backdoor could be used by governments or WhatsApp/Facebook itself.
I'm not entirely sure how such an attack based on this backdoor would work.

The article says that WhatsApp servers have the ability to trigger the clients to generate new keys, but even with new keys how can the server read the messages at all? Has the server got a copy of the new generated keys?

Probably there is something big I'm missing.
All of the example images are too low resolution to actually make up your mind about what the author is talking about when referring to them.
Science, by definition, makes no statements on way or another about what is unobservable. Some scientists may ridicule the concept, other scientists may revere that which they believe in, but science does not make claims about that entire field, and it wouldn't be improved if it did.
I enjoyed cassettes. I still have a bunch, and a cassette player in my car. And I never use them over streaming audio from my phone. Why? Because this is 2017 and I'm not a hipster.
Oh sure, I'm not suggesting sending probes just to take a look around. But if we do positively identify another planet and its location, sending a probe there would be fascinating. If we could actually land it and do some materials science on a rogue planet, it would basically double our understanding of planetary formation.
Let me just say that I disagree: I am squarely in the former camp – I started with SunOS 4 in 1992, learned to use the Internet before the WWW, and am a long-time GNU advocate, and I am also a professional system administrator. I like systemd just fine. In fact, I started using it at home and at work just as soon as the package became available in Debian 7 (wheezy).

I think, however, that you have a point in that some people ascribe some mystical properties to the design of _nix and _nix-like systems. I have never done this, perhaps because I remember the early days of OS/platform wars (Amiga or Atari? PC or console? Unix or VMS?), first on BBSes, then on Usenet. I also, early on, read the Unix-Haters Handbook, and I found it enlightening, even though it is not always spot-on.

I leave all die-hard advocates with this quote:

“All Software Sucks, All Hardware Sucks”

(http://www.absurdnotions.org/an20010622.gif)

(Source: (http://www.absurdnotions.org/page75.html). Start of storyline: (http://www.absurdnotions.org/page74.html))
That controller gives me RSI just looking at the controller..... no thanks
Probable case: you are banned from the Supercharger network after a few weeks. Worst: Tesla sues, or a friendly AG prosecutes, you.
I find this hardly surprising. Somehow the USA government is very, very good at convincing companies to spy on their users.
I believe Obama's pick for VP was an obvious enough contradiction of his platform. Retaining Gates & Geitner solidified, IMO, "change" was not in the cards. Trump is an anomoly to the vetted & selected candidates we usually get to "elect", for better or worse. His cabinet picks hint at the latter, time(not the MSM) will tell.
does ember make you feel bored ?!
I tell people to "read enough Taleb that you understand why you shouldn't always listen to Taleb"
CSP flaws: cookie fixation
I would still like to know who's replacing him and what the future is for all of this, particularly Swift given how much Apple was pushing it. As far as I know, it was Lattner's baby.

Who's running things these days?
> Osama was tracked down using "good ol' fashion HumInt", not surveillance

It was actually diplomatic negotiation with the Pakistani government that held him prisoner: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-...
Isn't this a warning that only shows up when someone gets a new phone? That shouldn't cause many notifications.
Exactly Derek Lowe is a classic academic without any skin in the game. Rather than appreciating risk taking he displays the sour grapes mentality. He is always welcome to short the stock. But then this kind skepticism against anyone else becoming rich sells very well in academic circles.
>This environment of abridged civil liberties, police militarization and increased surveillance is what many Americans wanted, post 9/11.

Is that why most of it was achieved through executive order?
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Honestly, given the near-unanimous stance, towards surveillance, of most governments in most developed countries (NA, EU, etc.) it's becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss their motivations as simply "stupid" or "misguided" or "power-hungry". I mean, it's impossible that all of them are uneducated about history (how surveillance is a double-edged sword that never fails to backfire), or just plain authoritarian at heart. "Because we can" isn't satisfactory either.

So there must be another explanation. I don't know what the Presidents / Prime Ministers / Intelligence Agencies of this world know, but if they all respond to current threats in the same inexplicable way, there must be some 'logical enough' underlying motivation.

Definitely pointing at a "rock and a hard place" indeed.

The other cold reality is that, for all the horror, terrorism isn't a threat to civilization, we're talking ~25k deaths/year worldwide (DoD/UN figures, cf. Wiki), which is orders of magnitude less than other threats like cancer or alcoholism or smoking tobacco (~2.5m deaths/year _each_). Terrorism is emotionally horrific, but demographically it doesn't even register. Nowadays it doesn't even really affect stock markets that much (e.g. in France, despite everything that happened in recent years). So based on the data we have as citizens, it doesn't make sense to spend so much (money, political capital, loss of freedom) to avoid so 'little' demographic/economic risk. Not saying we shouldn't fight against it, or protect citizens, but A) mass surveillance is a bad means to fight terrorism, good ol'fashionned spying is the way and B) the huge means (CIA etc.) are totally not proportional to the very risk we're trying to avoid.

So what's the _real_ reason for surveillance? What is it about Big Brother-ing citizens that is so necessary that the public does not know about? How is it even possible that after a decade and a half post 9/11 no official in any country ever talked about the _real_ reasons behind this apparent unbalance between counter-terrorist means and terrorism consequences?

I am everything but a conspiracy lunatic, so I don't accept the idea that people in power are organizing, all together, a dystopian reality a la 1984 --doesn't make sense to me.

So what gives? What are this rock and this hard place, exactly?
Three.JS has support for pretty flexible "animation clip" blending via "animation actions" btw... https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/dev/src/animation And you can export out animation clips from blender.
What a perfect example of the problem described in the post.
The incentive to not charge above 80% is that it is harder on the battery, and those things are expensive. So that's a good incentive to charge in the sweet spot. Though my delivery guy said there was someone doing deliberate 100% charges trying to get his pack degraded to the point where Tesla would replace it, but he's been unable to get it to degrade the extra percent or two to 6%, so maybe it is harder than they make it out to be.
Yeah there was no floating point for a while on consoles. I remember spending a week or two making a renderer that subdivided geometry so the textures would tear less. It was more expensive so had to be done based on view distance.
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>>I probably prefer a slightly increased risk of terrorism vs an increase in government surveillance powers.

This is exactly what any educated person should prefer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-risk_bias
I'm not convinced by this format. I think the whole information would have been easier to digest, if it was presented in a clear and concise format, without any unnecessary detours and metaphors.
I don't get this. How do you know that the v231 for that component will work with older versions of everything else? If you do, why not just compile it yourself? If you don't like that, why not upgrade everything to v231?
Interesting. Note: deep bass notes are reproduced just fine with digitization. Sampling at 44.1kHz doesn't mean only high-frequency sounds are represented. You only have to sample at say 100Hz or more to get bass notes.
I've been using stumpwm for quite a while, and in my opinion, the best possible setup is stumpwm as a repalcement for the xfce4 window manager (xfwm4).

This way you get a nice winwdowing environment but still have tiling wm.
> I don't think people switch phones often enough for the warnings to be a nuisance or be ignored.

apparently in some countries they do and that's a reason to compromise the rest of the world..

just summarising how bizarre this excuse really is.

make it an opt-in setting, in some countries reliable connectivity in a situation of frequently changing devices (the more I think about it, the more contrived it sounds) might be more important than privacy, but in others it very much isn't and the consequences for failing privacy are much worse than missing a message between swapping of devices.

that's not a tradeoff you should get to make for everyone.

the error message itself (I have it on) is not at all obtrusive btw, it's a friendly yellow (like the old Google ads) small type, which a user will either ignore or get a vague sense of unease about not being secure (which is exactly correct), I don't see how this can be further confusing.
There are online communities where this happens. Generally, there is some barrier to entry that is merit based and the communities promote cultures of acceptance rather than "correctedness." This usually means that size is somewhat small and that moderation is swift, effective but fair. Some examples of communities like this are everything2 and tagpro.

Essentially, HN is particularly bad at this because a lot of comments on here sound like that programmer who thinks that they're right and so naive that they believe anything they disagree with to be lies. There is no proof that the people commenting have any merit and their reputation is not on the line with their comment.

I'm not really sure that a large, easily accessible community with minimal moderation could ever have quality discussion. Those conditions produce commenters with little reason to be responsible with their words.
"This is the kind of damaging presupposition that is the definition of Russian information warfare (disinformation)"

Apparently I have just defined Russian information warfare? (Will you inform the Russians, or should I?)

I'm afraid you have lost me, was that a reply or should it be a new comment?
I'm sure the tax credits play into the decision to build the station, but its position was intended to allow people to swap batteries for the trip from SoCal to SF, which otherwise requires a fair amount of time at a charger. For that it's pretty perfect, it's just that Tesla users apparently don't find it worth using. I do think that's pretty clear and useful data, and it's clearly informed their current efforts (i.e. no new battery stations).
This is a confirmation of the backdoor and not a rebuttal.
From his leaving post on the swift mailing list: https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...

> I’m happy to announce that Ted Kremenek will be taking over for me as “Project Lead” for the Swift project, managing the administrative and leadership responsibility for Swift.org. This recognizes the incredible effort he has already been putting into the project, and reflects a decision I’ve made to leave Apple later this month to pursue an opportunity in another space. This decision wasn't made lightly, and I want you all to know that I’m still completely committed to Swift. I plan to remain an active member of the Swift Core Team, as well as a contributor to the swift-evolution mailing list.
When the US government asked OWS for data on some users, all they got was the telephone number and the date of the last login.
You should instead run for office, campaign on mainstream things and then do what you want once in office.
> I fail to see a viable market or a satisfactory use case for such an oddly designed and artificially limited gaming device, and am confident that it will be yet another failure in a long line of Nintendo failures.

It is a portable console that I can take on business trips. That's a use-case :)
I'd rather people just be required to take a quiz like http://isidewith.com I'm guessing a fair number of people would be surprised by the result.
Sorry I am late responding, I am talking about neither of the two, but rather, the Orthodox Church.
What do you mean by "the answer"? Are you not able to do more than one thing?
Your headphones 10 minutes after you put them in your pocket?
Well that makes sense because if (big IF) you are wise enough to select your Facebook friends from people you actually know and you actually like, this will mimic much closely having a offline discussion, just using a media that can reach more people. For instance most of my Facebook friends are people which I interact with in the real world.
A post about not sharing your opinion because it can be (willfully) misinterpreted gets misinterpreted into "You should not critique people because that silences them, especially not if they're successful".

Is this satire?
I 'member
Yeah, I already have Google Music and have looked at Prime music as a replacement so I could save the $8/month.
Thanks very much indeed. I do wonder if there is a severe brain drain occurring at Apple.
> You're implying that WhatsApp, Inc. gave the Egyptian government the ability to remotely retrigger this backdoor whenever they want to (for those who haven't actually read the article: this backdoor only works when WhatsApp issues a key change for a conversation, and only then in certain circumstances). In other words, you imply that Egypt said "Hey WhatsApp, please actively hack into your Egyptian users' messages and send us the results" and WhatsApp said "ok sure here ya go".

No, the private hackers Govs hire were able to use an exploit to snoop on Whatsapp. That's very probable.
I am sure there are people who would love a browser that can control their car or pacemaker and report their bank balance on the welcome page.

But I personally would feel far more secure if there was a firefox-lite where no sensitive stuff (access camera, share screen) were included to start with. And I don't mean turned off by default, I want it removed at compile time.
I think when people swap sims in their device it triggers a key change
> NFS is horrible. Unix/Linux is a multi-user operating system why would you not want to have groups?

Now that's backwards. He obviously mean a better permission system. Do you seriously think groups is the best way?

Access Control Lists are a better way.
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And reel-to-reel. Example article from a quick web search:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/5/9409563/reel-to-reel-tape-...
More disruptive startups are. These were either running profitably or absolutely huge at one point. Blame AMD's and VIA's management for the rest on their end. ;)
Usually there is a cap, my first lay-off I'd been with the company for 17 years. The severance policy was 1 month per year served, capped at 6-months. With six-months pay coming I actually turned down the first offer I got, Still ended up accepting an offer at about the two month mark and ended up with near four months overlap.
It's worse. They use algorithms to designate targets. Algorithms that don't usually get bug reports or bug fixes: http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-pr...
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> you won't have to give up nearly as much privacy in the name of fighting terror at home

Needs citation.

- FBI screening has been ineffective (Boston, Orlando)

- FBI self reporting has been ineffective (Ft. Lauderdale)

- Expired Visas (under GWB) has been ineffective (9/11)

- Facebook and Apple Prism programs have been ineffective (San Bernardino)

- TSA fails internal tests. (Richard Reid)

- Russian intelligence agencies reporting to U.S. intelligence agencies has been ineffective. (Boston)

- Enhanced Background and Psychological tests ineffective (Orlando, Charleston)

- Intelligence Briefings have been ineffective (9/11, Richard Reid)
Oh awesome and thanks a lot for the link.

I'll definitely need to spend some more time playing with and learning from all of the existing solutions
I couldn't get Mario Is Missing! out of my head.