skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fairly sure than in the UK, Asphalt aggregates are made with a planned obsolescence in them.

Of course, I only have my own personal experience and just a little probing of someone who works in the industry who has evaded my questions about it...

However, despite the large amount of traffic, I can't explain why new surfaces will disintegrate in about ~4 years. We're in 2017; some roads that have been made 50 years ago are still good to go, while others, new ones just fall apart as soon as there are a couple of days of frost.

My take on this is that it's all made by the large contractors to get more or less unlimited work from the councils, as the roads needs to be repaired every few years...

Am I being cynical? ;-)
> budgetary and timing constraints

ain't that the truth
Trump won Ohio 51-43. If that swings all the way back into competitive territory, his re-election is doomed anyway. Just because a state is a swing state with a regular Republican (like Ohio or Colorado) doesn't mean it's a swing state when a very abnormal Republican like Trump is running.
You should take a look at https://catch-eye.com
It's a plug-in on top of Skype that let's you make eye contact with the other person
> I care about getting the original CD master when possible because usually the "24-BIT DIGITAL REMASTERS" that Spotify have are ruined in terms of dynamic range.

This isn't exactly Spotify's fault. There are a lot of good remasters. It depends.

> So for me, Spotify is a hot mess with regards to what is there and what is not and what versions of the albums are available.

Very true. All that stuff that isn't available for streaming would leave huge gaps in my collection. And for people that rely on streaming exclusively, it might be getting worse: Licensing deals end, favorite albums might disappear suddenly. Then you paid all those years and might end up with very little to show for it. Just remember how Netflix' catalog started to shrink. Is Spotify going to produce originals when that happens? Renting music is a bad idea.

> So when possible, I buy CD's directly from the artist/label and rip them, or I buy MP3's from Bandcamp. Then I play them in WinAmp.

Great. However if you're already buying from bandcamp, why would you opt for the lossy MP3 versions of those releases?
GDP is the total value of goods flowing through the economy (more or less), not the total value of all property so it's not a very meaningful comparison. By this measure, Vanguard's $1.7 trillion assets under management account for over 10% of US GDP but obviously that's incorrect, that money is just parked across a bunch of assets.

The US manufacturing industry is about $3 trillion a year in actual industrial production and the tech industry has way less leverage, let alone political clout.

Edit: the total market cap of the S&P 500 broke $15 trillion in 2013 and as of 2015, all of the companies in that index didn't even employ a fifth of US workers. Add in all the spending and investment property that doesn't make it into S&P figures (govt taxes + bonds, real estate, etc) and I bet the total number is probably >$100 trillion.
That sounds more like a malnutrition issue no? If all you were eating is bacon and nothing else.
Musk might outsmart us all, but by going down to that crossroads in Clarksdale, he does not, and will not, outmoral a slug.
Will we ever see something as good as it again? It would be tricky, but surely not impossible.
Isn't it disabled by default?
Angular 4, not 3, will be released in March
Could use slightly more streamlined UI though. A lot of important functionality is hidden behind manual.

(Recording. Mastering is rather fine.)
It is shocking that people who put their lives on the line to serve [US|UK|whomever] weren't granted more than, at best, refugee status given that they were more than likely to be killed once they were no longer 'required'.

Interestingly the Soviets tended to take their own home-trained interpreters, partly to prevent them being turned by the local population. One of the most famous from the Afghan war was Vladimir Girigoryev who went on to establish ArtOfWar.ru for veterans of that conflict.

The USA and UK do have an extensive language-training school at Chicksands in England but the graudates of that school tend to serve in the ISAR trades rather than being embedded with combat units.
The article title:

Chrome 56 quietly added Bluetooth snitch API
Trust us, says Google, we understand privacy
> The next "war" moved to mobile and there linux is not doing that bad.

Apparently the majority that express this feeling never coded with the Android NDK.

What is exposed from Linux there, means Google can easily replace it by something else and most app developers will never notice.

This is what is "Linux" for C and C++ code:

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html

They just need to provide this libraries, and if you try to link to some private library, like many used to do, starting with Android 7, the app will get terminated.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-...

Mobile is all about Cocoa Touch, Android Frameworks, .NET/UWP and Web Browsers, the kernels are pretty much irrelevant.
If the cameras are above the screen, and the subject is far enough, the eye's angle doesn't matter much.
It would be an incredibly tough fight for sure. I guess this can only be won if there's someone with huge resources doing this more for philantrophic reasons than commercial ones.
In case you want to hear it: https://youtu.be/Aj3b8DH5Xps
> Calories in, calories out is not the golden rule, and this has been scientifically proven false.

Citation, please.
You can download the real 7MB pdf from the linked URL: http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/digital-disruption/har...
You didn't actually address my first point, and you're factually incorrect on the second. Are you confused, or are you paid shill?
Linus Torvalds on git https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8
Which by being a browser based OS, makes the kernel irrelevant.

Google can even make Chrome run bare metal, no one would notice.
I don't believe daily medication for something stupid like contraception is the solution. I mean, take a good and hard look at the mechanical aspects of human reproduction. Those tubes for semen are a bottleneck, a single point of failure. They're ripe for disruption in an entirely mechanical way ;)

No need to mess with the entire hormone system.
This article is poorly researched. The Web Bluetooth API does not allow a webpage to request a list of all Bluetooth devices that your browser can see.

The API allows a webpage to ask for access to a device in response to a user action only. At this point the user has to give the page permission to access Bluetooth devices. The browser then prompts the user to choose a device from a list of available devices, and the webpage is granted access to whichever device the user picks. That's all. There's no "list every Bluetooth device in the area" API (at least not yet), unless I'm missing something.

More reading: https://medium.com/@jyasskin/the-web-bluetooth-security-mode...

And also: https://medium.com/@urish/is-now-a-good-time-to-start-using-...

And also also: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/07/interact-w...
Winamp was bought by a company in Berlin I believe.

Belgium, according to the article, and apparently they're still involved in some kind of legal dispute over the deal.

https://twitter.com/ed_rich/status/817065613411713025
> then I'd have to educate all my users on how to run java apps on their platform.

Only if you do a bad service to your users by not packaging them correctly.
I'm surprised people fail to see that this ad might have actually worked. Referring to @thinkloop's comment, this is the very aftertalk the ad was supposed to create. Okay granted, it might not go to the extent Cards Against Humanity was initially looking for but still... The article mentions that the ad was low on ROI but given that the event was held just last night, it might need a couple of days to take off, right?
Feeling mighty smug about my preference for tiling window managers and minimal distro choices.

But I shouldn't, they found bugs in software I use daily (ffmpeg for example), it would be relatively trivial to make me execute something with it, since my brain is trained to 'exes as threats' not mp3s.
This isn't exactly Spotify's fault. There are a lot of good remasters. It depends.

Point is, it doesn't let me choose. It arbitrarily selects one version of an album which is not necessarily the one I want.

Great. However if you're already buying from bandcamp, why would you opt for the lossy MP13 versions of those releases?

I can't hear the difference :) However, if I were to burn them out to CD-R, which I've done a couple of times, I would use the lossless version. I'm happy that I have the option.
It's hard to compare market caps to GDP because GDP is kind of like "aggregate value of everything produced this year" while a market cap is "estimated total profits for a company from now until the end of time." So you might have a company like Walmart with $200b in market cap but ~$500b in annual revenue (3% of GDP by itself!) and $15b in net income. On the other hand there are companies like Adobe with $60b market caps and $6b in annual revenue and $1b in net income. So the GDP vs market cap comparison is somewhat apples to oranges, although there's no disputing the companies in the brief have a large impact on the US economy.
I couldn’t agree more. Excess body fat is a problem throughout the world. Well, it significantly increases the risk of a number of chronic diseases, such as type-2 diabetes, insulin resistance, and hypertension. It is estimated that approximately 20% of people are overweight and that close to 300 million are obese. At https://www.aidlab.com we are aiming to spread awareness of the impact that body fat lead to our organism. That’s the clue of our efforts since we started to build personal assistant in 2014.

Secondly, exercise can help promote weight loss, but it seems to work best when combined with a lower calorie eating plan. If people don’t curb their calories, however, they likely need to exercise for long periods of time or at a high intensity to lose weight.
Gambling and cigarettes - lots of satisfied customers.

Big pharma - regulatory capture.
Health insurance - mostly regulatory capture in the US.
I'm sure you mean MW. Diablo Canyon supplies about 8.5% of the states energy.
The thing with flame graphs, pie charts and all that is that I rarely find it that useful to see multiple directory levels at the same time. Unless it is /var/log/omg-why-dont-you-rotate that occupies hundreds of gigabytes, I always end up navigating through the largest near-the-root folders with baobab just to make room for subdirectories on the screen, which is hardly different from the typical ncdu (or even 'du -hs *, then cd') workflow.
I have no idea what this means, and I have a masters in Computer Science and 20 years of industry experience. Enlighten me?
Important bit is on the later slides: Issues on most codecs/parsers can be prevented by sandboxing. An exploding parser should never affect other processes, files, etc.

Seccomp (bpf version) is only available since 2012 really, but I hope more apps will start picking it up. It's pretty simple it should become a shameful thing not to use it in new apps.
I believe in sandboxing, I hope it gets better and easier to use.

I work on several C programs. I wish for the day when we have an easy to use, cross platform method of setting up a small set of open files at the start of a program, then be able to say "No more file access, no more network connections".

I know this hides a whole bunch of complication, which is why it's hard and why there are so many ways to do it -- I view it the same way as the move to distinct virtual memory spaces for each process. Once we have it we'll wonder why we ever allowed every program free access to the whole file system for it's entire life-span by default.
MAPS.ME Apps Get New Smart Search
I'm loading a GLSurfaceView, which extends SurfaceView, which extends View. So, yeah.

There shouldn't be any problem classloading an Activity, use reflection to instantiate, and treat as you would a runtime Activity (as opposed to being declared in AndroidManifest.xml). But I haven't actually done this; could be some gotchas in incorporating runtime a Activity into the GUI.

IIRC google had a few hits on classloading Activities.
I'm wondering if some kind of mind-map/graph mashed-up with a wikipedia model and "likes" on each node, can help drive decisions or is it just too naive/simplistic and low adoption
Selinux / apparmor / grsec-rbac can do wonders here. Your MP3s should not execute new code and your system can enforce it.
I think the field of 'Agriculture' is untapped and can be / should be more advanced
My main take-away from this article was that people often use the underlying paradigms of today (perhaps unknowingly) to predict surface level details of tomorrow. "Asking the wrong questions", as the article byline states.

Instead, we should try to predict how the fundamental paradigms will change, and then deduce visible, commonplace details from that.

I did just started reading "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Kuhn, which is all about paradigms (of a specific sort). It's good stuff.
It's the maintenance costs over time that are generally better. Asphalt is convenience in that it's much more of a patch job, but over time it tends to require more maintenance so the costs level out. Asphalt overlay atop concrete will generally result in a more long-term solution with an easily maintainable surface to avoid the noise complaints some have echoed.
The only thing I can think of is those sleep timer apps, I think the main reason they've not took off is because they require you to put your phone under your sheet every night which you can forget to do and is a bit of a pain. They're also completely thrown off if someone else is in bed with you.

There have been a few quickstarters which claim to reduce the amount of sleep you need but they've all turned out to be nonsense AFAIK.

I agree it's weird that we have nothing when we spend 1/3rd of our lives asleep.
A delicious kind of malnutrition though.
Your post gave me deja vu to an automation workflow I cobbled together a few months ago, which I found wonderfully productive for steering a bot: Vimperator keybindings. Selenium can use most of them right out of the box. It's a terrific navigation layer. For instance, pressing "f" enumerates all the visible links on the page and assigns to each one a keybinding. The keybindings are displayed in tooltips and can be trivially extracted with CSS. You can keep sending keys to the browser, and only links that contain the anchor text remain in the set of candidates. Of course the "hashing" of links to keybindings is completely relative to the viewport, so this won't satisfy you completely. But it was an idea I had randomly one day, as an alternative to the trapeze act of navigating through the boughs of the DOM tree, and lo and behold it worked nicely.
Enabling Market Consolidation and Harmonization in Fintech
It was a big change in workflow, and the developers gave off a paternalistic vibe (that I guess had been there in Gnome development for years, but Gnome 3 was the first time that I felt like it really impacted me).

I used Gnome 2 because it did what I wanted. Gnome 3 felt like style over substance (I'll agree wholeheartedly on "downright pretty UI"), and it couldn't be configured to act in a way I liked. I felt like I wasn't the kind of user they were targeting, so I switched to Mate when it came out.

Depending on who you ask, Gnome 3 was either a long-overdue redesign with great results or a dependable tool ditching its legacy to chase after some UX designer's dream.

It's been enough time. Might be time for me to look at it again. My patterns have shifted some, and it's possible that it would be a better fit for me now than it was then.
It seems to be freeware http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html
I mean, the answer is unequivocally, without the slightest doubt, yes. The Linux Desktop is probably a good 5-10yrs behind Windows 10 in terms of defense-in-depth mitigations as well as exploits in common targets like file parsers etc etc.

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Weston-W... is a good reference for all the stuff that Desktop Linux in 2017 is for the most part, missing
I also have a project trying to solve problem number 3. It's called Democritique, and as of now it only fetches data from the swedeish parliament - Riksdagen. You can find it on App Store if you wanna try it!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/democritique/id1145464920?l=... (It's only in swedish at the moment)
I was a part of the Infosys offshore team (India) that took the transition from Eversource energy's IT department (mentioned in the article).

I clearly remember now, how disappointed, sad and gloomy were the members of the departing team.
This has been solved and it's not so much a technology thing as a built environment thing. By 2030, the Netherlands will have an obesity rate of 8.5% DOWN from 10% http://www.ukhealthforum.org.uk/who-we-are/our-work/ukhf-wha...

The problem is very much political with a move away from highways design focusing on strategic mobility, the movement of people and goods over long distances, to sustainable mobility, the movement of people over short distances (0-5 miles) and the provision of systematically safe infrastructure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aNtsWvNYKE

It's a really really hard political problem to solve as the impacts are measured in decades but the returns are huge.

From a technology point of view, the solution is the bicycle.
Morality is like an ass - everybody has their own.

Musk wants to see a self sustaining, fossil fuel free civilisation, and a backup off site. I'm not saying it's morally right, in fact it might be straight out of Machiavelli ideas, but you are right in that it's a long position.
David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
Attitudes like Health at Every Size don't help matters.
Hackers rarely think of politics as playing field for startups, so in my mind this one of the biggest untapped opportunity right now. People from both sides are going nuts over Trump politics. That means tons of eyeballs and attention that would be available for the right startups for next 4 years. Things like BuzzFeed and DailyXYZ are going to make a massive killing in terms of ad revenue. At this stage still the real disruptive startup are few and far between. Nice thing is that you might actually end up doing something good and impactful. If Zuck runs for president, may be even big exit ;).

I can think of few ideas right away:

- website that gives stories from other side

- activist website that uses better tactic than "getting signatures"

- know how your congressman votes on each of the vote

- automatic ratings generator for congressman

- news article that only comes from international press

- software for politicians: campaign management, voter management, political ad management etc
Agreed on all points. I put in #1 because a substantial number of HN readers are highly invested in the US residential property market, and in past conversations with people who were similarly invested, not mentioning that exemption turned into a dismissive non-starter conversation. My concession to even get a conversation started at all with those folks. Upton Sinclair comes to mind: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

#6 is an attempt to reconcile the following challenge. Well past the point when developers could foot the bill for infrastructure expansion, we continue levying taxpayers to pay for it all while property developers reaped the majority cash benefits the soonest from the expansion. This heavily subsidizes inner core residents who get there earliest, and regressively penalizes later generations and residents settling the outer rims with increased infrastructure costs that increase as the square of the distance from the core, while outer rim density-based tax revenue functions more linearly. We're saddled with the legacy, but how do we allocate the true infrastructure expansion costs of growing outwards instead up/downwards, not to speak of remedying past distortions that have magnified effects today? I'm fine with not going with my #6 as I'm highly dissatisfied with it as well, but would welcome other cost allocation mechanism ideas, any to offer?

#9 Remove all subsidies, deductions, and tax credits. Including those involving land banking. [1]

#10 All commercial property tax subsidies/waivers/rebates/etc. must pass by a super-majority vote of the ones who pick up the tab for the gap.

[1] http://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/01/09/450-billion-in-federal...
Windows 10 0day exploit goes wild, and so do Microsoft marketers
Yeah, some online services are tardy as hell when it comes to updating their service status pages, a quick Twitter search is a great canary for any problems.
Well, this could be explained by my ignorance in *nix tools.
> You said: "A is the definition of B"
> I said: "Here are some Bs that are not A"

Yes, and I pointed out that the two are unrelated.

> If you had said the definition of a kangaroo was "a big marsupial from Australia" and I pointed out many kangroos that weren't actually big marsupials from Australia, It would suggest that the definition was flawed.

If I had said that the definition of an A (kangaroo) is a B (big marsupial), and you pointed out that many As (kangaroos) aren't Bs (big marsupials), I would have been proven wrong.

However, I said A (companies making a billion dollars in revenue) implies B (they benefit a lot of people) and you pointed out some Bs (companies benefiting everyone) that aren't As (companies making a billion dollars in revenue), which is irrelevant.

This is basic logic, I learned it in fifth grade. A => B is not a commutative operation.
> implying the pill for women doesn't have equally bad side-effects. But they're more likely to take them, because they're the ones that end up pregnant.
But does anecdotally disprove the pure calories in, calories out rule.
This is not a great way to ask a question. Your degrees and years of experience are not relevant to understanding the subject matter of this post. In order to enlighten you, we'd need to know what specifically was confusing about this article to you. What did you not understand?
Fair points, both you and akiselev; thanks for the clarification

I am not an especially economically-(or even really quantitatively) inclined person; I just see GDP bandied about as a metric of "size of economy" and market cap as "value of company". Revenue is probably locatable if someone wants to dig into quarterlies... I probably spent too much time on this exercise already
I don't know what Americans are protesting about. I don't agree with the bans at all but at least you have a president who is true to his words for once - For me that is a higher moral value. You have to take the good with the bad.

I don't agree with Trump on a lot of things but I can respect a politician who does what he says he'll do.

It's a refreshing break from the typical Washington charlatans who don't do anything of their own accord and instead just do what their crooked lobbyist friends tell them.

All that said, I've had a few Iranian friends/colleagues (fellow engineers) and it's really strange to think that they're not allowed to go to the US now because they're such decent, balanced people - Also, I can't help but think about those people who left Iran 40 years ago before it was under Islamic rule but still have Citizenship.
I can not agree with the "making NO MONEY" assertion. Many users come here to get the opinions of others about a movie. Another example: The success of Amazon is for a part to the positive/negative comments because you need the experience of users about their product. The money do not come from the comment, but they bring visitors... and their money.