skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the current environment, I personally believe that it's safe to say that everybody has been hacked to some degree. Linode being open about it, even if not having the perfect response, strangely makes me feel better. Being a customer while this occurred and not feeling any impact makes me feel even better still.

Having to go in and change my password is hardly an exceptional event on today's internet.
Nope. So what?
And yet macOS ships with Git, version 2.10. GPL(v2) licensed and everything.

It's not about GPL, it's about GPLv2 vs GPLv3 and the requirements that come with it.
I'm guessing it is under some blanket "intent to deceive border protection official" bullcrap.

Immigration has very broad powers, but even then this sort of case would be difficult to make IMHO.
As someone who works (in part) in the MS SQL field, is it irrational to be a bit worried about the effects some of these platform advances might have one one's career?

For example, being a MSSQL performance tuning expert requires years of experience and probably pays very well, but just the other day I read an anecdotal story where someone switched a large BI database to use columnar indexes, allowing them to replace very complex (extreme manual tuning to achieve acceptable performance) queries with just standard SQL with comparable performance.

How long until the scale, pricing, and now transparent & full(?) sql compliance offered by these cloud platforms starts to make traditional RDBMS platforms a niche platform?
While the product is compelling (acid compliant, horizontally scanning DB), it does seem expensive.

If you use 2 nodes/hour,
Cost = (20.9) 24 * 31 = $1400/month not anointing for storage and network chargers.
That is a large cost to pay.
“Land of the free.”
Ideally it would maximize the revenue going to the artist and not to the scalper. Lets assume you worked it this way.

Artist X, playing 3 shows (Friday eve, Saturday Mat, Saturday Eve) would normally put tickets on sale lets say a month in advance for $20/$30/$50 (General Admission, Main Floor, Orchestra (rows 1-3)) each. Now in this new system they put tickets on sale 6 weeks before the event and in the additional two weeks prior the prices start at $200/$300/$500 and decay in price linearly by date to their 'marked' price over those two weeks. So each day sees a 7% drop in the 'over' price (so from $200 -> $20). Landing at the one month mark at the 'regular' prices.

In scenario one, it does nothing and no one takes advantage of early access to higher priced tickets and the tickets are on sale at "list' price 1 month ahead of the date as usual.

In scenario two, some people are really looking forward to the show and wait until the prices come down to what they are willing to pay for the seats they want prior to the tickets reaching their "list" price. That gives the artist/venue a bit more money for the show.

Scenario 3, lots of people want to go, they buy out all the tickets during the first two weeks of availability at higher prices. The artist/venue get a lot more money for the show.

The challenge for scalpers is that if they buy the tickets when they are expensive, they might take a loss on them (they don't really want to go to the show).

What this scheme tries to do is to move the market dynamics around a potentially mispriced product so that the artist/venue benefits if it is mispriced rather than the scalpers.
Cancer Rates Are Dropping – But Not in Rural Appalachia
>Should a conservative business owner be able to fire anyone in their company that supports abortion?

Absolutely. Are you suggesting that a liberal employee should not be allowed to quit an anti-abortion company?

>Should A trump supporter be able to fire anyone in their company that supported Hillary?

Absolutely. Should a Hillary supporter not be allowed to quit a company that supported Trump?

>I remember when a few companies opposed supporting birth control and abortions and didn't want to pay for it through employee healthcare plans.

By law, all health insurance policies are required to provide this coverage. Those companies can still be vocally against abortion, but they still have to comply with the law. What if someone is religiously against traffic lights? Then their options are to follow the law or don't drive. Nothing to do with freedom of speech.
Pure guess, but I'd imagine that payment processor fees don't make it particularly profitable to offer price levels much lower than $5.
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Feeling ‘Pressure All the Time’ on Europe’s Treadmill of Temporary Work
> or an industry group that supports several review sites.

So, no I don't think any one site needs to take on this cost rather anyone can get it off the ground for a few months and then sell a feed to other people thus defraying the costs.

Sure, steam could have higher standards, but IMO there is value in letting poor games into their ecosystem that may be improved with time. UnReal World for example been in development by one guy for 26 years and right now it's a solid game though dated game. But, 20 years ago it was a buggy mess that would only really interest a tiny group of people even though he had been working on it for 6 years.
This suggestion comes up in every single thread. Consider that when such an obvious gambit seems to exist you're almost certainly not the first person to have come up with it, and there's a reason it hasn't already taken off.
CrowdStrike Initiates Legal Action Against NSS Labs
My current plan is to wipe my phone before travel and restore it on destination. Nothing to unlock because there's no phone there.

Forcing you to restore your entire account is a whole 'nother level beyond simple forcing you to unlock your phone.
From reading the docs, the answer seems to clearly be yes, but I'm open to being corrected.
There are several hypothetical problems with this in practice I can imagine.

First, it's still a problem of finite space. It is not going to be practical to scale out until supply reaches demand in many locations. There are only so many Friday nights in a month, which also makes fungible repeat shows finite, and repeat shows cost time that could be better spent increasing global coverage.

Second, price and venue-filling are signals of quality, so there may actually be some people who do not purchase tickets that appear to be too cheap or do not go because they do not feel invested when the ticket price is low. Then this results in empty seats which negatively impact the artists publicity.

Third, the discriminator when you have a low price point but low supply is the willingness to get in line. This can be a valuable metric to select audiences. Removing it makes it harder for artists to select their audiences.
Hi all!

React Studio is a Mac GUI app that outputs complete React+Webpack projects using Facebook's "create-react-app" toolchain.

I wrote much of the code for the design UI and the React codegen. This project is finally getting to a point where it's useful, so I wanted to share it with you.

The linked post explains some of the latest work in React Studio, with live examples that you can play with in the app itself.

You can download the beta app from:
https://reactstudio.com

Here's a small PDF that explains some of the thinking behind the product, and why it's not "yet another Dreamweaver":
https://s3.amazonaws.com/sc.neonto.com/React+Studio+presenta...
What's the scope of letsopensource? It's not clear what the website intends to do from the one page that's there.

If it's another crowdfunding website what makes it different and more likely to succeed compared to others?
They may choose to detain you anyway, and force you to give them passwords to various accounts manually. But there’s no easy way for them to know which services you use and which services you don’t use, or whether you have multiple accounts.

This would seem to imply lying, or at least deceiving, a federal agent. IANAL, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
Try 'I am a born in America citizen on american soil, I want to talk to my lawyer, no i'm not giving you my password. No I won't tell you why.'
Presumably a reference to the classic "Pencil myth": Americans when faced with a need to write things down spent millions of dollars inventing a low gravity ballpoint pen and Russians just used a pencil.

As cutesy of a sentiment as it is, it's also full of misconceptions. The pens were invented by an American corporation that wanted better pens to sell in general (a smoother flow in a pen, regardless of gravity/orientation, is a better pen), and they saw a good opportunity to market the pen to NASA for use in space. Both NASA and the Russians used pencils in space, but the problems with pencils is the flakes can pollute an environment pretty quickly in low gravity and the pens turned out to be a much better solution. (So far as I've heard, every space agency these days buys similar pens.)
Nikon just doesn't have the money to compete, I'm friends with one of the Nikon glass people, as in the people who make the glass, he's just depressed each time I come over with some great Canon lens (I showed up with the 400mm f4 DO which is identical in size to the 200mm f2, he was stunned they could make a 400mm that small with optics that good).

I whole heartedly disagree that Canon is coasting. Years ago they knew that they would make a 50Megapixel camera and they started redoing their lenses to resolve details at that pixel size. Go look at the mark II lenses, the 70-200, the 300/400/600. Go look at the bodies that do 50MP, the landscape people love them.

Canon is investing heavily into bodies and glass.

That said, I've got the Sigma 85mm ART and have looked at other Sigma glass. Couldn't be happier with the optics, they are still behind in the auto focus speed. If that's not an issue then Sigma is killing it and that's a good thing.
I had same strange situation a week ago when passing Ukraine border. Whats purpose of this?
Newspaper subscription experiment
OK, what's your point? Your responses are all pretty defeatist, and definitely speculative.
Scaleway recently added new cloud servers. Example: 10 cores, 60GB RAM, 700GB SSD, 1Gbit/s Unmetered = 90€
It is a felony to lie to a federal agent.
What is the maximum extent to which we can defend users of our software?
That constitutes de facto detention and yes, there's absolutely something that governs it.

Unfortunately ICE/CBP has policies [1] in place to require the phone's password that they believe are legitimate per 8 USC § 1357(a) (3). It's likely that only a court ruling weighing the policy regarding this statute against the bill of rights would make them change.

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ice_border_search_electr...
I clearly did not read into this enough as it is more impressive than I had remembered. It's quite the eye-opener on how much unique data there is out in the wild...
It's not a "guess". The last Android release that lacked support for block-device-level encryption was KitKat, which shipped in 2013. Any device being advertised with the "Android" trademark (to be fair: AOSP-based clone OSes like Amazon's have been slower to evolve) over the last two years has that support.

Please don't hijack an important security discussion to engage in meaningless platform flamage. Users with Android phones have this available and they should enable it, not be told that they need to "guess".
How do you do that with an Android phone? With iOS this seems pretty easy
Open-source Music tagger Picard v1.4 released
Funny, just a few months ago WPF got a few updates in VS 2015, WPF blog was reactivated and BUILD had a few sessions on it.

I have been doing greenfield WPF applications for companies in the life sciences industry in the last three years, and they will not move away from it any time soon.
It isn't really. Mobile data is a must from a security point of view. Combine it with a VPN and you have your out and about internet access sorted.
Well ... two can play that game
"any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States and since you are not in that jurisdiction this does not seem to appply :)
I wish Apple would have a duress password that when entered would wipe the phone.
Microsoft has a history of sales and support that will allow them a certain longevity. They also have less "brand hate" than Oracle. I dont think MSSQL is going to be like Sybase any time soon, but I probably wouldn't focus on that stack starting now if you are into the startup or california scene. For many places in the USA, MS is the way to go.

EDIT: Also, most DB users don't need global-scale databases.
Right so it's a non-American company, so hire somebody in the Us for that branch.
I just run my VPN server there since they charge by hour. So I create my VPN on DO whenever I need it and destroy it automatically after a while. But for everything else I have a dedicated server at Hetzner.
I so much agree with all of your points. I want to add a few thoughts.

> Since everythings' transitioned, first into library-based management and then into touch interfaces

I can forgive touch interfaces (smartphones are awesome, and a good headset will have buttons that can be used for track control), but I don't understand the whole library management thing. How on Earth did that happen? Why did iTunes-like interface win, with all that bloat and pointless misfeatures when all one needs is simple way to filter a list of your music files and group them in logical playlists?

Moreover though, in the better days, you controlled your music. It was made of discrete data files. The modern way is all cloud bullshit you have to stream over the Internet every time you want to listen to it.

> Computing is slowly moving away from keeping users close to abstractions

This is huge, IMO. The "low-level" abstractions of files and folders are good, because that's the level software operates on. All those attempts at abstracting files away only lead to your system actually lying to you about how the data is structured, and this can be confusing to people because different software now tells different lies, and they don't add up to a coherent whole.
If you can't change the constitution/law, redefine the meanings of words and you get the same tyranny.
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Every time I see this map (which, AFAIK, is a visualization by the ACLU and not based on an official government publication) I wonder why Chicago and the coastline of Lake Michigan is included. The border with Canada runs diagonally down the length of Lake Superior, clears the Straits of Mackinac by at least 40 miles, and then continues southeast along Lake Huron to Sarnia and Detroit.

The entirety of Lake Michigan is within the borders of the US, so while this entire "100-mile border zone" business is bizarre enough as it is, it's truly disingenuous to include the lower Lake Michigan coastline. It makes me wonder if this is an interpretational liberty taken solely by the ACLU, or if the government's demonstrated behavior truly justifies what is shown on the map.
Actually, these aren't simple devices at all. Good food-sorting machines can cost $30,000 or more. They are loaded up with optical sensors, intelligent paddle ejectors and other goodies. Lots of software in them, too! Distinguishing between a "good" and "bad" leaf of lettuce at feed rates of 3,000 pieces a minute is a lot harder than it sounds.

They succeed in the market because they make complex tasks seem simple. Sorry about the Duplo feeling, and it's a familiar lament of craftspeople everywhere. But we aren't going back to the days of artisans trimming lettuce heads one at a time. Too slow; too costly.
Scientific Panel Says Editing Heritable Human Genes Could Be OK in the Future
The availability is "only" 99.999%, which IMO is still really high!

(I work for Google Cloud)
The defence is definitely to not use public wifi. This technology works because they can identify small target windows (e.g. you just accessed a URL to login to your bank account) in which to make and process these measurements. Any kind of abnormal obfuscation of your device should introduce enough noise to prevent this attack from generating any meaningful data from the victim, but I'm running on assumption.
If you are only looking for UX vidyo has a decent product, Microsoft's latest enterprise offering is good, HPs halo now owned by polycom is good, polycom has some cutting edge stuff that is good but very expensive.
The new black header on GH made me think someone famous has passed (like HN did in the past).
>and to say "Hitler did nothing wrong."

Microsoft said the exact same thing with their AI bot "Tay". And it wasn't just a fluke; it was running for hours and hours saying that kind of stuff before they finally decided to muzzle it.

I wonder if this guy got this idea from that incident.
Precisely. I'm not arguing based on some reasoning of my own that AGPL is bad. I'm arguing based on working at a previous big company where if you checked in AGPL code, Ninjas in hazmat suits broke through the skylights and parasailed down to exorcise the toxic intrusion. Enough mixed metaphors?
It's easy to say that now. When the pressure's actually on and a person now has things at stake, priorities can change, and yielding starts to look like the eminently sensible thing to do.

I suspect your tune may change when you find yourself in indefinite detention, have missed your connecting flight, and your family/friend/spouse/boss has called said phone and been told by CBP that you're refusing to comply with an investigation.
From the article:
“This opens the door to advertisements from fertility clinics of giving your child the best start in life with a gene-editing packet, and whether these are real advantages or perceived advantages, they would accrue disproportionately to people who are already advantaged.”

Germ-line "vaccination" against common heritable diseases may go a long way in decreasing health-care costs over the long-term. My belief is that this is the first area for gene-editing. We should create legislation that allows us to separate cosmetic or "value-add" (Increased IQ, etc.) gene-editing from basic disease prevention.

One thing I would like to note, however, is that the loss of common heritable diseases does not make our population, necessarily, stronger. Many disease genes have been linked to "Hybrid-vigor" type effects, in which case being a disease character makes the carrier more fit.
"I don't bring my personal phone when traveling, because last time my 700$ iPhone was broken by stupid CBP agents" - that, or any reasonable excuse should work.

EDIT:

"I bring dumbphones when traveling because battery lasts two weeks, unlike iPhone"

"I heard that there are lot of thieves in the country I visited, so I was afraid to bring my real phone"

"I heard that airport X-ray machine can brick iPhone"

"I really like cheap, Chinese phones, they are so cute"

"iPhones are for hipsters, I prefer cheap, practical devices"

possibilities for excuse are endless. And, as the old rule goes, the stupider the excuse the better - if you can convince CBP agents that you are harmless idiot you win.
I took civics about 4 years after 9/11... It was an exercise in understanding governing ethics/effectiveness.

You'd be surprised, or perhaps disturbed, by how many kids put "is a Muslim" on their list...
"This is the phone owned by my employer for corporate use, I'd be glad to unlock it and you can look at corporate secrets all day, I don't care although I'll have to report the data breech to my employer. My personal phone doesn't have the hardware to work internationally and I don't pay for international service so its sitting on the shelf in my bedroom at home."

Remember they're not just dumping the contents for analysis, but also installing a rootkit, assuming the phone isn't already rooted, so once it leaves your presence or they plug anything into it, its no longer a trustworthy device.

Something I don't understand is the postal system is essentially wide open for transportation of drugs and stuff as per numerous dark web stories, so simply putting the phone in a box and mailing it would seem to reduce the chance of anyone in the .gov accessing it down to roughly 0% odds.

I'm convinced most of these stories are submarine marketing by big internet companies that have a wide open door to the NSA as most of the discussion revolves around the government not accessing your "private" Facebook activities where no such situation could possibly exist, so there's no point in not unlocking the phone. Ignore the man behind the curtain providing the NSA root privs on the server, the problem is individual officers gaining access to your CRUD app end user device LOL.

Given that the government already has all the data, the real battle is you are trying to appear to be an individual in their database and they'd like to know exactly who, which makes it about as nefarious as asking for your passport, and they know and understand that, so they freak if you won't give them access. As an analogy they know they have all the data on your drivers license and if you refuse to show them your drivers license that will make them extremely interested in why not, you claim you're j random hacker and you claim thats j random hackers drivers license and we have all the license data for j random hacker now why won't you show it, perhaps you have a fake ID for j random hacker or you're someone else trying to set up j random hacker or ...
Nothing kills a product like ego
But it's important to remember that UX is only about a quarter of the total experience.
>> decades ago, concert tickets didn't cost this much

I'm willing to bet it's because in the old days artists could release a record and make a living from that without even touring. Now the record, for most artists, is a promotional tool, maybe even a loss leader, for concerts. As for 'why don't they just play more shows' I'd say the reason is quite similar. In the past artists didn't have to tour enough. Now they tour for incredibly long periods of time so they can extend that further (unhealthy and maybe even impossible) or play more shows in fewer places.
As far as I understood, this attack vector has nothing to do with using public wifi.
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(book)
(I'm a manager.) One big thing this overlooks is helping people learn: management is almost an ideal job if you enjoy teaching and watching others grow. Your "product" is the team you build.
that's entirely the problem being discussed here: there's a lot of things that shouldn't get deleted that nevertheless do, because there's a large number of wikipedia editors who feel a sense of accomplishment from deleting things.
Phone's should have a travel mode, where it backs up all your data to the cloud and wipes the phone clean.
A principal Luigi maintainer needs a gig
Check out the Canon 16-35mm f2.8 III. Beats a 15mm Zeiss prime:

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-...

And it is a zoom.
I have some questions actually. Is it something you need to enable on Android? I seem to understand from the comment above yours that iOS has this enabled by default. If so, how do you actually enable it?
DigitalOcean has their new block storage https://www.digitalocean.com/products/storage/
good group of companies. See the need for a CDN that can handle television volume audiences. Symple makes a lot of sense. Basically, bill.com that doesn't suck/feel dated.