skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're making the important point that what people really mean is "laws I agree or don't agree with" not "laws". Hopefully not only on HN do people have reflective capacity to see this.
> These technologies, in turn, are used to implement various forms of remote control and Digital Rights Management
(DRM) technologies, including Secure Boot, which even now requires FOSS users to purchase a license from Microsoft to boot FOSS on affected machines that lack an appropriate Secure Boot override.

I dislike the mandatory use of these features as much as the next nerd, but this is inaccurate FUD. Secure Boot is a code in flash that checks the signature of whatever you try to boot against some rather complicated policy. It's regular code and would work more or less the same on any platform that runs machine code off of ROM or flash.

There's something that Intel calls, IIRC, "Verified Boot" that tries to prevent someone with an in-system programmer or desoldering skills from changing the flash, but that has nothing to do with the Management Engine either.

And FOSS users don't need to purchase any license from anyone. They can use a tool like Linux Foundation's PreLoader or Red Hat's shim (open source but awkward to modify because you need the signed binary to boot on a stock system) to boot anything they like. No negotiations, no license, no communication with MS at all.
That is a good point. But that brings a bunch of its own problems.

E. g. your significant other sees you somewhere you should have not been.

I honestly don't have the answer. Hopefully, the police can keep them stashed for when they're needed.

I'd like to get the media outlets and public more educated. To get the story confirmed or denied (by the police).

Maybe a few "police cameras (again) prove wrong accusations" with wide coverage would go a long way to discourage fabricated stories.

Now about the access and publishing. That one is the hardest to get right considering presumption of innocence and privacy.

The only idea for now "here is the recording, faces blurred. If it's not enough, we'll gladly see you in court. What? No court? We didn't think so either." Hopefully I can come up with a better one.
At this point anything you carry into the US that's electronic in nature might be seized if you don't "cooperate". It might make sense to bring nothing other than really basic burner phones that have an absolute minimum on them.

If you've got to bring your notebook along, might make more sense to FedEx it to your destination and travel practically naked.
It's in different context. Reusing a keyword or an operator in different context happens all the time in languages.
Making math more Lego-like–3-D picture language  potential, including in physics
I don't really understand the service - is it standard Git hosting? (Just like GitHub / GitLab?) In that case, I think you're kind of missing the point of the linked post, which was about running Git locally as opposed to in someones cloud.
In some jobs, notably temp jobs, I have been. I don't drink, and my refusal cost me a permanent position.

In other jobs there's no obligation to go, and the employers often understand, particularly when the jobs have very low pay.
I used to be a rave DJ and am friends with a couple of producers. The core of a dance music track is pretty well dictated by the sub-genre.

You can do a lot with a few wel chosen loops and generative music algorithms. What really sets off the best techno tracks is engineering and mixing, and I actually think that might be harder to get right with AI.
Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring a HPC Solution Architect
Were these weapons getting through the less-invasive pat-downs? Or were they getting through the non-pat-down flow?
Not everyone practicing civil disobedience is right.
Sometimes I think agencies like the TSA have an incentive to be a little inefficient--they can use the ineffectiveness of their process to justify requesting additional funding.

"Oh! It looks like a few weapons got through our procedure. We told you our budget was too small -- our failure is because we don't have enough money to do it right!"
Given that there are more physiological indicator that a person doesn't wash themselves, let alone there is a legitimate impact on health and safety when someone refuses to do so, it should be clear that this is not even close to being an apples to apples comparison.
I've had a WASD Code keyboard for a few years and it's been great. I picked up the Razer BlackWidow Chroma TE TKL a few months ago in order to reverse-engineer the USB protocol for Chroma so I could get a Teensy 3.6 to emulate a Chroma device in order to get an off-screen notification LED in Overwatch when my abilities were off cooldown (the keyboard does this with a pulsating key). Couldn't get the Wireshark USBPcap stuff to work but it's been an OK keyboard. I like the clack of their Cherry KX Blue alternative switches. It does feel a little cheap though...the Code feels like a professional piece of hardware (nicer plastics, feels solid) while the BlackWidow feels much more like an EXTREME GAMING ACCESSORY. In practice it hasn't broken or anything close, but it just doesn't feel solid like my WASD, and given that they're comparable price-wise ($100-$150 range) I'd expect a little better.

The Zowie FK1+ mouse is great if you like the Intellimouse Explorer. It's ambidextrous and symmetrical. No software to install, you just click the button on the bottom to switch the DPI setting, or some chords when you plug it in to set things like handedness. Works great, can't recommend enough. The only not-amazing part is the scroll wheel for desktop use; the detents are spaced pretty far to ensure accuracy when switching weapons or whatever in a game and work less well when trying to e.g. Rip through source code, but MW acceleration mostly fixes that for me. I'd totally try a Zowie keyboard after being so impressed with their mouse. Zowie is made by Benq, so they've been around for a while and have made professional products for a while too (I love my BL3201PH 32" IPS 4K screen).
It seems to me that Uber here is facing its "Zenefits moment".
That is why any clip should obtain a hash on the device. Or that pulling the relevant data would checksum them by the device.

I'm almost asleep, but there probably is some sort of solution that would prove the authenticity of the recording.
That is a time honored tradition in intelligence agencies all over the world. Well that and drugs smuggling.

The TSA of course isn't a little inefficient. It is entirely ineffective.
You're supposed to look at what an optimal currency area is, and see if it applies. Don't just take Wikipedia's opinion for it.

It's not. Cultural, language differences, asymmetric shocks, many reasons why. It would be the same catastrophe as the euro, where the euro is severely undervalued for Germany's economy, unfairly helping their exports, and severely overvalued for Greece, unfairly harming their exports.
Fair point, but I think my meaning did not come across correct.

Most articles today can be substituted with lower-cost versions of the same articles (news/reviews are good examples of this). There's your fungibility. Regardless though, publishers still hold onto their content, because it's one thing that Twitter/Facebook is lacking.
> Kalanick quickly apologized for his words and admitted, for the first time, that he needs to “grow up.”

I see the board using that statement against him.
So their approach is failing, and they don't change, just double down. Typical security theatre.
The market's invisible-hand benefits. If this corporation is toxic, then it fails and in it's place will come a better, more ethical, more resilient corporation.
TSA officials didn’t immediately address whether the new universal pat-down protocol will mandate touching of passenger genitals.

Even if the TSA tried, would they really expect the public to allow it? There has to be some limit to how far they can "search".
The suse folks adopting btrfs says more about suse than it says about btrfs. I still remember in the past how I got tricked into believing ReiserFS (3, not the 4 that never made it into the kernel) was a good filesystem despite the broken fsck, the lack of defragmenting tools and many other issues listed there :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Criticism
It was also the only time I've had a FS really eat my data after forced shutdowns (cutting off power).
They kept pushing ReiserFS as the default until 2006, 5 years after the release of ext3 which added journaling to the ext family of filesystems. Ext3 was a much better filesystem all around. Suse only switched to ext3 because of the controversy with ReiserFS's author and the uncertain future of Reiser4, not because they admitted that ReiserFS was bad.

I will not make the mistake of putting any worth to suse's words again. Doing it again with btrfs shows they really have a knack for going edgy with filesystems while absolutely no other linux distribution is willing to recommend btrfs.

I trust the Red Hat guys to show more care and this is what they had to say only a year ago about btrfs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/37l2mf/i_am_matthew_...

"The btrfs developers keep telling us that it's not ready, so we're following that. (From one of our storage exports: "Btrfs will be ready in two years. The problem is, that's also going to be true next year, and in two years....") We try to be first where we can, but not at the cost of data loss for users.

-- Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Lead"

Doesn't look good to me.

As long as RH or Debian do not start recommending btrfs one cannot give it consideration in good conscience.
Such a casual vulnerability disclosure
White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA
This didn't work in my case because I had references to other functions, for complex number handling and the like. I ended up just loading the whole minified .js file again in the Worker, which worked though it felt ridiculous.
You're arguing that AI will lead to much more nuanced discourse, and much more complex and detailed pros and cons rather than the ruffian binary polarization we have now, and I agree.
Doesn't mean it cannot be surveillance software
You don't care about discrimination? So it's OK for a restaurant or landlord or private college to post a sign saying, "Whites Only"?
Glad to see the government being handed back some of it's own techniques. They seriously think they can spy on American citizens? Just wait until the the large tech companies start spying on them.
Build thumbnail of images, encode audio/video, upload a file in background. Anything that takes more than a few seconds.
Cancelling the policy of allowing non-Precheck into the precheck lanes will be, personally, beneficial in the short term.

I wish there was actually a comparison of effectiveness of DHS agents vs private contractors like those at SFO.
Living in San Jose - I'll admit that I quickly checked how high my place was above sea level.
Multiple inheritance is perfectly sane, what isn't (or at least is less) sane is implicit invocation of methods defined in interfaces (and inheritance from a parent class is, among other things, taking an interface with a default implementation.)

Unfortunately, explicit interfaces were a very late idea (at least in terms of implementation in a major language, not sure if the idea was around earlier) in OOP implementation, and wasn't on v1 of any major language as a core approach, so we've got a bunch of languages where we accept multiple inheritance being messy or we don't have MI at all to avoid it being messy.

But if you had exclusively explicit access to interface (including inherited) methods, MI would be clean.
That's not quite the point though. All that foraging that you describe comes with the advantage of being self-reliant and completely in charge of your life.

While in that life you have to be in charge, you also get to be in charge.

The point is not to throw all of technology out the window, but to recognize that some technologies have made certain areas of our lives so easy, that we maybe overindulge in them, and stopped learning how to be self-reliant any more. I like to call it "over-civilization".

It's been an issue since someone first stuck a stick in a hole to get out a grub, but just because it's old, it doesn't mean it's not valid anymore.
What the person above you is saying, I think, is to remember that computers usually work in base 2. This applies to IEEE floating points, where the mantissa is in base 2; when you represent fractions in base two, they're powers of two: 1/2 (.5), 1/4 (.25), 1/8 (.125), etc. What he's asserting, I think, is that any power-of-two fraction, or any combination of those (in binary), result in a number ending in 5 when represented in decimal. Anything else is going to be rounded to the nearest representable number (that ends in 5).

So, go might have that value in its source, but it's getting rounded to something that would, if represented in decimal, end in 5.
What are the statuses of Web Worker support in the mobile browsers? Android? iOS?
They probably could have gotten close enough by stringing together "pass" and "port" which would be much easier to get.

If they still actually needed /passport/ as a word talking about if you need one or not to go to another country (EG Mexico or Canada) would have been enough.

Still, the writers got things correct FAR more often than not. Sneakers is a good introduction to hacking and security concerns.
I'm working on the problem at catallax.info. My book should be out soon. I'm going to be looking for lots of input and collaboration.
Somewhat related: In 1950 in operation Sea-Spray [1] the Navy released the bacterium Serratia Marcescens [2] over the Bay Area to gain experimental data for the development of biological weapons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serratia_marcescens
In my state (NC), membership in a political party is public information.
Actually, WhatsApp runs on Symbian and Series 40. Many, possibly most, people who use WhatsApp run it on devices that arguably aren't even smartphones.
I've never gone so far as to have a second bank account. But I'm guessing a brokerage account could basically serve as the same thing.
Yikes. They're especially poignant/depressing when you consider that those men truly died moments after writing or uttering them. There is very little emotional distance from the end... :-/
It depends how old you are. If you're 25, that's a horror show. If you're 85, it's pretty normal.

By a certain age, most of the people you have known or even met will already be dead. Calculating that age is left as an exercise for the reader....
How to handle conflict like a boss
There doesn't have to be a single actor who benefits for there to be realpolitik. It could be that the the company has pissed off a number of people on the way up (this is a virtual certainty), and now that they smell blood in the water, they're all coming out. Think "information cascade", not "nefarious actor".
Rust Faster Than C? Not So Fast…
This is pretty cool. I like the concept of being able to nail down stylistic stuff in a declarative config, in project. Big advocate of it. Especially in open source or on team projects where we want consistency and a programmer may need to do quick touchups. This allows them to open their edit up and hit the ground running without getting indentation mixed up.

There is a popular tool around that handles general style settings across editors and projects.

What makes this different from something like EditorConfig? Anything sublime-specific that your tool provides?

http://editorconfig.org/
You could wash your hair with clay : http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-wash-your-hair-with-clay/
It IS a gaming laptop...

And basically all your points sum up to it being a radically different laptop than what it is. Why not buy something else than ask changes of what Razer fans love?
pretty damn good. iOS all the way back to 6 i think? and android since around 4.4 (or chrome all the way back since forever)
Is it that different? Assuming you would use '?' and ':', presumable we might see both the following then:

let foo = foo()?;
let bar = bar() ? this() : that();
My thought might be interesting if car poolers could tap into the commuter benefit cards. AKA pick up someone on the way to work and they can transfer 25-50 cents a mile into your account.
"Sure thing, the password is 'if you had any honor or decency you'd quit your job, fascist'. With spaces, all lowercase, comma after 'job', no period at the end."

Much like moaning during a TSA pat down, I wonder how well a mass campaign doing that would demoralize CBP officers.
On lemons: if you have a dirty microwave, put half a lemon in a glass of water and microwave for a few minutes. Then wipe down the inside of the microwave with no effort.

After that, cut the lemon up and put the lemon down the disposal. Run it for a few seconds. Bam, no more bad smells from the disposal. Two for one!
Yeah, pretty much everyone and his brother had a framework:

- Apple, MacApp

- Microsoft: MFC, and others

- Borland: I forget what they called their stuff

- Anyone remember Taligent? Apple, HP and IBM, all getting together in a money-burning party...

- NeXT / Apple revival: NextStep / OpenStep, etc.

- Any number of minor players, including folks with Honest to Goodness Smalltalk implementations (none of which have survived to this day, I believe)

- Java stuff that I have mercifully forgotten

... they were nearly all crazy, and nothing was portable. So much for the promise of OOP :-)
If you want an intermediary between the linked Lego story and the quon paper in PNAS, then check out the commentary (in PNAS): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78485948/PNAS-2017-Biamo...
You seriously might have help put my two friends in jail in the 80s. They lived in Virginia and they ended up finding a server at the Pentagon. They lost all their computers and weren't allow to use a computer till they arrived in college.
Wendy’s is responding to the rising minimum wage by replacing humans with robots
When the suspension will be effective?
It's not, just like the WBC example isn't IMO.

You're talking about something like 40 people that meet together all the time (I'm guessing way more than just on Sundays), many of which are a part of the same family.

Maybe I misunderstood the point though!
I'm, I don't understand.

My us-east-1 RSS feed said S3 had no incidents.
Data gaps in toxicity testing of chemicals allowed in food in the United States
This anecdote is recounted (among with many others) in the book by Jon Ronson, "The Men Who Stare at Goats"
There are still items in the US that use mills (1/1000 of a dollar). Two examples: property tax and gas.
That was their strategy though- if they tried to introduce it as an alternative to iOS and Android, it was guaranteed DOA. They felt they could get it off the ground by introducing it as an alternative in poorer countries first. It might not have been a strategy that worked out in the end, but those were intentional choices, not choices made from ignorance or stupidity. Even though it didn't work out, it was probably much more likely to succeed than if they had gone the 'take on iOS and Android on the high end' strategy first. That would have been akin to the Chromebook Pixel- possibly an impressive product, possibly a product beloved by a very small group of people, but ultimately not something that a meaningfully-sized market existed for.
This along your other comment in this thread is the definition of 'classism' and how the income gap widens.
No but I am for Google and Apple investors holding the management to their fiduciary duty to turn a profit. Lobbying for gay rights seems very loosely connected to that goal.

Edit: There is not a fiduciary duty to turn a profit, but there is a fiduciary duty to put the corporation's interests above your personal interests.
Type inference should solve that if Go ever gets that.
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Uber is not in real trouble, most people that use Uber don't know it is going on or don't even care
So sorry to hear that. My sister at 15 died of a brain tumor and my son at 12 died of bone cancer. These things are devastating but I appreciate life so much more. Every day is a gift and faith means so much more each and every day.
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Being a PhD student in Japan (and a non-native English speaker) I agree with many points in the article. Some frustrating things about my own experience:

- In my lab, all of the papers written by Japanese students have to be checked by foreign students (which are mostly non-native speakers). The quality of the writing is typically less than mediocre, with a few exceptions.

- We have a seminar every week in which the Japanese students talk in Japanese and will get questions only by the Japanese, while the foreign students present in English and will only get questions from the other foreign students. The environment is a bit toxic.

- I have a monthly meeting of 30 minutes with my supervisor (should be bi-weekly but he almost never has time for it). Those meetings are usually about which journal or conference we should submit an article to, seldom and barely scratching the surface of what my research is about.

- Teachers who give their classes in English will get many complaints from Japanese students. In the end most of them switch (back) to teaching in Japanese again.

- This year I will probably have to go to some sort of job hunting myself, but I'm mostly considering jobs in academia because of the job hunting process for companies seems inhumane. I have heard of cases where students join a company and end up working on projects not remotely related to their research interests.

I often blame myself for not speaking enough Japanese and because of that missing opportunities, but at the same time I am of the opinion that education on the masters and PhD level should be given in English because that seems to be the de facto language of international academia.
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I flew in to LAX last June and the TSA comprehensively touched my genitals when I transferred to a domestic flight =(
Try out a new language and see how it feels. If you like it, you've added another tool to your belt. If you don't, now you know that /you/ should avoid using that tool.

Go (Google) has been on my list of languages to try for a while, I should use it in a project this weekend...
Currently, yes, but I was giving suggestions in case they want to branch out. They asked a few times on Twitter what a developer would like in a laptop. The wish list reflects that. Unfortunately, I couldn't find something that would check off most of the items above.
I heard about the movie, didn't know there was a book. I grabbed the Kindle sample to check it out. Thanks!
It's possible to get something around that price that's close to Northridge, but you are looking at an hour commute each way to Santa Monica—the 405 is bumper-to-bumper all the way.

I would suggest looking for an apartment in West LA or Mar Vista instead, but that's going to be a 1-bedroom apartment.

Good luck! My email is in my profile if you have any more questions.
That's a great quote that mirrors my thoughts. Even though conspiracies are very real, people that see conspiracies everywhere are really searching for order in a chaotic world.
Yeah an EC2 engineer switched over traffic to a backup network connection that had significantly less bandwidth, triggering cascading failures.