skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's some strong criticism, especially since you're not even considering that someone already successfully detonated a laptop bomb on a plane.

From the CNN article on this new policy: >The official said the move is partly based on intelligence that they believe indicates Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is close to being able to hide explosives with little or no metal content in electronic devices in order to target commercial aircraft.
It's a particular concern at these airports because of screening issues and the possibility of terrorists infiltrating authorized airport personnel, the official said. Flight and cabin crews are not covered by these new restrictions.
In February 2016, a bomb hidden inside a laptop detonated aboard a Daallo Airlines flight out of Mogadishu, Somalia. The bomber was killed and a hole was blown in the side of the fuselage. The aircraft landed safely.
I also find his articles annoying but I have no problem with ascribing a scientific or economic purpose/motive behind everything.

The problem is that the explanation has to be solid, based in evidence and experiments. This article is a well written rambling, or to be more clear just an opinion.

For example in:

> We're also the only creatures who sing from the ground, sing and dance together, bury our dead, point declaratively, enjoy spicy foods, blush, and faint [1] (not to mention all of our weird sexual practices).

> [1] human-unique traits. Some of these are contested. [...] And I'm sure there are other examples of similar behaviors enacted by non-human animals. But the basic point stands: We do a lot of things that, if not singularly unique, are nevertheless extremely rare.

He cherrypicks a few behaviors and say that they make us unique, and when there is contradicting evidence he just ignore it. Whales can sing, wolves howl (is that similar enough?) and just ignore birds because they are not intelligent enough. Bonobos have a lot of weird sexual practices that are similar to the human one, and other animals have even weirder sexual practices that are unimaginable in humans. And the list of exceptions go on ...

It's similar to: from https://xkcd.com/775/

> See, that's just the kind of bullshit sexism that discredits evo-psych. Your "evolutionary histories" always seem tuned to produce 1950's gender roles.
The GitHub post on it:
https://github.com/blog/2337-work-life-balance-in-employee-i...
You're talking out of your ass, aren't you.
Pet projects are not necessarily good for a company:

1) Code is not necessarily an asset, it is also a liability: needs to be maintained, tested, documented, etc. This has a non-trivial cost.

2) Engineer salaries are usually more expensive than a license.

3) Experience working using internal frameworks/libraries/etc can be harder to trade in the marketplace, especially if you are not the author.

4) It is hard to keep up feature parity with commercial/open source alternatives.

5) Internal projects do not necessarily lead to more employee satisfaction. They can be usually lacking around user experience and can be frustrating to use.

6) Some internal projects have purely political motivations, like self-perpetuating the authors in the company.

Finally, if you absolutely require to start an internal project, but it does not provide a competitive advantage: open source it.
Professor Tim Gershon, Professor of Physics at University of Warwick and UK spokesperson for the LHCb experiment:
“After the LHCb experiment is upgraded in the next long shutdown of the LHC (during 2019-20), it will be able to move to the next stage in the search for new particles: namely, doubly heavy baryons. These states – which contain two charm quarks or two beauty quarks or one of each – have long been predicted, but never yet observed. Their discovery will help to address important unsolved questions about how hadrons are bound together by the strong interaction.”

So I would assume that yes they have been predicted and is opening the doors for further confirmations?
Should "minimalistic" be a goal for a file manager though? Total Commander is great because it's not minimalistic and allows the user to customise it in any way you want. I think that's what users who want more than just Finder or Explorer are looking for. It's the same for text editors, nobody would use a minimalistic one, or they'd just use Notepad.
How much of that is self-imposed complexity from chasing the hype of the week?

Also:

1. Software is all about automation and increasing efficiency!

2. Let's hire thousands of programmers!!1!12!

Empire building much?
@lostboys totally agree, but thankful someone is at least offering me more than serf rights
Apple releases iPhone (Product) Red
To be clear: neither of those options is supposed by Chrome or Safari.

Sigh.
The problem with Intel doing this is that, for marketing reasons, they tend to enable different sets of instructions on different cores and an OS would have a really hard time scheduling threads when some the Skylake cores can execute AVX instructions but the Goldmont cores can't. Normally the scheduler wants to assume that it can just move a thread from one core to another but if the thread started off on the Skylake and was taking an AVX-enabled code path that would cause problems.

Not that the idea isn't appealing or even infeasible. It just runs afoul of Intel's marketing.
Big step in the right direction. I also believe this will have huge impact on the morale as well. If you offer enough courtesy to your employees you'll receive a lot more in return. Personally, I believe this can boost productivity in a different way, because if the employee is challenged with a different set of problems other than the "same ol' " during the work time, the experience can be directly applied to the possible future employer's problems.

Granted, this can have downsides too.
Apple releases snapchat-like app Clips
I posted about this in a thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13872807.

I think freelancing is dead. To sum it up, employers, including startups that'd dry up their runway in 1 to 3 years, are demanding developers go full time and onsite.

As if they really could give job security. That's the frustrating thing. They're making you jump through hoops for work that, save them being acquired, won't last.

Yes, exceptions exist. But the new norm is that. And norm means being able to have some sense of reliability, not some person's luck. Yes, I ask recruiters to look around for remote opportunities and they try to help, but the good paying jobs are back in SF and want me in the office. Full time.

Nope, no gigs. No one wants 3 months, 6 months.

Yeah, I've heard all the talk about consulting. To me, it's just more growth hack / NLP talk about value that doesn't represent the realities of being a developer in our market these days. Startups shun the thought of outside experts or opinions, unless it's a SAAS tool. These CTO's, even if they don't know better, see advice from an outside expert as losing control. I think this is because they want employees who they can mold in their image, rather than someone who could help them in a pinch.

The other thing is hiring happens a lot slower. A lot of these places keep passing over qualified candidates because they feel they have so many options.

And no, employers aren't winning either with the lack of flexibility they have. Going remote opens up yourself to a ton of candidates. They're ultimately isolating themselves from skilled workers with experience. It's completely understandable to not want to be in SF and to accommodate working remote if you're a seasoned programmer.
Thankyou, Thankyou so so much. Now i can work overtime without feeling bad about spending my time making some bad people rich.
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> Its adepts don’t succeed through technical skill so much as a kind of web whispering: feeling, rather than thinking, their way through a tangle of competing styles – in other words, those soft fuzzy things that women are supposed to excel at. That’s not true, of course; nothing on a computer is any more or less logical than anything else.

Front end CSS is definitely less 'logical' than backend, in the sense that for backend you need to ensure that your code is very structured, and you have to think through your program logic a lot more, but in front end, you do a lot more messing around with styles until things look good. There's still logic there, but to say that nothing on a computer is more or less logical than anything else doesn't really seem true once you are dealing with other libraries and frameworks.
On linux (Xubuntu 16.04/ATI card) smooth scrolling in both Firefox and Chrome causes horrible tearing even with sync to vblank on, The first thing I do on both is disable it and then increase the number of lines scrolled in FF, it's a much better experience then.

mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount set to 30 (you might need to play with it)

generally works much better.
I'm very curious how they work the cache hierarchies of these hybrid clusters. You really want to be tuning the latency and throughput of the cache to the consumers attached to it and that wouldn't be straightforward in this case.
Right. Except he doesn't just have a screen. He has some navigation system onboard that happens to use the phone's data system. Not just a screen. If it was just a screen you could hook your phone up to it and see the phone's screen. And then on the phone you use any of the many offline navigator apps. Which is perfectly viable, if it was just a screen, which he doesn't have.
“Evicted”, an ethnographic study of tenants in low-income housing (2016)
> Encrypted drives can be opened without the password.

No, they can't. The way it's done is by trying many passwords until the right one is found. Once you have the right password, you can use it to decrypt the drive's contents, but then you are "opening it with the password".

(IIRC, there were some bad "hardware encryption" HDDs where the password wasn't actually used to encrypt the drive's contents, just verified against something in the drive's NVRAM; these can be bypassed. But that's not the case here.)
A court granted him a writ of habeas corpus? When? That changes everything if true, but I'm pretty sure you're mistaken.
Does anyone have any articles about that first story? That's horrifying...
So? This subthread is about a line in the write-up that talks about accidental collisions. Your objection to 'centuries' is a complete non-sequitur.
Extensive static analysis (language with strict type system + linter + hinter) and functional programming have revolutionized my productivity. It helped me write a large program which has been in production for 11 months and has had zero bugs.
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I believe the howling. Dogs definitely howl, and will happily do so to voice disapproval, sadness, etc., etc. If there are tears alongside that howling, then your dog may be an anomaly.
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While it's true in a mathematical sense that one may not be able to prove that a sequence of seemingly random bits is an encrypted files that is not true in a legal sense. The law isn't about proving things 100%. The law is about weighing the available evidence and proving things to various standards (preponderance of the evidence, beyond reasonable doubt, etc).

For example if if there are server logs showing I downloaded illegal files, and there are people who testify that I talked about downloading illegal files, and there is non pre-installed software on my computer that is used for encryption then probably that sequence of random bits is an encrypted file.

Maybe you can't prove it mathematically, but you can prove it legally.
KYLI – because it is superior to JSON
Stack? Native ?
The companion manual is called a dictionary. The word "witness" means someone who provides testimony based on personal knowledge.

If the framers had meant to say "provide evidence" instead of "be a witness" they would have said that. They were lawyers and those words were commonly used legal terms that meant the same things they do today.
It would be interesting to have an option to pay for desired new features in existing projects. You could call it "bid for code" or something: people who need a certain feature in an open-source project would commit to paying some amount of money for it. Other people interested in the same feature could also join. A bit similar to a kickstarter, but for feature requests. Developers would choose what to work on, depending on how much money is being offered.

Is there something like this out there already? This could be a feature in this site or a completely new site if someone wants to take on this idea. Github should offer this option!
Well, it's your decision. By the way, if you ping me on Twitter (yanex_ru), I can send you the direct link to DMG via a DM.
Whole genome sequencing resource identifies 18 new candidate genes for Autism
If you use this or any other scroll hijacking library, I immediately hit the back button.
Any scrolling on the main thread (i.e. driven by JS) is subject to jank, not just user-input scrolling. CSS-based smooth scrolling of anchor links can be offloaded to the compositor because the browser knows ahead of time what is going to happen, and in those cases the smooth scroll animation can run smoothly even if the main thread is bogged down.
Just Cocoa (Swift). Marta is a completely native macOS application.
Then why limit it to non-US carriers? Are United planes bomb-proof?
Will Samsung's Bixby Virtual Assistant Rival Apple's Siri?
> The answers to these questions are obvious: no and no.

Tell that to Chris Handley [1]. He imported a pornographic comic book from Japan, a postal inspector got his panties in a bunch over it, and a prosecutor pushed for 15 years in prison and life as a sex offender unless he plead guilty.

Knowing he'd probably lose in front of a jury of his peers [2], and being blackmailed with the threat of 15 years, he took a plea for six months in prison. Wasn't even afforded the right to a fair trial.

Oh, and it's not just pictures, either. Textual, fictional stories can be "obscene" as well. It is possible to write a fake story in a Hacker News comment that can get you 15 years in federal prison in the US.

[1] http://cbldf.org/about-us/case-files/cbldf-case-files/handle...

[2] it's deemed "obscene", which is a magic "get out of Free Speech free" card, so it falls under the Miller Test. You could get a jury in a very deep red county to find two fully-clothed males kissing as "obscene" if you wanted. "Obscenity" is the thing that needs free speech protections the most.
Not in the US: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/us/senate-declines-to-reso...
Food insecurity in early childhood linked to children’s skills in kindergarten
systemd is not for everyone, but for me is way saner than any other init system, including BSDs init.
Writing service files for systemd just makes sense in my mind.

There are other aspects for why I do not recommend BSD to anyone who asks, most importantly their licensing and their general stance towards software freedoms, to the point where they are smug and happy when somebody violates the GPL, because "at least they get more users", as well as their relatively little upstream contribution to ZFS despite riding that train as fBSDs signature feature for years, but that's a different discussion altogether.
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> Their discovery will help to address important unsolved questions about how hadrons are bound together by the strong interaction.

If the particles were already predicted by the standard model, what kind of unsolved questions are to address here, besides validating the predictions of the standard model even further? (serious question)
EURUSD: Bullish, Threatens Further Upside Pressure
> IIRC, there were some bad "hardware encryption" HDDs

About those: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Enclosed-but-not-e...

Sadly the images appear to be not working. But they were very clear: what should have been a point cloud had clear lines.
The Mobile Push Notifications Checklist for E-Commerce
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It's arrogant to think we're the only animals who mourn
Some examples off the top of my head:

1. They detach comments from comment threads (to hide them?)

2. They boost some stories so that they remain on the home page for a longer time

3. They also remove some posts from the front page... (because they are duplicates, not "quality" content, etc...)

I could probably come up with more examples, but I'm sure that you get the idea...
This is eerily similar to fman, which was posted here a few weeks ago

https://fman.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13764060
It's "super simple". There's one pricing policy and it's hardcoded. As layers of abstraction are added in support of richer features, so too is complexity and hence "not-so super simple".
It is a scroll hijacking library, it's just not as wretched as most. It's not animating the links but rather animating scrolling to the links by slowing the scrolling.
I am not disagreeing with the importance of disability insurance. I am disagreeing with your proposed solution to not having life insurance.

Remarrying rich and the kids eventually getting jobs is not a plan I would be ok with.
"The fact remains that the government has not brought charges," Donoghue said in a telephone interview. "Our client has now been in custody for almost 18 months based on his assertion of his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination."

This should be simple, either they have enough to charge him or not.
There is ample precedent for forgetfulness in the courts. Imagine a scenario where you are called as a witness in a case against someone else and you say that you can't remember what you saw. If there is evidence to support the idea that you are lying (say, you're being asked an easy question about something that happened yesterday) you can be held in contempt.

If there is reason to believe that you are telling the truth (say, you're being asked which of two parking spaces you saw a car in 10 years ago) then you're fine.

Same thing goes here. Rational disinterested people (a judge or a jury) will look at the available evidence and make their best judgement about whether you are telling the truth when you say you can't remember.
For anyone interested in the Alcatel horror story mentioned in the article, it's even worse than you thought:

Therefore his thoughts, which were characterised as “invention” in the decision, should be disclosed to Alcatel. The judge also ordered Brown to pay Alcatel’s legal fees, which exceeded $330,000.[1]

1: https://www.law360.com/ip/articles/1899/appeals-court-affirm...
Democracy isn't an end in itself. The Supreme Court has consistently made better decisions than the democratically elected branches of government.
How Chip Designers Are Breaking Moore’s Law
I call it minimalistic just because the UI is not cluttered by numerous panels and menus. It's not about the functionality. I believe that the functionality/simplicity balance is possible, as I see it done well in Sublime Text.
By the way, Marta supports plugins so the functionality is not limited by what you have out of the box.
You modify the bootloader to grab the password on next decryption. The bootloader is in cleartext on the disk, otherwise the machine couldn't boot.

More advanced versions would involve modifying the BIOS to add a SMM-mode hook. That way the malware runs completely outside the view of the OS. Alternatively, any device with DMA access could have its firmware altered to read sensitive information from memory.

Physical security is an unsolved problem.
Apple Announces Clips App for Social Videos
Could not find what's new. Any hints ?
What was the motivation for this?
I always try to negotiate this.
Since I always bring value, effort and ideas from personal time and resources in to the company, for free.

If they don't want to do that, then write down a big list of every idea and project you've been working on to date, including any domains you own and projects within them, and make sure they can't touch any of the IP you've already created.

Also: Be friendly about it.
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Let's see some proof. You can go there right now and see people saying all sorts of nonsense and insulting roger ver (as if that has anything to do with the technical merits of bitcoin unlimited).

Have you ever received anything from blockstream?
Ransomware on a budget
Not a fan of the Midnight Commander-style of UI, but I'll give it a try since anything has got to be better than the mess that is the Finder these days .. I still don't understand why Apple can't push Finder to be a more modern interface for the system without completely screwing it up .. so much to improve, but yet they are ignoring it in favour of sandboxes and "nobody knows what a filesystem is" policies that make us all dumber.

One of my pet peeves with the Finder is that it still can't auto-layout the content to fit in the window - take a list view, open a folder .. and marvel at the fact that its the 21st century, but yet this list view still isn't capable of rendering itself for minimal-fit constraints. (I have to do it manually.) This is very frustrating, and I'd love to know of a solution ..
Offline Mode for iOS Apps
Beekeeper, the mobile-first platform for non-desk workers, raises $8M Series A
Getting issues primarily on US-EAST-1 this morning, multiple accounts affected.
A9 CPU (same as iPhone 6s), and cheaper price, starting at $349 for 32GB

http://www.apple.com/ipad-9.7/specs/
I just hope for the one big presentation where they refresh iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro, and maybe some "next big thing" for desktop PCs.

And for the love of god, if they do this please have some USB-A ports...
As someone from Canada, that guy was being a total dick, very aggressive, mansplaining the agent, which isn't surprising that it would trigger the customs agent. He would have had the same response from an agent at the border in Canada.

Ex: "what shops are you planning to go to". It's fine to answer "I don't know yet". They're just testing behaviour. If you start being defensive or aggressive, pretend to know their jobs better than they, etc, it's suspicious. Although yes, in general, the US agents are really bad at doing behaviour testing.

Anecdotal: Last year, I crossed the border a few times by car, visiting a friend I met on Tinder. I completely got away with it, giving honest answers at the border. Recently met someone else (a girl) who was stopped and accused of prostitution for doing the exact same thing. :/
Going to try to get it into Home-brew?
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They'll do something with augmented reality for sure.
I'd almost hoped they would have released a refreshed Macbook Pro range. I realise they are unlikely to recognise the joy and immense pleasure working on a MBP has brought me over the years, with the previous MBP being the pinnacle.

Sadly I see the current MBP as something I will not be buying and will more than likely move back to a high end windows laptop.
Thought experiment: What if you kept two sets of bank records for your business. One set of bank records were truthful and demonstrated your guilt. The others were falsified and demonstrated your innocence.

What would happen if, after your bank records were subpoenaed, you hand over the falsified records?

Well, you'd be committing a crime. Maybe you get away with it, or maybe law enforcement figures it out and you get caught. Depends on how clever of a criminal you are.

Same thing here with your double-plaintext encryption.
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That’s not an unrelated page; it describes Textile’s syntax in a column on the right and lets you try it interactively.

(No, it’s not a flavour of Markdown.)