skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>HTML5 does not require binary plugins in order to work.

Yet... EME opens the door, and only the Naive believe EME will start and stop at Video Content.

There are already requests for ebooks,and fonts. Images and and even web content itself is not far behind

>I agree that it's a myth that EME doesn't have plugins. What EME does is reduce the scope of those plugins.

Yes and no, if you buy in to the "perfect sandbox" myth then sure, but to believe CDM's are secure is laughable. There are too many hooks into the hardware, there as to be in order to bypass the user, for it to actually be secure.

No the security is more protecting the CDM from the user, not protecting the user from the CDM
Why the down vote? It was a rumor that proved basically correct, as usual.
> The promise is simple and compelling: write once, ship twice. iOS and Android all in one shot

While this is certainly feasible (largely depending on the requirements of your app), it is important to clarify that RN never promised "write once ship twice".

RN's promise is "learn once, write anywhere", meaning that the technology and mental model is what transcends platforms, not the codebase itself.

Just wanted to make this clear so as to avoid any possible frustration for newcomers after the fact.
WebAssembly Paper [pdf]
For real, I was using Latitude years ago to allow family to track me on long trips.

I never used the 'Find My Friends' crap on Apple but it was the same deal from what I gather.
We use life360 for this. I can see where my wife is, I can know when she arrives home safely. She gets a notification when I leave work so she knows I'm on my way home to help with the kids.
> content shouldn't be controlled (or that I, as a buyer of content, should control the content I bought)

How should content creators protect against people who access their content without buying it?
Luck plays a huge role in everything, but by all accounts this team created one of the best apps to grace the App Store. This wasn't a generic automation app.
Again: operating system, not browser.
Second this - I use instant coffee for hiking, if they add a way to order as-needed I'd totally be game to try this instead of the Nescafe poison I start my wilderness mornings with :)
Yup, you take away pattern matching and you can't loop at all in Erlang.
Yeah, I tried really hard to make Safari my default browser in order to use keychain. Keychain itself was great, but safari just didn't cut it for me. Their devtools equivalent is terrible, and I didn't like running two browsers. I was bummed to lose keychain, though.
Until Steve Jobs slew it, or so I'm told.
J.D. Vance Joins Revolution LLC to Promote Startups Outside of Silicon Valley
I'd dig good instant decaf. I don't want any caffeine but coffee can be delicious. Give me a shot at coffee snobbery!
If you're writing apps that work in i.e. And not chrome you're not going for a big user base. I.e. Is 2% of our traffic and 50% of my time.
If you're supplying digital content as a business, then usually that isn't your real problem. They weren't going to give you any more money anyway, and with the legal framework being as it is in most places today, it's frustrating to see your content ripped off but not actually worth doing much about it. Meanwhile, your real problem is probably people who will casually copy and share your content, because even if the multiplication is relatively small, those are potentially still reaching people who would otherwise pay for a legitimate copy.
President Trump Needs an Engineering Adviser
You kidding? He was well known in all the celebrity circles, lived it up in the middle of Manhattan and had Gatsby-like parties.

Andrew Ng is mainstream? People know his name?
How to market your company without alienating your customers
Time prevents me. I still prefer the way Windows Explorer works with it's folder tree sidebar, and yet all equivalents on Linux cut it or have other major flaws to eliminate them from consideration.
> It’s normally made with the worst beans that are roasted really dark and extracted up to 6 times at temperatures up to 180C [...] This process results in the gnarly bitter, woody, rubbery instant we all know.

And then there is Nescafe Gold.

Thanks for playing.
one example: https://solarmovie.sc
And of course, it must lose access to all things that Apple finds threatening.
I agree, and will add that I believe this is the secret sauce in the truly exceptional data scientists, engineers, and developers: people who take the tech skill set and remix with heavy doses of creativity and interpersonal skills.
Super Mario Run Out Now on Android
Good enough to detect a problem.
I noticed a change in the last few days too. It went from one or two ads each session to one ad every few photos :/
37% of Alcoholics Suffer from a Mental Health Disorder
Any decent editor should have a regex find and replace mode.
Google Maps is not new in this game, but, imho, "GeoSlavery"[0] problem gets more serious as tech develops in general.
[0][PDF] http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_4103_...
It's my understanding that, while one is obligated to comply with a warrant granting police access to places or materials in one's control, one cannot be compelled to aid them in their search or understanding. In other words, if presented with a warrant, a person would be required to grant access to a home or to hand over an accounting ledger, but the Fifth Amendment protects against being compelled to tell police where in the home drugs are hidden or which line items in the ledger contain embezzlement. A warrant grants the police the right to search, but not the right to find.

With that in mind, here's a thought exercise:

Let's say that I'm caught on camera signing a document with a man who later kills my business partner. The camera then records me going into my warehouse with the document and emerging later without it. The police, believing that I arranged the murder and that the proof is in the document, duly obtain a warrant to search the warehouse.

The warehouse is large and when the police enter, they find it is stacked floor to ceiling with sheets of paper, all indistinguishable except for their contents. They estimate the number of pages to be in the billions -- far too many for them to feasibly comb through.

If I understand the right against self incrimination correctly, I can't be forced to tell the police where I hid the specific piece of paper they're looking for.

Why is this different from finding a password? Assume we use a 43 character password (since the encryption key is AES 256, a password longer than 43 characters wouldn't add additional security). If this is the case, approximately 1.01e86 - 1 passwords effectively yield a garbage document, and 1 password produces the document the police are looking for. If one can't be compelled to help the police find the solution in a physical search space, why can one be compelled to help find one in a digital search space?
There's a difference between deterring (upping the bar) and making it impossible. See CIA guidelines on writing malware in the recent leak.
I use LastPass, and features you mentioned also apply.

LastPass also unfortunately has in-pane banner pop-ups which I do not trust at all. Blind and automatic autofill is dangerous. I'm not sure if you can enable that.

Another feature I like is the detection of compromised sites and password rotation reminders.
btrfs ran before it could walk.

It is ok for a single disk FS. It is no ZFS though which is its largest problem, people keep marketing it as "linux awnser to ZFS"

No, it is not.

Maybe some day, but today it is no ZFS. I love zfs..

Further the ZFS utilities are far easier to use and understand. zfs and zpool commands well documented, and intuitive. btrfs utilities are are not, IMO

I am fine with using btrfs as a replacment for ext on my OS drive, but for my large data arrays of multiple disks it s ZoL all the way
Kenya Revenue Authority 'lost $39m to hacker'
Chris Sacca, the $4M Negative Balance, the Salinger Group and Twitter (2015)
Who else is competing with Netflix for Netflix-produced content?
This is a good point, there is not much good/accessible material on databases - because a lot of that material is considered academic.

Honestly, I learned mostly by experience of what frustrated me with current databases and then trying to come up with workaround solutions.

Then I practiced by playing around with new ideas and making small prototypes in code. And then I would whiteboard out all the possible combinations of those ideas.

Once I had all combinations listed, I reduced them all into their generic rules and which ones depended upon others. Finally, based off those constraints I worked out the mathematics of the system, the constraints, and tradeoffs.

Maybe I should write a more intensive article on this to help other people. In the meantime, I think if anybody can read/watch classes on data structures, algorithms, etc. that will benefit them the most.

Recently, we have worked on a some interactive animated explainers. Not quite database stuff, more like security (cryptography) and algorithms / data structures. Let me know if they are helpful:

Cartoon Cryptography - http://gun.js.org/explainers/data/security.html

Cartoon Conflict - http://gun.js.org/explainers/conflict/lexical.html

Cartoon Sorting Algorithms - http://gun.js.org/explainers/basketball/basketball.html

Cartoon Concurrency -
http://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html

And hopefully more to come. :)

I know those are probably not immediately useful for your kdb+ like language. But, I'd love to learn more about what you are trying to do. :D
> I think it's a toxic substance honestly, tires the adrenals and heart out

Do you have any evidence for this or is it a hmm-I-better-not-vaccinate-my-children-because-I-think-it-will-give-them-autism type statement?
You missed the boat. Mobile revenue edge out desktop revenue in 2016, and it's concave down... which means dying. Desktops continue to die back to a new equilibrium because they're less portable and less practical than a device that can go almost anywhere but a Dave Chappelle show. They won't go away completely but their importance is greatly and permanently diminished to the point of irrelevance for most average people, hence again why PC makers are struggling. Everyone these days has a smartphone but not everyone has or needs a desktop. That's a fact of life as technologies change. Old PC homebrewers and $10k rig gamers will continue to tout their resistance to getting a cell phone and the superiority of their own, particular religion.
Maybe us quitters need to get back on FB and start posting nothing but links like this one to save the human race.
Reddit rolls out user profiles amid site makeover
Agroforestry, permaculture, food forests... There are communities of folks already thinking in this vein. It's an increasingly urgent area of study, as we are increasingly aware of mainstream industrial agriculture's dramatic toll on ecosystems through topsoil degradation, habitat loss, threats to biodiversity, and so on.

But I don't believe a startup mentality fits an ecological approach to agriculture. Successfully shifting from the dominant model of agriculture is dependent on envisioning and creating alternative economic systems.

EDIT: Changed wording in last sentence for clarity.
Numerosity in humans, birds and fish based in brain’s subcortex
"I don't know the actual performance of commercial Lisps like Allegro Common Lisp and LispWorks, but I imagine it is quite good, given that they stay in business."

It might be good or just OK on modern hardware. I imagine they stayed in business for their IDE's, libraries, commercial support, and decent compilers. Batteries included. Some success stories make me think performance is really good, though.

http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/netfonds-primetrade...

http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/ral-siglab.html

I found those while looking for one about a real-time implementation for telecom or something. Franz's success stories are mostly about doing complicated stuff easier. There was one that looked performance-critical:

http://franz.com/success/customer_apps/finance/ravenpack.lht...
Funny how more than half of them are after 2012. Gotta love the current state of the tech industry.
Have you ever heard of sshfs? I've needed to do some work on headless computers lately and it has been a lifesaver. Basically it lets you mount a remote computer's filesystem over ssh, meaning you can edit everything in your main editor.
Doesn't google know already if you are using the maps?
Show HN: tmuxp – session manager for tmux
You're talking about an era when Gopher was still the dominant protocol on the internet.
Superscreen – Supercharge your phone with a 10.1” HD display
Isn't Onedrive just Microsoft's cloud storage service? I haven't used it before, but is this implying that a web file manager is slow? Feature detection or not, regardless of OS, I think an application of this nature just shouldn't be slow at all on any computer 5 years old or less.
The web is not the internet
Digital signatures. Not that I actually know how it's implemented, but I would expect someone like Netflix to pay Intel for the build infrastructure to be able to build signed blobs that the SGX will load.

The "someone" in your hypothetical can modify the blob, but then they won't be able to resign the blob, so SGX will fail to load it.
Yeah, that's a serious obstacle, I think.

Via makes a decent cup of coffee which is good as "back-up" for situations where you can't make coffee in a normal way. It's cost/serving is comparable to what you would pay for good beans. I am thinking something like 12oz of La Colombe Corsica ($12) @ 20g/dose => $0.70/serving.

$2+/serving for Sudden seems "out there" for a subscription service which, by definition, is intended for regular use.
Totally. I just don't think I've ever experienced that. For as long as I can remember news has been about sensationalism at all cost.

The question was do I personally remember newspapers and the answer is no. I remember them as a thing that exists, yes, but not as a thing that provides value.
Probably just standard calls for conversion/killing of apostates as preached by Muhammad.
You know honestly, I've always wondered why prisons don't have a bunch of computers for retaining. I mean, if there's a chance of conspiracy a specific inmate shouldn't have access, but your run of the mill street thug would probably really benefit from learning Linux system administration, web site building, coding . . .. It would probably be a lot easier to find gainful employment in a high demand field and would help break the cycle. If they were allowed to work, the people with longer sentences could help break the cycle for their dependants as well.

Guess that's probably the answer.
DRM schemes effectively allow the implementer to invent their own rules well beyond what copyright law specifically reserves (e.g. restrictions on resale and lending, ability to create their own licensing regime to publish on a given platform), so I don't see how DRM depends on government intervention. DRM is already defined more by business and technical considerations than by the law. If anything, it seems to me that draconian DRM schemes would be more desirable to vendors if they didn't also have copyright lawsuits in their arsenal.
Keep in mind, many people with a computer might not have the internet at all during this period. Purchasing internet service usually came with software to use it.
When philosophers are successful, they produce ideas that are quite revolutionary, but are so obviously right that they become the implicit common sense of later generations, and as a consequence most people don't even know that they were created by an earlier set of geniuses.
Thanks for prompting me to do further research on this. I didn't realise from the initial posting, that this course is based on prerecorded videos and can be completed asynchronously, to fit in with life. The site say students "need access to a computer with an Nvidia GPU", but I reckon it could be an exceedingly interesting exercise to try and do the course with an FPGA in place of the GPU.
I can see a very valid (and very useful) use case for parents to track their kids when they are out with friends, or in a field trip. Hopefully less missing children.
Don't forget the part that the map engine is now Apple map.

And the translation is now carried by Microsoft.
> By the time I was old enough to even consider reading newspapers, they had devolved into clickbait sensationalist garbage.

Talk about generalization. The funny thing about poor catch-all statements like this is that I only need one counter example to make your argument silly. The Economist is one of the finest publications in the world (yes, it's a newspaper). WSJ and NYTimes additionally are totally great papers (although I only read the Economist regularly).

Maybe give these publications another try? It seems like you've limited your exposure to potentially great works.
Wow. This isn't as convenient as Netflix, but I concede that it's a lot more convenient than I thought piracy was at this point, and probably past the threshold where it matters.
My startup's average age was ~23 with the co-founders under 30. 7 years later one of the only survivor out of the group is our 70 year old Chief Scientist. Everyone loved him and honestly the hardest thing to get over was that he was mormon because we drank coffee all day and alcohol all night.
Great response - appreciate the clarification and all makes sense.

Yeah, those are all the real challenges we face. Marketing for us is a big one - as many people have pointed out about our website :-)

I think it's our job as a business to figure out a way to make it mainstream. It's going to take creativity, hard work, and a great tasting product - but that's the challenge we are signing up for to be honest. We are not here to make a niche product. Everything we are working towards is making this something the majority of people can enjoy. If you talked to my parents in the 70's, the idea of a Starbucks style cafe where you pay $5 for an iced latte was ludicrous, but now it's mainstream (I'm not saying its a ripoff either, its just something we didn't know we'd want).

What we see is a huge gap in the market. If you live in a select few big cities, you have this huge exposure to specialty coffee and it tastes great. If you live anywhere else - it is a whole lot harder to experience coffee that tastes this good. We believe that the average person truly does want to experience great tasting coffee - they just don't have access.

*Caveat that I always add - that doesn't mean there isn't room for other coffee either. McDonalds is a mainstream burger restaurant but there is still a place for 10 other fast food companies, a whole spectrum of high end burgers, etc. We aren't trying to replace every way to drink coffee - just provide a new alternative that tastes awesome.

Really enjoyed your comments - thanks for writing!
It's about being made to wait to give them money.

It's like you go to the store, standing there with your bills in hand, and the guy just says 'please wait there, I'll get to you when I'm ready.' then proceeds to have a smoke break.
> I don't know if I know what click bait means.

Clickbait is over-sensationalising a title to bring more traffic to the article page, where ads and other monetising things can be served.

HN has been going bonkers over complaining about clickbait titles recently... it seems our denizens have somehow developed a highly-tuned sense of what clickbait looks like... but for some reason still can't resist clicking on it when they see it.
Seafood-related queries from own IOT machines crashed college network
Well money will talk eventually. Advertisers will win.
Very much a part of the standard. i.e. not specific to SBCL.

Think of defgeneric as the function signature and defmethod as the template specialization. Not sure why you say this is an error in CLOS. Looks fine to me.

That said, most implementations try to auto-infer the generic function metaobject when you use defmethod without defgeneric. SBCL raises a warning.

Good reads on the topic:

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/object-reorientation-generic...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-metaobject-protocol

http://mop.lisp.se/
First Amendment and the Right to Anonymous Speech
That's great - the less ads the better ;)

Looks like extremist videos make internet great again.
From the papers I do believe they are hardcoding the layer weights in the hardware definition of the FPGA. These FPGAs also have no significant RAM on chip, but the intel FPGAs they use do seem to have an even larger number of LUTs than the usual embedded FPGAs, and even dedicated floating point units.

At the very least they talk about omitting weights which are 0 in the synthesis.
I am glad that someone is explaining how Aristotle is the great-grandfather of modern computing.

You know, when you look at the histories of the various fields of study in the modern university, it's quite remarkable how many of them got their start, or at least a large part of it, with something Aristotle wrote 2,300 years ago.
How is that a JSON issue? It's inability to specify the type of a data element?
Oh, I had something similar happen. I had 3 (legitimate) accounts banned at the same time, for no reason. When I went through the verification process, the upload button wouldn't work, and the contact link would give a 400. Some weeks later it started working, but basically it's a clusterf*k. It's a clear example of a dumb system, caused by artificial stupidity (AI in practice) and poor organisation.
It did make smile when I looked at the country drop-down and the options were United States, Canada, and… Finland.

I also recommend offering a one-off ordering option. It offers a try-before-you-commit option, as well as for those who normally brew, but would buy some of this for when they travel.

I would also recommend adding Australia to your country drop-down, but I have ulterior motives there.
> GNU cp uses ioctl() with the FICLONE flag when you run "cp --reflink" on a COW filesystem like Btrfs.

> http://man7.org/linux/man-page/man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2.htm....

This unfortunately doesn't yet work with zfs on Linux. One of my only gripes with it.
Chris Mason and the btrfs team are clearly talented. But the initial excitement of btrfs has sadly dissipated and its promise as the next generation Linux fs remains unrealised. It now feels a bit jaded and the momentum is spent.

I suspect many have lost patience with the promise of COW and unfortunately for bcachefs this history will cast a shadow on its development and potential.

Database performance remains problematic on COW and while things like snapshots and adhoc disk and volume management are interesting even exciting one soon realises unless one has a pressing need they are just nice to have. Eventually boring ext4 ticks all the boxes and one may as well forget about the fs and focus elsewhere.
This was the initial vision of Medium. They then handed over the keys to those with most Twitter followers, rewarding Silicon Valley darlings and those already good at drawing attention to themselves.

The prospect of paying $5 a month to fill Bill Simmons, MG Siegler or Anil Dash's pockets some more doesn't really appeal.
Is it only clean room metrics or can you also collect metrics from actual users?
So glad I grew up before any of this was possible.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this used in the demo scene, but I can't name any productions after all these years. I remember Second Reality has a mode x plasma at least
Then git also needs to change, but the process as above for github and others is still correct.

0. Upgrade to SHA3/Keccak, eventually make SHA1 a read-only legacy feature.

1. Upgrade signing to sign blobs and sign signatures for non-blobs instead of signing refs.