skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibilities:

1) you have instagram or whatsapp and use them frequently

2) you use an app that has Facebook login, that has location access or just has the SDK lying in app but not being used.

3) I don't know about what access react native/js frameworks have in terms of device resources, but that "may be" an another source of info leak.

4) your contacts/friends uploaded a photo on one of these services where you were there in the photo

5) if any of these apps have microphone access (when you record videos) it's "possible" to do many surreptitious things.

All of the above, done by 1 or many of your friends/contacts on Facebook/instagram/WhatsApp, FB identified you and correlated it somehow.
I do wonder, from a legal perspective, did the Internet Archive get permission from Apple or are they merely trusting that no one will enforce their rights on abandoned software? Especially since they seem to be doing the same with MS-DOS/Windows 3.1[1].

[1] https://blog.archive.org/2016/02/11/internet-archive-does-wi...
Delta changes policy, will pay customers up to nearly $10,000 to give up seats
Z-machine (infocom) interpreter in Go
Brain-Altering Science and the Search for a New Normal
I really like your style, that you communicate directly and in detail to issues that come up. Do you also record these posts with the software for others to find in the future - who don't follow [HN] or twitter? If this blog goes away independently of the software, this discussion goes away too.
That's not what's in the article. The object falling into the black hole might emit a lot of light, but black holes can't emit from within, and Hawking radiation is very weak.
The Brutality of the Barkley Marathons
We already do. The hard disks, the bandwidth, the electricity.

Give me a ready-made virtual machine image [1] pre-configured to share files. I don't care about the protocols, I don't care about super-duper-unbreakable encryption because I won't share or host copyrighted content nor wombat porn.

[1] Not a freaking docker image or whatnot (hi, Mediagoblin!) - if you want it to succeed it has to be dead simple so that mere mortals can do it.
If it's anything like the UK, not many. Which is a shame because they produce some fantastic stuff.

For a solid introduction to a few, the best film selection of the Cesars is a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Award_for_Best_Film
I have really enjoyed this discussion mostly because it explains art in a way that is much more tangible and visceral than one usually gets. It also shows how a art is more about person's internal viewpoint than the art itself. Ladybird Johnson said it best when she said "Art is the window to man's soul." It opens a window in people where you can peek in and see how they think on the inside.

For some, like me, the pair of them, the Bull and the girl, are much more powerful art than either of them independently. That the girl was created in part as an advertising pitch was news to me, but the art stands by itself.
Turkey referendum: Erdogan camp set to win after most votes counted
They still offer ISO and other options like USB-stick image.

ISO image is important to install on virtual machine, and you csn burn it on DVD.
Yes, all sections in the real book are expanded. The idea for the preview was to leave only the headings so that the table of contents will look the same.
I searched the article for "Hulu" and got zero hits. I assume the author simply didn't do any research at all.
No. It is like hanging a painting of a mustache next to the Mona Lisa. This does not damage or physically modify the original art.

You don't even know the name of the investment fund that paid for this statement. Neither do I. The main point obviously wasn't to push the fund, or there would have been a separate statement taking credit.
I think you are absolutely right, and it has a lot to do with what is classified as television. Increasingly, television broadcasts are packet based digital content that is carried like other tcp/ip traffic. With adoption of DOCSIS 3.1, which will increase bandwidth for internet communications by dropping spectrum on coaxial cable devoted exclusively to streaming digital video, the definition of television will be further muddied.

Conceptually, why should I have to choose a television package from Comcast or Cox based on which one is operating the cable? It makes some sense if my cablebox is parsing a stream available to everyone on the line, but it doesn't make sense if the box is requesting a stream that has not been multicast.

I suspect that this threat to their television business has a lot to do with attacks on net neutrality, and that there is a belief that it is a slippery slope from net neutrality to deciding that they shouldn't have something like a favored provider status for anything that is packet-based.
Why don't you just rewrite it in X?
There are dialects but those dialects all use the same number of voices (one voice equals to one letter) so they can be expressed with the Cyrillic or the Latin script.

There are also regional accents but accents aren't different enough to pose any kind of problem when communicating.

Hell, even other language standards created from the Serbo-Croatian language aren't different enough to pose a problem when communicating. :)
This is why I donate. To me this is important. We already lost the library of Alexandria once (or multiple times really until its final destruction). Let's not have our hubris do that again.
I feel that the displays in the Pebble watches (ie Sharp's memory LCDs [1]) are a much better alternative to LCDs than e-ink. Their power consumption is in the uW range with more than 30fps refresh rate.

[1] https://www.sharpsma.com/products?sharpCategory=Memory%20LCD
> It is starting to feel more like an addiction than a fulfilling pursuit of life that will help me grow.

Exactly how I felt it. Addiction-driven development. I found a different purpose in life a few years ago (religiously inspired). I started investing time in other fields and in people, for example homeless people. The big (and not entirely unforeseen) disadvantage was that I felt that my knowledge was gradually aging, because I didn't keep up so well as before. This turned out not to be a problem after all, you don't need to be in the front lines all the time.
thus, chrome offering another option for consuming the content can be deemed as good usability.

It's not good usability to promote a function that was possible before but contrary to the terms of use and not widely used in practice, particularly in a way that misleads a significant number of users into thinking that it is now permitted use.

put up a paywall and switch to DASH.

That's exactly what a lot of sites have been doing for the past few months. Others have been going with full-on DRM. The open approach to the Web that you seem to value is dying in real time.

Unfortunately, that work meant wasting time and money updating infrastructure that could otherwise have been spent on providing more content. It meant dropping support for platforms that don't support the required technologies like MSE or EME, to the detriment of both users on those platforms and the site operators if they also lose some income. It meant removing the possibility of turning a blind eye to occasional downloads in cases like people wanting to watch something offline because they genuinely don't have a good enough Internet connection where they're going to be.

Exactly no-one won from this, and several groups have lost to varying degrees. How is this a good outcome, in any way?
> Or, they can, simply make both official and let the people decide like we did in Serbia centuries ago.

Not true. It wasn't decided centuries ago. But it was done in 1954. in order to distance Yugoslav communists from Stalin's USSR. In fact it was done to placate the US. In fact this move by Kazakhstan, where they are courting the favour of the West, was done by Serbia 63 years ago.

> Most nationalists or people aligned with Russian views use Cyrillic here and others use Latin.

This sentence alone makes it painfully obvious of how things are in Serbia: little countries aren't allowed to have history and its citizens self respect.

Ivo Andric put it well: "Prolonged slavery and bad rule, can confuse and distort the understanding of a people so that the common sense and their judgement weaken and become twisted. Such disturbed people can no longer distinguish good from evil, but their own benefit from the obvious harm."
Unlikely. The telcos will pounce to get the spectrum.
Basically, internal transactions (departments) cost less than external transactions (contracts).

It occurs to me that if we believe this, the USA as a country could make our entire economy more productive by making contracts less expensive. 5 seconds thought leads me to believe that "less expensive" might have a number of things involved, from simpler legal language that doesn't require a lawyer to understand, to a legal system that isn't set up to benefit lawyers, to less intellectual property restrictions, to a less adversarial legal system. Clearly much of this is impossible to implement.
Hasn't that effectively already occurred in the form of YouTube? A bit of curation is really all it would take to form a virtual TV station.
Sorry to ruin your hopes: any free spectrum will be consumed by wireless data transmission systems.
We keep getting "TV is dead/dying/will live forever" stories on HN.

tl;dr of all of them is essentially: TV, as a non-time-shifted non-live broadcast medium, is dead: Netflix et al, Youtube, Torrent, and at the very least, DVRs, killed it; people watch non-live content how they want, when they want, frequently choosing to just "Netflix binge" it.

TV, as a live broadcast medium (eg, emergency news), will never die in that sense: I can watch Presidential addresses via the White House's Youtube channel via Youtube's Live feature as well as many local OTA broadcast channels.

TV is both dead and will live forever depending on what you call TV.
> Amazon and eBay have this same problem, wherein they show you things similar to things you've already bought.

Which is especially silly when it's something you'd only buy once. "Oh, you bought a table saw? Why not fifteen more?!"
will be possible to make this entirely serverless with WebRTC P2P ?
> Should we move to a system where every scientist gives grant money away?

Who is this we who has the power to completely change the grant system?
I'm at 4-6 a day, which I don't consider to be an outrageous amount, at least I don't think I drink 'a lot of coffee'.

But I'm not kidding myself, I'm an addict. Not drinking any in the weekend causes pretty bad headaches.

Coffee to me gives the perfect "drug ambience": definitely there but easy to ignore... Pretty complicated stuff.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Who keeps changing the titles on HN threads? This is about the Dzhanibekov Effect (as the title used to say), not space stations!
>(Just the other day I was tweeting to the developer of an Electron app when I discovered that their simple chat app was linking to CoreMIDI on macOS - what exactly for?!)

Probable because Chrome does it and the developer has no control over this.
TTTM: a formally verified text adventure game
This all builds on the centralized DNS. I would not call that "ridiculously" decentralized. You can go further by p2p technology. Not that I believe that it would be a good idea.
AM is dead.

Listen to the ads, not the god awful programming sometime. There's only so many prostate pills to be sold... I don't think it's a real business anymore, IMO there are a few ultra conservative types supporting the whole thing.
Thanks for removing that! I'd be lying if your explanation didn't sound a little… Well hey, HN is always good for laughs.
I'm going to suggest that in my experience with both smaller and larger companies, management (from those managing grunts to C-level) have more of what they consider fun in a low-engagement company, and the low employee engagement is a symptom of management having their version of fun.
Something trunk-recorder does that sdrtrunk doesn't (appear) to do is work with multiple radios simultaneously. Each cheap SDR is only capable of receiving like 2MHz at a time, but if I combine like 6 of em I can cover most of the local trunked emergency radio system
Somewhat tangential, really glad people do this type of thing. I have an app (Scanner Radio) and I have it set to trigger an alert when a channel hits a predefined number of listeners, aka something bad going down.
Online tool to build of a stress-free ambience
Why people without Data Literacy skills will fall behind
Giving Back, by learning React
A site with nothing but static text content and yet it is completely unusable without Javascript.
ANYTRANS: A POWERFUL ALTERNATIVE TO ITUNES FOR WINDOWS AND MAC
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14116263 and marked it off-topic.
If you just shorted everything you'd come of pretty good on average.
At a normal 9-5 job this sort of thing would take at least a couple of weeks to complete and is therefore worth around $3000.
Several things strike me going down this memory lane:

1) How modern and responsive the UI behavior is.

2) How many subtle improvements there have been (e.g. the old Mac menu behavior that I liked I find annoying). No command-A for select all in MacWrite.

3) How screen updates I used to think were instantaneous decidedly were not. (That said, I couldn't trigger the "ultra slow update" mode and watch menus drawing one line of pixels at a time).

4) Copyright notices for third party companies in "Apple" software (e.g. MacWrite is copyright "Encore Systems".
When discussions get to this level they automatically don't belong on HN. Please don't, regardless of how wrong other people are.
How far back do you want to go? In the Bronze Age, Anatolia was mostly under the domain of the Hittites, which spoke an Anatolian branch of Indo-European. Following their collapse, Anatolia was inhabited by various other Indo-European peoples, such as Phrygians, Greeks, and Persians. It was the expansion of the Seljuk Turks that brought Turkish-speakers into Anatolia, and they became the dominant people over the next few centuries. The Mongols never really entered Anatolia--the Seljuks were vassals of the Ilkhanate, but Mongolian-speaking peoples didn't migrate into the region like the Turkic-speaking peoples did.

Further afield, the Central Asian steppes were apparently first settled by Indo-European languages of various branches (Iranian and Tocharian). Alexander the Great's conquest led to the establishment of Greek as a major upper-class language throughout Bactria although it doesn't appear to have transfused down to local populations. Turkic nomads started filtering in and pushing out/assimilating the extant Indo-European speakers in the 400s or so (long before the Mongol Empire).

As for traces of loanwords, yes, many Turkic languages incorporated Indo-European (particularly Iranian/Persian languages) of extant speakers into their language, much like how French incorporated Germanic elements into its language.
So much fun I had, thank you ;)
This is more than a quibble. It's a gaping hole in the idea.
But.. How do you remotely connect to your machines?
I recently deleted my Twitter account. Probably in the next few weeks, I'll log onto Facebook, request email addresses, and delete my account there too. Facebook has taken on too much of this "take over the world" corporate attitude.
Sorry, 2am haze. My point is that instead of accepting privacy as the answer to the discrimination issue, use the opportunity to make the case that this needs to be talked about. The post did part of the 'talking', but the conclusion negated this. I read it as 'we shouldn't be discriminated against, therefore let's not give them anything to discriminate against'. That's not how social change is brought about.
"fun"
Sure.

Still, NextCloud provides the most popular cloud stuff for non-techies: Storage like Dropbox and adressbook like Google/Apple.
>Even then, the mention is ambiguous, as how many people will recognize 'SHE' as a stock tracker rather than just a word with emphasis?

All people in this advert's target audience will. If not from the inscription then from the media buzz it has been generating.
Right. It's not a peer-reviewed, replicated, double-blind study using a large, stratified sample of the population of Earth, so it's meaningless.
Al Jazeera Investigations – Spy Merchants
Unfortunately the word 'poverty' here just doesn't mean the same thing at all. Most American's tagged as 'poor' or 'living in poverty' are pretty darn rich compared to global measurements of 'poverty'. Same word, different metrics.

Another confounding practice is that official US poverty statistics don't include many forms of government assistance. So a statement like '14% of American's live in poverty' is before this assistance. With this representation of data, you could give those 14% $10,000/month in government benefits and they would still be 'living in poverty'.

Here is a nice calculator you can play 'what if' measurement games with to see how it affects the poverty rate: http://uspovertydata.com/povcal/index.php
Sorry to tease, but it's amusing to me that you are technically competent enough to upload files to a data center, but don't know how to do the easier task of networking two computers (presumably) in the same room.

Seriously, though, if the computers are (or can be) on the same network, then there are dozens of ways to achieve this. The easiest is probably shared network directories, but there's also NFS, rsync, scp, FTP, etc. IF the machines are on different networks it can be a little more work, but still not hard.
One thing that the article gets wrong is the difference between brand advertising and direct response. Consumer products goods will always be about brand awareness and not direct targeting. It's the difference between what Snapchat is trying to do and what FB is trying to do. Coca Cola advertising is never going to be about running an ad an expecting someone to go on a website and buy a Coke right then. Neither is anything sold by companies like P&G.

Brand advertising is not about the level of targeting that FB is doing.
To be fair, a number of those operators are

> This is an infix alias for cons.
> This is an infix alias for snoc.
> A convenient infix (flipped) version of toListOf.
> An infix version of itoListOf.

And a lot of them are (<+~) and friends.
Meanwhile I use an original OLPC XO-1 as an e-reader. It has a beatiful 200 ppi color/transflective display. Such a shame that Pixel Qi is no more.
I don't disagree with any of that. However the point is it would be huge for the development community but a relatively small project for Facebook.

Would solidify platform lock in even further.
Interesting that this is done in-broswer; it looks like they're using Emscripten for emulation.
A monoid is a category, a category is a monad, a monad is a monoid
I think the grandparent is indeed confused, but just to be pedantic: OpenSSH used to use OpenSSL as it's library for cryptography primitives. Of course, it switched to LibreSSL when LibreSSL was forked from OpenSSL.
A Totoro to forecast the weather
The biggest issue is, even when you have clear signal conditions, even if you're dialed into a channel that is broadcasting HE-AACv2 (aka HE-ACC+ or eACC+) and your radio decodes it natively as HE-ACCv2... it's still a goddamned 128kbit or less stream.

Arguably, this is worse quality than ye olde FM on average. I mean, I could get behind a transition if they were using Opus instead of a nearly decade old hack of an even older codec... but they're not.

Thank God we're not making this mistake in the US, and digital radio in this form has been rejected: people instead are either adopting SiriusXM or phones+BT playing mixed online/offline content.

TBH I'd rather knock down all the US radio towers, reclaim all of the AM and FM radio space, and deploy 802.16? 802.11ah? something and provide low bandwidth but freeish Internet.
Everyone in the contact list didn't provide consent. Facebook better understands the privacy implications here more than individual users so I don't see anything wrong with placing most of the blame on Facebook.
Removing the web client of Netflix would hurt them a lot more than it'd hurt Google and Mozilla.

I really don't believe that without EME, Netflix would abandon their web client. They'd just keep using Flash, which I am fine with, since I don't use their web player anyway.

But of course, Google wants EME, so naturally they're going to push for forcing out Flash.

> EME, even in plugin form, is in many ways better in this regard, as you can put it in sandboxes with fewer privileges.

I can't imagine anything you could sandbox in EME that you couldn't sandbox in an external plugin system designed accordingly. EME itself are plugins. Just don't ship them with the browser and enabled by default. That would do a lot to stop the smaller sites from trying to use EME on their content.

Furthermore, EME brings in the DMCA, and the W3C won't make any strong claims about requiring researchers to be able to publish vulnerabilities.
I expected this to be an insightful post by Carmack about the current trends and concerns in the VR industry. It turned out to be what sounds like an entirely predictable review that could have been written by anyone with a bit of technical knowledge of a poorly designed VR app. Not very interesting. Don't really understand why this is getting so much attention.
News papers and radio stations still survive in their own niches, TV will be just fine.
A Technique for Producing Ideas
Somewhat OT but it should be more widely known that you can run NeXTSTEP on VMWare.

https://medium.com/@jmarhee/installing-nextstep-on-vmware-fu...

It's pretty creamy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1b3qgw-K4

a 9,7" netbook with an e-ink screen. Unfortunately not for sale yet AFAIK
Ask HN: How do you test if a market exists for your product?
A friend from college and I have been talking about starting a project, but are unsure if we're overly optimistic with how it would fit in the market today. I imagine there must be a better way than cold-call e-mails to network contacts and blind surveys in small pools to figure out the potential of our product.

What tools have you found useful to find product viability in the market? What techniques have worked and not worked for you personally?

- - -

The idea:

We'd like to host programming challenge events in tech companies to help foster feelings of ownership and creator culture. The events would be centered around writing AI against relatively simple games. Competitors would work on their AIs for a week before competing against one another. We'd organize and arrange logistics for the event as well as write the SDKs, games, and infrastructure.

A way to get the ball rolling would be to host events at colleges for free to iterate on the process and see what goes well. This will help us refine the core product as well as see what goes wrong -- but it doesn't help us discover the want for such a product before building it.
Seeing as Shanghai already has paid Di Modica for an edition of the bull installed on the Bund, seems unlikely they'd be interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bund_Bull
Center just means center of the rendered scene. I dunno how to explain it clearly, but just think of wherever you are looking at any moment.
You are dead on. The fight over net neutrality was always about video. Some of the early legislation proposed when the Democrats were running Congress was scarily (for the cable companies at least) close to forcing just the kind of "television unbundling" you describe. As you say, they're all packets in the end.
A python script to find windows systems compromised with DOUBLEPULSAR implant
Sorry I missed it from the list, I have more than a couple of times; latest try was spacemacs when I was starting into Elixir.

It has never clicked for me
The robot scabs are coming to take your jobs (Opinion)