skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both the Intercept and the Washington post have one thing in common, Bezos who received $600 million contract from the CIA:"Meanwhile, a petition campaign was launched related to news that Amazon, under the Post’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, recently secured a $600 million contract from the CIA. That’s at least twice what Bezos paid for the Post this year. Bezos recently disclosed that the company’s Web-services business is building a “private cloud” for the CIA to use for its data needs.

Critics charge that, at a minimum, the Post needs to disclose its CIA link whenever it reports on the agency. Over 15,000 have signed the petition this week hosted by RootsAction." http://www.hangthebankers.com/washington-post-owner-receives...
In practice I don't expect Congress will cease to borrow money on the credit of the United States, though I suppose in theory they could.
I don't see it as THE harbinger, but one of many. Some people will use it for the same reasons that they obfuscate things today. See, for example, the dropbox client. It's python, but they go to great lengths to keep you from peeking behind the kimono.

I understand WASM isn't reverse engineering proof, but it certainly raises the bar. Especially sans source maps.
I've been looking for this for a long while!
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> What success did the CIA have, ever?

* Operation Ivy Bells (joint with USN and NSA, according to Wikipedia)

* Stuxnet, possibly (unclear who was responsible for it, although it's generally thought to be joint US-Israeli effort)
The bully won't go away, but terrorism's purpose is to terrorize as many people as possible. By spreading the word about it, the media is essentially doing it a service - popularizing terror.

Did it ever occur to you that terrorism could be aided by your or other government, using the taxes you and others pay? The US is arming rebel factions in Syria now. We'll see how that turns out. They armed the Taliban with Stinger missiles during the Russian war in Afghanistan. The Taliban took over the country and then harboured Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda. US ally Saudi Arabia is sponsoring ISIS and sunni rebel groups in Yemen. Turkey also bought oil from ISIS. There's a huge scandal in the Middle East now due to Quatar allegedly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. Have tou ever heard the quote: state sponsored terrorism? All of this is done with taxpayer money.
It says open-source in the first half of the title.
Indeed. I work for an education company in Mexico. We target upper class schools and the distribution between iOS and Android is roughly 50/50 in our market.
I teach mathematics at a community college. The lecture resonated with me and I found it captivating. Here is a synopsis based off of memory:

Masur discovered that there is something called the Force Concepts Quiz. He learned that students of physics across the nation did very poorly on the test.

The test asks basic questions. For instance, a large truck and a small car collide head on. Which vehicle has more force imparted on it? This type of question requires no computations. It's easy if you really understand the concepts and hard otherwise.

He teaches at Harvard and thought his students would do well. They didn't. They did terribly. What he found is that regardless of the quality of the teacher (note he is a very good lecturer), type of class, or size of class students universally did bad. It didn't matter the quality of the institution either.

Conclusion, we are teaching physics wrong. He found that students who could do well on the Force Concepts Quiz could do tedious calculations and mastered that part of the course. Students who could master the calculus computations may or may not be able to pass the Force Concepts Quiz. Hence he decided to concentrate more on concepts and less on calculations. He does not lecture in the classroom.

In my own experience I've found similar things hold in mathematics. For instance, I ask College Algebra II students to give me an example of an equation that has no solution. Most can't do it even though 1=2 is a simple example of such an equation.
There is, it's called project tango and they have had development devices for sale for a while (probably a year or so).
Knowing that LLVM has a wasm backend ; could someone explain what role binaryen plays here?
Wow, that's a great story! College definitely isn't for everyone, and I'm hearing more and more of other people with stories just like yours.
If you were almost anywhere else, you'd have a much easier time finding .NET developers, but then there's the whole licensing can of worms (and .NET core isn't really a viable alternative at the moment).
Antisocial Computing (Stanford Seminar)
It's just a 3D videogame and pardon I guess I'm missing the point of an AR video game vs. just sitting down and playing a 360 degree video game?
4 Months of Android
There are:

30x500 (Amy Hoy)

Founder Cafe (Rob Walling)

Dynamite Circle (community by Dan Andrews and Ian Schoen of Tropical MBA)
You're right, I am legitimately confused. If there are no web standard video encodings, is it therefore wrong to say that "Google uses web standards for their video?" What exactly is Google doing better?
What does this have over Qualcomm's AR SDK (now Vuforia) that has been available on iOS since 2011 and on Android a few years longer?
Planned obsolescence is an interesting topic, but suffice it to say that while I do own a handful of decades-old appliances that still work, they did cost much more at the time. It also depends on the brand. Some will offer warranties at a premium. You have the choice, as a consumer.

Another question is: Do you really want to use the same appliance for decades?

The problem of the low-end worker who is stuck with an ever-shrinking amount of jobs with no career-prospects is, of course, very real. However, neoliberalism itself isn't to blame and leftist policy isn't the cure.
Source map is totally optional! It provides zero help in understanding asm.js or minified JS. I see what you're saying about binaries being opaque blobs, but I just don't see how that's different from asm.js or minified JS.

Kinda sounds like you're trolling pcwalton TBH:
https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/872151997473972224

I approve ;-)
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Really? Show me five Github projects where the main developer has said something like that at some point this year.
The monopolist ISPs that are regularly voted by far the most hated companies in the country are making plenty of money and doing just fine.

If you want to talk about antitrust action against the big 5, I'm absolutely with you -- they are monopolists and they need to be broken up. But your solution is to redistribute ultimate power back to the most hated monopolists in the country? Who have a physical monopoly, often enforced by law and physical reality, not because people of mindshare and some unpleasant anti competitive bundling?

The gilded age was worse than the 90s. Then 90s was not great, but we punished Microsoft and moved on to something better. The solution is NOT to return to the gilded age with ISPs as modern monopolist robber barons which is what removing NN does.

At this point, I'm glad the big 5 are ultra powerful -- they are the only entities with the power to support consumers (the government won't) if they choose to do so. And sometimes, they do. Amazon is, for example.
There have been AR libraries for years. Apple is pretty late to the game.

For example ARToolKit is available for Unity, or even Anddroid.

https://artoolkit.org/documentation/doku.php?id=6_Unity:unit...

Unless you are targeting a specific audience (for example artists that use the iPad Pro) for most developers it really doesn't make sense to confine yourself to iOS.
> But the essential point is that nobody can afford to ignore Android and building to iOS-specific APIs doesn't make sense.

For broad market maybe, but for niche markets a good example would be ForeFlight https://www.foreflight.com/products/foreflight-mobile/ It's pretty much the gold standard among pilots, from private to airline transport, and it's IOS only. Makes support and dealing with fragmentation a whole lot easier.
> "And people plan their lives through content that brands produce"

This sounds completely wrong to me...

However, I know I'm at least somewhat atypical in my spending habits & life planning, so it's hard for me to judge.
Yes. This area has quite a few private equity-owned companies. It's actually a fascinating space for buying a company, building it up, and then selling it to another company at a healthy markup.
Yes. I think it's a part of a software art to just build a no-bloat functionality and leave it like that for a long time.
You should be able to make a native plugin for Cordova or React Native.

NativeScript gives you access to native API automatically.
> The man could die.

People die all the time doing much more mundane things

> Is it for our amusement?

Awe and inspiration are the first ones that came to my mind actually. Nobody manipulated him to consider doing this since 2009. Rock climbing is clearly his life.

> You take someone, you give him sponsors, you make him think risking his life to make a living this way is his own choice? Between fame and money, and a life working as a clerk in some office ... what choice could there be.

I work with genius doctors every day at Google. Truly great people choose their lives, weather it's quietly solving problems in an office, or scaling massive cliffs without gear. People who aren't in control of their own lives tend to think other people's lives are out of control as well.

Just do what you love... Passing judgement at things we don't understand is such a waste of human potential
Both fumbled with opsec. But the Intercept considers themselves the pros.
You might also like "Bluegrass Soy Sauce".
A larger price tag ;)
I did a double take when I read the title. For a moment, I thought it must be parody.

When the actual content is already quite intriguing, an over the top clickbaitification like this becomes nausea inducing.
you could have taught george washington a few things about picking cherries
By the time ARKit is shipping, the A9 will be 2 years old, and there will be 3 generations of iOS devices supported (A9-A11).
AFB ?
What about "bag of wchar_t" doesn't preserve normalization? Or am I not sure what you're trying to say?

It's no more a "bag of code units" than Linux filesystems store a "bag of code units". Windows will barf back whatever wchar_t array you give it, just like Linux will barf back whatever char array you give it.
I understand source maps are optional...not getting the exclamation point. That's exactly my point, it's optional and therefore not much help.

Minified js isn't (so far) a barrier for me. Prettify and a short bit of debug clears things up. Chrome even helps[1]. I have not yet run into asm.js used for anything in my field.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/java...
I highly doubt that. The patent office has it's own problems as reported to HN.[1] I think the real 'fork in the road' is politics behind the scenes. I haven't read anything about the "MAGA" philosphy on American Innovation but I have heard of cuts to government funded programs like the EPA. So it's either going to get better because someone realized that innovation is they key to success(hopefully..please god...just something) or worse because it's viewed as another bureaucracy and thus cut to save money.

[1](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=patent%20problems&sort=byPopul...)
Not forcing us to use Safari
Are you accepting remote workers from Canada? Job posting on site does not indicate that.
Agree that ARKit is likely to be more successful than an Android equivalent - it's not just version fragmentation but also hardware capability fragmentation.

Not only is the install rate for the latest Android dramatically smaller than the latest iOS, but camera capabilities (and GPU horsepower to drive the AR itself) are all over the place, with no guarantee that the camera module in the phone will provide even a satisfactory experience, or that the GPU will be sufficiently capable.

Camera APIs on Android are also a complete jibbering mess, which adds to the difficulty of anything that seeks to work across all (or even most) devices.

One distinct iOS advantage isn't just that adoption of new versions is rapid, but also that hardware capability variance is low, so devs can be confident that their products work well, as opposed to barely working.
YouTube uses MPEG-DASH as its adaptive streaming protocol, which works over standard web protocols with royalty free codecs and containers, unlike HLS.

As for why there isn't a web standard video encoding and container, all the major browser vendors except one have announced support for VP9 and its successor and Webm.
> Run my own git server like the good 'ol days?

Isn't every git client a server? Since git is peer-peer, when GitHub is inaccessible we just merge back and forth (or just commit locally -- it's never been down for days).
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I believe Amazon uses commodity NICs + iptables in Dom0 (based on rumors). I have no idea what a custom ASIC would cost, but I think the Jupiter networking gear / Titan NIC that Google built are pretty advanced components that would cost more than commodity stuff.

In any case, the hardware components are fixed costs. What's not fixed is the cost of applying routing and segmentation rules for each packet. There are scarce resources involved here: the hardware has limited memory and limited cycles. You're paying for the use of those scarce resources (e.g., having a memory resident stateful firewall rule for a TCP session). Charging for bandwidth isn't perfect, but it probably correlates pretty closely with the underlying resources and is a much more intuitive unit-of-value for customers.
100% true - personally worked with ~40 software companies that fit this criteria.
Great list.

That's also what we're working on at http://nugget.one and I also think https://www.indiehackers.com is a great resource for inspiration.
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Purpose? Other then keeping consumer heads planted in the device? (The demo was neat, though)
That is interesting. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Finally, scientific proof that wandering barefoot is good for the soul.
The difference is that it was technically infeasible to run another browser on ChromeOS,
not policy infeasible. The technical infeasibility was recently removed. https://www.google.com/amp/www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/a...
You could die doing anything. It's his life to live and he shouldn't be restricted in how he wishes to live or die. And it's celebrated because it's a form of bravery not all of us have but many of us respect.
The entire premise of The Wire, according to Wikipedia.
I never said it was a smoking gun. I said it was evidence.
In some microbenchmark, for some large value of 'near'.
Apple’s HomePod is a cautious approach to the connected home
Their list: https://www.tesla.com/preowned?sort=price|asc

I guess the cars in the $30K's are sold.
See "Rework" by Basecamp
Nativescript-vue: Vue.js native mobile apps
Apple iOS 11 Release Has Three Nasty Surprises
Developers are to ARKit what merchants are to Apple Pay. Users wouldn't care about Apple Pay if merchants didn't take it as payment.
Bringing quant trading to a new market: Sports betting
If you want news, use RSS. Almost every news site is using it.
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And good for the Hookworm
I think the context is important. My comment was assuming a technical interview. It is implied in this context "how" means how it was implemented rather than how to use it. Otherwise the question would be phrased more explicitly "how to use db indexes to (optimize performance, etc.)

For instance if I were an auto repair shop owner asking a technician candidate "do you know how a small block ford work" I meant how the manifold, heads, rotary etc. fit together rather than how to drive a kick ass street rod (which is cool but not the skill I'm interviewing you for)
see now you're just splitting hairs and getting into philosophy. if your website will be stale tomorrow because you can't update it today, then that is a runtime dependency imo.
The only time that uptime would not give insight* into recovery time is if the service is not being regularly updated (remember, zero-downtime deployments should never affect your uptime numbers), then, the uptime numbers improve over time to something really impressive but go in the toilet once the shit hits the fan.

I hardly think it's reasonable to consider services like GitHub or infrastructure like AWS as being irregularly updated...
Teenagers don't work summer jobs for spectacular buying power, they usually work for experience. In most modern jobs, however, there's hardly any way an inexperienced part-time teenager can add value quantified at or above minimum wage levels.
Higgins' boats are well known. Hundreds of thousands of WWII vets rode in them, after all.

D-Day was a triumph of logistics and planning. Eisenhower, in overall charge, was a logistics guy, which was exactly what was needed. D-Day was just the beginning of the invasion. The purpose of D-Day was to establish beachheads through which larger armies could be landed and then supported. The support function was key. Without extensive logistic support, the heroics necessary to force a hostile landing were pointless. The Dieppe and Dunkirk failures had clearly established this.
Eisenhower delayed D-Day until huge support resources had been built up.

There were Higgins boats, in both infantry and tank sizes. There were Dual Drive tanks, Sherman tanks which could float, sort of, for a short while. (Many didn't make it to the beach, but those that did meant the troops had armor on their side.) There were "Hobart's Funnies", tanks with strange attachments to flail their way through minefields and barbed wire. There were the Mulberry temporary ports, sections floated over and sunk to create jetties to which cargo ships could dock and unload. Fuel pipelines were unrolled across the English channel to carry fuel in bulk.

In the later stages of the invasion, more and more support resources were ferried over and deployed. This included multiple mobile Coca-Cola bottling plants and mobile bakeries.

Eisenhower wrote that the conquest of Europe pretty much followed his original plan. Probably the greatest triumph of the waterfall method, ever.
Upvoting for the title alone. Beautiful!
> There aren't any battleships in the navy anymore, are there?

That's correct. To your earlier point :), post-Cold War consensus is that the traditional battleship should be replaced by destroyers with modern targeting capabilities.

So the US Navy is somewhat in between ships for naval gunfire support.

The Zumwalt-class destroyers [1] were supposed to take over here but that's been a bit of boondoggle.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer
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There was a thesis on this a year ago:

http://incolumitas.com/2016/06/08/typosquatting-package-mana...

After the "left pad" debacle, npm provided protection from typosquatting a deleted module:

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm
It varies with length of the connection, if it's short fire it up to 1 mbps or higher. Your speed gets lower as distance gets further
Portraits of Imaginary People
The Monday Morning Macro – June 5
> high-quality employment enabled by a skill set provided by the university

Neither YC nor a university are in the business of particularly providing such a thing. They provide a stamp of approval, aka vetting, which is what gets you the job. That you survive it, learn very minimalist skills, graduate and get that piece of paper in theory increases the odds that you possess such and such personal qualities. From there, the overwhelming majority of what you will need for your career, will be learned post-university. The university isn't doing much more than vouching that you represent at least a baseline, ideally according to / in-line with the university reputation.

In the case of YC, their stamp of approval is what gets you the big money. They vet you. They do not make you a great hacker or leader, or give you those skills, you have to do almost all of that yourself. The best they can do is sometimes point you in the right direction and offer occasional help.
this is why open-source printers are so essential.
NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney Reddit AMA
Faking 'wokeness': how advertising targets millennial liberals for profit
What happened to the time when KDE was respected as a beautiful DE?
I've been on HN for years and I had to look it up. I think it's the wrong metaphor.
:) well the nice thing about Arch is that Arch doesn't tell you what you can and can't install on your system...that is pretty much entirely up to the user.
"Monica says hi!"
We used to have that back in the day. It was called...installing, I think it was? Then the app...'program'? That was It! Program! Ran at native speed.

Amazing how we ever got anything done without carting around an entire browser as an attack surface.
Climate Change? Technology Has to Take Charge, Not Governments
I don't think smoking is a fair analogy. Free climbing is an awe inspiring sport, while smoking is a deadly and addictive habit with zero advantages whatsoever.

I first read about free climbing in an issue of National Geographic almost a decade ago. I never once recall thinking that it was "stupid": on the contrary, it quickly jumped up my list of interesting sports (below chess boxing).
I've managed to get kubernetes up and running on Azure but stuck besides that on what the next steps are

Anyone have resources they'd like to share for me to pick up the basic requirements to get a docker stack up?

Up to now I've used docker compose
The 5 Key Elements of a Strategic Plan
Yeah, I got pretty happy with my dual wan setup with Tomato (240/20MB DOCSIS & 90/30MB VDSL) but had to disable IPV6 PD from the DOCSIS provider so the balancing and failover works properly.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE BODY OF PATRICE LUMUMBA WITHOUT BURIAL
Google CSE seems like the most fitting solution, which appears to do pretty much the same thing as the article, but without all the hackery nonsense:

Step 1 - Setup a CSE to search entire web:
https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/2631040?hl=en

Step 2 - Use the CSE API:
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/over...
I can feel my blood pressure rising...
That is a rough story. I hope things improve for you.

Those who support the war on drugs should think about his point:

>...Was this the outcome society wants me to have? To wreck what small success I struggled to get over what amounted to an illegal search and seizure (that's my PD talking, not me)?
Who was the victim of my "crime"? ...

The war on drugs is just a war on people.
Snowden's leaks didn't reveal somewhat of a conspiracy? Was that behavior not both secret and unconstitutional?
Internal has always been much less reliable for me as well, the difference is it's generally unreliable outside of office hours when I don't care, hosted services often go down in the middle of my workday, which is the middle of the night in America coincidentally.
Open source won't keep your data confidential by itself. Are they going to port it to run offline, or exclusively sync via encrypted blobs?

It's not the technology, it's the philosophy.
The ones we've never heard about, which would be the highest form of success?
> This is why storing everything on everyone is a terrible idea.

Perhaps we need to embrace the Panopticon instead of resisting it.

Really store everything on everyone and make it _available_ to _everyone_ instead of the privileged few.

Make only one rule on access control: it is forbidden to refuse access.

Edit: on -> one
It's great because it does away with convenient touch controls and adds the fun of filming a table with an iPad.