skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if Mitch Kapor haven't siphoned tons of money into a BS open source calendaring app that was doomed from the start, but into a useful open source cross platform UI toolkit (and that's not Qt).
Veblen goods aren't supposed to go up in price as supplies increase. See the graph in https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-18/maine-is-...
South Africa, 1948-1991

Far more blacks died to state (or any other) violence during free democratic South Africa than during apartheid South Africa. It is simply dishonest to categorise apartheid South Africa with Nazi Germany.
Are there any projects out there that use AI/ML/DL to speed up CFD simulations?
This is the wrong place for this debate, but "math" is an abbreviation of "mathematics". Why would you take the end of a word you are abbreviating and add it to your abbreviation? I'll add that "mathematics" is a singular noun.
Edit: Removed needless flippancy.

Do you consider somebody who demands they put their chainsaw trousers on first inept and unsafe? What about people who don't disable/remove their chainsaw brakes?

Trained operators are the ultimate safety feature, right? And these features actually weigh you down.

These innovations were obviously warmly welcomed by arboriculturalists. Why do so many woodworkers think they're beyond the need of similar precautions? Hell, half of you seem to think riving knives and guards were sent by the devil.

And a chainsaw voltage loop could work but you'd need to make the loop through the operator, not to earth. You'd need to make conductive gloves and generate a voltage and trigger the brake. All possible, isn't it... but more weight.
Uhm I don't think xerub disclosed how he got the key, but Apple will probably look into that now for future SEP devices/firmware updates. Not an expert on this but as far as I can tell that wouldn't really make the disclosure of the decryption key itself more or less "responsible".

Also, people would still be able to decrypt the firmware even if the decryption key (or how to retrieve it) was publicly disclosed at a later time. Apple can't release a fix for this retroactively.
Corporate IT - which is now it's own behemoth in most modern organizations. IMHO it's actively preventing any work getting done. There are tons of startups that are meeting this need (generally referred to as "dark IT" or "shadow IT").

More power to you if you find yourself actually meeting business needs over the company's own internal programmers and systems folks.

I am, of course, trying to effect change from within the org I am employed by.
Trello got so mature, has a great API, is well integrated with Zapier and hundreds of other services AND is free (I still don't know why one should get into the paid plan, even witn bigger teams, the free version is torally fine) that it must be super hard for any clone or competitor to win users.
>People weren't writing cross-platform desktop apps before Electron.

Perhaps you weren't there, but they did. By the tons.

Heck, take something like Sublime Text, that pisses on Atom on all performance metrics, and is coded by a SINGLE person for 3 platforms.
Spending more money on AWS services than we'd spend hosting them ourselves, spending more time beating our head against insufficient documentation of proprietary Amazon services and wrappers compared to their corresponding open source technologies, spending more time debugging and on general uncertainty, spending more time waiting for responses from another company, having to stop what we're doing and handle backward incompatibility on Amazon's schedule instead of our own, spending more developer hours and fewer sysadmin hours on managing and debugging services instead of more sysadmin hours and fewer developer hours on our own services. (Developer hours are more costly and scarce.)
In my opinion, it's telling that the Tor Project has decided to post about this.

It's an open secret -- in other words, not even a secret -- that Tor and various other darknet and overlay networks contain, among other kinds of material, content that has been driven underground because of the risks it presents to its promulgators on the aboveground net. Depictions of actual child sex abuse, one of the most widely condemned sorts of material in a way that's nearly universal across societies, has been present on Tor-reachable hidden services for years, and the Tor Project seldom writes about this; it's simply accepted as a risk of the style of technology, much to the chagrin and moral unease of people everwhere.

Clearly they are addressing a recent development about a particular website, with relevance to the United States and its current struggle that was brought to forefront in the past week. The Project sought to publicize their stance to leave no doubts, but was this not something that ought to have been abundantly clear to a sufficiently objective observer? Doesn't the fact that a US nonprofit tending to a piece of networking software decides to weigh in on the matter of a single hidden service currently in the spotlight reveal something troubling about the pressures of public opinion in the US today?
Sure, but my point is that if you just don't have the resources to develop natively, Electron may allow you to "go to war" when you otherwise couldn't.
DebConf 17: Flatpak and Debian
Interesting! You could probably do it by using the key of an existing admin to decrypt the escrow key and then reencrypt it with the public key of the new admin, all client-side.
How did we find the speed of light?
genius, we just need to send airlocks.
That parking lot comment has to be one of the best characterizations of American downtown areas I've heard. Well said.
> The world is not what it was 70 years ago.

Indeed, it is worse in many respects, better in others.

For instance: 70 years ago it took a couple of days to organize something involving ten thousand people. Now you can do that in 10 minutes with a social media post in the right spot.

> Today when a genocide happens somewhere on Earth the UN quickly intervenes.

You do realize that the largest participant in such peacekeeping missions has decided to abdicate?

> The US is not some weak-ass state like Germany was in the 30s

You are significantly under-estimating the strength of pre-war Germany in spite of having been beaten in World War I. In fact, you could easily argue that it was specifically this kind of under-estimation that directly led to World War II.

> even if Trump would order some sort of genocide today it would quickly be blocked at many levels.

It would never play out like that. Trump is not going to order some sort of genocide directly. He'll simply stand aside while others do the dirty work and he'll lament at how terrible it is that they are resisting causing violence on both sides.

One of my theories about why the GOP does not want to throw Trump out is that they are - rightfully - scared of what kind of backlash that will cause and that they hope against hope that they will be voted out in 2018 so others will be seen as responsible for throwing the lit fuse into the armory.
It's off topic, but how is sway? I have an old netbook with an Intel i3 processor, which I'm setting up with arch (because it's the only thing that the computer can support, thanks to the blatant neglect of efficiency from the ideas of this article). Think it's worth a shot?
> * Inadequate training and expectation devs can just piggy back learning technology x from scratch whilst writing production software using it

Yeah that's funny, believe it or not - I prefer the exact opposite. At my last jobs I had a hard time diving into new technologies unless I knew them completely. Thus I think synchronization is an important thing...
Image hosting is easy, if you don't care about losing money. As long as you provide direct links to images, you're better than everybody else.

Video hosting? You need a good player (nothing will ever top YouTube's) and a good CDN. That's a tough nut to crack. Especially for a company with no money.
New York is also surrounded by New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island, Westchester, etc., etc., etc., and people commute into the city with reasonable travel times.
It's like they took the advice of some business reality show, tell a story. Doesn't work well with a technical crowd.
Yes, but that box is oh so hard to check. ;)
Open Source Deep Learning on AMD and Beyond
I think it's obvious why they're doing this - accessibility. In moving r/all to r/popular, image hosting, removing default subs, and now this, they're trying to cater to more people.

Four years ago I joined reddit, tried it out for about 2 hours, and quit. I couldn't get past the (admittedly small) learning curve (especially acronyms: ITT, OP, TIL, etc). Two years ago I joined it for real after putting in an hour to learn what everything was.

Reddit is an amazing site, it's just kind of hard to get into it. By hosting their own video, they make it easier for new users.
Major Bitcoin-to-bank payment processor releases protocol,consensus trojan horse
She presumably provides a service to those in the area where she works. Whether she makes sandwiches or gives life advice, the price paid by the consumers of her service should be somewhat correlated with the cost of living in the area.
In the article she can work from home some days a week (I know for feds in DC, it's mandatory 5 days out of 10, so maybe at least that many for her) and she has a government job which (for many in the non-tech, non-startup world) is the Holy Grail of jobs- incredibly stable, great benefits, pension, etc. She's 61, so in her mind the trade-off might be worth it if she plans on retiring at 65 (and perhaps even earlier if she's got a ton of time in her PTO bank). Coming at the angle of a young tech person raising a family, the trade-off might not be worth it, but for an older person with retirement coming soon, the priorities are different.
Very intersting, I might give the solution another go in the future. Still, at this pace it will take them a long time until they are on par with a "normal" e-mail solution (it might be worth the trouble though).
Do you pay reviewers? How much ?per review/hour, how's that work?
Can you think of a Qt or, heaven help you, Xamarin-whatever based app that is really that much strikingly better than something like VS Code, as user interface and experience? OS X app, to narrow it down a little. I can't.
What kind of security updates actually worry you though? Not trying to sound snarky, but do you install sketchy apps regularly? What are examples of actual threats are you trying to protect against? If you install untrusted apps regularly I could see why, but if not then what attack vector are you worried about? Are you worried about a WiFi attack in a coffee shop for example?
It's not about who died it is about why people died.

Your argument is roughly analogous to people saying that Hitler had the trains running on time.

Sure under apartheid there was less overt violence and you could easily argue that South Africa was safer and altogether a better place to live back then than it is today. But that would be entirely missing the point of why Apartheid is wrong.
The main issue I have with the article is that it invalidates all attempts at efficiency because the author's computer can run the apps, and future computers can run the apps. That excludes a vast percentage of the consumer market, while excusing bad developer behavior that barely keeps up with the pace of technological development.
Most Android phones use Qualcomm chips, so if Qualcomm doesn't provide long term support. Neither does any company that uses their chips.
I read your comment first, but then when I got to the page it took me about ten seconds to figure it out. Ouch!
~95k inc. bonus. Good healthcare, paternity leave, etc.
Reddit doesn't universally prohibit NSFW content, and already has to remove links to it or assure that it is properly flagged, depending on the particular sub, so I don't think the NSFW side really changes things.

In the copyright side, hosting vs. linking has both similar risks and similar DMCA protections around user generated content, so while they'll probably have a higher volume of complaints when they are both the link venue and the source host, I don't think that fundamentally changes anything, either.
I don't see how you plan on targeting diversity within AI by hosting classes in a concrete location (that too in the US). You want diversity? Send your employees abroad to 3rd world countries. I lead a university society in Pakistan that focuses on raising awareness and expertise in AI. We're in dire need of mentors and experts.
Ironic that your blog needs javascript to display a page.
I'm glad you survived the assault, but I am curious: he robbed you but didn't steal your laptop? Was it too cheap for his taste?
the thing is where does it end, once cencorship started ..
(Reached maxdepth) the pixel 2 is likely coming out in a few months. From https://fi.google.com/about/faq/#supported-devices : """
Why is Project Fi only available on the Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6, and Pixel devices?
These devices are the first smartphones that support our network of networks. They work with the Project Fi SIM card, which supports multiple cellular networks, and have a state-of-the-art cellular radio tuned to work across network types.
"""

The first part about SIM support seems much more relevant than the second part about their state-of-the-art radios. The Nexus 6 came out in November 2014. Carrier oligopolies are the reason for this as far as I can tell.
Ah I saw laptop and assumed normal laptop use.

I just put together a home server, I need to get a power meter and see what it's using.
Trello has been super stagnant for years. It's a dying product.
No swim-lanes, no nested boards, No proper time-stamps. All basic features on several of the competitors.
>Why has nobody done this?

You're vastly underestimating how bad rush hour traffic is. Also, the longer the bus is on the road the more likely it will be to be in it. Then you run into the same problem where you're getting a 5am bus for a 9am job even though it's only a 1hr drive on paper
Why do you want to selfhost Trello? Are you afraid that somebody at Trello might steal your secret cards, todos, specs, etc. and sells them?

I know self hosting is actually better but it is also work and is the typical information which people put on Trello confidential enough to justify self hosting? IDK and again Trello is free.
I think there's a certain psychic load to working at a mission-driven organization. Who are you working for? The mission? Who's interpretation of the mission? Your manager? The company? Yourself? And then at times when you don't feel like you are living up to your potential, or opportunity, or expectations, then there's a tendency to internalize that. Having internalized it, it can color how you look at the organization (and everything else), usually with general distaste and resentment.

Anyway, that's happened to me at times, and I've seen it happen to other people. I think the dynamics this creates inform a lot of the Glassdoor reviews. I think it's emotionally easier if you have a transactional job: the company pays you, you do something that makes the company money, or at least do what your boss says to do. The pros and cons of emotional detachment are beyond the scope of this comment.

Financially Mozilla is doing fine, and probably will continue doing fine. It's not on my list of worries.
The trend over the last few years is to work locally and push changes through git.

Working remotely on a server gives you cloud abilities because you can easily switch devices and continue working.

Having a cloud service provide the gui or editor is an option available now. But to have a local editor with ssh means you can work on your phone using a proper mobile editor you can run a full ide on your desktop or use vim directly on the server.

The security and privacy of your code remains in your hands. Best of all worlds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11:_The_Big_Lie

That one? You're joking, right?
Access to clean water...
> Thanks for this! I'll try to reproduce it!

Please do :-)! The butter by itself is quite tasty; more tangy than store-bought butter and delicious when whipped with powdered sugar then spread on bread.

> it needs to have a particular Lactobacillus profile, which is not traditionally available in India

Sorry, do you have a source for this? I was unable to find anything. I don't think it would've been too difficult for yogurt cultures to diffuse gradually from Bulgaria to India in ancient times. There were plenty of traders and conquering armies going back and forth. Yogurt has been in India for thousands of years.

With regard to yogurt cultures used in India, I only found the following: "In India, a combination of "Lactobacillus bulgaricus" and "Streptococcus thermophilus" is used for commercial production." [1]

[1] http://www.indiacurry.com/faqmilk/mfaqdahichemistery.htm
Posting this again.

"The left is just as dangerous as the right"... yawn

Thanks iberte82
These days you can find a first-gen Chromebook Pixel for about $300 or so:

https://swappa.com/buy/google-chromebook-pixel-1st-gen-lte-u...

If you don't mind that it's four years old at this point, it was by far the best Chromebook I ever used, and my girlfriend is still using it as her daily driver (I gave it to her because I thought it was too nice a piece of equipment to gather dust in a drawer).
I've been wondering, is there some service that runs an SSH proxy that will automatically spin up a machine when I try to connect, and automatically spin it down after some idle period?
Visual Studio Code is not written by "developers who previously wouldn't have the been able to do it" but by highly expert developers at Microsoft, paid full time for that.

Amateurs can and do write plugins for it of course, mainly because JS is easy and popular and with huge already existing npm libs to leverage.

But take something like Sublime Text, coded by a single person, multiplatform, with tons of plugins too (though less, since it depends on Python), and with very fast performance.

An ST that had a few more hands, and a few more exposed UI controls for plugins would absolutely trump VSCode in all aspects -- especially if it embedded V8 for JS plugins to work there too (not Chrome/Blink/Electron: just the JS engine like it does with Python).
It's likely that many people who claim to "know what net neutrality is" don't actually understand it. Perhaps the 72% is simply honest.

Is every packet equal?
I have a 2016 16gb mbp and I cannot run two Ubuntu vms, chrome and Slack in 4 teams all at the same time. It is slow and even opens the OOM killer from time to time. And you can forget linking a large project when Slack is open, even with gold.
I'm just happy to see youtube and facebook get some video competition.
"your phone will always be secure and have the latest features."

Until 2 years passes...Apple supports their devices much longer than 2 years.
Well, the guy founded Android so it would be interesting to know what he has to say.
The findings begin at https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/08/libsodium...
What did you lose in the robbery? What city was this in?
Actually, I really wonder why it doesn't work that way in the US.

I worked for an ISP company that grew from a tiny startup, connecting just a few buildings, to a successful ISP that covered a significant part (almost all, I believe) of small (200K) city in Russia.

I haven't really interacted much with our network builders department (worked on software, and left the company some years ago, moving to another city), but IIRC in overall it worked like this - people found our offers interesting and signed up to get their buildings/apartments connected. We chose new addresses we were able to physically reach, got the approval from the building owners and the city, and laid down the wires, extending the network's frontiers.

We laid our own fiber (or, sometimes, copper) and used wireless bridges whenever we weren't able to reach otherwise. We had also leased fiber from other companies (there are companies here that have business just by providing underlying infrastructure but not offering the Internet connectivity). It's not like adding an extra fiber to an existing conduit is comparable to installing a new sewer line.

In the end, having 4-5 actually different ISPs in a building - usually all with their own lines - was (still is) a norm where I had lived. Competing offerings drove prices down, and bad behavior (sans the state-mandated ones) were mostly non-existent.

What's so different in the US, that even Google had failed?
War in Iraq was absolutely a nonsense response to 9/11.

At the same time, the ghosts of 6 million dead Jews and untold numbers of dead allied soldiers would like a word with you about whether or not they died in vain or if we maybe did learn a lesson.
I don't know... if you're an 80s girl who got into computers despite lots of girls not getting into computers perhaps your experiences, and the hurdles you faced, are actually more interesting and relevant than the more "typical" answers.
If you want to do Kanban right, double down on making it possible to design actual Kanban workflows. Pretty ticket UI with checklists and GIFs must be secondary to this goal.

Things that most actual Kanban flows have that no one has built into a decent product[0]:

- Nested columns in lanes
- Rows for class-of-service
- WIP limits (per lane, per column, and per class-of-service)
- Sub-boards for meta issues

The actual content of each work item is the least important part of Kanban; it could be a hyperlink for all I care. Kanban is about managing the flow, not managing the work.

[0] Please prove me wrong if there is such a product out there!
Running Atom on my machine seems to use maybe 600MB with a project open, am I missing something?
Cryptos in 3 Mins – Monero and Ring Signatures
When exploring lisp, did you have a chance to play with Clojure?
Since when did saying that we should stop violent racists become a political thing?
How does an embedded YouTube video (the status quo) make the Reddit experience less accessible for new users? Chances are, reddit's implementation will be significantly worse than embedded YouTube videos. If anything will create confusion for new users, it's having both YouTube embeds and Reddit videos on the same page. Nobody who is new to Reddit is unfamiliar with the YouTube player, but is definitely unfamiliar with any custom Reddit player.

EDIT: Point taken, I can see how this makes it easier for users to upload content to Reddit (especially original content, e.g. from a phone camera roll) without jumping through YouTube hoops.
If you're unconscious, the only contact that needs to be called is emergency services.
People say roughly the same thing about Tor that they used to say about the printing press: bad people can use it to spread seditious lies, pornography, anonymous accusations against upright people. I suppose the defenses are about the same, too.
I'd argue that stress tolerance affects both ability and interest. If you're averse to stressful environments, then you're going to be less interested in working in such an environment.

Of course, even people who tend to avoid stressful environments are still capable of high performance in such environments. That doesn't make such environments any more attractive.

For reference, the stressfulness of certain tech environments has been cited (or at least I think it has; I'm on my phone on my lunch break, so pardon my lack of URLs) as one of the factors behind the underrepresentation of women in technical fields. Even things like long and unpredictable work hours can (I would guess) have a chilling effect on working moms (and dads, but there's arguably less social/cultural pressure there, at least here in the US) wanting to actually spend time with their families.
LinOTP: Open Source OTP Identity Management, Authentication Back End
Tell me which video site has a rich and persistent community? Some youtube channels are less terrible than others, but none of them feel like community to me.