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USB Type-C Computing Devices Soar, Vendors Pressured for Accessories
It's nice to see this covered by The NY Times.

Cell phone account security issues are among my top personal "getting hacked" fears.
Apt-key should just have a built-in way of importing keys from HTTP(s) URLs, preferably in interactive mode so you can confirm the keys are legitimate before adding them.
Try doing that behind a corporate proxy. If `apt-key` just fails there is no way to enable logging.

It also apparently works by generating a bash script in /tmp/ and executing it...
Thank goodness we are still able to make the case. The only alternative to free speech is violence. I want to be able to hear what the alt-right has to say, what Islamic extremists have to say, what misogynists have to say, etc.
I think the author is wondering why everyone is not a creator or making an effort at becoming one. IMO the world is never meant to be a place exclusively for creators.

> And the smaller part creating for someone else to make money to continue to consumer what someone else is creating.

So, unbeknownst to yourself, you’re saying the world belongs to someone else, not the creators, and this contradicts with the title of your blog post. Moreover, on one’s own, one cannot create all things that one wants or needs to consume. It would be supernatural. Since time immemorial, people have been creating things for others to consume and consuming what others have been creating. The world is fueled by mutual reliance.

> Why is this an issue?

It’s not unusual for people in marketing to create an issue out of nowhere :)
Anybody have a link to the actual company? I also think they've missed the key use for this. Modelling traffic movements through a space.

Many villages/residential areas suffer from speeding and rat running, but getting a local authority to take you seriously or even get the local police to 'visit' the speeders and have a word is hard to make happen.

Community speed watch using ANPR cameras to create an average speed monitored area is HUGE. Even working out people that are using the one way road systems incorrectly helps.

This has huge application across multiple resident associations. To achieve this you need to be able to time synch, know the location of each camera, the shortest 'route' between each camera, and the ability to 'network' each camera.

Where do I invest? Hell I have 16 residents associations that would bite your hands off to get their hands on a cheap traffic profiling system.
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Still got Google Analytics on the page.

I do not feel that reporting every online interaction I have with my government in the UK, back to a huge corporate in the US, is in any way appropriate. But I can't even get anyone to engage on the issue.

When I tried to raise it I got directed to a helpdesk ticket on a site run by an SV helpdesk-as-a-service company.

I appreciate that gov.uk have done some great stuff getting the UK government online, and their designs and Open Source attitude are refreshing, but this is a a serious privacy issue.
Two in particular.

1. Cramming https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/t-mobile-gives-u...

2. They had a "free for life" 200MB? data plan for the Nexus 7 tablet kept billing me every month. It was a monthly ritual for about six months. Call, explain, get adjusted.
Doesn't that happen very often, that people work on such services?

I'm part of a small team that works on portier[0], which is what one could see as open source alternative to Auth0 (it's not the same thing, and it is more inspired by Mozilla Persona, but close enough). It's a service, as we run a broker online for everyone who wants using it, and the whole concept is having self-hostable brokers that handle the login of users (via email or Openid).

But: While that broker has a proper and simple API one can use to use the service with every language, it is still so much easier to just include a library/module that does that for you. Interpreting the jwt, fetching the jwk to check the signature, packing the request to the broker properly. We currently have one for Python, node, php and ruby/sinatra. They are not all at the same level, the one for sinatra does almost all the work for you, while the the python library is more a set of helpers.

And I don't think that's something weird we're doing, look at services like stripe or superfeedr, they all have language specific libraries to make calling their web part easier.

So what I'm saying: If you run a service that targets devs you might still end up writing language-specific libraries. And I don' think there is much keeping language-agnostic services from happening, as there are a lot of them.

Edit: Though open source there is less, right. I think that's a mixture of the skills you need (having a proper server online and programming the software, not every team can both), the popularity of self-hosting in that community, and that it might cost money to run the online service.

[0]: https://portier.github.io/
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Ask HN: Photo manager for Dropbox
Hello everyone!

Dropbox Carousel has been shutted down and I want something to manage and view my Dropbox photos. Ideally it should be something like Picasa but for web. With ability to tag images and create albums.

Does anyone know a good solution?
In my experience there is only little money to be made in scientific software. Perhaps it depends on the field (I worked in design-automation for electronic circuits). Scientists often have difficult budgets (depend on funding), and they often expect software to be free (it's not budgeted for). I'm curious about the experience of others.

PS: I couldn't read the article, presumably because of some anti-adblocker mechanism.
There are various levels of trust, of course. The packages in Debian or RedHat are more trustworthy (there is a process) than those in NPM or Maven (free-for-all, even if you have some assurance that the package you're downloading is the very same the developer uploaded).

But installing a random NPM package is no more dangerous than curl-piping a script from Github to bash over HTTPS (without -k). You're still sure that what you're downloading and running is what whoever is in control of that repo intended.

What IS more dangerous is training a generation of developers to solve problems by quickly copy-pasting random strangers' magic incantations from random blogs or Stackoverflow into their terminals. You could probably infect a large number of machines very quickly by stalking certain categories on Stackoverflow for "noob" questions and giving a good answer in the form of a GitHub gist curl-pipe to sudo that fixes the problem, but that also discreetly backdoors the target.
I'm reminded of the Judge Dredd comics, where automated two-lane mega-RVs are an established part of the setting, complete with a subculture of people who have psychological problems if they live somewhere that's not moving most of the time.
> The eBay of old is effectively dead. ... The days of great deals on items are pretty much gone.

Were they ever there? Back when I could be bothered regularly dealing with the irritation farm that is eBay I found that buyers tended to pay a little over the odds. Both when I was selling or trying to buy.
Dealing with IPv6 fragmentation in the DNS
I'd love to report this but don't see a report button, probably because I am still a new user.

So if anyone reads this please report this SPAM submission, or tell me where to find the report function.

Cheers, and have a great day!
All true, but what does that tell us about any solutions to slow or non-existant updates and fragmentation? What are some of the thousands of solutions? Or are you saying that there never was a problem in the first place?
Agreed, miscommunication was a serious problem with them. See https://www.fastcodesign.com/90125701/googles-18-month-quest...
It seems like CCTV is just not used at all in US - I haven't noticed any. Maybe it's because there's no good infrastructure for it. Flock's stuff seems to be wireless and solar-powered(?), and sounds like in general very affordable. Guessing price point matters. The folks who have $$, probably have security gates installed.
Found them http://www.flocksafety.com/
Linked from that: "Nearly two million adults in the UK do not have a bank account"

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31830117
Huh, I see, thanks for mentioning this! I'll have to let people know to watch out...
twenty miles per gallon in a RV? Only on class B (van conversions) and even then a limited subset of small ones. I certainly would not want to do a 12k trip in one. Throw in that you only save over hotels if you don't stop anywhere because many campgrounds can be nearly half the price of a hotel if not similar depending on time of year.

then lets throw in reliability. there is so much more to break and none of it cheap to fix as outside of appliances most of it is unique to the manufacturer.

Class A (the big boys) are also a whole different world than B and C which are based on vehicles which have crash test regulation and protection. Class A and many Class C are sub 10 miles per gallon.

self driving long distance trucking is where its at. companies can absorb the cost much easier than individuals. as for the comment about liability, yeah I don't expect level 5 any time soon and even level 4 as an option.
I don't want to sound rude but there isn't anything substantial in this article - the author just found a way to extract the firmware image and mount the Linux filesystem that's in it. No actual exploits or reverse-engineering of the device's software itself.
I haven't heard liberals talk too much about legalizing all drugs. Clinton in the 90s started the whole tough on crime, 3 strikes you're out, crusade. I am against the minimum wage - I think it skews supply and demand and contorts the free market -- but I do believe in the basic income for people who work in the form of an expansion of the earned income tax credit.
For which reason I refuse to run Electron applications. My battery life is poor enough as it is.
I'm happy to see that they are using GNU Guix: https://github.com/alphagov?q=guix
I agree with you but as a 'old' developer, I find it pretty sad that you have to fire up a headless browser + its gigaton of code, to convert a SVG to PNG. But I agree with you, headless chrome can be very useful.
GDS’s GA Premium account contractually prevents Google from investigating the data, and Google self-anonymises with a flag in their API[1]. If you don’t trust them then that’s fine, but for functionality vs cost it seems to be the best option.

For what it’s worth, for extremely sensitive projects like GOV.UK Verify other options are fine; Verify uses a local Piwik instance.

You’re also welcome to block that specific JS or just turn off JS completely on GOV.UK properties - everything has to work without JS to go live on GOV.UK.[2]

[1] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en

[2] https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressi...
I think a bigger paradigm shift is going to happen with off-gridding in California with tiny houses and also RVs.

There's a perfect storm of technology and circumstance. Real estate prices are soaring in the cities, solar power is cheap and getting cheaper, more people are able to work off-site via the internet, there's beautiful california land that can be had for thousands of dollars an acre.. the technology that powers water pumps and wells is cheaper and more effective, self driving water/food/garbage collection/road grading/ deliveries will soon be a reality.
Indeed, I see lately many cool projects emerging.
Is a pity that not all projects are using the same GitHub tag #headless-chromium [1]

This other project[2] was recently on HN but you can't find it easily on github search.

[1] https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aheadless-chromium&type=R...

[2] https://github.com/DevExpress/testcafe
Isn't driving a public activity?

Supposedly they're selling to HOAs; not sure how public/private those streets are. But I imagine you have a huge degree of control over that.
The jump from sexism to racism made perfect sense to me, they're pretty analogous; an entire group of people has significant and pervasive adverse experiences over a part of their identity. ..We don't have a systematic cultural problem over people born with red hair, but if we did there would be a word for that too. Your analogy sounds insane and his doesn't because his stays within the domain of cultural issues.

More importantly, your original point dodges the issue of sexism altogether. Obviously there are biological differences between men and women, but sexism is not an issue over who is able to bear children and who has more estrogen in their body. Sexism is about an unfair social power dynamic. Nobody is denying that there is a biological reality to it; the conversation is over how to work with that knowledge to give both men and women an even playing field.

Take one example that men will sometimes fall in love with women they work with, or vice versa. Without any rules or precedence you can end up with seriously messed up power dynamics, like a man in a more senior position pressuring women into unwanted sexual situations in which rejection puts them at fear for their jobs. Sexual harassment laws exist to try to protect against this, and inter-office relationships are generally forbidden as a preventative measure.

Sexism is a really difficult and nuanced issue, and to say "yeah but this will always be an issue because men and women are biologically different" trivializes it and takes away from the discussion.
Pretty cool! Check out Google's headless browser API Puppeteer too, they provide a few really useful functions for doing stuff like this.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/exampl...

Really easy to work around, I used it to build a simple CLI to generate device screenshots of a webpage by modifying the user-agent and resolution to match each device.

https://github.com/umpox/generateDeviceScreenshots
The UK is in Five-Eyes and Google is a US intelligence partner - they would know even without analytics on the site, don't worry.
Not rude at all -- it's a good first step though. In my opinion, it does need a bigger payoff at the end -- so close but they posted too soon. They should've also responsibly disclosed the script on github as well (eh, maybe).
There's an active "van dweller" sub on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers/top/?sort=top&t=all

I can't wait for a future where you can just set a destination (possibly random), go to sleep, and then wake up to a different view each day: http://i.imgur.com/9T7NuhJ.jpg
"Most people have to pay government money at some point or another"...its sad that this is a given now
It's supposed to be an email verification step after which your selected username/password should work. We'll check if we can improve the messaging to make it clearer.
The science behind it is really interesting. I had always assumed that you'd get more buoyant as you went down and the pressure got higher; the thing is, buoyancy isn't about pressure as such, it's about relative density. Water is almost completely incompressible; even miles down, its density only increases by a few percentage points. But the main thing keeping humans buoyant is the air in your lungs, and your lungs are compressed as the outside pressure rises, making the airspace smaller and denser, until your average density is greater than the water's and you sink.
> right direction, vs not even a good idea

I think it is a step in the right direction because it allows you to build platform independent software today, with a relatively defined interface to the system (dom + JavaScript). This is a great opportunity to gain experience about the requirements for systems like electron. So I think it is good that electron exists, and would like to see it improved to address the issues that are discovered by using it.

On the other hand, I am not sure if developing application software in JavaScript is a good idea. I am not sure if compiling to webassembly just to have it execute in another virtual machine is a much better idea. I don't know if the dom abstraction is a good idea in the long run (it seems to work for the web though). And I am not sure if there is another less popular technology around that should be used instead electron.
Absolutely. At Amazon's scale, the justification is there. Things are different for invididual developers and small teams where the mesh of services will be maintained by the same people anyway.
Cool! Feel free to reach out to us if you have any trouble using marina :)
idea: using this as "send to kindle" generating pdfs from urls you stumble upon, and seamlessly sending them to the *@kindle.com email address to consume in the device

I don't know if there's an easier way or service these days
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All of which can be summed up as "don't work with shitty companies".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11359181 dupe
One good example that I know of (since I studied in this direction) is POLARIS (http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/projects/polaris/), which turned to the now pretty well-known Tableau Software.

> I couldn't read the article, presumably because of some anti-adblocker mechanism.

That is so stupid of news sites to do. They only thing that makes me do is leave your site immediately.
You could also do that with inkscape on the commandline, not sure if it's faster, though...
I think "proper" superblocks in Tokyo tend to suffer from similar issues as in other cities. You end up building these huge buildings and it all feels a bit claustrophobic

But almost all the roads in Tokyo have the big superblock advantage: pedestrian first.

While there's a bunch of big avenues, basically no smaller roads have sidewalks. Instead people just walk "on the road" and cars drive slowly. Lots of roads are basically "1.5 cars" wide too. This helps with making denser communities without needing huge appartement buildings.

Loads of areas of Tokyo are "just " 2-4 story buildings. But work of small details mean you can end up being pretty dense anyways.
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LSE has a little form in this area…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics_Gad...
That's definitely a big factor but there's also a lot of others. Socioeconomics are going to influence the ability to maintain, as well as build quality, architectural considerations, &c. Local crime levels and law enforcement are going to influence residential threat models/security considerations and have positive/negative effects on residents' priorities and approaches to the maintenance of their own blocks. Provision of public amenities -vs- gated private amenities will produce different effects in different areas. QoS from building maintenance companies, the list goes on.
Yeah, I looked it up for the same reason, that's why I said I found it so interesting :) thanks for mentioning it though, I'm sure people will be interested to learn why.
Future of Cyber Attacks: DNA-Based Malware
I live in Russia, that stuff happens all the time.

>whatever the leftist version of anti-Semitism is...

Like the others said, it's just anti-Semitism. National Bolshevik Party is a good example.
They lost me when they used the word "Inquisition".

We have a need of unbiased discussion. This is not it.
It seems rather intrusive to me.

Also unless I'm misunderstanding it doesn't seems to be capturing the speed of vehicles either, although I wonder if doing that accurately would require more precise mounting and calibration.

I was wondering if you could identify these 'sensors' somehow, but it looks like they're using cell networks, which as far as I understand means there is no plaintext unique identifier.

Does this mean something similar could be done with tracking of people via facial recognition? (Or is that different somehow?).
>That is so stupid of news sites to do. They only thing that makes me do is leave your site immediately.

It's almost as if they don't want anyone to read the content without also viewing the ads...
Where is the problem? Most young entrepreneurs I met had, at least, better of parents, if not rich.

The idea of startups is to fail fast, so if you can fail on your parents money till you're 21 that could also counts as an apprenticeship...

Friend of mine hand dentist parents. Did a few motion picture companies till 21, made almost no money with them and lived with his parents. Later he jumped on the VR bandwagon with 4 years of CEO expertise and got investors like nobodies business
Bitcoin Price Leaves $4,000 Behind as Mood Senses Destination $3,400
From the HN comment page, click on the "web" link just under the post title, then click on the first result of the google search. It might work better in a Private window.
I really like 2d approaches on knobs: turn to adjust heat, and press it to turn it on/off. My car stereo does this for volume and it's quite graceful to use. Analog controls with continuous domains really go well together
> They lost me when they used the word "Inquisition".

The article has a single author. His name is Geoffrey Miller.
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Yeah, I was thinking with drugs, ISIS and child porn while the internet is almost impossible to censor, it's also not that great at protecting privacy with the result that the bad guys often get arrested or killed eventually.
https://css-tricks.com
Great technique recommendation. I make it a practice to never copy-paste an answer from StackOverflow. I always type it out by hand to grasp the meaning of each line of code properly. It's anecdotal, but I strongly feel it helps me absorb new languages and frameworks faster (and deeper).
That's exactly what I would associate Android with- cheap, low quality and pervasive.
It's called yachting!
It's because the US is slightly messed up in the sense that there's a group of people people who say that they care about "free market" and "less government spending and regulations". At the same time, these people also support protectionism, closed borders and government regulation on things they don't agree with.

On the other side, there's a group that is often called liberal, who support open borders and (often) free international trade, but don't tend to agree with capitalism because they think it increases inequality.

There don't seem to be any true liberals (if you look at the two groups that the US is always talking about) in the full sense of 'economic liberalism'.
Do you think? There are already plenty of companies in the UK at least that rent furniture and home electrical goods to people who can't afford it

Are they bringing anything new to the party?
OK, I tried it out and I see what you mean. I opened an issue on GitHub – https://github.com/cloudfleet/floating-dock/issues/12

Thanks for reporting this, corwin7!
The Enduring Legacy of Zork
Perl6 uses  (U+269B) to denote atomic operators
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I only notice when ssh'ing into servers or when posting something on github which then humanizes the timestamp as "posted 50 seconds from now" :)

So it's a combination of sleep and cold boot. I guess somehow the ntp just never syncs except when explicitly unlocking the settings page.
Choosing an Open Source ML Library: TensorFlowithTheano/Torch/scikit-learn/Caffe
The article was written, edited, reviewed and approved for publication by, hopefully, different people. Even if it has a single author, it's the result of a cooperative effort.
depends on what the definition of superblock is. Superblocks in american are a barrier to walking cycling. In tokyo it may be more like the initiative in Barcelona [1] where there are streets inside the superblock, but not for through vehicular traffic. It's important to have a highly connected fine grained network of streets for pedestrians and cyclists.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/17/superblocks-r...
This is why an app asking for my location is an instant no. The only exceptions are apps where location is the main feature (Google Maps, etc).