skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you go crypto don't use git. It's not designed for cryptography in mind and the Keybase approach looks nice IF I can control every chain or can keep using github (or any other git server) with it. But for the storing part alone I would not trust Keybase.
I would even say if you do crypto and need cloud storage then store it in multiple places and avoid git. Better flat file and some daily backup strategy with e.g. encfs as the bottom layer. In worst case you get your data back.

Sorry keybase.... you are not a trustable cloud storage for me.

It feels like betting on your company... I want to bet on your company without feeling dependent on worst case restore scenarios (computer dying while your company dies).
I wonder how much space this takes on the device. How many signatures does it keep and how often is this updated
Last I heard new MBS were doing just fine. Do not confuse very local minority with all.
And "betrayed"? Apple did not promise anything to anybody.
Do they lock out also paying customers, i.e. those with a gsuite account?
Sounds like that old Microsoft iPod parody, the Microsoft iPod Pro 2005 XP Human Ear Professional Edition.
In this particular industry, it is. It depends on whether qualcomm's patented features "drive the market demand" for the finished goods.

So in mobile devices, Qualcomm's wireless patents do deservingly get per device royalty whereas, for automobiles, it would make no sense to use the same per device royalty.

On a somewhat unrelated note, Apple demanded the entire profit on per device basis for a couple of frivolous design infringement from Samsung and won a couple of years ago. This absurd, biased lower court ruling was overturned by the Supreme Court last year.
If there is a data breach that financially ruins hundreds or thousands of people, how long does it take us here to go from expressing thoughts and prayers to analyzing and theorizing how the crackers broke in and got the data out?
We're using Ruby + Sinatra miscroservice scaffold for most business logic, with some JVM (Java / Kotlin) for high performance and some GoLang for security and infrastructure tools. And my email is marc.savino@coinbase.com
The statistic makes sense, owning a gun is more likely to harm than help you. That is across all of society though. The thing is, you own it and are personally in charge of storage, maintenance, operation, etc. So it is harder to blanket apply the harm vs help rule to an individual owner without knowing their personal practices.
Is there more to consensus and decentralization than just pinging a few other computers and picking the longest chain you find?

And proof of work is literally just the hash having a certain number of zero bits, right? Definitely a neat idea but hardly revolutionary if that's all there is to it.
marc.savino@coinbase.com
Don't people understand the App Store model ?

You aren't paying for their effort in hosting the app. It's a fixed cost and the App Store runs largely on the back of the iTunes Store platform. You are paying Apple for being a distribution channel i.e. channel to market. And it's incredibly common for those to be based on a percentage rather than fixed amount.

Apple does spends a significant amount of money (far more than your 30%) on giving developers the perfect market to sell to. Every customer has a credit card, is on the latest OS, is willing to spend, is unable to pirate etc.
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Fastmail has been wonderful for me.
The BIOS of a system has not once ever factored into my decision making about a tech purchase. Please elaborate...?
Yeah, the laptop--it's not even on the radar for cooking; that's why we invented tablets. And cookbooks.
Bluetooth uses less power... than what? Than a headphone jack?
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Much better written and researched that the title had me assume at first.
Somebody else said branches were already native to git. So are pull requests. Comments and issues are unlikely to be made native to git ever since git is developed primarily for the Linux kernel and their discussion channel is the mailing list.
Ireland will get fined because they refuse to collect those 13bn (unless they change their stance, which doesn't seem likely at the moment).
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Yes...I'd love to hear from people who are flagging it: why?
It doesn't seem to verify hashes of objects on checkout, but it does when receiving packfiles. So it's difficult to see how this could be an exploit unless the attacker has access to your local .git directory.
If that includes 19% taxes, than its a €30 or 4% difference on the pretax pricing. Not very big really. Especially, if there's other fees they pay to sell the product in your territory.
What does HP mean in this context?
Thanks for bringing that up. However, te truth is often a bit more nuanced (although it doesn't make for as good headlines).

Dissecting your three examples.

In the first case, (and based on their own statements) those people were buying up phones by the hundreds, shipping them to a single physical address and then scalping over the internet.

It's basically fraud. So yes, they probably got picked up by an automated algorithm that looks for hijacking/CC fraud or bot-nets.

From public statements though, I believe most of them got their accounts back when they reached out to confirm they were real people and not some fraud bot-net. It's still technically violation of their ToS, but I won't comment on that part.

The second case I'm not directly familiar with, and there's no public statements so I won't say anything further.

In the third case, the affected customer made a public statement afterwards:

https://twitter.com/salilstatistics/status/89986397181723852...

I can't comment any further than what's been said publicly except on general principles 1. Google does a lot of things to protect users from external attacks, everything I've seen seems to indicate they really do care about users, and 2. There are pretty clear ways to get back into your account should anything happen (https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery is your one-stop shop), and 3. The user doesn't carry any ill-will towards Google once he realised what actually happened.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but the above statements are my own and do not reflect those of my employees).
No, I've been using wireless charging every day for nearly two years (Samsung s6)
It's close but I have custom "notes" that have fields as well. I've looked at this and have disabled the comments per config but I almost have to gut it to add another component below the information of an entry.
> The elephants' tusks were cut, presumably so that the elephants wouldn't be able to impale each other.

It may be to prevent someone killing the animal for the ivory.

A French zoo had one of its rhinos killed for its horn: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/03/09/a...
WiFi is in no way better than Ethernet except one: That you don't have a cable. Bluetooth headphones are no different.
This is just an early iteration for the future. Imagine the possibilities while travelling, attending conferences, eating at foreign restaurants.

Can't wait until this becomes commonplace.
It looks basically just like a Git repository. Mining is like competing for a chance to merge a bunch of other people's commits (because you get a "commit fee" for each of them). And you always want to merge into the longest repository, because otherwise you're receiving those commit fees in a fork that's unlikely to be cared about.
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From what I understood (I haven't actually used the product), the repository is in the decrypted state on your local machine and is fully encrypted while being stored on the remote.
Because of your question mark, I decided to look it up.

Agriculture began about 12,000 to 10,000 years ago. It's not much different than 6,000 years and I only mention it because of your question mark.

Here is a link, if you're curious:

https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/development-of-ag...

It's worth adding that there were still some nomadic traits, initially. They'd plant and move on, hunting as they went, and would come back to where they planted when it was time to harvest. The speculation that I'm familiar with suggests that they did this with naturally growing crops before they began to cultivate them.

This isn't my domain, I just like documentaries.
It's cost vs benefit. Obviously there's differences of opinions on the costs vs benefits, but I'm of the view that the benefits of wireless outweigh the costs of charging the headphones.
SiFive is a bunch of Berkeley people. Are you totally sure that their cores aren't rebranded Rocket cores?
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As the technology advances we should be working less but its the opposite. Here's an essay by Bertrand Russel http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
I have a few times, but I find it just easier to print out the recipe.

The place where it would get difficult is where I am making multiple dishes with multiple steps and I need to have timers for many of the steps.
I am not an anthropologist, but I believe that's a popular misconception. Many technologically primitive tribal cultures have low absolute numbers of violent deaths, but they also typically have very low populations compared to agricultural societies. Their per capita casualties from intra- and inter-tribal violence are quite high.
> "we can no longer compete on any remotely level playing field and need the law to prop us up"

That is a huge assumption. In reality they are just positioning themselves, they are a business and government contracts are always extremely juicy and profitable. Oracle is just after the $$.
On the contrary, because I bought the Nexus 6P from the Google Store, they replaced it with a Pixel XL for free. The Google experience is terrible through a third party, but their Google 'direct' experience is pretty darn fantastic.
First computer I used and programmed: Apple IIe

First computer I was given: Vic 20

First computer I purchased: C64

First computer I went online with: Amiga 500, 300 baud.

First BBS computer: Amiga 3000
> Meanwhile, I live in the U.K. and we haven't had a mass shooting since the laws passed. I'll happily wait for the statistics to go past the required p-values.

I really hate to bring this up, but "no mass shootings" does not equal "no mass deaths". There have been plenty of attacks in Europe to great effect without guns being used -- for example, the truck attack in Nice, Paris is still unrivaled by any gun massacre in America.

We shouldn't play semantic games / statistical filtering games with phrases like "reducing gun violence" and "reducing mass shootings"; I think we all can agree that our collective goal as decent human beings is work towards reducing violence/harm/death, period. Why qualify it on only gun attacks -- other than for political reasons?

If banning guns indeed reduces mass killings overall (again, it's rather a red herring to say your only goal is to reduce mass shootings rather than mass killings in general), then by all means let's work towards that.

But the data so obviously shows this to be a false correlation: Right now Europe is if anything the poster-child of why gun control doesn't work, with all the truck and bomb attacks. Again, I hate to bring this up, but so often Europeans use this as a common insult to Americans but I see this as a rather strong case of cognitive dissonance.
Pixel's goal is to be an iPhone competitor. This is reflected in its pricing and product design. Nexus was for Android enthusiasts who wanted the stock experience. I think in their own words it was "meant to showcase the best of Android."
I'm an iOS Developer learning React, using Webstorm I can get all the auto completion + some other things I like from Xcode. Can I set up VS Code to do the same?
Apple pays $10 on a $1k phone due to rebates (before the dispute started). Without rebates the cost would be $50. Apple will actually benefit less from a win here than the small phone manufacturer.
I bought an ASUS c302 Chromebook for $500 earlier this year, and somehow this doesn't seem that different. More CPU/RAM (does this matter on a chromebook), and maybe a pen. The c302 has a pretty high res display, does the flip thing and is a touch screen, runs all day, and boots in a couple seconds. The case feels a bit flimsy, but withstood the rigors of my 6yo twins wrestling over it on a road trip to play the next netflix show...

..which btw is a great consumer feature. Being able to run Android Netflix on a laptop and download shows in offline mode.
Could you elaborate, what do you see wrong with it? To me it seems like a camcorder, which used to be used all the time. And now no different than any other smart phone camera. Or even just a GoPro sitting there recording whatever.
I disagree. Rather write nasty rants in comments that explain compiler-specific workarounds. It should not be too many anyway, if one adheres to KISS.

Otherwise you surrender control over the correctness of your program "to the whims of the same people who think that it's okay that memcpy(0, 0, 0) is undefined behavior".

More debatable decisions will be made in compiler implementations and I'd rather force the user who compiles the program to understand the implications of warnings by turning them into errors than letting them ignore them (because "it compiled, after all!").

If I was to make the call, I'd make "-Werror" default in all compilers, remove the option and allow to disable it by "--I-really-want-to-ignore-warnings-for-fscks-sake" which when used would sleep(30) after an all-caps nag screen that tells people "don't ever use that option."
I think the headline is misleading. Let's say I stay up late to do X, Y and/or Z. These things to mean have meaning. In doing them I feel a sense of accomplishment. I've been productive.

Now I show up to work the next day. Certainly less sleep has some effect on me. But that doesn't devalue the increased productivity from the previous evening.

The brain is a limited resource. There might be occasional short term hacks/cheats. But on average you'll have X gallons in the mental tank. This is true. If you spend that at home then yes you will be "less productive" at work.
'....Luxembourg’s role in orchestrating tax avoidance deals for hundreds of global companies was revealed by the Guardian in 2014, raising questions about tax policy in one of the EU’s oldest member states.

The case continues to hang over Jean-Claude Juncker, the European commission president, who served as Luxembourg’s prime minister from 1995 to 2013, and acted as finance minister for much of that period..... '"

The point is they get backroom deals.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/05/-sp-luxembo...
Target market Law enforcement? Then again it seems like cops like to wear cameras that are easily turned off. I wonder why? I can tell when my local police officers are about to do something not quite right; they slide that cover over the lens of their pricey, proprietary cams.

And there's irritating people whom will think it's cute to photograph everyone. "Nice to meet you. I see your filming. Wonderful? There goes dinner?"

Wait--if I was involved in a extreme sport, I might buy one? And let's not forget porn?

Sorry, I just don't get this need to document everything.

Then again it's probally just me. I never liked my photo taken.
Had a quick go and was pretty disappointed. Most of this is just having a look at the third party js loaded. Other things are wild guesses based on DNS, which has nothing to do with the website but are either out of date or reside in unassociated parts of the business. The tech stack detection was was almost entirely wrong :(
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Yeah, and they're not the only provider you can point to. Some competition pushes everyone to do better?

Here's my pitch for why you might want to use SiteStacks with a browser extension:

Lightweight: The extension is only 25 KB (mostly images). The one-click technology lookup runs entirely on our servers. No content insertions or background processes to slow down your browsing. It's like your favorite search engine.

Secure: SiteStacks doesn't download any of your browsing data - only the active tab URL is passed along.

Great product coverage: SiteStacks is supported by Siftery and its library of over 40,000 products. SiteStaks includes data for some products that isn't publicly available anywhere else.

Best-in-class accuracy: The data on SiteStacks benefits from validation form the awesome Siftery community. This built-in constant feedback loop helps us identify data collection methods that are yielding bad data and ultimately promotes best-in-class data accuracy.
Web apps!
I bought my own domain and have Zoho host my email. I have not had any hiccups at all. They support exchange, so I get push on my phone, which is nice. I set up my gmail to fwd any straggling emails to my new email.
The commute and school dropoffs are the real lifestyle killer I think.

Imagine having an extra 5-15h a week to hang out and do things.
Imagine having that much more sleep (if you happen to be burning the midnight oil a lot).

I used to remember my parents letting me walk to the school bus stop (near our apartment) and then walking to work or taking the bus themselves.

Nowadays we pack the kids into the car drop them off at 2 different schools, and both drive to work 30+m away. We also pick them up. That's got to be 3h a day per parent. The picture complicates with after school activities. It's a wonder I don't WFH more often (which reduces my back/forth for kids to 40m total).
41 Whr battery

That is so so, my atom based vivobook has 60 just to last real world 10h of intensive use
That is cool. Would be great to have a "Common Service Tunnel" in all cities. Its insane how much roadway gets dug up each year. Of course I doubt they'd all be as clean as the one in the Singapore photo.
Good to see cat-v getting some coverage again. The archive they keep is fantastic.
When Apple released the imac without a floppy drive, public opinion definitely wasn't with them.

As far as I can tell, that move is now seen as prescient rather than premature.
For anyone interested in alternatives, we built a utility (creatively named git-gpg) with the same goal: end-to-end encrypted git. It works over ssh, is self-hosted, and requires no additional software on the shared server.

https://github.com/glassroom/git-gpg
Everything you just said makes perfect sense.

That being said, I think Keybase is one of the most important companies around right now. I would gladly pay $10/month, even if literally all it did was put a "Supporter" badge on my profile. I'm sure hundreds of other people agree.

Crypto is far too important for it to remain locked away behind GPG.
I'm going through the same process, and am currently enjoying ProtonMail.
this is a very easy way to go directly to jail. There have been cases where an old gun gets stuck and fires more than one shot where the owner has gone to prison.
This sounds terrible. FWIW, I have Project Fi and have had several excellent experiences with their support, including replacing a Nexus 5X that my wife dropped and then ran over with the car.
Are those conversations also stored on Google's servers? I know I shouldn't even have to ask this question, but who knows these days with Google.
Yes, this is usually the more common story - Google does a lot of things to protect users (from themselves, and from external attack). I suspect a lot of people who get locked out are for fairly pedestrian reasons like password reuse across sites, and they got hijacked. It sucks, but it's better than the alternative (e.g. somebody pilfers all your email and commits identity theft).

Trust me, there are a lot of bad actors out there,

The other poster had it right - 2FA is really the way to go, ideally with something like Google Authenticator or Yubikeys.

If you ever get locked out (e.g. account is suspected as compromised/hijacked), then:

https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery

is your one-stop shop to prove you're really you.
Fun with Catamorphisms
Never gonna happen. Google can do the things it does because it holds monopoly pricing in internet advertising. The freedom from competition and massive capitalization is what allows it to invest in blue sky projects.
Does that change the start date or the end date? At the place where I'm taking my undergrad education, the semester isn't quite over by November.
I want to live longer because I want to see amazing tech. I imagine rhis is one of the primary reasons that people want a longer lifespan.

Beyond that, I want to live long enough to go on interplanetary and/or interstellar voyages. My desire to experience the marvels and mysteries of the universe are irrespective of humanity's conditions, whether we are facing an apocalypse or living in a global golden age.
I don't get that impression all, they sell government software. It's in their interest to do the best to position that software.

As an investor, I'd be concerned if they weren't doing this.
I get that. I was wondering why Dell ships laptops with an LTE modem and Apple ships every mobile device except a MacBook with an LTE modem. It makes sense if it is some stupid negotiation tactic. I was wondering why they would not put something in so obvious to the benefit of users.
That's the problem though: ChromeOS is also a 'shitty operating system'; so too is iOS.

I'd like a tablet like this which just let me run plain old Debian. Sure, the window managers and apps probably don't support touchscreens terribly well right now (certainly StumpWM won't), but … that'll change over time.
Your metaphor is dropping important details. The cable mattered because it tethered you to a location, which is not true of headphones. Routers also didn’t need to be charged before or after.
Hi, I'm one of the co-founders of the lowRISC project. You're right that SiFive's licensing arrangements can be somewhat confusing. Although they sell licenses (like https://static.dev.sifive.com/business/sifive-license-and-su...) which look like a typical proprietary IP agreement, the SiFive Coreplex IP is a derivative of the open-source Rocket chip generator. SiFive was founded by a team from Berkeley who produced Rocket, and are almost certainly now the biggest contributor to ongoing Rocket development.
I have no faith left in google as a provider of products. Switzerland is their European hub apparently but they never bothered selling the pixel phone here. Same with the link above. It’s region specific and there’s no mention of the pixelbook. Google obviously feel a country where over 1000s of their employees work is not a priority. Hence why I stick to apple products.
You're free to do work over ssh+tmux+vim. That's what I do.
I switched to Fastmail. Note that my main concern was being banned by Google, so security/privacy wasn't my focus. I say that because I believe Fastmail is still in the US[1], which brings up privacy concerns imo.

Recently on HN I saw another email provider that offered fully encrypted email, perhaps end to end, but I've already committed to Fastmail so I didn't follow up with them too much.

I'm happy with Fastmail fwiw, and happily support them.

[1]: https://blog.fastmail.com/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-i...
Project Fi's support has been nothing short of spectacular... I've had two slow activations (coming from StraightTalk) and they've spent 10-20 minutes on the phone with me until the problem was resolved.
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>Did I miss anything?

3 years of OS and Security updates. The LG will be lucky to get 1.

Unlimited full resolution photo and movie backups.
> EVERY OTHER CONNECTOR has gone through improvements. new USB standards. new video. everything. why is this any different?

Because BT isn't an improvement. It's a worse experience in almost every way.