skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While computer hardware is more ubiquituous than ever, actual usage of general purpose computing is vanishingly small. I had no idea how bad it was until recently. Linux and "open source" are just buzzwords. Their use should be taken as a sign that people are computing freely. Even programmers who use "open source" software don't actually have complete control (see the furore over Microsoft changing the colour of an icon in a popular IDE).

Corporate proxies today are obscenely intrusive and if anyone even knows what a "root CA" is they have no idea what it's used for. Many places get people to install them on to personal devices and of course most people do as instructed. This is the environment in which most people do their "computing" and it's all they know.
Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Timelines
Exactly!

One of the first things I did with my Rift (well, after Superhot...) was try out the Virtual Desktop kit.

It's lacking. I thought it'd give me a 3D frustrum to throw window back/forward, drop Spotify out to the peripheral, have VisStudio in glorious megapixel size.

Instead, you get your regular desktop screens mirrored and constrained to a 2D plane. Gods help you if you've got mismatched DPI screens, like my 1080p & 2160p pair.

(Go on, I'll await some smart sod to tell me "Product" is exactly what I'm looking for...)
Nice, fill us in on what we don't know. I also think there is a lot of confusion as people aren't separating the DNC hacks and the Podesta email leaks.

From the Twitter hack it seems that people still had access to his Gmail in October. Unless they someone how got that password a different way. Or it was password re-use.
> Can't we just make a proper, easy to use portable desktop application framework please?

We should just go back to Delphi, it was/is one of the best ways of doing GUIs.
Anyone actually using this and can comment on the stability of various apps/services?
A Letter to J. Dimon and anyone else struggling to understand cryptocurrencies
> But our looming weight makes us vulnerable, vulnerable to viruses that were once isolated deep in forests and mountains, but are now bumping into humans, vulnerable to climate change, vulnerable to armies fighting over scarce resources. The lesson of Toba the Supervolcano is that there is nothing inevitable about our domination of the world. With a little bad luck, we can go too.

I'm personally more inclined to think we are less vulnerable than ever before.

I doubt any virus would wipe out an entire population. An infectious agent spreads better among a numerous population, but as it kills its hosts, the population becomes smaller, which slows the infection rate. So there is negative feedback here, and I doubt that can lead to a total extinction of the host species. Not to mention that we have modern medicine now, and that we understand how viruses work.

Climate change is an issue, but I have hard times imagining how it could wipe out all human beings. Worse case scenario, I guess, would be a sharp decline in agricultural production. So hunger riots and stuff. But even that would at worse reduce the population until a new equilibrium is reached. And I don't see that equilibrium to be at 0.

Nuclear war is a serious threat. But it's not like it would destroy the surface of the Earth or anything. It would provoke a nuclear winter though. I suppose a nuclear winter is about as bad as a volcanic winter is, or worse. Again, the main difficulty would be a sharp decline in food production. And that also would require a new population equilibrium to be reached.

IMHO human beings, nowadays, can deal with an awful lot of contingencies. We can predict them, we can store resources, we can plan ahead...

There really is a case to make about the idea that humans will survive a mass extinction. Annalee Newitz wrote a book about it[1]

1. https://www.amazon.com/Scatter-Adapt-Remember-Survive-Extinc...
I don't believe this is true, or at least it depends on the kind of thing you're learning.

For example, when you want to become an outstanding guitar player, you'll need to go through many, many hours of dull and definitely boring training in order to perfect your playing technique. Without that training, you can become a good or a creative guitar player, but not a genuine master.

I presume that it's similar with many other instruments and related skills like archery, gymnastics, dancing, or skateboarding.
Ukraine alleged to have violated open source license with military drone
Who is Margrethe Vestager?
IANAL, but won’t this violate the license terms Google provides for Play services?
This article goes well with the segment John Oliver did on Floods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf1t7cs9dkc

The program mentioned therein "The National Flood Insurance Program" seems to giving no incentive to the people living near shores to change anything.
How Space Travel Changes the Brain
I really like that. Re-using the existing Electron platform and not reinventing the wheel and making it usable with .NET underlying is really a good thing.

People, XAML is dead. Get over it ;-).
I am going to receive 7500 dollars of your money, my money, and everyone's money, come January for a purchase I need no assistance in making.

how is that fair. I am taking it because it is there and financially it makes no sense not too.

this is pure gift to those well off. it has nothing to do about protecting the environment. it was a gift to GM initially and because a gift to not only the well off but any manufacture who wanted to take it.

it needs to die.
I work from home 1 or 2 days a week, and the rest of the time commute 55 miles each way (~1h10m).

True, I probably get more done on the days I work from home as I don't have a commute, and there are fewer distractions, however, I find I can collaborate far more effectively when I'm in the office - instant messenger, email and video calls just don't cut it.

Plus I have an amazing commute, mostly along British A roads through the countryside.
I'm happy that I was too busy at the time doing an handover to see that. Seeing the CEO get a pass on all the "Be-Nice" rules and use his site as a political platform...
Nonsense. You don't have the designated rights or privileges to lock down the meaning of anything.

The definition as I gave it was used in the 1975 edition of "The Mythical Man-Month". Is that good enough for you?
In Sardinia, Italy, there are also hundreds of neolithic sites called Domus de Janas (House of the Fairies) dating back to 3000 BC. Some of them are quite impressive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domus_de_Janas
For comparison, this is the output of YouTube’s CC button applied to a video, and the text extracted. Not exactly a readable article.

> extremely pleased to have our first and indeed only genuine superhero you you may have come across know and across the internet as Captain disillusion you've already seen some their fantastic work there you to tell is amazing if you haven't seen it I I personally do subscribe to it they're given there are over quarter of a million other subscribers I am statistically insignificant and you should update I think the number of views on the channel has now passed 15 million so if you could all adjust your booklet accordingly that would be appreciated captain disillusion will be talking to us about heroic feats of YouTube D bunker II so can you please I think we're set put your hands together welcome to stage Captain disillusion hello hi quick clarification I'm not Compton disillusion obviously my name is Alan and I'm an intern at disillusion industries the captain's…

Now here’s the output of a written article automatically turned into speech:

https://s3.kuschku.de/public/audio.mp3

Now tell me, which of them is more usable?
I am working through an EB-1 visa because H1B was untenable (I'm a bootstrapped company cofounder AND an Indian citizen). It has been an extremely stressful, constraining process with numerous hoops, large financial costs, several delays, requests for evidence (which they accepted basically with rewording the original petition), etc., and has taken over 1.5 years already, and I just received a final approval last week.

I still haven't received the actual card, and have been given no date, no tracking#, no interview, nothing. Just "your petition was approved..go back to your stressful wait because it doesn't mean much until you get the document."

In the meantime I'm not eligible for coverage under ACA, cannot be unemployed over 90 days, cannot leave the country, cannot work on anything to do with a defense contract, cannot risk commenting on politics on social media, etc. All this after I acquired a coveted O1A visa to move back in the first place, after 2 years of working on my company remotely while I was out of status.

This hasn't been "dead simple" as gp implies Canadian merit-residencies are. Not in the slightest. It has been expensive, time consuming and stressful. It's been a constant distraction from my work for longer than the lifespan of most startups in Silicon Valley.
Can someone explain what this? Is it a fork of Android with the Google service apps rewritten? Or just the latter?
Could I take an old Android OS and install the alternative Gapps?
Yours, confused.
Except that the European Commission has determined that they did not pay what they owe.

Tax avoidance/evasion by multinationals in Europe was insane. Fortunately the EU is now cracking down on that.
With the new protocol you could use it to protect IOT services, which identity you would naturally know but no one else would. A security camera for example.

An other use case would be access to a server IPMI/Online KVM switch, which has a tendency to not get updated regularly.

In general any situation where you in the past had to go through a third-party hub could be replaced with a hidden service for a end-to-end solution, as long latency isn't a major requirement.
There is wiki page with that info: https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki...
looks like it's not stable yet.
Isn't it under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing modification and redistribution of such?

Edit: That license might just be for FOSS components used within google play services, I'm hard pressed to find any specific license anywhere.
Globally about a billion people annually use at least one Yahoo service.

The answer to your question is: nope.
What amazes me the most is that the average household sits at 900kWh per month. That's about what I use per YEAR!
Apple hits $900B
with regards to #2, it is controlling its use that will be problematic. seems far too often new methods to reduce fats and sugars in foods becomes a inhibitor remover for too many.

remember the horror stories from olestra's introduction, people shoving tons of chips because they were guilt free down their maws only to have digestive issues
Right, except the elephant in the room isn't laziness or the value of face to face interaction, it's trust.

The driver of this lack of trust is the rise of managers (e.g. MBAs) who have limited expertise in the fields which they manage.

For jobs where there are measures of performance that are accurate and not gameable (e.g. certain call center workers) and/or it is a job executives probably reckon that they could do themselves, they are generally happy to let employees work from home.

IMO this is why Github and Mozilla are remote-first - by and large they're managed by developers.
> I am far more concerned with people in Phillipines, Micronesia, Vanuatu etc who are at risk of losing their homes and livelihoods and literally having no where else to go.

Wouldn't they be able to reach other countries by boat/ferry? With water levels rising around the world, and the Middle East drying up, one can only wonder how many people in these areas will decide to migrate to other countries. I think it's very possible we'll see some kind of mass migration from MENA countries to Western countries if the water crisis doesn't get solved. And i'm not talking about the kind of mass migration we've seen in the recent years, but on a much larger scale.
I made no such accusation.

There is considerable informed and expert opinion voiced that the conflicting inputs were a potential issue. A fair bit of that discussed here. There are other instances of conflicted inputs. And despite considering numerous elements of confusion, uncertainty, and information overload, the BEA report doesn't even consider the matter.

This calls into question the report itself, the investigation, and the investigators. Such processes are not perfect and may be subject to political pressures (say:
EgyptAir Flight 990).

I've given the basis on which my skepticism is warrented. You've chosen not to accept it.

Cheers.
Has that been done? I have been thinking it's pretty secure!
>ID Card is compulsory

>760,000 ID cards will be blocked

>in country of 1.3 million

>I have no idea how I can declare monthly VAT numbers

It is bad but could be worse. People are signing up for MobileID and there is still possible to update ID cards via going to the office.

But poor people abroad. Basically they will be cut off from all the services.
But when manually adding a root CA to the trusted root CA certificate store on Windows 10, you do get a warning.
Been trying with little luck to arrange my appointment to pick up my card from the local embassy - I guess this is why
More like "too simple to be believed"... and easily seen on Twitter, by examining tweeters of Hillary's tweets and noticing that for instance, 10 or more accounts that simultaneously retweeted all had precisely the same number of tweets, in the thousands, and less than 10 followers apiece.

More accessible, however, is simply to notice that the testimony was being given to a government where the House, Senate, and Presidency are all Republican. If Twitter could have shown their even headedness, they would have done so.
It's a fork of LineageOS, which is the daughter of CyanogenMod, which is a fork of Android.

Only difference when comparing against LineageOS is that the OpenGApps package is "free".
Lineage OS is a fork of Android. This is a fork of Lineage which replaces all the binary blobs to make the Google services work with open source code (with the same or similar behaviour).

I don't know for sure but probably not, the services aren't UserReplaceable.
According to the latest Windows Developer Day, Xamarin.Forms is that framework in what concerns Microsoft.

As for the rest, sorry for being so blunt, but it is just not wanting to learn.

We we were writing applications across multiple OS and hardware architectures for ages now.

It is easy, no, as it requires actually putting some effort into a proper architecture and OS/hardware abstractions, but it is surely doable.

It feels like devs now want to write apps without spending any real effort on them.
I still subscribe to theory that the pyramid was meant as a landing pad for starships.
Why is this its own fork though? Seems in line with the Lineage mission, shouldn't they just merge in?
Ask HN: How did you get involved in open source?
I've been wanting to get more involved in the open source community but always found it difficult to find time / motivation.

I am keen to hear how other people got involved in it!
Why is XAML dead?
I'm not sure they'll be accepted happily.

Might lead to kind of "invasion of sea people" scenario but planet-wise.

Middle East has another problem, with their population still growing they're looking towards the future where even without land shrinking it's too much of them, and here they don't have anybody to blame. Same for Africa (which is not drowning, if not in people).
It would be nice if GNUstep (http://www.gnustep.org/) received much more attention. GNUstep is a free software implementation of the OpenStep API (which Apple's Cocoa API is based on), and GNUstep is available for *nix and Windows. The OpenStep API has already been shown to be cross platform; back in the days when NeXT, Inc. existed, it sold an implementation of the OpenStep API and development tools for Windows NT called OPENSTEP Enterprise (see http://i.imgur.com/I7VivtO.jpg for a screenshot). After Apple bought NeXT, Apple renamed OPENSTEP Enterprise "Yellow Box for Windows" during their Rhapsody efforts. However, in 1998 Apple's business strategy shifted from maintaining NeXT's cross-platform support for OpenStep to devoting NeXT technology solely to the Mac. This is what killed OpenStep as a cross-platform development technology.

GNUstep could have picked up from where Apple left off in 1998 to be a major contender in cross-platform software development. Indeed; it could have attracted former OpenStep developers who liked the cross-platform nature of the API and were stranded when Apple stopped development of Yellow Box for Windows. But for various reasons GNUstep's development and adoption has been slow, and alternative APIs such as QT and GTK ended up winning out in terms of popularity. But I don't think it's too late to promote GNUstep, especially now when a vocal minority of Mac power users are increasingly becoming discontented with the state of the Mac and are looking for high-quality alternatives.
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This is fallout from the Infineon private key weakness, isn't it?
Every Airbus crash gives rise to lots of FUD in the media. Initially, everyone was blaming AF447 on the vertical stabilizer breaking off (http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-air-france-447-...). I guess they thought they had "enough" data then, and of course plenty of "experts" were on hand to lend credence to this particular speculation. But anyway, the accident report says what it says. I see no reason to put more trust in random newspaper/magazine articles that just riff on a standard template for covering Airbus accidents (it was the scary computers what dunnit).
I haven't been using this ROM in particular but I have been using MicroG almost since its inception (without any of the official Google stuff installed) and I have to say it's a very smooth and seamless experience.

I use Whatsapp, Riot (APK from Google Play with GCM enabled), Google Maps, and a bunch of other apps that depend on Maps and GCM services and all of them work fine.

Sometimes I almost forget I don't have GoogleApps installed.
I have pretty much the same amount of history with amazon (2000) and it's even worse here.

Most of the recommendations are items that I actually already purchased through them ("How about a second electric razor or some more batteries?") or items that I literally was just looking at while browsing ("We recommend these jeans that you just looked at"). Utterly useless.
Yes, hence I mentioned flaking rust. Surface rust, if properly treated can indeed protect deeper layers, more in other metals than in steel but it is a well known concept, a protective 'skin' that prevents further oxidization. Flaking rust is when the rust splits of layers of steel, typically seen in steel that has been 'folded' while being forged. That's not a good thing, it allows water and air access to those deeper layers by creating space where the rust has pushed away the surface layer from the deeper layer.

Even so, those elements the Eiffel tower is made out of are about 1" thick (25 mm) at the base of the tower and there is plenty of redundancy in the design so it's not like it will fall over next Tuesday.

I wonder how you'd tackle repairing it, those are for the most part forged rivets hot joining the steel elements, you could drill them out to replace an element but that would have to be done extremely carefully to first take the load of that element with temporary bracing.

I'm pretty sure the city of Paris will do a lot to keep their iconic landmark, but this will be an expensive operation.
Apparently this requires a hole to be punched in the sandbox to allow android apps to "impersonate" other apps (by way of signature spoofing).

The lineage folks didn't want to merge it in on grounds of security concerns.

(I'm not affiliated with the project, I just read the code reviews because I had the exact same question).

EDIT: for those interested: https://review.lineageos.org/#/c/64967/ and https://review.lineageos.org/#/c/65366/
The company know that their product is bad for people and that people try to avoid it, yet Cinnabon use manipulative tactics to wear their customers down:

> “Let’s face it, people really want to avoid us,” Greg Komen once told an audience. “We have to get in your way.”

What if this were a tech company? Facebook got a lot of heat for supporting an experiment where they influenced people’s emotions.

This seems a lot worse because there are negative mental and physical effects. And they can’t even try and justify it with any sort of “connecting the world” style message. It’s purely about making cash.
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I fail to see how this would scale. Twitter is somewhat larger than thousands of users (where such approach would be practical).
Apple CEO Cook breathes new life into old iPhones
FIRST EVER SHRINKING MACHINE
Well, the EU commission has come knocking, and determined that schemes that Apple tried to sell as perfectly legal tax avoidance were, in fact, illegal tax evasion.
Cybersecurity: Nuts-n-Bolts for Businesses
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I was under the impression that lineage doesn't come with this anyway and you had to flash whatever google binaries you wanted. This just seems like they've removed one step. See bullet point on Step 1. on the wiki: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/cheeseburger/install