skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allwinner has done mistakes in the past and posted tarballs of the Linux kernel source with object files for drivers they did not have the right (from others) to post the source. They called these "SDKs" and distributed them to those that asked.

There are ways to get around such issues like distributing those blobs or the object files separately, but they were not savvy in free software. They started getting savvy by posting on github sanitized Linux sources and sources of the bootloader, https://github.com/allwinner-zh

So what do you do if a fabless manufacturer violates the GPL out of cluelessness? Do you follow the path of the core kernel develolpers (https://lwn.net/Articles/698452/) or do you go for the nuclear option?

Well, a certain person on linux-sunxi went for the nuclear option. You can see the `GPL violation` edits on the linux-sunxi Wiki on these obsolete tarballs with object files. You can see the same person on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allwinner_Technology writing about 'GPL violations'.

I admit that the `nuclear option` is a strategy. If it works, it would transform the company by force to become friendly to open-source (/sarcasm). But it is a shitty strategy.
Motion detectors built into the scooter itself (gyro, accel) with timestamps. Would be very easy to tell.
Fascinating, I found this article by Vitalik that explains what happened. In v0.8 they swapped from BerkleyDB to LevelDB but due to a bug the two chains started diverting.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-network-shaken-...
Easily Install Android Studio in Ubuntu and Linux Mint
Like leather. We treat leather.
I agree with you, and there is several companies already doing this for whole slides. In addition, people should also understand that more than 1 slide is necessary for a high quality analysis of the cancer. From the top of my head, I remember Definiens (http://definiens.com) that develops software that does whole slide analysis and HalioDX (http://www.haliodx.com/) that does the same and use it as auxiliary for colon cancer treatment.
IBM Scientists Demonstrate Mixed-Precision In-Memory Computing
Don't let the other two replies get you down; city life just isn't the right thing for some people. It can be difficult to find the right niche of activities (I sure haven't), and people who blame you for not liking what they like don't exactly help. Anyway, keep at it, whatever "it" is.
Prolonged exposure to sunlight damages the eyes. Cataracts or damage to the conjunctiva for example. We get much older than a few thousand years ago, and our bodies aren't well adapted to dealing with cumulative sun damage.
It sounds like you have grossly misunderstood what this paper is about. Like, in the order of several scientific disciplines wrong. You were probably confused by the authors using some of the commonly used terms, but nevertheless, this work is in the field of Machine Learning.
Thank you for reply, i will push changes today with yours suggestions.
It's easy to tell when they are moved, and whether it was moved after the user parked it. The scooters have gyros and accelerometers and clocks in them.
I agree that you should be able to get in contact with the website owner. However, I believe it'd be better if a person had to at least query denic to get your address. That's easy enough if you have to resolve a serious matter and the website owner is also a bit more protected against abuse of their data.
Neat project! I'm interested in the 1.2GHz version, but is there any reasonable way to have some guarantee that I will get it? I understand that things can get pushed back with projects like this, so delays aren't my concern, just actual follow-through.
Personably, software that helps on-board new hires, gets backing from GFC
It may be totally silly (I consider myself lucky for getting by with good enough so far:)), but would `(Math.floor(0.11x10xx2)+Math.floor(0.1x10xx2))` divided by 100 work?

Probably I'd like to do the last step with a custom arithmetic and not store the final value as a float, but like I said, I'm not sure. I get that the lowest denominator route is good, but it feels complicated and the chance of migrating a shoddy "good enough" project is zero in that case.

(For fuck's sake, in 2018 formatting text or using utf8 on hacker news is too much to ask for, it's even worse than slashdot)
>As much as I dislike Analytic philosophy and like Continental philosophy, I can't let this criticism pass without defending the Analytics.

I was referring to US-based "continentals" (social criticism, gender, etc) not to Analytics with the above.
I don't agree with this being an "oft-overlooked" method - this seems to be the no. 1 strategy every tech startup is trying to do these days.

Which is why I now need an account to play games or work with photoshop, why we have "smart" light-switches that need to talk to their platform to turn on the light half a meter away and why there are half a dozen isolated messenger services instead of a single federated protocol (not even starting with "smart home" systems).

However the article is a good summary of all the reasons that will cause companies to pursue network effects and the signs you can watch out for to spot them.
Tragically, this is most probably by design, to encourage sign-ups. Whoever implemented that should not feel any better than a telemarketer or a spammer.
I'm one of the naysayers, and I'm one of the lefties. So, I've come here to parade my bucket of no painted red. But, asked the purely intellectual question "is any element of intelligence heritable" obviously I'm going to say yes.

Yes. It's heritable. What do you want to do about it? How much do you want to screw things up, acting on it?
How would you ever know it exists then. No, they should give you the option to be reminded again, or be done with it. But since we are talking about deleting all cookies, where do you think this information would be added?
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In short: site breakage.

We're so deep in this that a first party isolation would break almost every single website. In a cooperation with Tor, Mozilla actually ported the first-party isolation feature in mainstream Firefox (available in Nightly, don't know about stable), but since it would break almost every single website, there are no plans to turn it on by default. You can, of course, enable it yourself by turning on "privacy.firstparty.isolate" in about:config.

Disclaimer: I'm a Mozilla Foundation affiliate that has nothing to do with Mozilla Corporation nor Firefox.
One VM to Rule them All.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6358772

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232240

That was the earliest post I remember from HN. But I record there some other information scattered around a little before that.

So this is nearly 5 years coming. I am amazed what at first seems like fantasy, impossible work is now actually thing. 2012 / 2013 was the year when VM and JIT has lots of innovation. Rubinus, LuaJIT, SpiderMonkey and all those Javascript VM.
Comparing Oracle to Google is like comparing China gov to US gov. They both do bad things, but they are not remotely the same, the difference is well over 10x.

Recent story about Oracle exercising copyright over the word "javascript": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862949

Remember when Oracle sued Google for re-implementing the Java standard library.

Remember the OpenOffice -> LibreOffice thing.
Remember the Hudson -> Jenkins thing.

There's the enterprise sales/licensing tactics which I guess is not very familiar or visceral for most of us, me included. But I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting ...
YouTube Monetization Alternatives That Work in 2018
The state of the sector: UK public sector domain security
The No. 1 trait highly charismatic people all share, according to science
I think part of the problem is the event nature of those things. Currently social people seem to be incredibly event oriented.

For me the places that form friendships are places where people go out of habit. The living room of my student corridor, weekly boyscout meetings and this "club house" at university where people just went to sit on a sofa, drink coffee and talk about mechanical engineering.

It matters lot less then if you're little bit shy. And any given occasion doesn't feel as much like wasted effort even if it's fruitless. But for some reason people are not into stuff like this if you suggest it. While same people might cling to their weekly pointless meetups once it's established.
The schools in our area are in the final phases of remodeling, getting rid of the open floor plan layout that was in vogue when many of the schools were built, and was such a disaster. Nice to see taxpayer money hard at work.

It's funny that a business as reactionary as the education system seems to have learned this lesson but tech companies haven't.
It’s amusing that someone still thinks that Microsoft or a Billionaire are a needed descriptors in a title about Bill Gates.
Ever encountered Google ReCaptcha when you've turned off third party cookies or while in incognito/private mode? It's a nightmare, even if you're logged into a Google account. You can be shown upto 7-8 challenges, painfully slow loading images and Google's insistence that they encountered malicious traffic from your IP when attempting to use the audio version. What's even worse is they track your mouse movements and fast solvers like me are penalized since they think I'm not human anymore.

As much as I hate third party cookies, turning them on drastically simplifies the captcha solving process. So much so, I now use a separate browser profile with third party cookies allowed, just for the sake of captcha heavy sites.

Given that Google benefits by tracking my activities and free labor from my captcha solving, they will always punish privacy conscious users via such dark patterns.
We used to do that, but it turns out that having the Internet visit your chat community without any briefing isn't the best plan. Linking to the ReadTheDocs page has helped a lot in making sure people joining the community have some sense as to what to expect (e.g. that it's at times running a super beta version of Zulip, or that people are doing actual work, that we have a code of conduct, and you should send your test messages to #test here).
Well, I can only promise you that I will deliver. We shipped around 400 VA2000s&CXs out of my house. Smaller scope, but I’m used to ship.

Edit: I already purchased some critical parts (all SoC modules, 100x hinges, 2000 keyswitches, fans, optical sensors), and I have suppliers for the screen and batteries.
Why has RAM stagnated? I want 32GB in a similar form factor, make it power down unused chips if that's a concern.
That's a good point. I keep hearing from it since I was a kid. And it doged retirement many times already. The builders can be proud.
Making the leap to DDG was way easier than I thought and I am really pissed now that I didn't do it months ago. As other have said, you can generally find anything you want and, if not, you always have !g. However, I now have an intuition as to what sort of searches might yield good results. Either way, I encourage everyone to do it. Just change your search engine to DDG in your browser and, after a couple of searches, you will forget it's not Google.
Hmm. I'm not sure I can follow.

The browser not being able to distinguish between essential and non-essential cookies does not change the fact that cookies are and were entirely voluntary.
I'm outside America, and I hear it all the time.
New in Chrome 66
I am old guy... I still remember times when there were ads but no one was tracking you. And everything was still free.

I dont agree with the article, the ads ARE ethnical, but tracking user is not. I wonder how those two guys would feel if I would walk all the time behind them and write down everything what they are doing. And when they would ask what am I doing, i would say "just collecting data for targeted ads". Feels a bit different when you put it into real world, right?

Now the data are "legaly" gone, nothing will change, ads will still be there even without targeting. But after a while, when most of tracking parasites will go out of business, the pages will load much faster. And probably we will have a few clickbait sites less.
Some sites rely on multiple domains to work. E.g. open auth, cdns are usually a separate domain, a lot of big corporates create new domains for “microsites” when they want to do something new but are tied down by slow moving corporate practices (although the world would be a better place without microsites).

Basically, you couldn’t do it without breaking a large part of the internet.
I have a similar need for Google. I have two gmail accounts. One is to preserve my privacy. But I can only open one at the time. That's acceptable since I forward mails.

But then, everything I do at Google is tracked and associated with this opened gmail account.

Once we are connected to Google, we are kind of logged in Google. They can track everything we do, even searches.

The problem I'm facing is that I can't keep the Google agenda opened for one user, and be connected to Google gmail as the other user. That's how far the "logging to Google" has got.
They have the right intention. But how is this useful?
As far as I can tell, it does not prevent FF from leaking information that helps FB generate a fingerprint.
I'd still reveal the same IP address (would be cool if Mozilla provided a VPN that all FB traffic goes through), the same browser, the same OS, screen resolution etc...
Thanks for information. Seems like I should be able to do it.

Though if we want to have little customization like that does it mean we'll absolutely need to host it on our servers or something like that possible on hosted plan?

PS: Obviously I get that If I manage to push code upstream hosted option will support it, but I suppose it's might take a while.
Fair enough. I looked a bit more around your website. Hopefully there will be one more preorder available in the morning.

Best of luck with the project regardless.
There's an 11" model, IMO that puts it somewhere within netbook territory.
"Log in with GitHub" didn't work for me. GitHub asked me to authorize Zulip then nothing happened, I can't login.
What you unconsciously do when turning, is to quickly turn it a bit in the other direction first in order to get the bicycle more to the other side of you, so you have a better balance point for the big turn. Not perfectly explained, sorry.

But try this: Try following a straight marker on the road on your bike. It's very hard. When you start going too much to the right, you will find it impossible to actually nudge the bike back to the left, unless you accept that you have to go further to the right first.

This also happens when driving close to a curb. It feels like it's sucking you in.
Why 2G of ram? Its certainly usable but seems so limiting is there really a huge savings from not including another 2G?
Cheaper in the short term. If your engineers productivity is constantly tanking because of noise and interruptions it will mean lots of wasted money.

But you can't factor that in a spreadsheet, right?
Feelium Coin ICO: Tokenized Smart Contracts and Escrow Blockchain?
Is that like some new sort of Godwin's Law? "As an HN discussion grows longer, the probability of a blockchain implementation approaches 1."
This is actually the first time I heard of UPL, which from what i read in the FAQ [1] is basically a GPL v2 compatible Apache 2 license. Which was one of the problem Apple had with LLVM i think. I wonder why Apple decide not to use UPL?

[1] https://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl/#_What_is_the_1
Really excited to see 1.0 release. Have been following Graal and SubtrateVM as a way to create native binaries (specifically CLI tools).

So, any plans to support Windows and MacOSx for CE?

Also, any support for cross-compilation to generate native-binary for a different target(something like Golang GOOS) ?
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Redux 4.0.0
Yeah, but Apple doesn't mind sharing the source for those, if they make modifications.

These licenses prevent Graal VM from being used inside e.g. OSes and browsers with a more liberal license.
Why would you shoot animals with an arrow? Sounds unnecessarily cruel to me
For email maybe use Thunderbird instead of browser. I have multiple mail accounts for different stuff on gmail. I do not login to it through web interface. It would be too much work and in Thunderbird I have also mails from other providers in one place.
This analysis is misguided because many of those languages are DSLs, e.g. ABAP, Apex, F#. No one using them has the option of using a general purpose language (and they are well-paid enough not to care). Whereas Perl 6 is in direct competition with general purpose languages. And it really is time to give up on flogging that dead horse.
> maybe 60sqft-ish?

For those of us with non-ridiculous units, that's 5-6 m².
That's countersteering [1]. I find it very hard to explain but it's something that most people on a bicycle (at speed) or a motorcycle (again, at speed) do naturally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering
I'm with you I recently purchased a thinkpad s3 yoga made in 2014/15 for $275. Works for me.
Thanks for this. I was wondering when Firefox would give such an option in the browser, but never bother to search for plugins.
Password manager RememBear exits beta with official launch
You don't have the option to respect or disrespect requests, regardless of their merit, when you are on private property.

You leave when requested or you are trespassing. It is that simple.

Even buying a coffee doesn't entitle you to stay against the owner's wish.
This is great. One piece of feedback, about the reviews themselves: Every time you use parentheses, there’s no space between the preceding word and the opening paren(like this).

I only read through the ACF review, but I saw it a number of times there.
> No one understands scopes and subscopes, subcomponents etc

I think there are two reasons for this. First, is how scopes interact with Android component lifecycles, which make everything harder (like RxJava, etc) since they are a complexity multiplier.

Second, there are seemingly bizarre design decisions. For example, if you use dependent components (aka component dependencies), the syntax is pretty straightforward:

@Component { }
interface AppComponent { X,Y,Z }

@Component { dependencies = AppComponent.class }
interface LoginComponent { }

So the natural order of things is, components use modules, and components can depend on other components. Pretty simple.

Subcomponents turns this relatively simple schema around. The documentation for subcomponents say:

> "To add a subcomponent to a parent component, add the subcomponent class to the subcomponents attribute of a @Module that the parent component installs."

I find is truly strange, now we have modules depending on (sub)components which is the inverse relationship as above.
Blockchain and social networks: unbundling, and re-creating the stack
for the right audience you could arguably also omit "Gates"
Oh I took it very seriously because it's something I've given quite a lot of thought. I'm not a huge believer in cryptocurrencies but I would be a lot more optimistic about them if they weren't wasting so much energy. Harnessing all that processing power to do something useful would be amazing. Unfortunately so far the most useful PoW people have manage to implement are things like "compute very large prime numbers" which I suppose is mildly more useful than finding SHA256 collisions but not by a very large margin.
How F# is not a general purpose language?
True, that's why someone should do that before the meeting but again most people assume that others will be late anyway. Than you get 3 high paid engineers setting up a beamer.
What I cannot find anywhere: how does this compare to Firefox' tracking protection feature? That would already block third-party requests to Facebook on other sites, wouldn't it?
also if you could reach me at meetroomie [at] gmail [dot] com
You'll want to sign up first, at https://chat.zulip.org/register/.
I'd like to especially highlight your 'at speed' point here. It's often claimed that _all_ steering on a bike requires countersteering, but that is false. Countersteering allows rapid change of direction, but if you're going in a straight line, then lean left and gently steer left (or just lean left and allowing the front wheel to steer itself), you _will_ go left, no countersteering required.
I don't watch Youtube, so it's hard to assess the point being made, but zero gravity implies no normal force and therefore friction. Bicycles need friction for both drive and steering, as I and many others have painfully experienced!
>The American/Western exceptionalism attitude towards other countries is kinda nauseatic.

So too is the "everyone's on aggregate just as bad as each other and everything is the same" equivocating approach to evaluating different countries and their systems.

>For the most part the country is economically and socially stable and improving at rapid pace. Yes the country has its share of problems, but name me one country, democratic, developed or otherwise that doesnt have their share of problems.

Nobody is saying Western countries are perfect. We just have the confidence in liberal democracy to at least say it is at least vastly superior to the dystopia China currently is. To say "China is improving at a rapid pace" is myopic. If you only care about economic development, then you are right, but if you care about civil liberties and human rights, then you could not be more wrong.
I think he's trying to make a "why no USB3.0 in 2018" type argument
Just find some plywood and build yourself a nice cubicle :)
Bluewind is a small consulting company based in Italy (embedded systems). We switched from "almost all devs in a room" to 2/3 devs per room maximum while building our own offices recently. And common spaces for meetings, conferences and telephone calls. Encouraging to work from home when possible also. Interesting: working this way and adopting Agile principles makes enhances collaboration a lot, much more that in the previous open space where having everyone in the same room makes it almost impossible for people to talk each other when needed.
It is and there are official classifications for that. Ibérico is about the race, pata negra (black paw) being a best subclass name that expanded to anything first class. If a Spaniard says you are pata negra, it's actually good, not an indictment on your feet higiene :)

Bellota (acorn) the diet. You can find intermediate categories like "50% raza ibérica" or "recebo" for both.
Yes! Pretty much all SF and AI woo ignores the fact that humans are ecosystems, and not brains driving a machine
Right, but there's no reason to think the legislators didn't know that, because their goal was not to prevent the use of all cookies.
I believe trademark laws require trademark holders to actively enforce them or they run the risk of losing the trademark when it comes up in something that actually matters.

Although really Oracle should have the sense to see the state of the landscape and just drop it. It's become a generic term - in fact, it always was.
It does seem they always go for the path that will maximize profits, evil (note not a legal term, but a moral one) and pull everyone down to the bottom with their actions.

I am convinced if there was a crossroads with a payout of x dollars for both choices, but with a pretty nasty outcome for the community for choice y as the distinguishing factor, Oracle would pick y in a heartbeat.

I think a good description for Oracle is "the demon that pulls everyone down to hell with them..."
I can't see what's wrong with ECMAScript. ['ek.ma] script. Javascript is just as long.