skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree, but I think you're conflating two kinds of content protection.

One prevents the attacker from accessing something they aren't subscribed to, and relies on crypto and secure subscriber identity mechanisms. This is completely possible to implement soundly.

The other prevents the attacker from copying something they can see or listen to, and relies on bizarre mechanisms designed to prevent the user from learning the state of their hardware.

I find the latter awful, because it's an infinitely losing battle (you can always point a camera at your display in the end) which erodes consumer freedoms and encourages walled gardens.

Satellite TV is a funny example - since the communication is strictly one-way, the hardware state needs to be protected or it can be cloned, but I still think it's fundamentally a question of the transport protection variety rather than the copy protection one.
I'm all for improving what we have, and the new GSS system does look interesting and could possibly influence CSS. But I think you're reacting too strongly to CSS. AFAIK the normal, flex, and grid layout modes are compatible (in the sense that you can mix them in one page and have things like flex inside grid elements and vice versa). Being a lurker on some standardisation email lists some of the best engineers in the world are on there taking everything very seriously, including future-proofing since everyone is well aware anything they add now will basically have to be supported forever.

I'm not sure I understand your two complaints (isn't there already position: relative and percentage sizes?), but I think good engineering is always about making tradeoffs, and while I don't understand GSS enough to criticise it I feel it's unlikely to be a silver bullet that magically fixes everything in itself, and will likely have its own quirks and pitfalls as well.
This is just hardware problem. The biggest risk is in the software. The potential for F-35 being the most expensive software project failure is still there.

Lockheed is still writing the code for Block 2B software that provides enough functionality for the initial operational capability (IOC). That might be ready 2016 if the software gets ready. This would enable F-35 to fly limited combat missions.

The real reason for F-35 is in the block 3F (full capability). Full sensor integration, augmented reality helmet, data fusion between radars and IR. Ability to share raw sensor data between fighters. It's incredibly complex systems with millions of lines of code and it's safety critical code. Without it, F-35 is failure.

Software Testing Problems Continue to Plague F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program
http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/aerospace/aviation/softw...
There is a bug in Linux where if the key is pressed and released too quickly the site assumes you're just holding it down indefinitely.

This is unfortunate since I was trying to cheat with xdotool and it kept bugging out depending on how many people were beeping along with me.
Magento Go is shutting down
One of the reasons, not the sole reason. The point I was trying to make is that "just ignore performance and use an expressive language" is not always a sound strategy - even for web applications. And yes, my example is probably a poor one.
Stuck in the past? Or stuck in reality where magical planes that do everything better than specialized planes can manage don't exist?
I started this site as a way to learn nodejs and play with new technologies. The side project turned into an almost 2 year journey of learning.

Right now the site has just shy of 1000 users and I have no idea how to make money from it :)
It's not likely that a computer vision system is going to be that much better than humans at the task. Maybe it will be able to guess your latitude by the color of the sky or something crazy like that, but not give you an exact address.
Hetzner does provide ipv6 on VPS. You just request it in the control panel and get a /64 allocated.
> Please name names?

Seriously? It's not _perfectly_ clear who I'm talking about?
Would a Quorum ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum_(distributed_computing) ) method - like done with Ceph's monitoring system agents - be able to handle this?

I mean, you still may end up with the split-brain problem in the long run, but if that happens within a data-center would be the least of your worries. (Something like netflix's chaos army comes to mind for dealing with that).
What ISP are you using?
"I think Scala is going to win the corporate mind-share. - very unlikely. Java 8 will (continue to) win corporate mindshare. Scala added the missing elements to java, but Java 8 adds them into the base line so the need for scala goes away. Corporations have too much invested in java and there's not enough differentiation between scala and java 8 to make the cost of that transition likely. I predict that we'll see a steady decline in Scala as Java 8 gains traction in the enterprise development world.
It's so nice to see how new ecosystems emerge. Looking forward to many more frameworks and tools for Swift.
Isn't this, were it true, a merger of two things under one name, as with companies, and not the elimination of an entire product? That said, I'm thinking I should finally get around to porting my number to Google Voice[1].

[1] https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1065667?hl=en
Typo in the page title of "BDD-style framerwork for swift
http://railsware.com/blog/2014/07/04/bdd-style-testing-in-sw...

Should be "BDD-style framework for swift
http://railsware.com/blog/2014/07/04/bdd-style-testing-in-sw...
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It can be seen as a form of protest against the mere idea of the practice of DRM. I.e. it doesn't mean authors advocate piracy, but they make a stand against unethical overreaching preemptive policing and its undemocratic off-shoots (DMCA-1201).
Vote for this startup idea to win $70k from #GetStarted2014 http://getstarted2014.co.uk/getstarted2014/ideas/6517
Could be Germany got an evaluation copy of the program and somebody there leaked it. Maybe it isn't restricted to just 5 eyes alliance
Can you describe in more details what you mean? An inlined function with restrict parameters is of course inlined as if the variables are restricted. Indeed, a test of an inline of an inline of an inline was still optimized (or rather, not guarded) per the restrict.
I've never experienced that; I wouldn't stick around in any negotiation where that occurred.

to me, that's a red flag on multiple levels.
Looks like a great app and would love to try it, one thing to note is that searching "Solo" in the iOS app store returns a bunch of various guitar apps, I couldn't find it without including "share moments alone".
The largest driver of this outbreak (and many ebola outbreaks) is the fear of healthcare and the way many cultures treat the deceased. These two issues are what would make transmission to NA or Europe very unlikely.

Many people in African nations will stay away from hospitals because they believe they will get Ebola from the hospital. Therefore often people that are sick die of Ebola in the community and therefore spread the disease (symptoms of ebola are very similar to malaria in the first stages, and therefore does not always draw attention to people familiar with malaria)

Secondly, when people die in many of these cultures, there is much more physical connection with the body, potentially spreading the disease more.

In NA and Europe, people are much more likely to seek care and we also don't have as much contact with deceased person (and also have guidelines for handling of infectious bodies).
This is the 18th post of the same article:

https://hn.algolia.io/#!/story/past_month/prefix/0/The%20Pit...
As I've said elsewhere I disagree with this position. And at the risk of beating a dead horse the text specifically says in various ways, and in various places the general concept that a service provider shall not be liable only if a number of general principals are followed that include the fact they are not participating in the selection process of the material. If they begin to participate they are not protected under Safe Harbor.

For example 512 requires that:
"the transmission, routing, provision of connections, or storage is carried out through an automatic technical process without selection of the material by the service provider"

Demonstrable proof of non automated selection such as failure to comply with a lawful counter-notice voids the ENTIRE protection.

Companies such as Vimeo have lost protections under the DMCA safe harbor provisions for exactly this reason.
There are semi-legitimate reasons to break Spotify's DRM. One artist I follow was about to release an album, but their record label cancelled it at the last second. Luckily, it still got uploaded to Spotify, so I was able to download a copy of it.
I'd really like you to make a case for why I, as somebody who won't store production credentials in my code repo, should feel good storing them in yours.

I run the a SaaS cron monitoring service (Cronitor.io) and we ourselves make liberal use of SaaS tools to simplify our lives and free us to focus our time on places we can add value. But I'm skeptical of storing all the things our apps need -- private keys, passwords, paths, ports and hostnames -- with you. And that doesn't even touch on the risk that if somebody compromised you, wouldn't they essentially have a key to the back door of every one of your customers? What have you done to mitigate that risk?

Aside from all that, congrats on shipping! It's an important milestone.
Ask HN: Why do certain articles keep popping up from time to time?
I am new to here, so I don't know if this is intentional. But 'Pitchforks are coming' and many others keep on popping up in 'new' category. Why can't mods simply not allow same link to be posted twice?

Also 'Men are likely to shock [..]' is shared many times over. This I think violates HN policy to post the source link. Why not simply post the research paper?
"While the language should allow for great performance, the current compiler is still a bit rough, and I've had a hard time getting Swift to come out ahead in any performance tests. Most of the slowness looks to come down to a lot of redundant retain/release activity being emitted by the compiler. I expect this to be fixed before too long, but in the meantime, it means that this article is going to be more about how Swift could potentially be faster than Objective-C than about how it's actually faster right now."

Well that is very much in-line with what the SO page is saying, lots of retain release operations.

" I did not try to understand all of it, but the most suspicious parts are 13 invocations of "callq _swift_retain" and another 13 invocations of "callq _swift_release". That is, 26 subroutine calls in the inner loop!"
Extensive discussion here from four days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7968833
The fan is IN the device not ON the device so it's actually fanless according to your definition.

Perhaps there is a gray area where ON is synonymous with IN for people who aren't being pedantic, just as fanless is synonymous with cool and quiet for most consumers.
You're missing the point, we're not talking about career paths here, no one is advising anyone to become an accountant over a programmer. We're talking about an introduction to these subjects.

If you had one week to sit down with every person in this world, I think that time would be better spent discussing finances, investments and retirement, instead of an introduction to variables, if/then statements, and loops.
Instead of error messages, I got this: http://i.imgur.com/mDTPnrq.png
There is a difference between combat radius and ferry range. The F-35B has a ferry range of about 900nm so to get from NAS Pax River to UK would only require 5 or 6 tankings in the air. This assumes the F-35Bs fly without external tanks.

Almost all long crossings over ocean require a divert point if the jets can't refuel in the air, or have a trapped fuel issue where they can't use fuel from one or more tanks.

Typically, fighters "top up" the tanks more than strictly needed, for additional margin if something goes wrong. It doesn't require 10 refuelings, just for range.

Another likely explanation is a delay in getting clearance to fly in the UK, largely due to the recent mishap.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/02/uk-lockheed-fighter...

> "Strict UK liability laws mean British authorities need additional information before granting flight clearances. If something went wrong, the individual officer who approved the flight could be sued personally, the sources said."

Edit: Corrected the point about extra refuelings.
Maybe.

One danger that isn't mentioned in the article is that Ebola is suspected of being carried by animals, fruit bats in particular.

Lots of bushmeat gets smuggled into Europe.
Voting with your wallet is much less effective than publicly complaining, unless of course your wallet is worth a lot.
I guess it was oriented more towards people who are more negative saying things like "this sucks and will fail because of X, Y and Z" and not personal things like you said.
Shameless plug to follow...

Much of the technology here was invented by Brendan and others at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, which is where I work. We have been very lucky to have Brendan join us for a few summers while he was completing his PhD at Georgia Tech and he gave a great showing at RECON. Brilliant guy. If you're interested in reverse engineering his most recent papers are essential reading: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/b/brendan.

In addition to some of the automated RE work, we've also got multi-million dollar research efforts hacking the Linux kernel and reverse engineering/analyzing embedded systems. Lot's of fun stuff. You get to work on really exciting problems and you'll have the funding and the skilled coworkers you need to execute successfully.

If you find this type of stuff exciting, you should drop me a line at sally@ll.mit.edu. We're always hiring^. We've got great benefits too, like a pension, unlimited sick leave, 13 holidays, 20 vacation days, and free classes at MIT.

^One caveat is that because of how we are funded, we are only able to employ US citizens.
My comment wasn't really to the authors of this tool. Their tool is a form of the public protest and is appropriate. It was more directed to those who actually use Spotify. For them, complaining while actually using these kind of services (and helping them to spread more DRM in the process) is strange.
Docker 1.1 Released and With It A New “Ignore” Functionality
One of the most incredible parts is that they've already run feature detection on all 100M images/videos and extracted 50TB of:

"SIFT, GIST, Auto Color Correlogram, Gabor Features, CEDD, Color Layout, Edge Histogram, FCTH, Fuzzy Opponent Histogram, Joint Histogram, Kaldi Features, MFCC, SACC_Pitch, and Tonality"

The good part about this for researchers is not only that this saves dozens of CPU-years of computation (back of the envelope, it would take 15 years for my laptop to extract those SIFT features alone), but that any differences in learning/recognition performance on the dataset can be attributed to the algorithms in question, uncomplicated by which researcher engineered the best features for the dataset. On the other hand, it's a challenging dataset to work with because you can't just download it and process it locally as has been traditionally done. I'll be interested to see how many take advantage of it.
It's been a few years since I've seen clang/llvm fail to elide a memcpy used in place of type punning (it's an idiom that I use very frequently as a library writer, and care a lot about). If you have examples of cases where llvm fails to do this optimization, please file a bug report and I will be delighted to lean on the right folks to get it fixed. You shouldn't need to work around it.
Well - I've got some stuff that I bought from Audible. But I just rent it. Worse, I cancelled my account because of this crappy DRM in the past (got a new one now) and that seems to mean that I will never again be able to listen to the books I purchased.

Right now I'm listening to an audiobook. I would LOVE to listen to that on my Linux machine. How..?
I would DEFINITELY prefer not to lose that access (again?), when I decide that the subscription for crappy DRM'd content isn't worth my money.
So should Europe and the U.S. begin worrying about the virus?

As a North African inhabitant (Tunisia), I can't help but consider this egocentric. Are other African countries somehow doomed?
This is a great idea and I just downloaded it. Actually I will use it when I want to take stealthy pictures which I do frequently (not wanting the display to show).

However under ios6, after download, it isn't working. Opens up the splash screen then it just quits.
The main difference is that Swift unlike obj-c can be made fast.
hey thanks, used the promo code. I was looking to test out do.
I don't think we want to colonize or otherwise subjugate anyone and our military is vastly larger than it needs to be to prevent others from subjugating us.
Post author here! I wanted to make it clear that the original technique for breaking Spotify DRM is not mine - it was developed by Wang et al. in their excellent paper, Steal This Movie: Automatically Bypassing DRM Protection in Streaming Media Services. I just thought it would be a nice showcase of PANDA's capabilities. In particular, we can avoid the crazy optimizations in that paper because we can operate on a replayed execution rather than doing it live.
If you look at the full context it's not comparable. First, do they say fanless in any of the marketing or promotional materials like HP did? Not that I know of.

Second, the "another way to say fanless is thin" seems to be marketing spin to me, like saying one of the benefits of fanless is thinness.

Third, unless someone tuned off the video in 30 seconds, it's clear that it is not really fanless.

Here's the transcript, can anyone come off with the impression that the Pro 3 is fanless? Especially while the fan was shown on the screen to the audience all along?

>I can go through all 100 custom parts it took to do that. I won't. I want to talk about one part. It's probably the most significant of the parts. I'll hold the device so you can continue to get a shot of it. But look at the fan that you see up there. We talk about fanless all the time. Fanless is an interesting concept. That was something people talked about three years ago when they talked about tablets.

>This thing is fanless. Another way to say fanless is "thin." Another way to say fanless is "cool" to the touch. Another way to say fanless is you don't feel the air.

>So what we designed in our product as you know from Surface Pro 2. Take a quick look at Surface Pro 3. Do you see that perimeter vent going around here? That same vent in Surface Pro 2, that same technology invented came into this small package.

>Then we reinvented the fan. We were able to make it 30 percent more efficient than any fan in any product today. Then we reinvented the fin on the fan, and we're able to radially emit air throughout the entire product so you never feel it. You don't hear it. You don't even see it.
You should get a bitcoin client :)
I just posted that exact link without issue.
s/F-35/Mars Lander/
Great info! Freelancing
Have you been reading the rest of the news over the last year or so? If they want it, they are taking it. That is of course unless governments aren't already sharing.

I had a potential client from the Netherlands (pre-NSA) say no thanks as we are a US based company and he didn't want the possibility of the US government obtaining his data. Fair enough I wasn't going to change his mind. Those who travel frequently internationally know (or should) about a program called Global Entry. Basically let's you go though the border using a machine instead of talking to an immigration officer. At the time it was available to US citizens (with a squeaky clean record) and Dutch citizens. What kind of information sharing must the Dutch be doing with the US to allow us to basically open our borders?

Back to data centers and pretending governments aren't in bed with the NSA for some reason or another and a non US company owns the data center. Who do you think is providing the pipe going into that data center? Almost certainly a US company (or it is 1-2 hops away).
The link times out for me on Verizon, but it works under Tor. For those who cannot access it, here is the text of the page:

We've been thinking of state surveillance for years because of our work in places where journalists are threatened. Tor's anonymity is based on distributed trust, so observing traffic at one place in the Tor network, even a directory authority, isn't enough to break it. Tor has gone mainstream in the past few years, and its wide diversity of users -- from civic-minded individuals and ordinary consumers to activists, law enforcement, and companies -- is part of its security. Just learning that somebody visited the Tor or Tails website doesn't tell you whether that person is a journalist source, someone concerned that her Internet Service Provider will learn about her health conditions, or just someone irked that cat videos are blocked in her location.

Trying to make a list of Tor's millions of daily users certainly counts as widescale collection. Their attack on the bridge address distribution service shows their "collect all the things" mentality -- it's worth emphasizing that we designed bridges for users in countries like China and Iran, and here we are finding out about attacks by our own country. Does reading the contents of those mails violate the wiretap act? Now I understand how the Google engineers felt when they learned about the attacks on their infrastructure.
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Money is not equivalent to speech, but money is necessary to enable speech.

Similarly, none of the following are speech, yet all are essential to it: telephones, computers, servers, printers, megaphones, and pens. If the government bans spending by certain groups, it is preventing them from acquiring the means to advocate for their ideas, which is the essential (and primary) purpose of political speech.

The "money is speech" phrase is a straw-man put forward by opponents of the expansion of 1st Amendment rights to non-media organizations.

If you want an example of how this might affect groups you support, consider that many courts have ruled blogs to be non-media activities, thus they could be banned from engaging in any politically related speech by the Federal Electoral Commission, if you accept Solicitor General Verrilli's arguments. The government could also ban groups and individuals from sending letters to newspaper editors by preventing the purchase of stamps to send the offending messages, or it could simply declare that uncompensated services (such as letter-writing, or petitioning) by groups like unions or other advocacy groups should be evaluated as a contribution, and limited or banned.
I honestly don't know. I don't see it as being that far fetched to have a single plane that can do what 2-3 30 yr-old planes were made to do, but again I don't know anything.

It's probably just me being crazy but I feel like for Mr. Sprey has ulterior motives and reasons beyond the ones he says for hating the F-35, like the fact that he seems to exclusively compare it to planes that he had a hand in creating, and like most people would, claims that his products are exclusively better. I'd say he is quite biased.