skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the suggestion was that, although Russia has faded as a major geopolitical competitor to the U.S. (though, to be sure, it still causes ore than its share of headaches for the U.S.) Cuba could eventually fall into China's orbit and become a useful geopolitical tool for them, just as it used to be for Russia. I'm not sure of what China would gain from that, though. I'm mostly just trying to interpret the comment.
This is the third time this article has been posted:

https://hn.algolia.io/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/https%3A%2F%...
As I understand it, the nest does have a humidity sensor and activity sensors (I guess since they are part of the one device there are limits on how capable they are). It also figures out how fast the building changes temperature and accesses the outside temp from the internet (this is weak, the temperature at an airport 50 miles away can be dramatically different).

I still wouldn't buy one as I don't quite see the value proposition (and am not deeply offended by mashing buttons to program a schedule), but it seems like a bigger step in the direction you are talking about than you think (and I guess it helps to have smart thermostats in the wild when you start trying to sell smart dampers into homes).
If they packaged this up and provided an optional ID card scanner front end could be useful.
Sorry, are you asking why Apple and Microsoft do not allow distribution of GPLv3 licensed packages?

Given that they haven't made any public statements about it, it's hard to say with certainty; you can only speculate.

But the major things that the GPLv3 changed, which companies like Apple and Microsoft are likely to object to, are the anti-Tivoization clauses, the patent license clauses, and the "no effective DRM" clauses. If you check the information about what changed in GPLv3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html), those were pretty much the only extra restrictions added.

The anti-Tivoization clause says that if you distribute the software along with hardware, you must also distribute (or provide users with a way to change) any keys that are necessary for users to run their own modified version of software on that hardware. Given that both Apple and Microsoft ship locked down phones that don't allow users to modify their software, and are increasingly moving towards locked-down App Store models even on desktop and laptop computers, they may not want to risk every being obliged to follow that requirement.

The patent grant clause is likely the one that worries them the most. That says that if you distribute the software, and your distribution of the software relies on patents that you either hold or license from someone else, you must either pass along the rights in those licenses (if possible), or give up the patent license (that is, if you have licensed a patent from someone but don't have the ability to transfer that license to downstream recipients, than you may only distribute the software if you give up that patent license, putting you and your users on equal footing if the holder of the patent decides to enforce it).

The DRM clause may also bother them, but I doubt that they would avoid using software due to it, since it only applies to software which is itself used as part of a DRM system, saying that it can't be considered an effective technological measure (as the other freedoms provided by the GPL allow users to replace it), and so none of the legally enforced restrictions on removing DRM can apply. Since that only applies to code that is used as part of a DRM system itself, I don't think that would cause them particular problems, as long as they avoid linking any of their DRM systems to GPLed code, but there may be cases in which it would come up.

Anyhow, I can't really say which of these is the reason that they don't allow it, as they have never made any public statements about that. My guess would be the patent clause, followed by the Tivoization clause, followed by the DRM cluase, in order of importance.
I have been using the "packrat" feature for more than a year, and Dropbox sent me a similar notification today to tell me they lost several thousand files, 816 could not been restored. They were "lost" around 8 months ago, so "packrat" didn't save me at all.

As it turns out, I have other backups of most of the files, and the rest of them weren't important. So I was lucky. Still, my confidence in the product is unlikely to recover.

I want to note that I had been aware of the "dropbox is not backup" chorus, but that argument usually is just "sync is not backup", which is sort of obvious. The packrat feature pretty much addressed this issue, so dropbox with packrat WAS a backup solution. So the lesson here is never to rely on any ONE backup provider.
Then why doesn't Bolivia?
Microsoft has been supporting the Mac for a long time. Word 1.0 has run on the Mac since 1984. Some relationships are complicated.
Especially, given the existence of the Speech and Debate Clause.
Toxo, the cysts in our brains from cats, can improve self-control (2013)
In my opinion, 1&1 Internet should be on the Black list.
Exactly just encrypt your SH&T ...

Sorry couldn't resist!
Ask HN: Good role for an ex-software engineer?
So I've decided I'm no longer going to be doing development, and curious about what business roles I can transition into. I don't think I can be a manager because all I've done is just do development for about 4 years and not anything at all to do with management.

Having run a SaaS, selling makes me feel alive. but I'm a bit of introvert. I did most of my pitching through email or phone.

I'm thinking sales but don't know what the different routes are or how I can transition into which. In particular, sales development representative sounds interesting but I'm open to anything else I could do.
Well, and Linus would never agree to move to the GPLv3 even if that were an option (assuming that copyright were assigned to him or an organization he had a controlling voice in). In his opinion, the GPLv2 is the perfect license, and he doesn't like the additional restrictions imposed by the GPLv3.

I don't necessarily agree with him, but based on his influence in the kernel community, it would be pretty hard to change the license over his objections.
Venezuela. Bolivia. Peru. Chile. Guyana. Jamaica.

The only thing the sanctions against Cuba did was drive them into the loving arms of USSR. Well played.
I wouldn't say the premise of the app is flawed, rather it's just that people seem to misunderstand its technical capabilities.

Snapchat was designed for ephemeral communication, not secure "send-and-destroy" messages. It would be very foolish of them to market it as something it cannot possibly be.
based on a quick perusal of the man page, the -O option will show something like "no answer yet for icmp_seq=19" when a packet doesn't get a response in time for the next one, and at least for me the default shows the icmp_seq which increases by one for each packet sent, but is only printed on each receipt (so you can spot missing ones).
It doesn't matter if the companies are American or not.

When will Americans realize that 96% of the global population are "foreigners", and are still considered human.
Downs-Thomson contains its own ad-absurdum refutation. If adding capacity makes congestion worse, then why can't we make congestion better by reducing capacity? Clearly this is wrong in the general case.
But how many hours a week did you spend in lectures? Certainly not the 30 hours a week that many high school students spend, and you almost certainly didn't take 8 classes at a time.

Furthermore, in college you can get up and go the bathroom or get something to drink without asking permission--you can even leave if you want. Even if you don't always exercise this freedom, just the knowledge that you can is a drastic change.
Found a startup :)
I said nothing about open source being a silver bullet. I only implied that it is better than closed source. The consensus has been that open source is more secure, especially with the bad behavior of corporations and government agency strong arm techniques in mind.

It just makes no sense to centralize your most important secrets into a single attack point for which you have no idea about its inner workings.
don't worry I got another account with lot of karma, gonna go for a coffee and you will feel my wrath.
Driving is fucking terrifying.

Of course that equates to Mission Accomplished, from the point of view of the people you're responding to.
Apple has started to embrace tabs within the system, most notably by integrating them into Finder windows in Mavericks. I agree that they should make it a standard type of application and have a standard tab UI that is used in as many apps as possible.
"Plus back in the day I found VB 6 quite limiting. "

This, exactly this.

The transition to .NET was a blessing, VB6 is really useless for anything else than "basic business apps" and even then!

IIRC you could only read/write a file (raw data) byte by byte (ok, that was before VB6, still...)
1. "The Snappening" was due to a breach of a third party service with no actual ties to Snapchat. This is like saying Bitcoin is insecure because of Mt. Gox's breach(es).

2. Most apps have documented or undocumented APIs. Writing a client to consume them does not indicate insecurity. It's only a security issue if the undocumented API exposes something that the company did not actually intend to expose (which, to be fair, is fairly common).

I have serious doubts about Snapchat's security due to the username <-> phone number leak discovered by GibsonSec, but the other things you listed say nothing of their security posture.
If you really want the window manager to handle your browser windows then just open new windows instead of opening tabs. All of your window manager's fancy window switching features, etc. will work.
That was pretty good. For those who have read the "Nightfall" short story, the novelization is still worthwhile. It mostly, if I recall correctly, deals with the aftermath of the events in the short story. It does cover the same ground as the short story in the early parts of the novel, so you don't have to have read the short story first.
If you look at the link, even the current method requires root on the device.
Thanks for these details! We added a client-side scripting option to specifically increase your jumps, so if you want you can create an Interacting for that. We also added flying mountables, triple jump wearables, parachutes, insta-teleporting, a 100% invincibility armor, and everything one might want to do. When you have a need, we try if possible to make it a feature, by integrating it in the Interacting language. At rank 2, try creating an Interacting block to see some of the things you can do. (If people find someone doing something which somehow ruins things for them, they may flag report a person though.)

Now as far as tweaking things which are harmful to others go, we try to base it on friendship -- so e.g. if you pick up a weapon you can only harm people who friended you (if your friends disagree with being killed, they can unfriend, and unfriended people aren't affected by one's bullets) -- but if you find anything that harms others even when not friended, please give us some time to fix it and disclose it privately to: we@manyland.com (we do have server-side checks for such things, so if something is not working there, we'd really appreciate the tip) We aren't perfect and private disclosure is very much appreciated.

Thanks again! Please let us know via email please if you find anything!
The other wiki article did list it.

In any case, preferred stock is listed, which are productive investments.
Ask HN: Does anyone know of something like gridspot.com
I'm looking for a service like gridspot.com, which appears to have shutdown, which provides a very cheap cloud computing type service, through the use of ordinary user's contributing CPU time.
There is absolutely no cryptographic means of preventing a Snapchat user from saving a Snapchat image he/she receives. No matter what measures they put in place, they will all effectively be security by obscurity. If the image is in RAM long enough for a human to see it, then it can be copied elsewhere.

The fact that their current encryption procedure is half-assed is because they know it'll be security by obscurity no matter what they do, so why even waste time?. It doesn't make a real difference either way. They just want to prevent the absolute simplest attacks. They could have XOR'd all images with a 1-byte key and it would be equivalent, and still would suffice the business need.
Thanks. Is it free or requires a paid license?
>I think we're very stand-offish people. We tend to not engage in conversation with strangers.

I have never heard that from anyone. What culture are you comparing the US to? I've heard the exact opposite from nearly every non-American I've ever discussed this with. If anything they think Americans are too friendly/chatty.
You don't quite understand. The threat model here is "a Snapchat user copying/saving a Snapchat image they receive", not TextSecure's threat model of "a third party observer or man in the middle". Implement whatever protocol you like, it doesn't matter; a user who roots his own device will be able to do whatever he likes to data stored on that device.
I live in LA, in Eagle Rock, and this somewhat describes what the LADOT has done on Colorado Blvd.

Anecdotally, where I live, the truly extreme speeding (50 mph in a 35) seems to have decreased. Also, most of the jockeying for position, weaving in and out of the lanes, has stopped, due to the reduction of 3 car lanes to 2 narrower car lanes plus bike lane. As a result, I'm quite in favor of this experiment.
Sadly many of the recent layoffs from MS have been in their QA and SDET/test engineering teams. The days of a strong testing discipline might be over for the company.
I have all my digital life on dropbox, a few hundred gig.

One of my greatest fears is that thousands of files might disappear without me noticing for years.

I use selective sync and twice I was looking for something that has disappeared and I have to restore it. I assumed maybe my wife accidentally deleted some files, but maybe it was dropbox?

What is the solution to this anxiety?
I don't think it's a huge shift as much as it is getting back to its roots. MS got its start by being the company that supported the PC as an open platform. Anyone could build a PC, any individual, any OEM, and put DOS or Windows on it. And anyone could write an app to run on DOS or Windows. For the time it was a remarkably free wheeling and open system, especially compared to what other companies like Apple was doing. And let us not forget that it was the success and growth of the open PC which made it possible for linux to come along and put itself on the same hardware. MS has certainly been guilty of various unfair business practices from time to time, and from trying to use its power to gain unfair advantage in the market, but for the most part I think that behavior tends to be the exception over Microsoft's history. Most of the time they are trying to pull customers and developers to them by offering a good platform and at some times even facilitating their own competition. In that regard, embracing open source is very much in keeping with that spirit, updated to reflect the new norms for what openness means today.
Sure, it's home automation, but why?

Hotels and businesses have those systems because they have a very high throughput of people and constantly changing conditions in a large number of rooms. To have unnecessary heating or cooling for even a short period of time adds up to a lot of money.

But it's not realistic to assume that home has that kind of changing conditions. External conditions may vary quite a bit, but you can easily smooth those out with insulation. A home wouldn't need nearly the same amount of fine and extensive control of a hotel or business, except in rare circumstances that can just as easily be handled manually.

You want to stabilize the temperature in a home? Add more insulation. Done. And it doesn't require an expensive home automation system.
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It is technologically impossible to prevent Snapchat users from saving or copying images they receive from other Snapchat users. Replace "Snapchat" with any other app here and the same principle applies.

Their proposition is not that this is impossible, but rather that it is not easy for a typical end user to see past images. This enables a form of ephemeral communication; it was never intended as a security feature, simply a communication feature.
Good catch. I saw this demonstrated in grade school, where they were probably using size 6 balls. Nevertheless, most people think it's not even close.
My friend who lives in the downtown area sent me a picture today. Someone busted out the elevator button to the top floor (where they live of course). In densely packed areas the ill behavior of just a few bad actors affects many more people. Having nice things close is great, though also having more bad thing close would take a toll on my mental health too.
I think a lot of these metrics are really proxies for social support. Belonging to a church, having 200+ people attend your cheap wedding -- these are situations in which you know a lot of people, who might be helpful to you when the marriage gets tough. You can talk to your grandma about the three years in which she really wanted to divorce grandpa, but they stuck it out and things got much better when x happened. You can call your cousin and ask him if he can take the kids for the evening because your wife is sick and you can't deal with everyone and everything at once. You can borrow a car from your fellow choir member, or you can vent about your relationship stress or how you hate your kids that week.

Social supports smooth out money problems, health problems, and relationship problems. Money+health problems are the number one cause of divorce in America (that is, money discussions are the number one marriage stressor in the US, and health problems are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US). If your parents/church/friends/cousins can help out with a loan/childcare/outright monetary gifts when certain economic or health sh&t goes down, your marriage is more likely to survive. That's not even counting emotional support and feelings-conversations.
> But they have time to search social media sites?

...er...yes? I mean, that's why social media sites are popular. To go beyond text communication, that's why Instagram is popular even though its photo editing capabilities are less expansive and sophisticated than your camera + GIMP. Social media sites demand little from the producer and the consumer, which is partially why we are so inclined to spend time there instead of writing full blog posts or letters to Mom.

Should society just acclimate itself to be less reactionary to social media quips? Sure, but that's a bit of begging the question there. Social media networks are so strong because they can cause such emotional reaction for such little energy input. I'm not an evolutionary biologist, but I halfway assume that there's something physiologically appealing about the whole process, and that something would fight back against the ability for society to collectively take a deep breath and patiently consume the stream of social media.

You and I want both the same thing: patience and empathy in civic discourse. But you have more faith than I do that it can/should happen even when the scales are so lopsided: physically, it gets easier and easier to make and disseminate our thoughts, but our ability to physically process such information does not scale as well.
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That's a fair point then.

This is my own person opinion, but I get the sense that China wants to expand its sphere of influence, but not in such a directly antagonist way to the US as Russia did.

While the US and Russia saw the entire world as a possible sphere of influence, I get the sense that China (at least for now) has a much more local focus.
> Traffic is always congested

Wider lanes won't make it less congested.
Discovered through Jason Goldman's tweet:

As someone who hates negotiating I found this really
good concrete advice for how to ask for a raise.
https://medium.com/p/da34ee4ecd5a

Source: https://twitter.com/goldman/status/521030226596618240
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Keep all the same data stored on another service, as well as on a physical backup that you keep yourself. If it's really important data you might keep a copy in a safe deposit box.
Despite good intentions, I think the article would be better off with a title like spurious correlations.

Please see http://tylervigen.com/ for more intriguing, though meaningless correlations.
No problem, and yeah I only tested simple player vars like jumping, nothing harm wise that would affect other players. Doing the server side check on that is perfect though, so it's obv you guys are aware of it (thought as much given the level of code).

I'll definitely let you know if I find anything else, was just messing with it for an hour or so today :) I apologize too if you don't want this up here and let me know if you want me to delete it.
They looked so sweet in their fancy outfits!
I'm confused as to why there would be a Kindle Fire app, but no Android app. Aren't apps for the two platforms nearly identical?
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No PONG received, connection error. RIP.
When I saw the screenshots of this article, it reminded me how much stress my indian colleagues were dealing with, a year ago.
We have worked some time together on a project with Indian people (still friends with them, awesome people) and the way they explained their working environment was not really appealing at all unfortunately.

They were indirectly forced to worked more than eight hours a day (around 9 to 10), and was required to report everyday to their managers about the progress done during the day in a stylesheet. Their managers were trying cut off financially as much as they can to save some more money in the department so that managers can get extra money at the end of year depending on the savings.

This caused employees more stress, more work, less comfort and less time with family. Since there are already a lot of people waiting to get job out there, they did not have much choice but accept the companies' rules..

I am hoping for a more trust oriented employer-employee relationships for my indian fellows..
Awesome project. Loved it.
In open areas yes, though please don't :) it's a very open world relying on each of us to do good. (Destructions of established blocks will leave dust that is traced back to you, and allows the undoing of the removal.) You can make a new area though where you can set the permission to you/ you and your friends only, meaning someone won't be able to remove a block there. Created areas with such permissions have another benefit: even your friends can enjoy them as explorers, trying to solve quest puzzles and such. I've made one such area here, for instance, an adventure game: http://manyland.com/newpolis
>>2. There are no homeless people in Cuba. I walk through downtown LA every week and I see more misery on one street than I've seen in the poorest cities in Cuba.

My uncle visited Cuba and stayed for a month. My understanding is that there is plenty of misery in Cuba. The difference is that it happens indoors and out of sight, as opposed to outdoors and in front of everyone (i.e. homeless).
>us-american

There's no need to ad "us" to "american". While the Americas can refer to the entire new world, the term "American" is wholly unambiguous. When you say American everyone in the world knows to whom you are referring, including all the other people of the Americas.
I think this would be a good situation for a learning algorithm. Couldn't Markov chains be used in this situation? I'd enter this if I was better with Python.