skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This App and Device Combo Lets You Play Video Games with Your Vagina
Winter suns, anyone?
> Of course, it's possible more companies have challenged this secret surveillance, but we just don't know about it yet.

And no other mention of Google in the article. Great that Yahoo fought them but it doesn't support your assertion that Google immediately gave in or cares less for privacy than Yahoo.

Even better, the same source you provided (EFF's Who Has Your Back report: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013) gives this as Yahoo's only positive mark while Google is 5/6.
I'd love to see an educational reform package that focused on several of these pillars. Something like the following:

* Greatly increase teacher pay. Increase it to something like 1.5x or 2x the current pay scale.

* Give greater flexibility to the administration to fire underperforming teachers.

* Install much more robust (and flexible to change over time) measures of teacher success. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded several studies in this area (https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/Documents/empowering-effect...).
Note that ESR uses a stricter definition of hacker than is usually accepted on HN. On HN, anyone who can write code is free to call themselves a hacker. But that doesn't mean you have the mindset. And to the extent that the hacker community still exists in the sense of this document, it doesn't mean you're a part of that.

I've complained about this before, it's something of a pet peeve of mine. I don't describe myself as a hacker.

(But also a weaker definition in several ways. Hacking in the ESR sense doesn't have to have anything to do with computers. This is in the jargon file, I'm a little surprised that the HOWTO doesn't say anything about it.)
I am not at all talking about stopping all space exploration, banning rocket science or similar nonsense. Only specifically about manned mission to mars and huge amount of cash that will cost it. Be it a noble cause, there are more noble and pressing ones that will have much more positive impact on our society.

And just because something ain't easy it shouldn't be aspired to be done? Or do you really feel internally perfectly OK throwing away stale food knowing there are kids starving out there? (seen those first hand, not in africa but in india, and to say it's a touching and saddening experience is a gross understatement).
I generally agree. However, smart pointers imply ownership of the object, especially unique_ptr.
Using shared_ptr is a good solution to ensure that the object is both alive when needed and deleted when not - but for the reader it is still not clear whether the instance pointed to will be available after the returned shared_ptr has fallen out of scope.
That said, I will definitely not argue against the use of smart pointers wherever possible :)
cheers!
FBI Director: Sony Hackers “Got Sloppy” on the IP Addresses. Did They Really?
"... but there's no analogous part in standard IBM-compatible PCs."

EFI variables are persistent and accessible from the pre-boot environment.
I should have been more precise in my language - my original post was just a short response to the article. In reality any change like I was proposing would require the current staff are retained and their job description changed. You are not going to be able to turn over the network to the English department and expect it to stay online for long :)

I actually don't underestimate what is required by the network engineers, but I do think it would be great if they were also teaching and doing research. If we moved to an all academic model then it would be possible to employee more network engineers and spread the load across more people. The skilled staff would be able to share their experience with the students. I actually value the contribution of the support staff very highly and want them involved in the core activities of the university. I have no time for the usual academic dismissal of administration as being full of worthless people, what I have an issue with is letting people work as full time admistrators.

Many administrative activities are fluff. What I would like to see is only the essential activities done and people spend their time on the important activities.
The terrorists seem to win...
>>Like if they make their own doodad, after seeing mine?

That's fine. You can make a car that looks like a Mercedes and no one will bat an eyelid, if you really made it with your own hands.

If you look at a game, and make your own that looks similar(or even exactly the same) - again, no one will bat an eyelid. But if you pirate the CAD files used to make said Mercedes and produce it using that then yeah, you stole their work without paying for it. If you pirate the game someone made without paying for it, you are also a scum. Whoever made it is not entitled to compensation, but you are not entitled to use other people's products for free.
An alternate take: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/08/guardia...

TLDR: the decision of what a media outlet should publish belongs with that outlet and fear of violent reprisals is very far from being the only reason to not publish an item.
http://www.berglas.org/Articles/parkinsons_law.pdf
When you see a term "Anglo-Saxon" in an article that isn't about medieval history, it is a sure sign of tinfoil.

(However if you're wearing a tinfoil hat that doesn't mean THEY don't try to affect your thoughts)
I remember this one too, but there was something specific for terrain, that at the time looked really impressive. Well, I'll think about that another time ;)
And sometimes you just want to get stuff done.

The kind of mistakes that good programmers make are not normally caught in code reviews. That's pretty much the definition of a good programmer; their mistakes are rare and subtle.
This is quite similar to how we hire Ruby on Rails developers. We organise two-weeks long Bootcamp where we train people in Rails. At the end we offer some of them to join us as junior developers, with further training during next year. Those who are not hired still win—they receive two weeks of training which helps them find jobs elsewhere. We’ve had some fantastic hires this way over the past two years.

This article made my think that maybe we can do better and provide more assistance to those we do not hire after Bootcamp.

More details about our Bootcamps are available at http://pilot.co/bootcamp.
Sure, and that's probably why spending on Nasa is a fraction of spending on Education or Healthcare. The only thing you could change right now is stop that spending altogether. As a society we are already spending much more on helping others than we are spending on space exploration - and the idea that we literally shouldn't do X unless Y happens first strikes me as quite radical - if you are qualified engineer you are free to commit your resources to whatever cause you like. If you want to make water purifiers for poor people in Africa - cool. But if you want to build rockets with your knowledge - also cool. What we can do is provide incentives for people to do the first thing not the other, but I wouldn't take anyone's freedom of choice.

>>Or do you really feel internally perfectly OK throwing away stale food knowing there are kids starving out there?

The answer is yes - because I avoid buying too much food and if there is any left that I am not going to use, then it's the only reasonable option(well, I would use it for compost if I had a garden, but I don't). North Koreans are not going to get any more food on the table even if I stop eating altogether. And as a society we are already spending billions sending food aid there - but there is only so much you can do without getting rid of the regime there. Your argument is the same as someone saying to a child "finish your soup, there are kids in India starving" - but apart from making the child feel bad, it's not achieving anything.
An example of that, LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-golinkin-ukraine-...

"But after 4,700 deaths in eastern Ukraine and Crimea"

How many deaths in Crimea? Somewhere under five.

How many deaths in Eastern Ukraine? Still ~4,700 after subtracting Crimea.
The post that started this subthread was about disclosure of component identity, nothing was said about sourcing origin or uniformity.
Once upon a time, HN was "Startup News" and most folks here dreamed of making their own startups. Basic income would be a huge benefit to such folks, because it would make failure much less frightening. "The welfare state is the Randian's secret dream" ;-)
I don't understand why you wouldn't just use plain dom+css to render the gui ?! What's the benefit to recode the gui in WebGL ?
That is however the standard way in French to mean "the English-speaking world", specifically the USA-UK-Canada group of countries.

Source: I'm French.
Thanks for the link. I was wondering how they rationalize this decision of censoring themselves, but it actually makes sense, especially this part - "Other publications can defend – and defend absolutely – the necessary diversity of press voices along with an editor’s right to offend. But the best response is not to be forced to speak in a different voice."
Rude may not be the right wording here. I would put it as passionate or strong beliefs. Sort of in the same vein as RMS.
Maybe, but this is still what people call censorship [1], so the claim is arguably true.

[1] The practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts. (www.oxforddictionaries.com/)

Edit: (Trying to be more factual) NYDailyNews removed unacceptable parts, which is censorship according to [1]. I'm not claiming this was a good/bad decision.
Reminds me of a program I played with way back when, which was effectively a desktop replacement - instead of a flat desktop, it presented a 3d-rendered office building of sorts, with web bookmarks and applications rendered as pictures on the wall and things like that. I forgot what it's called though. Still, I wonder if something like that was re-imagined today what it would look like.
CloudFlare's free DNS – does it handle SSL?
I'm looking for a new DNS provider, as moving away from Rackspace hosting which provided it to another provider (which doesn't).

I see CloudFlare provide free DNS however I'm confused by their site - they imply SSL with your own certificate is only available on their most expensive plan. Is that true for the DNS service as well? I don't see how it can be...
VistaPro?
A more appropriate modern term is "Anglosphere".
What a disgraceful statement of cowardice. They didn't even sign their names to the editorial.
>You can make a car that looks like a Mercedes and no one will bat an eyelid

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1085935_spanish-police-bu...
If every media outlet shows the uncensored image there isn't a single target for violent reprisals.

Collectively shouting "I'm Spartacus" protects the collective and sends a strong message.
For Sale: “Your Name Here” in a Prestigious Science Journal
My cat will eat spiders and flies and then will say yuck when I serve her up some gourmet fish in jelly. "I had this exact same flavour last week!"
The right to free speech also includes the right to not republish things you think are crap (or just not appropriate) …

That seems so obvious to me. Obviously, if it’s the fear of violent attacks that leads to that behaviour then that’s problematic, but that’s a separate discussion.
You simply cannot make such a distinction in any meaningful fashion. As a civilisation we've attempted to make food a pleasure at every opportunity, even when constrained by scarcity or ethics.

Foie gras is inefficient on every possible food production for energy/resource metric. So is Beef. Foie Gras is seen as a luxury product. So is steak. Comparing them is completely logical imo.
If it means anything I think fasting may help in humans - not by slowing ageing directly, but by improving glucose control. I would expect an increase in average life expectancy from intermittent fasting while having little effect on maximum life expectancy.
Not really, "Anglo-Saxon" is the standard term when speaking of the English speaking world in Germany. It has no "tinfoil hat" connotation at all.
It would help if the videos were automatically linked from the event page:

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6574_-_en_-_...
Why is a one year old article featured here? Pretty old story.
The author mentioned in the post that he didn't know anything about the dom at the time of writing it.
> Reformation is unlikely to come from within the Islamic community.

I wrote a long response to this but I decided to delete it. Basically this is not very accurate, and familiarity with history of the Middle East and North Africa (including ideologies like Arab nationalism and Ba'athism, or figures like Gamal Abdel Naseer and Hafez al Assad) would show that it certainly can come from within the Islamic world-- primarily because the Islamic world are the prime targets and overwhelmingly the majority of the victims of these actions.

> Their rationale is that the same beliefs are shared by the majority.

Their rationale is also that the majority of Muslims are hypocrites and are not "real" Muslims (when compared to those who follow the extremists' perverse Wahabbi fiqh within the Sunni Hanbali maddhab) or else they would agree with them. Unless we haven't noticed, the prime victim of Islamic extremism is other Muslims, and the prime opposition towards Islamic extremism is other Muslims. To go even further, the primary enemy of ISIS is actually Al Qaeda (in the form of Jabhat al Nusra) and vice versa.

When they say there is no moderate or extremist Muslim, it is because the moderate Muslim does not recognize the extremist as a Muslim, and the extremist does not recognize the moderate as a Muslim. Even the Muslim extremists do not recognize other Muslim extremists as Muslim if they do not pledge allegiance.

There is a reason why these extremist folk are called "Takfiris"-- it literally means "those who accuse others of disbelief." Here [1] is a video between the Western-backed terrorists in Syria and ISIS on a two-way radio call. Pay close attention from about 40s, especially when the Western-backed terrorists ask the ISIS fighters why they do not attack Israel

As an anecdote: In Iraq a fatwa was issued by Ayotallah Sistani to refer to ISIS as "Daesh al Murtad" ("ISIS who has left Islam") but it was eventually brought down to "Asa'ib daesh" ("the gangs of ISIS") so as to avoid the "moderates" receiving the takfiri labeling as it is considered inflammatory.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbY9uU3kQc0
You should replace the example of a neonazi journalist. It is a really bad one considering a lot of people consider wrongly Charlie Hebdo as a racist journal (one of the people killed was a corrector, Mustapha Ourad, and did not have the french nationality).
That's some leverage!

I was hoping this was going to be about David Walsh. He made hundreds of millions by creating "statistical models that allowed them to exploit mispricings in betting odds wherever they could be found."[1]

He spent a lot of his money on building the (Tasmanian) Museum of New and Old Art[2], which is everything an art museum should be.

Anyway, I'd call him the real king of online gambling.

[1] http://www.afr.com/f/free/blogs/christopher_joye/david_walsh...

[2] http://travel.cnn.com/sydney/visit/mona-worlds-most-far-out-...
We offer both a free DNS service and a free SSL service: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl

The free SSL is called "Universal SSL".
The American political system is broken. Here is a middle-class family that can barely make it. The GOP harp on about lower taxes and immigration, and the Dems talk about economic equality and healthcare. The ACA helps the middle-class but the political gridlock ensures that the president, or anyone else, can't force through effective change.

Commonly cited are campaign finance and lobbying and polarisation but those are merely the symptoms of the deeper problem which is the US constitution. A messy compromise, the US constitution effectively gives veto to tiny states (Senate seating). Gerrymandering at the state level ensures that safe seats, and worse, incumbents who have to defend themselves from the ideological 'purists' of their own party. Not a recipe for pragmatic government, vide Brownback, Kansas.

I still look forward to the spectacle of the 2016 general but even if Warren were to be the president (a far off prospect, even though she is what the US needs), little real and effective change would come about because she'd be stymied at ever corner. In view of the fundamental alignment of forces political and economic (increasing inequality in both), we can expect a return to a Victorian economy.
In the long term their waste will become potable water. But in the near term it pollutes water.

Also the water source makes a big difference. Letting cows graze doesn't really impact anyone's water supply. Grains are less efficient.
Thanks, so with the free DNS I can keep using our (expensive, EV) SSL certificates, and it won't interfere with that at all?
Strange, the demo runs perfectly at 60fps on my 2012 MacBookPro with Intel HD4000 in Chrome, is your browser and graphics driver uptodate?

The new performance implications introduced by WebGL (like that dynamices indices are bad) are quite similar to restrictions of other platforms (for instance on tiled platform like PowerVR, any sort of transparency is much more expensive then on other platforms because it kills the per-tile hidden-surface-removal, etc). Basically, each GL platform has other performance characteristics that applications need to be aware of, write-once-run-(perfectly)-everywhere was never true for any 3D API, and WebGL is not different.

I think that WebGL+extensions provide a pretty good basic feature set for 3D apps and games, of course it could be better, but given the fact that WebGL needs to serve the widest range of target platforms of ANY 3D API, and it's miles better then no GPU access in the browser at all.

BTW, WebGL2 can already be tested in Firefox, this brings WebGL to the OpenGLES3 feature set: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebGL2
you've now made the world worse for everybody

So you don't mind when Apple ships you an 800x600 display with your MacBook because, sorry, we ran out of Retina screens this week?
The problem is, you actually need an all-seeing surveillance state if you're going to mass-import millions of Muslims in to a non-Muslim country. The violence will keep getting worse as their numbers in Western countries grow and the spineless dhimmis continue to apologise for them. Unfortunately beyond a certain point (which we seem to have already passed) it is simply impossible to stop, no matter how efficient the state is at foiling their plots.
I know not everything needs to be opensource but I can't shake the feeling that this project could be taken very far with a github link :)
The cartoons are a very key part of this story. By censoring them, you're censoring a part of the news, which has nothing to do with the voice or stance of your newspaper.
> Test-driven education has resulted in an American literacy rate of 99%

I have a hard time reconciling this 99% figure with other statistics about illiteracy in the US.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/number-of-american-adults-who-...

14% of American adults can't read. 21% of American adults read below a 5th grade level.

The difference is partly the definition used. The CIA world factbook (the source of the WP information) uses "age 15 and over can read and write." The CIA World Factbook uses an estimate for the US 99% figure and does not give any explanation how they get that figure.

It's an estimate from census data. There are problems with that estimation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

> The Census Bureau reported literacy rates of 86% based on personal interviews of a relatively small portion of the population and on written responses to Census Bureau mailings. They also considered individuals literate if they simply stated that they could read and write, and made the assumption that anyone with a fifth grade education had at least an 80% chance of being literate.

That feels like a pretty big flaw when we know that rates of literacy for 8th graders are below 50%. And the numbers are far worse when we look at math.

You are right: testing is important. The problems with testing are bad teachers can teach only to the test and lessons that could be about general problem solving approaches turn into "guess which answer is more likely from the multiple choice selection" - a less useful skill.

The other problem with tests is explaining the tests to adults. Two examples here. i) the extensive discussion about common core math. ii) England teaches "synthetic phonics". To make sure pupils are using real synthetic phonics to read and not just learning whole words the tests use nonsense words. This tests a child's ability to sound out the letters and then smoosh those sounds together. This caused some confusion in parents.
All hiring practices have a disparate impact on protected classes. The only issue is proving it. God I hate such laws!
$70M fine for Honda! Does the US auto industry need a revamp?
Please stop it already with the wireless powering. That stuff was discovered by Tesla ages ago, it's a very well known technology and it has very well known drawbacks like that the efficiency drops proportionally to distance square and that these kinds of electromagnetic waves actually do have a negative impact on human health.
GNU Guix ported to ARM and other niceties of the new year
I agree with that reasoning, but I would word it differently. The economy would probably chug along regardless. The 1% of rich folks would happily colonize the solar system with nanomachines or whatever. The big problem is what happens to the other 99% who only have their labor to sell, if machines depress the price of labor below the minimal cost of sustaining a human body. That's why we need basic income.

People might also get psychological problems due to being idle and irrelevant, I have no idea how to solve those.

And in the long run, we need Friendly AI anyway :-)
I was just thinking about freedom of speech. I don't deny America has a problem with police violence. It has a bigger problem with violence in general too.

It is still quite bizarre that not being in France, I can safely say "The holocaust didn't happen" But a French person is at risk of having their online identity discovered, then imprisoned just for making a political claim like that. This is really quite scary.
If you just want to use us for DNS (and not pass your traffic through our network) then you can do what you like on your own server. If you want us to terminate your traffic (for firewalling, caching etc.) and bring your own cert then you'll need a business plan with us ($200 a month)

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I wish people would stop using the word "awesome" as punctuation.

Otherwise it's a nice list, kudos for the effort.
See also:

http://www.witricity.com/

On HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404884

And this one:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/11/disruptive-defined-ubeam-la...

On HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4232925

This is a weird bit in the article:

"To demo its tech, Energous has turned a casino suite into a faux home full of wireless power, which we dropped by to allow the company's founder Michael Leabman to put on a show for us."

If there is one thing that sets off my spidey sense during due diligence on new products it is demos in controlled environments.