skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be fair, the police are actually very concerned about privacy and ubiquitous recording when it's of on-duty police behavior.
I would be ok if Linux became the open source windows flavored OS and Freebsd became the open source unix flavored OS.

This mindset should terrify everyone in the GNU foundation. systemd is the begining of the march away from both the GNU and GPL principles, into an incompatible fork of POSIX that uses RPC backdoors in order to circumvent GPL protections.

why doesn't anyone else view systemd as the direct assault on GNU that it is?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9358724
The difference is that the vast majority of IT products used in Europe and elsewhere are from the US not China.
Yeah if the Flash plugin allowed you to take a game and just go full screen, versus trying to dick around resizing the browser window they coulda done great on Android. Tons of games instantly available. They could have also figured out some way to deal with touch that didn't suck.
In America, company fixes law.
In Soviet Russia, company fixes you!
"Ahha, but which is better?" asks Confucius.
Yep, really the disease is taking ANY such rule or heuristic and interpreting it to be valid in all situations or in an extreme form.

The last paragraph is the simplest and most effective solution - start asking specific (well defined) questions about your system (not all systems or some other bloggers) and suddenly there is no need for any of these bullshit heuristics. I love this approach, its the heart of engineering right here.
I can only speak for myself, but I downvoted you, and flagged your latter two posts, because I didn't think your post added anything of value. It happens all the time. The more you post complaining about it, the more downvotes you're going to get.

Your account's a thousand days old - I'd hope you'd get this without spam-replying to vent your spleen.
The Higgs Field as the New Ether (2012)
The problem with viscosity is that it makes you stop. If you are in a car and stop the engine, the air and tires drag will make you stop, a lot of snow will make you stop. Viscosity stop things, because it's related to the speed and makes the speed smaller until you stop. Perhaps not everyone can write the equation, but there are some underlying properties of the possible equations there. The important part is that if you draw speed vs time you get

s|--\
| \----\
| \-------\
| \-----------\
| \--------
-+----------------------------------------
| t

The Higgs / mass don't make you stop. They try to make you go at a constant speed. The equation is more difficult because it's a second order equation, but is more simple because it has less constants. The important part is that if you draw speed vs time you get

s|
|----------------------------------------
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-+----------------------------------------
| t

Let's try to discuss another example: in a car we can measure the top speed and the 0-60mph time.

The viscosity reduce the top speed, because when you go fast it increase the drag and makes you go slower and when you turn out the engine the car begin to slow down. More air viscosity makes your car stop in less time.

The mass of the car changes the acceleration, the 0-60 mph time. When the car is stopped, more mass makes more difficult to change the speed from 0 and reach 60mph. When you go at 60mph the mass is not so important, until you try to turn or stop. More mass make your car stop in more time.
It's awesome and weird that there's a consistent and useful function that lets you define an equivalent to (-1/2)! -- and that what you get is the square root of pi.
> “What we’re concerned about is the technology risks” bringing the country to a point where the smartphone owner alone, who may be a criminal or terrorist, has control of the data [...]

Wow, it's almost like criminals and terrorists would be secure in their persons and effects, as would the rest of us!

Then law enforcement and the TLAs might actually have to do real, actual investigative work. Oh, darn.
The UK is already trying to force a back door, so I unfortunately think this destructive thinking is spreading globally.
"Uber isn't complying with taxi regulations!"

->

"XXX isn't complying with YYY regulations!"

->

"Apple isn't complying with workforce competition regulations!"

So what you're saying is there's a certain level of integrity, and if someone goes over that level of integrity then they are too integer, and you don't want to work with them?
Yes. There isn't some big debate going on. The feds did a bad thing by looking in people's bedroom windows. Now people are shutting their blinds. It's not a debate. It's a response. The feds can mandate that people open the windows again but then there will be no more undressing in front of them. The peep show is over.
Sounds like you need a more challenging job. The area you work in affects what you'll be doing - like others have suggested, HFT, machine learning, or things that require a lot of actual technical work might be more up your alley.

Also, you're 23. There is stuff outside your 9-5 that you can pursue that might make for a more fulfilling life. If you are really focussed on your career, try making and selling something yourself. You'll very rarely get rich working for somebody else.
Show HN: Pouch -  Find websites with script URLs matching given regex
WSGI is a standardised interface / API. Since Node already has a de-facto standard of the built in HTTP package, why would it want another standard? A built-in server certainly provides for better compatibility in that people are more likely to use the existing request & response objects rather than code something totally different, but performance is mostly a property of the server implementation, rather than the interface specification.
Not destructive all all, this will rather bring us much-needed diversity to replace a US-centric monoculture. It will also pave the way for the triumph of free software which will prove to be much more resilient against such efforts than proprietary software.
As a Star Trek fan, I think it would be funny if they were able to pull this off. However, as a Duolingo user, the resources could definitely be better used elsewhere, particularly on a Japanese for English or Mandarin for English course.
Thanks. Just the kind of explanation I was looking for.
Very funny. few ideas to enrich the experience :
- add more interaction (for example fake access granted to the system, navigation in top secret files...)
- to make it even more realistic, and make fun of friends or family, the user would type information to be used to fill the fake forms and windows - the same way peteranswers does)
If you state "I won't cooperate unless I am ordered to by a court." then you did not prompt them for subpoena. The door is also still open for them to explain why they won't get a court order in which case you might still reconsider.
Why do we still care?
That's not actually true. A browser is not as secure as it's engine. The thing is really more complex than that.

There are configurations concern, certificates, security layer, apps/plugins/add-ons, bugs within the ui layer...
KiiKeyboard had an option to scale down the size of the keyboard, but has since been removed from the play store due to licensing issues related to "emoji plugin" packs downloaded separately
Not only is it Free Software, but LP was nice enough to make the entire thing accessible over RPC, so that non-free software could easily integrate with the OS at the lowest levels (PID1!), bypassing GPL/LGPL restrictions, and removing much of the reason to write Free Software on Linux at all.

How this isn't worse than Tivo-ization (the reason the GPLv3 was written!), now how RMS/Moglen aren't screaming about this, I'll never know.
I don't get it (aka hate it), any sophisticated government adversary (terror groups, organized crime, etc) will simply use the existing strong security measures that the government cannot crack (since they have no escrowed key).

To me that means this measure isn't about the boggy-man of terrorism, etc rather its about everyday criminal investigations. I think people are (overly) willing to give up their liberties when faced with the major boggy-man threats, but I think convincing the public to give up liberty to catch the pot dealer down the street or the dude embezzling from mega-corp is going to be a much harder sell politically.
That sounds horrible. Why don't you have the source code?
Of course it has pi in it. Otherwise it'd have to have e in it.
Exactly. You understood it correctly :)
In case it wasn't immediately clear, this is referring to the NP-hard problem of allocating objects (of a particular volume and size) to bins (also of a particular volume and size) in the most efficient possible way [1], as apposed to being a binary packer [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_compression
> Your statement to the contrary is flatly false

Apple themselves only rate the watch for 18 hours. So you're contending that Apple is intentionally listing a battery 50% lower than what the device can actually do?

....or it can't be relied to remain useful for a continuous 24 hour period.

So where's the flatly false statement here?

>Sleep tracking is certainly valuable, but why is the watch the right hardware for that? Many people don't like wearing watches in bed, and sleep tracking can be done with much simpler hardware than the Apple Watch. Why not do it using a $30 headless sensor instead?

Sleep tracking is just a single, obvious use where it makes a difference now.

What I'm contending is that wearables that require the use to actively think about battery life aren't going to live up to the potential of the devices as a class.

I went absurd with the flying car thing because I feel like you're being kind of ridiculous here, but electric cars actually do highlight exactly what I'm talking about. Electric cars didn't become viable for the vast majority of people until ranges got to the point that they could easily exceed the distances people travel on a regular basis.

And because you still don't seem to understand what I mean by "extremely short" and want to keep harping on it - if the rumor mill thought an electric car was going to launch with a 5 mile range and it launched with a 10 mile range, it might be exceeding expectations, but I'd still call that "extremely short" and feel it worthy of criticism. It may be better than what people were expecting and it may even do things its competitors don't, but it's still a fundamental problem.

I will say this again: I'm interested in wearables, I think they have a ton of potential, and I think you're insane if you don't think 18 hours of battery life drastically limits their realistic utility.
I love your apple/fruit example. This is a major problem I see in many startups, their unique value proposition is absolutely confusing. It's hard to get right, but is a very important step for a web business these days.
init was the foot in the door that LP needed to start his larger rewrite of Linux into a non-GNU creature.
We use Jira with Tempo plugin as hour tracking tool. With my approach, I usually log around 6.7 hours per day. This logs goes to a specific story/task.

The only problem that we found is with people coming from consultancy. They are not confident with only having 6 hours per day as they are used to log 8 hours and bill them to a customer.

In general, the team is pretty comfortable with the approach of using 6h/day for estimations in our tasks.
Pipes is a dead product, it's just waiting for someone to remember to turn off the light. Even in 2011 it was on life support.

It's a great example of how even when Yahoo hits on something interesting, they will neglect it and fail to profit from it. Instead IFTTT launches 4 years later and gets a $170mm valuation.
I was talking to a cop in London about this today. They had a stall in the local shopping, doing a "Cuppa with a Coppa" campaign.

When I came to the UK 12 years ago I was shocked to discover a police force that seemed interested in keeping everyone safe and happy. Since then, every single interaction I've had with the police here has been overwhelmingly positive.

I once ran a red light on my bike in a really stupid way and came very close to getting myself killed. Cop on a motorbike pulled next to me and said "I think you'd better pull over, sunshine" (literally, I thought it was so brilliant I still remember the words). Instead of being a dick about it he said something along the lines of, you know that was stupid, just be more careful out here because we don't want you getting hurt.

Back in NZ, not so much.

I was once tripped from behind and bundled against the wall by police for not walking fast enough. There was a protest march and the cop said that I wasn't allowed to walk at the same pace if I was on the footpath. Told her I lived on the street (which I did) and was going to follow along with the march until my house.

At that point she tapped my foot as I walked so I would fall over. I was a bit surprised, then she did it again. After 2 or 3 attempts I hit the ground and was then bundled against the wall. There were tv cameras there so they gathered around and I was released after she tried justifying it to her superior officer.

It's not like I was hurt or anything, but you have to ask yourself, what's the point? How does that in any way help you in your role of keeping people safe?

That's not even a bad story as it goes (I have plenty of others from my, and my friend's interactions).

There's a stark difference in the cultures. In the UK, if a cop can diffuse a situation, they've done a good job (one better if they get people screaming with joy [0]). In NZ they seem to like the power trip (I know that's a total generalisation).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-E_tikSXfc
That's kind of beside the point. You should carefully consider the potential negative impacts of your own paywall (reduction in useful ideas that others could benefit from, such as ideas on liberty and government) before writing critical articles of others' paywalls.
Where did you get the Windows, Mac, Linux part? All current ARC apps are Chrome OS only. (e.g.; Vine, Evernote)
Is there a release date for ARC for Win, Mac and Linux?
> I meant Apple's style here

Got you. eOS has a really anaemic settings gui (or did when I used it) - I get that they're still early days, it's still Ubuntu and there's probably a wealth of console and config file stuff that fills in all the gaps, but it's very lacking in that regard. It looks like the OSX settings menu but I definitely think there's more options in OSX.

As for the weird keyboard shortcuts changes between Ubuntu versions, that's definitely a bit surprising. Again it's something I'm sure there's methods to change but still, something you'd expect to be standardised across the flavours.
Would companies based in the US not ship a different version of their products that are exported? What would it mean for companies outside of the US. A large number of the products and services my company uses are from European countries.

> It's not like there is a law of nature that makes software development outside of the US impossible.

Of course, see what I said above. I think what makes the US attractive for software development is the VC industry and culture there; a quick browse of founders in SF will reveal a ton of immigrants attracted to that culture.
I don't see why any reasonable developer would choose building the same app on multiple platforms over building it once on a standardized platform and having it just work everywhere.

That is, of course, if the standardized platform had all the capabilities and great UX of the proprietary platforms. This is where the web often falls short, and the companies behind proprietary platforms have some very sweet incentives to keep it that way, i.e. developer lock-in and maintaining complete control over the platform's direction.

Despite all the impediments, I still firmly believe an open platform will triumph eventually, because developers love efficiency, and the current landscape of wasting work on rebuilding for proprietary platforms is anything but efficient.
A more cynical interpretation might be that the White House wants to get in cozy with the media that younger people consume, regardless of its merits as an actual news source. I think Buzzfeed is far better than what it was, but I don't think it merits comparison to Real News Outlets.
In fairness IBM didn't really get back on top of it's original industry, they where clever enough to get on top of a much more lucrative one, also it's much harder to clone IBM developers than IBM hardware ;).
Fiction or non-fiction?
Probably known better as a CPU stress test in the overclocking world - the famous Prime95. People run it for x hours straight to prove system stability.

Linux overclockers can get in on the fun too. On Gentoo it's installed with "emerge gimps" and the stress test is launched with "/opt/gimps/mprime -t".
Hey, sorry this is not answering your post, but I saw your question on an old thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236997 and I want you to read my answer.

I was wrong, smart-content is not by itself pointless entertainment. It's all about your state of mind while reading it. I believed that reading smart-content would make me smarter. Like you, I've read hundreds of hacker news submissions. Yet I gained nearly no knowledge.

To answer your question; you've already figured out what you should and shouldn't read. What -really- matters is -how- you read. Don't skim and expect to become smarter automatically. Because when you do this, you assume the author is right all the time. You need to be critical.

And ooooh, I've heard that one so many times "just be critical". I've never understood what this meant, until I decided I wanted to truly understand my texts. It can take me over five minutes to read a single page since I've started trying to truly undertand a book.

Try some of these, see which ones you like and which ones you dislike. Find the ones that work for you. I've tried these and found that they help me dig really deep into any text.

- Doodle and write in books. Honestly
- Collect and present a text's statements and opinions as fact. I can assure you you will find logical inconsistencies
- Summarize texts
- Force yourself to capture the essence of a text within one sentence
WebKit and clang, for example. For WebKit, they started with a fork of KHTMP, which is under LGPL, and some have tried to say that this means it does not count since they were forced to open source it, but that is not correct. They were only required to open source a subset of it. They could have made the rest closed. Instead, they opened it all.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. can someone enlighten me?
If you wanted a bit of interface "smoothness" more complicated than roll-over image links, and you wanted to only have to do it once and be pretty sure it wouldn't crash your browser, Flash was the obvious choice.

Also, games. I still have a directory full of various Flash games I've saved over the years. They packed a lot of content in a tiny file, due to their vector-based nature. SVG looks absolutely obese compared to the compact vector format used by SWF.
You are totally right that GitLab used to be hard to install, it took about 10 pages of commands https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst... Since a year we have Omnibus packages that solve that problem completely. It takes two minutes to install or update. For more information please see https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/
with all of the above in mind, how does anyone think that SystemD is anything but an attack on GNU/Linux?
No. What he is saying is that there are some common sense good laws he agrees with and there are some outdated laws that no reasonable person would want to continue to uphold and need to be changed but our grandpas in congress have not gotten around to it yet.
My thoughts exactly. I'd love an article about how difficult (if it was at all) to port and run on BSD.
A lot of what was the 88K was put into the PowerPC.
Just like match.com/IACI did when they started charging for okcupid features -- this article: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/04/07/why-you-should-...

suddenly disappeared.

If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation, I guess.
Edit: I was wrong about OpenBSD ports on several counts, it seems. OpenBSD seems to have corrected several omissions in package management that I've seen in the past; some of these changes seem to have come recently, in version 5.5. I'm reading docs now to see which of these issues have been resolved.

Lest anyone be misled into believing ports is comparable to yum or apt...it is not.

With ports it is not only possible, but likely, that you will end up with upgrades to some software that can break other pieces of your system, because the dependencies often do not account for things, like compile flags, which can be changed by the user at install time. This leads to a very fragile system a couple years down the road, after a bunch of upgrades and new software installation has occurred. This isn't theoretical; I've seen it happen more often than not in my very limited use of the ports system...it is avoidable, but it is not obvious or well-documented how to avoid it, and adds not insignificant costs to maintaining your systems.

With ports it is not possible to verify that the files installed by the port match what was originally installed. This can be useful for security purposes (i.e. has the ps command been tampered with?) or for troubleshooting purposes (i.e. did someone install a program from a source tarball over the original package, or did permissions/ownership change?). Edit: I was wrong on this one. pkg_check verifies package contents against checksums, which is comparable to rpm -V or debsums.

With ports, it is not possible to reliably roll-back to a prior version in-place (i.e. without uninstalling everything, and then reinstalling it).

With ports, it is likely you will, over time, end up with multiple versions of some things (libraries, languages, etc.) installed. This is common on Linux, as well, but the ability to determine what is built against which versions, and to be able to keep up with whether, say, an insecure version can be removed without breaking things on the system, is much weaker (non-existent, as far as I can tell).

OpenBSD has many fine qualities and very smart people working on it, and I don't think it's the dumbest idea ever to use it. But, ports is simply not a sufficient answer to the package management problem. RPM/yum and dpkg/apt are not perfect, but they are vastly superior to ports in every dimension. FreeBSD now has pkgng which is very much a move in the right direction, and it would be definite progress for OpenBSD to adopt it.

Note that providing binaries or not is not on my list of complaints about ports, above. Somehow, in every conversation about ports failings as a package manager, there will always be people talking about binaries, and how you can totally install binaries with ports and so there's no reason to not like ports. I find it annoyingly time-consuming to build everything from scratch, but it's not a deal-breaker. Providing binary packages is not why apt and yum are vastly superior to ports.
They are designed in the US, but manufactured and assembled in China. The backdoor can be implemented in hardware, firmware or software - anyone who has physical or logical access to any one of a system's components at any point in time can backdoor it. And they probably do.
It's user made, so it's not really more of a waste of duo lingo resources than an Klingon article is a waste of Wikipedia ressources.