skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overall tablet sales are still going up with low-end tablets (mostly Android) eating up market share.
So you agree that most animals don't menstruate... what's wrong with the article's title?

EDIT: Oh, I think I get it now. "Period" in this context does not refer to the general fertility cycle. It is specifically a euphemism for menstruation. That is why you'll hear people saying things like "I'm on my period", "my period started late/early", etc. These phrases would not make sense if it referred to the fertility cycle in general, since from puberty to menopause, most healthy women are in some phase of a fertility cycle.
A Cheap, Ubiquitous Earthquake Warning System
TED: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? (YouTube)
PowerShell is a .NET CLI and is more comparable to a JVM CLI (or the Python, Ruby, or Node REPLs) than it is to POSIX shells.

Unix pipelines are for streaming data between processes using standard input and output. PowerShell pipelines are for sharing data between .NET classes called cmdlets and are more like chaining methods within a programming language. There are multiple programming languages with this functionality available in the *nix ecosystems.

Working with the PowerShell "pipeline" is like working in a CLI/REPL for Python, Ruby, Node, not like working with Unix pipelines.
4 Aesthetic Concepts Every Non-Designer Should Know
Formidable argument.
Are any major computer vendors enabling this by default? Phones are encrypted by default, seems obvious to do the same for laptops and such.
This was previously posted [1], but note that this is different -- the developers have received a notice from Apple acknowledging the mistake and greenlighting the app.

While the uproar over the rejection is most likely responsible for getting the app re-reviewed, it does seem like the uproar was potentially based on a mistaken assumption about Apple's behavior towards competitive peripherals. It is still possible that this is a rollback of an official Apple policy, but the wording of the original rejection as noted in that thread [2] appears to support the notion that the rejection was a mistake.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426542

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426750
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uBlock₀

uBlock Origin

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
How the Internet of Things Will Affect Business App Developers
This is the second time today you've spread innuendo about how software security teams at big companies handle vulnerabilities, and the second time you've managed to casually insult teams that include some of the best software security people in the entire industry.

Here's the first:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9445436

These are egregiously bad arguments you're making, involving people who you don't know but that, from my experience reading so many of your comments, I believe are operating many levels above your own comfort level with actual software security.

The trouble is, like me, you comment on HN all the time, and so, like me, you get a huge name recognition boost for these comments you make. People reasonably believe that you know what you're talking about when you "explain" to them how Apple and Microsoft handle vulnerabilities. But you don't, and so these misleading comments prey on their lack of information.
I bought an ipad 2 at release and I'm just now getting to a point where I need to think about replacing it.
It's troubling to me, the only iPad user I know. Other than my Mac at work, my iPad is my most-used computer.
Well said. Biology, like chemistry, is actually a very complicated branch of physics. There's plenty of utility in understanding basic physics in biology. The doppler effect is a great example. Similarly radiation for imaging studies. Tension and compression. Optics. Fluid dynamics. Partial pressures. Electricity. Wave motion. So on and so forth.

There is so much physics involved in medicine, that it's bizarre to hear that premeds are taught about spaceships. Perhaps it's due to this strange perception some people have that physics is only about subatomics and astronomy.
I wonder if this is a problem that goes with being the first trillion dollar corporation. One could say that Apple has so much money it literally doesn't know what to do with it, presumably because any ideas it has for how to invest it look like generating a less good return than the next-best alternative.
This is very sad, I was born in a different city in the same country and I remember how proud we felt about 5 yeears ago when we learnt that dev tools were being worked on by a fellow Romanian.

This article[0] is so sad it made me cry. I just cannot imagine having this kind of serenity in the face of imminent death.

RIP

http://mihai.sucan.ro/mihai/blog/touched
I wonder if it's still fun now when it has gotten harder with drag and heat ...

To get the best experience out of KSP you should play sandbox, but never quicksave! And keep playing the same "profile" every time.

This makes you actually solve problems instead of just quick-loading to retry ... So you had to burn too much fuel to save the situation after almost crashing into old space debris you left ten years ago!? Ahh there's an old space station around the moon we can dock with...

Destroyed an engine while landing on a foreign body? Figure out how to maneuver without it. Or take a walk to the unmanned prototype vessel you had forgotten about, that might have enough fuel to get into orbit ...

It will also make your hands shake a bit from adrenalin, when landing, or docking, after a one hour mission, knowing you would have to restart the mission if you crash.

You also need to have a joystick or pedals for thrust and RCS. Yes! You can throttle the RCS! That makes it much easier for docking.
French in Africa is vastly different from French in France. So if you want to learn French to prepare yourself for 2060, learn African French.
Just when I though I know everything about how computer works, here they are talking about freezing ram attack. I didn't even imagine this as a possibility.
Also, you should probably assume that the FBI is monitoring the exit node you are using.
ZERO! Not allowed to make money from my apps on H1B visa status :)
The Surface Pro is growing very well, though I don't think it would be accurate to say that it is signicantly taking away share from the iPad. As far as I know, the SP3 sold ~800k units last quarter, as compared to the iPad's >12 million.

It's really hard to say how Android tablets are doing because the market for them is so diverse.
Recommending BitLocker and OSX HD encryption I feel is a diservice to the public. I wouldn't put it past them to already have backdoors built in. Let alone they are both proprietary and not open to public audit. I guess we are suppoed to take their word [1]???

[1] http://mashable.com/2013/09/11/fbi-microsoft-bitlocker-backd...
More stats here for context, also in perhaps a better format:
http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2014.html#rate
I would think that this would be true as you are learning, but once you have been performing the two-foot motion for several thousand miles I would think the action would be so ingrained in your muscle-memory as to remove entirely that cognitive decision. At some point you stop thinking about which foot and just automatically know brake=left foot.
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Appreciate the honest opinion. While you have valid points, not everyone wants to install SCAP for example. Besides that, the related SCAP might even not be available for your OS version. If the OS has a great compliance checker built-in, we definitely will advise using that as well.
The difference between Apple and Samsung industrial design
Last I heard the person controlling the repo was doing funny stuff like removing the info of the creators and there was some dispute over control. Any idea what's up?
> It implemented support for objects at the hardware level,
> with access protection for on a per-object basis.

Periodic reminder that Henry Levy's Capability-Based Computer Systems is available in PDF form for free¹.

The 432 was slow, but the i960² was a clean RISC that could have had a future.

¹ http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960
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Apple Beats in Q2 2015 with $58B Revenue, $13.6B Profit and $2.33 EPS
Market to Mondays – Part 7
"vast murky middle".

I eagerly enrolled in Ethics my first term at UCSC, in hopes of learning The Answers To All Of Life's Great Questions.

Instead I learned how to make tedious, hair-splitting arguments. While I readily agreed that the philosophy prof who taught the class had valid arguments, they were so complex that I didn't think they would do anyone any real good.

The one thing I took away from the class was the concept of "The Minimally-Sufficient Samaritan". A Good Samaritan will risk their life for that of another; a bad Samaritan won't. A Minimally-Sufficient Samaritan will only do enough that they are regarded as ethical.
The problem with software is that the software is the specification. Any sufficiently detailed software spec will need to be written in a formal language that might as well be code.
Shorter explanation: bet on anything using Bitcoin! :)
Systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes
"Mandarin, despite being excruciatingly hard to learn for most Westerners..."

Mandarin is hard to learn, period. Even if you're born and raised in China and it's the only language you know, it still takes a long time to learn.

No need to single out the Westerners :)
And slow it down like it's 1999.
"French will be present on all continents, and particularly predominant in a continent that, by 2050, should be a fast-growing economic powerhouse–Africa". I find this very hard to imagine. Anyway, "en 2050 je serai dans la tombe".
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Out of curiosity, do you interface with it primarily through touch on-screen, or through a connected keyboard?
Can it do more complex ifdefs - with or's and and's etc?
> The US Gov didn't originate because of the internet and haven't really demonstrated a mastery of it.

I think they've shown plenty of mastery of it.
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PhoneUsage – Track how much you use your phone
Thank you. Yes I introduced it as terminology because I felt it was present in content without the terminology before I spoke my piece.

You misunderstand me. I am neither justifying nor trying to justify torture. I am trying to show why nations convince themselves that torture is justifiable. The calculus of nations - their realpolitik - exists in a world where an analysis of torture makes it seem sensible (entirely tangential to its being reprehensible).

To add more here: what I'm saying is that if every modern nation actively participates in these behaviors we must go beyond good and evil to understand the behavior - there only appears to be relative good rather than an exaggerated excluded middle. A realist, realpolitik analysis affords us a way of understanding the points of contention and the contradictions that incentivize those nations and their representatives to participate in reprehensible activity.

Wherein comes 'constructive realism': if it is incentives and power conflict that incentivize reprehensible acts then we can fix the acts not by voting for new representatives but by changing the conditions that lead to contentions. The realpolitik analysis is not a cynical analysis or one that is doomed to justify behavior: it is instead one that places the responsibility on conditions and context as much as specific actors.
Great resource. I am learning Haskell. When I get more experienced at Parsec I'll consider a write up and send you a pull request.

Your monad section looks solid, although now I undestand them I can no longer tell if a tutorial is good or not :-)
Make quick edits without leaving the command line
IAMA about it
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/33ys4s/we_are_the_team...
So would I. And I act in independent films (hey, several of the movies I've been in recently are now on Amazon Instant Video, and Netflix deals should be upcoming; you can buy several of them on DVD at Walmart).

The reality is it just ain't that easy. Two years ago we did a zombie musical that won awards (best film, best comedy) at multiple festivals (think "My Fair Lady" with a zombie). It's good. (Yes, I am biased - but if you search, you'll find some good reviews, and few poor ones). A year ago we did a James Bond parody that won best comedy at one of those same festivals.

This year, we are doing an Indiana Jones parody. Same writer, same director. I've seen the script, it is quite funny. We are hoping to have it done in time for those same festivals. Fingers crossed.

So we try an Indiegogo campaign. A couple of grand in two months. A team that has produced two comedies with multiple awards and with distribution deals cannot raise enough to get started.

Why? Because there are sooooooo many campaigns, so many people making movies right now, especially shorts (sigh, a bane, we make features, which require commitments from people, who turn around and do 5, 6, 10 shorts because they can squeeze them in on a weekend without missing anything else; I do features coz IM(NS)HO it's way cooler).

And these movies are heavily pirated. Pretty much everything the director has made has a distribution deal. And everything the director has made is on torrents.

Kickstarter and Patreon and Indiegogo have one thing in common with the big studios: Landing a paying deal, a money-making deal is as much a lottery win with the one as with the other. The scale of the lottery prize is the only difference.
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/fdcb26aac28c
Look, I'm a proud physicist, and it prides me to know that discoveries in my field have essentially defined generations, from the unification of EM with light to the transistor, physics has at a fundamental role in advancement of both technology and understanding of the world since forever. Still, a general description of how these technologies work should be enough for people who are not going into technical roles (like being the physician specifically uses the PET, etc), it probably not even need be quantitative. I feel like we focus far too much on the details instead of relevant results in our classes. For example, calculating the net force on an object to determine it's acceleration (Newton's second law) is vital for any physicist to understand. For a biologist? Not so much. Especially when the treatment of physics gets technically complicated (like you need to consider drag forces or something), the content becomes more tedium than learning especially for students who do not plan to go into that field.
I really get a twisted feeling about people deposing Microsoft Bitlocker or OSX filevault due to potentially being backdoored- yet still running their operating systems, and any third party stuff you give full access to.

I mean, I'm not trying to be all tin-foil, but trusting one source is much better than trusting two. (one for live OS security, another for offline data protection)
A few of my relatives do this and it's always immediately obvious when you drive with them. The ride is substantially more jerky (although they claim there isn't a difference) and the break light is on half the time we're on the road.
I'm starting to wonder if maybe Tim Cook is a better CEO than Steve Jobs. No one will ever have Jobs' combination of taste and presence, but I think these numbers are showing that spending as much time managing the supply chain and making inroads into emerging markets is as important as playing with foam cutouts with Jony Ive.
The influence of a language is not determined by the number of its speakers, but their power and cultural influence. Given the myriad challenges facing sub-Saharan Africa, it is unlikely to give French much more influence even in 2050, which is just one generation away from now.

The only possibility is if sub-Saharan Africa can pull off the feat of China (lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty in one generation), but with much less supporting global economic and environmental climate, and questionable governance institutions. Altogether, the chance is slim.

(Also, even the projected 750 million speakers by 2050 will likely be smaller than the number of Hindi speakers then.)
I've been developing a free chrome extension called Hands Free for Chrome that lets you navigate Chrome using just your voice; that idea was that people with conditions like Mihai's would use it to more easily interact with the web.

However, only about 500 people use it despite that there are far more than that who could find a use for it. I'm not sure how to make it more known and get it into more people's hands. If anyone has any advice, please email me at [redacted].

Reading articles like this just really reminds me how important accessibility tools can be for some individuals.
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/74827b8f6...
I think the best / most secure computer you can use today is a libreboot GM45 thinkpad with FDE, including /boot. The implications of this are big, both in security and in plausable deniability. Look at the case of Jeff Feldman [1], and how having a detectable OS made him liable for the hard disk. If they can't show that the drive contains some kind of OS or that it's not gibberish, you cannot be forced to unencrypt them (don't quote me on this, I'm not entirely sure if I'm speaking the truth.)

But if I'm right, having a visible /boot partition is enough to show that there is some kind of OS.

With Grub2 written to the board itself, you can get around that. [2]

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/28/in-reversal-ju...

[2]: http://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html
WTF?

So a port gets opened to serve content that the user doesn't want nor need?

What if the box is not a server? What if it's a mission-critical server for something other than http?

Why do we have systemd? So many hate it so very much, who is backing it and why?
Oh, OK. You could edit the post with that information....

Good on you either way.
I hate history. HATE HISTORY.

In Uni I had to take my final history course and only 1 professor was available. Little did I know at the time...

The man was a hardass. a quiz every single class over the previous classes lecture, you can only make up 3 quizzes, after that it's too bad so sad.

And yet I LOVED the course. People talk about good orators and I had never known one until I met this guy. I was absolutely enthralled every lecture. He was just amazing to listen to, somehow he made what he was talking about seem exciting, it was crazy.

I passed the class with an A and I've never regretted taking that class. I remember it fondly. And I'm the guy that would completely stop going to classes, showing up only for the tests, so that's saying something.

I think it's a terrible idea to start grading professors on by their students evaluation. I think student evaluations are good, but personally I think too many professors already cater to their students, the problem would only get worse. And the ones who are there to learn will get left behind.
Ghostery, at least, already does a pretty good job (IMHO) of this: https://www.ghostery.com/en/faq#q5-general
What alternatives would you recommend?

Also open to public audit doesn't mean anyone has actually looked at them/assured their security to any degree.

the only product that I'm aware of in this category that has received that kind of scrutiny is truecrypt which has been abandonend by its original developers and doesn't have a license that is (AFAIK) conducive to someone else taking over the project.
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Much like the laptops and desktops tablets are suppose to replace, most people don't have a reason to upgrade every two years. For most customers upgrading your phone is very different from replacing your tablet.
You know how it typically takes one CEO to make a newly founded startup viable and successful, then a transition to another to keep it there? Think that's what we're seeing here.
Over a decade ago, i worked in a lab that was trying to develop a gene therapy for DEB. It's particularly tough, because you need to replace the collagen VII gene, which is pretty big:

http://www.omim.org/entry/120120

That lab doesn't seem to have published anything since i left, but the broader project is still slowly grinding forward:

http://www.genegraft.eu/
When you give money to a beggar, you're saying that you want more panhandlers. That's how markets work.

The beggars have some organization, so that 100+ people don't swarm all the best spots.
This read like something From THGTTG
> you were only allowed to read pre-approved books on school grounds.

Wow, that is just horrendous.
This is amazing (that someone is doing this). If there's anything the global tech community can do to help this team, I suspect it would be freely available -- anything to make Myanmar people better able to communicate safely is a huge win.
In a system where social ranking determines opportunity, employment, and all other aspects of life - you better believe social hacking is going to happen.
"The study’s methodology is somewhat questionable, since it counts as French-speakers all the inhabitants of countries where French is an official language, which probably won’t be the case. And almost certainly, as a second language, English will remain the lingua franca"

Sounds like the study measures colonial vestiges and not real world usage.
The Future Postponed – Declining Investment in Basic Research [pdf]
I just made this VR game with a lot of help from Unity
Author: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

no, really
For those who use BitLocker: although it is set up to use numeric-only PINs by default, you can configure this to allow any character - which would presumably increase the search space of brute force attacks against the PIN.

The relevant Group Policy setting is "Allow enhanced PINs for startup", and can be found in Windows Components → BitLocker Drive Encryption → Operating System Drives.
Not everyone comes with the same skill set or expertise. If you work at a big multinational, reinstalling hundreds or even thousands of systems, is no option. Lynis, free to use, simply helps you determining the sanity level in a quick way.

The main focus of Lynis is security auditing. Since some parts are so important for integrity of the systems or forensics, we do check them. Proper timing is one of them, proper DNS configuration is another one. Some things you want to put into your monitoring system as a regular test, other will be handled by the tooling itself. What we find, is that Lynis often detects incorrect configurations. That is exactly the purpose of the tool. Helping those, who didn't know, or thought things were fine.

Appreciate your stance, understand it and even agree with most of it. The tool is there to help to achieve what we both see as an ideal world: secure permissions by default, proper configurations, correct monitoring and integrity of data. Till the time we achieved that, I'm glad to see many were able to move up a few steps to this ideal world. Till then, happy hardening :)
Seems similar to this:
http://jsblocks.com
I think this is probably the key. The rise of $200 90%-as-good-as-iPad tablets is capturing a bunch of the market. And really, if you're not already on iOS, they're >90% as good.
"How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?"

This has basically convinced me that you should only ever have a single (long) "Name" text input.

See also: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
>I don't know if corporate policy forbidding this would be legal under the terms of the AGPL

Section 10 of both the GPLv3 and AGPLv3 prevent the imposition of "further restrictions" on the subject of the license.