skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When enough companies start coming to you and saying they want "agile" development, you give it to them. Even if the companies don't know what agile means. "No, I don't want to prioritize, I want everything in this requirements document we are handing over."
Nope, nghttp2 and h2o have been floating around for a long time now.
The article also misused "begging the question".
Isro to eye asteroids, far away planets
The feedback button will work, but it's best if you organize and consorted effort. Get as many people as you can to do it, and give constructive feedback.
ART IN Your FACE
Dropbox just got a little more like Google Drive
TL;DR for others

Encryption hurts battery life and performance of tasks. You can still enable encryption on your device, it just isn't default. It's planned to be default for future devices when it doesn't hurt performance as much.

This is also really old news.
What are the arguments for a city to adopt Uber? Presumably there were reasons to implement taxi regulations and medallion caps and whatever those reasons were, if they made sense to the city 5 years ago, they probably still make sense today.
A Tiny Orchestra in the Living Room: High-Fidelity Stereo and the Postwar House
Reading the geekwite, it is unclear if the lawsuit is about royalties for pre-Google-ownership of patents, or after, or both.
ASAP? The watch had been in progress for many years and was even announced and demonstrated publicly 7 months before it started to ship. It was definitely not rushed out the door.
The automotive industry certainly has some interesting times ahead with regard to security. Audi's proposed plan for allowing deliveries to be placed in the boot of a locked car [0] certainly seems like it could be ripe for exploitation.

How seriously are car manufacturers going to take security though? Is it going to be like the numerous router manufacturers that don't seem bothered? Perhaps some kind of regulatory body will need to intervene to make automotive manufacturers take security seriously.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32431301
If the phone is not present or turned off the watch will stay connected to wifi networks that you've joined in your phone previously. This is only useful/available for native apps, but it means that you can still use Siri over wifi without a phone.
"To trigger the failure, the researchers aimed a concentrated heat gun at over 200 degrees Celsius on the rotating batteries." ..so it was exploded via external conditions not apparently related to a failure during their normal function? and/or how is this distinct from what would happen to any encased heated object? I've no doubt that this is discussed somewhere in this expensive study, and i somehow missed it?
What were some of the struggles you've had? What have you come up with so far for others?

I made the transition a few years ago to management. What worked best for me was simply listening to everyone. I try minimize any objections or comments until I've had a chance understand all the issues.

Previously I'd fire off whatever comes to the top of my head and I can't provide good judgement or advice if I do that.
You're here arguing that Apple traded zero-days to NSA in order to get Apple Pay contracts with USG. At what level am I supposed to take this thread seriously?

My issue is that the comment that roots this thread is, as you discreetly agree, totally uninformed, yet written in a tone suggesting direct knowledge of how vulnerabilities are handled at big software companies.

If you want to discuss the subtleties of internal vs. external reporters, patch timelines, prioritization, pre-disclosure, and things like that, I'm up for it, but not until there's clarity about what --- let's call it: --- "the HN community" --- does and does not know about this stuff.

I am fine with random commenters on HN talking about vuln disclosure without ever having reported a vulnerability or triaged a report. I don't think our having spent so much time with those things makes us special. I am less fine with people pretending to know things that they don't, or, to be as charitable as I can, writing comments that carelessly create that impression.
I have been using Nagios for very, very long time. Since just after first english docs. I have never heard of (or don't remember) Icinga.
Java is proof that worse is better. It's never completely unreadable, but it's never pleasantly readable either.
The scientists at Duke University aren't the most sophisticated around, but calling them apes seems a bit harsh.
Their “puck” mouse design was intended to ameliorate RSI by encouraging a grip with only the fingertips. Unfortunately, nobody got the memo about the “proper” way to hold the mouse, and tried to grip the mouse the same way they were used to... which of course sucked. (And it was also difficult to guess the orientation of a round object.)

It’s definitely a bad design especially given the context of existing mice, and a case of poor communication, or insufficient user testing, or even hubris maybe. Your dismissive summary of their intentions is not at all fair, however.
Washington is trying to recruit Silicon Valley to join ‘Team America’
We can only hope this becomes a more widely adopted practice. Vehicle computer security, especially when it relates to self driving Autos, needs way more attention to operational security than it has been given.
A Rust Contributor Tries Their Hand at Go
First question needed for potential resolution: Is your campus still the first search result?
Hundred thousand lenovo a6000 plus soldout in 15 minutes
And today I am a successful person (at 31)
Interesting. My take was that language, standard library and third-party libraries are part of the same state space, just organized by the amount of use they receive. Since user-space libraries receive less hammering (many have just one user) they're usually still in the "adding exceptions" phase and haven't yet attained (and perhaps never will attain) the simplicity on the other side of complexity when the requirements stabilize.

I think that maps to your distinction, except that I don't believe in 'exhaustiveness'. The state space of a program isn't some fixed thing for most programs. It evolves and grows in response to what we want it to do, which dimensions we choose to generalize along and where we stay stable. I think it's equally reasonable to view the evolution of special cases as equally exhaustive at every point, it's the boundaries of the state space (requirements) that is growing in strange ways.
New .VIN domain names: what about accents?
Just to be clear, I was saying my comment was useless, not yours.
Willing, but ineffectual. Don't get me wrong, I'm very pro-EU, but they consistently fall flat on their faces when it comes to enforcement.
Has any taxi service, in any city, rolled out a self-dispatching app for end-users?
I'm personally incredibly hopeful for Tabletop Simulator.

The Skyrim community was just a bad fit, and Bethesda a terrible overlord.
Grossing and Gaming: A demographic breakdown of mobile games
From Trust to Intimacy.. Predicting Consumer Perceptions with Twitter
The 12g robot moving 2000 times it's weight, if it does, is pretty impressive. That's 24kg so you'd only need about four, weighing less than an iPhone, to drag furniture or people around.

Another related video with Geckos and synthetic 'geckskin':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJYbcG0Ts0
The Apple Watch is a secondary display and sensor array. Battery limitations have handicapped it for doing much on its own.
I've never seen a sleek, tiny watch that had GPS. The Fitbit Surge is the smallest I've seen and it's still pretty huge - more like a bracelet than a watch.

Pictures of it on actual wrists here: http://www.cnet.com/news/fitbit-charge-charge-hr-and-surge-h...

I don't know the nuts and bolts details but I think GPS has power/size requirements that preclude it from fitting in the size of something like a "normal" watch, at least until there's a major advance in battery technology.
This way to leave is expensive to the employer in terms of the time lost before they realize you will not communicate again and a replacement must be found. Why did you choose to not communicate with them that you quit beforehand? I am genuinely curious because I have witnessed people quitting by suddenly ceasing all communication before and I completely fail to understand it. Note that this is not mutually exclusive with blacklisting their email address and changing your phone number.
It's hard to see how it could be fixed. Fundamentally, what is different about a local key fob, and a relay connected to a remote key fob? It seems fundamentally impossible to tell the difference.

The one thing that I could see working in theory would be detecting the roundtrip transmission time with a strict ceiling on it. No matter how good your relay is, it can't relay data faster than the speed of light, so you can enforce the fob being close by only listening to it if it responds fast enough.

The problem with this is that light moves pretty fast, and internal delays within the fob will dominate. If you want to put the range limit at, say, 30ft, that means your response time ceiling is a mere 60ns. Can you build a fob that responds anywhere close to that fast?

Edit: one other possibility is if the fob knows where it is. A GPS receiver on the fob, for example, would allow the fob and the car to securely confirm proximity (absent GPS spoofing). Getting a GPS receiver to run on a wireless fob's battery is left as an exercise for the reader.
List of startups presenting at today’s DemoDay
> Admittedly, that process doesn't work well in all too many cases, but it would make the system orders of magnitude worse if instead of having an in-advance examination process we just had a series of patent applications hanging around waiting for litigation to start to provide an excuse for them to be examined.

Why exactly? For whom?
But if there was, it was explicitly not in the book. And the article author couldn't have published anything about that because he wouldn't know.

So the worst case is he republished an innocent story about someone that also had a non-innocent story. That doesn't make sense for a ban.
So you would willingly pay full price for your standard game, whether it's half-life 3, skyrim 2 or whatever, and on top of that pay for mods just because it makes your UI nicer and you like that sweet axe skin?
Make hacker news open source and let some magic happen
hacker news has access to so many hackers. should they not open the code so large number of devs can contribute and become creative?
How is that related again? :)
3DS Emulator – Play your favourite 3DS games on your PC
I remember the "The Opera" mod. Good ol times. Only a few commenters in this thread are/were actual real PC gamers (not Farmville/CoC).

I refused to upgrade to Steam and patched my HL1, CS 0.8 to 1.x with non-Steam-patches. Valve was such a let down since Half Life 2 fake E3 presentation. HL2 was good, but many levels were cut (e.g. icebreaker) and after all HL1 was the better game (except the Xen alien levels). Half Life 3 is running gag like Duke Nukem Forever was for 10+ years.

The greed almost destroyed PC gaming around 2006-2009, it revived due to the casual trend and more players owning a PC/laptop. Nevertheless PC gaming is still strong in certain countries in Europe and Asia. Sadly, the real-time-strategy genre is completely dead (except StarCraft2 & clones) - Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Command and Conquer (3 different series) will be missed.
Foreman 1.8 is out
And I submit it's always going to be possible to get away with doing it

, and

that it's possible to get away from doing it is actually important for all the business models to compete.

Go back to the closed, perfect, world. No infringing uses happen. What's the end game on that, pricing, getting mind share, etc...

I'll tell you what happens, and that is a lot of give aways and a ton of pricing changes. First one to move on that gains huge share, forcing the rest along. One will say, "go ahead, share it" and it's game on.

And who really wants that closed perfect computing world? I sure don't, and look at all the abuse where it does exist?

Open needs to be an alternative to that, if nothing else, to keep people somewhat sane and honest.

If open exists, so does infringement.

So then, how to maximize revenue? Sales is one way, leveraging mindshare is another.

The farther we go down that road, the more productive the discussion is.

And it's about the harm too. People do all sorts of things that are possible to do, and they do them under the threat of being caught and punished.

We make the punishment a remedy and recompense for harm done too.

So how appropriate is 150K / infringing act, compared to actual theft which carries significantly less penalty in most cases?

It's crazy! People are wanting to make it criminal and impose very significant terms too. That will also be crazy.

We need to have a talk about harm. Somebody watching a movie they aren't supposed to isn't that big of a harm.

And it can be a benefit, depending.

That dialog needs to be continued and continued rationally.

Frankly, I've stepped away from a ton of this. When I boil it down, choose to not infringe, I find the value of it all highly dubious, and there are lots of other things to do.

So I'm mostly out.

The little kid mooching software, movies, games, programming tools, whatever seeking to learn and grow might be on the moral bad side, if they have means. If they are poor? Trust me when I say they don't care, and are just seeking opportunity and skills.

It's not as black and white as you frame it.

And it's a control issue sometimes when it shouldn't be too.
There is literally no incentive in the system to help you, as a patient, keep your records.

Institutions, due to HIPAA and general conservatism, prefer that they have the one true copy of patient health data--this so much to the point of rerunning tests from other institutions (sometimes a good idea, sometimes not). They also know that you probably aren't going to go to a different hospital system--they're somewhat of a natural monopoly (if you ignore further regulatory shenanigans).

The doctors could care less--and as much as they gripe about EMRs, they'd gripe even more about having to deal with patients with incomplete records. The insurance company would prefer that they, if anyone, keep the records, again from an ease of maintenance standpoint.

This is the sort of thing for which we need meaningful legislation. Right now, for example, the digital requirement is basically just "lol scanned pdf". There is some improvement on this front, but it's a slow road.
UT Research Uncovers Lakes, Signs of Life Under Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
There was a very iconic image recently making the rounds:

http://i.imgur.com/IHIOxLK.jpg

What's particularly striking about this picture, if you'll pardon the pun, is that the cop is wearing stickers that are protesting the same austerity that the students are protesting with their red velvet squares. Cops are not allowed to strike (i.e. not work), so they wear stickers instead.

Howard Zinn's final chapter of his famous book comes to mind: "The Coming Revolt of the Guards". A system that separates people into prisoners and guards and pits them against each other, despite their common cause:

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncomrev24.html

As to what this all says about police in Montréal, I don't know either. I've lived here for nearly eight years and have never had any unpleasant interaction with the police. The students are very leftist, though, and with such a large student population (four major universities, two Francophone, two Anglophone, plus several other research and education centres), the students' attitudes just amplify themselves.
Why should modders get the most? Most of the work is already done for them. You want a bigger piece of the pie? License the engine and make your own game.
Anyone know how you can reverse proxy based on authenticated user?

With Caddy or another solution.
Signs of Subsurface 'Alien' Life Found in Antarctica
Thanks. And not really; I've seen others (like Algernon; on GitHub) around before this one. HTTP/2 barely hit the final spec a couple months ago so I expect we'll see more mainstream support later this year.
Yes there are apps that work with existing taxi services.

https://www.hailoapp.com/
Right, because people who have chosen to get dark tattoos are just like people who were born with darker skin.
Pure.println is pure up until you call run -- because it doesn't actually do anything until that point. In the Example, Example.io gives the structure of the computation and Example.run actually runs it. It's this separation that allows monadic IO to be pure (until it is run).

As the author of the article I'm probably not the best person to give a different perspective on the article. Hope that helps in any case.
"Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism"
- oscar wilde

It lost it's sovereignty when the gov stopped communicating directly with the people and started using the media as a mouth piece. This connected the two, giving more editorial influence to the gov due to its control over who could have access to source material.
Flywheel in SF is in use by all the cab companies I think. Same features as uber (hail from the app, pay with your phone, etc) but only for the taxis. One cool feature is that if you get in a cab off the street without the app you can pull up the app while riding and they figure out which taxi you're in and you can pay via the app automatically.
Yes, corruption directly correlates to Uber presence (or lack thereof).
I've been running into the same issue since last week. (Linux user being forced to switch to OSX)

All the terminal thoughts mentioned above are good although there are still some weird BSD idiosyncrasies that you'll have to cope with (cp missing the link switch, find requiring an explicit target, etc) Ive also been using tmux and it makes the default terminal a bit more bearable.

Here are my biggest gripes thus far switching from Debian Jessie with KDE:

- The window management is laughably bad in OSX. I installed two extensions (divvy and cinch) to add window docking functionality which helps slightly but they are free only in that they pop up requests to pay every once in a while. Apparently there are some better extensions but they cost money and its my opinion that my workflow is my employers problem, not my monetary responsibility.

- Using virtual desktops on OSX after becoming accustomed to the Linux implementation sucks. Its is far less featured than KDE (at least out of the box) and a lot of the extensions to make it better seem to cost money. The desktop switching order is linear and it randomly changes the ordering on you while you are using it. There is also no concept of docking a window across desktops or opening a window on multiple. In fact, when you maximize a window it switches desktops on you.

- The firmware for the thunderbolt display is terrible. The USB ports keep shutting off randomly requiring you to unplug and replug the thunderbolt. Doing this totally screws up all your window sizes and placements. I generally have a full screen terminal on a virtual desktop and it causes it to underscan the window until I close and reopen it. Extremely irritating.

- I don't really like the focus management in OSX but this is more a minor UX irritation. My issue involves clicking on a text field inside a different application and instead of having the text field gain focus, the application gains focus but not the internal text field. Many a time have I entered text into the wrong entry field in the browser.

All this being said, Apple hardware is really excellent. Some of the peripherals are a little bit too 'designed' and not as functional but they are not unmanageable. The software needs some help and I still may switch to Linux in a VM at some point. For now I figure that I might as well give OSX a chance before I completely bail on it. The Apple fanboys would never let me hear the end of it.
The first slot machines were designed with an extremely low frequency of big rewards. They could quickly drain all players' money, but they were not engaging in the long run.

When game designers looked to make slots more time-consuming and profitable, they started to experiment with the payoff scripts. Now, the most used slot machines have a high frequency of small rewards. The end result is the same – the casinos get all your money – but players' motivation has never been higher. You can read more in N. Schüll's Addiction by Design.

My point is that daily news most likely adopted the same reward schedule. The old model – fixed interval, fixed ratio – is a poor motivator.
How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time
I see what you mean. That is a fair point.
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. — John F Woods
Add a few diagrams and you can brand your meta-process linguistic lifecycle :)
Nginx-1.9.0 mainline version has been released
For cars that problem has been solved for several years--keyless entry / ignition is pretty common these days (with the added advantage that your key lasts for years without charging and you can give it to someone).
I don't see why an independent analysis commissioned by Toyota would be any more or less credible because Toyota paid for it than an analysis by an expert witness paid for by a plaintiff in a civil suit. I should think they deserve equal scrutiny.

Reading the transcript of the court proceedings, it sounded like Barr Group were able to induce a fault that could lead to an unintended acceleration, but the evidence that this fault actually happened was circumstantial.

Also, I don't find the jury's decision against Toyota to be relevant, given that there are so many other elements that figure into the calculus of a jury decision. I can't fault Barr Group for trumpeting that they were a key expert witness in a successful trial of this magnitude—it's phenomenal advertising—but I don't see how it follows that their failure proposal is actually what happened (nor do I think that the Barr Group would say with certainty that it did happen).
Makerbot's First European Innovation Center Will Be in Italy
yes, olalonde, enlighten us? Most taxi drivers are non-unionized people 'renting' a taxi permit/car from a permit holder
It's very hard to intuit your point from this brief comment. Expanding on it would be interesting (I almost certainly disagree but I welcome informed discussion).
This Simple Rubric Changed Box's Engineering Performance
>> Big companies like big ships have a lot of inertia.

Given I was a part of IBM's drive to go agile in (I'm pretty sure) '08, and this announcement is taking place in 2015... you're probably right!
Perhaps moving to a shorter distance transmission method would work. You could use NFC and then touch the fob against a portion of the door, placing the key in a cup holder (or something similar in the center console) with NFC support when you want to start the engine? It's not the exact same functionality, but is close.
5 years? More like 40-80. In Vancouver for example the 4 taxi companies comprising the taxi industry basically regulate themselves. Of course they will never approve another entrant. I wouldn't be surprised if Montreal is about the same.
> there are a metric ton of examples of how life in quebec is bizarre compared to neighbouring provinces in Canada (and compared to the US)

Quite the prejudicial statement. While some things are different, living in Quebec is pretty similar to any other place except for the fact that we speak french.

When LA or New York banned Uber, did you say how californian and New Yorkers were 'bizarre' and 'outsider'?