skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well allow me to extend thanks to you and everybody like you for damaging a very important Open Source project at a very important time. I understand it would have been difficult to sit down at the negotiation table with Eich and set an example for everybody of how to work with people you have disagreements with, but it would have been the right thing to do.

Either way, you won. I hope it was worth it.
Because it's easy to continue to pilot the vehicle after your friend smashes into and breaks both your arms?
It's likely part of their tech mandate. I suspect what advantages it may have were not a big driver in that decision.

They have a vested interest in driving silverlight adoption and use.
this version seems to have arbitrary camera angle https://github.com/tangrams/tangram-es
Mozilla, if you're reading this:

Bring back Brendan Eich and apologize for the whole fiasco. I can't accept a single thing from you as sincere after your treachery.
Flash was also proprietary. It's closed-source, patent-encumbered, and has a single implementation. It's completely under the control of Adobe.

Perhaps, but I'm not sure how any of this is different to the various media extension proposals/standards we're starting to see more recently.

And at least before, if you wanted to serve video from your web site, all you had to do was get one of the numerous Flash video players and prepare one version of your videos that would work in that player on almost any device.

As Apple explained countless times, it is not because of "arrogance" that they did not support Flash.

Please forgive me if I don't take their word for it. The thing is, Flash has run -- and reasonably well -- on numerous other mobile devices, even some from quite a few years ago, so I don't really buy the performance arguments. Even if they had been true for early generations of smartphones and tablets, the performance of these types of device was always expected to increase significantly over time, as indeed it has.

If the performance would still be a problem on today's iOS devices then presumably Apple's users would opt for other implementations instead, but as far as I'm aware, Apple still have an effective monopoly on distribution of software that runs on iOS devices, and they can and do block anything they don't like for sometimes not entirely clear (or, some might argue, entirely fair) reasons. So no-one was ever allowed to decide whether Flash running on a modern iPhone or iPad would have been OK, because that option was removed from the table, and we were left with devices that have bugs and/or non-standard behaviours in basic functionality.

Flash was also a massive security and stability headache: as Apple loved to point out, it was the single largest source of application crashes on OS X.

Leaving aside the disturbing implications of Apple actually having a reliable data set on which to base such a claim, browsers are a constant security and stability headache. Take a look at the release notes for Chrome or Firefox, and see how often that little update every few weeks includes at least one critical security update, and how often they have glitches so bad they have to push an out-of-band update instead of waiting just a few weeks. As I said before, there seems little reason to expect better results just because someone shifts things like video rendering and DRM technologies to a slightly different bit of low-level, native, closed source, patent-encumbered, even-the-browser-devs-don't-see-it code written in an error-prone language by the same kinds of development team that wrote the plug-ins.
It wasn't even a question of the W3C endorsing it as much as Apple, Google and Microsoft making it clear that they were going to implement what Netflix, YouTube, etc. needed, producing the situation exactly as you described it. The W3C simply let more of that happen in the open rather than at private meetings.
FYI: The test link[1] doesn't work for me. It either reloads a white page, or reloads the page but it is still firewalled.

[1] https://go.umur.io/wsj/
Terminal velocity for these things will not be terribly high.
The best I've gotten is when we can't watch something on a project from a macbook because ~hdcp~.
They can use an array of sensors in the seat and passenger compartment. My car isn't terribly smart so if I leave my bag in the passenger seat it will chime at me incessantly until I shove the bag onto the floor. Cars already use a lot of this kind of information when making decisions around airbag deployment. I was in a frontal accident last year that didn't trigger any airbags because I was firmly belted in and moving at low speed.
Samsung Announces Artik IoT SoCs
Silicon Designer Mobilizes Online Editing
do you surf? Have you ever experienced the push of air that develops from a closing / collapsing tube?
I object to both. Advertising itself is a significant problem.

Note that some of the lists also include "objectionable" content -- sites such as goat.se and the like. If you prefer your reality unmediated, examine and adjust.

I've added a few of my own entries in addition to those listed, though increasingly I'm relying on others' compilations. I've written a script to regenerate my /etc/hosts file from updates:

0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com # Privacy
0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com # Privacy
0.0.0.0 js-agent.newrelic.com # Privacy
0.0.0.0 tag.perfectaudience.com # Privacy
0.0.0.0 connect.facebook.com # Privacy
0.0.0.0 sb.scorecardresearch.com # Privacy
0.0.0.0 b.scorecardresearch.com # Privacy
0.0.0.0 stats.g.doubleclick.net # Privacy
0.0.0.0 stats.visistat.com # Privacy

# Tracking gifs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9441401
# Sun Apr 26 07:04:40 PDT 2015
0.0.0.0 gs.dailymail.co.uk # Privacy
0.0.0.0 gum.criteo.com # Privacy
0.0.0.0 i.dailymail.co.uk # Privacy
0.0.0.0 moat.pxl.ace.advertising.com # Privacy
0.0.0.0 www.hosted-pixel.com # Privacy
That's the annoying part, right?

Surely there was, at least, some kind of open-source alternative for getting/fetching/caching these keys? Or does it truly rely on blackbox obfuscation?
>But if you tried to make a film that last 20 seconds like the first Lumière movies, or without sound like Chaplin most people won't understand it.

For any given object, over a large enough population, most people won't be exposed to it; those that are won't understand it. Hit TV shows might reach 10M viewers in the US - out of 350M.

FWIW I think the OPs move is slightly premature: there's a movie coming out soon called Pixels that will certainly raise the profile of this style: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2120120/
This seems kind of implausibly cheap for what it's offering.
Show HN: A mobile artist resource site built on Meteor
Note: due to the wait for H1B visas we aren't considering international candidates, except for REMOTE DevOps.
And it may well be the case that you don't have the luxury to make this choice.

Which, unfortunately, is usually the case when it comes to game development.
How do you foresee a negotiation with someone's core values progressing? There's a fundamental incompatibility there, not just something that can be talked and reasoned around.

You personally, the guy typing the letters into this box, what do you think the outcome of such a "negotiation" would be if it were as successful as humanly possible?

At the end of the day, Mozilla's entire mission statement is contrary to Eich's stated beliefs.

Were we talking about peons rather than C-levels, the words would be "bad culture fit".
Researchers have demonstrated a simple artificial neural circuit
You'd have to be omniscient first. Otherwise you may always be inconsistent when judged against context you're not aware of.
Guide to artificial body parts
If Alice doesn't validate the identity of the server, that's absolutely a legitimate attack. But building a secure channel is out of scope and assumed solved here. The problem is how can Alice authenticate to Bob without exposing herself to signing arbitrary documents.

(nice diagram, by the way)
Yes and Yes (assuming your random key isn't guessable).

breachattack.com suggests masking the secret with a per-request random key, but masking the user input would work too.
Well, yeah, but as BoppreH said, that's still present in the original article's design. What BoppreH's solution doesn't allow (which is the problem the article raises) is the tricking of Alice into signing arbitrary data.
This strikes me as false dichotomy. "Startups" and "enterprise software" aren't two different things. There are, for example, startups who are vendors of "enterprise software".

That said, to the extent that I kinda get what you're asking, I'd say that software typically classified as "enterprise" tends to excel at certain things:

1. Stability. Now this ideal isn't held up as much as it used to be, but for the most part, high quality enterprise systems are designed to never go down, or if they do go down, they have failover mechanisms or some other means of making sure that transactions don't get lost, etc. There's definitely a dichotomy here in terms of pushing for the opposite of "move fast and break stuff" in that "breaking stuff" is not supposed to happen and people are willing to sacrifice some nearness to the bleeding edge, in order to not break systems that the business depends on.

2. Integration. Many "enterprise" systems live in complex environments that have accreted all sorts of cruft and complexity over the decades, possibly as a result of mergers and acquisitions, regime change, etc. As a result an "enterprise" system often has to be able to "talk to" a HUGE array of disparate systems with many protocols, formats and interfaces.

3. Flexibility. Rule #1 is "business requirements change". And when the requirements change, the software has to change. This is why "enterprise" systems have things like the oft-derided "incredibly dense XML configuration files that allow the system to be reconfigured to do something completely different" or have embedded programming languages built right into the system, or have radically denormalized database schemas, etc. It's all about making it possibly to mold the system to fit the new requirements without having to rewrite it from scratch.

Of course, as you can imagine, when you combine those factors, you can get some pretty complex, impenetrable and obtuse stuff as a result. This is largely why "enterprise sofware" gets a bad name. But really, it's all about trying to write software to deal with the messy complexity of the real world.

Anyway, what can a startup learn from that? Well, I think all three of the factors mentioned above are actually important for any software company / service. It's just a question of how much you weight each one. In theory, if you're building a "cat sharing photo social network site", then maybe you don't need the same degree of stability as if you're building the order processing system for Amazon.com. But if your site is down too often, your users will gravitate to some other site. You can probably work out how the other factors have to be analyzed in similar fashion.
> The big one was the switch to DSL, which AOL didn't keep pace with. I don't even recall if they did start offering DSL. My internet experience in the 90's was interrupted dial-up and busy signals.

To reinforce your point, Earthlink did jump into the DSL market early and they're still chugging along.
There's this cognitive dissonance with a lot of game devs who damn well know mobile is a ghetto, but want the big bucks mobile can occasionally deliver. So they try to justify mobile development thinking they'll be the ones who make the "mature" game that will be "appreciated." Instead, freemium mouthbreathers leave 1 star reviews because "it looks funny on my phone."

Don't blame the game or the style. Blame your chosen audience.
The thing that bothers me about pixel-art is that too many young artists are obsessed with the past, and not exploring the possibilities of the new technologies, tools and modes of thinking that are available to them.

It's as if every musician under twenty was content to play in the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Don't get me wrong, I love pixel art — Paul Robertson and the Sword & Sworcery guys are doing some of my favorite work — but if the artists of yesterday were stuck in their own pasts… you know?
Wow, when I clicked to see the comments section here on HN it was kind of the other way around in my head. I thought "Yes! Finally good news from Mozilla!" I don't need this binary blob on my computer and therefor I don't want it because I can never know what it does. Why use Linux if you end up running closed source binary blobs anyway? (I understand that somewhere down there I still am using some propriatary nvidia driver or something but if I can avoid it then I would like to be able to.)
Recent research has had controlled landing on 2 motors in real robots (and one motor in simulation only). The main trick is to spin the whole vehicle around the z axis (up-down) very fast, and modulate the speed of the remaining rotors to apply forces at different places around the centre of gravity. IIRC the one-rotor version didn't work on a real robot due to limits on the frequency response of the real-world motor controller.
Given node.js supports native code modules I can't see why it'd matter, but SpiderMonkey has a special asm.js compilation unit, OdinMonkey, giving best-in-class asm.js speed.
Had. Silverlight is no longer improved.
BitTorrent’s encrypted P2P chat app Bleep launches
I'm asking why, if the lights will cycle in such a way that pedestrians COULD cross, why they should not automatically allow pedestrians to cross. It's infuriating to miss a cycle as a pedestrian, and whom does it benefit? I'm not suggesting that there not be buttons which can force a cycle or accelerate a cycle. How would motorists feel if traffic lights defaulted to red?
A Startup That Wants to Cure Social Anxiety
I thought that was the machine behind some Prince tunes, but it's a Linn LM-1 not a TR808. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMad5DLHNOw.

Anyway good read.
This guy has a 3 letter domain for his personal blog. How did he land that?
Well, you knocked those straw men down. I guess that settles it. Drones are exactly like windows aren't they?
Unless they have published their source code (or at least a protocol spec), then I don't think there's much in the way of 'thoughts' to be had.
Funny, as I was reading the parent post my mind jumped to Half Life too. What an amazing game! Part of me wishes I could un-see all the stuff that came after it, so that I could go back and play it with my original excitement intact. Instead, it seems my mind is happy to find flaws at every turn and compare how it actually looks to how good I remember it to be.

It's even worse with older games. I tried to play the original X-Wing in DOSBox a while back, and wow, I couldn't believe it. Did it really look that bad back then? Maybe my 486 DX2 and 14" CRT made it look better somehow.
May 2015 CA Communication from Mozilla
I for one, am shocked that a bill with the words "USA" "Freedom" or "Patriot" could be construed by anyone to actually be about those topics.

As George W. Bush once said, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on, uh... shame on... You can't fool me again."
There was/is a software version of said drum machine. Back in mac os8 days, it made me realize how odd it is to try and turn nobs with a mouse. It made me think the interface is hard to use on a computer, unless you had the original hardware and knew how to use it already. It seemed like there should be a better way.

But it was fun.

now touch version on ipad. I haven't tried it but I'm not convinced the knobs work better on touch than they would have on the computer.

https://www.propellerheads.se/rebirth
Why not use Kik? Its a more popular closed source messenger.
It's the same thing as with browser identification and detection of mobile devices - as soon as you start using them for non-info purposes e.g. disabling content or redirecting people to a mobile-specific page (or an advert for 'app of your site) that they don't want, then you have to expect that any well-meaning software will have the user device lie to you, because it's in the best interests of the user.
I thought is was pretty clear that the move from XMPP to Hangouts was to have greater control over user data including snooping into it.
> I want 99.9999% reliability and strong safety guarantees as a feature.

I take it you don't drive, or allow yourself to be driven, right?
You would think that but chrome is much more insidious than other browsers. I can log in to chrome on all my devices and share bookmarks, apps, sessions, passwords, etc. That makes me a sticky chrome user because I lose all that functionality if I ever switch.
You're right. I wait for the day when we can make the batteries smaller / motors more powerful.
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> There are many technical roadblocks with getting the pixels to stay blocky and render the way you want.

Huge blocky pixel art never really looked that way in the first place. The pixels in Atari/NES games were made to go through the various distortions in the video pipeline (composite crossover, scanlines, flickering, misaligned electron guns and all that) that left them with all the hard edges blurred off.

The aesthetic is totally based on people running emulators showing you the framebuffer in a way it was never meant to be seen.
Victim-blaming is usually considered obnoxious. (It certainly is when newspapers opine that cyclists run over by automobiles should have been wearing helmets.) I wonder why that isn't the case here?
>> “This was so strange that we sat on this observation for several years”

>> "We tried for five years to model the production of the positrons"

Why would a scientist withhold data for 6 years? How typical is it for scientists to not reveal data until they can explain it using current models? I would think that Dwyer would have rushed to publicize such fascinating results.
agreed. i try to explain to people that firefox is an open source program created by an organization that is trying to keep the web free, while chrome is created by one of the world's biggest advertising companies, but they don't seem to care enough to use firefox.

i feel like mozilla should give up on the soccer mom users and focus on being the power user browser. this is already the case to an extent, but they don't market firefox's advantages (like better extensions) well enough, and they don't quite focus on power-user-type features as much as i think they could.
Wait a second.

Doesn't EME imply a kernel component? To safeguard the encryption keys and to generally complicate an access to the raw media? If so, does it mean that this Firefox update touches the kernel?
Beyond being just a crappy study... People have lower performance when they are uncomfortable? Who knew.
Yeah I'm not sure what their target market is either.

Proprietary software is fine for a lot of things, but anything concerning security and privacy absolutely requires the additional transparency and scrutiny offered by open-source.

I guess they are planning to market it to people who are worried about privacy but not tech-savvy enough to be able to understand these fundamental deficiencies of proprietary software, but that just seems really unsavory to me... But then again this is the same company that tried to sneak crypto-mining software as a value added offer to their installers so I can't really say I'm surprised.
Announcing Ionic 1.0
Two benefits over TextSecure that I can see:

- Doesn't require your mobile phone number to use it

- Not dependant on google services on Android

Downsides:

- Cant beat Textsecures crypto
- Not opensource

The last two points make this a no-go for me.
To make it a little more fixed-size and built of known primitives, what about just signing a mutated hash of the content a la HMAC?
I think that no, it's not possible - not if by "no math" you mean "can't add". Even if you mean "can add, subtract, multiply, and divide, but can't do algebra", it would be very hard.
Woah, I had the idea that quantum theory had the "small stuff" all going well according to predictions. Is the phenomenon you describe with the muon incompatible with the quantum field theories?
Care to elaborate? The study design seemed pretty good from the abstract--longitudinal looking at changes in scores of specific students.
No math like a 2-year-old? Or just simple arithmetic? Programming knowledge?
Hmm, I don't know of anything, but it sounds like you're building a CDN?
A New Generation Takes the Lead in Nepal's Disaster Relief
The author is self aware and empathetic. But even if he wasn't or his natural inclination was not to become more kind, it's a really good thing to fake (and will hopefully become natural over time). Being kind is the right thing to do even if you're selfish/looking out only for yourself. A lot of really smart jerks are held back because other people don't want to work with them. Even if they're promoted for their individual contributions, they will always be limited by how much they individually can achieve vs. as a team.
https://www.lily.camera/terms

Purchaser agrees to stay clear of anything in the range of the UAV, or anything it could possibly collide with such as power lines, buildings, other UAVs etc.
Yes we have heard of it. I have high hopes for the place, my understanding is that they have even learned to speak a passable version of English over there.
I personally switched to Syncthing (and the Syncthing-GTK GUI) and never looked back.
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The person knows simple arithmetic and enjoys programming in python.
Mozilla neutered themselves when they 1) stuck with an ancient, bug-riddled, poorly performing codebase for too long, and 2) tripled down on the JS/HTML/CSS trifecta of suck, and 3) then tried to use it to build an OS.

Google was the only browser vendor actively trying to move the web stack beyond the technology swamp it's been mired in for so long.

There are individuals today who have literally built an entire career without seeing anything beyond the browser tech stack (a lot of them on HN -- note the downvotes), and Mozilla was champion #1 of that dismal reality.
Which is mitigated in SSH by two things:

1) The DH group is negotiated by both peers from fixed list.
2) output of key exchange is hashed with various values that are not all controlled by same side of connection

Also after reading the relevant part of RFC4253 I've found out that the session id is conceptually an output of key exchange, but in the DH case it's derived from contents of key exchange messages and not from the result itself (not that it makes much of an difference).
The app is Joyable: https://joyable.com/
The average mobile user plays exploitative "freemium" garbage to kill time in lines. How can you expect them to appreciate the art behind it?

How does your second statement follow from the first? Does choosing to play freemium mobile games somehow mean you have poor artistic taste?
Completely agree with you. If they want it to be focused on privacy, they should at least document their protocol.
Google has a secret apartment where Page and Musk meet to discuss crazy ideas
What browser is that? Don't they show an ad from Google Chrome on all non-chromium browsers?

Or, you could just use http://ddg.gg/
WHOIS shows this:

Registered On February 08, 1999

I guess availability was better then, or he made some good cash in the .dot era and bought it outright from someone else?
Otoro states he is using CNE Conventional Neural Evolution, but combining it with ideas about recurrence from the Atari paper.

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/01/27/neuroevolution-algorithms/

He outlines the evolution of his thinking and slime volleyball in this post which cites John Gomez's thesis as the inception of CNE.

Certainly parallel ideas to Schmidhuber but the implementation details are somewhat different in the U of Texas Neuro-Evolution models.