skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The chip is popularly known as a filter, which is used for acoustics in mobile telephones;

clueless NYT. Article is about microwave circuits, parts of PA.

> while the parts are small, the market for them worldwide is worth well more than $1 billion a year. According to the charges, the men took the firms’ technology back to Tianjin University, created a joint venture company with the university to produce the chips and soon were selling them both to the Chinese military and to commercial customers.

question is did they copy designs verbatim? or simply designed their own?

If you want to know more about microwave design/R&D this episode of theamphour featuring Shahriar Shahramian(old bell labs/alcatel-lucent) is excellent http://www.theamphour.com/228-an-interview-with-shahriar-fro...
When public data is sensitive for each country, every country should have their own system, as long as they can afford it. At least that's what I have learned in post Snowden era. It's much secured for each government, people bound by their own country's law, and even if they are monitored, they will be monitored by their own government. After all, nobody is ever trying to stop NSA from spying on rest of the world! It's only US citizens they are altering policies for. So, why shouldn't Russia or any EU country should have their own OS?
Haha, by new operating system I'm guessing they'll be taking jolla and forking it. If not forking it they'll definitely adopt the same way jolla is controlling its hardware. If the honestly attempt to build a new OS, with s manufacture it will probably fail. I'm excited to see if they do create a new OS. It could be the next breakthrough we've been waiting for in mobile technology.
Yes, more politics. We don't have enough of it in our lives.

In your broken view a good politician is a more valuable employee. And only because there is a slight chance that he will bring you some short term profit with his contacts and friends. What if he doesn't. What if he leaves to the next company. Where is the value then?

This is how companies fail and die. Hiring politicians and letting them talk instead of hiring skilled people and letting them work.
> non-profit

you keep using that word ... IKEA is also non-profit.
I think you underestimate how much time can be wasted on the internet - you'll still have access to HN!
> Does anyone know if the serial numbers are printed in order?

That's generally what the "serial" part of "serial number" means. And why the smarter bank robbers ask for non-sequential bills, because new bills generally have consecutive serials which are simpler to trace
The founder of Lavabit was perfectly willing to cooperate with the US government, including giving up customers' data, until some point when he just reverted to childish behaviour.
I don't think that RTT of this magnitude would create significant merge problems.
What is your plan for when automated cars arrive?
This page has the best implementation I've seen: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06-05-faster-utf8-strle...

It basically counts continuation bytes (which all start 10xxxxxx) and substracts, rather than trying to count characters.

Additionally, if you know how many bytes are in the string, you can remove the check for the null terminator.
The rotation of the Earth is slowing down, and this slowing down is expected to accelerate in the future. So in several thousand years, we will need multiple leap seconds per day to keep up. Whether we should take this into account now is the question, though.
It might be honest, but it's also frustrating. I want to read honest, insightful news written by people who have an understanding about what they're writing about.

Put another way, if you were reading about a scientific development, would you feel the same way about the writer saying "I am honestly not sure what this development means -- science escapes me." or something else along those lines?
Or... you can simply mandate all phones in the country be sold with this OS on them.
how is that any different than the traditional definition of "systems administrator"

I've always felt DevOps was just a shiny new synonym for the decades old SysAdmin moniker.
https://www.codeclub.org.uk/
Be there and see whats happening in real-time. 0ms lag between seeing something happen and it actually happening.
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"I spent the first two weeks setting up my environment"

Linux?
Colbert did a nice report on it - http://videosift.com/video/Colbert-on-the-Norwegian-Butter-S...
Doing the work neither Developers nor Support want to be doing.
Looking for an internship?
With a minimum ping of 371600ms, even surfing the web would be a pain in the arse.
But the GP's point seems to be that this seems to turn into

"cryptography we, as a state actor, can win against in a cyberwar, but which ultimately will end up being exploited at home as well, since we're all using the same partially broken code base"
I took a quick look at J and find it rather obscure. Can only guess that the computation model is something procedural. A language so far off the beaten path should have better introductory documentation. Can it to more than shuffle character arrays?
Be inspired.
Mars is not as cold as you seem to think. From Wikipedia:

Differing in situ values have been reported for the average temperature on Mars,[20] with a common value being −55 °C (218 K; −67 °F).[21]
Surface temperatures may reach a high of about 20 °C (293 K; 68 °F) at noon, at the equator, and a low of about −153 °C (120 K; −243 °F) at the poles.[22]
Actual temperature measurements at the Viking landers' site range from −17.2 °C (256.0 K; 1.0 °F) to −107 °C (166 K; −161 °F).
The warmest soil temperature estimated by the Viking Orbiter was 27 °C (300 K; 81 °F).[23]
The Spirit rover recorded a maximum daytime air temperature in the shade of 35 °C (308 K; 95 °F), and regularly recorded temperatures well above 0 °C (273 K; 32 °F), except in winter.[24]

Your biggest problem with opening the window is not the cold, it's the fact that all of your oxygen is going to be going away, along with some depressurisation issues (although these aren't as bad as full space - Mars' thin atmosphere is sufficiently thick that something as simple as a wetsuit would be enough to avoid most of the nasty effects on the human body).
What's the combined length of Google's data centers?
You describe perfect environment for an average fat computer nerd. Basement and pizza.
So there are two way I can see how they did this encoding, either way they still store some data on their side. It would be useful as an offline app for sure.
Until we are dead.
what's the periodic signal at 27 MHz?
Guys, we can assume that its shit, but until we actually go there we won't know for sure if there aren't parts of it that are simply gorgeous and amazing too. So far, we've only just scratched the surface of understanding Mars.

There are many places un-explored on Mars that will indeed provide a beauty unlike anything on Earth. This is an assumed fact, but it is mathematically just as likely to be true as the decision made that Mars sucks, based on current data.

We get there. We explore every bit of it. We find parts of it we can actually live on, quite comfortably - albeit, yes, still in a tank. But there could be parts of Mars we can transform, within a 100 years or so - just like the early settlers of every continent on Earth, ever in the history of mankind - and turn into a habitable place to live.

All it takes is one Martian generation, or two, and maybe there will be Martian-humans who have the conversation "I could never live on Earth, far too strange and unknown .."
€/CHF exchange rate : it has gone crazy lately and working for CHF while living with € it's pretty important for me.
Actually your brain has a several ms lag between light entering the eye and recognition. Robots could potentially perceive faster.
code.org - my 5 years old daughter created a simple game
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Only if you use a completley naive compiler, any level of optimisation moves from being a literal translation
There are many websites. Frankly, it is silly. It should be obvious that ∃site∈internet.slow(site) is true and further that it's boring.
between 6 and 8 hours. Every evening I ask myself wether I should do more today or tomorrow... I'm always wrong...
If they are micro-vms, container-style, I don't think they will have such need to share any library? -in theory, at least- ..

I mean, it is possible to completely isolate them, all.

It may end-up very heavy though, but, and I can be wrong on this, with the constant growth of storage capacities, network bandwidth, RAM capacity, and the progress made to lighten "containers", I don't think this "heavy" downside I see of immutable infrastructures will be a real issue in the future.
Awesome! Keep meaning to get into SDR or ham somehow.

There's chatter at 17.79MHz... but can't really make it out.
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Doubt anything will change in ember to accommodate any specific transpiler , or (transcompiler) if you would.
Do have a look at https://code.visualstudio.com/, ember is used in that first example, so using specific tools for better integration will be a better option at this stage.
Why do you assume that if country has it's own OS other it will be more secure and safe from spying by other countries?
What inspired me: lego, playmobil, zx spectrum, scientific calculators and having enough indoors and outdoors space available.
This is similar to (as in, they've basically copied, right down to the 4pm timing) the methodology used to set the WM/Reuters closing spot rates: http://www.wmcompany.com/pdfs/WMReutersMethodology.pdf
The key idea behind deciding whether to fork or not comes from the licenses, patents, and legal bindings. Although android is open source, there are so many patent and licensing issues. Only way to avert it is to go "China", ignore patents inside your own territory. Or, be a good dog and pay for all the claims. Samsung is the only exception who are playing push back and forth all along.
Why engage in competition you cannot win? Whilst a nonprofit Uber might face civil action from taxi firms, an "Uber for armed backup" seems like a very fast route to a jail cell. Considering the sorts of people most likely to be willing to use an app to rally support to settle disputes decisively in their favour, and the likely outcome of their use of such a service, that might not even be a bad thing.
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The article say they spent a fair amount of time playing counter-strike. So you could say that a sizable portion of their time was dedicated to killing each other.
steghide [1] has been around for more than a decade and can hide data in WAV files as well.

[1]: http://steghide.sourceforge.net/
Some clarification. Sensitive data will be things like full names addresses passport photos credit card details etc

Encryption. I'm thinking public key might work, but if I want to decrypt on the server how do I keep private keys private?
USSR was very famous for reverse engineering western tech and not paying anything for that.
Kara Swisher definitely knows what she's writing about. If information was available, she would have it. Parse the sentence as if John Bardeen wrote, "I am honestly not sure why the magnetic field is excluded -- quantum superconductivity escapes me."
Cows, grazing ... do they export some of it? The milk from grain fed animals is bland.
thank you, I think I was the only one. I have no idea what Brave is. A sports app? something like quizz duel?
"I don't know what I'm talking about, but this guy feels off, and I don't like that, so rather than examining my own biases and predjudices and irrationalities I'm going to use mental health language to give him a (controversial, relatively new) diagnosis from thecomfort of my armchair".

This attitude fucking sucks.
Yes, I do it all the time.

- Check glassdoor.com for reviews, interviews and salaries.

- Read a local version of glassdoor where employees talk about their former companies.

- Look at the company facebook account to see photos of the workplace and current employees.

- Search for forums and online communities where the company name is mentioned. Check the context and opinions.

- Research the CEO/CTO and potential supervisors on LinkedIn to determine competency and chemistry.

- Read articles and interviews about the company to gauge vision and the current state.

- Use the government public data to check company finances. In a software company wages are the biggest expense. So if you divide the yearly expenses by the number of employees, you can estimate an average salary.

This worked great so far. Dodged a lot of bullets and managed to get massive increases in pay. The tech industry would be a lot healthier if everybody shared information. Salary, reviews, what you like about the company, what you don't like. Post them everywhere you can. I do. Knowledge is power.
Should the development process at different stages of a startup be different?
I have been seeing an organic change in the development process at my startup since we started almost 2 years ago. I blogged about it and would love to hear the community's opinions on it. Brutal honest will be much appreciated!

https://medium.com/musings-of-a-startup-founder/introducing-the-lean-product-development-framework-7800eae7b840
> It's not particularly surprising to the IETF TLS Working Group either, which is at least partially why https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe.... exists.

This draft /does/ encourages use of larger keys, but also encourages the use of common parameter groups. The weakdh.org site mentions the use of common groups is a reason for this attack to be feasible. It also advises sysadmins to generate their own parameters. To me, that makes using common groups sound like a bad move.

The problem is, I lack proper knowledge to assess whether using common groups really is a bad move, even when using larger group sizes... Anyone here who can?
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The problem is that even if they create their own marketplace etc. any manufacturers who have an agreement with Google will be unable to manufacture any devices running the forked version. The restriction is company wide for the OEM.
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When a government has to chose between a strong political constituency or the people having access to food, be it a rich or poor society, the choice is hard.
Ask HN: Should I charge my electronic devices with 5W, 10W or 12W power adapter?
Time doesn't matter, what is best for the battery? Like, iPads support 12W at most.
I find a performance-based sales pitch much less appealing than one that told me the primary focuses were security and predictability of configuration. Too many hours spent pulling my hair out with Nginx config
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It is made for teaching code to young children
Just a note that this affects H (jump to top line on the screen) and L (jump to bottom line on the screen).
Good to see Bitcoin going mainstream!
TED speakers do take questions from the people in the audience and there is a comments section on the TED website, videos usually get lots of discussion.

Some nice things about TED/TEDx:
* They have made intellectual talks "cool".
* Video equivalent of a Scientific American article.
* Encourages people to give short entertaining talks instead of 40 min powerpoint "presentations".
* With TEDx anyone has the opportunity to get onto the TED website.

People on HN complain about the crazy cost of attending a TED conference, but this is just a networking/conspicuous-consumption event for rich people -- is that any different than $10k charity dinners?
When each country will have their own OS,
1. NSA won't be able to ask Microsoft to use their master key to spy on people of other countries. They will have to find a way to do that.

2. Policy wise people of each country will enjoy their own privacy and security. Their security won't have to rely on the US senate approval.

3. OS build by each country will work like virtual regional borders for their people. It will be the responsibility of the developers of respective countries on how they manage the security and privacy of their own OS. So, their would be a competitive advantage for public in general.

4. Economically, a lot of required technical work will create more job opportunities. Governments and local businesses will get to bite the share of big, centralized companies.
Sure, sure. Lets just let robots have all the fun.
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Secure from what?

Secure from remote but unskilled attackers using auto tools poorly?

Secure from remote but skilled users targetting your system?

Local and skilled users targetting your system?

Law enforcement smashing the door down?

Well formed legal documents?

Well funded government agencies?

Malicious employees?
...and just to add that this enshrining in law was most likely done with the general expectation that UTC would keep a close relationship with solar time.
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but the time it would take to build robots that could react to pretty much any situation (we're nowhere near that on AI research) is a loooot bigger than sending people there.
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It is not uncommon in Europe for cows to feed mainly on grass. We don't have the corn lobby (we have other ones instead).
To paraphrase: If you sat down to build something other than the web you wouldn't end up with the web.
The tablet market and more importantly its poster boy the iPad (the notebook killer lol) have been swallowed by two beasts simultaneously, from the bottom up, larger size smartphones, and from the top down, hybrid notebooks like the Surface/Yoga that integrated the touch based interface and generally speaking more capable devices not toys.

The MP3 player market and iPods in particular have been swallowed and cannibalized to Apple's discontent by their smartphones and their peers again.

So, it doesn't look rosy for Apple as it's becoming more and more a one trick pony with one single dominant product while the rest are suffering or in steadfast decline and when you take into account that the saturation point for smartphones is approaching, you'll realize that they will need to bring up REALLY something new or face the fate every tech company finds itself sailing the ship through the stagnation storm just to get alive.
Time is money, as the saying goes. You've still invested a lot more than $5. (I'm not saying it's a bad investment by any means, but there is an opportunity cost.)
>There's a lesson in there somewhere

Communicate with ones peers even if its mundane?
relevant: http://lwn.net/Articles/644128/ ("PEP 492 vs. PEP 3152, new round")
Nowadays "being originally from Ukraine" is giving people the right to talk shit.
> Toys really do not make up vast proportions of the expenditure of, well, anyone.

Sure, and that's why the basket of goods is weighted according to much of them are purchased
OctoberCMS is a pleasure to use.
The only thing I remember about Ada is that it introduced exceptions (or maybe was one of the languages that spread it). Useful little tidbit since I like to keep a mental picture of what languages roughly influenced other languages.
+it has a military/secure programming background (and thus is inherently friendly towards proving/verification)
It was fairly widespread in Austria for a while (90s).

Never really used it and kind of expected it to be dead or only used in specific old systems. Interesting to see that there's a new version (I have to admit I'm still stuck on 95 and missed 2007 completely).

Edit: I think SAP generates roughly 1/3 of all European software revenue so that's already pretty major. Germany has always hovered around 50% of the European software market (last time I checked was a couple of years ago)
Perfectly said, nobody cares what is under the hood 99% of the time, its about if it works for their needs and "just works". And, WP kicks ass as flexibility in creating and maintaining an advanced and powerful website.
If you ask me, this phenomenon is the reason we see a lot of incredibly successful founders flail at a second startup -- and it's also the reason we see some folks continue to kick ass year after year. The first guys started believing their own press (One wag said that in SV, you either grow into the CEO role or you swell into it). They flipped, then started over -- leaving folks from the previous team spread here or there and not realizing they destroyed the magic. The second bunch just keeps honing a better and better team, moving the team into high positions of leadership. Each team member becomes a CEO, but the team survives (and continues to improve).
Were almost near the starting line with research and companies like Human Longevity, CalicoLabs(Google,Genentech), GenoPharmix, Buck Institute, SENS Foundation and this:

Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V48M5j-6zdE

Epigentics and extending human lifespan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvNLNl7oJnM
Firefox Developer Edition, which is on 40.0, is also reported as vulnerable.
WP has a huge and massive ecosystem, it is it's own economy. Someone might write something better from a code perspective, but it is going nowhere unless it can gain the critical mass WP did.
For many more "weird" articles, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles
Plans are like ideas, they're worth next to nothing, execution is king.
Odd.. since the EU has a 'butter mountain', as there was a too large supply of butter.
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Obviously weakdh has more up-to-date recommendations (public only a few hours!) so you should certainly not cling to the older ones published by IETF who-knows-when and which could have been influenced by the players who prefer the weaker encryption for their own benefit.

I don't understand why you would not believe weakdh recommendations? The researchers describe in their paper (1) exactly how they can precompute some values only once in order to then do fast attacks on any vulnerable communication. They proved that the common and too small values are both dangerous. It's real. And it's definitely not "choose the one you like." Change both.

1) https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf

"Precomputation took 7 days (...) after
which computing individual logs took a median time of 90 seconds."
Surely they were famous for reverse engineering key technologies from the West. Unfortunately it seems, they have lost that edge with digital technology. China on the other hand is making huge fotune out of its cloning and reverse engineering business. Their policy? "First make money by cloning and copying, then buy the original product maker once you are ready to expand internationally." Example- copycat company Geely bought one of the most creative automakers Volvo.
Not if those commands are entered by two different people on two different machines. Or if there is a large timespan between the commands.
Only if they didn't sacrifice the mag safe in favor of it like they did on the 13 inch.

The mag safe was one of the best inventions for MacBooks ever and it is sad to see how nonchalantly they retired it on the 13 inch. And I doubt the rumor it was because it is too light now. The mag safe is for when you trip over the cable with your leg. Doing that, you will always do so very abruptly. And so the weight of the MacBook cannot be that big a factor. Other wise, comparable things like the tablecloth trick would never work. The glasses and plates also do not weigh a lot. But tug on the tablecloth abruptly enough and away it goes with the glasses and everything still on the table. Same thing happens with a mag safe connector.