skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This applies to every proper 3D game though (excepting VR)

> "...your field of view is strictly limited to a 2D plane, but the use of isomorphic projection and billboarding techniques are used to create depth"
How can we vote on something that the government says we aren't allowed to see?
Not all marketing is TV ads or sales jobs to doctors.

In this hypothetical case, marketing $$ were spent to discover that existing late state melanoma treatments were lacking in some important respect (efficacy, side effects, cost...), and that there was a sufficient market to continue the expensive process of developing a potential treatment.
Agree with this. Money taints the appearance of neutrality. They are no longer a neutral medium but rather an information marketplace. It's no longer based on moral guidance but monetary and economic guidance.
What it is and how you spin it are not always one in the same. Yes, it's a gadget. But it's being presented and sold as a fashion piece, at fashion prices. Technology itself has become "fashionable" and so this just plays right into that. People who are technologists may not see it that way; but people bedazzled by technology will.

It would flop as a gadget. I don't think it has strong enough legs there; at least not this version. but as fashion it has potential. People did not need the watch like they could have needed the iphone or the ipad. This was purely accessory, something they had to be sold on in ways besides practicality; versus something like the iphone which is phone/gps/flashlight/camera/internet/whatever.
you have some good points, that are definitely important.

as far as technology we do not offer any investment advice .. we offer a platform for wealth management. RIA's a primary target audience, but the core logic can be used in other implementations.

you are right that before going to production the system needs to be verified by a 3rd party in order to ensure that it measures up security-wise..
but this is no different than having a similar audit done for any ERP, (PCI compliance for ACH/ shopping carts, or any other software you can think that deals with financial data...)
To be fair the article added this anthropomorphism. What the scientists found is unlike most animal species, the chimpanzees had enough self-restraint to not eat raw food the moment they found it, if they knew they had the chance to improve it later on.
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That depends on whether the whistleblower's identity is published. If Snowden hadn't gone missing, enough people had the same access as he did, and there wasn't a log of who accessed what documents in place (or it was removed), he could've remained anonymous too.
I agree about the name - it sounds more suitable for MIDI visualisation software.

Cygwin and MingW don't evoke any existing meaning, so I think they're somewhat more memorable.
Why I won’t recommend Meteor anymore
> they're the biggest company on the planet.

I agree with what you're saying, but this is just not true.
What is the classified information a crime committed by the government? :)
This is exactly what "Apple-is-better" people on this thread do not get.

They are suggesting that the Apple IR camera is good because it improves the user "experience by syncing with itunes to play a song with the right tempo as you dance" as opposed to the Google IR camera which will result in sun-burn cream ads. What the typical person would want is no IR camera at all.
There is no way to easily change the (location based) automatically selected language. Right, I might be in Spain right now, but I want the english trailer...
Apple recalls Beats speakers because of fire risk
purely from a technical standpoint for wealthbot.io the challenge is acceptance of these securities by custodians.

for example our platform doesn't really care which security it works with whether it's a stock, and EFT or bitcoin it doesn't matter.

the problem is finding the financial custodian that will execute your trades using the said currency. we did have real interest in someone supplementing their portfolio with bitcoins... but we can't find a clearing house/custodian that would execute relevant trades for us.

if there is an international custodian that we can hook into to work with securities from other countries, it's a no brainer.

that's why open source wins. we are not restricted by any regulation or market conditions. if the technology exists and we can hook into it, it's possible.
or you know, stuff like this [1] "new remote exploit leaves most macs vulnerable to permanent backdooring"

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-remote-exploit-l...
I'm old enough to remember the Microsoft of the 90's and early 2000's. I'm not any more scared of them doing Embrace, Extend and Extinguish any more than I am of other large tech behemoths. Understand that altruism performed by any company of that size is entirely driven by profit motives. Don't assume they want to give everyone SSH hugs just because they're nice people now. But that also doesn't mean they're "evil" per se, just doing what makes sense in today's marketplace.
I think what would be interesting is to ask Lenovo why they commissioned Lenovo Browser Guard from a known spyware distributor, Conduit (one of the biggest and for a time nastiest Malware programs was Search Protect, which they make).

Proof: here’s a press release from Perion from June 2014 which announced that they partnered with Lenovo to create Browser Guard:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140618005930/en/Peri...

And here is a January 2014 press release that shows that Perion acquired Conduit's ClientConnect Services in 2014

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140102005313/en/Peri...
Really? All your documents, finances, photos, music, movies, messages, health data, viewing patterns - might as well just give that to Google since they already have your search queries? That doesn't make any sense.
Everybody uses billboarding techniques and 2d sprites and stuff. We're just a lot better at it now than before.
I have a similar experience. I also started out with perl in high school. When I started going to University, I sought out a tech job to provide myself with some supplemental income. Started out as an intern (this is where the luck came in) at a local tech company where I picked up valuable experience and was promoted to part-time. This provided the supplemental income I wanted.

After doing that for a couple of years, I realized this is what I love to do, so dropped out and went full-time. I didn't start a business or have an entrepreneurial spirit either, but I love problem solving and love getting good at it, which really helps in tech. Since I can demonstrate my value, no one thinks much about the lack of degree either.
> the [US] president is not above the law.

Except when it comes to extraordinary rendition and torture.
> You can do those things, but you're not going to.

This is a 100% trash point. I have yet to see an unknown device on my network from a dumb screen, let alone any additional microphones or cameras on said dumb screen. I have also not seen or heard of any reports of it becoming a spying type device. You mean to tell me the dumb panel I bought, which is from a major manufacture with known tear downs and a ton of buyers, managed to sneak this hardware in (even something like a cellular radio) and nobody noticed?

I'll repeat this for you so you perhaps it will impact you this time: Show me a dumb TV that has been wired up to spy on people that has been in the wild before.

Please come equipped with citations, references, and examples before commenting.
That's an utterly weak argument. I use Vim extensively with and without plugins, and never feel hampered by lack of them.
Kubernetes: The Future of Deployment
Yep. This is what I've done in the past for our machines.

1) Time Machine it
2) Clean install
3) Drop off computer to be fixed
4) Pick up computer
5) Restore from Time Machine

I've never had a problem.
I haven't written Windows drivers, so I cannot talk about your other points -- but you're not quite right on this one:

> Windows doesn't require rebuilding the kernel to get device support for some vendor's hardware.

Neither does Linux. You have to compile the module (i.e. the driver itself), of course, but you can modprobe it without rebuilding the kernel. This has always been the case.

A long time ago (during the days of kernel 2.4 or so) there were people (ahem, mostly using Gentoo) who tried to shave off a few milliseconds when booting by building everything into the kernel so as not to waste time loading modules. In that case, sure, you have to rebuild the kernel, but that is not a common approach.

I... have to wonder, where did you get the idea? Back then (I was... um... I was also frequenting the Gentoo establishments...) Windows was our laughing stock because you had to reboot your computer when installing drivers.
My scanner and audio interface still work on Linux (and yes, I had to look if they're supported), no matter what updates come my way.
Upgrading from XP to Windows 8 disabled them.

For the audio interface there's even a Win8.1 driver, but its reliability is a joke. The DDK takes care of everything? Not for this vendor.
You should definitely start using tagbar more. It really ups the IDE-ification of Vim. Super cool stuff.
I never finished my bachelor's and Google hired me for a senior position. There were several intervening years of experience though. And while I don't regret leaving the college program I was in, do regret not completing a decent advanced CS degree.
Is this a joke? In a previous app update they had:
"-Hired Peter"
I was under the impression that most of the Hacker News population needs no help in being set against the TPP...
> Not only that, like Mac OS X, Windows is moving into another application model WinRT with containers. Just like Carbon, only selected Win32 APIs will survive in the long run.

Microsoft would still let you run 16-bit DOS apps on Windows if Intel hadn't dropped compatibility from their 64-bit processors. Both of us will be dead and buried before Win32 goes away.
It's not fair to trivialize the traction that services like Ello are able to get. It's really hard to gain any ground when something is dependent on network effects, especially in a field as competitive as social networking. 6-10k sounds like a perfectly reasonable base to me, and with that inertia, there's no reason to believe it won't continue to grow. All businesses start somewhere (generally much lower than 6-10k, as Ello surely did), even the business that will eventually outcompete Facebook.
Summary of your position:

1. If the details are published, minority won't like it and will complain loudly.

2. Those vocal groups will sway people to oppose it

3. Opposition would destroy it

4. We should instead keep it secret and trust that the vocal minority groups will be fairly represented.

Personally, if opposition can destroy it, I think it should.
Confessions of a tech nerd: Why I buy vintage
cygwin?
Hey! I'm not sure what's up with that. Are you perhaps trying to send email via an ipv6-only server? I'm currently (unfortunately) only able to accept on ipv4 due to some serious issues with OVH ipv6. I'll get in touch with you with some out-of-band contact methods!
Ah, none of the tab stuff or app-saving from Chrome are features I would use. And I believe my phone just supports Chromecast screen sharing at the OS level (alongside DLNA and Miracast). Is that an addition from Sony that isn't in stock Android?
Sadly, individually coding things that shouldn't be individually coded no matter how foolish is not out of the realm possibility for our government. I point you to labeling of biodiesel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Identification_Number

I do agree with you, it is impractical and non-effective.
Thanks for the enthusiasm! :D Yeah, it's definitely heavily influenced by the slow web movement. I'm hoping it can be a gateway to sending paper letters again for some users.
Fortunately any company that sits on information about you can sell it to third parties, and has little incentive to not do so, meaning you won't be restricted to just one company sitting on your privacy.
When is an option labeled 'Hilarious twist option' ever a good option to actually do when pursuing serious issues in real life? I never suggested the president was above the law, I made a joke, and I thought I labeled it as such. Apparently not enough though, so here I go the post was a joke, an attempt at humor. I am aware it was probably not very funny, but everyone is so serious that I thought a little on topic humor might lighten things up.
"40 people voluntarily leave CMU to join Uber"
Or just practice with one of these first: http://www.80percentarms.com/products/0-billet-ar-15-lower-r... ^_^ ("0% BILLET AR-15 LOWER RECEIVER").

Or scrap aluminum, this sort of thing really isn't that hard if you've got some manual dexterity, but, well, that's why the classic first wood shop project is something like a bread board.
> you always have the analogue loophole

Give it time. Most everything these days supports HDCP. Screens are being integrated with cameras.

HDCP + computer vision scanning of the room to ensure that only the licensed number of people (and no cameras) are present isn't that far off.
That and they still have thousands of unfixed bugs years after release, including crashes and save game corruption.

Bethesda are good at creating open worlds, but technically the games have been mostly subpar.
I'd assume this is a joke between coworkers. It's good to see some companies out there having a sense of humor.
It makes the implementation interesting for Dragonfly, at least. So why not do it?

And if it's offloading some work onto the kernel, having a popular tool support it may push Linux developers to fix the support.
Maybe Obama can't personally hand over the documents, but he almost certainly has the authority to authorize their release, which from a PR perspective is basically the same thing.
But the people who're governing young taxpayers now will no longer be governing those taxpayers when they get older and will suffer from diseases caused by today's policies - policies which will raise the standard of living of the same taxpayers today. And a future government will simply blame past governments for the problem (rightfully, though not very usefully.)

"The government" (why the capital G?..) as an organization might have an incentive to protect taxpayers' health but individual people making up said government do not have the same incentive. I think they call it the agency problem.

(Some people go as far as advocating benevolent dictators with a hereditary right to rule; of course in reality few dictators are benevolent, and a hereditary right to rule prompts people to kill off ruling families. I conclude that setting up incentives such that everything works out smoothly is rather damned hard.)
And? Still confusing Open Carry with Brandishing? Explain please.
It is true that it is failed, and that video looks silly in retrospect. But it's also true that Apple has always had an entirely different business model than, say, Google. This isn't a new "marketing feature." Apple has never sought to make large sums of money by selling user data.
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> I don't know what data it's based on, but I strongly suspect he's correct on that.

That is called "Confirmation Bias."
Harvard renames science/engineering school in honor of hedge funder Paulson
So reading into India's stats, there was dip in 2013 followed by a rise to maximum GC applications by indians ever? Is there a way to tell how many of those were upgrades? that would be interesting because then you can tell how many might just be repetitions.
I disagree that it doesn't automatically make them more likely to happen.
If Apple is serious, the next step will be to open up the source for the encryption parts of iMessage, FaceTime, etc with the ability to verify the binaries, much like PGP used to do for their software. And also to verify the keys being used in the messaging to make sure additional keys aren't being added by apple.
“http://” causing Skype to crash and be reinstalled
>> "You seem to implying that because Apple makes money from hardware today they won't sell my data tomorrow."

I'm not implying that. If they did decide to that tomorrow (which would be an incredibly stupid business decision) they would have much less data on me to sell than Google does one of their users simply because they aren't collecting EVERYTHING, only what they need now.
Ah yes, scapegoat the employee for your lack of oversight and weak management (I know it's a joke, but it's a crappy one)
This is the technical summary:
"A lithium fluoride – uranium fluoride fuel salt, moderated with zirconium hydride, would allow our reactor to remain critical with a loading of used nuclear fuel."
On the other hand, it's in my personal interest for to have someone supply my favorite activists with details of that agreement, which is why I pledged. We are talking about a possibility of giving immense control over governments to for-profit corporations that don't lose time pondering morality. And paying out? Someone who leaks TPP will need some protection and 100k is barely enough to move somewhere safe.
There's also PuTTYTray: https://github.com/FauxFaux/PuTTYTray
That would be spankingly good.

Apple tend to put a lot of polish on things and an Apple mandated key service which can provide an authoritative list of who is trusted and such would be a big push to pgp everywhere.

not to mention the "click once, you can now sign your emails" UX would be lovely to have.

And with the icloud accounts system you have a method of having some (although minor) trust that the person making the private keys, is, who they say they are.

it would be very easy for apple to have a fully integrated pgp solution. :D
Very true. I was overjoyed when I had 400-600 readers on my blog back in 2001, I still get interviewed for being one of the first bloggers in my country back then.

Now I have more followers on Instagram and it's like... whatever, it's a drop in the bucket.
By market cap. Is this incorrect?
Teacher suspended for blocking students' cellphones
Something similar happened to me during my first conference presentation, granted that being only a workshop i had a much smaller audience. I had my presentation and everything ready to go on my MS Surface, but as soon as i plugged in the vga cable, the Surface crashed. I had my presentation on a USB in my pocket so i could quickly grab the chair's computer and continue, but had i not, it would have been a very awkward few minutes.
How do they intend to transfer $100,000 to an anonymous source?
Except the person who leaks, if his/her identity is known, will be prosecuted for sharing trade secrets - and given there's trillion-dollar companies behind TTP, s/he will spend the rest of their life, if they are arrested, either in lawsuits, prison, or just disappearing. Snowden and Assange are both effectively banished from any country that has an extradition policy with the US, and even where they live now their location has to be kept secret - if they weren't as public figures as they are (and in Assange's case, locked up in an embassy), I'm sure they would've 'disappeared' a while ago, regardless of where they were hiding.
I don't think you understand what what is being stated at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_...

Apple is the biggest company on the planet, based on Market Capitalization, which is the factor to determine the strongest companies out there.
Global routing – a kludge or a collaboration phenomenon?
>the president is not above the law

Yeah, we've seen time and time again that everyone is treated equally in U.S. courts. Money or social standing have no influence whatsoever.
> I think the solution is to use the right memory management tool for the job.

That's like a generalization of my own argument. Generalized to the point where we are in the domain of truisms like "right tool for the job" (as opposed to what, the wrong tool for the job?).
There's no practical reason for a phone company to keep your phone records around, since phone companies are just carriers (although they try pretending that they are not).

Google does have justification for analyzing your activity. They can classify you and improve your search experience. As an example, when I'm searching for "Ruby", I'm getting different results than what my wife does. And local search results are vastly better than anything their competitors are displaying. And then they claim that whatever data they keep around, they are anonymizing it.

Of course, that's probably bullshit, plus they've got access to a huge database of emails. But then we are talking about potential and pretending that Apple does not have potential to do harm, or that it has less incentive than Google, well I don't buy that.

I should mention that at some point I worked on a system that was integrating with Google AdX, which is the platform that is supposedly selling the information you're talking about to advertisers. I must say that compared to other RTB platforms, they actually expose less information. You don't get a reliable user ID, you don't get an IP and they reject your application if you're setting cookies. It's very hard for advertisers that use AdX to build profiles.
Don't charge by the hour.

It's less important what you start out charging, and more important that you develop the discipline of continuously walking your prices up.

Hardware security is a high-status subset of software security. There aren't that many consultants who can reverse firmware, understand embedded C, or write assembly for a debugger. You should be able to charge a premium to what bread-and-butter software security projects (like web app testing) get. Consider $2k/d your floor (that's what a high-end consultant gets for a bread-and-butter project) and $2.5k/d a rate that probably captures some of the premium for doing hardware work.

Factors on a hardware security project that would tend to "up" the bill rate:

+ Non-X86 non-ARM

+ No source code provided (but this can also be reflected in the project's scope)

+ You have special tooling for the project (for instance, it's MSP430 and you have a really good MSP430 hit tracer)

+ Involves "actual" hardware, like: you'll need to tap a bus, or defeat a JTAG countermeasure

+ Serious RF work

+ Cryptography

"Down" the bill rate:

+ Startup customer, not in a financial vertical

+ Startup customer, has raised less than 5MM

+ Client buys more than 4 pentests per year

+ Competitive bid

+ Minimal software

Source: in 2012 my partners and I sold Matasano Security to NCC Group, which is now the largest software security firm in the US.
If I have understood the proposition, this tool will let a developer/freelancer PRESENT estimates to customers. Presenting estimates is essential but trivial.

But as everyone knows, estimations feature two non-trivial problems: one, knowing how to budget X hours for Y task and two, knowing what tasks are needed in a project. Both of these are a factor of experience, familiarity with the domain etc.

So do you foresee your service offering default "project task-lists" with sample effort? Without that, honestly, a simple Excel spreadsheet easily offers far more functionality.

I do hope you take this as a serious feedback and not just as criticism from a stranger on the Internet. There is a market-fit problem with ALL estimation tools and I am not seeing anyone address it.
linkbait title. I suggest "Technology is an amplifier of human intentions, not a cure-all for human problems.", which is a paraphrased quote from the text