skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes. this is essentially the main concern, broad sweeping authority delegated in secret. It worked well for the FISA courts and natsec.
I just noticed notice in the browser window. I didn't recall seeing it earlier so when I saw this headline, I clicked on the link.

I chuckled when I saw this: http://i.imgur.com/CHqRSEZ.png

:)
Stop, think, research, debug
PageRank meets vectorial representations – “Ranking on Data Manifolds”
Modern manual cars behave that way because that's they way they're programmed. If manufactures wanted to, they can make the car behave in any way they want because they're drive-by-wire and the throttle is just an input to the computer. Afaik the break and clutch are still mechanical though.

That said, unless we see a significant leap in battery tech, I think we're stuck with ICE cars for the foreseeable future. But we might see hybrid systems from racing more, that enables the car to become far more efficient in the city.
Data Virtualization Company Delphix Lands $75M
Oracle Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement
Flash has become subject to retrocomputing.

There are plenty of PC Emulators aviable that run Windows XP and flash just fine. You shouldn't connect them to the internet though.
In this case that observation is unwarranted. There are some disasters which are difficult to predict and uncertain. There are others which are blindingly obvious or inescapable. Warning people that if a large hurricane hit a particular heavily populated city would be disastrous is not exactly extremely insightful when that city happens to live in one of the most heavily hurricane prone regions of the entire planet. As it turned out, Katrina was not even the worst case scenario, as it was not a Cat-5 when it hit New Orleans. Had it been, things would have been vastly worse. Similarly, a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is not a question of whether it will happen but when. It absolutely will happen, and on a timescale similar to the age of the United States. That demands prudent planning and mitigation efforts.

If you live in Japan you can't merely shrug and say "oh, who can predict when an earthquake will come? nobody knows", no you live in an earthquake prone area, you need to plan. Similar if you live in tornado alley in the US you can't shrug and say "nobody can predict a tornado". You need to prepare.

In this case, it's not at all difficult.
“How Google Works”
Flash always have security issues and Adobe do their best to fix them.

On the consumer side of things, flash is not so bad. Sure search engines couldn't read it but there is amazing content generated through it. The content is,what matters and unfortunately the Web is littered with abusive flash objects auto playing videos, audio, full screen ads and those won't simply go away with flash.

At least with flash I can easily disable it. But those auto playing html5 videos and audios ads are just as annoying. Now I need plug ins to disable native capability.

It's only a matter of time until all ads move to the medium and we find ourselves complaining.
Vector Representations of U.S Patents
The LHCb experiment at CERN discovers a new type of particle made up of 5 quarks
Canvas, WebGL, Javascript?

If it's because you enjoy the Adobe Flash tooling, then Adobe is doing exporting to both Canvas and WebGL now.

http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2014/02/flash-html5-canvas.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash/how-to/flashpro-export-webgl.h...
Now that we have IPv6 – do we need TCP/UDP port numbers anymore?
I have food for thought - the title says it but I'll try to elaborate on what I mean.

TCP/UDP port numbers are used to multiplex traffic to the same IP, so multiple services can be made reachable. I can't find docs when searching to understand if this is the only reason they exist but that is what I believe is their only purpose.

Recently I've started learning about Tor - you can make single service reachable through the Tor network with a Hidden Service address like: 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion

Like IPv6, "Onion addresses" aren't starved for address space. With Onion addresses you can only host a single service behind the address. It's trivial to create and bring one up to host a service. I argue we can use IPv6 similarly.

Getting rid of TCP/UDP ports - the positives?:

1) We could chop off 4 bytes from TCP/UDP headers (2 x 16-bit for source/dest port)

2) Routing traffic to the right bound service in the kernel's networking stack might be made simpler.

3) Without ports you can't assume from an address what type of service is hosted there - with ports we assume port 80 is a webserver. People might start claiming addresses that end in ':BEEF]' to associate with webservers, though. WHERE"S THE BEEF?!

4) Port scans would become [EXHAUSTIVE] prefix/subnet scans, and it'd be harder to be sure you're fingerprinting the same host.

Some negatives:

1) People are used to reaching the same host at the same IP but when using a different port. This hasn't always been true with things like NAT and Haproxy, but if we got rid of ports you'd have to keep a note of which address hosts SSH. Ports make this less cumbersome.

2) Someone could maliciously try claiming every address in an advertised/routed/reachable prefix to starve other users of addresses - how possible is this? Any comment, NSA?

I don't think this will happen but I'd like to know other reasons why we need port numbers :>
React and realtime for Oracle db
Good catch. So replacing "HTLM5" with "video codes", this may have a point.

But I'm still wondering, as we have very good decoders from projects like FFmpeg and VLC. (Not sure which of all those decoders are used by Firefox.) These are platform independent and to my experience better than the platform specific libraries.

For example, I often hear that people install VLC under Windows because it decodes lots of video formats better than the natively available Windows Media Player. So the native Windows libraries probably aren't that good.

Also, at least the FFmpeg project explicitly states that they don't care about patent FUD, so we can safely assume they don't cripple their decoders in the fear of violating patents: https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html
Why? Does the owner owe a share of the car to his employees? They didn't earn it, he did. A business is not a charity.
Ah, I see. "Who To Follow". Mental acronym disconnect there for a moment. :)
Well, I've never seen a dog do that, and I've lived with quite a few.
I have all plugins disabled by default on my Chrome. I assume it's mostly Flash. It's very little disruption, actually:

* Plugins can be enabled using one click;

* The "Copy shortcut" widgets are disabled by default. Too bad, 2 clicks instead of one.

* Some videos are disabled on some news website. Too bad they won't be able to auto-play.

* I very rarely encounter websites (less than once in a month) where invisible plugins are required, so I need to restart the page with all plugins activated. I think Google's Not-a-robot Captcha has difficulties with that, if I remember well.
That is the thing with driving - it's amongst other drivers, pedestrians, especially children. There are so few use cases where 99.99% is enough. I can only think of one, highway from A to B - how you get to and from the A and B respectively is not by selfdriving cars.
this number looks pure beautiful XD
I wonder about the value of polydivisble numbers
written in digits different than 10 XD .
and if there was any further algorithm to be found within it
Java-applets in the internet are not used anymore as i explained. And if quite a few poeple use it in their intranets they don't care particular for a 0day. If their intranet is used to deploy these, everything is already lost.

Even if the webbrowser that displays the intranet applets is used to surf the internet it's not a attac surface as you have to whitelist every site that's able to use applets.
I think the plugin is still available as an export target - at least the website doesn't say anything different.
I'm currently staying at Switzerland and they have water fountains like at every corner (with a little bit of exaggeration). I absolutely love it.
I originally asked about this in the wrong place.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2001254.html

I hope this is the right place >.>
Now you just need to define "mainstream".
Do You Want to Be Comfortable, or Great?
> Getting rid of TCP/UDP ports - the positives?:

[...]

> Some negatives:

The first and the foremost: we would need two totally new protocols in place
of two already well-known, well-functioning and well-tooled ones. Benefits you
mentioned are negligible.
First Scottish unicorn? Perhaps Skyscanner is up there too after a $800m valuation in 2013.

...and a rare success story for public funding from Scottish Enterprise. I worked at a spectacularly bad startup funded to the tune of $1m by Scottish Enterprise.
Refactorings in Haskell are relatively safe because you tend to be forced to acknowledge changes in a type or function's behavior at every place it's used. For example, if you add a field to a datatype, every pattern binding will have to recognize that fact. But for every place where that's the case in Haskell, you can accomplish the same thing in other languages. For example, if you add a field to a struct in C, you can rename its other fields, and then fix up every usage in your program. Other tricks include renaming a function you've changed, adding a dummy parameter, and of course, putting something in a wrapper type while you do the refactoring.

Haskell's type system (assuming you mean with GHC extensions because you called it advanced) only gives you an advantage in cases where other languages would have to resort to reflection or dynamic casts, i.e. specifically where they give up type safety and you'd miss a recompilation. In reasonable languages with generics, like C#, this is quite rare. For example, once in a while, in C#, you might wish you had associated types (or functional dependencies).
Great to see the massive amounts of plastic that I put out every 2 weeks are being put to good use.
One option was to go down the Click-to-Play route which offers a HORRIBLE UX. Especially on Youtube which still uses Flash by default.

Disabling Flash however, Youtube actually seamlessly falls back to HTML video. Well done. But I can't help but think, outside the Youtube world (BBC for e.g.). LOTS is going to break. I wouldn't take this tact with my parents or clients.
an ipo costs ~1M and has recurring fees annually totally about ~1.5M[0]. I don't think this will be as revolutionary as some people are claiming it will be, but if there is less regulation you could see companies doing a kickstarter like model independently as a series A.

> Every offering must be reviewed by and gain approval from the S.E.C., a process that takes more than 300 days, on average.

Where did this stat come from? How is there an average if the law and approval are for something that does not currently exist?

[0]http://www.pwc.com/en_us/us/transaction-services/publication...
Yet Another Victory for Obama: Iran Deal Reached After 13 Years
This is miles better than everything on that list for things that don't need much dynamic style computation.
They have been very active across the UK sponsoring conferences (.e.: ScottlandJS) and attending events (i.e.: Silicon Milk Roundabout).
I always drink tap water here in the Netherlands, in the US where I have been (Houston, New Orleans, Boston, Long Beach) the water just tastes like it came from a swimming pool. So much chlorine, I couldn't drink it. In San Fransisco it was relatively ok though, still a faint chlorine taste but drinkable. I understand the difficulty of maintaining such a large water distribution net but I certainly switch to bottled water when I'm in the US.

I do like the fact that you can get free water almost everywhere, there was often a large can and cups on the bar, free to take. Here a tap water is sometimes as expensive as a beer (in a bar obviously).
In case anyone is puzzled about what FanDuel and Draft Kings do, Recode is definitely being very pedantic with its description "daily fantasy sports."

These are a form of real-money-payout online gambling. They're legal. How quickly they evolve into pure casinos, as opposed to just 95% casinos, I don't know. They can't do something as clinically addictive as virtual slot machines and give payouts, but I bet they can come pretty close.
Try now, it should be working!
It's a very interesting book - starting by the fact that the easiest commercial route between Boston and California was around Cape Horn!
I much rather click to play over autoplay of videos, including on Youtube.

My browsing workflow involves a lot of middle-clicking links to open them up in background tabs. Autoplaying video is major annoyance in this context.
Is this not immediately obviously useless?
A year or so ago it seemed like SCTP was actually going to be a thing someday.

If SCTP did become the protocol we transition TCP/UDP to - should port numbers stay? (iyo)
I'm not talking about anti-US sentiment.

I'm talking about people looking at "10-2,000 ft" and asking themselves "Uggh ... how much was it, again?" Then they google for some unit converter. Then they stumble over "5-lbs", google again, but abort the search and decide it is not worth the trouble.

This is simply a bad user experience for the majority of their potential customers.
USB Armory: Open Source Flash-Drive Sized Computer
Unfortunately in this case avoiding the problem won't make it go away.

Many old sites will stop working (my first site was done in flash) as well as many games that are still heavily played today by millions of people. Also flash IDE provides a good introduction to programming for self-taught kids these days: many of them still do their first code in flash after clicking on "that strange icon next to photoshop".

Overall this is a good example of prolonged trusting a binary blob. IMO we will always tend to do what is more comfortable and we should strive for openness and transparency in the tools that most people rely for everyday.

The problem persists as long as there are people installing the plugin or "enabling" it.

We need a real open-source alternative to flash player.
The new fear is endocrine disruptors in municipal water. http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2010/02/t20100225a.html
I uninstalled Flash a few days ago, because I didn't want to deal with the updates anymore. Since Flash was unbundled from Mac OS X it has become a pain to update. I simply don't understand why I need to go to the Adobe site to get the updates.

Flash isn't super relevant anymore anyway, the main thing it's used for on my computer is Flash tracking cookies, and I can do without those. I do wonder how some of the tracking and retargeting companies will deal with the decline of Flash though. We asked a partner to stop using Flash for tracking, their response was that it's the best way to doing user tracking. Hopefully they'll change their mind soon.
However, it will also make it more secure by making it less of a target for hackers. If you have to enable it only for certain content … then great. That’s how it should be at this point.

Look at what happened to Java applets.
My firefox has been blocking flash for a while (I've not updated it, so it doesn't load the old version.). The only site I switch to Chrome for has been twitch.

For anything else html5 video has been generally working. I've noticed a lot fewer annoying adverts too which is a bonus.
Thanks for mentioning that. I always thought that this was a myth, but it appears that the obligation to provide free drinking water was introduced in the Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) Order 2010 [1]. Useful to know.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-licensing#mandatory-licensing-con...
"It's really interesting how OS X is the one that has a terminal emulator with the most features out there."

Actually that will be Windows with ConEmu. You can even run GUI apps inside the terminal with it.
Millions of Microsoft E-books give away
> and planned my exit strategy

That's the sad part about layoffs: Until your 30ies, not only you get screwed over but the experienced ones are long gone and aren't part of the battle [1].

[1] battle or discussion, depending on whether you need the job.
Search for a confederate flag on google shopping.
I uninstalled Flash about a year ago and haven't looked back since. Funnily enough only Facebook used to give me issues.
I don't trust municipal water sources because of the endocrine disruptors. http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2010/02/t20100225a.html
I'm also from such a country, and most people I know have trouble with US units, even if their English is pretty good.
I am one of the biggest Tesla fanboys out. Everything Geoff said is true but he makes it seem like this is around the corner and it isn't even close. At least 60M cars are produced annually[0] and there are about 1B currently in the world[1]. A best case for tesla is to grow from ~50K cars to ~500K cars anually by 2020. There isn't an industrial base yet.

Some other manufacturers will contribute of course, but even if 60m electric cars rolled out annually starting now and started replacing ICE cars, that will take (1B/60M) * years, which is 16years and 8months.

The only way this could be sped up would be the rise of self-driving cars, an increase in public transport and the continuation of urbanization. If many manufacturers stopped making ICE cars and we used much less of them we could replace enough of the current fleet for it to be non-trivial in a few decades.

[0]http://www.worldometers.info/cars/
[1]http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/23/car-population_n_934...
Show HN: Android Read-Eval-Print Loop, E.g. Read GPS
Java plugin you mean right the one that runs on browsers?.
Java itself is a huge topic including JDK, compilers, runtimes, server side etc.
They're still worth mentioning though. A good human driver can anticipate those situations and minimize the risk. Eg. I will not hard break for a yellow if the driver behind me is tailgating me, I'm super aware of drivers coming out from side roads because some of them just assume that there isn't coming any cars because there usually isn't. Not that an AI cannot learn that, but they're not good in unknown situations.
Already happened 2.5 years ago: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/01/29/putting-users-i...
To elaborate on "minor fees": For the current semester (6 months), a student at a public university in Cologne pays around €250 [0][1].

For the FH Köln, the exact amount is €246.20. This comprises the following:

* Administrative fee for "Kölner Studentenwerk", providing services such as cheap apartments or help with financial questions: €68.00

* Public transport ticket for the VRS region (around Cologne): €116.80

* Addon ticket for public transport in the whole state (NRW): €48.10

* Fee for the student council ("AStA"): €13.10

* Solidarity contribution (for Eastern Germany): €0.20

There may be additional fees for some courses, such as 100€ for "study material" for distant learning courses. Public universities may also offer some courses that require you to pay, as the FH Köln does for their Master's program for Game Development. However, the vast majority of courses don't require such fees.

Of course, there are also private universities. Their fees are roughly €400-€700/month.

[0] For the FH Köln: https://www.fh-koeln.de/en/academics/fees_5908.php
[1] For the University Köln: http://verwaltung.uni-koeln.de/studsek/content/studium/rueck...
This is a bit of a myopic view isn't it? Given that these treaties often force Most Favored Nation status on the participants, the end result is lower tariffs overall (if only that they can't make it worse), so pro-free-trade
"Debt relief (even more than the huge amounts they've already received and squandered) is very much in the cards and has been all the time, if only they would reform."

Debt relief has been discussed, but has been blocked by the German government, even despite the German finance minister admitting the debt was unsustainable...

http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKL8N0ZP3P720150709?i...

"Europe's legal set-up therefore gives government leaders sufficient space to strike a debt restructuring of some kind for Greece if they want to. The issue is how far they go with any reprofiling as part of a potential deal with Greece.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Thursday the IMF was correct in saying Greece's debt was not sustainable without a haircut, but he added: "I think the leeway we have ... is very low.""
Hadron Collider discovers new particle
TIOBE Index: Java Is the Most Popular Programming Language, July 2015
The only other place where I've found that flash is relevant is in auto-play videos, so now with flash installed but disabled is basically removing the auto-play 'feature', which is really neat.
While it is very fast, I wouldn't consider that an application but rather a static website. In my view, an application needs to do work, usually dependent on user input. Otherwise, basically every website is an application.

The dashboard looks like a much better example of an SPA.
"Positive comment" - one that aligns with your opinion? Why not adjust your mental model to reality? Where would common americans express their true opinion if not anonymously in the internet? Sometimes even a slight disagreement with the official agenda might lead to problems with career nowadays.
Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
The update process is horrendous. Redirect to Adobe's website, follow a 3-step 'wizard' - where Step 2 is a placebo 10-second loading bar saying it is "initialising" - and Step 3 is an advertisement for installing other crap from Adobe.

After all that you have to download a DMG, close all your applications and reinstall from scratch. Why not just build in an auto-update in the background and be done with it...
I live in the UK now and I just drink tap water everywhere I go. But back where I come from(Poland) nobody drinks tap water. I don't think it's dangerous,or tastes bad, it's just...not something anyone does. I guess it varies by country.
Firefox can actually use ffmpeg as a decoder. It would be a great option for supporting a lot of these formats. However, Mozilla can't ship it enabled, because the patent problem is very real. See, for example, all of the Play Store apps that got C&D letters from Dolby for using ffmpeg's implementation of AC3.

Firefox does ship a lot of other video and audio codecs though, such as vorbis, opus, theora, vp8, and vp9. It's recommended to use these for HTML5 when possible because they can be easily supported everywhere.
Bugs are always bad (and security bugs even more so) - but I've always felt that Flash gets a disproportional amount of hate/hype in the media. To some degree it should be normal that the more widespread a technology is - the more it gets targeted for security exploits.

If you run the popular browsers/plugins against the National Vulnerability Database, you'd get the following results (as of January 2014):

- Internet Explorer 366 total vulnerability issues (314 high severity)

- Google Chrome 235 total vulnerability issues (154 high severity)

- Adobe Flash 207 total vulnerability issues (169 high severity)

- Mozilla Firefox 190 total vulnerability issues (86 high severity)

- Oracle Java 161 total vulnerability issues (69 high severity)

[source] https://nvd.nist.gov/
> Especially on Youtube which still uses Flash by default

No since January[1]. Maybe you have an old cookie set or something?

[1] http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults...
On the Mac, it's easy, I use Chrome as my Flash jail. I use Safari all the time and the few times I need Flash I fire up Chrome and it's there. Don't have to worry about Flash hacks or Chrome battery drainage.
I like Telegram and that's why I wouldn't want it to happen. This would result in a mess, similar to Blockchain currencies. Suddenly everyone thinks they need to roll their own. That is, unless everyone would still communicate on the same platform, but I don't think Telegram was built with distributed servers in mind.