skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Macbook pros are some of the best selling laptops out there. And this comparison really only makes sense on a laptop, as the power usage wouldn't have a noticeable impact on desktop.
Listen to the English version and then the Chinese Version - you will see the Great Firewall of China in action. :/
Poll:Standing Desks - Yay or Nay
Standing Desk have been around for a while; what's the verdict, are you happy with yours or have you since ditched it?
Love it, will never go back.
It's OK, I don't use it nearly as much as I thought.
Didn't work for me - health issues
Didn't work for me - productivity issues
Would like to try but too expensive currently
Nope - just another fad
I still feel it'd be worthwhile to experiment with having the /newest content displayed explicitly as a section on the front page. There's no risk of people confusing /newest content as regular front page content this way.

It's definitely true that some people will eventually tune out the /newest section in this setup, but those are probably the same people who wouldn't have checked /newest regularly anyways. However, for those who wouldn't mind checking out /newest once in a while, this would remove a great deal of the friction (I realize that clicking the new link isn't a lot of friction to begin with, but every bit helps).
I have often wondered if there are any subtle emergent properties that tend to occur due to humans tendency to round interacting with a given system of measurement.

For example, perhaps cars designed in America tend to be more|less aesthetically pleasing because American designers will round up to an inch whereas European designers are (hypothetically) unlikely to feel the need to round up to 2.54 cm instead of say 2.5 cm.
We Need Clean-Energy Innovation, and Lots of It
I use nvAlt (http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/) and have it write to a "Notes" folder in Google Drive := ubiquitous format + search + syncing
4 leading mobile UX experts talk key trends
Ironclad (YC S15) Is an Automated Legal Assistant for Companies
It called "embarrassingly parallel" because it is embarrassing for the Cray and other supercomputer vendors sales people when their expensive hardware does not outperform a 5 year old solution that cost 1/2 their fancy gear ;)

Otherwise data parallel is an other phrase that is used for the same concept.
Building a ReactJS UI for static site generated with Middleman
The most troubling part is "Telemetry", which only Enterprise edition clients can disable completely.
Facebook completes construction of first full-scale aircraft, Aquila [video]
Rule of thumb: mutually distrusting users sharing physical resources typically creates vulnerabilities. Do everything right and you still have covert channels. So long as they use physical separation rather than virtual then I'm excited to see this development. Separation that's (a) physically isolated per customer and (b) behind a stable interface allow the specifics of the security to constantly improve without work on the customer's end while blocking risks that come with virtualization.

See the co-founder in the comments. nebulon, would you clarify if it's physical and how do the boxes interface at the networking layer? That would be a start on upper-bounds of security.
The Future of Games Will Focus on Escaping from Reality–and Improving It
Windows 10 – Toddler Deletes Everything with 6 Clicks
OK, it's a click-bait title, but check this out: You're only 6 clicks away from wiping out your Windows 10 installation.

Starting from the Desktop, click on:
Start / Settings / Update & Security / Recovery / Get Started (Reset this PC) / Remove Everything

You are never asked to enter a password, or type in "Remove Everything" as a fail-safe.
Dan, thanks for the feedback.

- my bad, the font size in the editor is originally small. will try to fix that.

- problem is that the algorithm itself is what makes the system strong. once revealed in a white paper, the whole thing is useless. what do you recommend to write in a text description for this case?

- it's an imitation of OTP mechanism but has nothing to do with how OTP is conventionally implemented.
If it's not explicitly excluded, then it's something they can do and might do in the future without notice.
How to Use Siri on Apple Watch to Create Immediate Countdown Timer
7 common security bug management mistakes and how to avoid them
So long as their HTTP server responds to requests received from me, then it is "right" for me to perform whichever operations I choose with their response. Once data is on my machine, I get to decide how to process it, not them. If they don't want me to have their data, it is well within their rights not to provide it to me.
تحميل الوسيط القاهرة عدد الجمعة 31/7/2015 – تراخيص
It seems pretty explicit about it, although "the past and present of science fiction" might be a better descriptor.

For example, here are quotes where the past:

> Delany came of age at a time when the genre [of science fiction] was indeed characterized by gee-whiz futurism, machismo adventuring, and white, heterosexual heroes.

is contrasted with the present:

> In the contemporary science-fiction scene, Delany’s race and sexuality do not set him apart as starkly as they once did.

EDIT: Actually, I hesitate to presume on the legendary New Yorker proofreaders / fact checkers, but shouldn't it be 'macho' (an adjective), not 'machismo' (a noun), 'adventuring'?
Nearly every job in America, mapped in incredible detail
I hate Skype so much, but I don't know of anything better. Google Hangouts has been extremely unreliable for me.
Java performance tools and teams survey: Who is doing what?
Facebook's Internet.org Unmanned Aircraft Beams Down Internet Connectivity
> OK, you've reclaimed the nuance merit badge.

Excellent. That makes being an hour and half late for work today for writing that long post worth it. :-)

> He claimed in a tweet that the ggblocklist was "probably illegal". I associate claims that anti-GG activity are illegal, antitrust, fraud, collusion, &c with KotakuInAction, a perception colored by Popehat's mockery of those legal claims.

Wasn't that tweet [1] not suggesting that the block list was probably illegal, but rather employers using it as an employment black list was probably illegal?

Note that I'm saying he is correct about that. Nor am I saying that he is incorrect. Something like 30 states have laws prohibiting employment black lists, but at the risk of losing my newly restored nuance merit badge I'm not going to go read them all to see if they only apply to black lists made by employers! (If anyone wants to do so, here's an article that cites them to get you started [2]). It seems these usually are about black lists made by a former employer, but some of them look like they might be more general.

[1] https://twitter.com/siloraptor/status/536532439108444160

[2] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-r...
Yes, I believe this is the episode of Debug that you are thinking of: https://overcast.fm/+I_IAnJ5Y

(Couldn't find a link on imore)
You know, it's really funny that everyone knocks these patents (and rightly so), but the second some service comes up that does the same stuff as has been done before, but suddenly it's "on an app!" that means it's revolutionary, and old regulations shouldn't apply to it.
Sure, I'll drop you a line. Definitely interesting in the sort of stuff that you guys are solving especially within the analytics space.
I like this for my password manager: http://www.passwordstore.org/

It's all UNIX based and takes advantage of GPG and Git for encryption and versioning, respectively. Super lightweight, and there are various front-ends for it, including an Android app.

It's not a cloud-based solution by default, but it wouldn't be hard to set it up to git push to a central location on each update and to pull from that location down to all your end-points.
I was hoping that you had some insight into the relative revenue generated by tracking and by clicks on the advert.

The tracking I find onerous because of privacy and bandwidth concerns and I imagine will be regulated soon.

The click-able adverts I have less objection to as I do not in fact click on adverts on Web pages - mainly because the products advertised are usually laughably irrelevant to my concerns and the subject of the article I am attempting to read (a point made by OP).
I agree with you - what is politically correct has changed. I think it often changes to be what is most convenient to those in power.

There's a huluva lot more to American history than the bad things, but recent trends I see make me fear that even the bad things will be swept under the rug. You see stories pop up all the time of colleges restricting speech because it hurts somebody's feelings. This is slowly starting to happen to public speech as well. As the article says, history is painful to face, and students today are more unwilling to put up with pain and more likely to demand that they not be subjected to any pain.

Perhaps that just reflects what has been true of history, that it is often rewritten to convenience the ruling class and pacify the peasants.
I used to think that but what sticks in my throat is the bullying of other athletes into potentially dangerous practices for other people's short term gain.

David Millar's autobiography goes into some detail about it.

Someone saying "take this blood transfusion or inject this 'recover' syringe or you're out of a job" to a young athlete, far from home, is a scary thought.
They wouldn't identify as chrome - it'd still be a custom browser based on the chrome code.
Really? You belive that society should be able to force adults to eat healthy? Because that is actually what we're talking about, adults, not children.
I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about this very issue, and I must go back and forth weekly. My first reaction is to want to defend the ignorant, to try to educate them and work to protect them from being taken advantage of.

But when you talk to people about it, _their_ apathy and indifference is what leads me to stop caring. I've tried for years to educate friends, family, and coworkers on digital privacy. The number of people who have even installed and used a password manager is 0. If it's a struggle to even get someone to try out, let alone USE DAILY a password manager, what hope does anyone have to elicit a privacy-aware mentality from the general population? Why work to help people who do not even want to be helped?
Check out Morgan Dixon's awesome research project Prefab: The Pixel-Based Reverse Engineering Toolkit, which would be great to integrate into RobotJS.

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mdixon/research/prefab/
Well just ask the advertisers and they will give you all your files back. If they refuse - there is always a copy in the NSA worry not.
This is good writing, although it doesn't fulfill the promise at the beginning of explaining the blockchain. Very intrigued by Ethereum now.
How to hack, track and unlock a GM car via OnStar
I hope governments are starting to understand what they have gotten themselves into by using this crap. Microsoft should be banned from all public offices :D
I agree with the first part, and disagree with the second part of your statement.

Just because there are patents doesn't mean a person can't play around and even try to make money off of their work. It just means they need to do a little bit of investigation before trying to monetize their work.
I think maybe you forgot a 'not' in there, assuming you wanted to disassociate yourself.
You should never have given him/her the root password.
Desktop PCs don't have battery concerns, certainly, but electricity still costs money, and if you can reduce the power usage of your computer by a significant amount, that can translate directly to saving money.
The video does look cool. I keep on intending to use my primary Linux dev box as an outwards facing web server, but every time I take steps towards this, I realize how much I would be dropping my shorts in the process.

You people should be targeting professional photographers, smug mug and friends offer really limited functionality to content owners who really should control their own material.
> Does it support self-hosting...?

This was my first question too. I checked the android app, and there was no obvious configuration option for a different server.

It's open source, so at least in theory it's possible to modify it to your needs.

Also side note: Was a little disappointed to not see this on f-droid's marketplace since it is open source and hosted on github. Need to get that changed. :-)
"The advanced features just couldn't work without it."

I don't know much about Windows 10, so I'm curious what features you are referring to that require heavy tracking like this.
> It's still possible to create a local guest account

Is it? I haven't tried the release build yet but this was removed from the preview.
What if a TV station were concerned about people looking away during commercials, and decided to air a message stating "If you are not comfortable watching our ads, all we ask is that you please do not tune to our channel." Would you think that someone who continued to close their eyes is an "ass"?
I Was Let Go – Why It's Important to Be Prepared with Your Career
(I am the APSW author). The reason why the sqlite3 module (aka pysqlite) behaves the way it does is because of DBAPI (Python standard database API). That tries to make all databases look and behave the same. pysqlite could do more - eg the SQLite error code could be an attribute on the exception, but the code base is very rarely updated.

Wanting a Python wrapper for SQLite that celebrated SQLite's features, functionality and semantics rather than paper them over is why I started APSW a decade ago. It also has considerably better testing and diagnostics, and is thread safe.

http://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/pysqlite.html
Gatsby in New Delhi (2010)
Then we can agree to disagree on our interpretations of the facts. :)
"Windows is now essentially a personalized, cloud-based operating system with the primary interface as a personal assistant."

Who wanted that for desktop computers or laptops? This is not going to fly with business customers. Microsoft has already bombed twice in the business space, with Windows Vista and Windows 8. This looks like another bomb.

Windows 7 is still pretty good, and it will probably be the main Microsoft desktop OS for years to come, despite what Microsoft wants.
We do not run physical servers and have only virtual separation between users. Thanks for the input, we will work to clarify that. Please see https://www.cloudron.io/faq.html
Not always in the UK, and if they do it's only liability and not comprehensive/collision.
There is quite a bit of magic that Safari is doing. One example is that it complies javascript down to byte code in LLVM.
Designed crowd voting music app; guarantees exposure for independent musicians
Median and 90th percentile are still pretty meaningless for the question that First Round is asking, notably "If I want to maximize my financial returns, what qualities should I look for in founders?" Miss that one company at the 99th percentile, and your return could be 10x lower.
What's more, opting out essentially marks you as more interesting to spy on.
> The fact that you can't drive a friend's car is a crazy aspect of US auto insurance.

That's not true at all. I have State Farm (IL and FL), and as long as my family member, friend, whatever has my permission to drive the vehicle, they're covered under my policy.
You won't believe this one weird trick to save money on a network of local nightly news stations!
What about stuff like health insurance, and 401k match? Young people typically don't think about these things, but getting a maximum match out of your 401k contributions (it's literally free money) while you're young will pay back quite a lot when you're looking to retire.
This is totally untrue. Layout can run off the main thread if engineered properly. Painting and compositing already do in some browsers. Layout, painting, and compositing are inherently parallel problems, so any one of these tasks can saturate all your cores if done carefully. Iframe JS can run in multiple threads if engineered right.
I haven't found just a soup implementation (would be interesting for javascript given the prototype objects). NEWT/0[1] is a full NewtoScript but it looks unused.

1) http://gnue.github.io/NEWT0/
"by the end of this article, you’re going to understand blockchains well enough to decide what they mean to your life."

I very deliberately didn't explain mining or blocks or consensus protocols because, really, that's technical gubbins that fits between "BEGIN TRANSACTION" and "COMMIT TRANSACTION" in an SQL database.

Unless your technical concerns are between those two statements, you don't need to care about mining. That's where we've been going wrong explaining blockchains so far.
Rational fiction
"I expected to see all these as defaults".

It would be fine if they were defaults if you actually saw them.
Facebook’s solar-powered Internet plane looks like a stealth bomber
Great comment, it's good to see what kind of quality HN is striving for by which comments they choose to keep and which they choose to downvote.

So long as there's no negativity (or serious economics) HN users are welcome to comment as if they're 12.
How Cloudron differs from the following projects?

- http://cozy.io/en/

- https://sandstorm.io/

- http://www.cloudstead.io/
NuGet 3.1 kills .ps1 support. Also kills content folder?
>I dont' know why so many people are surprised by the Cortana data vacuum.

Well, today is Thursday. That other stuff was from Tuesday. Tomorrow it will be something else about somebody else.
Pentagon Awards $4.3B Contract to Modernize Health Records
Wonder how much cash it would take to get Plan 9 open sourced under MIT / BSD license?
If you've read other comments here you'll find that is actually typically not the case in the US. You can drive a friend's car and be insured because the insurance is tied to the car regardless of who's driving it; granted it's not black and white.

https://www.esurance.com/info/car/myth-car-insurance-follows...
http://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2014/06/05/249762...
Isn't this wrong at some level? I support the idea of promoting programs like Women In Engg., but hiring based on race/gender is so wrong. Do you lower your hiring bar to get the numbers you've aimed for? And assuming some of these employees turn out to be under-performing, how do you deal with the appraisal process?

I'm not sure if Pinterest posted this article with some other intent (like having more support programs), but in it's current state, it seems discriminatory.
> monthly rates for a bed start at $1,000

This is the truly insane part.
Rbac-23andme-oauth2 – Genetic Access Control
Came to post the same thing. Here's mine: https://github.com/heptal/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/hammers...
Plain text files and indentation.
How to securely hook up a cloud management platform in your private datacenter
It's a good alternative to the State or Strategy patterns when you only need one per object and virtually all methods are affected. Using the pattern, you'd need to explicitly delegate all calls to the state/strategy object. When you change the class, you're effectively using the type object as the state/strategy object, which makes perfect sense because it already contains all the methods.
Headlines are too often written prior to the editing process, however one can (at least) find reference to past and future science fiction writers in this late passage:

"“It’s socio-economic,” he said. In 1967, as the only black writer among the Nebula nominees, he didn’t represent the same kind of threat. But Delany believes that, as women and people of color start to have “economic heft,” there is a fear that what is “normal” will cease to enjoy the same position of power."
The story of .io
You can definitely trust the sensational value in finding out that any project advocating freedom and data security would be exploited by a government.

That's what I do, it's not perfect but I love reading source code and figuring out how things work so I know others, much smarter than me, love that too.

The public cases of the US government going after Tor, for example, have all read like external attacks on the protocol design flaws to build a larger case.

I would be more suspicious over placing exit nodes in libraries because I assume they're state owned in the US. Don't know since I'm not from there though. I just think it's sort of ironic because the attacks that have been performed all required possession of exit nodes.
That happens to be the series used for the Euro currency:

[0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500]
I'm gonna sound like a conspiracy nut here, but it seems like a side-channel attack on Gamergate (via Sad Puppies), coupled with the "we're on the right side of history" meme.

I'm not saying I support either of those, but after following them for a while it's hard not to pick up on biased coverage in the media.
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If the content is that good and I somehow know this before visiting the site, I might put some effort into viewing the content, which might include sitting through their obnoxious, invasive, destructive, scummy advertising if necessary. Otherwise, I will have to settle for a selection from the other 3 petabytes of data coming into existence in the next 60 seconds. If the bandwidth saved by my non-visit is worth more than they could earn by developing a socially responsible business model, good for them, I guess.
This might be more of a resource than a program of study, but the Computer History Museum runs an Oral History collection which collects first hand discussions from the people at the point of development of many computing technologies.

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/
Seems pretty unique to the UK (maybe Europe?). In North America it is standard to pretty much every insurance policy.
From what I understand cozy.io and cloudstead.io are focusing on specific services around personal information, like owncloud. Our architecture allows installing arbitrary apps like owncloud as an app. Cozy.io and cloudstead.io would not have gogs or gitlab as apps.

Sandstorm and us are trying to solve very similar issues, but the approach and architecture is different.
Chrome tests “discarding” background tabs to save memory
Moving what needle?

Do you work in tech, in which Asians and Indians of all walks dominate, or do you work in "tech" the same way runners work in "hollywood"?
Ah, mastermind. I think you mean the ones that take more time on average contain a letter from the password, not less. Anyway, good point.

I was thinking you could maintain an array of flags to indicate whether you've compared a certain position before, and a count of all the compared positions so far.

Alright, here are my other ideas:

1) Properly chosen 8-character passwords are pretty strong, right? So why not copy all of the 8-bit chars into a u64 and compare that directly? You can treat longer passwords as a series of 8-char passwords. Assumes a machine that won't short circuit on u64_a == u64_b. Less effective for 32-bit. The compiler won't undo this since it's an optimization (1x aligned 64-bit compare is more efficient than 8x 8-bit compares, seven of which are unaligned).

2) Introduce a random delay after the byte-wise comparison is done that is up to 10x the length of the comparison. The comparison variance gets lost in delay variance. I know, a mitigation, but it's effective. Combine with random selection of characters for more effectiveness.

3) Use a perfect hash of the password. You don't need to compare keys after a perfect hash.

Thanks for humoring me.