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I find Spotify's discover weekly to be great for this.

Plus Ada has a complicated runtime system that Rust doesn't.

Anecdotally, I had a very strange experience with LinkedIn. I went to stay with my friend in another country for a few days and upon returning home, LinkedIn recommended his father as a connection - despite me never electronically contacting him. The friend I stayed with doesn't have LinkedIn nor have I contacted him over email or similar. My guess is that it must have been location based or because I connected to their WiFi - very weird.

(1) Make an ernest attempt to use ML, algorithms to identify their customers who are using those leaked datasets Facebook negligently exposed and help devalue the data, instead of eagerly selling them targeted advertising services? I don't know if they did this, but it sure seems doubtful.

How could they do that? The cat is out of the bag and FB aren't going to have any knowledge about where that data is now. Have there been reports of it getting out from CA?

(2) Quickly and openly disclose the extent of the leaked data

I think some caution is a good idea, they don't want to get the numbers wrong - although they are making steps in the right direction with the message to 87 million on their news feeds.

The article seems to spin it as being part of the CA study, apart from the small commentary towards the end. Has anyone seen the text of the message FB has shown to the affected 87 million and does it explicitly mention private messages?

People may put all manner of things in private repos that they don't want to be made public, so github shouldn't just expose them to the outside world.

Nice work! I just noticed a bug though, trying to go to the next page of system software that is sorted by votes doesn't work. Instead of going to the next page, the first page is reloaded with /NaN appended to the URL, as such:

https://hackerhunt.co/topic/system/votes/NaN

That's great, thanks for doing so.

I can really recommend this book, I've worked through it and am implementing the interpreter in Rust. I've just finished the latest chapter and am looking forward to the future instalments.

Edit: here is the (WIP) intepreter: https://github.com/HarveyHunt/loxr

The Ci40 boards are headless, so they have no graphics support at all.

Could you provide more details about the Leeds scene please? I've been working here for a few months as a programmer and am interested in getting involved.

In a similar vein to this, /r/itsaunixsystem is worth checking out.

That Dota app looks nice, how long have you been working on it for?

How come you chose django over something such as flask for problemotd?

The ergodox firmware [0] nicely illustrates the ideas in this post.

[0] https://github.com/benblazak/ergodox-firmware

Perhaps moving to a shorter distance transmission method would work. You could use NFC and then touch the fob against a portion of the door, placing the key in a cup holder (or something similar in the center console) with NFC support when you want to start the engine? It's not the exact same functionality, but is close.

The automotive industry certainly has some interesting times ahead with regard to security. Audi's proposed plan for allowing deliveries to be placed in the boot of a locked car [0] certainly seems like it could be ripe for exploitation.

How seriously are car manufacturers going to take security though? Is it going to be like the numerous router manufacturers that don't seem bothered? Perhaps some kind of regulatory body will need to intervene to make automotive manufacturers take security seriously.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32431301

I really enjoyed this film, I felt it was good at being inclusive for people without much technical knowledge.

Excellent - thanks for pointing that out :-)

I wonder how this will face up to gfycat? gfycat has the ability to turn a video into a gif as well as an HTML5 video - it is already pretty popular and the benefits of HTML5 videos over gifs seem obvious. How much longer can we expect the gif format to be around for?

It's certainly possible to praise a language without it suiting your needs.

I don't think they found out Python is horrible - the first line is praising the language, it just didn't suit their needs anymore.

Thanks for the link, that's more steady than I had expected.

It's a shame that website doesn't have graphs from the time that Android and iOS announced they wouldn't support flash - it would be interesting to see if there was a noticeable bump.

I find it strange Flash is still around, given that iOS and Android don't support Flash anymore and that YouTube has made a lot of video content available as HTML5. I thought that other sites would have followed suit. Is there evidence of a mass exodus from Flash?

This is exciting news - it's a shame that sudo isn't supported in the Travis-CI Docker containers (is this common for all Docker containers?). Uploading binaries to S3 and then downloading them to use in the build process seems like a total faff - I use Travis-CI to avoid that kind of hassle...

That's the one.

I got tired of the existing tiling window managers and their lack of documentation, so I made my own that behaves like vim. It's called howm and can be found here:

https://github.com/HarveyHunt/howm

There was a thread on HN about it a while ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8241978), I have fixed a lot of the issues since then, most notably:

  - Moving away from needing to recompile every time you change an option is _nearly_ done.

  - Howm can now be scripted by sending commands over a UNIX socket.

  - I have split howm into multiple source files (I will merge this tonight when I have finished the docs).

  - I added some nice gifs to the documentation.

I don't see any posts about this in the last month - that's quite a while in the hobby project world.

I rolled my eyes at the title after watching "Linux Sucks 2014" last night. I was pleasantly surprised to see an example comparison of init files.

Thanks for the kind words! It'd be great if you could tell me what improvements you think would be best, I'm trying to make howm's code as nice as I can. I know that having everything in one file is frowned upon, but I quite like the simplicity of it.

That is an idea I was considering, I just wasn't sure if people would find it to get in the way of normal program usage.

It would require more data to be sent backwards and forwards to the X11 server, but that shouldn't be too much of an issue.