skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what people outside New Zealand don't realise is that not many Kiwi's really give a damn about the new flag at all.

There's definitely a few people that voice their opinions about it, but the majority of them don't really care.

I think regardless of what flag gets chosen, people will still use the old flag and it will take literally years before flags get updated on websites, or it will get completely ignored and we'll end up reverting back to our current flag down the track.

Another thing to note, is that we don't have the same level of Patriotism that America has. You don't see NZ flags wherever you go, maybe outside some government buildings, but it is rare to see a flag in a residential area in someone's front yard.
Weak Crystal. Maybe the ad bloc guy will release one. He's cooler
@striking, the comments you mention appear to be from one side.

@bucaran's alleged censoring of the discussion [0] makes it difficult to know what was actually discussed, but it's telling at the same time, especially in the context of everything else that appears to have happened:

- @bucaran appears to have usurped an open source repo from two other owners

- @bucaran appears to have deleted comments posted by people who objected to his alleged usurpation

- @bucaran filed a DMCA takedown when omf community members tried to reboot their project without him

i've heard of hostile takeovers in the corporate world, but never for a github repo. i thought transparency was guard enough against machiavellian behavior like this. i mean, who would want to work with someone who has a history of hijacking repos, censoring comments, and filing DMCA takedowns on open source repos?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10273780
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Sorry, there might be some confusion.

This entire time I was referring to code obfuscation/integrity checks, and why bitcode is a problem for people who want to obfuscate their code. I was not referring to apps like Signal at all.

As an interesting aside, LLVM's ARM backend can be made into an obfuscating compiler, and furthermore some people have started obfuscating the LLVM bitcode itself:
https://github.com/obfuscator-llvm/obfuscator/wiki
http://0vercl0k.tuxfamily.org/bl0g/?p=260
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I don't agree. For other ORMs maybe, but with SA I can get the queries coming out how I want. Also, there's not really that much magic going on – you've defined the relationships so you know how the joins will be constructed.

Also, you're neglecting all the other benefits you get. Things like the loading strategies and the unit of work tracking are extremely powerful abstractions.
Websites also can't spam you with push notifications the way installed apps can, so I strongly prefer them as a user. But I suspect this is one reason companies like apps.

I'm not sure whether it's my imagination, but this seems to have gotten a lot worse in the past year or two, and is no longer limited to apps from shady no-name companies. Apps from reputable companies used to try to have some plausible reason related to your actual use of the app for a notification, but lately Yelp and Hotwire have just started brazenly spamming ads unrelated to any activity. So I uninstalled those two, and am now much more resistant to installing new ones.
That's a response to bots viewing ads, not people who register a second Facebook account so they can send themselves Farmville gifts. They aren't fake people, they're real people wearing fake mustaches. I am sure they are less valuable to advertisers than Facebook profiles with real demographic data but it's still better than an ad never seen by a human.
http://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/ - but I get your point.
Could have used React and tried to share component source between iOS, Android and Web.

I mean since you're going to fully go web, I don't see the problem in this. It's all JavaScript anyway, unless you want to start playing with the hardware APIs.

Yeah you would have to write some of the UI layer differently, but I think it isn't that much. You can wrap your own UI components to use Android/iOS/Web internally.
Then yes, there's more new IT coming out of IT companies than from research universities.
I'm not a sports person, but your "live action content" made me wonder how awesome it would be to be a sports fan who could view 'the game' from the sideline, or an aerial cam, and to be able to turn and zoom a camera or to switch cameras – as desired! Better yet, to be able 'be the athlete'. Cameras aren't there yet, but imagine being able to watch the scenery as an Olympic down-hill skier as flying downhill - AWESOME possibilities!
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/31/ashley-madison-refutes-clai...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statement-from-avid-...

This refutation was widely reported, although unsurprisingly not as much as the original cockup.
That's not new though, Apple is the one signing the apps on the store from its launch.
In 1991, the commissioner tried to institute a policy banning steroids. He didn't have the authority, so it was no different than if I tried to write that. But it's a clear indication that MLB was aware of the steroid problem and tried taking a small step to fix it.

Regarding the "players being juiced", it's never been shown that juiced players performed better. There have been a number of studies comparing players who were caught using PEDs, before and after, comparing to clean players, etc. None of them show any indication that taking steroids helped players perform better on the field.

If you look at the power-on-contact or ISO of players across periods (the 90s, 00s, current game), you find that there is just as much power on contact in the game now as before. The different is strikeouts, which is clearly tied to strike zone enforcement and some other tradeoffs hitters are making now that teams understand strikeouts are fine if you have power.

I apologize if my tone has some frustration in it, but my pet peeve is people saying that steroids = strength = McGwire hit ball far. The reality is far more nuanced, and if you are able to come into the analyses without preconceived conclusions, it's pretty clear that the 'steroid slugger' era happened to overlap with the power era, but it does not appear to have driven the higher rate of home runs and offense during the time.
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Certification in your sense is conforming to a certain standard. This is extortion.

Basically "conforming" is paying. That's extortion. Pay are demands or no soup for you.
I agree, reverse engineering is always possible :) However, reverse engineering with the LLVM bitcode present is much much easier, which is a problem.

Also, if Apple requires apps to be submitted as LLVM bitcode, then certain things like integrity checks and certain useful types of obfuscation will become impossible, making apps much easier to reverse engineer, or to pirate and repackage on another app store.
Nice work, if it can ever handle MSX-2 and higher it'll be able to play some amazing stuff.
Users don't check the signature of apps that they download, their phone does it for them.

So even if apps are signed by the developer, the app store owner can throw away the signature, modify the app and then sign it with their own key. People downloading and running the app won't see a difference.
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There's a web feature for push notifications; I got a dialogue box asking me if I wanted to enable it for Facebook the other day. It was easy enough to push No (since push notifications were one of the reasons I got rid of the @#$%er in the first place), but many people will still get those.
Tempering the excitement with some of the drawbacks is usually good.
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>Well we kind of are.

Not as a rule, no. Normal men can do laundry. But you may be right about single guys on the right end of the salary curve.
Uh, what? The forest service had a ton of ex-cons who came through the prison program. Two of my bosses were ex-cons.
If you don't mind me asking, what was? I thought it was too.
I don't think you understand the technicality behind it or didn't read the details above.

Sites can only attempt to ask by basically rendering that message and then replacing with ads. If the ads never load, then you'll see that message. However all these tricks are incredibly easy to get around with adblocker filters and so websites do NOT have a reliable way of knowing whether you are using an adblocker or not.

They can either refuse to serve content to everyone without a login (paywall) or serve it to everyone and hope the ads are there. That's how HTML works, the content is part of it and your adblocker is filtering it after receiving the content. There is no way for sites to refuse adblock users even if they wanted to without a paywall system.

You might look at this and think they still want you to have the content for free but they'd rather not - it's just out of their control unless they implement a different access model altogether.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/31/ashley-madison-refutes-clai...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statement-from-avid-...
Purify is another good one. They seem to be pretty determined to soak up all the customers the others are going to lose from being dodgy bastards
Horses for courses; the web works well for content, apps work well for interactivity.
@bucaran: i'm confused. why are you also commenting on this thread as Tzadeck?
> That's not necessarily a bad thing, since spontaneous conversation encourages creativity.

Sorry, but this just isn't true. Open office layouts are a bad thing. There are studies showing that they make people sick, unhappy, and less productive. People sometimes feel more creative and engaged, but on average they're not.

See http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119992592.ch6... and http://www.newyorker.com/currency-tag/the-open-office-trap for more background.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/31/ashley-madison-refutes-clai...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statement-from-avid-...

Care to apologise?
Some outfits don't just do fake searches but also fake downloads. E.g. visit https://bintray.com/groovy/maven/groovy/view/statistics#stat... then click on date range "1 year" and wonder why the daily download numbers suddenly multiplied by 10 in late May. You'll have trouble believing the 2.5 million download number for Groovy from Bintray, and wonder how long they've been running the same ploy with Maven.
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eh, they were going to be kicked out by a better free version anyways. it's nice to see such a fast change of face. It used to take a decade or so
Just to clarify, none of the support/money will go to websites that simply don't have ads, right?
Hell yeah diversity
Well the market for mars rovers isn't exactly booming.
There are lots and lots of ridiculous patent and patent claims occurring in the US. I'm glad that the EFF is fighting against them.

But this particular paragraph in this particular claim is by no means an abuse of patent law. The patent is about an "integer multiple" of a time period, which obviously excludes 0 and negatives, and arguably excludes 1.

If there's something else going on here, then please add it to the article. But otherwise, consider that when you stretch the truth to support an honorable cause, you are making that cause less honorable.
Good call, I misinterpreted that.
so both cases had a dog?

Is it that far fetched to believe the dog licked pieces from the floor and then the owners, being dog owners that let the dog inside, played with the dog and let it lick their faces?
I am just shocked that people think that Apple's implementation has much bearing on how most people use the web. Most hits come from webview through Facebook and twitter, which do not get extensions. I personally use Chrome on my iPad, because the Safari UI has the same problems it had in 2010. Neither, Google nor Apple have much control over the web; Facebook does.

I'd say the only people who should fret is porn sites. Most people who browse porn on their mobile devices will probably be the first to jump on these, because those are really awful.
The same is true of most countries.

This being said, NZ should change their flag, as should all countries with the Union Jack in the canton. Simply to be more inclusive; NZ is a 'melting pot' country, and the Union Jack represents only one demographic. The current flag design is also a little too complex to be a good flag. It doesn't need the levels of near-hysteria that some people get to in any flag debate, but a change should be on the cards.

It's just a pity that all the contesting options suck, including the 'latecomer'...
Press statements aren't delivered under oath, I am not exactly going to take a press release with no details as gospel truth.
Google Contributor is a fantastic idea, and it's (almost) exactly the sort of thing I'd want for a content-provider-supporting endgame.

Unfortunately, its a non-starter because it requires browsing while logged into a Google account. I refuse to do that. Not that I believe this will actually prevent Google from tracking me, but because I don't want to make it any easier than it already is.
I think iOS9 is the strongest evidence of Apple's war on Google. The number of website that I visit that now automatically redirect to an installed mobile app took me by surprised. I wasn't even asked for my permission to choose between viewing the content on the browser or in the app!

Bit by bit, iOS and Apple is eroding away the free and open nature of the web. Almost every app that I have seen on the AppStore are merely consumers and senders of JSON to a REST API that could have easily been implemented as a HTML5 web app.
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True, but what is now a mutable choice becomes less so when the technology involved doesn't support any other option. Their approach also precludes a second signature embedded and checked within the app itself, independent of the app-store signature.
Chrome for Android has a feature where if you visit the same site a few times in a two week period (or some sort of heuristic like that), the site can have it prompt you to add it to your homescreen:

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/03/increasing-engagement-...
Doesn't that fact argument work against GMOs? Cross-breeding has been done for thousands of years, so it's a very well understood technique, whereas doing it in a lab is has not even had half a century of experience behind it.
If they changed their position, that seems more telling to me than the "hurr, durr, they think integers start at 2" tone of this article. (Although it may simply have been that it wasn't given much thought initially.)

In any case, the EFF loses credibility when it overstates the position to make someone look more ridiculous than is warranted.
Thanks. There's this too: https://github.com/derekstavis/diary-of-a-stolen-repository/...
You are still focused on a nearby screen. It just looks like a large screen at a distance due to the stereoscopic effect. The Oculus' lenses simulate a focal distance of 1.3 meters, which is not much better than a tablet in your lap. Another problem is that Oculus' focal distance is fixed, so you are not exercising your eye's ability to change focus. This isn't directly a problem that you wish to address in your comment above, but you may want to consider it. A technology that will better address these issues is the light field display. See: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/near-eye-light-field...
(Yet somehow, the NoScript add-on's command ends up on all these menus, haha!)

Here is a point also: if you make a selection in one tab, and switch to another tab, the selection in the original tab persists. Yet in the other tab, the context menu is that of the page. This underscores the page versus selection semantics.

Yet, it would probably be more effective if the context menu were the same, just with certain things greyed out based on state.

For instance in, oh, Notepad on Windows (let's drag out that user interface superstars, why don't we) if you have text selected then the context menu enables Cut. If you don't have text selected, then Cut is still there, but greyed out. Hey look, it is that way in this very Firefox edit box that I'm typing in.

The fact that we don't see "Cut" in the page context menu is just as bad as that we don't see the backbutton when there is a selection. Seeing a disabled Cut lets us know that we can select something and then Cut will be available.

On that topic, here is another thing: the page context menu has Select All. That makes it clear that the context menu has a relationship to selections.
Most definitely an artificial limitation. There's nothing about blocking ads that requires a 64-bit CPU.
I like how 10 years passes between comment 4 and 6 in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77999#c4
Definitely all in the perspective, though of course the premium paid for more RAM does not necessarily represent an accurate extra cost incurred by the provider. Amount of available RAM is very often pretty far disconnected from the cost to provide the good or service and is just acting as a price tiering mechanism.

This is true for cloud services as well as other things like cell phones (eg. the 2*X GB version is often significantly more expensive than the X GB version, way more than the cost of the extra memory alone would warrant if you just considered the cost of the chips).
The disaster was man-made due to TEPCO's negligence in planning for predictable contingencies and due to their post-disaster behavior. This is from the Wikipedia article on the Japananese investigation into the disaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Diet_of_Japan_Fukushi...

Here's the main part:
The nuclear incident "cannot be regarded as a natural disaster," the NAIIC panel's chairman, Tokyo University professor emeritus Kiyoshi Kurokawa, wrote in the inquiry report. "It was a profoundly man-made disaster -- that could and should have been foreseen and prevented. And its effects could have been mitigated by a more effective human response."[3] "Governments, regulatory authorities and Tokyo Electric Power [TEPCO] lacked a sense of responsibility to protect people's lives and society," the Diet's Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission said. "They effectively betrayed the nation's right to be safe from nuclear accidents. Therefore, we conclude that the accident was clearly 'man-made'," it said.[4]

The nuclear incident was the result of poor earthquake-safety planning and faulty post-tsunami communication.[10] As a result of collusion between the facility's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), regulators and the Japanese government the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant unfolded as a "man-made disaster".[6] The report attributed the cause of the failings to Japan's culture of "reflexive obedience", noted that there was no separation between atomic regulation and promotion and described a Japan in which nuclear power became "an unstoppable force, immune to scrutiny by civil society."[6] TEPCO, regulators and the government "failed to correctly develop the most basic safety requirements -- such as assessing the probability of damage, preparing for containing collateral damage from such a disaster, and developing evacuation plans," the NAIIC said. According to the report the lack of training and knowledge of the TEPCO workers at the facility reduced the effectiveness of the response to the situation at a critical time following the quake and tsunami. As the crisis escalated, TEPCO, the regulators, government agencies and the prime minister's office were ineffective in "preventing or limiting the consequential damage" at Fukushima Daiichi.
If the usual meaning of "integer" clearly doesn't make sense in this context, then we're already into the territory of coming up with a non-standard definition (unless it's just indefinite at that point). So in that case, why is {1, 2, 3, ...} OBVIOUSLY more sensible than {2, 3, ...}?
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This is honestly a bad thing. I get people want to kick Google in the shins every so often but a war on advertising on this scale is going to put more and more things behind a paywall.

Trying to force us back to the days of the AOL-style walled garden is bad for everyone. The fact the OP hasn't figured that out is a clear sign he is out of touch.
Data exchanged between the processes is serialized with pickle. Pickling is slow, adds latency, and doesn't work on all objects.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html#pipes...
Native apps are just a momentary crutch until Web standards on devices get better. Especially since most so-called apps are merely glorified Web pages in custom browsers.
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Haskell and Erlang come to mind. They probably weren't the first either.
They phrased it somewhat confusingly though. They could have just said that while "an integer multiple" technically includes the case 1, 0, -1, etc. those cases are clearly excluded by the rest of the patent. There's no need to change the definition of the word "integer".
The adblocker companies cant be trusted either since they only stand to gain from this behaviour. ABP makes tens of millions from this.

The only way trust works is if there's a neutral 3rd party that represents all sides and has respect.
Understanding the behaviour of individuals choice with limited resources is the key to understanding economics.

The tools of economics provide a dim light through the fog of chaotic crowd interactions. It's not suppose to be a blueprint.
I don't really care what their motives are. It makes the user experience better, and as a user, that's all I care about.
I guess they do? Eclipse itself is many millions of lines of code, and far as I can tell, it seems that the prescribed way to develop for it, is to use Eclipse itself.

I mean, if you search for a string, Eclipse comes back quick because it indexed all your files. Run a grep? It comes back 6X slower (on my adhoc test)
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Cool use of javascript.
Good point---for philosophy, the slow updates aren't a huge issue. But the article seemed to be holding up the SEP as a model for other endeavors, and this seems to limit its usefulness in many other areas.

The centralized, academic nature of SEP is fine for them, but it must result in a sort of elite bias. In my mind, that's a kind of limitation. I actually prefer the Wikipedia approach or something along those lines, which I do feel is often effective at capturing various viewpoints.

Ultimately, there exists no one perfect approach to online encyclopedia compilation. Pros and cons all around.