skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Newsstand does not exist any more.
iAd… I guess it still exists, but I wonder how long will it last. Ads are very unpopular among iOS users. I doubt Apple was thinking about making much money from it, more like they gave an alternative way to make money to developers.
Jump destination computation was the subject of a recent HN item:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10219007
This word applies to Google in regards to ads. For apple hardware=money. And promising better security and less tracking for the users they can sell more hardware.
That's one of the things that I find inexcusably and also rather sad: Given the amount of customization that Android systems require to run on a particular vendors hardware, they don't seem to make use of the multitude of security features present in modern processors, or just the ability to solder on a dedicated TPM/security processor.

But I'm genuinely curious, maybe someone here on HN knows: Which of the other mobile phone systems (Windows Phone; Firefox OS; Ubuntu for Mobile; Tizen; Blackberry; ...) have a halfway decent security architecture, similar to iOS?
Tox is a Free Software project whose goal is to free users from the grip of Proprietary instant messengers like Skype.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_%28protocol%29
This article basically just outlines regulatory capital and (I think) avoids economic capital. In very very shorthand - regulatory capital is the capital needed to comply with local regulations (with guidance from BASEL and BIS), while economic capital is the more nuanced calculation used to calculate the risk of capital using the bank's own deduction and modelling. A great metaphor for the actual difference is "Regulatory Capital is to Economic Capital as Road Test Is to Driving" (http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/regulatory-capital-r...). Good banks use both, alongside other metrics to evaluate deals.

Economic capital takes into account the particulars of individual companies, while regulatory capital takes a broad brush approach. In reality, using reg capital leads to set ratings without taking into account the actual risk of the asset to the company. I would argue that the best approach would be economic capital as the main capital calculation with review and monitoring by regulators of the model and its assumptions.
Even with the Android/PC architecture, you can have a much better design.

For example, jwz's XScreenSaver separates the graphical process (more complex and bug-prone) from the daemon. If you manage to crash the password input screen (or the screensaver itself), the daemon will just restart it.
Or maybe aliens are still in the stone age.
Even better, explicitly request a fast reboot: "echo b >/proc/sysrq-trigger".
Or both. Yes, I don't believe higher civilisations use the same means of communication we use today, just as we don't use the same as we did some centuries ago.
Both Vmware and VirtualBox work great - if you install the guest tools.

For some extra polish when running Linux VMs under VirtualBox on Windows, set the virtualisation mode to kvm and use virtio network device.
That doesn't contradict his post saying "iAd allows you to do direct sales through it's own system".
Whilst you are correct, and every conflict has blue on blue engagements, the US military have a very bad reputation for being bloody dangerous to their allies.
Mission videos that do emerge of incidents where US aircraft, helicopters and drones end up engaging friendly or non-hostile targets commonly show a marked desire to engage the enemy and view any and all information coming in as confirming that initial prejudice.

I'm not saying this applies to all US military personnel or that other militaries do not have problems.
Technically, XMPP is federated (like SMTP) rather than decentralized (like Kademlia).

Point about single-server downtime still stands, of course.
How do you know they aren't vulnerable ;)
Major Skype Outage Hits UK, Australia and Japan
My understanding of Apple News is that it has nothing to do with iOS 9 content blocking. Apple News is a dedicated app that functions somewhat like an RSS reader serving up a special Readability-style version of the content. Even if you don't install an ad-blocker in iOS 9, you still don't see banner ads and such in Apple News.

That said, I imagine you're right and Apple just paid for the exclusive for marketing purposes.
Wait till the news about some group who fights for animal righst so much that they want to get rid of predators come to HN.
Yes, it does exist.
It's obviously mostly a linkbait title, but to be fair to it it's a reference to most WWII planes using propellers, as opposed to the jet planes of today. They're not claiming the Tucano was literally designed in the 40s.
It is kinda lame. I prefer 31337 as it is a prime number, while 1337 is not.
Skype is down
Is it only in Europe or in the other areas as well?
How I ended up writing new real-time kernel
It's sort of getting old.

Create a closed/proprietary platform, lock people in, cash out.

Create sloppy "security", sell the solution for it, cash out.

We really don't need this stuff. It exists because money is being spent on talking us into spending money on it.
>So I think we can make meat.

Show me the meat. (And show me that it's harmless).
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Now the question is, what Islam considers to be homosexual act and what is rape. I've read, that being the penetrating side is not considered to be homsexual. As for the rape, you can guess.
I'm always intrigued by what motivates someone to write a piece like this, and I always read them on a knife edge, trying to unpick why they would:

Are they some eloquent academic trying to break new ground in terms of our understanding of the human condition. Are they a free-speech extremist trying to communicate a nest of rationalisations that explain their trollishness? Or are they something else?

Stripping the argument down, it seems at its heart to be an argument that taking offence is a tool that's used by the subconscious of people who aren't truly oppressed to defend self-interested behaviour. Countless studies support the conclusion that the subconscious mind constructs many of our perceptions and responses. You only have to look at Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases to get an idea just how driven we are by our subconscious. So the idea that the mind behaves in this way sounds plausible at first glance.

And yet stapled to the belly of all this science is the assertion that people who take offense aren't "truly" oppressed. No definition is given as to what constitutes True oppression, other than it resulting in people who are "downtrodden and submissive". No data or study is cited to support this.

This is strikingly similar to complaints by Gamergate and men's rights groups that women and minorities now have 'too much' protection (usually accomanied by snarling and foot-stomping about "SJWs") and that actually med and/or 'gamers' have hard, or even harder lives.

The author goes on in a follow-up post to attribute the origins of the Ferguson riots to black people 'offence-bullying' the rest of the country, along with "agitprop" from "Democrat-aligned parties".

While this post is more eloquent than most I've seen that push this argument, it still layers up assumptions and hypotheses in order to justify a conclusion... as evidenced by its insistence on inventing new terminology.

This is an inherently disengenuous position from someone who purports to understand psychology & social science. It's textbook confirmation bias.
You'd be surprised what people without access to education on procreation believe.
>and the hydrogenation process used to create them is completely different from what goes into making fake meats.

And this is completely missing the point, which is that the processes used to make fake meat are significantly different from those encountered in nature, and therefore likely to introduce side-effects.
Escalating the conflict is rarely a good idea. It's not like this hasn't been tried before; labor simply had to find more creative ways of taking Direct Action; the "strike" is only one of their options.

The "blue flu" is a traditional way get around that type of threat. A particularly effective tactic is "work to rule", which is a de facto strike specifically designed to get around threats from management; it's harder to justify firing someone for following all safety/regulatory requirements.

If an industry is being particularly problematic, this is where it pays to be on good diplomatic terms with other unions, because the "nuclear option" for a network of unions is the General Strike. If management has any sanity at all, they will choose to negotiate well before such tactics become necessary.

Strength in numbers is usually a winning strategy, and the most effective counter is to convince people that they shouldn't fight back.
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It's not really a theory. I've lived on both sides of it and you can see it for yourself in the figures you've linked to.
Ok, let's talk about female genital mutilation. Will you claim that is not cultural? Or the "honor" killings?
Something being a part of culture or tradition does not make it right or valuable.
The vectors are not normalized. That is:

from __future__ import print_function
from collections import Counter

def cosine_similarity_unweighted(a, b):
a = Counter(a)
b = Counter(b)
dotProduct = sum((c in a) * (c in b) for c in a)
magnitudeA = sum(1 for c in a)
magnitudeB = sum(1 for c in b)
return dotProduct / (magnitudeA * magnitudeB)**0.5

def cosine_similarity_weighted(a, b):
a = Counter(a)
b = Counter(b)
dotProduct = sum(a.get(c, 0) * b.get(c, 0) for c in a)
magnitudeA = sum(value**2 for value in a.values())
magnitudeB = sum(value**2 for value in b.values())
return dotProduct / (magnitudeA * magnitudeB)**0.5

print("Scores for 'hello' and 'holl'")
print("unweighted", cosine_similarity_unweighted("hello", "holl"))
print("weighted", cosine_similarity_weighted("hello", "holl"))

gives the output:

Scores for 'hello' and 'holl'
unweighted 0.866025403784
weighted 0.925820099773

The article gives:

holl index: 0.9258200997725514

which means the article used letter weights.

That said, the scores for your example are the same, because each of the letters in 'house' is used only once (the 3 in the numerator cancels out the 3 in the denominator):

Scores for 'house' and 'hiusehiusehiuse'
unweighted 0.8
weighted 0.8

If the query had instead been 'houss', you would see a difference in the similarities:

Scores for 'houss' and 'hiusehiusehiuse'
unweighted 0.67082039325
weighted 0.676123403783
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Everyone is telling you that basically America is a no go. Try Canada. Vancouver and Toronto have small but growing startup scenes, lots of big companies opening offices up north as well. Canada is pretty welcoming to immigrants, as long as you're earning enough to pay the fairly high taxes.
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An undiscovered understanding IS (novel discovering and therefore) an invention.
It's down in Australia as well.
I confirm for Romania. :(
You've always had the ability to put utf-8 data in std::strings, but you have to keep track of which strings are encoded. C++11 adds functions to convert to utf-8 (and utf-16 and utf-32), http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/locale/codecvt .
Not faster, just able to search prefixes and suffixes of a string, while plain DAWG can only do suffixes efficiently.
I would have preferred 8675309 karma.
>Almost no other category of consumer good works in the modular way that we nerds wish that everything would.

One exception I can think of are bicycles.
Maybe Blackberry's security-oriented design isn't so lackluster after all
well, look at the HN sponsor and the advertisement for companies around here....
A Photo/Video/Sharing App in Python
So, I want finally decided to design a photo/image/video sharing app that i can test on users and use it to apply for YCombinator next year after I have gotten a significant number of users to test and love it.

Is Python a good language to program this in? How / where do i start ? Any suggestions / resources / recommendations appreciated ! Thanks a lot!
It might not be a good idea to just square the numerator. Doing so would give an advantage to words with a small norm, i.e. a small number of letters. Unless you actually want that to happen of course.

You could alternatively square the thing in it's entirety, this causes problems if a.b is negative but if you're only using positive coefficients (as in this case) then that can't happen, but even if it could then it's pretty easy to check if it is positive or not.
I know this. As a said I would use this for one off scripts if it existed. (I'm not about to add a dependency to all my one off scripts though.)
Yeah, Linux in general doesn't have a driver "framework", it has kernel modules, and the in-kernel API is not stable, by design - the position is that keeping a stable API is extra complexity if you want to continue improving the kernel.

If you're a driver developer, there are essentially three options: (1) submit the driver to the kernel tree, in which case (if it gets accepted) the developer making the API change will update your module, (2) keep pulling the kernel tree locally and update the module yourself and (3) simply stick with a kernel version.

Here's the official explanation: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...
This is a plausible hypothesis. I don't know if somebody else has already proposed this as a solution to the Fermi paradox.

But it doesn't even need to be encrypted communication. Highly compressed communication is also indistinguishable from random noise.

Of course, only under the assumption, that aliens are using the same technology as we are.
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She survived but that is not enough. This is not a ride in space shuttle, but ICBM with cannon ball on top. There were other women who would do much better, and she ruined it for them for another 20 years.

She almost died three times due to her under qualification. First the manual landing. Second she almost chopped her head off on ejection during landing, luckily she got away with a huge bruise. Third she almost landed on water, and would not be able to swim due to injury from ejection.

And there is other smaller stuff, such as ruining medical experiments, by giving away all her food.
I wonder if they are the only car company that did this.
> then there should be some category of goods where the poor spend more than the non-poor. What category of goods is it?

There are many items where poor people pay more for smaller quantities, and end up buying much less of that product over time.

"Sachet marketing" will sell individual servings of shampoo to poor people. A poor person can't afford a cheaper-per-portion bottle, and can't afford to buy a sachet every day, and so will wash their hair once a week (52 sachets a year) instead of buying bottles and washing their hair - with 2 passes ("rinse and repeat").

The total spend is obviously less, but it's not controversial to suggest that poor people spend more for less than wealthy people, but if you compared similar use the poor person would have to spend considerably more.
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[Ignoring the meta nature of this thread]

If there's no well known work around for the paywall, this type of content from Wired shouldn't be on HN. On a personal note. it saddens me to see Wired deliberately making the world wide web suck.
The big difference is that now you are often mislead by synonyms. Previously it would return 0 and you'd think for second and find alternative keyword. Now you'll spend minutes until you realise that what you are seeing is nonsense. Also, removal of some keywords completely messed this up again.
I would love love love it if it could provide comments on a per-user basis. Use my comments for my name, use JohnDoe's comments for their name.

As well as keeping comments by submitted domain.
Hi, I'm Chris, co-founder of TaskPipes. I'd love to hear your feedback. We're also happy to get people set up with the service.
Hey, you should talk to Andres Barreto, I'll intro - j@jasonlbaptiste.com He runs a small seed fund and connects Colombian engineers with US startups. It's a great program and I've hired from it before.

Ps- ignore any discouraging comments. Fight hard and you can get what you want. Best of luck
I won't bite on your hooks. Like your examples from 50+ years ago in a [edit: completely different society from now], that drone killings are humane warfare (at least compared to traditional alternatives like bombing whole villages) and that you argue human rights over criminal misuse of authority that have generated a sh-tstorm of outrage when it reached the public attention.

I'll just note that you argue that a wrong can be ignored because of other wrongs. And that you defend (/make relativist argument for) rape of children.

Sorry to disappoint. I have work to do, so you have to find someone else to anger which is easily trolled... :-)

Edit: I will agree that hypocrisy and realpolitik is standard for democracies, which often have as cynical foreign policy as dictators. They lie equally bad, too. I assume that is because foreigners don't have votes at home.
Awesome, I added it to the README!
Down everywhere:

https://twitter.com/search?q=skype+down

Official:
http://heartbeat.skype.com/
Kind of off topic, but I have been looking at I Ching hexagrams as design patterns for life. Each hexagram represents a state you can be in. You can transition from one state to any other state, but there are consequences. The consequences are described in the transitions of the moving lines.

To make the most sense of this, it helps to read Richard Wilhelm's translation and annotations of the I Ching. If you don't read German, then Cary Banes's translation of Wilhelm's translation is pretty much the only one out there. Unfortunately still under copyright (ha ha... on 5000 year old document). But it is widely pirated on the web.

I often wonder if the random "predictions" of the I Ching were originally just a way of studying. There are 4096 different transitions to look at, and approaching them systematically would be painful in the extreme.

I've spend some time to see if the transitions actually make sense and from what I can tell, they do (modulus my ability to fool myself into seeing reason in things that have no actual reason). I wish I had enough patience to actually study it ;-)
You are right. It has to have reverse and that can be checked at scrutineering, but it just has to eventually reverse. It doesn't say anything about having to do it quickly, or effectively:

All cars must be able to be driven in reverse by the driver at any time during the Event.

BTW, for anyone interested, the current technical FIA F1 2015 technical specifications are here: http://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/regulation/file/2015%...
The Tricky Encryption That Could Stump Quantum Computers
It's pay-walled in the sense that you need a several-hundred dollar iOS device. Otherwise no.
And: http://weputachipinit.tumblr.com/
A missing piece inhere is the Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Discovery usually occurs only at the highest levels, not when the mind is busy obsessing with that pain in the stomach or fear of being eaten or whatnot! Life in Africa was (and still is) tough.
Why have free alternatives to Skype not taken off? What's missing? It's just a 2 way video stream, right?
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That was a lot of words to say Apple is wrong about design and I'm right and I wish someone would realize this and build something that suits me exactly.
And also move to the US (or some other supported country, I couldn't find a list within 2 Google searches)
Assuming that traffic analysis is useless in this case, and there's no unencrypted metadata.
One website that works perfectly on the original iPad is HN - the browser seems to crash on more complex pages so I've been assuming that it's a lack of RAM.

[I still have a couple of original iPads in additional to an Air 2]
Is there any point of this article? (serious question)

Or perhaps this was just some light-hearted conversation which has been reported as "news" because Snowden was involved. I can as well say that we have not yet heard from the aliens because we are yet to discover the Mass Relays and the Citadel (apologies to those who have not played the Mass Effect series of video games and this statement makes no sense).
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I like the thought, but encryption is not enough to hide it from us, it'd require steganography.

If all communication itself on Earth were encrypted, how much of a visible signal would we still emit? You wouldn't be able to decypher the communication, but you'd still see that something is happening that's requires a structuring intelligence behind it. Unless they pay special attention to not only encrypting their communication but masking it as a natural phenomenon, steganographically.

If I shout an encoded message to you in a restaurant, the other people won't know that I told you to order the creme brulee, but they will know that I told you something. I'd have to discreetly tap my plate in order to mask it.

And even aside from that, you'd need to mask all other emissions, even those not designed to facilitate communication. On earth, you don't have to intercept and decrypt a rocket launch command, you can tell by the infrared (or whatever) emissions on your spy satellite.
How does it compare to Ternary Search Tree?
Or in the same technological level that we are and they just didn't had the chance or the means to find us yet.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/red-meat.aspx

So ... not a single link to a scientific study on that very long page?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20663065

Collectively, associations between red meat consumption and colorectal cancer are generally weak in magnitude, with most relative risks below 1.50 and not statistically significant, and there is a lack of a clear dose-response trend.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0309174014...

Meat contains a number of compounds of nutritional benefit and may not be carcinogenic as such but rather, when consumed in very high amounts, may result in an imbalanced diet and thereby increase the risk of developing CRC.

Products formed in cured or heated meats may further enhance such damage.

So, basically, do not eat so much meat that your diet is unbalanced, and avoid processed meats and you'll be fine.
This seems nonsensical to me. Just like internet protocols, any radio transmission is built on a layer of protocols that envelope the actual data being transmitted.

Encryption is applied on the data layers not to hide that something is being transmitted, but what is being transmitted.

However scientists aren't even trying to detect signals with any sort of data in it, but merely radio emissions that look like they might come from something with an intellect.

If we haven't found anything like that yet, and encryption is supposed to be the reason, then that means that encryption would have to be applied at the most basic protocol layer in such a way that even the physical properties of the emission look like the universe's background radiation. Is there currently human technology that does anything similar to this?
web is not moving forward. It moves sideways at best, and runs in circles at worst.
I think it's only available in the U.S
But those sound like problems with the system that selected her - if she gets picked and she's not really that qualified then it's not really her fault.
I think you meant implementing Meteor's DDP protocol and not the whole Meteor?

https://www.meteor.com/ddp
If you can't see it until Tuesday, it's not news. It might be journalism, it might be editorial, it might be review, but it's not news.