skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tor is a less than ideal solution to the problems of censorship or local traffic monitoring. It would be more performant, and in some ways more reliable, to use a VPN, SSH tunnel, SOCKS proxy with SSL, etc.

In many environments these are also less likely to be blocked or detected by network operators, as they're a common component of business network traffic, while Tor (identified by communications with publicly listed Tor nodes) is not.

Tor was designed for anonymity, not circumvention. Circumvention is a side-effect of Tor and some circumvention features have been added (namely bridges), but there are significantly more elegant solutions for when only circumvention is necessary.
Man,you need girl,lol
vrporn alone could keep this industry afloat
So right!
Yes. "FU money" is a surprisingly low amount compared to what some startup owners think they need to make (and suffer the lower odds for it).
Yeah but in 1997 people were making six figures after learning HTML and CSS.

The entry level bar is so much higher in 2015 that it's difficult to even compare. This feels more like the solo game programming boom of the late 80s and early 90s. Yes there's a ton of opportunity that's open to anyone with the skills. But it's nothing like the bubble was.

http://cdn.betakit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/slide087-7...
I think VR will become a niche for games. Sitting/cockpit games like star citizen or elite dangerous are niches where VR will work very well. VR will be a novelty for a while, but wear off, just like the Wii. I really cant see many people wanting a standing experience for extended gameplay. Most people just want to sit on the couch/chair and play games for a few hours.

The momentum and novelty is already starting to wear off as you noted. Though i'm sure when the headsets finally release, the novelty will be rekindled for a while. I'm just not sure its going to be everything that all the hype has promised.

As for practical applications, i think for those you mentioned, augmented reality (AR) will be a much more suitable fit to those applications overall.

It really will be interesting to see how things develop.
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It's a complicated topic.

In russian culture, for example, you cover your friend and even your neighbour, even if he did something worse than not paying his taxes. Even if it's a husband beating his wife, and you decide to call the cops, people still will look at you in a certain way.

Surely, you would agree that this level of disdain for authorities is not very heealthy too.
Our articles and videos are largely language independent so still contain a lot of very valuable information for any OS developer, irrespective of language. I would say our codebase is useful for seeing how to make the various drivers work but that someone comfortable in C ought to develop in C and simply refer to our code when/if they get stuck.
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> but perhaps provide a way of interoperability?

There's the rub. Unicode is a fine way to provide interoperability, has been since at least Unicode 1.1 (which added — amongst many others — U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE or U+25EE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK) and probably 1.0 (but I can't be arsed to look up 1.0's symbolic codepoints)
Is there anything interesting other that it is a Serbian X? In my opinion, and I am from Serbia, no. Please, keep in mind that NAR WAS a Serbian Assembly Language.

It was created a long time ago. At that time, most students in Serbia did not speak English sufficiently well, foreign books were very expensive and very difficult to acquire, and the requirements were for all courses to be taught in Serbian.

In that context, a theoretical assembly such as NAR totally made sense. Hats down to the creators.

Today, Serbian kids interested in computers have so much English exposure on the Internet, that it is not that hard for them to use English technical literature. They are so few, Serbia being a small country, that it does not make sense economically to publish technical books in Serbian, let alone create Serbian programming languages.

That is better for the kids, since they will get the jobs in companies working for foreign markets anyway, so English is unavoidable.
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Getting mobility right is a big step forward.

The intermediary steps are not so financially rewarding or even interesting, but the end game is significant.

Durable, flexible screens allow a whole series of new technology.

Off the top of my head:

Imagine a laptop with a screen that seamlessly folds in four. For travelling work you use a quadrant, for office work or presentations you fold it out to full size.

Imagine a screen that folds around your arm like a cuff - perfect for leisure activities like cycling or diving, or work that requires both hands (an alternative to google glass style displays).

If you can make something durable and flexible, there are a lot of new things you can do that you currently can't.
Thanks! I wonder what was the original source for that, thiugh. A lot of individual yiddish words made it into hebrew and israeli culture; I presume a lot of them have polish origins. May be that lead arab countries to believe that israelis were speaking polish?
Good stuff.

I have used Google Drive and Google Apps scripting for this kind of thing in the past, so I'd be interested to know how this compares.
Yep, first thing that comes to mind is how I make a deep crease in every piece of paper I pocket.
I’d never consider it Yiddish influence to be honest.
Yes, but this was as far as I could see legal. And the 'right places' may very well not be.
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> I get a lot of questions from aspiring programmers on what’s the best tool or languages to learn. It’s almost always a premature question to ask.

I often think about how to answer this question to beginners as well. I think he is right, the answer is probably "it doesn't matter".
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Nice! Funny is that Algolia released something very similar some time ago: https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/

It seems searckit took great inspiration from it:

- component naming (search box, refinement list, hierarchical menu)

- documentation organisation:

+ http://searchkit.co/ is using an imdb demo just as https://www.algolia.com/ homepage

+ https://ssetem.gitbooks.io/searchkit/content/ vs https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/documentation... (see "components" menu on the left)

- react based (but only works if you have react though)

- and more parts maybe

@Author could you give some more details on the parts of instantsearch.js that were inspiring to your project?

Thanks
Same with me, I don't understand why it should only have 1 or 2 pages, if I have a lot of experience I want to put it there otherwise it will look like I have less experience than I actually have it is impossible for me to fit everything in 2 pages
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A link to the wiki page https://github.com/pddring/cpu-battle-tank/wiki should be better than main page to explain what is CPU BatteTanks.
LG also intended to make a 55-inch flexible display which can be sticked to the walls by magnets. I'm not sure if they have released any latest news about that, but they are planning to make it possible.
Here's a post about LG's 55-inch flexible ultra thin display.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/05/20/lgs-wallpaper-con...
> It's the mother language (first language) of many many people, with either English or Hebrew as the second.

They are usually ultra-orthodox though.
However the same technology would allow chip and pin transactions with the addition of a keypad, if only the US hadn't gone for the ridiculous chip and signature nonsense.
> Their society is homogenous

Honest question (not directed specifically to you sradu): I've seen this statement pop up now and again, and every time I've seen it, it is referring to Nordic countries. I am beginning to suspect that it's a dog-whistle: am I wrong?

What exactly is being referred to as 'homogenous' and why is it an advantage? What disadvantages are presented by heterogeneity of other countries?
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Summary: "Windows 7 is a serious (cannibalization) problem for Microsoft," not the other way around. Cf: Vista uptake vs. XP.
I'd certainly have it in the kitchen, which happily is also in earshot of the living room, but despite doing a lot of cooking myself I've rarely needed to be entirely hands free. I do admittedly have a tablet screen that is absolutely filthy half the time, but its yet to come to any harm from it.
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It's even more complicated. With all the outward cultural disdain for the "rats", Russians do not hesitate to write secret or anonymous reports to authorities. It's prison culture meeting communist morality.
There is a small blurb here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_United_States_ho.... It leads to an article by Robert Shiller called "The Bubble's New Home" (Google it to get around the paywall) as well as his classic book "Irrational Exuberance".
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If we can't make faster CPUs, then we're not getting much further.

On the contrary. In our day to day lives, we can do far more today than we could a decade ago.

In 2006, Intel released Pentium 4 chips clocked at 3.6 GHz. In 2016 we use quadcore chips where each core is about as fast as that. Yet we're way more powerful today than a mere 4x multiplier, if you measure what we can do. Think of how limited our tools were just a decade ago.

Clock speed isn't a great measurement, but the point is that making CPUs faster doesn't make the field more powerful.

It seems like we're talking past each other. I was referring to effects that computers have on the world and our daily life, but it sounds like you're referring to total worldwide computation speed, and how it will change over time. If you're saying the rate will slow sigmoidally, similar to the progress in physics, I agree.

But the thesis is that the rate at which the world changes w.r.t the field of computing is unrelated to the total available computation power. Our minds are the bottleneck.

Compare this situation to the field of physics. The rate that the world changes w.r.t physics was related to how important the discoveries were.

The contrast is pretty stark, and it might have some interesting long-term consequences.
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That makes me happy. Codifying tools that a wide range of people find useful for communication today should be a higher priority than serving the extremely specialized needs of a few historians.
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I make Yiddish keyboard maps for OSX, GNU/Linux and Windows.

http://www.shretl.org

Since moving to GNU/Linux I could really do with a hand maintaining the Windows and OSX branches. Anyone interested?

Also - anyone have contacts at Microsoft or Apple who might be able to help get a Yiddish keyboard map installed per default in their OSs?
I was thinking the opposite: wouldn't a very flexible display make for something that's very durable?

I'm imagining an ad for LG where Alex Rodriguez hits a big screen with a bat and it just flexes...
I just found out about this, and was astonished at he irony of the act of releasing these doves which are specially bred in captivity all their lives. Most of these doves die on getting released.
For anyone interested in the sort of schemes the Stasi applied to get their snitches, the German television drama Weissensee [1] is a really great resource. It follows a Stasi officer family's journey through the eighties and in that achieves to paint a very nuanced picture of the motivations of both Stasi officers and the opposition. Unfortunately, not available with English subtitles...

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1525780/
Apart from nuclear power. Even that is technically 'solar' in the sense that the elements necessary were made in a star, but not our sun.
The experiment referenced about disfluency has repeatedly failed to replicate. Meta-analysis here: https://www.academia.edu/11918605/Disfluent_Fonts_Don_t_Help...
[Map] Watch as the US grows over time
Objects were never meant to have public attributes. The only way of interacting with objects should be sending messages. I'm talking about what Alan Kay says about the matter.

Incidentally, besides Smalltalk, there is another language, which implements this original idea of OO: it's Erlang (just view processes as objects and it all fits).
225 / 15 Chaotic swirls and spirals that occasional form a momentary glimpse of Giygas' face creeping through. Damn, had no clue how procedural those backgrounds were. Whole new respect for the game on a different level now.
No, it's the same thing as .format, except limited to literals, so basically useless (hardcoding literal strings is bad for i10n).
There's also Dontpad: http://dontpad.com/
"The future isn't what it used to be" ;)
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Maybe side projects by employees that were squashed?
I am working on a VR editor for Aframe https://aframe.io/
It's because almost every business believes it's a special snowflake, and thus by extension so are its technology & process problems. Given that there's almost always somebody willing to sell them a custom solution who wants to make money reinforcing that delusion. It's not all that surprising that many, many non-tech or tangentially-tech markets end up saddled with a pile of proprietary hacked together garbage software and systems.

It's shockingly rare to encounter a Principal, CEO, or COO who goes into every business problem they have with a perspective like, "I know we're not an R&D company, so almost certainly our problems aren't pioneering efforts into the unknown frontier. Somebody must have encountered these issues before, so how can I capitalize on the fact that they must have already spent the money to resolve them?"
That's really awesome. Thanks a lot for this, that is actually a need I came across when working on some desktop environment features.
> by "blending in" as a typical Internet user

How do you blend in? By not visiting any "subversive" websites and by not mentioning any "subversive" keywords. At that point you are a typical internet user. But how do you know what is considered subversive? Animal rights/environmental activists with no actual proof that they've done anything or planned anything are under house arrest right now in France just because the government wanted to free up resources to track Islamic extremist terrorists.

> using Tor. where just one mistake might trigger a red flag?

Btw as a point of interest your username just triggered a red flag and got put on a slightly elevated watch level by the US surveillance program. Why? You mentioned the word "Tor" (Snowden files for details).

> wouldn't applicable if you do have something to hide, though... Hmm!

Do you have genitals? Do you like keeping tabs on who gets to see them? Congratulations you have something to hide.

Would you like your boss to see what porn you watch? Congratulations you have something to hide.
Parsing standard CSV isn't that hard (I've written one) when you have a spec to follow:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180

But in my experience, a lot of generated CSV is non-standard, and in that case finding a library to do it doesn't help --- you need to write your own parser so you can adapt it to the quirks of the variant(s) you're consuming.
If I read that correctly, Dropbox (established 2007) has received a patent on...drum roll...Bittorrent (created 2002). What is this I don't even.
You are right. But I meant restructure it to make it look simple and clean.
the flexibility many only be needed once in some applications. Ship millions of them flat and have downstream manufacturers integrate them as they see fit. It could open up many options that current require very expensive custom manufacturing. Another area that would benefit and not need to use the flexibility often would be advertisement. Throw a bunch of these up on pillars or other odd places.

Plus you would have to think that LG has examined your very same issue. They may have reached the point to where they have that handled or mitigated sufficiently to give a good lifetime.
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>Imagine a laptop with a screen that seamlessly folds in four.

Flexibility isn't folding, you can't fold these displays that's one of the main issues with them they'll crease and then break.

>Imagine a screen that folds around your arm like a cuff - perfect for leisure activities like cycling or diving, or work that requires both hands (an alternative to google glass style displays).

A screen also fits in a pocket, there is no reason to put it on a cuff I like that Nokia demo like the next guy but come on... why would you replace your 4-6" display with a much smaller one? not to mention that a smart watch/wristband would work just as well.
And if you want to curve a display around something that would fit your wrist you don't need a "flexible" display you can mold traditional TFT's also.

P.S. If I'm doing something with both hands the last thing i need is a display on my wrist distracting me ;)

>If you can make something durable and flexible, there are a lot of new things you can do that you currently can't.

Not really sure you can do quite a few neat things in a different way but hardly new things.
Could you elaborate a bit on "files within files"? I don't think there's an example of that on the page.

You allow people to execute scripts on your server? How does the security aspect of that work?
I've used the consumer Rift with and without Touch and it really just comes down to the specific applications. There are plenty of applications where it doesn't make sense to use hand controllers (like space sims or car racing games) and plenty where it makes sense (shooters, social communication). In the long run my guess is more and more apps will use hands but we'll go through a skeuomorphic phase in the beginning where there is no clear input standard and we hold onto inputs from previous platforms.
I agree, Doves & Pigeons are social birds and depend on many urban things. Like, they build their nests only on hard surfaces (sheds etc.). On top of that, they usually have more predators in the wild than in urban areas.
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I wouldn't say it was influenced by Java, seeing as all the core syntax (functions, classes, modules, etc) was already present when Java was first released publicly. The stuff added later doesn't come from it either (list comprehensions, generators, etc).
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Historically, this has been especially true in investment banking, where every department, desk even, believes it's a special snowflake, and commissions their own solutions. High profitability exacerbated this. Increased regulation means lower margins, and proprietary solutions are declining.
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The big issue with those types of displays is that the rest of the electronics can't fit in that package.

Big screen TV's require quite a bit of processing power especially for all those neat 4K 3D 120hz 1000hz "image processing" uber smart interwebs TV's people insist on buying ;)

So while I don't doubt that LG can make a 55" flexible display I don't see them being able to make a 55" flexible 1mm TV in the next decade, the hardware package which is required to drive those things is quite insane and with Samsung/Sony one uping each other with 8K and 12K TV's all the time that's only going to get bigger.
A 1080 non smart TV with maybe basic DLNA support could possibly be doable, but 4K with all the smart TV features people expect no way...
No need to add more info. Quality is better than quantity. Figure out max 2-3 accomplishments of each project and list them as bullet points.
I'm curious about your reasons for deciding against it. Is it lack of supporting tools? Increased complexity? Or something else?
Minecraft, Rock Band VR and Eve Valkerie are coming to the Rift. I'd consider them all AAA games nowadays.
FP is not "easier to reason about" (for humans; it is easier for machines). It's getting popular because it promises composability and reusability: the very thing OOP promised and failed to deliver. FP will fail, too - there's no silver bullet! - and then we'll move to something else.
There are initial/working ports of RTEMS (as an RTOS) as well as seL4 microkernel.

http://heshamelmatary.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/rtems-port-for-...
How Germany's love of silence led to the first earplug
There are several things contributing to over-abstraction. Two that I can think of:

1) Professional programmers are constantly hammered with the idea that abstraction and decoupling are always desirable - you've probably heard about TDD.
Somehow OOD has been taken over by this school of thought and there are very few good resources on what good OOD is and looks like.

2). Dynamic OO languages force one to have high coverage and many tests to make up for the lack of static verification.

And I don't agree with the TLDR, over-abstraction is not a disease that affects only OO languages.
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This made filing a bug about Thunderbird not sizing astral plane code points correctly slightly more hilarious than it should have been (Mozilla's Bugzilla instance runs on MySQL)...
Yep we did take a look at Algolia components. They made a great library and we took inspiration from their API. The difference with us is we focused on building with elasticsearch and we use declarative based components focusing towards the more experienced developer crowd.
Forms using company email address for validation are really frustrating.

I assume Marketing or Sales teams are behind the additional requirement with the aim of better scoring and prioritizing 'leads' for an internal Sales team. In theory, company email address would allow for quicker/better estimation of potential deal size based on company revenue, # of employees, title of employee, etc.

As a user, however, requiring a company email address signals to me that in submitting the form I'm likely to receive either a call from a salesperson or a lot of unwanted email. So, I either abandon the form entirely or use a bogus alias at a recognized company's domain. In a way, it does my email/voicemail inbox a favor.

I wonder what percentage of users exhibit similar behavior. It brought to mind the Hawthorne effect, except participant behavior diminishes instead of improves, when I know the observer (Sales/Marketing team) is watching.

There is also the common problem of false positives, as Troy mentioned.

Has anyone out there evaluated the effects of company email validation?
A rather cheap trick by M$ to get us to move to the 10. Make a good OS that does not make the users feel handicapped or at the mercy of the company, then users will come.
This seems like one of those comments people will link to in a few years when VR is ubiquitous and its success obvious.
To be honest, it's not attractive enough. I gain more by working in corporate world
Will Lenovo ever produce a high quality notebook again?

All I want is a real "ThinkPad". Give me a proper T460 with 32GB RAM, IPS display, a recent Intel i7 CPU, replaceable batteries and the notebook body of the T410 or better the T60 or IBM ThinkPad T41.