skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's true that there are probably larger, slower fish than you - if you are a potential target. However, pursuers do not stop with the largest and slowest. They will persist and they do not tire. You will make small mistakes and leave partial identifying marks. It's inevitable - even an expert can't be 100 percent every minute of every operation. If you have their attention and you remain active with a single identity for too long the small mistakes will add up and they will find it and thus they will find you. It's not so much a scare tactic as a gamble - one the house usually wins. The larger one identity becomes the larger of a target it becomes. Make it appear as though you are a thousand bit players and not one large one. Change the equation, change the fingerprint - do whatever you can to protect the identity you can't change because you don't get a second chance and they get all the chances they need.

TL;DR - you can never be too paranoid, so long as the overhead doesn't impact your operations. if it does, you need to take a deep look into your risk appetites.
Oh my finished/incoming ratio is disgusting. I imagine that if it was important to save at one point, it will remain important in the future when I figure out a way to pipe them all into some AI summarizer and it can teach it to me.

I've been collecting for a number of years now, and interestingly, when I sort oldest to newest, I have a really interesting window into what I thought was important/newsworthy at that time and what I know to be important/newsworthy or timeless now. I wonder if I can use that information to help sharpen my own judgment?
I must say that is a very nice domain name (js.org)
New Chrome App Helps Women Stop Saying “Just” and “Sorry” in Emails
The need is still there ...

1) American recruits are too fat to carry a pack nowadays

2) Marines in Afghanistan suffered from ankle injuries from carrying 70 pound packs on cobblestone fill.
It only has 400lbs carrying capacity. Batteries to give it a reasonable distance -- maybe a kilometer over rough country? -- would eat into that.
Question:

How secure is LinkNYC Wi-Fi?

Answer:

The LinkNYC Private network is one of the first
free municipal Wi-Fi services in the country to
offer an encrypted network connection between your
device and the hotspot, securing all wireless
communications between devices and the Link.

Gee, sounds swell! But how?
Not really. The hiring recruiting agency is acting as an agent for amazon and amazon are completely and totally responsible for the actions of their agent.

There is no "not us, our contractor" defence for this kind of thing.
You do realize the JVM and related bytecode have been along around _a lot longer_ than Swift.... right?
Debian Founder Ian Murdock Tweets About Committing Suicide
Yeah you're right. I conflated the two issues in my comment.
What they did to Peoplesoft was evil.
Objectively speaking, Js is a far more complex language than ClojureScript.
I thought this was rather interesting:

OCTLA Signatories List

The following organizations and individuals have signed the OpenJDK Community TCK License Agreement (OCTLA) and been granted access to the JCK.

Signatories for Java SE 6
Azul Systems, Inc.
CACAO - Christian Thalinger
Cambridge Software Labs - Edward Nevill
Canonical - Matthias Klose
Google
Red Hat
Stratus Technologies
tarent
Yozosoft

http://openjdk.java.net/groups/conformance/JckAccess/jck-acc...
Large numbers of people who all chanted "do what you love and the money will follow". Which... while not necessarily wrong, doesn't mean that enough money will follow to pay off massive amounts of higher-ed debt. But that part of the equation doesn't get trotted out much...
ah so just trolling then :P
>As are most patent filings (including some of my own)

Why file them, then? (The fact that you admitted to it suggests you have a valid and ethical reason to do so.)
Good news AFAICT! Hopefully Android:

1) Gets an updated kernel
2) Can run standard JVM bytecode
3) Switches to CGroups
4) Allows for interop with desktop/server JVM

On a side note, I wish WebAssembly would just be JVM byte codes instead of this huge NIH syndrome. No need for the importing the Java SDK, broken sandbox mode, and all the other crap that made Applets fail... just the JVM itself.
paraphrasing: Underwater mountains exert a gravitational pull on the water above and around them causing small but measurable bumps.

This is very cool! I never thought about the ocean as being bumpy.
And,uh,wasn't invented by Google.
How to Create a Viral Campaign on Twitter (GrowthHackers.com)
I tried to rewrite your article for you:
http://pastebin.com/UYfu1EyX

I could have taken more liberties, but decided to just stick with a quick edit.

I completely agree with your message. Keep at it!
Google's implementation isn't proprietary, it is Apache licensed. I think the idea of the parent comments holds. The irony is exquisite. Google is solving their copyright infringement problem by copying & distributing vastly more Oracle code.
Go write a producer-consumer queue

Also understand this code:
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/condition_variable
is there a reason or benefit to do that?
As I understand it just file sharing isn't criminal - no criminal conviction and no possibility of fines or jail time. (Although the rights owners can sue for loss of earnings.)

To tip it into criminal law you need to either sell the files, or to distribute enough to affect the trade of the rights owners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright,_Designs_and_Patents...

> Copyright infringement that may be criminal offences under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 are the:

>Making copies for the purpose of selling or hiring them to others[11]

> Importing infringing copies (except for personal use)[12]

> Offering for sale or hire, publicly displaying or otherwise distributing infringing copies in the course of a business[13]

> Distributing a large enough number of copies to have a noticeable effect on the business of the copyright owner[14]

> Making or possessing equipment for the purposes of making infringing copies in the course of a business[15]

> Publicly performing a work in knowledge that the performance is unauthorised[16]

> Communicating copies or infringing the right to "make available" copies to the public (either in the course of a business, or to an extent prejudicial to the copyright owner)[17]

> Manufacturing commercially, importing for non-personal use, possessing in the course of a business, or distributing to an extent that has a noticeable effect on the business of the copyright holder, a device primarily designed for circumventing a technological copyright protection measure.[18]

I agree that these people should not be in prison, and certainly not for that long. Prison should be reserved for violent criminals.
I don't buy it. I think being a disturbance is just much easier than one realizes.
Great ammo for suing future competitors in the financial space.
Good point, I would imagine that would be concerning but most of our current enemy combatants probably cannot afford heat sensitive googles. I wonder what the radar signature is and if it can be distinguished from a cow?
Thanks. It was buried in a discussion about arithmetic. Dunno why he didn't change the title though, no big deal.
> Why file them, then?

"Don't hate the player, hate the game."
Let's see, we're running a browser, which runs a JavaScript VM, which runs the our node.js logic, which runs Python, which calls into native numpy. See, native!

I have this visceral reaction when I can tell something is based on Electron or IWebBrowser, 2.0.
>>The resurgence of Microsoft

No, this shows you can be a dick and promise to stop and everything will be forgiven.
It is unlikely that Android will run Java bytecode. The Dalvik runtime was aimed at keeping bytcode compact and interpreting faster than a JVM. ART is a pre-compiling (Dalvik bytecode to native) runtime. Using Java bytecode in the runtime on the Android device would open a whole big can of worms again. With open source APIs and no actual Java(tm) technology in an apk or on a device once code is translated from Java bytecode to Dalvik bytecode, Android stays clear of Oracle copyright claims.
It's not surprising that banks are interested in blockchain technology, if not necessarily Bitcoin itself.
Patenting technology is very common by these companies and it is almost always a protection measure against them being sued for using it.
> I think discrediting an entire movement of music for the nostalgia of the hippies prior is a bit disingenuous.

Which I'm not doing though your straw-man argument was nice to read. In fact, I've often spoken the very same things you are. This is 2015 though and I'm afraid to tell you that most rap is not what you're talking about. The last great album that does exactly that is Illmatic in my opinion though you hear Kendrick's latest stuff and that's on-point too.

You don't get a moral blank check for growing up the ghetto. It's fine to rap about what you know, but it gets to the point of absurdity for most rappers who only know how to talk about bitchs. Am I supposed to stand aside and rally behind the virtues of big butts shaking on the TV 24/7 -- because it's from the ghetto and I just don't understand?

You're not seeing the full picture and though I enjoyed your tangent, I do not enjoy being written off as a nostalgic hippie. The hippies I'm apparently nostalgizing about were singing about ending the war -- what popular songs do that? What popular songs stop and make you think the way "Time" did by Pink Floyd?

No, the time when rappers actually rapped were more back in the day. I'll close out with one of my favorite verses by Big Boi that is basically what you're trying to say:

But they be making it seem

That my music and crime are a team

But I'm speaking the truth not dreams

So what in the fuck they mean

My lyrics ain't clean
Relevant, Prickles and Goo (animated by Matt Stone & Trey Parker, recording of Alan Watts):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXi_ldNRNtM
This would be great. The benefits of reuse of the toolchain and ecosystem alone are very compelling. That is another thing that will need to be reinvented by WebAssembly.
Favorite Micro-Library? (JS)
What is your favorite JavaScript Micro-Library?
it's for community projects, check out their home page.
The answer is, it's fair use if you are trying to be compatible - DR-DOS could be considered a fair use copy of the MS-DOS APIs, because that's the only way to run DOS programs. But ordinary Java programs don't run on Android and Android programs don't run on the JVM. So Google lacks a fair use defense as far as I can tell.
Doesn't Warren Buffett own a large percentage of BOA? This is the Buffett strategy, use the public sphere to allow private entities to acquire monopoly power. He did this with his opposition to the Keystone Pipeline so that his trains would benefit from the need to move oil in that corridor.
Because that's possible.

Or how about you try to find me a band in the last 20 years that released three indisputable classics:

- Kid A

- OK Computer

- Hail to the Thief
>Lisp is super small in terms of adoption

Sure, but that's not very interesting in and of itself. The question is whether there's enough of a community to make the language viable and whether you can get a job using it.

Thousands of people are happily working with ClojureScript today, and lots of companies make accommodations such as remote work.

>Who will maintain my code? The few people I know who know ClojureScript?

I've always found this argument very strange myself. My experience is that the language is usually a small aspect of what's involved in maintaining a project. You have to learn tools, libraries, and the architecture around the project. This tends to vary greatly place to place. Learning the language is just a small aspect of that and anybody who's not capable of learning a new language probably won't do a good job with the rest either.

So to answer the question, the person you work with and train to use the language usually. As I've already pointed out, I've trained lots of people to work with Clojure and it doesn't take long for people to become productive.

>How hard is it to find a ClojureScript dev or anyone interested in working on it?

Not very, lots of people apply specifically because they want to try a new language. Last guy we hired had prior experience working with PHP and C#, and never touched a functional language in his life. His reason for applying was precisely that he wanted to try working with Clojure. He finished his first project and put it in production in his first 6 months on the job with minimal supervision.

>Can my company hire hundreds of engineers who love it and are easy to replace if they leave.

The fact of the matter is that good engineers aren't easy to replace when they leave. This has nothing to do with their choice of language.

> Clojurescript's biggest problem, however, is that it has people like yourself who want to shove Lisp Is The Truth down everyone else' throat which people like myself have no tolerance for :)

I'm not shoving any truth down your throat, at no point did I suggest that you should switch back to ClojureScript from Js. In fact, I've repeatedly stated that you should use Js if you like it.

I'm just pointing out the fallacies that you're stating when you're fumbling to justify the reason you switched back. Something nobody asked you to do by the way.

You started out complaining that core.async is hard to use. When I pointed out that there's a promises library you pivoted to complaining that libraries are hard to find, even though it's the first result for "promises clojurescript" on Google. When I asked you what specifically was hard to do, you said that it's just "an argument plot", and now you've moved on to some vague notions regarding difficulty of hiring developers to work with ClojureScript.

Why don't you just say that the actual reason that you like Js better is that you're more comfortable using it. That's a perfectly fine answer.
Ah, if you'd read the article you would have seen a link to a Cunt Coloring Book [0].

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Cunt-Coloring-Book-Tee-Corinne/dp/0867...
Fuck Bank of America. $12.00 maintenance fee every month for holding my money? $35.00 overdraft fees? </rant>

I don't understand why they are patenting this stuff, It will never hold up and they will never sue anyone
The JDK stays inside the development environment. The development toolchain translates Java bytecode to Dalvik bytecode. There are probably a few other GPL components in the toolchain, although they are transitioning away from GCC in the NDK.
If you could build in a rich environment for inspecting and manipulating the code, you'd be well on your way to a small talk like environment :)
Not just Architecture, but Town Planning:

When I was studying Architecture I did a group research project around this very idea, but limited it to public space in cities (particularly the one I was in at the time).

We took many recordings in Parks, Retail heavy streets, Business centers (on the weekend), tourist areas etc... We asked people to listen to the recordings and rate things like "Does this space feel Cold or Warm"? As well as asking them to draw a diagram of what they imagined (which is a whole other area of interesting research that I can't remember the name of off the top of my head).

Going through the literature, and more scientific studies, the short history is it's thought we evolved to associate loud, bass sounds, (which are less directional and imply larger masses) with danger (eg, thunder, large earth movements), which can lead to an increased amount of cortisol expression in children. It's less pronounced in adults suggesting that we get used to it when we realise it's not a real threat (CBT).

One paper looked at school children near Heathrow Airport vs. in a similar urban area with no air-traffic. The former had much higher cortisol levels generally and performed worse academically after adjusting for other environmental factors. Another looked at offices and the effect of HVAC systems droning away 9-5 (ever noticed when the HVAC goes off at work?)

What we found in our limited study was what you would expect; Places with live background music rated much more favorably. The stand out was Circular Quay (this was Sydney), where there were a lot of buskers and performers interspersed with happy sounding chatter from passes by.

Outdoor areas that reverberate (Martin Place on the weekend with skateboarders) as you can imagine didn't rate too well.

Not really groundbreaking by any means, but designing space means designing for everything we experience; light, sound, tactility, temporality.

p.s
One of the problems with traditional Architectural education is that it's hard to convey sound design through a visual-centric presentation style, so not many bother. Movement, whether implied or explicit, was always important to me in my designs and relatively easy to visually communicate (animation etc). If I ever go back to finish and become a real Architect, sound will probably be just as important, luckily VR is now at a stage with entry price and skill level where faithfully constructing the sonic profile of a space should be possible and easily communicable.
yes.

no matter how much they slap Beta labels on something with one hand, they drown everyone on marketing videos and press releases with the other.

and that's not just glass. that's Google overall.
Human-pulled wagon [1] with smart robot suspension?

may have Dalek [2] limitations ...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Flyer

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek
Having tried it myself, standard JVMs and Java bytecode are problematic if you intend to create an efficient handset OS. Danger and Android did a lot of interesting things to Java to make it work better, and the Android runtime has evolved away from from what JVMs look like for some very good reasons.
OK, a couple people posted examples. But wouldn't all of these get better compression out of an extremely low compression level gzip or something?
honest question: what if your science isn't maths/physics/data? I'm a chemist and from what i can see there's @#$@# all out there in FOSS land.
Show HN: Node.js wrapper for UFC API
> Please don't tell me coffee script/typescript, future script.

Why not? You are already doing a build step for Babel mostly likely. Might as well do ClojureScript, which has simple syntax and one tool that does it all.
I think you and the anonymous Wikipedia user have both missed the point. The rot13'd comment in reply to your's covers it.
It's worth drawing the distinction between academic and commercial users, as academics don't have to pay the licensing fees. You can get the plasmid for $65 [1], which is basically all you need (other than some cheap reagents and some standard lab equipment).

[1] https://www.addgene.org/42230/
Man, the Tasmanian devils just can't get a break.

The link notes that only two other species have been known to have transmissible cancers. Dogs and soft-shell clams. The fact that devils now have a second form of transmissible cancer makes the researchers wonder if transmissible cancers might be less rare than expected or that something in the devils DNA makes them more susceptible to cancer than other creatures.

I just did some casual research, and it turns out that there are four known types of transmissible cancers. The other known one is a contagious cancer found in Syrian hamsters that's spread by mosquito bite.

That's the most interesting one I've heard of.

A good rabbit-hole starting point on this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonally_transmissible_cancer
Actually I have a question regarding spotify's payment model: I heard that every subscriber's payment are put in a big pool, and artists are paid according to their global click/listening rank. If this were true, then when I pay 10 dollar's per month and all I listen to is Carsick Cars (my favorite Chinese indie band), still the majority of 10 dollars will go to Justin Bieber and Adele. Is that right?
Another model is to pay the artist according to each subscriber's stats. For example in my previous example, all my payment (except those for Spotify) will go to Carsick Cars. Additionally, I'm wondering which of the above payment model is fair to both the audience and the artists?
> The city estimates that ads served by the new hubs
will generate more than $500 million in revenue
over the next 12 years.

Seems a bit optimistic to me. Are they going to inject ads in your http connection.
Former Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer on the Cloud Conspiracy [2015]
I will assume, for the purpose of this answer, that you mean "what is the big deal about Java 8 getting lambdas?". For other meanings of your question, see other replies.

In (pre-8) Java, variables can only hold primitive values or objects (in Java, an object is an instance of a class [c.f.]). Similarly, arguments to a method must all be primitive values or objects.

This is kinda crazy, by which I mean hilariously limiting. It's often useful to pass around other types of things, including types (in Java that'd be primitive types or classes or interfaces), or functions, or partially applied functions, or whatever. Of course, Java doesn't have functions, only methods. Whoops. See http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-... for a bit of snark about how silly this whole situation is.

So Java programmers, while desperately lacking in aesthetic taste (I keed, I keed) and largely blinkered by the java-cultural context in which they find themselves, turn out to be a pretty clever lot after all. Clever enough that despite their language, they come up with all these conventions for doing things like passing around types and functions and so on. So you get ideas like the Runnable interface, wherein one makes a class just so that it can have a static method (perhaps called "run") that does what the function would do, and you then instantiate that class, and pass the instance, just so it can be used to get at the "run" method. It works, but it's oh so ugly.

So finally, after twenty years of this suffering, now Java programmers have some nice new syntactic sugar, to allow them to pass functions around with less explicit ceremony, thereby catching up with advanced languages like Python, C, Lisp, and basically everything except Cobol. Of course, under the hood it's still Predicate<T>, a generic type that represents a functional interface, which is a new bit of jargon they came up with to shoehorn this elementary functionality into their baroque conceptual framework. And you furthermore, in Java 8 you can even declare them anonymously (unlike e.g. C, AFAIK), to expedite the most common use case, which is passing a function as an argument to a higher-order function (like "map" or whatever). They're called "lambdas" because of the existence of the lambda calculus, an abstraction for computing that uses nothing but anonymous functions, and because many other languages have therefore referred to their anonymous function syntax as "lambdas" (Python even uses "lambda" as a keyword for this).

So the big deal about lambdas in Java is that Java has one less vile pain point.

(Any five-year-old could understand this explanation, right?)
Because 99% of patent litigation never goes to court. An entity like Bank of America can wield an army of lawyers to sue anyone they do not like for bogus patent infringement, and that alone will kill most competition because they do not have the resources to even meet BoA in court for a day. Its what patents are for in the modern economy after all - you get big, you make tons of them that cover everything, and then you sue anyone you don't like until they implode from spending too much time in court and not enough time innovating.
This is one reason why Cpf1 could be interesting, since it leaves sticky ends when it cuts: http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674%2815%2901200-3