skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qualcomm shutdown Mirasol in 2012 after buying it back in 2004 and laid off all the engineers. http://gizmodo.com/5928315/say-goodbye-to-qualcomms-magic-mi...

Recently, Apple bought the Taiwan fab plant where the old mirasol displays were made, which had been transferred to AU Optronics. But a fab is a fab is a fab so it doesn't mean they're making mirasol displays there.

Liquavista is another crapshoot, spun off in 2006, made huge pronouncements at shows, told us they would be production ready in 8-12 months back in 2010 and then shuttered in Dec 2010. Then layoffs, then Samsung, now Amazon. No clue what their real status is now.

In other words, doing demos is doing demos. Commercially available production ready product is a different story completely.
I know I might sound against the current, but back in the age of portable car gps, in Europe Garmins were utter garbage compared to TomToms, maps were lousy, navigation perhaps worse.
Has anybody experienced the same?
Google wants to get rid of password logins for Android apps by 2017
Yes, and when you are using pg_restore use the -j flag! (restore in parallel).
For a very real example of facebook bias a group created two Facebook groups full of similar hatred but directed at two different ethnic groups.

One was shut down almost immediately, one was still up when the video was posted.

Won't name them as I don't want to drag politics into HN but I am fairly convinced it is repeatable (and if anyone is interested in giving it a try I can try to dig out a reference and post.)
The Small Batches Principle
> Throwing the person into prison for life is obviously the wrong solution, it is not proportional to the crimes committed and it's a net negative for society.

That brings to mind an interesting question. Why should prison time be proportional to the crimes committed?

If the purpose of prison is rehabilitation, then shouldn't the time be however long it takes to rehabilitate the prisoner? There might be some correlation between that and the crimes committed, but I would expect that to be a weak correlation. There will be many people who are easy to rehabilitate whose first crime was very serious and many people hard to rehabilitate whose first crime was relatively minor.
The only great proof would be opensourcing it completely, and I don't see that happening.

Then again, Moxie said he himself oversaw the implementation of the encryption and that he has trust in it...
Also, Trillian supports FB messaging, so you can install this instead of any FB app: https://www.trillian.im/
How do people produce videos like that? It must be very expensive: shooting, pictures, music, all these animations, montage. It can't be done a hobbyist?
I don't know if this is correct, but I just look at my AdSense stats for pageviews vs ad impressions.
For those auto-playing videos in the news feed? They play without sound unless you tap on them
ZipJet: Redemption from the Weekly Wash
> Similarly, in Civil law jurisdictions (those that take traditions from the French) judges regularly rely on past rulings by respected judges.

You are indeed correct in most of your comment. But in France while it's true that judges read decisions by other judges, they will never ever quote another judge (except the ECHR). If for instance the Court de cassation (One of the French three (or four, or five, depends on how you count them) Supreme Courts) has said that "X has to be interpreted as Y". Lower judges will start using the sentence directly lifted from the Court de cassation decision "X should be interpreted as Y", but without quotation marks or any sort of attribution. It's a fiction that the judge came up with this interpretation by himself. Sometimes the judge will use some sort of caveat like "Il est constant que" ("It is always the case that") which is a way of saying that he is looking at precedent, without saying it explicitly.

If a judge did quote directly the Court de cassation with attribution, his decision could be appealed and be overthrown by the Court de cassation itself.

And if a judge disagrees with our Supreme Court, he will oftentimes without any hesitation "enter in resistance" (issuing decisions that go against the Court de cassation interpretation), the idea is that this is the way judges try to get the Supreme Court to change its opinion. This is also possible because he have more or less 90 judges in the Court de cassation, and turnover is quite high, so if a decision was only one or two votes in a direction (which no one knows because the votes are secret and the ratio of yays and nays also is secret), in a year, a judge or two at the court may change and the position could change.

My conclusion would be that in France we do respect precedent most of the time... but only if the judge agree with it. Our judges have a natural inclination to ignore precedent. Meanwhile in Common law countries, there is a natural inclination ot respect it... but sometimes judges disagree.

Caveat : In France, decisions by the Constitutional Council (the "Higher" Supreme Court... the Court of cassation would disagree on the "Higher" part) do create binding precedent... because those decision can change directly the text of the law. If the Council says that a sentence in a law is unconstitutional. Then the sentence is stripped out of the Code itself. Lower judges cannot therefore ignore it.
> But what should we do when rehabilitation repeatedly fails for a particular individual?

Bit of the UK currently have a persistent prolific offender strategy. There's no national clear definition of a PPO, but there are estimated to be about 8,000 nationally. (In a country of about 70m). I've seen estimates that about half these people are in prison. (One old definition of a PPO was someone over 18 who is convicted of 6 or more recordable offences in the past 12 months. But that definition is old, and people now look at the impact to the local community rather than number of crimes.)

The PPO strategy has several layers.

Offenders are identified, and provided with large amounts of support to rehabilitate. This includes education, housing support, drug and alcohol treatment, and so on. (I don't know whether it looks at undiagnosed brain injury, which are common in prisoners).

When they're in the community they are closely monitored. Any criminality is rapidly detected, prosecuted and convicted, and punishment is rapidly applied. Most of these people will be out of prison "on licence", which makes returning them to prison easier. This makes it very clear that criminal behaviour is not tolerated. Sometimes the justice system does not make that clear!

The aim is to reduce the amount of offending the person does, but also to reduce the fear of crime in the local community.
household income != individual salary in many, if not most of the cases.
A shorter version could be: startups are tempted to think radically different, to try new approaches, because they have nothing to lose. But a big, entrenched company has to protect the current cash flow first, then think about how to extend it. They have a lot to lose by cannibalizing the current business model in favor of a new, visionary model. They become victims of their own success.
> How can I delete these many interests and focus on one?

You don't.

People tend to overestimate how much work can they do in the short run, but
vastly underestimate how much can they in longer timespan. This means you
should simply start doing whatever you have at hand, and do it again and
again. Start accumulating knowledge and skills and finished side projects.

You say yourself you're interested in many things; take notes when you're
working, so it takes you less time to resume your work later. It will still
take a lot to resume work, especially if the field is completely different
from what you were doing lately. Maybe at some point you'll decide to narrow
your focus, so switching becomes easier; maybe you'll get better at switching
context; maybe you'll just get used to this.

You can't gain expert level in everything, so you must accept that you'll
leave some fields out. But don't let it prevent you from learning any of them.

After two or three years you'll see real progress, and after five you'll be
amazed how much have you done.
On iOS your application can not stay fully active for more than 10 minutes. After that time it gets into suspended state and can be waken up only when it receives a notification (and the wake up time also has time limitations). There are only three exceptions to this rule: active GPS usage for maps and trackers, active voice calling apps (for ringing) and music apps that are actually playing audio. Silent audio thus enables Facebook to stay alive forever.

This had also the effect that when you were listening to music or a podcast and opened the FB app it would stop playing your audio.
Phrenology as a Service?
The latest OCZ Trion series at least honor O_DSYNC correctly. You get shitty write performance, but it is the same for Samsung 950 Pro. The read performance is another story for OCZ though :(

Anyway enterprise SSD's have so much overall better performance that consumer grade SSD's is something I consider a joke. A joke even for consumer applications, web-surfing and email-clients. Remember that a lot of applications out there use SQLite, and poor DB performance means poor application performance.

I highly recommend reading this:
http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2014/10/10/ceph-how-to-test...
I agree but I look at it as palate cleaner after the prequels, that being said in episode 8 Finn better not end up in carbonite.
APIs.guru – Wikipedia for Web APIs
It is when other people do it.
It would be useful if someone wrote a wizard that could install a personal disk server without the user needing to know what software is involved or how to install it. A single click where for example owncloud is installed, linked to tor hiden services address and given to the user and/or installing a usb stick with tor-browser and a bookmark to the service. It would be outside the scope of tor project, and more in line of a useful native debian package.
Is assembly then not hard to do right?
I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die
Alternative is don't create an account..... feeling like people are saying things about you? Get a hobby
Yeah yeah keep making jokes but once you have a teenage son you'll understand D:
Because society only works when there are some values or rules shared by the people.

Society only obeys the rule of law as long as there is some consensus that the law is fair and just. Basic fairness demands that breaking a rule should result in a punishment.

The punishment is only fair if it is proportional to the offense. Therefore prison time should be proportional to the crimes committed.
MS cuts another 1,850 jobs, takes $950M charge in its phone hardware
Why does Wikipedia use MySQL rather than NoSQL?
All the `CHAR`s in Postgres are `TEXT`, from the docs:

Tip: There is no performance difference among these three types, apart from increased storage space when using the blank-padded type, and a few extra CPU cycles to check the length when storing into a length-constrained column. While character(n) has performance advantages in some other database systems, there is no such advantage in PostgreSQL; in fact character(n) is usually the slowest of the three because of its additional storage costs and slower sorting. In most situations text or character varying should be used instead.
Scots law is more useful than the law of England and Wales in regard to common law offences as due to the long period with no separate Parliament it didn't go through the same process that England did of statute law replacing common law.

Take the Scottish Breach of the Peace which is very different from the English version. "Where something is done in breach of public order or decorum which might reasonably be expected to lead the lieges being alarmed or upset or tempted to make reprisals at their own hand, the circumstances are such to amount to a breach of the peace".

The complex sounding definition is the first thing, common law offences are more descriptive of a course of action than specifically spelling out elements. Over the years cases come along which clarify the boundaries of the offence - for instance requiring a public element, defining who counts as being public (not family members for instance).

As a former police officer in Scotland I really like Scots law. It is simple enough that people tend to understand it. It is broad enough to encompass things the legal system may not have encountered before. The UK politically went through a rough time in the 2000s reassessing stalking, Parliament passes a blizzard of legislation trying to define it but didn't need to cover Scotland as it has always been treated as a Breach of the Peace.

The big problem is that some cases can have massive unintentional consequences. Two cases that happened in fairly quick succession unintentionally prevented events in your home witnessed only by your family from being a breach. On the one hand that sounds sensible (hence why the court made the ruling) but also invalidated a breach being used to prosecute domestic abuse that didn't go as far as an assault (which again in Scotland is different from England). The Scottish Parliament had to rush through what became known as the "Statutory Breach of Peace" (Section. 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010) in order to restore the ability to do anything.
More effective random algorithm; q=n^(1−δ) vs. q=n^(1/2−δ)
Do you think there should be no punishment at all for murdering someone?

You've talked about giving criminals help so they don't reoffend.

What do you do with someone who has absolutely no social or personal problems, is a productive member of society, but kills a man in passion because he's sleeping with his wife?

There's nothing to correct there. It's probably not likely to happen again, so he doesn't need any correction.

So would you just let him go?
I guess you are talking about Film Engine (used to be Cinebox). That's a separate product: http://filmengine.com/
There isn't an builtin way to do this in bash but what you are asking for is 2 things:

* Trigger an action on changing a directory

* That action should be to change your bash history file

The second part is pretty easy to do -- you just change the $HISTFILE environment variable and export it. For the first part though, you can either use a naive little function that replaces bash's builtin `cd`[1] or you can use any one of the many tools specifically created for this sort of a thing:

http://swapoff.org/ondir.html
https://github.com/kennethreitz/autoenv
http://direnv.net/
https://github.com/cxreg/smartcd

Note however, that most unix tools are angnostic to the current working dir so...

$ /path/to/cmd /some/other/path/to/argument
$ cd /path/to && ./cmd /some/other/path/to/argument
$ cd /some/other/path/to && /path/to/cmd argument

...might all do the same thing but will be saved in different history files if you implement what you need.

[1] http://superuser.com/a/296554/267793
Hopefully bitcoin will keep being the wild west of speculation and endless arguments. Ethereum seems to downplay its value storage capability. It needs 1-2 killer apps to become popular, but imho it should never market itself as a value store.
Singles always arrived in cities from countryside, where they formed families, and they could only have multi-gen families after a few generations. By then they had money for maids.
I've had this happen to me so many times, that I wouldn't be surprised if it was true. At this point in history it seems that any surveillance that is technically possible will be done.
So how much is the FBI paying them to hack the brain
> I can't even fathom how someone who hasn't lived in any time but now can make that statement. Literally any time in human history? How was it like, I don't know, 200,000 years ago? Tell us. You will mention lower life expectancy. That is mostly due to infant mortality rates. Many people lived until they were 70. They had actual lives, not sitting at a computer typing shit all day.

For an account of living in agricultural (pre-industrial) society, I wholeheartedly recommend "The Peasants" by W. Reymont - the Nobel prize winning, extremely realistic account of how life was in a small village in central Poland around year 1900. In short: everyone was working pretty hard, but only the peasants who owned land were living a decent life. The others (a majority) worked on farms owned by the village's "elite" and always feared about their future (not to mention they sometimes didn't even own homes so they slept in for example their master's stable, next to the piles of horse shit). On the other hand, the work was more varied that most jobs today and there wasn't that much to do in the winters so everyone rested then.
Toyota-Uber Places Automakers in Rival Ride-Sharing Alliances
That's what they say.

One of the urban legends was also that USA government agencies don't collect data at bulk and they were lying about it. We know the truth now.

Facebook has been caught with the hand in the cookie jar too many times already and got away with it. Fuck Facebook.
SCTP is alive and vell in very niche applications. SIGTRAN [1] for example is an adaptation of middle layers of SS7 network stack that runs on top of SCTP/IP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTRAN
Wow.

Question regarding index access: There are tons of for loops with player[k] occurrences and similar. Personally I would create a local variable and prevent further index-retrievals.

Is this worthwhile or would a compiler optimize the array-index access away? Or maybe subsequent uses of the same index are cached by the cpu? Does someone know?
35 Presentation Books
My vapourware web browser is tentatively titled "fuck your web designer".

It will ignore site-provided CSS.

Interested?
Vsauce is a hobbyist. As he got more popular and ad revenue came in, he could afford better cameras, mics, and props. Hes actually the most successful of the VsauceX (X=1,2,3,4) channels but still keeps them as a network because they are all friends. Honestly, YouTubing like anything else, takes effort more than anything. Some of the most successful channels used a smartphone camera for well past a million subscribers. And part of the rub is that there are a ton of good channels with very little success. Good art and entertainment is borne out of desire to share, not desire to bear. At least in my opinion. Because there will always be garbage to cater to garbage.

I should mention, most of the editing can be easily done in After Effects with a couple weeks of training. Its really amazing how accessible having your own syndication is these days. I am not interesting enough or entertaining enough so I leave it to those who are. Sticking to HN threads so I can hide my ugly mug ;-)
I had to optimize our product's driver for a monochrome display; you can optimize quite a bit if you know the application and test how muddied it gets and how fast. I think that driver optimizing will be able to make the flashing on the color screen less annoying too.
In Europe, that is not true. The stated purpose of the justice system is that of deterrence. Exerting justice for the reason of revenge is nothing more than catering to the lower instincts of people and that is very much at odds with a civilized society. If you really believe that people are locked up so that the victims feel better, you have watched too many bad American TV dramas.
>>And CMU isn't in the business of venture capital. They're in the business of doing the research

I thought they were in the business of unethical hacking for the FBI
No. I work for Facebook. This doesn't happen.
And this, children, is why we do a proper job. Because the JS landscape nowadays looks like a house of cards, with people who can't code treating modules like Lego to build things.

Web dev has exciting things going on in it, but it feels mostly like a bunch of children with no concept of consequences running around desperately re-inventing wheels, rather than caring about quality, efficiency, diligence and professionalism.

It's fucking disgraceful, and we should be ashamed of it.
The refreshing seems way worse...
this is the feature that made me adopt a phone with MIUI on it. prevent application from access what ever, whenever they feel like it.
AMA with Gail Goodman, CEO of Constant Contact – 1st June
I work for Facebook. This does not happen. If it does, I can assure you that one of the many thousands of engineers will speak out.
You can say that of any language. Today's javascript has little to do with the pop-up opening nuisances of the 90s (even if it still also does that!).

And even today's Visual Basic has gone a long way from the VB6 that most people remember VB by.
My father used to say son you're not a man. Oh how wrong he is today.
Poor American families that might benefit from relocation generally aren't homeless.

There aren't plots of unoccupied land in frontier territory to build shacks on, and they're not permitted to cram into boarding houses with five other families if they can't afford to rent a room in their destination city whilst looking for work there.

The developed world has also taken a lot of steps to prevent more economic refugees arriving in the country.
Opera’s shareholders greenlight $1.2B sale to Chinese consortium
By the way, Dasung Paperlike, the monochrome e-ink display is now on Indiegogo.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e...
That's right and there's not much info about their graph db and if it's available to the wider public as well.
Yes okay.

Somehow the only person I know that still lives with his parents is the brother of my girlfriend, he's 30.

Most people I know don't want to do this and leave early, between 18 and 21. And the rest left for university (or after if their parents lived where they studied)

I had a "single mom" and we we're rather poor. After she heard that I want to leave, which I told her 5 months before I actually left, she searched for a smaller home and got it after 2 months, so I had to live in the living room of the new home for 3 months.

When I was 21 some old teacher (>50 years) told me he was living in a shared flat with friends and not with his girlfriend and I was baffled. Now I'm 30 and still live in a shared flat with a friend.
The film had the impossible task of pleasing both old and new viewers of the franchise. It succeeded immensely in that regard, old viewers could recognize the nods to the old trilogy, while new viewers were presented with a very well made film that (in my opinion) surpasses the original trilogy in literally every way. If I had to rate it I would definitely rate it higher than new hope.
"The Californian search giant" - typo, or am I missing something?
Bust unicorn Powa will leave over $160.7M in unpaid debts
Facebook is you spying on yourself, by posting it all that info.
So you're saying the client indexes your words locally and then e2e encrypts and sends to the person whom you're conversing with?

Is that feasible client-side without burning all your battery?
maybe from a different Mario game?
Insight of Our (Software) Deployment Process
Watching this I can't help but imagine a sci-fi scenario where surrounding reality turns out to be virtual, with this kinds of bugs. Matrix and others left this concept completely unexplored.
In theory, the best economic answer is to reduce the number of hours in a working week. In practice, it's very difficult to do that with competition from all over the world.
Using the direct sprite data would have been a massive IP violation

Drawing something similar can surely have people questioning it, but it might be sufficiently different to (try to) avoid bigger complaints.
seems like you are what in european parlance is called a "liberal".
in console - $('img').hide();
Hell yeah!
Great technology
> I see Cars as a film that appeals to children primarily, while the others are "family" movies in the best sense.

They're not family movies, they're movies that parents want their kids to be interested in but the reality is kids prefer Cars, Frozen, Shrek and Minions.