skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole article reads very conspiratorially. A whole series of stars have to align just right to pull things off --and they do, if we take the article's hints.

It's a whole lot of supposition and reading into after the fact.

>>the two men high-five each other, clap their hands...

People high-five for al sorts of reasons not related to what they are actually doing at the moment. "Hey, by the way, that date I taked to you about --yeah, it went off really well last night". That kind of unrelated stuff.

>the duty officer at the Accor Group in Paris… sent a bizarre e-mail to… the head of an environment and public health agency, claiming credit for “bringing down” DSK

Again. Anyone could claim anything. People brag about things they never did frequenlty -spec. when they find out about something they are excited about. It in and by itself is not evidence of anything conspiratorial.

This is really like a "The Globe" article. Full of supposition and innuendo --nothing concrete, but nothing quite provably wrong --just improbable.

It's unbelievable that they (whomever they are) could coordinate this whole thing in secrecy but then go on to do and say stupid things to bring things to light. It's like they're really smart and really dumb at the same time. It's an unlikely scenario --but not impossible.

To put it succinctly, when I hear people laughing, they're probably not laughing at me.
Ha, some bots are being written as we speak! Or, someone out there has some killer hand-eye coordination.
I believe he means if you manage to make enough money with the auction house, the IRS will be curious if you're reporting this as income and paying taxes etc.
Employers don't have to ask you for a password to your bank account because they can just go to a credit bureau and get all the financial information they need.
The picture painted in this article sounds exciting, but also scary; what if Apple fails? How many large investors and hedge funds would take huge hits? As Apple becomes a larger and larger part of the US economy, does that decrease stability by reducing diversification?
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Maybe I misunderstand the point of your comment, but they turned 2,750 of them back on because they were able to obtain warrants for those permitting them to continue the surveillance. There's nothing illegal about that, and it shows they're sticking to the new ruling and to the law.
No he means that if you sell them, you have to pay the due taxes. Zynga and Valve supposedly pay their taxes. The difference is that in this case it's the individuals who make a profit and the IRS (or other tax agencies) would make such a "virtual goods for real money public marketplace" more complicated.
Massive iOS Particle System Performance Gains with Accelerate Framework vDSP
Why not? This already exists in the financial world. Banks, credit companies, etc. already self-report to the credit bureaus. An employer, or potential employer, is free to pull that information on you with consent.
Sharemystorage: Collaborative Consumption Comes To The Garage
I know, and I'm tepidly excited, but I'd had high hopes for Practical OCaml, too, and ended up being sorely disappointed. There's lots of good reasons to believe that Real World OCaml will be a totally different beast, but I'm trying to hold my enthusiasm until we get a bit closer to when it ships.
I'm no "expert" but I concluded it was fake and probably a promotional stunt. Too many wrong signals and clues to be otherwise.
You may know the architect Christopher Alexander from "A Pattern Language" and his influence on design patterns/agile.

Later in life he studied the organizing principles of nature and well-man-made artifacts and discussed the common patterns in his books "On the nature of order" [1]. The ideas are perhaps more grandiose than this author is discussing, but also very interesting when applied to engineering.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Order-Phenomenon-Environmental-...
I did do some stuff to try and limit scripts. We'll see if they can figure it out.

Also, it's multi-touch enabled...
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I teach a number theory course to gifted high school students. I've been using these notes for two years now to plan lessons and find exercises. Great resource. You can also find more materials for the same course on MIT OpenCourseWare.
Some people might have downvoted based on the DMV example apparently being wrong. Factual inaccuracy can be a good reason to downvote.
So I guess the lesson is that because sp332 feels no shame in deeply embarrassing situations that no one else would. Yikes. I'd be bright red and backing slowly toward the door if that came out of my mouth. You, sir, are weird.
Hardly '0'.

The game. The hardware to run the game. ISP cost. The fees.

It all adds up. Not to mention Blizzard will be implementing their own restrictions (AH and $ limits) to choke and put up barriers for those that really want to make this a full time job.
The problem with sexuality in the workplace / people's daily lives today is that a lot of the content (commentary, ideas, beliefs, etc.) revolves around objectifying, marginalizing and degrading women—not as individuals, but as women across the board. Now, a lot of sexually empowered women have no problem with discussing sex openly, or being objectified in the bedroom, or even talking about being objectified in the bedroom while at work.

However, the difference is that in those cases, it is always the woman's choice to participate in it. Since they are the marginalized demographic in this matter, the choice should be theirs to indicate what is and isn't acceptable commentary, discussion or behavior in the workplace.

Today's environment is one where it’s _men_ who overwhelmingly decide, by way of majority-reinforcement, what other people should consider to be acceptable or not.

It all comes down to marginalization: we don't marginalize or trivialize people—or their accomplishments—based on the fact that they eat. However, our society does tend to do those things to people based on their gender; specifically, to women based on their gender.

Once we eradicate the culture in which that happens, people can express themselves sexually more freely and without hesitation, in the safe and sound knowledge that doing so won't instantly label them in a certain way that would dramatically (in a negative way) impact their professional and/or social lives—or worse.
As I've said before, there are searches for consumption needs, and a completely different kind of search made for research needs.
No popular search engine today differentiates between the two, but Goggle is slowly moving towards a search dedicated to consumption needs, which seems logical for an advertizing company.

I might search for pizza in order to find a place to order it from. Or I might become curious, and search for pizza to learn about its origins and history. A personalized search would only answer the first option.
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Does anyone know an easy way to prevent Google from tailoring my search results based off my location? I don't want to use a proxy, because then the results would just be tailored to that (false) location.
I find it somewhat strange that generating functions are introduced significantly before recurrences are (and that recurrences are introduced last!). Does anyone know why the authors did that?
Steve Case’s Statement on the Passage of the JOBS Act
Cofounders?  Please, no more.
Can we PLEASE not hear about anybody's need for cofounders, or their experiences with them, or any of that garbage? Why should anybody on here care? Why is it important to those of us who write code? No - don't answer - just stop spamming about your stupid project and your needs - this isn't a marketing site, is it? Go to FaceHook and blather, 'cause I'm tired of hearing about it.
i stopped doing the lessons because of a lot of crashes. things like including print statements would cause Chrome to invoke my physical printer.

i am curious how far the people who signed up during this big spurt are getting through the program, and if it can be evaluated against competitors like Treehouse?

overall i am a big fan of competition in the e-learning space, because it's a topic that hasn't receive much attention in the past (Kahn Academy is likely to thank).
I think I might be missing something about the effect of submission time as described. t_s is a fixed value, and the post says, "The score won't decrease as time goes by, but newer stories will get a higher score than older." So why does the graph[1] show a decreasing scoring as "submission time ago" increases with up- and down-votes fixed? t_s is fixed!

Maybe it's been too long a day. Can anyone explain?

[1]: http://amix.dk/uploads/reddit_score_time.png
Fexl release b14
SEC Overreaches with Investigation Into Speakers' Identities
Are they still using Francs for their units of reactivity, or did that get changed to Euros as well?
not sure if our website would be considered a "startup" since all 3 partners are doing it part time but we all invested around $5000 over a span of a year and by the end of first year we were profitable and didn't need to invest anymore.

being a technical cofounder i did all the coding so the only expense was the server costs and also the design company to put together a nice layout for us. so overall, not much overheard.
I don't quite understand what is meant by this. Function pointers are not "underrated"; that implies that it is lower or higher than something. Being the only way to perform an indirect branch in C, it's not really something you rate. It just is.
You don't think that there are lessons for other startup entrepreneurs to learn here about PR and handling complaints?

I'd say there is an interesting conversation to be had, as suggested by the interesting conversation being had before the entry was deleted.
TLDR: You can write a comparator function and use it like with C's 'qsort'.
This is a complete rewrite, and it now has the beginnings of a module system based on meta-parsing (i.e. "parse" is now a combinator in the system). Still plenty of TODOs, but it's moving forward.
To be clear, the title of the post, "Pirate LOSS? An alternative ...", makes no allusion to Swift.
Clojure inventor Hickey now aims for Android
MoP (next expansion) beta started today, looks more like a summer release to me.
"Cast off what is useless" --Bruce Lee
Haw. I forgot we're at HN - where aspy is the new normal (smile).
Endre Szemerédi named Abel Prize winner for contributions to Computer Science
I find that overly optimistic that qwerty will go away by the time his 18-month-old is an adult. QWERTY has been with us for over 100 years, and I see little need to throw it out.

It is a good, functional, accessible, and consistent tool for putting words to screen. I can't understand why so many techies are so eager to throw everything out the window.
It's not up in the air. Everyone else just wants the right answer. Even I sometimes just want the right answer, and I love mental models..
Ask HN: List of Mobile Technology Enabling Companies
HN,

I'm trying to generate a list of companies innovating in the mobile space, specifically those that create technologies that other companies can utilize. Ideally these are fairly unique to mobile as opposed to web.

i.e.
Square, enabling Mobile Payments

Any thoughts?
Place for everything, everything in its place
Or doing offensive stuff. Using sex appeal to promote non-sexy things is kind of a dark side move.
Personalized searches also render it difficult to gauge how 'pizza' relates to other data in the public (sub)conscious. Google results used to (and still do, to a certain extent) provide a very good picture of the semantic structure of the Internet, if you knew how to read them.
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AT&T collected millions from taxpayers in fraudulent charges, US says
Yeah, I limit the number of moves you can make per second, but mice/multi-touch move pretty fast...
I was entertained through a boring meeting. :)
Well I felt pretty bad about it at the time, and left the room after a minute. But later she told me (when I asked her about it) that it wasn't a big deal and I shouldn't have taken it so hard. My mom doesn't remember the incident but she tells me that no one would have cared much.
In my mind, the MPAA is certainly the best choice to pay these costs. They're the ones with the problem, they should be the ones to bear the burden. Especially considering Megaupload offered to take the data and they explicitly forbade it. If the MPAA didn't like the solutions offered, but can't come up with something better, then I think Carpathia should get to do what it wants.

Edit: The opinion above has NO legal basis whatsoever. As many have pointed out, it's not even legally possible. I made this comment solely from a "In a perfect world..." standpoint.
"beep boop" territory is what happens when you try to reduce human interactions to evolutionary psychology or "if..then..else" statements.

>If the definition of sexism includes "acknowledging the existence of boobs" then there is no hope, though.

"Hey, look at the boobs on our sole female co-worker!" is sexism. So I guess there's no hope.
Despite the opening of the article, I wouldn't put much stock in The Old Republic being a long-term threat to WoW. Short term, it probably did take some players from WoW. Anyone who is currently playing TOR knows that the server populations have been steadily declining, particularly since the end of the first month. It isn't the same catastrophic decline that other would-be WoW challengers had, but it isn't going to hold sky-high subscriber numbers, either.
This looks excellent. I also heartily recommend Knuth's Concrete Mathematics (http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Comput...)
I find that my tests often need tests, and sometimes even these second-order tests need to be checked and verified by third-order tests. In experimental programming though, just running the code is a test...
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for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
socket.emit('move', {x:Math.floor(Math.random()* 750), y:Math.floor(Math.random()* 750), id:myId});
}
Windows Media Player Support to Sync Library
Windows Media Player v.11 is a successor to iTunes for Windows in many ways. With a cleaner interface and easy navigation across files and playlists, Media Player now lets users sign up with paid music and video services...
The author completely didn't discuss the negatives -- the battery. The largest battery life between the phones mentioned is 1800 mAh. This is just over half of the battery capacity of the current-generation Droid Maxx (3300 mAh) - which still has a slim profile and speedy processor.

For me, the 3300 mAh battery life is a definite current-generation game-changer. Not having to charge my phone throughout the day, no matter how much I use it -- and not having to carry around an extended battery -- is what I care about. I'd gladly take that over a higher-res screen.
Yeah. Definitely a lot of animus against Apple.

You have an issue with people who, unlike you, acknowledge and have respect for the engineering work necessary to take new theoretical pieces of hardware, get someone to build 30 million of them, and combine them into a useful and well-designed product that people want to buy. And you also have your own set of blinders on, which prevent you from seeing that if you can do this months or years ahead of your competition, over and over and over again, you ARE innovating.

Your blinders are so effective that you can't even see the straw men you keep setting up and knocking down. Nobody in this thread suggested that Apple "invented tablets" (which is absurd). Apple did invent one that people actually want to BUY, however. And no, Apple didn't invent 300dpi displays; they just got them into a product which still has decent battery life. And no, they didn't invent the concept of more efficient CPUs and assemblages of chips; they just make the right choices faster and smarter than everyone else. In the marketplace, that stuff counts, dude. Deal with it.
Mac OS X also ships with a non-compiler version of gcc, i.e. `gcc-4.2` on lion.
GCC 5.0 [citation needed.] It was on HN and /r/programming a few days ago.
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How much round about revenue have they made off of WoW? And how much profit?
AFAIK (I'm the editor there) there's no easy way around it. I think we've recently rolled out another mobile layout -- but only for non-iPad devices (iPhone, Android, etc.)

It's OnSwipe for WordPress, incidentally. Maybe there's a local hack you can perform to disable it -- setting a cookie, or something.

Sorry I can't be of more help.
How is the A stuff wrong when thousands of people have used it successfully(presumably for its intended purpose) thousands of times? I understand where you're coming from. But the longer I do this, the less dogmatic about testing I get. If the code works for its intended purpose then it's probably all right. Now, adding features and having confidence in refactoring is another story with untested code.
Lighting a barn requires a heck of lot more power than sending out a wifi signal, even a fairly strong one.
Someone in the test industry here. I had a stint in the games industry, as well.

An army of QA is... problematic. Inevitably it turns into a death march, which is a huge waste. Worse, developers feel much less inclined to own the quality of their code (consciously or unconsciously) because "QA will catch it." I suspect that even if you wanted to be more rigorous, the incentives are against you.

Fixing bugs filed by QA is also expensive, relative to fixing the code before it's checked in. By the time a bug makes it to QA, it's a ton of patches later, the developer is working on another feature, and it's not at all obvious which patch introduced the bug. The most expedient strategy of "revert the culprit" is difficult if not impossible, and checking in new code for a fix introduces further risk.

There's certainly something to be said for expert/exploratory testing. Hell, it puts food on my table. :) But as a tester, I'm far less inclined to work on a product where developers aren't concerned about code correctness or quality even at a micro level. It says to me that they don't value my time.

Then again, I suppose in the games industry it matters less what QA thinks, given that the people actually doing the testing are often temporary/contract employees.
Why not just use Go? you get SPDY and latest websocket, the worst part? Oh you might have to write some code that matches a few Go interfaces.

Boohoo my fingers don't hurt anymore.
C function pointers are prime citizens for 42 years. Nobody underrates them. 'cdecl' is a fun way to learn all about them.

C++ 's inline templates beat them in performance though.
the engineering work necessary to take new theoretical pieces of hardware

And then you go on and actually discount all of those claims. I would say it was funny but I really think it's just sad.

HN is not a site for stupid people, so yes, I DO have an issue with it. If you're reading People Magazine and they herald Apple's "invention" (I remember the breathless commentary about the revolutionary new A5. You probably drank that up), hey have at it. But to see that sort of technically ignorant garbage infecting more enlightened places? Take it to the fan club and save the rest of us the tiring religious proselytizing.
Fading is, of course, very relative. A "fading" wow is still extremely strong.
80% of the cost of nuclear energy is building the reactor. With around $500B worth of existing reactor infrastructure worldwide, which runs on Uranium, don't expect that to go away too soon.
For reference, this amount of data would require 190 backblaze storage pods ($7,384 for 135TB) totaling $1.4 million.
OK, but that's a really telling detail: she was gracious about it, because she could be (she was in a position of social power), and because you were visibly embarrassed. In the anecdote above, the guy wasn't apparently embarrassed, and Katie didn't have the social power to tell him "it's OK" even if he was (and why should she have to, if she was the one who was embarassed?).

See the point? These are critical details, and they change the moral calculus. You can't wave away an incident like this just because you can imagine something similar which wasn't a problem.

Like I said way up-thread: someone (you) is going to point out that not all women would react like Katie did. So what? Context matters!
I tested and confirmed that if you save the JPEG using Progressive formatting, then it displays fine on the iPad. The Apple "Big Hero" image also has progressive JPEG formatting.

This doesn't explain why regular JPEGs are treated special though.
Mapbox's Streets global basemap is ~240 GBs.

source: http://macwright.org/presentations/nodedc/#7
MIT researchers turn on a memory
so what was the purpose of all this circus that me and you had pay for from our taxes if FBI already been working on the back to obtain the permits?
Because the people using it for the intended purpose are not fuzzing it for potential security flaws.
I interpret the statement as being closer to "function pointers are under-discussed".
"If you require probable cause for every technique, then you are making it very, very hard for law enforcement"

That is a terrifying sentence.
This should probably be called "Function pointers in C are AWESOME". because they are. Function Pointers are basically C's implementation for callbacks too! There are some awesome things people can do with fp's, and i especially like C++'s use of function pointers and function objects with respect to the STL algorithms and the use of tr1::bind and std::not1 in the functional header. Cool Stuff!
So it's "not crappy code" but "spaghetti code"? Could you elaborate on that a bit, I don't quite get the argument here.
Reach out, happy to network.
At that price, it would only take them 150 days to stop losing money if they started building some Backblaze servers (http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...). 25,000TB / 135TB * $7,384 = $1,367,407 minimum cost of commercial hardware to store that much.

"historically and mind-bogglingly large amount of data" - you could say that again.
Argument invalid. If HN did not like the article, it would not be upvoted. If this was a trolololl debate happening then upvotes won't do much. If the trolololl debates got upvoted enough times, we'd get some calls for more Haskel/Erlang articles (actually I could really use a call for Clojure articles). HN is fairly well self-regulating.
More weirdness- this post was on the front page briefly, then immediately shot down to the fourth page, behind an entry that's 589 days old. Is HN just screwed up today?
BBC iPlayer - From proprietary to open formats
thanks :)

it's all one algorithm actually, just with different parameters: http://draves.org/npar06/
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""If you require probable cause for every technique, then you are making it very, very hard for law enforcement," an FBI lawyer told NPR.

Of course, that's kind of the point."

I have to echo Ars there: that's the damn point. I'd like that lawyer fired and pilloried for making such a gobsmackingly idiotic statement. "Innocent until proven guilty" is far superior to the Napoleonic-law opposite, and I can't muster any sympathy for US law enforcement agencies until at the very least they stop enforcing corporate policy over law and face some accountability for how often they shoot and kill citizens.