skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I just don't think having the most secure quantum cryptographic communication system is the type of technology they would gladly want to share with the rest of world. Sooner or later, the secret service (do they have one?) or military will be involved. Will we see another Cold War-ish information technology race?

You make it sound as if this selfishness and militaristic lean is specifically Chinese in nature and that other freedom-lovin', rainbow-kissin' nations engage in free and open exchange of knowledge with no military aspirations whatsoever. "Oh if only those poor misguided Chinese shared like the rest of us do we wouldn't have another cold-war." I mean I understand why you might be prejudiced to think that way because I presumably live in the same NATO bubble as you do, but this kind of "our values vs. their values" thinking is the exact Hollywood-like narrative that starts wars in the first place (and by that I'm not accusing only westerners of this, I'm pretty sure it happens in China too).
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Apple made the app.
Removing Memcached because it's too slow
Correct. But the guys were probably Special Agents and were from the data forensics group that are recruited into the DoJ specifically for their IT skills.

It's also possible that there was a Special Agent + Contractor team working.

BTW, they are probably not very happy that video evidence of their activities was captured and published. Don't look for them to make that mistake again.
My point is that the fact that the app exists is the reason you didn't pay 250 euro plus 99 euro every year for the privilege of getting updated maps for that unit.
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Anyone else stop reading after seeing the lowest tier was $19.95/month?

Maybe I'm just a cheapskate...
Interestingly, Game of Thrones season 2 is not available on iTunes in US. What's up with that? I wonder if it is relating to cannibalizing the US cable subscriber base as discussed in the article. I would definitely pay for it via itunes if it were available, even with 1-2 week delay.
This isn't teleporting as far as I can tell. They're still using a transmission medium (fiber, laser). There is no instant appearance of the information at the target, photons are still constrained by the speed of light.
Don't be a cargo-cult debugger
If course we're supposed to read it but in some situations it's not realistic. Buying a house involves hundreds of pages. Unless you're a lawyer, the average person isn't going to recognize loopholes in the contracts. And I don't know many people who would back out on a house sale at that stage, so it's highly unlikely you'd refuse to sign. The only practical way to do that is to get an advance copy of everything.

In these cases you really do need a lawyer who you trust has read the documents and is protecting you.
http://www.techinasia.com/tag/china/

http://technode.com/

http://www.shanzai.com/

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/category/technology/
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3000 pages (1500 two-sided pages) would require a ~7" thick binder. Never seen one, just saying.
I would bet that the reason housing prices have outpaced inflation is due almost entirely to the popularization of rent-seeking activities and real estate speculation (not including the relatively recent distortions due to late 1990s deregulations that led to CDS and other financial "innovations" created to derisk the asset class beyond what was rational).

Someone should do a comparison of the number of landlords per capita today versus back in 1984 and a comparison of the number of people who own a second home or own real estate investments.

I would speculate that society has by and large re-organized in a way that permits older generation to extract greater rents from younger generations beyond just social security.

It's probably possible to write an entire Phd thesis on the myriad ways in which the baby boomers and to some degree older Gen Xers extract rent from younger Gen Xers, GenY and millenials.

The world would be a much better placed if the most highly taxed form of income was rent profits in all its forms. Non-productive income is responsible for perpetuating a lot of income disparity.

If any government really wants to promote sustainable home ownership for all their citizens, they'd make homes a financial deadweight for people that aren't fully utilizing the home themselves. This would do more to make homes affordable for those that will actually live in them. Homes need to stop being seen as an investment and need to be seen as a utility. Whenever a utility is perceived as an investment you often seen market manipulation phenomena like the ones that contributed to the California Electricity Crisis of 2001.
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The author published a correction :

"Note: An earlier edition of this piece described comments made by Eric Kessler that described his views of cord-cutting as a fad or “temporary phenomenon.” Kessler said that he viewed cord-cutting as “minimal” and a result of “macroeconomic conditions” indicating that should economic conditions improve cord-cutting will decrease. To me and others who have written about this, those words indicate that cord-cutting is a problem that will eventually go away as the economy improves – hence a fad or temporary phenomenon. It’s important to note that Kessler himself did not say “fad” or “temporary phenomenon” but his words and sentiment in the video do imply that he thinks the problem of cord-cutting is small and will likely go away, and that targeting the cord-cutting audience doesn’t make business sense. Apologies for the lack of clarity here."
Maybe selling boxes to run at home, and an encrypted backup and proxy service tied in? (proxy for larger data like videos to share with peers)
Google is doing with their Android platform what Microsoft did when it decided to bundle IE with Windows. Funny how MS got blasted by every geek in existence back then, but nowadays it's so commonplace that companies are lauded for it.
...yet. Will be interesting to see what happens after the next presidential election.
At this rate (and with Australis) firefox will end up looking exactly like chrome.
Excellent links, thanks!
Two things.

You can build a product but until you manage to sell your product to someone, it's not a company.

'Salesmen' are not the only way to get people to buy your product.

I think it's important to start making a distinction between sales and marketing. At one place I worked, the marketing team resented being lumped in with sales and were actually in direct competition with them: organic signups nibbled away at a salesperson's commission.

People are becoming more comfortable with the idea of purchasing a product without ever having spoken to a human being in the entire sales cycle, and that's a marketing job. For some companies, it obviates the need for 'sales'.

Having made that distinction, I would not go to war, so to speak, without a great marketer by my side. A salesperson, on the other hand...

The problem with traditional sales is the pay structure. For mediocre salesmen, working on a commission means "any warm body will do as long as they don't churn before I get paid". This translates into having problematic customers who will thrash and cause you grief before inevitably cancelling your service or returning your product.
I think that NanoJIT was removed from Firefox with Trace JIT http://blog.mozilla.org/dmandelin/2011/11/29/js-development-...
Mixed language programming
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Good job Joshua. One thing for sure, I will never myself or suggest anyone else to work for Miso. It is simple. A job where you have long hours, mediocre pay but a great team/manager is a lot better than a good paying job with team/manager that are not looking out for you and will screw you at the first opportunity they get.
You bought it, so you can do whatever you want with it.

If you buy a CD, it's copyrighted, but you can still do whatever you want with it (unless what is limited by law).
FreedomPop bringing "free 4G" service to iPhones
I'd take annoying over being effed up anytime. You can't ever be too cautious in legal matters.
Understood. So this means we can create awesome walkie talkies.
I'm surprised the conversation hasn't turned towards "Terms and Conditions" of websites.

As webmasters, many of us act like stallman's doctor's office every single day. By asking clients to agree to (and making it oh so simple to skip, and oh so daunting to read) the terms of using our websites.
Wayland anti-FUD
Sadly, every time I tried Diaspora, not only it was an empty wasteland (I could understand that), but it was feature-wise years behind Facebook and/or Twitter plus it was really slow and buggy.

Now I understand that my experience is just not that statistically relevant, but that's what I remember the most from the site - not being able to actually use it is not a good user experience
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His question then should be read as "how has a sufficient number of users found this noteworthy?"

Because the HN community as a whole is actually interested in different topics/items than what he personally suspects it is interested in?

Because HN has changed/declined/gone to shit/been overrun with trolls from reddit/fosters a secret voting cabal/etc.?

Really, how many times are this "How did this get on the front page" kinds of questions going to be asked? I'm somewhat shocked those questions/comments don't get downvoted to hell, but then again I guess the HN community as a whole doesn't always feel the same way I do :) I just read what interests me...
For anyone who missed it because it was at the very end: Diaspora just announced they're in YCombinator S12.
request - https://github.com/mikeal/request

jsontool - https://github.com/trentm/json

mocha - https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha

stream - http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html

txn - https://github.com/iriscouch/txn

follow - https://github.com/iriscouch/follow

browserify - https://github.com/substack/node-browserify

fleet - https://github.com/substack/fleet

seaport - https://github.com/substack/seaport

underscore - https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore

node_redis - https://github.com/mranney/node_redis

node-gyp - https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp

cookies - https://github.com/jed/cookies

node-falafel - http://github.com/substack/node-falafel

routes - https://github.com/aaronblohowiak/routes.js

negotiator - https://github.com/federomero/negotiator

marked - https://github.com/chjj/marked

JSONStream - https://github.com/dominictarr/JSONStream

tap - https://github.com/isaacs/node-tap

event-stream - https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream
> I have concluded that the only thing that's needed is automation of electrical sockets.

I guess we're thinking of home automation in different ways, but the kind of automation I'd like is of cleaning.
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Parametric polymorphism (i.e. generics) is not an object-oriented concept.
"I'd pull the data needed": what if there is a virus?
The software that the article mentions:

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/gotoblas2
There are a lot of possibilities, even without the Siri experience. I wrote a Quora answer early this year about the opportunities:

http://www.quora.com/Apple-TV/If-Apple-ever-releases-a-TV-th...
That sounds like a better way to do it, I'm just saying that I've never found myself really waiting for map tiles unless the network connection itself was awful.
I'm sure less data would mean more data connections squeak into the usable column, but I'm rarely in those places, so it's just not high on my list.

The turn by turn, though, would be much more welcome. Though now that I think about it, turn by turn would increase my use dramatically and probably expose more poor network situations where the client-side rendering would make a difference.
I can confirm that GP looks badass in a fedora, and I am now officially jelly.
I favour Kohana (http://kohanaframework.org/). Very quick and easy to get the core of your app built. Only (and potentially major) downside is that the documentation can be tricky to wade through.

I'd run away from CakePHP. Caveat: last version I worked with was 1.3. The weird way it uses arrays in its ORM to kinda-sorta-but-not-quite work on the database always hurts my head. In fact, the whole way of going about things in CakePHP hurts my head.
EMI Group forces music locker MP3tunes into bankruptcy
Use credit cards responsibly. Pay off the balance in full every cycle (set to autopay if you can). Earn cash back as well.
I'm still not an expert on contract law, but I would suggest that yes, that's the case. The law isn't necessarily perfectly symmetric between the original text of the contract and handwritten alterations put in at the time of signing.
I think in that case Zend Framework might be a good choice. It may not be the sexiest framework but it's developed and supported by Zend, the company behind PHP. It isn't going to fade away any time soon and there's tonnes of support and advice around.
Pricing has always been a big topic of discussion inside our team. Would really like to know what kind of pricing would keep you or anyone else reading this comment interested.
Contempt for your users always ends well.
I didn't stop reading, but it feels like too high (for lowest tier).

I think there should at least be a FREE tier which allows 1 or 2 forms. Once someone sees the value, they'll jump for more.

I understand that textual data is light, but 250MB seems quite low given current costs of hard drive storage.

Why the user limit too? Your costs seem to be in data transfer/storage.
All basics and free tools SEO experts should use in their everyday job
his presentation provides some basic and free tools to help SEO experts in their everyday job.

It could also help people coming to SEO to find great tools used by SEO experts.
Well, in all fairness, Google does offer free text messages in Android via Google Voice.
I generally agree with you, but I just want to point out that Toronto's housing market is anything but depressed right now. Houses are regularly selling for a few 100K above list price. See for instance http://fmlistings.tumblr.com/.
Have you considered using protocols and records to achieve a similar result? e.g.

(GET "/todo" []
example.model.Todo{:items []})

This would separate your data structure from its representation.

You could then use middleware to convert it into the format the user requests.
Yes college was more affordable and for many it is unaffordable today. Young people and parents need to seriously consider forgoing college entirely, that will be the only thing that will force the price down. These parents and students freely choose to pay these absurd tuition fees. Until you stop paying them, they will keep raising them.

Cars in 1984 are not comparable to cars in 2012. There are many emissions and safety requirements on modern cars that have forced the price up. Also the reliability and quality of most modern cars far exceeds 1984 models. Most young people would not want anything like a 1984 car. Ford Pintos were cheap, problem is they exploded when they were rear ended.

Housing is expensive, but it depends where you choose to live. Hip areas have always been expensive. Toronto wasn't hip in 1984 and nor was silicon valley. In Mpls I rented a decent 2 bedroom apartment in 1986 for $550 per month, the same apartment today rents for $850. if you want to live near the "cool" people it will cost you.
"Most of the apps in our library is free" should be "Most of the apps in our library are free".
Compare to http://quickbase.intuit.com/online-database/plans-and-pricin... : starting at only $299/month for up to 10 people, for up to 25k records (converted into size actually, so upload one big field to kill 10% of that quota).

I guess it depends on which kind of business are they after.
can you email me at 610198@gmail.com? I am not able to find your email.

thanks
-Zeeshan
The water is out in space, a place we used to think of as
desolate and desert dry, but it's turning out to be pretty
lush.

Why did "we" (who?) think this? Hydrogen is everywhere, oxygen is common, they bind easily, there must be quite a lot of water out there. Although 28 galaxies' worth of water all in one place is still impressive.
If only the pronunciations were the same.
Funny, at the time of the article GotoBLAS was about to be opensourced, it since not only happened but went unmaintained.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/gotoblas2
Someone has to take this market. It's a mess. I've got a Boxee, XMBC, previous has Windows Media Center and various other Windows based MCE's. I've looked at Wii, XBox, PS3, XStreamer and a dozen other products and found them wanting. I've followed YouView, Google TV and Apple TV with interest and mounting disappointment over the lack of progress. My wallet is out for the first product that does a good job at this.

I think it's the content producers that are mainly to blame for killing this sector.

My Boxee has BBC iPlayer, my Wii has Netflix and I'd need to buy something else if I wanted LoveFilm. Many video sites have stopped working on Boxee as they require a version of Flash that isn't available for the Linux version that Boxee uses and they don't have any alternative delivery mechanism. LoveFilm switched to Silverlight to get the DRM strong enough to win over some of their content suppliers.

It's crazy that I can't switch on a device that allows me to pay to stream any film produced in the last 20 years, view the free-to-air programmes that I can already watch on my TV set and play my local media collection with a half-decent 10-foot interface.
There's no excuse now, though. A top ten app on the store is MotionX Drive, there are even apps by Navigon and TomTom out there too. Google could come along and eat all of their collective lunches if they'd just do it.
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An open-source life-support device need not necessarily be reprogrammable by the consumer.
The page says its portable across a few processors. I'm curious if there is much that is portable or if each one has to be optimized separately. I'm also curious how long code like this lasts. If the chip vendor changes their underlying architecture does the code have to be rewritten (for speed, ot correctness)?
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Apple invents "The Telescreen: for the rest of us."

(I've already got a laptop with microphone and camera in my living room ... )
I was thinking more the junk drawer (you know, that one drawer that winds up as the catch all storage location).

As much as I hate that drawer in my house, I really do like Emacs. Outside of my operating system, it is the piece of software I've spent the most time in front of, and that adds up to a not insignificant percentage.
I am not sure I understand - Microsoft was blasted because it destroyed the commercial browser market by offering a superior product for free?

No.

Microsoft was blasted because you had no choice in the matter, even if you wanted to use a different browser than IE, there was no way to make anything but IE behave well with the rest of the OS.
Yes, it seems unlikely one would consider Mr. Goto harmful.
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Not at all. I'm quite aware of the US having similar export restrictions of technology (esp. cryptography) in place for the same reasons China will not share this military-grade technology with others. Hence my Cold War mention.
In terms of countries (based on the IP address of the spammer):

#1 USA (30%)

#2 China (20%)

#3 Russia (6%)

#4 Brazil (4%)
The big problem with software embedded in hardware is accountability. Today, if your car crash, it could be human error, or a software error. Yet, accountability has not moved with the times, and only the human error is looked at. Fix accountability for the software and I for one will treat it as the same as the hardware.
By begging for more donations, just like last time they burned through what was it, $100K, without anything substantial to show for it?
The Next Digital Revolution in Education? Grading.
It would be nice for them to have written in the contract to open source their product if they go out of business and are not purchased are liquidated by another company.
I too spent a lot of time utilizing DabbleDB unique tool-set and have yet to get back to the level of productivity after they went under.
It sounds like this is exactly what the author wants. Given this is the kind of thing that is much harder to implement on Android than iDevices (due to the large number of different screen technologies) it wouldn't be a difficult thing to add the the OS. That having been said, I don't expect to see it (on a non-jailbroken device) any time soon.
Yeah, I agree with this. I've been asked a similar problem to the gas pump one and a brain teaser one as well. The goal for them is to be able to get a better feel for how you deal with the problems, not necessarily the solutions that you come up and how accurate they are.
Being a dick to an interviewer (as basically suggested in comments above) is great if you like being unemployed.
Funny, because Windows uses reference counting on the Kernel.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963901
No, they still can't because it reproduces functionality of the OS. They could provide just navigation, but if they ported the Google Maps app to iOS, it's very likely that it will be rejected for the same reason that a port of Chrome would.
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Yup, was going to order one as well. What I wanted was one GNU Emacs one for the office, and one GNU Screen one for working from home!
Not that I use it, but I always thought TiddlyWiki would be good for this.
Care to expand on this view of balanced life? I thought that's what's so appealing about Ryan's post... If you've got some thoughts on how to get a better balance, that would be much appreciated, rather than simply critiquing someone else's solution (which may or may not work for everyone, but may for others)
TVs with integrated computers have never made much sense to me. How would this ever be preferable to a set-top box, which, incidentally Apple already sells? Good TVs are very expensive and people tend not to upgrade them very frequently (10+ years seems commonplace). Whereas the computer components are pretty cheap (~$100) and tend to get upgraded frequently. But few will buy a $1200 TV every two years.

If you were Apple, would you rather sell a high margin, inexpensive product or one that is low margin and very expensive?

As a counterpoint, the iMac suffers from these same issues to a lesser extent and sells very well.
Do all programmers live in a bubble like the author? I hope I don't.

- Don't mess with your own implanted medical device. Even doctors go to other doctors when they think there's a problem

- Only someone living in a bubble thinks there are any significant number of doctors who can program

From start to finish I hated the whole premise. It's one thing to say you want to screw with open source pace makers and a whole other thing to try to convince us (yourself?) it's safer.
Not only are there 4-kilobyte demos, there are also 256-byte demos.

http://dang.posterous.com/256-byte-demos

http://www.pouet.net/search.php?what=256+bytes&type=prod...