skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest using HP/Palm Luna if you want a webkit-based mobile OS. It's apparently using Qt and should be possible to run it on top of android the same as B2G. If Mozilla's work to standardize the APIs goes well the same apps should be usable on both platforms.
Not to mention it will cost a lot of money.
Hey this is a fun site to read, did not know of this. Thanks!
Samsung plans to counter attack apple
NE England is an interesting topic (I've lived here all my life), areas still are very depressed with some of the highest unemployment levels in the UK, married off to a rapid decline in our traditional industries of chemical & steel production.

Oddly we also seem to be developing one of the better tech hubs outside of London in Newcastle, so the rise of technology could see things improve.
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Pretty simple case. I walked her thru the first 2-3 levels, and she just kinda quietly disappeared into it. I then had to explain the "times one" and "x/x" rules, which only took a few seconds. Next thing I notice is she has completed at least 15 levels (if not two whole "worlds"; app may have been deleted & restored at some point). At last interaction she was puzzled that you couldn't make the swirling vortex (to wit: 0) disappear leaving an empty tray ("that's just how it is, you can't have an empty tray" "ok").

I'll keep feeding it to her and keep you appraised.
But he wasn't fired. His project was cancelled so Apple offered him to work on something else and he declined.

I don't get why the manager would want to throw him out though. A capable employee working for free sounds like every managers dream.
Given that the parent was asking for nearly exactly that (a simple script with few/if any other dependencies), a virtualenv would not be easier.

A virtualenv would certainly be proof against future environment changes, perhaps, but it would probably be more effort than necessary for simple forms.
we're waiting until we have a couple of quarters of data, but then yes, a time series is indeed in the works.
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99.99% sure they found it is good enough for me
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Just a side project to see if presenting youtube videos in a pinterest layout would be easier to consume, and to learn backbone.js. Feedback? Thoughts? Thanks, HN!
Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
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E-Books and the End of Literature
> typically

Even in the best systems, there are bugs and human operators.
Stand Up For Your Freedom To Install Free Software
B2G looks like a viable alternative to Android/iOS.

Any information on how stable/usable the B2G project is for daily use?
Really? The GN is listed as one of the supported devices on their page.

Would rather drop $350 than whatever an unlocked S2 would cost.
I didn't imply you lack imagination in general, just imagination on this particular subject.

Radiation is a separate matter. That speed is precisely where aerodynamics start to matter again, as you hit stray particles. You want your profile to be as narrow as possible, so you're hitting as few particles as possible.

Ice helps absorb the impact of such particles.

Note that Alastair Reynolds is an astronomer, so he did think this bit through somewhat.
After SOPA: A Declaration of Internet Freedom
Well, not everybody but enough in the touristy areas speaks it, but like someone pointed out to me; "for them learning English is occasionally something you do in school, how much French do you remember?". Google + patience solves those situations though.
This is a cop-out. We all "value" trivial things, and in the end, one person's trivial interests aren't any better or worse than another's. But we absolutely can judge interests as being in the class of trivial or not. The usual stuff you find in 17 magazine is easily categorized as trivial. To argue against this based on a "relative" argument is copping out of making the obvious judgement.
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Apple shells out $60 million settlement for iPad trademark in China
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A simple search seems to reveal a bunch of websites which shows different methods for committing suicide, but I can't directly see any that actually advocate suicide.
Aren't those called drones?
OK, conceded!
No, that's not what I'm saying. It's not one or the other, these constraints don't prevent the possibility that people may leave if they don't like a service and what it does, they're an additional guard against the very worst potential abuses.

I'm not saying that because company X conforms with the (very light) regulation in place that they're to be trusted, just that I see benefit in having two forms of protection in place.
I've played this - its wonderful. Soothing, quiet, a little quirky. The + expansion pack is a total disappointment but the game itself is well done, cleverly designed, and genuine fun.
While I am exited about this project, I wonder what are actually
HTML5 apps? Where will users get them (will there be some market and who will operate it), will they work online? How are they installed?
A facilities manager was the one who wanted to throw him out. They've got a very different mindset. Software & hardware managers actively aided his cause.
I also live in Eastern Europe and I've enjoyed the american experience of being fingerprinted in my attempt to get a touristic visa ...before deciding if they'll grant or deny it to me (which is before knowing if I'll ever set my foot anywhere close to their territory). Till then, the fingerprinting was something I only heard of to be something applied in the case of suspects and criminals, in law enforcement institutions.
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Someone will write a free app that introduces random data into the reading metrics.
It would be reasonable to me that the parents may designate certain things as inappropriate.

That said, I don't think they should be allowed to block e.g information on politics and religion (just as you can't cause bodily harm to your child).
Did you fall for the Google Chrome iOS smoke and mirrors?
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How many affected languages left it unfixed for a decade and counting?
Same, on all my devices. And I'm in the US.
Crypto multiplies, or even exponentiates, the effort you take to secure something vs. the effort an attacker makes to break it. But if you put 0 effort into logging in to your computer (no password, or the same simple password for every website, etc.) it will be broken easily, because 0 to the power of anything is still 0. If your computer has restricted boot, your only options are to make some effort at keeping your computer secure, or let someone else make the decision of what to run on your computer. If you're looking for convenience at the expense of security, you should push back against Secure Boot being enabled by default (which Win8 "certification" mandates).
FeeFighters killed by Groupon? The backend has been down for days
I've been trying to finalize a order since the middle of last week. Contacted support, no word back. Most of the site seems to work until you want to select a merchant account provider, then you get a 500.

Has anyone had success using FF this week? I'm not sure if this is incompetence or intentional. This is also a sad case of a company that had a great blog which has went radio silent since acquisition.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3_-Z6kZBAXnTDB5WTBlY2J4dTQ
Too many times I've heard this as an excuse to do nothing at all, that I've a hard time believing this really means what we'd think it does. Nevertheless I enjoyed the story and would like to think this is something I would have done. Which I doubt. It is my shame that I can identify better with the homeless man than MIT_Hacker.
That sounds like too much effort. I want a free instant fix dammit.
Didn't mention it originally, but applicants must be legal to work in the USA.
Nowhere in your documentation does it state that a class name cannot be accessed using the exact same, byte-for-byte identical name, depending on locale.

Case sensitivity changing depending on locale would be weird, but at least vaguely sensible. Identical strings no longer matching is just plain wrong.
They whine to the government because they want to use the internet as a childcare machine but it's got bad stuff on it. In response, the government produces something utterly ineffective and bad for liberty, that nonetheless assuages their fear that their precious little snowflake might see a nipple.

-OR-

They take responsibility for their own damn kids, and put the computer in a family room, facing into the room so they can supervise. Being a way of monitoring and/or limiting what your children view online that actually, y'know, works.
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some background: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/07/02/declarati...
That describes me very well, except I am definitely not a busy person. I just don't like doing social things -- or rather I get a sort of malaise at the thought of going to them, for exactly the reasons you describe here. I've honestly never seen it laid out this well before.

But I don't think of it as social ineptitude, only because when I commit to doing things, I can be "on" and meet people and have a great time and all that. Beforehand, however, the thought of getting into that mentality and doing all that stuff seems like "work" to me, and I just feel like I don't wanna do it.
That's kinda backwards. It's not the FSF that is pushing Secure Boot to begin with, but it is the FSF that is pushing for everybody to be able to install their Linux as easily as Windows and not only Fedora or Ubuntu users.
Thanks rushabh; That's something we've heard since we launched Friday and we'll have something like that up soon!
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Really great advice. I take too much consideration of my stats on other sites and it really shouldn't be about that unless I'm in full-on sell mode, and that isn't what most personal blogs should be.
Unmentioned insanity: the raised amount is reduced by almost a million dollars because of 8% to 9% kickstarter fees ($820k to $925k of the raised amount vanishes right off the top).

Anybody interested in my 4% fee bootstrapping site? It'll go live next month. If you want to have a project featured on it for launch day, let me know.
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This appears to not be on AWS (some UK colo company I think?) Is there a reason?
I had just written about this yesterday when my 6 year old and 8 year old finished it: http://www.educationreimagined.org/2012/06/dragon-box/. I had a couple of questions from the 6 year old, but my 8 year old son only asked for clarification once.

When he finished the game, I asked if he realized he had been doing math and he said: "I didn't use any math to solve them". I think he meant calculation. This will lead to some interesting discussions...

I would love to see games like this for more subjects.
The point of Gaikai and OnLive is to be able to play high-end games on cheap consumer hardware.

As an example, Sony's most recent Google TV STB can play games using OnLive (yes, it appears that Sony is still internally confused). Gaikai runs in a web browser, OnLive has Android and iPad clients, etc.

Sony already do a bit of this by allowing game video to be streamed from your PS3 to your PSP or Vita. Microsoft also announced something similar at E3 this year.

But more than that, Gaikai will allow players to buy top-end games which can be played on any PC or tablet without needing special hardware.
Owning a strong gaming platform seems like a good way to get a lot of cheap/free GPU cycles[1].In light of the recent google "cat" computer vision experiment, that showed us that the road to a big leap in AI might just need a lot of hardware, that's a good position to be in.

[1]Since latency is important, cloud gaming platforms serve population who live in similar time zones and users don't usually play while at work, making the platform relatively unused in working hours.
The choice to use PHP may be defensible. The PHP ecosystem may be. But I don't believe the language itself is. It's a subtle but important distinction: there are some good reasons to use PHP (although IMO more good reasons not to), but there are few or no good reasons for PHP's problems.
> The choice between leaving and being fired may have an impact on your next job, perhaps??

The impact comes not from what they tell you, it's more about what they'll tell the next company when they call to ask about you (though if the two don't match up, you run into a lot of problems).
Assuming you have GNU Make installed, go to your terminal and run `info make'. Quite a read but comprehensive.
Saying that this isn't a political challenge would be like ignoring the language that a framework is built in. Technology is a framework built on top of our society, made possible by the rules and laws (or lack thereof) of our society. It is a political challenge, because we're discussing the foundation on which the rules of our society operate.

The realm of politics is engaging in technology, so it's up to us whether or not this is a one way street or a two way street.

However, I caution anyone who advocates a one way street (the government regulating technology and technology ignoring government) -- they're going to get it wrong (either intentionally due to lobbying from competition or just incompetence), and it's going to materially affect your business.
Pretty nice intro / advocacy piece for Clojure. I have high hopes that once we're flooded with more example code people will start to see the simplicity of Clojure. Right now the reference is somewhat terse, but you can dig around GitHub quite a bit which is nice. Also, it seems that the combination of people working with contemporary problems and small and succinct generics that you wind up making in Lisps, there could be a lot of great reusable code for this language out there soon. I'm also curious about http://www.collaj.net/ ... the Redfoot project for RDF / Python seems to remind me of this... that we're not paying enough attention to the "Google / Paste / Execute" loop.
I think the ME is a bit complicated.

First, most middle easterners are white/caucasian (and classify themselves as such, even if some Americans erroneously might not), so I'm not sure race is a factor. On the other hand, I think power is a big factor. Imagine an alien (ET) race (but humanoid looking) came and took over the US (gov't). Yes, many people would be upset, many would take up arms, but on the other hand, many would assume they had something to offer (as they proved themselves superior militarily). Two, I don't think it's only white Americans they would indulge with this assumption, but rather, any American --not to say they exhibit no racism.

In China, yes, whites are used for company brochures and faces on web presences --but that's token. White guys (and actually, more white girls) are paid pretty low to have their images used for marketing reasons (to appear more international). Conversely, female white-slaves (trafficked peoples from E Europe) do get paid okay, I suppose, vis a vis locals. In most of E Asia, it's Japan that's looked up to and emulated, not so much the US or Europe --altho they are, just less so.

In Africa where China has a large presence and investments, likewise, China is held up to be superior (this also has generated some backlash in those places).
And, that's the point. The poster in the story realizes the privilege of his life and gains insight into the life of others. You really expect him, at 19, to understand homeless people when there is so often a sensationalized stereotype.

About his username, it is absurd that you cannot admit to going to a good school without being pretentious. The classic example is how Harvard students say where they go to school, "in Boston". Hiding information about your successes because they might impress people is much more pretentious than making a username "MIT_Hacker".

Think before you attack people.
Guild Wars, Amazing game for Mac/Linux.
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That is not normal behavior. Have you tried disabling addons to see if that may be the problem? Otherwise I'd suggest trying a new profile (if you've been using Firefox for a long time. Firefox Sync can help you keep your settings as you migrate to a new profile.)
The whole point of the article is that this membrane has about 1000x higher flow rate than RO filters.
Battle.net server emulator created for Diablo 3 offline play (beta)
I like the idea. I just hope they can get some more convincing hardware partners on board.
> ...badly designed...

> ...and has a million bugs...

> ...cannot be fixed...

> Pestering a language like that is only fair.

> ...who has yet to take that dark path

Wow that's a lot of emotive language. Like the man said, witch hunt.
"So even if you think the mandatory filters are a good idea, the question has to be whether these filters are worthwhile"

People who think the mandatory filters are a good idea don't really "think" in the common sense of this word.

They move on. Yesterday they were furiously pro-filters when asked by media, but today they moved on. They don't remember a thing about the idea. They don't care. You can ever persuade them that filtering in this shape is bad.

But: they'll move on again. And tomorrow they won't remember a word of your explanations. The media baited them once more and once again they will vote "with their hearts". They aren't exactly the caring-about-the-end-result kind.
Immigration and quick assimilation are both very american. America is a settler nation, we define ourselves by where we came from, and are proud about it. The second generation of immigrants growing up in america will have little to relate to from their parents culture and will be more aligned with american values. I have an immense number of friends who's parents are not from america and when they visit their country of origin they are like a fish out of water, unable to relate. So yes, a black guy from boston, the son of a mexican immigrant, and a redneck from florida are more alike than you or they realize. It's when americans meet other americans while travelling outside the US that this becomes very apparent.
Take a relatively non-complex but not too trivial project that you did in PHP. Do it in Rails and Django both. See how it feels and then you can possibly decide.
I only work with Python but was not sure between Django and micro-framework such as Flask. I did a User Management/sign-up application using both and found Flask to be the right fit for me.
Thanks. We are already tracking user country. I like the idea of tracking users action. We will look into implementing some audit trails.
I'm not sure why you don't think it's caching. They are doing more than just sending the whole page over a preferenced connection.
Cracking contest
ctk - cracking the key

Um was geht es?

Ich werde einen 4-way Handshake meines AP hier online stellen. Ziel ist es natürlich den Key zu knacken ;)
Dem ersten, der mir das Passwort schickt werde ich per Paypal 20 € schicken. Warum mache ich das?

Ich möchte herausfinden ob mein Kennwort in irgendeiner Wordlist steht und auch wissen wie lange das Ganze dauern wird. Und natürlich eine kurze Beschreibung wie ihr den Key geknackt habt.

Um euch eine kleine Hilfstellung zu geben, wird der Key zwichen 14 und 16 Zeichen lang sein. Ich hoffe auf eine rege Beteiligung :)
He does write this:

Most employees in this situation will ask for reasons. Have them lined up in advance and be clear and crisp when describing the reasons. The reasons for a split do not have to be the employee's fault. They can, and often are, the company's fault. In startups, employees are almost always at will and it is the CEO's right to ask anyone to leave the company for any reason. So just be as honest as possible, be clear and crisp about the reasons, and don't turn this into a long involved discussion.
This example is missing the corresponding Clojure code, which is important for Java interop:

object.method(arg) // Java

(.method object arg) ; Clojure

I'm not sure if focusing on syntax and succinctness is such a great approach though. When I've discussed Clojure with colleagues familiar with Java, they've been more interested in the concurrency support via immutable data structures and reference types, which really sets Clojure apart from other Lisps. I think it's a much more compelling sell that way, since Java programmers seem to be attached to Java's syntax and static typing, but are aware of how difficult it is to write correct concurrent code. YMMV of course.
I find these guys extremely likable. Its obvious that they're aware Jon is upset and they're toying with him. They are challenging his desire to use flimsy social media to represent himself. They also challenge his right own his online identity. I feel that their attitudes are warranted.

I don't feel as though these three are merry pranksters just out for a laugh. It's obvious that something about their work kind of rubs us the wrong way. It devalues our online representations, and that's precisely what they're after. They don't glorify their algorithms. Doesn't it sting a little that their simple web bots can emulate a human fairly accurately? Doesn't it really suck when this online persona steps on our toes? Is there no way to tell the public who the real me is without makings lots of videos, online profiles, status updates and tweets.

It's all a little trivial and those three make it obvious.
Its a bit unfair to purely project the behavior of his party as a whole on Malte Spitz.

As we are lacking other people that have the guts, the resources and the contacts to make this visualization happen, I am absolutely happy with him going all the way. It is one of the best pieces to show "normal people" how much can be done with all the data companies gather about them.
you can absolutely expect that. the best we can hope for is that their junk will be easy to rip out of the phones.
My favorite part: And you think they're going to travel millions of years to get to a planet they can't even vacation on or enjoy...
I'm pretty sure this is actually the 2nd or 3rd time this one's been on HN.
It's like the guy in the center is so wrapped up in programming bots that he's taken on robot-like qualities himself (lack of empathy, can't understand emotions). Positions or arguments that would make sense to me, to him are "weird" or "psychologically interesting".

The counter-argument Mr. Ronson could have presented would be: "well if someone goes on twitter, and intends to follow me and they end up following your jon_ronson bot instead, that is fundamentally dishonest to both me (the real Jon Ronson) and the follower".
Tizen also uses HTML5 for applications: https://developer.tizen.org/resources/sample-web-application...
That's a good point. In effect, if we look at this from the perspective of the OSI model, you're saying that whereas the application layer may contain encrypted data the lower layers may contain structured data. So the logical question that follows: is there any reason to believe aliens might use encryption all the way down to the data link layer? Maybe our neighbours are all at war and need to disguise and protect signals from each other?

Have you read ithkuil's comment? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4188160