skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Revealed: TrapWire spy cams' ticket to Australia
This makes for a good start: http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript:-The-C...
For a one-time investment of $75k, you too can become a citizen of Dominica and offshore your funds... taxfree!

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How about third possibility: they will think that your company has a crappy attitude and hiring policy and move out?
Very interesting perspective

(Disclaimer: I dropped out, with a little help from my advisor)

I guess it all depends on a lot of things. If you enjoy what you are doing, and have a nice environment, go for it.

But dropping out was something I'm very glad I did. And I learned a lot outside of Academia. (and the money is good as well)
Long time Linux desktop user. After using ArchLinux for just over six months with Xfce, I recently switched to Debian Squeeze. I'm so glad that Xfce will be the default DE. Its simple and gets the job done.
Here in Ukraine people write their PhD thesis and work in IT industry because scientist salary is extra low (300$) and average salary in industry is about 1500$+

I found the same situation with PhD status as this article highlights. Degree means nothing here. Really nothing. The only thing which matters are results of your work. PhD should be better in analysis, problem solving etc.
Hmmm, yup, that's definately a hard problem. I live in Paris (9 years!), and I still couldn't get a 100% score (91% if anyone is interested)

In terms of architectural style, Paris has got to be one of the most unified cities in the world, and even so there is a wide range of architecture possible, ranging from the classical Haussmanian apartment buildings, to Le Corbusier inspired art-deco. Whilst some of those styles are unique to Paris (the Haussmanian apartments in particular), many are fairly standard the world over, which means that unless you can see the street signs / parking metres / hous numbers / street lamps etc that are all uniquely parisian, you aren't going to be able to tell where a photo was taken. Still, it will be interesting to see if their software manages to pick up on things that I don't: maybe the width of sidewalks, or the hight of the first floor of an apartment building, or somthing along those lines can be used to distinguish cities, but I don't pay enough attention to see it.
Yes it is Paris. You can tell be the street sign to the left on the fence.
The iPhone Has Passed a Key Security Threshold
This is the third time this has been featured on the front page of HN. Not that I'm complaining, its a neat pile of Javascript.
The implication here is that the kind of manufacturing work that helped lift China out of poverty may never migrate to the rest of the world's developing nations.

It may turn out that the time window in which a developing country could ride the outsourcing train to prosperity was actually only a few decades wide.
I'd attribute that fiasco to management, not necessary the unfortunate employees forced to implement such a terrible idea.
We conceived of something like this for the web a couple years ago, as part of a much much larger picture:

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120110469#b

In our formulation, the salt was simply (a function of) your username.

But yeah, we couldn't find a way to crack it, either.
To be blunt, I believe this is a cruel statement. What you are saying is that someone who is starving shouldn't be saved because they will grown into an adult who will have children.

You then suggest that looking at the causes of population explosions should be investigated and resolved, and therefore until this is fixed then children should starve.

A cruel sort of logic indeed.
(b) I can't, nor do I try to control the flow or location of commenting on anything, let alone a particular subject.

(a) If it's appropriate that two or more discussions for a major topic take place, that will be determined by the community as a whole.

I don't force the discussions to happen in only one place, I just point out that other discussions exist. I don't control anything here.

> As for reposting duplicate links, again,
> that is an issue that will be solved only
> with better software.

Which won't happen, and in turn is why I point out when it happens so that people are better informed.

Your response is starting to intrigue me. Is it simply that you are disappointed to find that your first ever submission was not unique, and had already been discussed elsewhere?
The first link has a lot of things but I think main content is distilled here:
http://publicintelligence.net/binney-nsa-declaration/
Where Binney says that NSA has capability to intercept electronic communications and he suspects it is doing so without privacy guards. He however does not say anything about existence of personal dossiers on every US citizen. He also makes some estimates of new (not yet existing) NSA data storage capacity, and deduces this amount of storage may only be needed if NSA plans to capture and store all traffic without filtering. However, this system does not actually exist as of yet, and his estimates are based on "some reports" and are hard to verify. While of course extreme suspicion may be prudent in every case where a lot of taxpayer dollars is spent on building new surveillance infrastructure by an agency that has had proven its disregard for privacy, it alone does not prove current existence of the program as described above.

The second link describes the program which was explicitly made to exclude US citizens, but after 9/11 they used also data on US citizens provided by telecoms, such as AT&T - namely billing data (i.e. who talked to whom). I see no mention on them having access to location data or internet traffic, or them doing it for every US citizen. Binney was understandably outraged about warrantless surveillance on US citizens and had quit, however he neither proves not implies there's a systematic program of the extent mentioned above (i.e. personal dossier on communications, location, etc. of every person in US), unless I have missed something there.
I think somewhere between 30 and 40.
Has anyone suceeded in running it in any browser on any smartphone? It seems to fail on Windows Phone's IE. However, it works perfectly in few desktop browsers (including IE9), I've tried.

Anyway it seemes, that gameboy game format could be used as some kind of lightweight format for cross-platform browser games. It could enable publishing small browser games without giving away js sources or using third-party plug-ins.
If you're interested in making more money with iOS apps, hit me up at stanley at sysil dot com, and I'd love to chat with you privately.
For me the things on the list are not what would expand my comfort zone - because they're things that are outside of normal routine, and therefore are just "crazy adventures" - which I love to do.

More scary for me are the mundane things - like sending back food I'm not happy with, asking for a raise, or trying to speak my embarrassing version of the local language.

It's funny that to think you could be far more at ease lost and hungry in a strange land than asking for a dinner reservation at a fancy restaurant.
Basically, if you use a 8-12 digit numeric passcode (random), and an iPhone 4S or iPad 2/3, your data will be safe from cold boot attacks for between 4 months and 3000 years. You still may suffer from legal or extralegal compulsion to turn over a passcode to unlock the device, evil maid type attacks, (or unpublished backdoors or vulnerabilities, or hardware attacks on the security processor, but these are beyond local law enforcement and probably sufficiently sensitive that only intelligence agencies would use them, and only when an alternate source could be plausible).

That's about the most secure computing device in default configuration ever shipped. Pretty amazing. The only reason forensics can generally work on iPhones today is that 4 digit numeric passcodes are the default, and "delete on 10 tries" doesn't get enforced correctly on current generation hardware. If they fix that on the iPhone 5, then 4 digit passcodes become reasonable.
Well it's pretty obvious - they want products like Maya, Modo (already has it), SoftImage, ZBrush, Houdini to include this in the future, and they're not going to include GPL stuff in commercial products. LGPL might have been an option though...
Pretty thorough overview of one of the issues that befall Apps that have had time to live and mature, and as they tend - have been informed by a slew of changing factors.

Less can be more, if that results in whats left having the opportunity to become that much better.

I would say though that the 'teaser' at the end: "We will be removing some other features in the near future, we will always inform people as much as possible." either runs contrary to the rest of the article or embodies an approach that wasn't touched on in it.
Somebody said "It's not by looking at improving the candles that we would have discovered electricity.". Like fundamental research, a lot of people are having a hard time to understand that it is a long term investment.
I wonder what you would say if you were that starving child? Would you feel it is best to just die from lack of food because of the long term benefits of doing so?
Interesting, I'm curious if they have looked into CompCert, and if so what they think of it. Maybe it doesn't target the architecture they want. There is also vellvm which seems like something a space mission would care about. Although, I've never heard of a gcc compiler bug being the cause of a NASA mission failure so perhaps gcc is Good Enough?
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That question presupposes that the only people it is worthwhile to save from starvation is the one who grows up to make a large impact on their country. It's the sort of logic that I find very dangerous.
Got myself a Motorola Triumph last year, returned it within a week. The most awful Android phone I ever used. Nonexistent battery, missed taps (almost every 10 taps or so), GPS took about a minute or longer to latch on. Went back to a 3 year old Optimus V, slow as hell, but at least it works as intended.

Not buying a Motorola phone until there's major indication that they got their stuff together.
Big moment for us to find ourselves on Hacker News, we're huge fans :-) We looked a lot at the YC model for guidance when setting up the Seeqnce Accelerator Program.

If anyone would like any direct input on the above story from the guys who are in the middle of it (I'm a Seeqnce Program Director), I'm always on HN.

Cheers,
Mackram Raydan
@imagimate
seeqnce.com
Truly agree about the battery life. It the one thing that defines a mobile device, be it a phone, a pocket calculator, a language translator etc. Motorola would need to improve it by a couple orders of magnitude for it become a game changer. Imagine having a mobile phone that only needs to be charged once a fortnight!
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I'm really happy to see more and more backend developers discover the joy of frontend programming!

As for the main point, I agree that JS stdlib is almost non-existing and can't be relied on. Libraries like underscore.js or sugarj.js fill the gap and compete for the community-stdlib.

Good post!
Ask HN: Wikileaks is available from Tor. Who's blocking it?
EDIT: Doesn't look like US ISP's (TimeWarner & Comcast) are blocking. Problems seem to arise at Swedish IPs (seems consistent with DDoS). Anyone have any idea why Tor and some VPN still get through?

It looks like the DDoS isn't the main culprit here. I assume that if the site is available from Tor, then someone must be blocking the site.

Can ISP's block Wikileaks? What is their justification if so?
I can understand your point, we are not trying to relay any particular information here, I am stating that the Assembla users should be ready for upcoming articles that convey much more information about removal.
After all, it was just a "teaser" - I really appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks.
Not true. While not as widely known, it was still causing concern amongst scientists. Wikipedia is particularly helpful here: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scien...
clang doesn't outperform gcc on most projects I work on or that speed increase is not significant. I run quite a lot of test-suites - maybe I should try to measure them and provide some real numbers for reference instead of hand-wave myself through this argument.

If I where to provide extensions points to my C++ project they would certainly contain templates and that would also mean that they would require significant compilation time (compared to what you would expect). Even if I didn't, a single header that pulls in a huge preprocessor library could ruin speed. I'm inclined to believe you if we are talking about a Qt-style C++, but that is only a subset of possible code. I would be happy to be proven wrong, too.
Works fine (not at full frame rate, but playable) on an iPad 3. No sound of course. The Audio APIs still aren't just there yet for dynamically generated audio.
The common interpretation is that Ms-PL is intentional designed to work like BSD, but to forbid code to be put under other free and open source licenses.

Ms-PL allows you to distribute derived works freely under any license but only if it is in binary form. If you distribute code in source form, then the license change style and requires that all code to be under the Ms-PL, and only under the Ms-PL. Since practically all free and open source project distribute code in source format, this makes code under Ms-PL incompatible with most projects.
> - serum cholesterol is bad for you (truth: it's a marker, not a cause. apparently, the body makes more of it in an attempt to solve other problems, which will manifest faster if you use statins to reduce cholesterol)

That's an interesting (and good) point - if it's (mostly) a marker, actively reducing it without addressing the root cause makes no sense as a strategy. But the probability remains that a high reading indicates underlying problems. The uncertainty lies in whether it's only HDL or LDL that's a negative indicator, or the ratio of HDL to LDL, or a particular subtype, etc. My previous reading of bloggers on this topic only left me more confused.

> - butter is bad for you. (truth: some is bad, some is good. butter is so ill-defined to make general statements useless. grass-fed organic european style butter is good for you)

I guess it would be easier if it was specified that "high sat-fat butter" is bad for you, or the like. I don't know about the composition or nutritional analysis of grass-fed organic euro-style butter, but I do think it still makes sense to regard saturated fats with suspicion, at least under current studies. Do you have any studies to share on this?

> - weight change is equal to c*(calories in - calories out). (truth: only in the tautologically useless sense. generally wrong the way 99% of the people apply it. nutrition science is anything but)

I've been wondering if the composition of macronutrients affects the metabolic rate significantly, resulting in increased calories-out. Or if macronutrients are somehow wasted as excess heat, or excreted only half-used. That would clarify the apparent conflict, in my mind.

> I'm looking for a rigorous study that shows toothpasts are helpful (indeed, that brushing is helpful). Some studies by Weston Price (and his successors) imply that cavities correlate with grain and sugar consumption, and that brushing is not helpful against cavities if the diet is bad.

Not heard anything about this, but such studies would be interesting to read. I've heard doubts and disparagement expressed about the advice given on the Weston Price foundation's website (not about the views of the man himself), though.
Why submit this? Just submit http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok, or at least add some commentary.
Wasn't planning on it, was just wondering whether uncut H would have those effects or not. If not, then if anything it's an argument in favour of regulation.
"Games aren't thriving on Android"

Is that it? Not even a single example to back it up? Sounds like someone who doesn't even own an Android device.
People will occasionally hint at this. The impression I got is that startups often interview for high technical skills and hope that the brief interaction during the meetings gave them sufficient insight into the person's personality and culture fits.

Supposedly, it often happens that a few months down the line you realize that a lot of expectations and quirks weren't properly discussed and you get into sticky situations.
Reminds me somewhat of bobbin lace - which is an abstract version of this, with the nails removed after the thread is distributed, and made with multiple threads rather than a single one. (And the thread is usually white, rather than black).
The Algorithm That Runs The World
The angry birds never seemed struggling to me. They seem determined and aggressive to me, the furthest from the tiny wings bird you can get. Plus the art style is completely different, I wouldn’t ever get the idea to call angry birds adorable.
Oh man, I was about to take you up on that challenge ... but .fm domains are stupidly expensive.
You don't get. That's the problem: free food does not solve the starving child problem. It just creates more starving children.
This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_MDR-V6

Best headphones price-quality, hands down. Got them because a recomendation from a friend. Best recomendation ever made.

Even headphones in the multiple hundreds can´t compare to them at 60$. I actually bought a spare one ;)
The main reason for this is probably due to the fact that within the last three years, the artists at Pixar have wanted to start using off-the-shelf software for modelling, texturing, animating and compositing, instead of in-house tools as previously.

So now they're using Maya, Modo, Mari and Nuke internally, and these apps need to have support for subd to match what PRMan will output.
I wouldn't describe it as thriving, however...

> First, there isn't a thriving Android game market, currently. That can change and I'm not going to offer a prediction, but for now it doesn't exist. Moving on.

"It doesn't exist" really does make the author sound like they haven't used an Android device in the last 3 years.
I think it's a fine question.

My thought process is roughly "Okay. Which language? Is it null-terminated, random addressable, or mutable? Do I get compiler errors or unit tests? Should I buffer manually? Do I have a signature? Can I assume single-width characters? Should I ask?"

caveat: The question needs to be asked right. Instead of "here's a task I need you to perform", it should be "can you walk me through how you would solve a task like this?".
Out of order, 1 MB of cache. I'm not too familiar with the GPU. Xbox360 most likely has higher performance, and this is why I was hoping they'd use as "beefed up" (no regard for power consumption) Tegra 4 instead of a beefed up Tegra 3.

Not sure what DirectX version Xbox is using but I know PS3 graphics are usually considered higher quality, and they're only using a slightly modified version of OpenGL ES 2.0, which is what Tegra 3 supports, too. Tegra 4 will support GLES 3.0, and they might surprise us with support for the full OpenGL 4.3, too, especially if built with Kepler DNA, but I'd say the chances are less than 50% for that.

But anyway, I think the comparisons with Xbox are rather pointless and people who do it "don't get it". Does the Wii really need to be compared with Xbox in performance? It seems millions of people bought it anyway.
I suspect they could have easily found a more FOSS-friendly license which achieves their goals. The exact license depending on the exact goals, but presuming the "normal" GNU GPL isn't appropriate, the GNU LGPL or BSD/MIT licenses might be possibilities.

The Ms-PL, on the other hand, seems to be a license which is gratuitously incompatible with the GPL, simply to be incompatible.

I've seen projects where the README essentially stated "We hate the FSF, so we're using this roughly equivalent and yet incompatible copyleft license to piss them off," but I don't think Pixar are jerks, so I'll put this choice down to simple ignorance.
> The current published sales record for XBLA was, oddly enough, Minecraft, which sold over a million units in a week. If I'm an indie looking to make money with a good game, that blows any Ouya potential out of the water.

You can't pick the biggest success for XBLA and use that as the only comparison point. Yes, Ouya won't be your console of choice if you are a AAA developer, or an indie developer with the kind of clout that notch has. But if you are an actually small-time dev, it'll be a lot easier to get onto Ouya and make a modest amount of money than it would be to get onto XBLA.
No -- this is how they weeded out prima donnas.
I understand papaver's statement is contrary to the article's assertion that the majority of heroin users are able to use in moderation.

My response is challenging the implicit assumption in the article (and in your reply) that the moderate use of heroin is worthwhile in light of the real risks that are entailed in that use. In other words, is the high really worth the chance of becoming dependent and/or possibly dying from overdose? At what point does that risk become so suboptimal that deciding to go forward with a decision to use for the first time (when the individual cannot know for certain how he or she will react) is considered folly?

And I would try to edit that long sentence, but I cannot figure out a way to break it up without losing the intent. If only there were some symbols I could use to express the same thing mathematically in a way that would be more easily understood . . .
Worth noting that your 14 dollars varies widely by location. Here in the UK most brands are between $10 and $11, in Germany it's more like $6, and in countries like China, Egypt, Greece (or indeed on a flight between UK and USA) they can cost $3 or less. Even within America prices vary greatly, for example I think $10 is a pretty typical price in Chicago.
Not to mention the demand!
Born and lived in Paris 23 years. Score 90% on the test.

Paris is a mish mash of styles that was pushed into the heavily predefined "Haussman" style which too many idiotic Parisians try to preserve. There are specific cues you can look for: building numbers, park meters, road signs, street lights, trees, post boxes, metro entrances, intersection styles, colors, window styles, roof styles, cars, doorways, construction, trash cans, lighting, street lamps, even the style of graffitis depending on the era.

I'm actually surprised I managed to get such a high score, but I think this test is skewed by having a default answer. I feel like a great majority of the photos presented are from Paris, too. And that seems like poor methodology since you can discover a certain coherence from the quantity.

I've been living outside of Paris for the last 3 years and the more I see images of it, the more I realize why foreigners think it's so special. It's just so different from anything else out there.

That said, I see almost as much conformity and repetition in Paris as I do in the cloned strip malls of suburban America.
I don't think pure heroin has those side effects, intense constipation is the worst. (although that can be very bad)
AAA titles? This device is about "disruption". By default that means it won't get the very best games out there, but that's irrelevant. Did iOS have AAA title games in the first few years? Can you even say it does now? And does it matter that it doesn't? Because I don't see it.
Can you give a little more context?

Wikileaks.org loads just fine using my standard ISP here in Germany. I once worked for a project that scraped WL periodically for content, so I can tell you from experience that Wikileaks uptime is not exactly stellar - that's why they have a million mirror sites.
How a total Amnesiac used FB to Piece together the first 26 years of his life