skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe. took me a few minutes but honestly it got in a number of peoples' ways the first time they saw openbsd's installed way back in the day, and they were no dummies. this is ~1999 mind you, i have no idea since about 2004 what openbsd has been like to install.
Reason #2: no viable alternatives. We don't have a decent passenger rail system in the U.S. and our population centers are hours|days apart by automobile.
Pre MS buyout:

GoldenEye 64, Blast Corps, Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Banjo-Kazooie, and Perfect Dark.

After MS buyout?
Can you elaborate on why you think it's currently a second-class citizen?
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How is it legal for companies like this to sell these exploits? Aren't they only useful for destructive (and likely illegal) purposes? If they were actually about protecting their customers wouldn't they sell mitigation steps and home-grown patches instead of ready-made exploit kits?

I don't understand the exploit market very well, so maybe I'm missing something obvious here?
> I don't have that same sense of enthusiasm because for me everything isn't new.

I agree. I think one of the reasons why people in 30s seem to be more "close-minded" to new ideas is because they already have a decade of experience of the (then) fresh new stuff. This is especially true for the IT world.

Let's face it, we are reinventing the wheel in every 5 years. Just look at how frameworks and programming languages go in and out of fashion. You may say "oh man, not again!" when an enthusiastic young programmer tells you how great node.js is - which may be true, but in your open-minded 20s you already learnt Erlang, Twisted, EventMachine and Java NIO for the very same thing.

I'm not yet 30, but I already feel that I am becoming more conservative. I have seen a lot of "hot stuff" come and go, so I try to learn from technologies that seem to persist. Look at C, this old monster: it survived its creator, and for a reason. Now look at YUI or ExtJS: they were so "hot" around 2007, and I haven't even heard them mentioning for a long time. When somebody says that framework/language X is so great and "hot", I am a bit more careful now that 5 years ago: will it be around in 2 years? If not, does it worth even bothering?

Is this closed-mindness or wisdom? Very hard to tell. I am trying to be open-minded in a sense that I try to look and evaluate everything new, but I'm sure that I say "no" to much more things than 5 years before. I wonder how I would see myself in the eye of my 5 year-old younger me.
I hope you are joking
30 minutes for a 150 mile charge.
Interesting to see two of the four rows devoted to managers.
I suspect this isn't a full server restart, and is more just the app reclaiming memory from per-user data, like a session expiring.
@waldr

I am trying to build a marketplace. The quarter baked prototype is live, the site is just the skeleton of what it suppose to be.

In terms of the engagement,
last 12 months analytics:
site is getting up to 600 uniques per day,
average 4 page views/user
visit duration/user 3 mins
nearly 5000 emails on the database

And this figures are without any marketing. I haven't been marketing the site because it is not ready.

Yah completely agree that point 3 isn't viable.

@hoodoof

I wish if I were a coder
It may even be more practical than hinted at in the article. You have to get massive support (either from industry or special interests) for legislation to happen in any way.

Industry - Google, Apple, Microsoft, and others would probably be in favor of something like this, because it would promote more development on their systems if developers feel completely safe from patent trolls. It would also be seen as a good publicity move from any of these companies.
I would love some simple conditional programmability. One of my cards gets 5% back on a rotating set of categories. This month is gas and groceries. Another card gets 3% back year-round. A simple filter would be awesome.
This is like an entire site dedicated to this very question. Very cool.
He's no saint, but is commonly dismissed due to committing the cardinal sin of pointing out truths make people uncomfortable.
How do you know it has crossed slowness threshold to prompt restart ?

I check HN couple of times a day and I have not felt any performance difference.
I think gas and electric are not mutually exclusive.

It's clear that today's EVs have drawbacks, but many of those drawbacks are non-issues for a lot of consumers out there already. As the technology and infrastructure improve, people will switch.

Subconsciously, most of us feel electric is the way to go. There's just something right about it, maybe because all top consumer technology in the 21st century has a battery inside. Or simply because electricity has been the force driving change in society the last 150 years.

For a long time to come we'll depend on fuel, for hybrids and traditional cars, be it a jeep in the middle of the Amazon or John Doe's, who loves the sound of his V8 Mustang in the morning.
Because trolls are the best way to make people laugh.
If they take any cues from voice, you should get your wish as far as simple filters. Of course, it would be great if you could script your payments in a way that really optimized your credit and rewards.
Thing is, though, I think it's fairly safe to say that the main compiler "vendors" are Microsoft, GCC, and Apple to some extent. The vast majority of software is produced either using Visual Studio, gcc, or Apple's version of gcc, or clang.

Visual Studio is (sadly) the gold standard on Windows. It may not be free, but companies (including startups) will pay for it if they need it. GCC is of course free, as is clang. You'd be foolish to pay for a toolchain unless you have very specific needs. So what other compiler vendors that make money off their toolchains are actually relevant for all but niche uses? I'd guess that their aren't any, but I can't claim to have comprehensive knowledge of everyone's toolchain needs.
Thanks, good suggestions. We just have the current "teaser" trailer we used to announce, but now we're out, we'd definitely benefit from a more straight up gameplay-oriented trailer.
Why doesn't eBay provide better ways for buyers to increase the belief of sellers that they will follow-thru on their obligations? I'm thinking of something along the lines of "earnest money" requirements common for real estate transactions. Could eBay require buyers to put 10% of their maximum bid in escrow via Paypal? If a buyer flaked out, he would lose his 10% to the seller as compensation for the time wasted. To implement such a scheme, eBay could at first offer sellers the opportunity to discount items won by buyers who made escrow deposits. Those buyers who didn't want to play along could bid as they do today albeit at an economic disadvantage. Eventually, eBay could allow sellers to require escrow. Even as a buyer, I would be happier if escrow was required because I would be less worried about shill bidders and others who run-up prices with no intention of paying. Of course, this scheme requires that all parties trust eBay/Paypal to act responsibly -- something the comments in this thread suggest is far from a given.
As Apple increasingly moves to their own chips (A4, A5, A5X, A6, A6x), I wouldn't be surprised if the bulk of this additional spending were going to SoC design. Keeping pace with Intel's ~6.5B R&D budget can't be cheap.

In any case, this isn't really news, or even good reporting. Look at the rest of the financial statements: SG&A and R&D expenses have actually decreased as a percentage of net sales over the last two years. Apple is big, so the absolute numbers are impressive: but percentage-wise, this isn't even a blip. TFA is cherry-picking numbers and sensationalizing for page views.

See: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AAPL/2149923444x0x444...
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Re-programmable physical Google Wallet credit card coming soon
Shen seems pretty cool, but there are lots of other things out there that are also cool. When licensing is such a big deal, I think its bizarre license is reason to steer away from Shen.

It not being "free software" is pretty debatable imo. Maybe not free with a capitol f, but free enough as an academic language.
Ask HN: Any freelance Flash developer looking for work?
We are looking to get a interactive video widget built in Flash. The ideal solution would parse information about an interactive picture / text slideshow via an XML document (this will be provided by us) and create a nice slideshow which will have the following components:

1. Introduction sequence (name etc)
2. Interactive slideshow (rotate images in a nice animation)
3. End sequence with share options

At all times, we want a custom ad banner to show at the bottom of the slideshow. The slideshow should also be exportable to Youtube and / or video format.

We already have design mocks and webservice done, so we only need a flash widget.

Please demonstrate your expertise when applying for this job.

You can contact me at obahmed[at]gmail.com with your portfolio and experience.
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> Can you please create an issue for the "strange black column on the right" if you can reproduce it?

Okay, will do.
Uh, what? They have engineers architecting their payment system's security.

The screenshots are handled by possible interns, staff, anyone associated with the project, etc.

There's no reason why a leak would have anything to do with system security. That's absurd.
Actually, his point is that our language organ takes the more computationally expensive route. Not the easier one. That's the puzzle.

I don't have his books on me, so I may misconvey this point, but IIRC, he also mentioned regular languages (you know, like with regexes) as another example of a computationally "easier" language family we don't pick up with our language organ. We don't speak arbitrary languages. The space of languages is filtered by genetics.

He delves into this point more deeply in many places and addresses the points you raise with a precision beyond what's found in interviews.
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Perhaps it could be an example of indirect (contributory) infringement if the company used his interview solution in a product (ie. he facilitated their infringement)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_patent_infringemen...

Pretty unlikely in this case, but I can think of interviews where I had the same concern. MegaCorp posed a problem they were having (eg. preventing radar self jamming), I told them one solution I knew of, but I was very careful to point out that it was patented less they turn around and use it.

So I share the parent's question: Can you be held liable for infringement due to a job interview answer?
So to be clear: you care more about the integrity of exercising Arc via HN than you care about your users. Because we both know that writing HN correctly would reduce latency dramatically along with short- and long-term ops effort. It'd also fix all those nasty "dead or expired link" errors. Also, users wouldn't be terrified to click "reply" without copying their posts to the clipboard, first.
All apps on Android require Java to run currently in some way or another unless you want to have a purely browser based game. At the same time, Google sits on the fastest javascript interpreter out there. It would be great if Android could expose native permissions to Javascript and have web apps like Mozilla's Firefox OS. I know they've made a push for holo themes and I would be willing to write in a different markup language to avoid writing in Java
Security researchers do the work and MS wants the information for free. If MS really wants to fix the problem, let them pay. I don't see the problem with this.
Thanks! I am a dev but not a designer. Just created a dribbble account and added you!
75-percent of phones shipped in Q3 ran Android
Why doesn't your blog have an RSS feed?

EDIT: That was supposed to be a subtle compliment; I want more.
Open Letter to Best Buy
Someone throwing some quotes into a reddit-esque nostalgia post and topping it off with his name in size 40 font hardly qualifies as an article. When I first saw the title I was hoping for something along the lines of the recent Starcraft article (http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-s...).
Why Buzz Lightyear is worth billions more than Han Solo
"The approach taken by Chomsky and Marr toward understanding how our minds achieve what they do is as different as can be from behaviorism. The emphasis here is on the internal structure of the system that enables it to perform a task, rather than on external association between past behavior of the system and the environment. The goal is to dig into the 'black box' that drives the system and describe its inner workings, much like how a computer scientist would explain how a cleverly designed piece of software works and how it can be executed on a desktop computer."

The article completely misunderstands what Behaviorism actually is. Once again, the misunderstanding comes from confusing the Methodological Behavoirism advocated by John Watson, Edward Thorndike and others, who did indeed try to model people as a "black box", with Skinner's Radical Behavoirism, which denies that there's even a box to be opened; rather, Skinner holds that there is only a locus where a series of environmental processes happen to converge and interact in interesting ways. Some of these processes are much older than the others, and are expressed in genes; others are relatively newer, and are learned. Skinner did not deny that genetics played a role in language acquisition, nor did he ever maintain people are born a blank slate. While Skinner found Chomsky's work regarding universal grammar unconvincing, he maintained that it was not, as Chomsky claimed, directly opposed to his own work -- the two theories were orthogonal, and would succeed or fail independently of each other.
That uses a mounted magstripe writer, doesn't it? Or does the card have some sort of integrated rewriting electronics? I can't find any technical specifications.

It seems more likely the card will act like a prepaid 'passthrough' card as in the existing system.
Being cited doesn't mean he has something specific to say about those fields. He's an influential scientist so people may cite him when they found something vaguely related to his theories, to make their findings seem more important.
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There is something of a talent pool in recommendations between the YC startups. Get involved with one, and you'll probably be able to get more work out of it if you do a good enough job for them to remember it.
Is there a C++ IDE that can figure out the function signature after you have written something like

_ f(_ a, _ b, _ c) { YOUR; CODE; HERE; }

?
Perhaps it's a function of its stealth capabilities, but that sure looks really similar to an F-22 (http://tinyurl.com/bambe72).
Yes, NLP systems are going to have many engineering uses, and Chomsky agrees. Are they going to help in the true scientific understanding of the systems?

So, what we have is (1) the engineering / statistical modelling / machine learning approach, and (2) the deep theoretical "Chomsky approach".

Chomsky despises, maybe rightly so, the engineering approach because it only provides tools that work, approximately, in practice but don't provide any deep "scientific" understanding.

The deep theoretical approach has a vision of a comprehensive theory that really provides understanding. Once we manage to find the deep fundamental theory, practical applications will be a child's play.

But here's the catch: Has the Chomsky approach takes us any closer to that deep theoretical progress? Why has all the practical progress come from the engineers? What if the deep theoretical thinkers are completely lost, like the alchemists in dark medieval times, in their theories and as they despise the data-driven approach, they also refuse to let empirical observations guide them to a right direction.

I don't think looking down on the engineers and their modest practical success is any kind of merit, if your only merit is dreaming of a deep theory, but making no measurable success towards said theory.
I don't understand why the comments here are saying this is a "practical", realistic solution. This sort of legal trick might help deal with the law as it stands (personally, I'd much rather see algorithms made unpatentable and wait 20 years), but a vastly greater obstacle is convincing Congress (or a court) that these patents should be eliminated in the first place.
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Just last month [the FTC] announced the Robocall Challenge offering $50,000 to anyone who can create what the agency calls "an innovative way to block that will block illegal commercial robocalls on landlines and mobile phones."

So the US government is using the phone system to track and to eavesdrop on everyone it cares to[1], but it can't figure out a way to use that power to, you know, actually enforce the laws concerning that same phone system.

But somehow, they're going to catch terrorists that way. Sure.

[1] http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/09...
Also amusing, WebGL is provided as an example of why perf is good, but is it really part of HTML5? The assumption that it is appears to be another myth.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10185554/is-webgl-part-of...
I don't think JavaScript is what activepeanut had in mind when he(?) was talking about "native" development. HTML5 is a wasteland for most types of games as well.

Allow Android games to be fully written in C/C++/Go with a fat binary format to support ARM/x86 and now we're talking. You can kind-of-sort-of do native development in Android using the NDK but it is much more of a pain in the ass than it should be because Android's userland was designed so tightly around Dalvik and Google has always treated the NDK as a bit of a red-headed stepchild (eg. it was never officially supported on the x86 Google TV boxes).
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actually there was a brain surgeon who was doing exactly that. he was asking questions and depending on the answers different sections of the brain would activate. to make sure he wouldn't cut out the wrong part.

that said edison was a douche and doesn't really fit into the comparison.
You're right, I would have been better off making this point in the Comcast thread instead of the $2 ebay one. :P
Curiously, why in the world wouldn't Comcast have insurance on equipment the rent out? Sure, primary coverage may/should be with the renter, but why in the world won't they have secondary coverage in the event of total loss (including death of the renter, etc.)

Could it simply be that at the rates they charge, a box is easily paid off in a couple of years, and any additional rental fees are pure profit?
Bad law can change if strongly opposed. It just seems impossible. To pick an extreme example, slavery was as old as humanity, and backed by very powerful, rich, and organized special interests, until it was strongly opposed, consistently, for decades.
Another difference suggested by Stallman is that there is no legal definition of non-software patent, and software patent.
The whole Android environment isn't very friendly to games, requiring a lot of work to bring a game to it from iOS:

- tons of resolutions to support

- Tegra, no tegra, OpenGL ES 1.1, OpenGL ES 2 ..

- Google banned any form of paid apps in their first year, with the reason that their payment processing wasn't ready yet. I had two apps removed from the Android Market in 2008 because they were using a form of in-app purchase (powered by PayPal), thus making people get used to free games, powered by google's advertising

- there are TONS of indie developers making good games, who can't sell apps on Google Play because google doesn't allow them to. They keep saying that's because of legal issues, but somehow Apple, Samsung, WebOS had that problem solved... Things got better with the last inclusion of some countries on the allowed list(Poland, India..), but it's still not there

These being said, a lot of money can still be made on Android with games. It just requires an amount of work that most companies aren't comfortable with.
Native Android devlopment (i.e. C/C++) is a major PITA. Biggest reason: there still is no debugger for C/C++ code; you have to do all debugging with printf. In 2012. I'm not kidding. Android NDK didn't even support the C++ Standard Library until recently.

Another reason why Android is losing on the developer front is that development environment setup and usage, even for Java, is worse than Apple's. It's usage of Eclipse is like duct tape and glue.
What is New York City like right now post-Hurricane Sandy?
I don't mind, SNES emulation works brilliantly. I can download new ROMs directly from the browser.
you assume a very primitive logic. but, given the primitive subject, i can't disagree.
So beneath the baiting title the author's points boil down to "there are more exclusive games on iOS", and "Android owners are cheap pirates", there is no mention of paid app encryption nor the increasing payment options (carrier billing, gift cards).

It's a ranting stereotype-enforcing blather piece by some attention seeker picked up as a guest blog on Wired UK. I hate this!
Sure! Although what I posted is quite literal, and the explanation is rather trivial.

Near where I live, a waste collection center sends grass cuttings to a cattle feedstock blending plant, that a business partner of mine has an interest in. The concern is literally needles (syringe type). Currently a conveyor belt running over a magnetic drum is used to remove ferrous materials, but the magnetic field strength is insufficient. The idea is to place powerful rare earth magnets in a grid through which the cuttings would drop, hopefully improving the removal rate.

So we are looking for needles in a future haystack!
It goes well beyond just OpenGL 1.2 vs. 2.0. There is a large disparity in how OpenGL is supported. For example, some texture formats will be supported by one device but not another, etc.
The problem is that they do not sell vulnerabilities. They sell weaponized exploits. This is not the Zero Day Initiative.
Haha, yup. I used to do that all the time too. Pissed off my friends usually.
Zapier sends him a notification of course... ;)
IntelliJ is a much better Android IDE than eclipse and far superior to Xcode.
Second this. What's Shen's hook? I see a lot of prefix notation for function application...seems Scheme-y to me. I thought things had trended away from that.
I had JUST finished playing a round. And yes. I did.
Nathan Myrvhold's patent troll firm that has some ties so MS is probably what was being referred to.
I just sold a variable autotransformer on ebay. "Just", as in, two hours ago.

Went fairly well, but my god ebay's integration with UPS is a complete clusterfuck. It was far, far easier to manually create a shipment on ups.com than trying to get ebay and UPS to communicate.
"My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I can do something about it. So even if the U.S. was responsible for 2 percent of the violence in the world instead of the majority of it, it would be that 2 percent I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment. That is, the ethical value of one’s actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences. It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century."

— Noam Chomsky