skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, you mean in VLC lib itself. BTW, will there be a "static link exception" for the iOS App Store?
How does LGPL enable the iOS port?

My understanding of LGPL is that it requires that users be able to switch out the LGPL-licensed code. This implies dynamic linking, not a difficult proposition, but more fundamentally it requires that users are able to access the LGPL code portion, delete it, and replace it with something else. I don't see how any old iOS user can do this without paying a dev fee.
You may find this speech by Stephen Fry of help.[1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
I guess that means they've got primitive (Pentium Pro equivalent) branch predictors and memory pre-fetchers then?

Are they even out-of-order? I.e. is it Pentium or Pentium Pro class?
This is true only for Skype to Skype connections. Calls that have to reach The PSTN[1] need to be routed through telephony servers somehow, exposing the possibility to cause some stress on Skype's servers as FrojoS mentions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_netwo...
Challenge accepted.

Edit: There is no "Rar!" in Windows_XP_IE6.exe :(
Most of the data may be peer-to-peer, but the infrastructure is more centralized since Microsoft bought them. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-...
Most important point was actually before the points listed: do business development yourself and figure out the sales process/value proposition before hiring for sales/BD folks. You will never get a handle on what customers want, how they buy, and why they buy if you do not roll up your sleeves and sell your thing yourself.
I think PHP and the original VB were actually great platforms. At the pure language level they were not elegant (but good enough), but both were not just languages, but a platform which as a whole were great for developing a specific kind of apps.
I understand the marketing, but I can't help but feel faintly irritated that I'm already paying for a Skype subscription. Should I cancel it and get my free month and then renew it again? ...
breaks at 10000
What happened? Anything potential customers should know about? I appreciate the flaw recently, but I wasn't aware of a way a third party could steal my money or my card details...
Boxing Break: Lennox Lewis and the Top-Ten Heavyweights of All-Time
> make it easier to collaborate with dev's outside your existing network.

Sounds fun. Looking forward to it, thanks.
> This comment reflects a lack of understanding of how non-IT folks deal with passwords.

If that is so relevant, we should also kill online (and offline) banking, selling used cars and insurances etc. ... Because clueless people will get owned and scammed everywhere.

What the article neglects is pointing out the total failure of Amazon, AT&T and Apple to protect their customers. It's complete nonsense to allow identity theft on the basis of information that is easily obtainable (credit card and social security numbers - they've been exposed hundreds of times and are no secrets). Class action suits might fix that in the long run, but at least don't blame passwords when they weren't the weakest link.
So not trolling here- serious question. My concern with these things is that the spray nozzle would get "dirty" and end up spraying fecal or urine tainted water at my bum. When you raise the seat does the spray nozzle raise with it? How easy is it to clean? I have 2-10 year old kids that would be using this thing so I am more concerned because they have not yet mastered good aim or toilet hygiene...
It is NOT an irrelevant programmer skill. It is a programmer skill which is relevant for certain projects and irrelevant to others.

Being the best in the world at anything is usually a good sign. Given two candidates for a programming position who appeared to have roughly equal skills based on the interview, but where one had held the world record in weightlifting and the other hadn't, I'd hire the one with the world record in weightlifting. The skill is utterly irrelevant to all programming projects, but the dedication needed to become the best in the world at something... that's valuable.
I would guess the main goal is to perform parallel scientific computations on a shared chunk of data, not to run multiple web servers & services.
I think you mean LGPL where you say iOS in the first sentence.

I can't answer your question, but just point out that huge chunks of iOS itself are LGPL already, such as webkit, and the LGPL version of ffmpeg is already widely used.

There has been some speculation in the past that because iOS mandates static linking that this is a problem for using LGPL libraries, but I fall into the 'linking creates a compilation, not a derived work' camp and if the compilation interpretation is correct then static linking isn't a problem.

But every time I dig into LGPL interpretation and linking issues, eventually my head starts hurting and I give up.
Is it a class designed to teach computer science fundamentals or designed to teach Python?
Yeah, I totally agree with that. Just not for too long, otherwise you become too integral to the process.
I am convinced that in any production database cluster If you are given the option you should disable table scans. MongoDB gives you that option, you should use it.
I can happily say that I've given up on free to play games. The vast majority of free to play games out there are fundamentally flawed. At their core they weren't designed to be fun to play, they were designed to milk the player of money, or pester them until they give in and pay or give up and quit.

Sure, there might be a few free to play games out there that break this mold, but I'm at a point in my life where money is expendable but time isn't. I'd much rather spend money up front to play a game that has a good chance at being designed for fun than waste time trying to find a diamond in the free to play rough.

I believe there will always be a place for paid games, but if the market shift towards free to play continues I'll have no problem giving up video games entirely. Will the 'AAA' free to play games like Hawken, Mech Warrior Online, or Planetside 2 be fun to play? Perhaps, but I'll never find out.
Tips to Help a Business Leader Quit While on Top
This title should have a warning that it actually logs you out of many services. It is not a blog post.
Nice little experience as an Opera user when enabling the 3D view. It recognised my browser and explained quite simply how to enable WebGL. (Go to opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableWebGL and set the value to 1).

I think other websites could learn something from this, instead of thrusting a link to 'upgrade' my browser to chrome or safari or flat out failing.
Good Code Does Not Negate the Need for Comments
As a involved member of the Minecraft community. I can tell you that there is work being done on a Minecraft API, but I have no clue on a ETA. Also, I don't think they really have any plans on how to monetize things.
TomEE coming in Jelastic soon
The impressive thing is the memory bandwidth though. That's the one thing I've always loved GPUs for.
The Four Golden Keys to Art and Happiness
It works about as well as IE9's browser emulation. Which is not very well. It's not 100% true to native IE versions.
New configuration management system release: cdist 2.1.0pre8
> Trying to protect yourself from the market in this case is like those people who worry about possessions in a burning house - possessions mean nothing, just try and get out alive.

So would that advice apply to that scenario?
Google revokes AdWords API access for SEOmoz
It would be interesting experiment to implement the distance measurement as "contour lines". Take random points from the map, measure how long it takes to walk there from current point, draw 5min, 10min, 15min etc curves.
>> What evidence do you have that nutrition science is corrupt and not based on the scientific method?

The fact that conclusions resulting from 'nutrition science' often seem to contradict, or are found to be completely wrong every few years should be an indication. Today drinking coffee is bad, tomorrow it reduces your risk of getting cancer. Yesterday nuts were bad and will make you fat, today thay aren't that bad after all because the calories they contain mostly leave your body undigested. At one point in time eating eggs more than twice a week was considered bad for you because of the cholesterol they contain, but according to the latest studies they are a 'superfood', and the cholesterol they contain appears to have no relation to blood cholesterol.

The problem with 'nutrition science' (I have to put it between quotes it because I consider it more like religion than science) is that health effects resulting from diet almost exclusively manifest themselves after many many years. This makes it very hard to reliably measure them, not only because it involves tracking large groups of people over a long period of time, who need to stay on a consistent diet, should not move around to much because otherwise other factors around them could affect their health etc.

Research into nutrition health benefits suffers from the same limitations many other epidemiology research suffers. As it turns out, health is correlated to so many other things it is almost impossible to reliably relate health effects to causes. The difference between epidemiologists and 'nutrition scientists' is that the former group directly acknowledges the limitations of their population studies, while 'facts' about nutrition are usually presented as truth, and nobody seems to care to challenge them.
I guess that's true. But is that the big limitation, laziness?
How I feel, when in GIT [animated GIFs]
If you're at work you shouldn't be reading this anyways.
I've been hearing about qubits for awhile now and don't really understand the significance of having quantum entanglement in a network. Can you entangle multiple clients in a mesh, and add or remove entanglements? Is that even possible in the future with this?

Or can you manufacture entanglement with each connection, where you initiate the entanglement with a client, and maintain that connection during transport? I'm really just curious if you can use this technology, and literally replace the methods of connections and transport as we use them now, or if this is simply a single function method.
> a demonstration that paves the way towards quantum routers and a quantum internet

I can already tell that this article is going to be ridiculous fluff without even reading past the headline.
It's been 2 weeks that I started working on splst[1] - A directory of side projects.

[1] http://splst.com

[2] https://github.com/armen/splst
Yes, then you get VB6. Not sure that is the paragon of language design you are looking for.

Most of the qualities that make VB6 VB have nothing to do with inheritance. This is a logical fallacy, where you argue by associating one quality with something looked down upon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
Wi-Fi Body Scale with Arduino
Tumblr Collins
What we talk about when we talk about the Internet (2011)
A Better Chrome New Tab Page
Why Coke Cost A Nickel For 70 Years
2 passwords. Unbreakable.
Carbs, no. Refined carbs, yes. I'm pretty sure the Romans didn't have HFCS.
Wow, it's like Google Earth, except faster, and loads instantly in my browser with no plugins. Consider me impressed.
‘Groupon Should Have Been Built As A Technology Company’
Instagram Chrome Extension
The Birth of Sound: Why the Big Bang Was Actually Silent
It's pop science press. So most of the time you're right. There are a few decent journalists in this sub genre, though.
Sun RPC should be mentioned here.

The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the guily and the irresponsible
http://spot.livejournal.com/315383.html

GNU/Linux - finally it's Free software
http://webmink.com/2010/08/30/gnulinux-finally-its-free-soft...

The Saga of Sun RPC
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/08/27/sun-rpc.html
It's all about how you sell it. Subtle difference that make it completely different.

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Apple disallowing the word "Memory" in app titles
Memory bandwidth would limit the performance unless your VMs were running something with a very small memory footprint, about 160 megabytes per instance.

Having said that, I've used Unix workstations with less RAM attached than that through much less than 7GBps worth of bus...
Two cool things:

1) You can have perfectly encrypted communication that no one can eavesdrop on (not even theoretically).

2) You can transmit twice as much classical information using superdense coding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdense_coding
> He is most definitely not an idiot

Thanks. The way I look at it, those who read HN and can filter out the BS don't need anyone to tell them when a post is bad or useless.

And, yes, I have been an idiot on HN a few times. It happens mostly when I, against my better judgement, choose to enter into political discussions. I should not do that. I am trying hard not to discuss politics on HN. My views come from years of having skin in the business trenches. You'll never never find me self describe as a democrat or republican. On HN my views tend to run contrary to the <conjecture>mostly liberal leaning</conjecture> audience here. It's really easy to come off as an idiot if you are not careful.

We are all idiots at something.

When it comes to technology and using it to create products and build a business I am nothing but pragmatic. You use what you have at hand and make the best of it. Case in point: Objective-C. I don't like it. Yet, if I wanted to write native iOS apps it really is the only choice. The frameworks that try to avoid it are always fraught with issues. So, I learned it and use it every day. It's about putting out a product and not about polishing the wrenches, pliers and screwdrivers in your toolbox.

That's not to say that if a new approach or better tools surface I ignore them. Not so. I love good tools.
You're right. Updated title while I still can.
"Passwords are here to stay. They provide reasonable security."

Words.

Since the premise of the article (and the person to which you've replied) is that your statement is false, you're going to need to provide more than the above to refute it.
We gathered timing information for the parts of the benchmark that it did complete

Which parts didn't complete? Did you try the beta or aurora?

Code that can consistently crash firefox would probably be elgible for a security bounty.
Ask HN: Did anyone view your YC video pitch?
Did you check the statistics on youtube and found out someone other than you has viewed it? Could be PG
Even ignoring the bytes, it looks like one client may show up in the web logs as downloading the file a dozen times. If you aren't careful about cleaning up the stats, that may overrepresent iOS.
What Happened to AMD?
You don't need high tech. You just needs some pipes and a water hose; AKA: "shattaf". It's quite common in the middle east.

Unfortunately these are not easy to install in houses built in a North American style, because there are no floor drains in the toilet, so if you install a "shattaf" the floor will eventually soak in water; keeping it clean and dry is very annoying and difficult.

I don't understand why people in the West use toilet papers instead of washing.

When I have to use toilet papers, I will also use flushable wet wipes.
...for everything else, there's Mastercard.
Opera does quite well in Ukraine and Russia.
You can transport quantum states with quantum networks. So you can do a quantum computation in one place, transmit the quantum data somewhere else, do more processing, etc. and then only measure & collapse the waveform when you're done.
Show HN: 'Git For Designers' in the UK
Toothpaste to polish silver
We wish, no visits :(
>Pro or against proprietary software, it's a fallacy to assume that in a world where Photoshop didn't exist, its alternatives would be the same. Having a copy of PS for a relatively cheap price is a great incentive not to devote more resources to alternatives.

In principle, yes, it's problematic to assume any alternative reality in which something has changed will otherwise be the same as ours. Things affect each other.

That said, the assumption in this _particular_ case seems like a safe bet to me. For one, Photoshop does not have a "relatively cheap price". It's over $500 dollars by itself, and some thousand dollars with the rest of the suite.

Also note that the people that "have a copy of Photoshop" and need it with all it's power are not the same people that are "devoting more resources to the alternatives". The former are graphic designers and illustrators, where the latter are programmers.

Since most programmers are casual image editing software users, they wouldn't need Photoshop. And indeed, those users get just fine with Gimp. So it's not like if Photoshop wasn't available programmers would have flocked to make an equivalent program.
Cool website and service, but, is anyone else tired of businesses using this recent tragedy to advertise?

Edit:
Also pretty sure this is a little to late for victims of hurricane sandy who lost thier computers.
I totally agree with you. What is the lesson here ?
You need indexes to speed up queries in any structured data storage. Uh, great but I am worried about the glipho backend then. All this to get a bit of advertising.
My favourite article for laying out some scientific reasoning behind skipping breakfast is the following:

http://articles.elitefts.com/nutrition/logic-does-not-apply-...
How powerful do the lasers need to be? How are you going to power it for 150 years?
Eventually.

Fun has fashion, just like everything else.
Just what they need to get their lives back together [/sarcasm]
Article could be made useful by showing a benchmark of indexes vs no-indexes, and showing the readers how the indexes were created. At least then we can say it's educational and has substance. Otherwise I agree this is substance-less. It's common sense that any database is slow if used incorrectly.
Would Apple approve it?
Well, mine relies on password+Google Authenticator.

The point being that no new password comes into being, and I don't have to worry about yet another site having a password I have to manage.
No thank you, i would not share my credit card info for this.
Literally every single business (34 of them) within a quarter mile or so radius of my home is wrong. Either closed, grossly in the wrong place, or never existed in the first place.
> Kill the Cloud: Why Users Shouldn't Rely On Online Services Anymore (or Why you must backup everything)
fixed

And by the way: cryptography (including in someway elliptic curve crypto) uses "string of characters". Passwords are much more than a way of authentication...
I think it's the combination of the top and bottom bar that make the site feel a little weird for me.
A quick piece of eye catching news to bury the security flaw that came out yesterday!
I can attest to that. I signed up the day the offer came on deals.woot just to find the destination I wanted to reach was not supported. Promptly cancelled. They say I still have the free month.

it is a bit sketchy that they don't accept amex though...
This seems like an iffy marketing thing to do to try to advertise and get users. Why not detail what else you've done to help those whose lives were upended by the hurricane? Why does your business have to come into it at all? Did you do anything other than decide to arbitrarily give not-really-free accounts to people when that won't help them rebuild afterward? (If you're still charging them $.01 a year, that's still charging them something. You ought to fix that.)

Either way, looks like a nice gesture, but one that's ultimately meaningless since I doubt a lot of the victims care about your service. It's rather useless compared to actual help.
If you choose the advanced installation option in Windows ADK, you can choose only to install the Windows Performance Toolkit which is under 80mb.
I'm really sorry that I derailed your thread.

You make some interesting points, and they could have led to some useful discussion.

I'll try (and I'll avoid the traditional flame-war aspects of the discussion.)

I think the difference may be the perceived power balances: in one situation there is an oppressive regime censoring communications to hinder rebels who are protesting against that oppressive regime. In the other situation there is a network who would be asking some account holders not to make posts on their network. Their servers, their rules.

We might dislike twitter for taking a stance, but it's not censorship.
See also my 'Make your own prime factorization diagram' blog post: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/04/make-your-own-prime-factorizatio...
Gosh... I guess I really want to create my own programs rather than rely on whatever new project google or microsoft cooks up. I suppose you could say it's a personal project. Also, I would like to set up a basic knowledge of coding so I can begin to use scripts within my games. Currently I'm getting by in Blender without using Python, but my AI is severely limited.
Motion = Progress - Code moves in 5 different ways...
One HN comment this week made it to 2nd best of all time
I went up a level to http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/ and was thoroughly disappointed to be 403'd. Are there more available?
>Open source focuses on the benefits of "open" code and development and how it can create superior software. Free Software focuses on the ethical issues---while free software developers certainly want contributors, the emphasis is on the fact that the software respects your freedom and, for that, it's far superior to any other proprietary alternative

Well, the "far superior" part is just, like, your opinion, man. [to quote "The Dude"].

>free software users constantly make sacrifices in functionality and usability, and we're okay with that.

If a more usable program or one with more functionality can make people freer to do stuff with it, then the software doesn't really respect their full freedom, only a constrained software-centric notion of it.
How to manage unit tests in Visual Studio 2012
FizzBuzz Still Works
My skills are a little rough and this is probably more than a company can devote to a browser war study but it would be interesting to see this benchmark run multiple times or as a Monte Carlo simulation.

Also - does anyone know what core runs at 50% in IE even when the user is idle? Not surprised to hear it but curious if anyone knows what it is.
Interview with  Grishin Robotics dedicated to helping robotics startups
Ask HN: need your help for iPad Mini2 detection using Stereo sound&accelerometer
Hello HN readers, I need your help to test my crazy idea of detecting iPad2/iPad mini by using accelormeter and stereo music.

Please visit this link on an iPad2 or iPad mini and help me collect an initial dataset.

http://www.intechrity365.com/collectIpadMini2.html

Thanks.
my gmail password is close to 40 characters. It would be impossible to manage without keepass. I just assume that any password you can recall from memory is not secure enough.
>I think Nokia realized the value of maps really late

What are you talking about? Nokia was working on maps long before Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Maps
If one divides their calorie needs by three and eats an average of those calories for each meal it isn't hard to get the body asking for three meals a day. Most people don't exercise though and have a slow metabolism.