skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's an exceptionally smooth and beautiful image?
See also http://blog.forwardbias.in/2012/12/my-xsrf-exploit-of-build-...
Thanks for expanding this out, I jotted this out as a quick thought, without probably giving context to people who haven't been following the story over the last couple days.
One of the rules of all partisan politics:

if it happens to me, it is an outrage

if it happens to my opponent, it is regrettable, but we should concentrate on how corrupt it shows my opponent to be
They wouldn't of had the data otherwise. But I am sure Facebook keeps an eye on anything with high API calls, etc.. It'd be best to avoid using APIs if you don't want the owners seeing your success.
ISO has been bought and paid for by Microsoft in the past, they cannot be trusted anymore.
Other things that could stop a bad guy with a gun:

- A bear

- A good guy with a machete

- The Black Death

- Any number of ninjas

- Old age

- An absence of bullets

- A military drone strike

- A bad guy with a different gun

- Bees?
Unable to find a way to control iTunes while it is minimized (Win 7, iTunes toolbar).
With this methodology I think there is significant weight going for departments with long running courses. Whilst it's likely that departments with a good history will be good now I think there should be more historical weighting for data points.
Introducing RiskDB: an open repository of vulnerabilities from public databases
They possibly knew she used Snapchat, too.
Great work Mike, chained transitions is super important for fine tuning the user experience and it's nice to have better support for requests, although we use jQuery for them at the moment.
That is not even close to US specific, especially with respect to Europe.
Replay from Intermernet who is dead:

Yes, but being inspired to write a similar book is now a grey area.

As a some-time composer / musician, I like to play around with existing themes and thus create new themes. Many of history's greatest musical pieces reference other pieces (J.S. Bach referenced traditional church pieces, Mussorgsky referenced many traditional folk songs, the list is probably endless), indeed the vast majority of popular music rarely strays from a handful of progressions around a limited palette of chords. Imagine if someone had managed to patent the 12 bar blues early on... No blues explosion, no Rock & Roll, no Elvis, no Beatles, etc. etc.

The argument that patents are for protecting original ideas is becoming more specious with time. It seems that the primary reason many companies now apply for patents is to either protect themselves from future patent cases, or, as is the case with IV, to prosecute any company or individual who tries to bring a similar idea to market.
Italian politician vandalized Wikipedia about the CERN slides in ComicSans
Word learning process almost reaches a plateau after leaving school, interesting to see vocab given more importance than math
This concern would affect all combatants --it's not something which would only influence drone pilots, so this objection is beside the point
They do overlap, but Open Source Initiative doesn't care at all about users' freedoms, which I personally believe to be very important.
My suspicion is that App Store rank doesn't necessarily translate into highly used app. Many of the highly ranked apps get there by buying downloads. There definitely is a ton of open data on app success out there, though spotting an app with an organically fast growth rate and high DAU is probably much harder without access to quality data.
FB/GOOG Take Over Apple’s App Store, Poke Hits #1 A Day After Its Release
Google Designing X Phone to Rival Apple, Samsung
http://pirateproxy.net/torrent/7946763/Minecraft__The_Story_...
also sounds like development was outsourced. How exactly do you do $400 worth of development.

some good advice otherwise
The easiest test for a potential new team member
Interesting, and perhaps related, is the tendency of people who aren't socially inclined (and tend not to enjoy small-talk) to employ the ask-a-million questions technique. This is how many-an-engineer can muscle through the most awkward social interactions with ease. The upsides of this approach are: 1) you will seem genuinely interested and come across as personable, and 2) you get to learn new things.
The problem, and I speak from first hand experience here, is that its increasingly hard to make a successful consumer product that does not leverage these apis. They are accelerants, and if our primary goal is to find product market fit and take the market before anyone else, not using those accelerants can be quite detrimental.
"I really like the idea of this because should the laptop be stolen, no seriously personal data can be stolen. Should the laptop be broken, it’s essentially commodity hardware."

What does it have to do with a Chromebook / terminal exactly? I've got exactly the same for my regular workstation...

I'm using a Debian Linux workstation for development using full disk encryption. Should it be stolen the account would be locked up (I always lock it without even waiting the timeout when I stand up: one shortcut and it's locked and you can't unlock it without my password) so there's no way anyone is accessing my data without my password. No, sure, if an attacker knows my password (and/or the boot-time disk encryption password) he can access my data, just like he could access your cloud data should he know your password.

Should my house burn and my workstation (be it a laptop or a desktop) be broken, it's essentially commodity hardware too. What makes you think I don't have automated backup scripts? (gpg + scp FTW).

There's simply no way I'm accepting latency back/forth to some cloud thing. And the "bad" thing with physics is that physical ain't going to change: short of major scientific breakthrough no matter the $$$ we're not getting better latency anytime soon.

Also, I consider an environment which can suddenly "stop working" because something changed server-side to be fundamentally broken: I'm in total control of my dev environment and there isn't a single update that can be made without my consent.

You're giving up all that power once you decide to develop using a "terminal".

Of course that power comes at a price: you need to be able to install and configure your OS so that it uses full-disk encryption, you need to write a few scripts taking care of automated encrypted backups, you need the discipline to "lock" your system everytime you stand up (by now it's a habit), etc.

But once it's set up, my dev environment doesn't change.
The FSF isn't about coding standards, its foremost about moral and ethical standards.

Edit: Oops! You mean BFDL for GNU, as compared to the FSF. That's a good question - should Stallman relinquish GNU leadership? What is the replacement plan should something happen to him?

I don't think that recent hands-on code experience necessarily plays a role in either case.
Chrome on OSX allows for scrolling, but is VERY very slow.
I think this is the key question. I don't have an answer, but I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on it.
God of War: Ascension Multiplayer Beta Keys Giveaway
Or Ubuntu? ;)
this is the most important comment on this issue I've seen in a while. The fact is not just the fb learns which apps to clone; they learn who to promote the clones to AND can drive distribution in a way no one else, other than twitter, possibly can.

that said, at some point there's a tradeoff between being a marketplace for 3rd-party apps and seeking to win with your own proprietary apps across the board.
FB fan page Picture Box
Phorce: The World's First Smart Bag
This is a very serious charge. Whether it's with drones, artillery, rifles, or bare hands doesn't matter. If they have solid evidence of the military intentionally (or recklessly) targeting civilian first-responders, I'd think they should be looking to have charges filed against the individuals responsible.
Thanks for correcting the link.

Documentation is now ready (thanks to YUIDoc http://yui.github.com/yuidoc/)

You can find it here: http://mlarocca.github.com/Dynamic-Charts
i understand what you meant, but, in a sense, if we had "perfect" colour detectors then (ignoring quantum effects) vision would be an "infinite dimensional space" rather than a 1-dimensional one. unless you are restricted to a world in which the light at any one point is monochrome.

maybe we would naturally understand fourier analysis in such a world? it's kind of hard to even think about.

maybe monochrome light would appear particularly wonderful (or pure) with such eyes? i was thinking about this the other day when i happened to be sitting in the path of some refracted light - it does appear particularly pure even though, with only three detectors, there's no real reason for it to do so (as far as i can see).
Agreed. It took a while for me to understand the idea that the free/open source difference is reasonably described as the difference between user freedoms and developer freedoms.
"People who claim that vim/emacs are the ultimate environment typically have a very narrow world-view in my experience."

That's not what people "typically" claim.

People typically claim that the "text editor" part of NetBeans / Eclipse / IntelliJ IDEA / Visual C# / etc. do s*ck big monkey balls compared to vim / Emacs.

There are even people who go as far as writing client/server mode for IDEs allowing to "plugin" either vim/emacs inside your IDE or to call your IDE's feature from vim/emacs (cue eclim / emacs-eclim ).

That the "text editor" part of the big IDEs are totally inferior and utter crap compared to vim / emacs is not exactly something open up for debate ; )
Using Apache Commons Functor functional interfaces with Java 8 lambdas
Already with some interesting comments in reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/158q1u/using_apache_commons_functor_functional/
You really have this backwards. The slaughter of Aboriginal Americans was done under the flags of multiple European Empires, long before independence was even a catchphrase in the colonies.

If we want to play the historical blame game, both Europe and the USA need to STFU. Along with every other country on Earth, each of whom have a litany of abuses and atrocities they won't own up to.
I agree it's bad design IF it were a consumer/business site. But remember, this is a personal site. Anything goes, and I think he knows better than to do this on a commercial site.
Right, many of the entertainment agencies have "dating bans" that often last until the artists are in their late 20s. This is the exact opposite of what's going on with someone like Taylor Swift - a new guy every couple of months. In America, the fans take an interest in that, or at least don't discourage it. And they eat up the songs that are based on her relationships. In Korea, an artist would be crucified for acting like that.
Four Levels of Awareness
The parent's premise that drone operators will act humanely because "the people on the screen are real" has been shown to be invalid.
I am currently downloading it, and I will buy 8$ download version just to support the guys, because they have guts to do something like this.
Feedback... Looks interesting as it has something to with tracking data but what is it? Why should I give you my info to start using it?

That needs to be on the homepage.
Really impressed that the producers will have a family-friendly audio track with the official, non-pirated version. My kids (ages 8 and 11) love Minecraft, and it will probably be the highlight for them this Christmas to watch the documentary as a family. I'll likely buy both the download version and the DVD when it's released on Sunday just to be extra supportive of their efforts.
Because organization is important. There's more to software distribution than coding and the legal basis of it all is unifying for most free software. Some times you cannot "just fork, code" because the underlying legal framework for your software is broken, and you're forced to reinvent the wheel.
So the video is by a bassist and meant to be applied to musicianship, however, it is immediately apparent after watching this that you can basically apply it to anything that you'd like to master. I think the most interesting part is how he describes the emotional aspect of each level, saying that, really, only the first and fourth levels are blissful. The second level is never going to be anything but tough, however, I think the third level can be enjoyable. You can have a great amount of success being in that state of "Conscious Knowing", however, you have to move past that to that fourth level to attain bliss again, in whatever you're working on. Powerful stuff.
Is it somehow illegitimate to use drones on regular soldiers if it's tactically advantageous

No, but I reject the categorization of "military-age males in a strike zone" [1] as regular soldiers.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in...
That interpretation of fair use is too narrow - there is precedent for for copying whole works, it is the context in which they are used which determines infringement.

A fair use defence of printing a copy of a PDF for personal consumption would probably hold up fine, in the same way that the Audio Home Recording Act establishes that it is legal in some circumstances to make copies of audio recordings for non-commercial personal use.
War has become less brutal and more efficient, but it's very foolish to say that as a result, there are going to be fewer deaths. WW2 was more deadly than WW1, and if you look at the weapons we have available today, I don't know how anyone can think that WW3 is going to be _less_ deadly.
I am going to pay the $8 as well. I just wish I could give them my money now while downloading it via the torrent, but it is not available for purchase until December 23rd (tomorrow) on their site.

They should of put the torrent up on the same day it was available for purchase.
Well I think his argument is that basically instagram was the last great acquisition; it launched while Facebook had a very weak position in regards to mobile app development.
I watched this earlier (backed on Kickstarter) and it's fun to watch. There's no great insight into Minecraft and you won't come away from it knowing more about Minecraft or Mojang or why Minecraft is so successful, but you will see the personalities of some of those involved and things about the community and the things people have done. If you're a fan of Minecraft it's definitely worth watching (but it isn't a Minecraft equivalent of "Indie Game: The Movie")
Soldiers, at least in our military, are also trained to counter this effect: they take an oath to obey lawful orders, and they know they have a duty to disobey unlawful orders. In fact, the modern soldier knows that if he obeys an illegal order, he can be prosecuted for it.

This experiment hasn't been done, to my knowledge, but how do you think milgram would have gone if they had begun the experiment by explaining the difference between ethical and unethical orders, and telling people they could be prosecuted for following the unethical ones?

Most normal people haven't thought that through, and are unprepared to make that kind of decision. But soldiers have. Like a doctor professionally worries about malpractice, a soldier spends his entire career thinking that through.
I read the bio - and it appears that he was partly killed by the Brits' crappy food!

"But the alien climate and culture took a toll on his health. Ramanujan had always lived in a tropical climate and had his mother (later his wife) to cook for him: now he faced the English winter, and he had to do all his own cooking to adhere to his caste's strict dietary rules."
I'm downloading now. If they had a bitcoin address, they'd get a coin from me, right now.
I asked on one of the PNG lists, and dug up the Jan.-Feb. 1995 discussion, where the CRC discussion mostly took place.

It seems there was an early advocate for CRC-32 support. This person had experience as the main UnZip developer, and knew that large archival files need this sort of check. Zip is a container format and PNG is a container format, so I see how works, but PNG isn't really seen as an archival format.

Still, there was an early push for CRC, and that was taken up. Though I found almost no discussion about failure modes or frequency of failures. One of the few examples I did find argued that uuencoded images on Usenet can be corrupted mid-stream, and PNG was better able to detect those problems.

The original proposal seemed to have put the CRC in the terminal chunk. Someone decided it was more elegant to have it at the end of every chunk. Others agreed. It was put in.

CRC failures don't occur often. I wonder if the failure due to incorrectly implemented CRCs is higher, given that Firefox has a switch to disable CRC check failures in 'ancillary' chunks after the image data, as a workaround for someone's bad chunk.

I've decided not to have the CRC in my own format.
> Are you saying $10/mo is too much for how much you use Dropbox?

Yes, I think 8$/mo are too much for storing 9GB of data. Because I can pay 2$/mo for the "same" thing on Google Drive or 0$/mo for git-annex-assistant on the VPS I already pay for.

Dropbox still works better than both solutions, doesn't require giving even more info to Google and takes much less hassle to setup than git-annex-assistant but I don't think it's worth the 4x premium.
Sales CEO: Ctrl+f "economoics" on your LinkedIn profile.

I think the difference is in your end goal. From the article, it seems that the sales CEO is more interested in the person, hence questions about the flow of conversation while the developer CEO seems interested in the product and domains that have a structure associated with them.
I wish they had a bitcoin address!
The film is already available to download to backers, I assume they're pre-empting the inevitable leak from a backer.
Are you under the delusion that prostitution doesn't negatively affect communities?
A fascinating parallel field is the development of EMP weapons - and they're no longer science fiction as Boeing recently detonated the first "successful EMP bomb" (1) w/the help of the military.

A well placed EMP could literally knock out a Drone operator's electronics (even if the operator is deep in a bunker (2)), or target a drone itself.

(1) http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/boeings-new-m...

(2) http://science.howstuffworks.com/e-bomb4.htm
Ohio Challenger 2P (4KB RAM): I write my own video games
Me too - I have had to explain a few off-color words from their viewing of fan videos on youtube.

"Dad is 'fucking retarded' a bad thing to say...?"
> Intel wants Intel's GPU not a choice of NVIDIA, S3, ARM, and soon AMD/ATI.

I haven't seen any sings of Intel trying to push their GPU's into ATI/NVidia's niche market (gamers).

NVidia and ATI (now AMD) GPU's have always had their strongest consumer base among gamers [1]. Intel GPU's have never been in the same class as their contemporary NVidia/ATI cards on any measure -- triangles per second, texture bandwidth, gigaflops. Intel also generally uses shared-memory architecture, which means their memory bandwidth is limited and contends with the CPU.

Intel's GPU's are focused on being a low-cost, low-power, on-board graphics solution. As long as they can run a 3D UI and play HD video, they're not going to push the performance envelope any more, for the good and simple reason that they don't want to incur additional manufacturing cost, chip area, design complexity and power consumption for features that are irrelevant to non-gamers.

[1] By "gamers," I really mean anyone who's running applications that require a powerful GPU.
The original title: "Dropbox - A nebulous future"

The title of this thread: "Dropbox - A nebolous future"

Moral: For God's sake, either learn how to spell or COPY your titles, don't presume to type them in.

Since spelling is beyond you, here's a copying primer:

1. Use your mouse to select the title from the original page.

2. Press Ctrl+C (Copy).

3. Open a new HN submission form.

4. Press Ctrl+V (Paste).

Very simple. Apparently simpler than learning to spell.

A quibble? Not at all. A misspelled word in the title of an HN submission prevents searching by keyword and therefore consigns the entire submission to the great bit-bucket in the sky.
Where do you get the idea that Snapchat uses the Facebook API? I have the app and I see no signs of it and I can't find any mention of it on their website.
It is awesome that a Sales Guy CEO can be this perceptive and open minded. It is hard enough to find a Sales Guy CEO that isn't openly condescending to technical people...let alone one that listens to them instead of barking commands.
Making a mountain out of a mountain of data - making of NYT Snow Fall 3d Flyover
Compared to QT much more rudimentary, simpler and way less features. Also it is written in C, not C++. However rendering should be much faster.

As long as the E-libs are installed your apps should work just fine on any system/DE. I haven't tested it with Windows though.
I pretty much agree with everything you say here. Thanks for the trace and unsafePerformIO tips.

> ease-of-writing is a secondary priority

In my experience, once you have enough experience and witnessed the suck of maintaining crappy code, writing good code is second nature and doesn't take conscious effort.
My son (age 11) wants to be a game programmer because of his love for Minecraft. He talks about Notch as his hero.

I've setup a Minecraft server running on a headless box in my house. The server has a whitelist of about 20 names with my children's friends from school so they can play. It's running Craftbukkit/Spigot (http://www.spigotmc.org/) and Purugin (https://github.com/enebo/Purugin) which allows me to help them write Minecraft plugins in Ruby. Minecraft has spread like wildfire at their little school in the country, and being able to have their very own server that they are able to program and invite their friends to play on has made them micro celebrities at their school.

As a parent Minecraft is a way for me to engage with my kids on something we are all interested in. I am also teaching them programming on something they really care about. It's exciting to watch and be a part of, and this documentary will only fuel that growing passion to learn how to write code.
Not at all. I said that there are already soldiers in the situation where their targets are lights on a screen, and they already treat the situation with the appropriate gravity. I claimed that drones wouldn't change that.

Milgram proves too much. It should prove those soldiers callous as well, and they are not. Heck, it should prove any soldier callous, and they certainly are not. As I explained above, soldiers have training the subjects in milgram didn't.
On truths, dreams, confessions--and the iPhone
"the implementers have tended to appropriate Lispy syntax"

But doesn't it make sense that, once you're extending a Lisp dialect to add some Prolog implementation, you'll keep using the Lisp syntax?

I don't see it a question of lazyness or love: one of the main point so many people accept to deal with Lisp's seemingly crazy parentheses is homoiconicity.

It's not that parentheses are that great and that we love seeing: ))))))))) or )))]))]))) (in Clojure).

It's that the benefit (homoiconicity) far outweight the cost of using that syntax.
Undergrad class in Statistics will do a better job, I believe.
"...decided..."

No, we just took our experience from the real world and applied it to this new-fangled communications thingy. Physical things can "stick around forever" if cared for properly. There's no law that says I have to destroy my things after some period of time.

Now that we have digital copies of things, those copies are made of intangible ephemeral bits that are copied repeatedly to get them from one place to another. I think the author's statement that you quote overlooks that digital things are analogies of physical things- physical things that we've expected to last for as long as we like.