skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely a good step in the right direction. The more companies and customers can connect in productive ways, the better.
You should check out Hacker Vision as see what you think: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-vision/fomm...
Is this not the same as the monthly activity report?
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Definitely like the replies to "Laura Shultz's" comment at the above link ;)
That is very slick, time to convert several CDs to midi and see how it deals with non-classical music (Or may I'll just break out the years of midi tracks from music I've transcribed)
A copy is never good enough. I think the best approach would be to enhance the brain by attaching devices to it directly. This maintains continuity and doesn't raise as many philosophical questions. This also raises other interesting questions like how long can the brain live in a suspended solution and where would all these consciousnesses live...
In case of Opera Mini client part of browser does not have technical ability to parse and render html.
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Have to confess I do the same for my favourite authors' hardbacks. I'd happily do this more often and with paperbacks if they priced it right - I like having and seeing books on shelves. However at the moment I mostly feel resentful and gouged by the publisher when I want a book in both formats and they get a double dip from me for exactly the same set of words.
Completely agree. Neil's a really smart and experienced software CEO (Red Gate Software in Cambridge, UK) and I thought he had a lot of interesting/useful stuff to say in that book.
I've been passively aware of it, but don't really care - most items are not really egregious. Because Safeway's prices are so volatile with sales and Instacart doesn't seem to really reflect that, it ends up balancing out pretty well (plus, of course, the huge convenience factor)
redshift has constant problems with it's geolocate service in recent versions of Ubuntu. Not sure what the issue is, but you can specify the longitude and latitude to circumvent it. I use, for example:

redshift -l <long>:<lat>

I've not had good luck with the f.lux port for linux.
no its not c++ish, its simply an implementation which is technically similiar to c++, because they are at some core syntax/semantic similar. i didnt said that its the new wheel, or better or worse. its just free of third party stuff, which will be compilable anywhere only dependent of the compiler used. and i didnt exclude that this is exlusive for C, sure this applys to c++ as well. but not if you want to use feature complete c++.
Getting support for partial indexes from within Rails is one of the reasons I wrote db_leftovers, which lets you manage indexes, foreign keys, and CHECK constraints from a simple DSL:

https://github.com/pjungwir/db_leftovers

Although db_leftovers works with Postgres and MySQL, partial indexes only work with Postgres, because MySQL doesn't have them.
Is it even possible? HTTPS is used to avoid any possibility of man in the middle attack. How can nokia's proxy servers be able to decrypt that encrypted information unless they themselves have the private key?
It's so they can compress the data and save on your data plan. You can't compress encrypted stuff, so they temporarily decrypt it, compress then reencrypt.

They could have turned it off for HTTPS data though, but then all the mails would not get compressed and people would have said the browser doesn't work.
It would be much easier to evaluate the offer if you told something about yourself. Just an anonymous gmail address isn't trustworthy enough. For example what marketing experience do you have and where are you located? If you live in Japan, you likely are not interested in a business project aimed at the Hungarian market.
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Yeah, you might recall that there was a huge push by public health officials to get folks to take the H1N1 vaccine.

The actual flu that year was not that bad, so the spike was a bit of an anomaly.
Here is what Arch's look like, rendered with Pacgraph:

http://kmkeen.com/tmp/arch-repo.png
I didn't know I would need it, and was buying only the very minimum number of things. (For example, I also didn't get a garlic masher which is small and cheap—less useful, but again I didn't know how useful a whisk was yet.)
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I understood it to be compression, not caching:

>...and reiterated the point of the Xpress Browser’s compression capabilities...

Seems like they are talking about what is going on on their network between the browser and the destination.
I can't properly express how disappointed I am by this release. Chrome on mobile has been a redheaded stepchild for almost a year, with the vague promise that big improvements would be coming once they merged with mainline Chrome. But this new beta version seems to solve absolutely none of the issues that Chrome on Android has been suffering from:

- Password sync is still not supported. This is absolutely insane, especially since it's apparently supported by iOS. Typing secure password on a touch keyboard is a total pain, and even more so to do it again for every single device.

- The much touted smart resizing of text is still completely broken. It still semi-randomly decides that particular bits of text on a page are unimportant (e.g. due to the paragraph being small) and resize them to an unreadable size. Often these elements are actually the most important ones on a page.

- The "zoom + double tap resize text" idiom from just about all other Android browsers (including the original default browser) is still not there, which increases the pain caused by the stupid text resizing algorithms.

- The edges of the screen are still wasted on the useless unsymmetric tab switching gestures. Ok, unlike the other things, I didn't seriously expect that this would change. Still a bummer :-(

I can't believe Google removed the real browser from Android 4.2 if they're really going to leave Chrome as a cute toy with nothing going for it but a couple of easily demoable features.
FWIW, I have a story of a better proposition. I currently do a lot of subcontract work for a consulting company. These guys have been around for a while, but to gain more exposure, so they have been wanting to publish some Open Source stuff. I've been working, on and off, on an interesting (to me, at least) project that I was planning to release under a BSD license and if it gains traction, turn it into a business. What the consultancy proposed was this: they would pay me to finish the project and publish it under their name. We would then market it as an OSS project, gaining more exposure for their firm and for the project. Later, if I choose to turn it into a business, I already have a potential partner who is intimately familiar with the project. If not, I get paid, and they get a cool OSS project to show off.

This is strictly a better offer than the OP's: I get paid for about the same amount of time, and I get to keep 100% of the creation (so does everyone else, since it's Open Source). In other words everybody wins.
(Just for reference/googleability, some other conventional names for such functions are pure or referentially transparent.)
It's not really a man-in-the-middle, as Nokia is actually controlling one of the two end points, that is, the browser.
I see delivery robots being significantly easier to create than driverless cars. All you need is a shopping cart stuck on top of a set of stair-capable movement system, it's not like the thing needs to be dressed up as a butler.
What if we don't want money? Would you take less equity to simply help form the business and grow the product?

I can afford to build and host a product that I would use. I am looking for someone that can validate and grow the business, leaving me to do what I am good at, which is Product.
You have a good start there. I haven't used your app but looking at it the GUI looks kid-friendly.

You might want to look at iOS and iPhone review sites and give them your link for possible reviews. If you get more reviews on it from third parties who are neutral, it will help promote your app. Find target users by posting to K-12 education forums with your Tommy Teaches web site in your signature, find Homeschooling forums and post in them with TT in your tag line as well. Form partnerships with other makers of children's learning apps to link to your web site and your will link back to their web site.

I can think of more titles for Tommy, there is a big market for foreign languages as most schools don't teach foreign languages due to budget cuts (my son's school did that) and the school advises parents to go online and have their children learn there. You could make Spanish, French, German, Latin, Chinese, Japanese learning apps and market them to parents who need to have their child learn a foreign language. I haven't seen many children friendly foreign language apps on the App Store. They are mostly for adults. Tommy Teachers can fill that gap.

Write some eBooks based on the Tommy Teacher graphics and materials. Start out with an Alphabet book, and work on each title. You can publish them with Kindle and Nook as well as Apple iBooks.

Make some pages for Tommy Teaches at Facebook, GPlus, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc to promote new products and have people sign up and refer your pages to friends.

You might want to make some apps as Autism-friendly, I hear there is a big market for that. A Tommy Teaches app that autistic children can use that speaks for them, when they can't speak. They just click on icons and it forms words for them. Use most common words that a child might say and have cartoon pictures of them.

Good luck on Rev 2, this is all free advice for you. You don't need that guy's $8000 investment.
Uhhh, why don't they build these underground or camouflage them at all? I find it hard to believe sensitive compounds aren't camouflaged for satellite imagery.
Why is this necessary? Shouldn't all encrypted traffic be compressed to begin with?

I'm ignorant of how SSL traffic is actually encrypted, but if you're already crunching the numbers to encrypt something, and a big part of encryption is eliminating redundancy, why isn't the data compressed at the same time?

Seems like you could kill two birds at once and eliminate any reason to decrypt HTTPS data for caching purposes as well. It would cut down on traffic for the rest of us on the internet too.

Or is this like CDN caching, where it's more about limiting latency than bandwidth?
You might be interested in Greg Egan's [0] story 'The Jewel' [1]. [edit] To clarify, it's actually two stories "Learning to Be Me" and "Closer".

Greg Egan is one of my favourite modern sci-fi writers. He explores interesting and hard ideas about what it means to be human by placing humanity in thought provoking situations.

In 'The Jewel' we have developed an implant that learns how to 'be' the host. At some point your brain is removed and the jewel takes over your functioning. The thing is, what happens when something goes wrong... boom boom booooom!!?!?!

But really, read him if you are into sci-fi.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiomatic_(story_collection)
yes, even standard libs, but they arent that promoted as c++ std libs, as most of them are just apis for system interaction, only a minority are useful out of the box algorithms.

and third party libs are also possible, yes.
Excellent points. But it's important to remember that as the number of chairs keeps decreasing, your advice becomes less appropriate for any given young person. Personally, even today, I would advise most individuals who got accepted by Yale not to go. The quality of free online education is so high that we've essentially reached the point where "everyone got in" to Yale.

What does the decrease in the number of chairs mean? It means that less work is necessary and fewer jobs are necessary to support our society. This is good. We should want it to continue decreasing. I would like there to be fewer chairs, and faster. =)
Perhaps, but we'll still have to fight them all in court, right? So, they can trivially slap down a startup with litigation threats if they so choose?
Oracle does not support partial indexes but since Oracle does not index NULL values you can emulate it with a functional index. (Only really useful if used for unique indexes, otherwise to kludgey.) I do not think DB2 supports partial indexes either, and I have no idea if they can be emulated.

The only two I know support them are PostgreSQL and MSSQL.
Atlanta has a decent size rails community.

You should consider looking more deeply into the positions that are available. Companies who use .Net tend to be older and more mature businesses (likely because .Net is not open source) and I am not positive but I would think that they are looking for highly experienced developers. I would take a close look at the entry level positions that are available in the area that you want to work and possibly even contact those companies and ask what exactly they're looking for.

Also, a possible imperfect way to determine the ROR community size in a city is by searching for Ruby / Rails meetups in the area.
The guy who originally discovered this:

http://gaurangkp.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/nokia-proxy/

Does anyone have a reference to a law or regulation this would fall under?

Does PCI compliance apply to this situation? If yes, then Nokia is not compliant to requirement 4.1:

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/Prioritized_A...
Loving the Yeoman favicon!
But really clean site, and it feels pretty fast, i like it :)
The only way I can think is if Nokia operate their own CA and configure the phones to trust it. They then issue their own certificate for any site you visit which your phone will trust.

I don't think that's what is happening, we need further explanation. Although if that is what is happening it;s really bad as they would effectively be impersonating the sites.
That wasn't a personal offer to you. Why are you wasting your time on HN? You're losing millions!
This response has nothing to do with anything. The singularity as Kurzweil is describing it is marked by tangible events like the development of a true AI or atleast a machine learning algorithm capable of discovering and proving its own concepts. I have no idea how this relates to your very abstract singularity (a trick of perspective?).
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Software abstracion of a hw system sounds ok. VM in C context is little bit weird ... but it's only terminology
For this very reason I patched a version of Rails 3.2.8 with the following patch files distributed by the ror-security mailing list[1]:

3-2-dynamic_finder_injection.patch
3-2-null_array_param.patch
3-2-xml_parsing.patch

The changelogs didn't cleanly apply but everything else did. In your Gemfile,

gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/adamonduty/rails', :branch => '3.2.8_with_security_patches'

This will install version 3.2.8a. If you get a bundler error "NoMethodError: undefined method [] for nil:NilClass", try upgrading your rubygems-bundler gem to version 1.1.0.

See https://github.com/adamonduty/rails/tree/3.2.8_with_security... for the commits.

Given the number of changes and known issues in 3.2.9, I don't understand why the core team didn't perform a similar release.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonra...
Well, I think people forget history a bit sometimes. For 20 years or so the most common exploit in any system was a buffer overflow, often in string manipulation. I think we're finally getting past that, but C's lack of abstraction over string pointers was a major, major problem and even today if I was writing a secure system I would choose C++ if only to use the std::string class.
I will never again buy a Nokia phone.
My guess is that the browser just won't tell you who the other party is. Whenever you go to a secure site you actually connect to (and are encrypted with) Nokia's server. That server then connects to the remote site securely.
> - The much touted smart resizing of text is still completely broken. It still semi-randomly decides that particular bits of text on a page are unimportant [...]

Is this the reason why some HN comments are displayed using a smaller font than the rest of them? I always thought it had something to do with their score..

EDIT:

> - The edges of the screen are still wasted on the useless unsymmetric tab switching gestures.

Tab switching seems to be affected by your phone case.. when I removed mine from S3 it worked perfectly, but with it I can never reliably switch tabs.
You should probably also charge all customers the lower of the two test price points at the final checkout step (as mentioned by whyleyc in this thread). That should avoid most complaints.
We will be adding that soon :)
I'm not sure about Nokia's service specifically, but in general these kinds of services do more than just zipping files. Some things they do:
* resize images large images to match the screen resolution
* limit the number of HTTP requests the phone itself is making
The point of most encryption algorithms isn't to compress the data or remove redundancy, at all. In fact, most widely used algorithms are block ciphers that don't change the size of the data.
I used GIMP the same way up until recently. It worked for me, but switching to Photoshop has sped up a ton of common workflow -- slicing an image, turning on and off groups of layers, and similar. Also I've found that some small tweak to the PSD is almost inevitably needed, and it's worth the cost of Photoshop not to have to wait for an updated design from someone else.

I don't want to just hate on open-source graphics software - a lot of amazing work has gone into GIMP, it had fun things like content-aware resizing before Photoshop did, but Adobe has 1000X the resources to invest in usability and they've used those resources well.
Why would Nokia care about PCI compliance? That's incumbent on the processor, not all the points inbetween.
The pictures helpfully clarify that Google Groups has a couple of extra dropdowns and a captcha to complete before sending your email whereas the 37signals minimalist credit card form has um... a couple of dropdowns and a long number to copy accurately.
For amateur uses on OS X I've used Acorn and Pixelmator, until I finally switched to Adobe's Creative Cloud.
Could an alpha layer be used for this purpose?
It's not just compression. These kinds of schemes can e.g. eliminate a massive number of extra roundtrips over a high latency mobile link. Or eliminate most uplink traffic completely (basically you'd just need to issue a request for the main page, all the subresources could automatically fetched by the proxy server and pushed to the client without it specifically requesting them). And that can be a huge win on mobile, since uplink tends to be way slower than downlink and often becomes a bottleneck for pages with many small resources.
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Google more than Apple is a sign of things to come.
>Most recently the excitement and focus on Sandy Hook has frustrated me. 1 Sandy Hook occurs every day in the United States.

Dude, no. "An act of gun violence" is not "20 elementary school children killed in their elementary school." There is not 1 Sandy Hook every day. It is the Olympics of moral equivocation to boil what happened there to "an act of gun violence." Why would you be frustrated that people got more worked up over 20 little kids being murdered in their classrooms than other "acts of gun violence"?
They like to crush images. I'm on a mobile dongle (T Mobile, UK) and I'll happily take some screenshots if anyone has some test gifs anywhere. Mine don't interfere with SSL. But a lot of other stuff is weird or broken.
fucking a that's a total shitfucking clusterfuck
It's pretty standard for corporate proxy servers - at least in financial companies where theres regulations that tend to require some level of monitoring of external communications.

It's a simple MITM attack, where the endpoint (your browser) has a whitelisted certificate for the proxy, so the browser is happy that it's talking to a correctly signed certificate that it trusts, and the proxy uses the the certificate for the other end of the connection.
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No more so than any other proxy server.
Ah, well for sure your privacy decisions are your business. I personally am careful what I choose to share. If you feel that sharing your political views is dangerous or damaging or what-have-you, that is your choice, but you are also removing yourself from an important (personally, morally, globally) discussion.
Microsoft offers $72k (or used to) for entry-level SDE.

Over $100k for entry-level around Seattle seems too much unless that company is printing good money every milliseconds.
It's more like a browser running on a remote desktop (you have hopefully exclusive access to) which sends your phone the repackaged html and recompressed images instead of a screencast.
Of course there is a difference between just Mitm for compression and outright eavesdropping. But with this point of attack a government can simply walk to Nokia with a court order, and Nokia will comply, most likely without much of a fight.

Or a little bit more abstract, the technical security is broken and the user relies on social norms for his privacy. The same social norms which forbid my ISP to sniff my non SSL traffic.
Another vote for Redshift. Use Flux on work PC and Redshift on laptop. The colour transition seems to be a lot more subtle with Redshift and I find it easier to adjust. On the other hand, the change feels very sudden with Flux. Often use my laptop in work, but I suppose it could well just be a difference in lighting between home and the office, as others have mentioned. Maybe my eyes deceive me.
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>Why does this make C easier?

It gives you more options. It makes it more practical to interleave C and assembly at a very granular level, whereas it sounds like you can only do it at the function level or coarser in go.

>Does C automatically choose the correct target architecture for every piece of Assembly you write?

No. I won't deny that go has a good build system, but I'm more interested in the language.
I've tried it once for a short while and sided with camp #1.

Going to try it out again, "forcefully", for a longer while to see how it works out.
Actually corporate proxy servers generally use CONNECT to allow HTTPS through.
Does it have the ability to access HTTPS content?
Is there anything else that is a) free, b) cross platform, and c) has the powerful features of GIMP? I use GIMP because of those three factors (and to be clear, I would happily purchase Photoshop, but I switch OSes all the time and want something I can use everywhere).
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You should add your e-mail to your profile - it must be in the "about" field for everyone to see it.

I happen to be sitting on a project that bridges online and offline, we applied for the last YC batch but didn't make it. Will send more info as soon as I'm able to :)
I am overwhelmed and feeling somewhat inadequate, such is often the case when reading material posted on HN (I can't be the only one!).

truly a beautiful 'story', fantastic execution. bravo!
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> This is strictly a better offer than the OP's

Is it available to everyone, though?
Banks like java applets because of the built-in cryptography functions.
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No, then it will see the evil overlord list, and we'll be doomed

(http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList)
You can already MITM if you compromise any CA's private key.
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