skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few days ago, a Microsoft employee who has worked on Windows 7 and 8 said on a Reddit AMA:

"There is no doubt that we have catching up to do. We even do funny ads acknowledging how bad we were: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk "

They still know they're not perfect but they seem to think they're good enough already. I hope one day they learn to do things right.
Dude, you're hurting the narrative. Not cool.
> Microsoft's reasons in Microsoft's own words:

Microsoft's PR official reasons in their own words.

The real reasons may or may not be related. Personally, I don't trust any statement from Microsoft about improved functionality or specification. That might be right in this case, but their past actions indicate that they care about market dominance rather than any technical detail.
It really is a bizarre mess of vague, meaningless, and confusing statements.

> The general media climate also played a role here.

...what?

> To be clear, our decision to pull the campaign should not be interpreted as passing judgment on the advertiser as an organization.

We don't actually think there's anything wrong with Scientology.

> Very shortly, we’ll publish these new policies, and I’ll be discussing them publicly with the press.

We're sure that everyone will forget about this in a week or two, when we'll quietly publish more platitudes about the incident tucked away in a corner somewhere.
Well, as you keep meditating, it becomes more and more clear that all the answers you are burning to understand are found within.
Wize words. Of course you are fortunate enough to work with such people!
Those genuine human moments were not genuine, but otherwise yeah
Skeumorphic? I'm not sure the metro-UI tiles have any real-world counterpart.

EDIT: In fact, Andrew Kim himself makes the point for me: http://bit.ly/VfSQ7T
I wouldn't say so. Some books indeed skip some "real-world" details, but that doesn't affect idiomatic C, which is already performance friendly.
seems relevant: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_c...
Google Search in Chrome gets more secure
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-patent-trolls...
As one of the comments on that page points out, the trail of evidence to Cooley is rather weak: some of the Intellectual Ventures companies are registered with an address of "4401 Eastgate Mall" in San Diego, CA, and Google says that Cooley is also associated with that address. That's the sum and total of the evidence presented.

The problem is that a bunch of other law firms also work out of that building: a quick Google reveals that Shepard Mullins (a major firm), Calderon Law Group, etc. So are "Tang Capital Partners", "Sanderling Ventures", etc. If you look at a Google Streetview, there's even a "for lease" sign outside the building [1]. It's clearly a shared office space.

None of this proves that Cooley is _not_ IV's lawyers. But I wouldn't rely on just that address to prove they are.

[1] https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%224401+Eastgate+Mall,+San+Di...

Edit: here's the "FOR LEASE" advertisement for the building -- it's pretty clear that anybody can get a spot in that building (currently 1,750-9,000 sq ft): http://www.utcofficespace.com/4401-eastgate-mall-san-diego-c...
24 hours from now is no problem if you're using unix time. Just add 24 hours worth of seconds -- when you convert back to the user's time, your conversion logic will take care of timezones. This is also incredibly important if serving an app over the internet as your user may have just flown from USA to Japan. Storing unix time solves this in the easiest way.

Same for working out how many days remain - you convert March 1st to a unix date, get an interval in seconds, and then convert that into a human readable format on display.

This isn't some revelation - unix time has been used successfully for decades now.

EDIT: Also, Postgresql uses a number very similar to unix time in the actual storage of the date - it just handles the pretty display for you. So you're arguing for using the same thing whether you say use a postgre datetime or a unix date number.
Untethered Jailbreak for iOS6/6.0.1 for iPhone 5 and More Devices Underway
Internet Freedom gaining foot in German Parliament
it does have it, once you click the activation link, you are directed to the page to confirm email & password page
Wire format - performance. Language describing the format - author friendliness compared to more verbose formats. We are going to release specs for an XML schema format and translations to and from the Blink format. The XML format can be used for mappings to and from "external" schemas. Should we do a JSON schema format?
I think the trap that a lot of entrepreneurs fall into is trying to create the next billion dollar company. It's better to start small. Find your niche and solve an actual problem for that niche. If it really is a good product, it will eventually grow on its own.
Avoid the problem by not having to pair them at all.

This can be done two ways:

Either have only one color.

The other option is to make it your thing to have odd pairs. Works better the more different from each other they are.
You could always donate two to six dollars to the EFF directly for the same effect- or round up to $10 just to one up them.
Technical enough for you?

No.
I thrive on his mastery of Pali and his support through audio and video. The chanting (particularly the early morning chanting that begins around 5:30 AM), my limited but somewhat viable understanding of Pali, and the effort I make in meditation often line up in a beautiful synchronicity. I am convinced that the meaning behind the Pali chanting and the experience I have of Dhamma on a moment-to-moment basis in meditation are connected, inherently.

Additionally, most of the old students I observe during the course meditate straight through the evening discourses. They are not treated as breaks. Noticing this, I took to meditating through the evening discourses myself and found that the meaning of Goenka's lectures increases dramatically, especially at the end when he concludes ardently wishing that others may find real joy, real happiness, real peace.

Not once in the course does Goenka exhort the mediators to unquestioningly believe in reincarnation or the vibratory nature of the body. On the contrary, he, like Gotama the Buddha, encourage one not to take anything on faith but instead to find your own answers.

There's no manipulation going on during any of the recorded information played at the course. You are only asked to follow the time table, the precepts and hopefully to "work seriously".

I am sorry you had to leave the course early and that you had a sour experience. May you find Dhamma again!
Yes, there is no doubt that if you meditate two hours a day, you won't need to sleep as much. You can basically assume you can lose about 1 hour of sleep, safely.
"I don't understand if this post was supposed to be negative or positive."

Most definitely negative. It sounds like he's been monitoring their website, just waiting to follow up with this post.

"The change is a half-baked attempt to clear up whether information collected by its junkware installers is personally identifiable or not."

...

"Totally worth $500,000."

Well actually, they raised $500,000, presumably at a valuation at least several times higher.

Anyway, I'm sure they've gotten the message that they're being watched closely. I'd give it some time to see how things play out.
Antikythera Mechanism & Saturn V: Complex machines
I saw this today http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130120.html<p>I suppose that for a long time this machine or others like it were the most complex things people had made. When I was growing up in the 1970's I have memories that people claimed that the Saturn V, then the Space Shuttle and in the 1990's the International Space station were variously the most complex artifacts of our civilization.<p>I have been asked to do some talks about the development of technology and want to be systematic and rational, and most importantly not to look like a blow hard who knows nothing and is making stuff up! So, I would like to be able to ascribe a measure of complexity to devices in history. I have tried calculating the number of combinations that each device can be configured into, but this yields huge numbers (as combinations explode..) so huge that I simply don't think they mean much (ie. it can be said that the possible number of connections of the neurons in the brain is larger than the number of atoms in the universe, I cannot grasp the idea of the number of atoms in the universe, perhaps I am dumb, but I just can't picture it).<p>So - any ideas for a rational measure of device complexity that doesn't produce numbers like 10^67?
Derivatives/Census - Debian Wiki
Wow, way to go with the middle brow dismissal. It's nice to know you're actually listening to the opposition.
I've been following Andrew Kim since 2010 (since his HTC Concept). Andrew's designs and general design sense has always inspired me. Looking forward to great things from Andrew.
Jamie Smyth makes some very good points in his economic analysis. Having to pay your own airfare to New York to do a presentation, and then 30 teams building solutions, 29 that would not be paid for. That certainly is a good deal for Campbell, and it sounds like whatever solution they buy for the $25,000 prototype plus $25,000 on completion of the full system with all the changes they request would have cost them a lot more had they hired a design firm to attempt something of this nature, especially in that they get to keep the best of 30 working designs.

Despite all this, much more fascinating than Jamie's post was the following exchange between Campell's brand marketer Sam Niburg and Campell's Global Head of Digital Adam Kmiec.

https://twitter.com/adamkmiec/status/292833747701731328

Regarding Mr Smyth, Kmiec says "Don't sweat it. I shared my opinion about him & his company to every colleague I have client-side and agency-side."

So rather than respond to the very reasonable questions and issues Mr Smyth has brought up, Kmiec publicly brags about having launched a personal vendetta to destroy him and his company.

It's a fascinating exchange between a senior executive and someone tasked with presenting a positive image of the company's brand reputation.

Usually these sorts of open and candid comments between insiders are only seen in private emails. It's refreshing to see inner workings like this out in the open.
I've been asking for the exact same one-click encryption from Google and other cloud storage providers for a while. Mega's encryption shouldn't be a fringe thing, but something all cloud services use.
You have a number of negotiation points here:
- Percentage ownership
- Vesting length
- Vesting cliff
- Hours you expect him to work
- Cash salary
- Bonus
- Title

And some questions to ask yourselves:
- How long have you been working on the project before he got involved?
- How much ownership in the idea/IP does he have?
- Do you all have the same definition of success? (e.g. does he want a long-term business or an acquisition? what does a 'successful exit' look like for you all)
- Is this going to be his only job or is he consulting on the side?

When you're all very clear about the above, it will be easier to come to a reasonable agreement. The "What does success look like?" question is the most important, and something that many startup founders are afraid to ask until it's too late.

A 2-year vesting schedule is not insane, but it begs the question of whether the guy thinks he is key to the business. It is certainly something that seed or A-round investors will want to increase if he is vital, and if he's not vital he shouldn't get 24% :)

Good luck.
Why is this dude important? Because he's asian or something?

Crytek 4, Frostbite 3 is what we want for next gen?
Suitability for FPGA implementation

That's an interesting requirement you don't see very often.
"Drug crimes" covers a very broad spectrum from smoking pot to making meth. I don't think motels should be overly eager to report pot smokers, but meth makers? My God, do you have any idea how dangerous meth synthesis is? If you screw up meth production, explosions and toxic chemical releases are likely. No one with a brain should want a meth lab on their property.

I wouldn't bring up the meth lab, except...they had a meth lab on their property.
Author here: I'm pretty amazed how fast Catalyst is moving. Today was only day 2 of our class and some of the koans were mind-bending. This was my favorite.
There's a whole weird history of civil asset forfeiture being abused, such as when the one black guy in a rural Ohio town is pulled over on his way to buy a new truck with cash, and the cops seize the cash under CAF rules on suspicion that the guy's a drug dealer. I AM NOT ARGUING THAT CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE IS OK. But you'd want to be careful (not "agree with me", just, careful) being knee-jerk about this stuff.

So what were these guys doing, and how is it different?
I'm curious, why do you have a 3-clause BSD-style license on some PDF files that contain specifications? I guess they are a kind of binary built from the page layout source code, but I haven't really seen this before. I'm not sure if you can license the specification itself, i.e. put conditions on people that want to implement it.

http://blinkprotocol.org/s/specs.html
Please don't assume heterosexuality.

When I'm in a rut I grab a notepad, go for a walk and only let myself return after writing down 5 observations.
I doubt it's any more intentional than the main second level domain for the Cook Islands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.co.ck
I disagree. Take Facebook, Twitter or Wordpress. All succeeded despite their original engineering - not because of it.
Mission:
We believe that we can connect charities and charitable causes across the world to technology and help each other to achieve the social changes that we all want to see. So, we want to build open source web based applications which help in improving the society.

Projects that we're currently working on:
http://railsforcharity.org/projects/1
http://railsforcharity.org/projects/3

I wanted to get seem feedback on how to successfully run an open source community and also looking for companies to donate their engineering resources when idle (on bench) for developing the various projects.
High Frequency Trading applications, maybe?
Not many know about http://www.badger.com. What I love them is that they're a no-frills registrar. Been pretty happy with them.

P.S. Most of their front-end code is on Github.
> Cultivate interests that appeal to women

Yeah... nope.
Define: the oh-holy-crap number, d, as follows:

a = the largest number for which there is a concise definition in the English language version of wikipedia

b = the 2nd largest number defined on wikipedia

c = the 3rd largest number defined on wikipedia

Then, let d = c -> b -> a (using Conway chained arrow notation)
I had the same experience with Namecheap--I frequently have to change my records, but it was a deep dive past a lot of layers of fluff to get to that part of the control panel each time I wanted to do it.

Oddly enough, though, the process became a lot more pleasant when I began using CloudFlare, purely as a side-effect: my domains are still registered with Namecheap, but since CloudFlare requires you to host your DNS records through them to do their magic (I grumbled at the time, I admit), you do all your little zone-record edits through their DNS control panel instead. And it's a nice control panel. Now I only have to deal with Namecheap when I actually need to renew/buy/transfer something, which seems about right.
He interned a summer at Google, so it's quite possible that he had been approached by them.
Our AI programs don't need to have their own preferences. Each rational agent can be assigned an assistant AI which will derive its preferences from the agent's already existent preferences.
Or, (9!^9!)!^(9!)

I find it amusing that anyone could think they've "won" a game such as this, there is just so much potential for incredibly large numbers, even if you omit the possibility of using thing's like Knuth's up arrow notation.
I had the same issue: if you try to log-in before 'confirming' your account it will give you the 'wrong credentials' error.

Steps to do:
1) log out of ANY open Mega sessions (even as a guest)
2) Click on confirmation link you received by e-mail
3) Confirm password and press button

That should get you up and running with your Mega account (not that you can use it much yet as it's still overloaded)
Read Freenet documentation. They encrypt everything, yet they use very efficient deduplication. I really like Freenet's design. Encryption key is based on the payload, so if you don't know what he payload is, you can't decrypt the packet. Of course decryption keys can be delivered using different encrypted tree of keys, which is used when you deliver download link.

For that reason, when ever I'm sharing anything I usually encrypt files with my recipients public keys before sending those out. Just to make sure that data is really private and keys are known only to my selected peers. In some cases when I want to make stuff even more private, I encrypt data separately with each recipients public key, so you can't even see list of public key ID's which are required to decrypt the data.

I also have 'secure work station' which is hardened and not connected to internet. That's the workstation I use to decrypt, handle and encrypt data. Only encrypted and signed data is allowed to come and go to that workstation.
Thank you for your kind words! We are trying to do our best.
I want to start a space company. Now what?
Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the US to spy on you
Lessons Learned from Fixing a .m2e Issue
Chronicles of troubleshooting an issue with .m2e's failure to update indexes from Maven Central Repository.
how about prplx.com
its available.
Out of 280,000 room rentals over a period of 15 years, there were 15 cases of people with drugs.

If you believe grabbing property on that basis is justified, then, I am sorry to say sir that you are just a government shill who supports fascist forfeiture.

And apparently Caswell has had fewer crimes than other nearby addresses

http://forfeiturereform.com/2013/01/14/analysis-shows-fewer-...
Where does this fit on the network protocol stack? Does it replace TCP/UDP? Or is it on top of HTTP? Or is it not even a network protocol? I've skimmed the website but I'm surprised this isn't jumping right out at me tbh.
This somehow prompted me to check out the Scientology website. I don't buy into scientology at all (and am pretty against some of the abuses), but wow, they are really good at marketing.
Just wow. That is amazingly clueless use of social media.

If I had read just Smyth's well-written post, I wouldn't have anything against Campbell per se. They organized a lame hackathon, but a lot of companies do that, and Smyth's post was about this corporate hackathon culture, it just happened to use Campbell's hackathon as an example.

But after reading that Twitter exchange, I now think they really are clueless assholes.
Hmm, interesting. I read a nearly identical story about Viktor Belenko, a Soviet test pilot who defected to the US with a MiG 25 by way of Japan in the 70s.

Basically while on some sort of mission he booked it across the Sea of Japan, landed unannounced at a Japanese airport, and jumped out of his plane asking that he in his plane be handed over to the Americans. (The Soviets were pretty pissed about this, so the plane was later returned to the Soviet Union... disassembled... in dozens of different crates).

Apparently during part of the process of integrating him into American society his handlers brought him to a grocery store, and he initially became concerned that he was being lied to. IIRC he also requested that he be allowed to spend some time working at a modern American farm.

The luxury of an abundance of food seems to be a common theme.
If a designer did an unofficial rebrand of pornhub and it was nice, we'd for sure hire him. Porn gets no love.
"Blink can be used as an efficient presentation layer on top of middleware solutions like message queues and messaging platforms. However, Blink is also well-suited to be layered on TCP and UDP without any need for encapsulating headers, thanks to its built in message type system."

How is it TCP without the headers? And how can you put a layer on top of TCP and call that saving space? Shouldn't you just be using TCP? It's late I must be missing something ...
I could see that being annoying or helpful, depending on how it's implemented. (I've only ever used Confluence).
Gunmen Attack Emir of Kano
Google Apps Script: Documents and Files Sharing Between the Google Apps Domain
The Google Documents List API allows client applications to view and manipulate files in a user’s Documents List. In this blog we would learn how to share documents and files between the Google Apps Domain.
Twisted logic? Many organizations distribute syringes explicitly for heroin.
So you propose an overzealous and exaggerated prosecution of one individual based on doubtful accusations just to drive a point home and serve as deterrent to others?

Sounds awfully like the thing you claim to be protesting.
Yes. We all wish that Aaron had not reached that conclusion. We don't know what he was thinking at that moment, and whether anyone could have said something to change his mind.

My personal view is that suicidal impulses are similar to septic fever; the causes are understood, the consequences are terrible, and both prophylaxis and treatment are effective.

But, it is not always possible to reach victims when they need help.

Beng the target of an unjust and overreaching prosecution is the sort of stressor that could provoke even a strongminded person to suicide.
> And presumably, unless they think they can legally get away with ignoring it, they will.

I feel like a goddamn broken record.
I think this is a terrible analogy and doesn't admit the possibility that the master is able to build both kinds of tables - and that this is why he's the master. In 10 hours he can probably still produce a sturdy, simple table just like he used to. He now has the skill to take the craft to a new level.
What harm can possibly a person from Iran do to this project, or US, or us citizens or other people from the world, by contributing to this project or other ones on TopCoder?! Ok I understand that you can not sell things to us, because you think that we may misuse them for terrorism (Although real terrorists - not the people - can find what they want easily) but seriously what does contributing to an International project can do anything with politics?
Right, what they saw and experience while on the train was uncensored. Everything afterwards was planned.

I do love that story though. It is a great testament to the effectiveness of the "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know I couldn't do that." excuse.
It's a shame patent trolls cannot be prosecuted as organized crime.
1. find commercially viable business propositions involving space.

2. Create products and services that fulfill those propositions.

3. Sell them at more than the cost of production.

A few questions to get you started:

Who buys things that go to space?

Who pays to go to space?

What products produced in space are saleable for more than it costs to make them; either in space, or on the ground?
AKMA: Remember Aaron