skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oops, it turned out to be true so where does that leave you?
SSH – Can It Be More Secure?
I'm worried that the smart cards and their software is well designed, but then you have to rely on other vendors to do thier bit securely.

Fravia said of dongles that they were often great, with nice libraries, but when software vendors implemented them they would use stupid methods.

(http://home.scarlet.be/detten/tuts/dongle_zeezee.htm)

> Don't panic when you read all info about dongle security. They ARE secure. OK. You can't crack them unless they're done by complete idiots. OK. But you want to crack the application, NOT the dongle. When you read about RSA encryption, one-way functions and see in the API some interesting Question/Answer hashing functions, remember that it's only API. No one uses it. Only simple functions like Check/Serial Number/Read and sometimes Write are used.
A single source of vetted apps is fine but Google has already demonstrated that allowing expert users to use alternative app sources doesn't hurt. And I don't see how anybody can argue that required a full review cycle for every minor bug fixes benefits users. I see more and more mobile shops iterating on Android first because there are just fewer hassles.

Also, Apple's refusal to allow developers to do lower-level things like create alternative keyboards means Android users get to use modern input technologies like SwiftKey while iOS users are still pecking away at a 2007 keyboard.
A new stage-agnostic $194m fund from 2 Samwers, 1 Siegel
Nothing to do with tablets - no one really cares about them in business. You just don't see them other than in the hands of a few purposeless executives. I visit hundreds of medium-large enterprises and they just aren't any.

The moment the warranty runs out, they buy T4xx series ones instead and throw the others at resellers in bulk. This is all scheduled alongside windows upgrades. The motivation to get rid of the T61's coincided with Windows 7 upgrades (the T61's nearly all shipped with Vista).

I've seen a pallet with 500 T61's on it being carted away from a large insurance company for these reasons.
This is gives me a serious headache! Try playing this whilst drunk....
Random Access Memory Memory?
Go – Openshift
Let's assume that animals don't have any rights.

Still, they do feel emotions such as joy and fear, and physical sensations such as pleasure and pain. And how we treat them does have an effect on which of these they are going to feel.

Would I go out of my way to cause pain to an animal? Would I go out of my way to prevent pain to it? On what basis should I decide?

I think everything we do says, "this is who I am". That is, through every action (or inaction), we make a statement about how we perceive of ourselves. If I perceive of myself as a kind person, I would be conflicted about doing anything that I know will cause pain to another sentient being. If I have low self-esteem and don't think of myself as a particularly nice person, I might not make much of an effort to regulate my behavior to account for the effect it might have on others.

So, I would say that we forget about "animal rights", and think only about whether our actions truly reflect the kind of people and the kind of society we wish to be.
Aer Conditionat Inverter
Retele secundare de canalizare din ansamblul de cladiri se executa in general, in sistem unitar; la retelele exterioare, racordarea instalatiilor interioare de canalizare a apelor uzate menajere, industriale si meteorice, care sunt concepute in sistem separativ, se face prin conducte distincte in camine exterioare de racord
Hi Qisine, im a freelancer developer (entrepreneur wannabe) from north Italy.
Im in a position similar to yours, im 29 and have startup failure.

I will gladly have a chat with you, how and when can we meet ?
> Just don't store it character for character the same...

You've just described encryption here, whilst saying that its not encryption.

The principle is right though. A simple obfuscation will deter most attacks.
You’re Born An Entrepreneur
I don't know how effective it would be to enforce such a policy. If you put up strict welfare requirements on farmers in your country then people would simply buy cheaper meat from elsewhere without the regulations.

So it's actually more effective to have low welfare requirements that are only slightly better than those abroad in order to keep prices competitive so that people buy from the farms with marginally better conditions.

The only other solution would be to impose a high import tax on meat from countries that did not meet the same standards.
The C42 guide to good code - Part I: Code Smells
Why web designers and web developers should have blogs
I'm not sure about this. The very first link I clicked had some iffy advice.

The "Function declaration" section makes an unsubstantiated claim that function declarations are an antipattern, neglecting to mention the significant difference in effect between a declaration and a function expression assigned to a variable. Declarations are subject to function hoisting; IIFEs and expressions assigned to variables aren't. (But the variables themselves are, which is further confusing.) In other words:

fnDeclaration(); // This function is ready for use.
function fnDeclaration() {
console.log('This function is ready for use.');
}

// - but -

fnExpression(); // TypeError: undefined is not a function.
typeof fnExpression; // 'undefined'
var fnExpression = function() {
console.log('This function is ready for use.');
};

fnExpression(); // This function is ready for use.
typeof fnExpression; // 'function'

Named function expressions are neat, I guess, but the trailing F looks more like an odd, Hungarian stylistic choice than a fix for a serious issue in IE<8. Given that the author(s) either didn't know or just forgot to mention (at first) the IE problems you could meet with if you followed this advice, I'm a little bit concerned about this reference.
Apps for Business users do (when switching from Mail to Calendar to Drive to Sites to Groups to .... This change happened on my account last week (it has since switched back) and it was really disruptive while it lasted. I ended up installing the "Black Menu" Chrome Extension.
Thanks for your thoughts. About "To the best of my knowledge there have never been vegetartian societies": Large parts of the Indian subcontinent are vegetarian societies, since millenia.
oki-doki = 42;

will cause an exception too.
You are aware we're discussing Cyprus here...
How Jacob Cass built a successful web design blog
Health insurance companies could purchase loyalty-card information from grocery stores. Want to know if someone is always eating trans-fats and smoking? There we go.

Want to know how much booze someone is purchasing per week?

The possibilities are endless, and I am sure this has already been thought of many years ago.
Isn't JRE using compacting GC which makes the "no copies" guarantee void anyway?
Apple's best offense is a good defense
> It is little wonder that all primitive art depicted hunting.

"All"? I'm not even sure about "most". I would love to see a citation for this extraordinary claim.
CentOS 6.4 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
Extinct frog hops back into the gene pool
What does liquid nitrogen on the RAM do? I was under the impression they plugged the computer into a UPS or something and took it.
"Directional Disability" or, People Who Lose Their Way
well, in fact they do support it — there's Widevine plugin in chrome://plugins/ (/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdmadapter.so)
Do you mean it took 60-80 man years to get the Unreal engine to where it is today? Any chance you could find the source for that or site you think you saw it on?

Pretty amazing!
Poor argument. (a) is useless because the end result is the same. (b) is useless for the same reason. (c) address something that wasn't actually on the table.

A better argument would be that in the animal kingdom animals often suffer horrible deaths, but that after living a free life until that moment. Industrial farms are misery from birth on.
Correct. But even without their permission their phone will transmit it's location to the nearest celltower. Also, in my country we have CCTV-camera's along all major roads with licenceplate-tracking. Public transport requires a chipcard with login. I feel so much safer...
I clicked on the Builder Pattern , it linked to a file but it would be more interesting to have a bit of an explanation. That why UML diagrams are usefull. right now https://github.com/shichuan/javascript-patterns/blob/master/... is hard to understand. I would propose a simple exemple for the builder pattern .

let's say we have an array of datas : [0,10,200,50] and we want a representation of the data.

So the director would use different builders to represent these datas ( a bar chart , a line chart , etc ...).

What i find important with design patterns and often lacking in books is real use cases.You often get strange exemples that , may be interesting but you actually can use them in a real application. Usually the builder ,the fly-weight and the chain of reponsability are often explained badly or with horrible exemples.

I dream of a book that does 2 things :

- explain each pattern with real exemples and propose a list of real uses cases where the pattern would be usefull

- has an extended tutorial at the end of the book the makes the user actually build a full application with all the patterns studied. For instance , a drawing application with different shapes, pens , filters , commands , menus , undo , redo , data serialization , that would use all the main design patterns and make them work together.

If such a book exists ( in java , as3 , C# , javascript ,... (just not in C++ or smalltalk ;) ) ) , i would be interested to know about it.

Now javascript has some patterns of its own ( module pattern , etc ... ) that's interesting to know them too.
> was that the ecology balance in nature would break down if humanity suddenly stopped eating meat.

We don't eat tend lake fish, we eat fish from the sea. Fisheries stocks are collapsing from over fishing.

Farming, and farming of animals, has caused extensive ecological damage. Large areas of rain-forest have been cut to provide space for grazing animals; desertification occurs when cattle over-graze areas; some species are lost because land is given to cattle; animal waste in large enough quantities is toxic pollution and some management systems just intensify the problem (eg, Holland had a slurry lake for years); some modern farm animals are over-bred genetic freaks and they wouldn't survive without farmers.

Really, if humans suddenly stopped eating meat and fish over night the environment would probably be better, not worse.
Functional java
What is the name of this operator: "--&gt;"?
I would suggest reading the blogs and information about NewsBlur, the demands on his system are huge. If one is just talking about having a single user RSS Reader these have been around for years, but in terms of a web app for thousands the scale of the database and requests is significant.
My site was free initially as well and when I was young and naive, I even intended to keep it free. Reality caught up and after years I announced that I gonne charge a lousy Euro.

80% of the users stuck and paid, but there are indeed a few that hold an utterly irrational resentment. It goes so far that they prefer to discuss this matter for hours and hours and use some crappy software, instead of just paying the damn 12 Euro a year.

Then I figured that a Euro was a bit too low. In Germany, VAT is usually included if you see a price as a private customer, unlike in the US, where you get the VAT added at the checkout. So, 19% VAT on a Euro is a substantial cut.

I increased prices to 2€, which worked alright, only a few people got upset, but again, many continued to use the service. Still, I feel like I'm now locked in at a relatively low price point and it gets tougher to justify another rise in price.
I have never posted comments about whether a particular action has made me lose my faith in humanity, or whether it restored my faith in humanity.

But after reading the linked article, my faith in humanity is definitely shaken.

The meat industry's focus is not on ending animal abuse, but on making it more difficult for animal abuse to be discovered and proven. In other words, they are determined not to change their ways, because (I imagine) doing so will be inconvenient, and might cause them to make slightly less money than they make now.

How can any state legislators support such moves (and introduce these bills)? Do they have no ability to empathize with another living being? If no, are they fit to be our leaders?

Edit: Typo.
From the second sentence of the Wikipedia article on ethics, they quote an "expert" (i.e. someone with "expertise") defining ethics as "a set of concepts and principles that guide us in determining what behavior helps or harms sentient creatures".

Certainly you can argue about a billion types of ethical frameworks, some of which may differ from this statement, and you can argue about the definition of ethics and morality. The prevailing basis of morality and ethics is most certainly minimizing suffering. Without sentient experience, ethics are meaningless. That's why in most frameworks we don't worry about the treatment of non-sentient things outside the context of the sentient experience of them, and we debate whether ethics apply to things based on whether they are sentient. Notwithstanding issues relating to these objects relationships to other sentient beings, we don't worry whether it's ethical to sit on a chair or pee in a toilet.

The parent comment was drawing an ethical conclusion from a biological fact, and certainly did not say anything about abortion being or not being "mathematically beneficial," whatever that means.
Be really careful when requesting an expedited review. We learned this the hard way.

Your app update goes into a different review queue, and people who are not be familiar with previous versions of your app will review it. They will pick on things that previous reviewers had already come to terms with (either through discussion with you, or lengthy review).

Edit: more info, this happened with our app "Codea". Because it was a coding app for iPad, the initial review was extremely lengthy (over a month). When we had to urgently update due to a trademark issue, our "expedited" review also took over a month — as if it was being reviewed for the first time (despite having past updates reviewed quickly). It didn't seem to matter that the existing version was available all the while on the App Store, either.

Apple's review process is incredibly weird.
The bits stored in DRAM remain readable for a time (sometimes minutes) even after the power is cut. In normal operation frequent refresh is needed to avoid decay the decay doesn't happen nearly as fast as the refresh cycles make it seem. Cooling the cells lengthens that time, from minutes up to hours (depending on the temperature), permitting an adversary to read them without much time pressure.

Paper on that: http://citp.princeton.edu.nyud.net/pub/coldboot.pdf
> free variables that are not global variables

These are named "upvalues" in Lua parlance (even though they are read/write, the "value" part is a leftover of a previous Lua version where these variables were read-only and frozen from the closure viewpoint).

It really simplifies the discourse...

Are there other short names for them in other languages? I don't know of any.

> So, in these examples, the inner functions are closures, the outer ones are not, but only because the outer ones are used in a global scope. If you enclosed everything in another function, then also the outer functions would be closures.

This is probably nitpicking, but in the examples on Stack Overflow, the outer functions don't close over locals of the parent scope. Their closure is thus empty, and I don't call these functions closures. Not sure if it is correct, though.
TL;DR please
At the risk of going too meta, someday am I going to have to deal with some idiot who thinks "slippery slope" is a formal fallacy...

It already happens elsewhere. You can observe an ongoing trend and justify the expectation that it will continue using the motivations and past behavior of the actors involved, and someone will still say, "Slippery slope, I win!"
It freezes the circuits and prevents them from being discharged. When removed from the fridge, the attackers have some extra time (while thawing) to read the status of the RAM.
IPhone + Computer Vision + Duck Hunt = Awesome Virtual Rifle
Aha, you're right. Although I wouldn't call almost-full-screen on a modern MacBook Pro small.
1. Red Herring, Straw man.

Please do not commit a red herring and a straw man by arbitrarily assuming that it would "require gods or souls" without providing any logical reason as to why it would.

2. Combinatorics, Not Morality.

Genetic uniquness is the complete antithesis of a "moral, supernatural, superstitious, spiritual" judgement - it is instead a cold hard evolutionary reason - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393246 in these comments for why. In fact, you later support this - as noted below.

3. Pain, Fear, Death, and your Contradiction.

You assert that "oppressing and killing humans" is bad.
Then you invent a new criteria - not based on oppressing and killing humans, but just whether they know they are being killed and oppressed. This has the following errors:

A. It contradicts your objective criterion of information. (Because it logically has to, as seen by 2)

B. It is more subjective, because it depends upon the human being aware of their oppression/death.

C. Not all humans are aware of their oppression or death (gunshot from behind) - your standard would then mean it is okay to let all those people be oppressed and die. I do not think that was what you were going for. (Note: this sounds like a ridiculous argument, and it is because I'm intentionally pointing out the rational absurdity of your vague criterion.)

D. You then conveniently "oppress" a human embryo by assuming that it is indifferent to dying - despite that its biological function is to keep itself alive (whether conscious or not).

E. Yes, so per your very own criterion, there would be no problem with defining that line as "0 days after conception" - so why not? Better safe than sorry.
If you haven't yet read Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of our Nature, I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a long read, but the writing is crisp and often hilarious, and I challenge anyone to come away from it without a sizable dent in their worldview.
A bit of the shame on the interactivity:

"If you are looking to add interaction as a layer to charts, Chart.js is not the library for you. A better option would be using SVG, as this will let you attach event listeners to any of the elements in the chart, as these are all DOM nodes."

Most charts are far more useful with rollovers to let the user interpret the data. I'd say this is a must have for most anything where you really are trying to give the user insight into the dataset.

Also seems to be a bit of a punt by saying this just isn't possible in Canvas. We know where the cursor is no? And we know where the points are. So can't we react to the cursor hovering over a point? What am I missing?
The inexorable rise of WhatsApp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Live_on_24_Hours_a_Day
Tarantool/Box I/O gives you luasocket-style API[1] in cooperative multitasking environment + database backend (if necessary).

[1] http://tarantool.org/dist/master/tarantool_user_guide.html#s...
English pig farmers faced this for a while.

Vegetarians pushed for stricter welfare requirements, but then did not buy the product. English people for a long time were buying Danish bacon, thinking it was higher quality. (Luckily, Danish farmers voluntarily moved to higher welfare standards, and now English bacon has got a better reputation.)

> So it's actually more effective to have low welfare requirements that are only slightly better than those abroad in order to keep prices competitive so that people buy from the farms with marginally better conditions.

I think it's better to have decent welfare standards, and then to educate consumers about the differences between local farms and distant farms. Scandals like the "horse meat in ready meals" help to educate consumers about the importance of knowing where meat is produced.

Import duties are also helpful, but there are problems with world trade organisations.
I honestly couldn't follow the author's train of tought, mainly because of the horrible grammar.

I guess if I really wanted to, I could spend a few minutes trying to parse the phrases and deduct the meaning, but I find that unreasonable, given the high probability that the article is very light in substance anyway.
That PayPal data almost certainly also goes directly to Palantir (another Peter Thiel company), to be added to the vast corpus of information they (and by association the three letter agencies & DoD contractors) hold on you. Palantir arose from the anti-fraud work that PayPal was having to do 10 years ago and is now supposed to be a big deal in data mining for govt, defence etc. Want to bet that they have quite a few "exceptional laws" on their side?
Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer Faces Jail
The dragon book will teach you all about how to write your own lexer + parser generator (which I found quite fascinating), but you don't need to know about NFAs/DFA construction etc.

One of the most fun projects I made inspired by the Dragon Book was a small grep implementation that was building up an NFA from a regular expression parsed by recursive descent and than simulating the NFA using an algorithm with two stacks described in the book :)

It's just that it takes a lot of time to get something practical running starting from just the Dragon Book, and it can be discouraging given how much effort it takes to read it. Overall I can second everything you say, though.
That's kind of you to say! I think, honestly, that it's great to work with/for anyone who takes joy in what they do.
I do not get his criticism. If I search Amazon for "pink impact resistant iphone 5 cover", most of the results should qualify for "a highly protective yet girlish phone case as a gift for her daughter".

What should this mother have done? How does a "competent searcher" approach this?

The most important search skill for Google is "The first results are ads! Look for the slightly yellow background!"
Earth Hour is a colossal waste of time — and energy
حساب العمر بالميلادي
Hey, that's great, and I hope you don't take my comment personally, hopefully you will spend time improving your grammar and writing style. This will help you greatly.

My comment should only reflect that in today's fierce fight for people's attention, content producers can't afford too many grammar mistakes.

Anyway, keep shipping, that's the only way to improve!
If the OS is actively plotting against you, it's a losing game, but if it's just security-oblivious then there may be some things you can do mitigate. Consider for example, an OS with a habit of writing out random parts of your process memory onto disk.
He only uses a webkit browser.

Really, setting up phantomjs is easier than making a http request with any language, so i can't see any added benefit for his service unless my IP block is already blocked and now i want to use his :)

Now, back to being serious, i integrated phantom in my test makefiles in minutes. Not even hours.
As pfortuny and ygra say, freezing the RAM makes the memory readable for longer.

(https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/)
You need more friends :)
Cute, but perpetuates the "false alternative" between "flat" and "skeuomorphic". The alternative to "flat" is a style filled with gradients, layers, textures, etc. (i.e., using lots of Layer Styles in Photoshop). Skeuomorphism is a subset of the latter style.

See http://sachagreif.com/what-skeuomorphism-is-and-isnt/
Funny. I talk Dutch, German, English, Frisian and a little -just a little- French. But if they talk really fast I can't understand.