skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the fact that Wikipedia exists is amazing, right? Imagine if the main reference site on the web was corporate controlled. Actually, I've often wondered: Was it inevitable (due to the nature of the internet) that the primary reference site on the web would be open, free and wiki-style, or are we just incredibly lucky that that happened?
Have technology security measures really changed all that much over the years?
Protip: whenever an argument uses the word "unfettered", it's a warning sign that the argument sucks.
I've always found a smartphone's screen to be bright enough to serve as a flashlight for most situations :-)
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I think it is, in the sense that the US is a country founded on one group of people imprisoning and disposessing other groups of people for economic profit, with those groups differentiated by ethnicity. But NOT if you're suggesting that a place with a hetereogenous ethnic or cultural makeup is neccesarily more violent or something.

Also, in fact, when you say "in other places with X, the incarceration rate doesn't seem to be as high", X can be _anything_. The US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet, by a fairly wide margin. So in EVERY other place, with any characteristic at all, the incarceration rate isn't as high. Not in Scandinavia, not in China, not in any part of Africa, not in Mexico, not anywhere. The US is alone.
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Just out of curiosity: how often did you see that happen (not only related to GPU's, but technologie decisions overall)? In my (little) experience the change at a later moment will not happen. Most of the time because the management has a new idea/project which you have to attend to.
Agreed... Last year the company paid for my ticket this year I don't think the new place I am working can afford it. Hard to decide if I should get a ticket anyways.
The intro of http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16095031W/Artificial_Intellig... discusses the variety of definitions.
I believe the $0 base salary might be more reasonable in the field in which the writer works. Based on the part about hefty profit sharing, I suspect it might be one where that portion of the income is paid out immediately and could potentially provide adequate income.
Not sure what you mean by "map data". You can certainly have a list of props that are in the way and have them as a mesh. It's certainly easier if you have only one prop, but you have to account for that they may stack together in any way- and suddently the geometry configuration becomes non-trivial again.
Good Fenwick trees explanation
I remember reading this and thinking it was full of thoughtful analogies shared anecdotally. Disappointing.
It's really not that long. TL;DR is for the lazy or people who should be working but aren't.
Ikea is a funny old goose though, they're aspirational products because the range is staggered. There's very much a cheap end and a high end, the whole pick and pack means they can keep costs low enough to get people in at the low end and upsell them progressively. So a student gets a £20 table, then moves up to a £60 one, and then a matching TV unit. It's clever, they've nailed product categorisation and buyer psychology.
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Is that at all mitigated by tools like HootSuite or other corporate Twitter clients that allow multiple people to manage an account?

I'm not saying that it's acceptable that Twitter leaves that in the hands of vendors/users, I'm genuinely curious and wondering why the idea was parked in the first place.

I'd guess that it is part of a future offering from Twitter, but who knows.
You don't rob an online casino with martingale system. You will just lose your money (unless of course you have unlimited balance on your account).
I don't think browsers do use HEAD to determine whether or not to re-request cached content; they make a conditional GET, ie a GET with an If-Modified-Since header (or one of its relatives).

Are there some situations where browsers use HEAD instead of conditional GET? Or is my understanding wrong?

Still, HEAD seems like it should generally be fairly safe, so not something i'd leap to block.
Hey, I buy my furniture at Ikea, are you calling me cheap?

Seriously though, Ikea doesn't thrive because of their marketing, at least not where I live. You barely see Ikea advertisements.

Ikea is known for having a wide range of cheap and moderately reliable furniture. They're known for mostly minimalistic, generally attractive designs clearly aimed at young people setting out on their own (be it for dorms or their first own apartment or house).
Of course not! They would be attached to extremely long poles coming out of the ground, just like in the Jetsons.
A Science Star Already, Tinkering With the Idea of Growing Up
I wonder if detecting the Unity WebPlayer and using it to serve rich-media ads when present is that far off...
I love this game, one of the last FPSes I still play other than Team Fortress 2...unfortunately, like TF2, it's not very playable unless everyone in the round is amenable to being a team player. The multiplayer deathmatch allows one team to take the role of monsters, who have the backing of the zombie horde to make up for lack of guns. Playing it really provides some interesting insights to how the AI effectively functions, by slowly getting the human players to come unglued, either by targeting stragglers or letting the best players get too overconfident and move ahead of the team. Of course, all deathmatch games have this dynamic but it's very explicit in L4D, mostly because it's impossible for one human or monster player to singlehandedly own the opposing team in the way that an ace player can miraculously wipe out a team in Counter-Strike.

edit: The AI controlled human players is extremely competent, maybe the best bot players yet created. But they do show their limitations in multiplayer...among their weaknesses: they're too willing to sacrifice their healthpacks for an injured teammate, and will almost always try to help an incapacitated player no matter how hopeless his/her cause. Real humans can be total assholes, but in some situations its best for the team to leave a straggler behind, especially if the enemy has set up an ambush for the rescuers.
I'm not sure why you're so negative on the whole startup thing - while there are examples of foul play, the vast majority of founders do try to do right by their employees.
I found it better than the Top Coder and Wikipedia explanations.
I believe the intention of having the scribd links is to mirror the content if the original source goes down under the HN reader load, which has happened at times.
Yes, it's called journalism.
I don't know if Adobe doesn't understand "the web"; I think what happened here was just the landscape shifting out from under Adobe. The iPhone wasn't going to support Flash, initially because the power economics didn't work. Once the App Store was released, there was no way Apple would allow out-of-band application development technologies.

So what happened is that, to reach this new segment of the market, web developers needed to develop two versions of their applications -- one for iOS and one for everybody else. This in turn spurred development of non-native web technologies, for those applications where a fully native version wasn't feasible, which further reduced the demand for Flash. Adobe was forced to try and play catch up, and that's a really tough position to be in.

Good riddance, but I'm fully expecting Flash's niche as a provider of abusive advertisement and wretched restaurant menus to be filled soon enough. To paraphrase Jurassic Park, "shitty software will find a way."
Great, a hedge fund manager giving moral advice.
To offer a business perspective on this, as opposed to widely spread tech-centric comments...

Flash market is still there, and it's growing. Hard-on-3D browser based games are extremely sparse with business opportunities, as are HTML5 (WebGL, Canvas, plain old school js) games.

Unity player is seeing huge growth, but that's peanuts in comparison to Flash plugin availability. HTML5 games need monetization strategy that ain't just "slap a multiplayer and process most of it on backend".

Thing is, Adobe is a corporation. They think business first, technology second. Market is there. Plugin availability is there. Tools are there. Developers are there. Wtf?

And that's why Adobe doesn't make sense to me with all they're doing with Flash. At all.

On a more personal note, another wtf! Flash enabled huge infusion of creativity on web, way of expressing in much less contrived ways than available. Made you experience web you remember fondly from not so far long ago. Still does. Remember that. Only then move on.
Exactly, AI in games solves a different problem than "traditional" AI. It's merely about creating the illusion of intelligence. Not unlike what happens in rigid body dynamics (approximated, not actual physics sim), graphics (plenty of tricks here, e.g. displacement maps vs actual geometry), animation (e.g. blending canned animations).
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1. Basic functionality of the page can be used without mouse, just with keyboard (using TAB button to navigate between the links / buttons). Whenever I TAB, the active/focused item should be clearly indicated e.g. with a border or different background color.

2. You should be extremely careful not to override the native keyboard shortcuts of the browser. E.g. SHIFT+ARROW_LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN are commonly used to expand text selection (TheNextWeb is an offender here, as they treat arrow left/right as a shortcut for "prev/next article" which extremely annoys me). Ctrl+L focuses the location bar of the browser. AltGr+[a-zA-Z] are used in many languages to enter diacritics like "ó".
The company where i work manages >90% of its servers that way. This company is blessed with some extraordinarily bloody-minded sysadmins who made the time to sharpen the saw in the face of mounting piles of wood to cut.
Why does Ghostery[1] keep the blog content from showing up at all?

Hmm, seems to be in particular "Adobe Digital Marketing (Omniture) [2]. If you have ghostery block this, you can not see the blog text.

[1] http://www.ghostery.com/

[2] http://www.ghostery.com/apps/adobe_digital_marketing_(omnitu...
If a system can learn, isn't that Machine Learning (which itself is a subfield of AI)?

Searching algorithms have always been part of the AI field.
Same. I'm wondering how much benefit there is to be gained by going as the videos are being posted during the conference this year.
On June 18th, 74,000 French troops led by Napoleon, sizing up to meet 67,000 British and other European Troops 200 miles NE of Paris.

Nathan Rothschild knowing that information is power stationed his trusted agent named Rothworth near the battlefield. As soon as the battle was over Rothworth quickly returned to London, delivering the news to Rothschild 24 hours ahead of Wellington's courier. A victory by Napoleon would have devastated Britain's financial system. Nathan stationed himself in his usual place next to an ancient pillar in the stock market. Knowing he would be observed he hung his head and began openly to sell huge numbers of British Government Bonds. Believing this to mean that Napoleon must have won, everyone started to sell their British Bonds as well. The bottom fell out of the market. Rothschild had his agents buying up all the hugely devalued bonds.
IME, HN readers will almost always post either a Google cache link or cache the original content. The scribd thing just slows everybody down.
Not if the device is locked. The author talks about this in the post - a properly secured file is only decrypted when the device is unlocked (in which case the mail is readable by anyone with fingers, no need for fancy USB cables).

When the device is locked the file is encrypted and cannot be easily retrieved with a USB cable and a file explorer. An app that does not properly secure its files is readable even when the device is locked.
It's possible to push maps from a PC to at least some S40 phones:

http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/03/13/using-nokia-maps-f...

I doubt they disabled it for this one.
So far my experience has been exactly the same as what you describe. I just turned 40 and recently got the highest paying job I've ever had - writing code full time. I'm cautiously optimistic we can keep this up indefinitely.
Errata Security: AP hack: the stock market did not "plunge"
A certain one week feature I planned has taken 3,5 years and still is ongoing. Despite I believe no feature should be planned that takes more than one week. Agile development I think this is called.
To be fair, if camus hasn't heard of Edge it isn't his fault - it's Adobe's. Which, in a way, helps to emphasize his point.
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I really, really wish you were right when you said "All computer users understand passwords [...]". I frequently end up doing a lot of support stuff for my father, and he's not really that old.

His line of work has him dealing with some pretty sensitive material, and a two-factor authentication is required for it... something that, when introduced, was a source for many calls and angry shouting. I could have deferred this to their tech people, but I'd much rather spare them the anguish. ;)

Bottom line: It's getting better, but you are still, unfortunately for us all, way too optimistic.
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I don't think it's a case of right or wrong. It's a writing style.

But for me, when speaking and writing consider companies to be groups of people, and so I use plural. And I think that is common over here in Britain.
I'd say that the new API-centric model works very well here. The old codger has complete control on what's coming and going from the core application, without worrying about a whippersnapper messing with the DAOs and adding a bobby tables vulnerability.

In the Dark Past, this last line of defense was in stored procedures, but we -- 30-something greybeards :) -- know what a mess that was. There are plenty of companies who are still tied to an ancient DBMS due to that 10kLOC stored procedure that looked like a good idea at the time.
This only works if you are actually in a strong negotiating position (you have or can get equivalent/better offers elsewhere), but you are willing to pretend to put yourself in a weak one, to test the other party's good faith. Risky. If you expose your jugular, you might establish trust, but you also might get your throat slashed.
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3D printing chocolate is a cool idea, and someone is trying to patent it
Most people with passcodes set auto lock after a few minutes. An attacker can pair a device left briefly unattended by just connecting it to their Mac in just a few seconds.

Then, even if the device is later locked, they can bulk copy unencrypted files using tools like iExplorer, and browse at their leisure.

It's funny how some business class apps store usernames and passwords in clear text in their app sandboxes.
Sure, but that's also like saying "car accidents are inevitable, so let's not put on our seat belts".

A basic bit of security, especially one that doesn't put any more load on the user (to have to maintain or set up) is a pretty big no-brainer. Raising the bar for a successful hack is also worth doing when the cost is a single line of code and no effort on the user's part.
While the videos are available online, what are the odds you will actually watch all of them? Especially within one week?

I'd venture a guess that most of the benefit is derived from the fact that you get to focus for the entire week on taking all of this in, rather than fitting in the videos around your work/family life/etc. That, and the labs and other in-person events that won't be recorded.
So, what do you make of the new logo, beyond a new typeface and flat, stacked colors in a vaguely rounded square shape?
in fact, Ghostery does block the article, for me anyway. Which is odd, one of the few times I've seen Ghostery have the effect of making a site unuseable/unreadable, and possibly the only time i've seen it on a blog.
It would be interesting to find that global communication had had a major effect on peace. It's certainly not something that anyone listening to those communications would guess.
I hope Apple's servers can stand the stampede that will happen at 10am. Also, finally I can turn off my phone at night again. Two days ago Apple took down their developer.apple.com/wwdc page at 3am CET and my auto-wwdc alarm woke me up right away.
More suggestions for the accessibility list:

1. If you have to use divs and spans instead of more
semantic elements like lists and headings,
use precise, descriptive IDs. Same for classes.

2. Use WAI-ARIA in your HTML[1].

3. Link skips.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Accessibility/ARIA
Its important to note the article carefully avoided discussing market conditions on a term longer than about 4 hours (see the graph in the article, etc).

Much like the endlessly rotating wheel of IT fads, the economy rotates around a cycle. Currently "we" (for some definition of "we") are in a pretty intense melt-up era which is at the end of a growth period. Low trading volumes, irrationally almost insanely high equity prices given technical stats, etc. Meltups always precede meltdowns. So the market is strongly prepared to drop and the slightest garbage news causes a momentary drop. This isn't a "story" or a "surprise" its just part of the endless cycle. Rather soon we'll have a real substantial drop, a moderately deep recession, then recovery, growth, etc. Well, at least in the past we've always recovered so we probably will again, or even if main street never recovers (like last time) wall street surely will recover... eventually, at least nominally (aside from inflation).

Now if this happened at a different point in the economic cycle, perhaps near a market low, rest assured nothing interesting would have happened, at least in comparison. That doesn't mean certain unrelated things are suddenly less relevant like twitter social media or AP mainstream media or HFT (What does HFT have to do with this other than being the current bogeyman for the financially intentionally ignorant and/or rabblerousers?)

A tolerably good engineering analogy if you understand the 4-cycle internal combustion engine cycle, sometimes it pings under really intense conditions. That ping doesn't carry relevant moral and ethical considerations of relative shifts in societal importance quite as much as the ping happens because out of the four cycles of a 4-cycle engine, its near the top end of the compression cycle and under intense load/operating conditions. Do the same "stuff" during the intake cycle and you don't get a ping (please no bad analogies to old fashioned carburetor backfires). My car engine pinging cares little about the relative importance of twitter vs AP and a lot more about current conditions WRT the IC 4-cycle.
Excerpt from the link:

"We started with base pay. I wrote down the least I would work for and asked them to write down the most they would offer a perfect person, irrespective of whether I was that person or not. If when we exchanged papers, their number wasn’t higher than mine then we could stop there and save time. Their number was twice the best base pay I had ever received in past jobs, and my request was for $0."

I am not understanding. The least he would work for is nothing? That can't be a "start base pay", can it? Could someone clarify? Thanks!
I think Ikea has a quite different image in the US and in parts of Asia, where it's considered a hip, quite desirable brand.

It's not necessarily so that the poor shop in European Ikea. But throughout most of Europe it's not considered specifically hip, or upscale.

That's probably based on it's history. It's not that long ago that Ikea seriously started to work on design. Most of the fare they had like 20 years ago can charitably be described as "rustic".

It also got a lot easier to build the furniture as compared to a couple decades ago, where you always had either spare -, or not enough screws.
But there is much more money to be made in reacting to the news at millisecond speed, and therefore without any critical analysis whatsoever. Many of the orders that caused the drops were probably placed by machines.
Real-time semantic analysis-triggered trading seems to be what the kids are up to these days...
And if the casino doesn't have a table limit. But still, you could make a few hundred bucks in the short run if you are lucky :D
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God says...

Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

12:3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the
Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah,
and Jehu the Antothite.

12:4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and
over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad
the Gederathite, 12:5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and
Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite, 12:6 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and
Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites, 12:7 And Joelah, and
Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

12:8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the
hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the
battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like
the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
12:9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, 12:10
Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, 12:11 Attai the sixth,
Eliel the seventh, 12:12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, 12:13
Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.

----

G.E.D.

Peter Gadwa

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/all/1

Mach 11

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No, by definition, since that would no longer be Open Source.

http://opensource.org/osd
The article is plain wrong. Nowadays is easier to distribute false information but dissemination of false information is part of the human history. You can go further and think about political propaganda that is happening all the time.
Consideraion doesn't necessarily have to be money...