skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only problems with my phone was Chinese "spammy" messages, which required disabling a specific app, but disabling all the apps I didn't want was trivial enough. It has "near" stock Android. There are a few minor things such as custom apps to check for system updates from the manufacturer, and some stuff that I'm not sure whether is stock or an extension for handling multiple sims (don't know as I've never had another phone with multiple sim slots).

Other than that, the GPS is pretty much useless but not for lack of trying - there's extra stuff there to facilitate AGPS etc. it seems, but the antenna is simply physically too short (there's lots of breakdowns on how to attach a longer antenna to fix it, but I've not bothered so far - I don't use GPS much).

Lots of companies are importing many of these devices. Amazon is full of them. They're also full of offers from distributors and manufacturers in China that offers a quite decent service. I'm in the UK, ordered mine via Amazon mostly for increased peace of mind vs. ordering direct, and had the phone in ca 10 days.

I've also ordered several cheap no-name Chinese tablets via UK distributors.

You'll probably see more and more of these appearing, especially as all of these manufacturers offers to put your own brand name on the devices often even in very small volumes (if you want a Samsung logotype or other known brand, you can probably get it at no extra cost from most of them when ordering even single units...)
Early on Etsy did the same thing to the vintage collectors. Shortly after they let them build their stores again, but it was all in the name of 'not handmade enough'.

Etsy needs to clarify the definition of craft and the difference between that and handmade. It's an important distinction that they've never set a policy to.
I have heard hundreds about Hitler, I'm afraid. It is often inspired by his lack of affections for women, and the fact that Eva Braun was the only he ever really got close to. But the truth is more likely that Hitler was asexual than homosexual.

As for Mao, I don't think most of us knows about his personal life. So that is probably hindering the speculations.

And why do you consider Kennedy a great leader?
Big Data, Analytics and the Skills Gap
For domain registration at the $100-200/yr range, just become a Tucows/OpenSRS reseller yourself. You get a lot of power to do things, minimal hassle, etc. I own maybe 200 domains (because I tend to get all variations of the ones I use) and it's totally worth it (and still only $7-8/domain/yr)
PAYMILL now lets merchants accept more credit cards, including American Express
>Google started developing Go for one simple reason: to simplify the act of writing search systems.

Not really.

For one, Google didn't develop Go (it wasn't a company decision to get a new language, as Java was for SUN, .NET was for MS and Dart was for Google). Go was merely started by some a team working at Google as a side project and it grew a little from there. They do pay several people to work on it nowadays, but it's not some "bet the company" language. Also, Google hasn't mandated replacing any C++/Java stuff with Go, and nobody is touching their search engine code. If it happens, it happens organically and for lesser stuff.

Second, Go was developed for "systems" software (albeit in the sense of network servers and such), not search specifically.
DOJ: Apple colluded with publishers to raise e-book prices
The problem of search engine poisoning attacks
Also because weak were getting killed.
It's quite more prevalent in women than in men, and it's quite rare for young people.

Mine has been detected at age 24 (I'm a male) after a palpation by the company works doctor who found the thyroid slighlty abnormal. Confirmed by echography and blood tests. There are genetic predispositions though, my mother suffers from the same thing.
Even people intimately familiar with a pieces of infrastructure - hardware or software - can't possibly know all failure modes. Asking on twitter about an obscure error that you've never seen doesn't cost anything and may be very well just one way of finding a fix. It's akin to asking on IRC or writing a mail to a mailing list - something which you seem to condone. I fail to see how it's any less professional.
> I might as well blame my text editor for allowing me to do stupid things.

The difference is whether the editor turns around and deletes /home as a punishment (Go community) or tries to educate the user about a better approach without acting like an asshole (pretty much all other language communities).
There's no "sky" in "skype" but we still call it skype because that's its name.
Just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707019 although you might not want to blame Go for this.
Your government wants them to have that option. Why should MS listen to you and not your government?
Biological clue to why women live longer than men
Ditto. I tried the near OD strategy for an Auckland-Rome series of flights. It turns out that you reach the point where they dont work anymore - at least not easily. At 4x the recommended dose I couldn't sleep that last 6 hours. I seem to max out at about 20ish hours of sleep. I almost got a DVT - swollen leg and very painful. I just avoid flights now.

Edit: premature post.
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Your approach is just so backwards.

The threat from the [insert latest bogeyman's name here] is no reason to limit the freedoms of US citizens or spy upon them. It calls for the administration to take decisive action to prevent unauthorized access to critics systems.

Systems can be easily isolated and access totally restricted to trusted persons only. The rest is for movies.

The real question is why is no one looking at the US administration and asking simply, "why are you not prepared for this?"

Solving these threats along with SPAM and DOS attacks is child's play if you are really serious, yet it is played out in he media as if we can't do anything about it other than restricting personal freedom and creating national citizen surveillance systems.

Blame the boogeyman not the admin.

This approach means that every US citizen is a potential threat the the system and is treated as such making total nonsense of the entire premise of keeping America safe by these means.

I feel lucky that I am NOT a US citizen after all...
I read the title and knew the word was "no". Did I end up reading a boring, unimaginative treatise on "never say no"? No. Thanks.
I'm taking an "online" (distance learning, really) MSc in software engineering here in the UK and it'll cost about $11000 or so all in, so this is especially great value given it's the US.
That's just non-sense.
The issues were caused by exactly that. Multiple people cloned the head at different times and things broke.
The demo is terrifying.
This one looks kinda cool:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,2,0,2,0,3,2,0...

Edit: This one takes very long and looks somewhat like rain in the end:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,1,0,1,2,0,2,3...
Steve Newcomb on 3D Physics for DOMies
Fi - JS lib for composing, chaining, using functional conditional statements
SF is a startup hub because it happened to get a little traction from a few early companies, and then network and
scale effects helped it take off. Same reason Detroit was once a big auto hub, China is today a big manufacturing hub, Facebook the biggest social network, etc.

Once a regional agglomeration like this is established, it's hard for someone else to match (just like it's hard to set up a new Facebook).

And, also, once such a hub is established, people of course look for reasons to explain why it won. Mostly they're hagiographic "just-so" stories, of no real benefit to anyone looking to replicate it.
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Wouldn't it be funny if the search engine that replaces Google is written in a language developed by Google?
>As you probably read in advanced security blogs, 7 passes on a disk is a strong erasing option

Is there a single confirmed case of anyone, anywhere recovering any data from a disk that has been overwritten with 0s with dd?
The blog post was written in a variant of the English language called "Fragment".
Darik's Boot & Nuke is my usual goto.

http://www.dban.org/
China Travel Information for Rescuing, Chinese Embassies 
China rescuers provide the relevant information about Chinese embassies overseas, foreign embassies in China as well as USA airport security. China travel rescuers would be of great helpful for China visa application and package-checking before your China travel.
Ouya launch date delayed
Sadly the OUYA release date has been pushed back from the planned release date, June 4th, to June 25th. Its been reported that the Android mini console has received a higher retail demand than expected so the release date had to be pushed back.
Is it Ryan air that gets all its air hostesses to paint their faces with orangeish makeup? I have a recollection of a collection of air hostesses in skin-colour-inappropriate makeup from a trip a few years back.
You don't "double your volume" in 3 months unless your starting point is ridiculously small and/or you're counting added fat. Contrary to what fitness magazines and supplement manufacturers like to pretend, the body's ability to synthesise protein to build muscle is fairly limited.

"Double" your strength, sure, in the sense that beginner gains due to improved coordination and better understanding of your actual limits means it's not uncommon to double or triple the weight you can lift in the first few months (I tripled most of mine in the first month I exercised - these days I'm lucky if I can increase my max by 2.5kg per month from starting points ranging from 90kg to ca. 200kg depending on lift; often the increase takes longer than a month by now).
Not for me, and not for many of the mathematicians I have worked with. Sometimes with a theorem there is a sense of knowing why something is true, and in those cases the proof emerges fairly naturally from that. Sometimes, on the other hand, you have a proof, you know it's true[0], and yet there is no enlightenment, no sense of what's happening, no real understanding of why it's true.

Some mathematicians don't have this point of view, but I always felt that sometimes, even when I really knew the proof, I still hadn't grokked a sense of the why. It just all felt like unmotivated symbol manipulation.

[0] For some value of "true".
The USA spends around 18% of its GDP on healthcare already, which larger than any other big country, the Netherlands is next on 12%.

Given the military spend is 4.7% of US GDP it is patently untrue that military spending means that more couldn't be spent on healthcare. You could have a healthcare system that is 50% better than any other Western country, for everyone, just by reallocating the money already spent on healthcare.

Yes, money != outcomes, but it works roughly. Especially as there is so much low hanging fruit in the USA due to the shocking state of healthcare provision for the poor.
Daft Punk, Arrested Development, and how content is becoming an experience
Are SSD drives as reliable as mechanical drives (2013)?
Galaxy S4 Google Edition to be announced at Google IO
Cert spoofing also gets you past issues in dev with self-signed certs etc. Hooking into OpenSSL will leave you with the problems in your browser.

This is particularly handy when the browser hits one of the many, many issues where it won't even make a request; eliminating all of the cert issues at a stroke without modifying the browser is at least a step towards diagnosing the problem.

Although it would be nice if chrome logged why it isn't making those requests.
I thought most disks nowadays support Secure Erase, so there's no need to futz around with dd.

https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase
Aldo is a perfectionist. He keeps on pushing off the release date so that he can iron out every single bug he knew of, non-trivial part of which are caused by other services. The world does become a better place with this whole new version of mitmproxy.
US is not doing any defense charity. It's present in Europe only because US commanders think it's in the best interest of US. Europe spends on its military half of what US does.

I don't believe that Europe would spend significantly more on military. Europeans after carrying two world wars on their soil seem little bit resilient to threats of war and to actual violence. When it comes to Americans it seems that goat fart spontaneously combusting on the other side of the planet constitutes experimental discharge of pyrochemical weapon potentially of mass destruction that ought to be carefully monitored by swiftly dispatched fleet of surveillance drones.
Regarding Lisp

Things got complicated quickly. I was writing too much code to achieve simple things. Plus I was writing a lot of one-off code. I prefer to write as much reusable code a I can. Mostly because I'm lazy and I like to keep things simple.

I'd be interested to hear more details on this. Writing non-reusable code and lisp seems antithetical to me. Do you mean the lack of libraries and interfaces to other services?
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> Go was merely started by some a team working at Google as a side project

History shows that a lot of extremely successful things started out that way.

> and it grew a little from there

That's a bit of an understatement. Go has hundreds of contributors, and is already used by thousands of companies.

> They do pay several people to work on it nowadays, but it's not some "bet the company" language.

Definitely not. For that matter, neither is Dart.

> Also, Google hasn't mandated replacing any C++/Java stuff with Go, and nobody is touching their search engine code. If it happens, it happens organically and for lesser stuff.

You make it sound like Go isn't being used at Google, which is disingenuous. No, it probably hasn't replaced the crawler and pagerank logic--it'd be silly to rewrite all of that--but it is continuously being picked for new projects internally. Some of the few such projects that have become public are Vitess, the database frontend that powers YouTube, and the code that powers dl.google.com.

(That there is no known mandate to replace existing code isn't indicative of much. It's a bad move to rewrite that much code for any reason.)

> Second, Go was developed for "systems" software (albeit in the sense of network servers and such), not search specifically.

It started out as a "systems language" (which roughly translates to "for writing backend software", but was commonly misunderstood), however that description has been removed since Go has proved useful in other areas. It is now simply a general-purpose programming language.
I'm pretty sure SSDs can't be securely erased the same way as traditional drives. This is mainly due to the inherit characteristics of flash memory and the way that the firmware writes data to the NAND (wear-leveling, TRIM etc. is unpredictable).

ATA secure erase is the recommended method last I checked.
They require you to write the function for use with templates; as long as the callee is ready to use templates, you can pass anything that fits the interface needed. Everything is done at compile time.

You can use a generic type as argument (template <typename T> void method(T arg) ), or a templated one (template <typename T> void method(MyObject<T> arg) ). In both cases the method will fail to compile if the body requires a missing field or method, but in the second one you get a standard "type mismatch" error, while in the first you'll get a "type X doesn't support method Y".
I'm a bit under 6'5" and bit over 6'4". I know this situation well and have only rarely managed to get an exit seat, and yet have often seem people who are almost half my height in them. The only time we managed to get an exit seat was when my pregnant wife was literally crying from her legs being so sore that they gave them to us.
How to Walk Away: The psychology of lost causes
Its lack of context or goal, plus the obsession with water, is starting to read like they're on acid
Very good initiative not just to help find people, but also to improve the visibility of startups in the wider economy. Do similar job boards exist in other countries?
> many other countries have in effect outsourced much of their security apparatus to the United States

If any country had defense centered on such silly premise I think it migrated away from this since release of US cables that clearly show that US only cares about US and treats other countries not as venerable allies but as monkeys in their circus.
The recent ones include Heka by Mozilla Services http://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/04/30/introducing-heka... and Docker http://www.docker.io. Not sure if you'd consider these major and success.
Here is a rant from me ... there is no effortless way to put mysql results into map [string]interface{} (equivalent to mysql_fetch_assoc) with built in typing. You get []byte and have to cast and scan everything yourself. Also go is hard to serach for in google and google groups where golang nuts are - they are as pleasurable for searching and finding info as a kick in the balls.

Apart from that the language is very solid and has some nice decisions made about it.
It's easier to be self-righteous than, you know, actually doing something yourself. What have you done for charity recently to merit this sanctimonious tone?
Flying over a strange landscape
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,1,1,1,0,2,1,2...
> I've seen a lot of very proud Europeans claiming the US has had no stake in defending them

And I see a lot of proud Americans who state that they save the world out of pure altruism.
I have breaking news for you: the "extraordinarily expensive reserve capacity to wage warfare" is here because it serves USA's interests, and no one else. I highly doubt that the military policies of your government are conceived with the interests of us Europeans in mind (although there is overlap between ours and yours). I'm pretty sure that, except for a few mistakes, it has been immensely economically profitable for the USA overall, allowing you to influence or overthrow governments, ensure a hand on strategic resources as well as allow you to export your goods and culture pretty much everywhere through strategic alliances (I'm thinking especially about Japan and South Korea). That's the reason why there are USA bases in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and everywhere else.

By the way, as a whole Europe is the 2nd military spender, with France and UK matching Russia's spendings, and when added together also matching China's spendings (despite having less than 200 times the population).
Feynman: his birthday, his diagrams and his lectures
A crazy question: there's a kids restaurant called Chuck E Cheese. You pay for tokens to play games. From the games, many of them spit out tickets. With enough tickets saved, you can redeem them for prizes.

How is that not like gambling, and how do I run my own?
From a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4025198
InfluAds to help 200+ open source projects with $1,000,000+ in sponsorships
Coming back to this, consider the following.

[Warning: read like math ...]

Let p be a prime of the form 4k+1. It's easy to show that there exists u such that u^2=-1 (mod p). Indeed, simply using (2k)! works.

Consider all number of the form a+b.u (mod p) where a and b are in the range 0 <= a,b < sqrt(p). There are more than p of these, so by the pigeon-hole principle we have a0, b0, a1, b1 such that a0+b0.u = a1+b1.u (mod p).

Rearrange to give a0-a1 = (b1-b0).u (mod p) and square both sides. Remembering that u^2=-1 (mod p) we get

(a0-a1)^2 + (b1-b0)^2 = 0 (mod p)

A little checking shows that (a0-a1)^2 + (b1-b0)^2 < 2p, so that means

(a0-a1)^2 + (b1-b0)^2 = p

Thus we have shown that p is the sum of two squares.

I can reproduce this proof at will. I see how the proof works, I am convinced it's correct and valid. I still don't really understand why every prime of the form 4k+1 is the sum of two squares, especially since every argument someone tries to give to show somehow it's inevitable also works for 4k+3, where it's not true.
There is one for Berlin: http://berlinstartupjobs.com
If you really want to erase your drive quickly encrypt it with an external key... Erase the key, erase the drive.
> I understand how easy that is to do. But when do you have the time to read them?

I am a very fast reader. :)

> Have you ever tried limiting yourself to one window and the judicious use of the back button?

Well yes, but then Tabs were invented!

My browsing is like a tree, pages branch off every which way. I used to have to keep track of that entire tree structure in my head, now the browser does it for me!
I watched Idiocracy [1] last night for the first time. The story is very clever in parts. Certainly the description of a film that was considered the best because it was just a picture of someone farting. Is taking the style of Youtube to the extreme.

The original article is pointing to that future, where Generation C's attention is on the low brow entertainment and traditional production cannot sustain itself.

Like journalism today is fighting for survival (who's going to pay for a full time reporter when you can get information off twitter?), television production will also be fighting in 10-15 years time as the next generation of adult switch off the satellite/cable TV in favour of Youtube style content.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
How is this technology / startup related exactly?
I should make a REST API providing a secure erase service. Simply send your bytes in the POST body and a set of bytes to erase them with is returned!
The problem with spying on clear text messages is that there's no indication to the user that they have no privacy. When the average person is texting their friend, their phone makes it look like a private conversation. It doesn't say, "Send message to Joe, the NSA, AT&T, and your neighbor's pet dog." It just says, "Joe."

Also, this is one rare case where I would accept reasoning by analogy with a physical analog: mail. People have an expectation of privacy when sending letters, and they should rightly expect e-mail and text messages to be treated similarly.
Actually it's not about "never say no".
It's about "never accept no". Or rather "never say no to yourself".
A large part of the credentialing value of a degree is that the person was skilled enough to be accepted onto the course, if they make entrance less competitive it will likely significantly reduce the market value of the degree in credentialing terms.
Fairphone: creating the world’s first completely fair smartphone
> Unfortunately, if the Reddit add-on outlives any reddit.com tabs, it might inadvertently keep those JS objects alive in the background.

With a 64bit memory address space, who cares?

OK so my page file does.

I think I've only given it 100GB or so to play around with, so, sure, if the 32GB of system ram I have available fills up, and all 100GB of my page file get used up, then I'll have to restart FF.

At ~5GB a day of usage, and lets round down for the sake of losses, that is about 20 days of up time before Firefox is denied malloc's by my OS.

Still not great, but a lot better than crashing twice a day!
It always comes down to math
What lack of a goal? They are trying to figure out why the sea level is rising. (Possibly because they think the rising sea will eventually destroy their castle.)
There are a few reasoned criticisms from the Erlang camp about Go not copying some bits and pieces from Erlang that might have been worthwhile that are worth reading.
I I read this correctly and it takes a day to assemble a synth, instead of arguing the process, why can he not build one that day and document the process?

That would prove Etsy has no leg to stand on and increase his inventory from 0 to 1.

Why is that not possible?