skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see offering a potential solution to a problem to be a positive comment. Neutral, really.
I think I understand why Google doesn't do it. They're relatively comfortable with the telephony status quo. Via Chrome on the desktop and Android on mobile, they've ensured that no one is in a position to "deal out" their services on any connected device, mobile or not. At this point, Google has little to gain (and much to lose) by antagonizing operators with a serious IP telephony play, especially since any mobile component would still depend on the data networks of the incumbent carriers. It's worth noting that Google is making a move in an area where they aren't as content - home internet access.

What I can't understand is why Microsoft doesn't do it. Unlike Google, they clearly aren't satisfied with the status quo and, now that they've acquired Skype, they also have a better starting position than Google does. I keep thinking Microsoft should launch a SkypePhone, but, so far, they haven't.
> History is full of true ideas getting pounded flat.

That is not the logical complement of what I said. I only said that true ideas tend to spread quickly, which is obviously true. True ideas which were pounded flat are not counterexamples, because I'm talking about tendency.
tl;dr:
its not as fast as native but its much better than AT expected, and actually within 2x the speed of native.

Also its slightly slower (a few %) than regular JS on browsers without asm.js support.
> I'm hesitant to add a job change to those big personal life changes unless I have no choice.

And what other evidence are you waiting for untill you decide that you have no choice?
I actually spent some time looking into dumb phones a couple years ago. My favorite would be the motofone. It's got an e-ink display, which is great for battery and sunlight, and 2 antennas which is also great if you heaven forbid make actual calls with it. Also, pretty sturdy, small, and light.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone

Beware though, if you txt a lot, you won't like it. Not enough real estate for the crazy font they use.

There are also these printed cell phones showing up. Do a google for "card phone". Pretty interesting.
This really underscores perhaps the most important factor in negotiating, which is to have a strong negotiating position to begin with. This often takes work, but it allows you to drive a hard bargain. (Note: Don't forget to drive a hard bargain.)
The rules seem to be that it checks if it's an available multiple of 7 first and then if it's invalid. I initially thought the rules would work the way you have described, but if that was the case, would all multiples of 7 and 3 be off limits?
I like Chase. Their online/mobile tools are great.
That's how it initially was. But I have now made it so that, as you say, it first checks to see if it's a multiple of 7. If it's a multiple of both 7 and 3 (regardless of whether or not you have played it before), then you will no longer be penalized.
I'm just using the definition that seems to be the first one listed in many English dictionaries.

"Violence is the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against a person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence?redirect=no

"Physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing" http://www.answers.com/topic/violence

"exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/violence
> its slightly slower (a few %) than regular JS on browsers without asm.js support

You sure you meant what you said here?
Unintended consequence of your technical solution: employees start chugging gallons of water.

(But yes, I LOL'd.)
The grid doesn't appear properly in Firefox for me. clear your floats in the scoreboard.

Other than that, looks pretty cool.

EDIT: actually it also seems to not work in Firefox in general after refreshing the page
Pretty obvious to those of us who use GitHub. Commit to a public repo under your email and people can see it? Not news.
I don't mean society. I mean a very small portion of society called "government."
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I already gave the answer: Bitcoin has all the hallmarks of amateur cryptography, not the work of an expert, researcher, or professional.
Anything related to advertising and getting people to do something they didn't intend to is evil. SEO is on a borderline, and when you start growing links to your site, it crosses it.

I especially don't like those shitheads who come to blogs and post a "relevant" comment with a link to their services - I carefully mark them as spam and report their profiles.
It doesn't. Some people just don't like people making money peacefully without the government's permission.
Really needs an indicator that tells you how many moves you have in a given turn, which goes down as you click.
> I guess it just bothers me a bit that the attorney general appears to be using language to gain points with voters by appearing to be fighting for the little guy.

Alternatively he could have been made aware of the problem by reports from lots of little guys and decided to act, since that is his job.

Either way the court will decide.
It can leave you exposed if you're ever forced to pay it back by the government. If the timing is wrong it might be hard to raise the money.
> but I think the "victims" of the patent troll should seek their own remedy, by filing a cause of action

In other words hire another lawyer to fix a problem created by other lawyers.
Did anyone else do a double-take at the picture half way through? For a split-second I thought it was Robert Scoble!
> It's these type of posts that make it to the top of a thread that make me not want to check into HN.

Posts that provide insightful explanation about the story? Yes, less of that and more unqualified positive gushing, please. There is nothing wrong with offering an informed opinion, even if (especially if) it's not in full alignment with the prevailing attitude of the hivemind.
> If you have seen an uptick in recruiter spam lately, now you know why.

Thank you, I was wondering how so many managed to find my e-mail.
What's the difference between a narc and a whistleblower again?
Another interesting note is the level of innovation. Apple is reinventing the 'book' in the digital realm, by providing authoring tools for free, while rethinking what a textbook can be in the digital real (videos, interactive content, etc.). I hope more publishers take advantage of it.

I personally still prefer the PDF for e-books, as it maintains original design, layout, and typography, as well as page numbers. I'd like to see Apple and Amazon both start selling these formats DRM free, with watermarking.

Amazon's Kindle has e-ink, and a great selection for fiction, but not too many text books. And honestly I would not want to read a programming book, or other text book, on the kindle for the reasons stated above.
Right, this wouldn't even be news, noone cares. Is the topic of this thread in the news? AP phone logs are recently, echelon was previously, noone cares about CISPA, SOPA, AT&T diverting traffic for NSA (wired - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619 - did you hear about this one on CNN?) etc in mainstream news. The media would quickly label this 'conspiracy' and people would turn off their minds largely like your response.

Even if there were multiple whistleblowers on something like this the individuals would be attacked on their character and it would move onto the next (wikileaks). Writers would be most likely committing career suicide attacking something that big even with lots of evidence.

If our security agencies aren't doing this we are going to fail, the Chinese, Russians are all doing this even as recent at the Chinese attacks on Google. It is almost always flaws in software that facilitate the communication not the algorithms themselves.

You could easily test this. Modify OpenSSL (which recently had a keygen issue making weaker keys and has had holes before: http://www.gartner.com/id=676807), then upload an app that allows encrypted communication and when you upload it to Apple answer the question of 'Yes' to using new cryptography. They are mainly there for export controls but you won't be able to publish that app without an FBI/NSA review if you had added new cryptography algorithms, they have to be approved. Good luck if you send any messages to geopolitical sensitive places without an approved algo or library.

It doesn't mean people aren't trying to make new crypto libs: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70524 because there are lots of systems to track you now: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ + http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/15/2876528/wired-nsa-building... and on and on.
I think I understand why you decided to do that, but it might be worth an explanation modification. I tested my understanding of the rules by trying 21, and was surprised. Not that it's a big deal!
The right wing argument against government meddling isn't that it doesn't work sometimes (broken clocks being right twice a day and all that). The complaint is that, in aggregate, for every Tesla there are countless Solyndras. Governments aren't good at picking investments for the exact same reason individual people are not good at picking investments: predicting the future is hard. It's doubly hard when governments do it because of the distorting influence of constituents and politics. Let the private sector keep that money and if Elon convinces enough people to lend him cash, he can move forward. I have no doubt he could have done everything he has without a loan from Uncle Sam.
If you don't have an external publisher then Microsoft or Sony must agree to be the publisher on XBLA or PSN. I think on both consoles every title gets assigned a product manager, for example.
0%-fat is a lot thicker (in my experience). Nicer to eat with fruit :) Not everything low-fat has to be for health reasons!
Ask HN: What is the best hosted blogging service?
I want to start blogging about programming, and am wading through what's out there. I used to host Wordpress but I don't want to bother with that anymore. I want something that's managed for me, is customizable and friendly for both writer and reader, and allows exporting the data for personal backups.

Tumblr is free and customizable from theme to domain and has no ads. Their commenting system is a bit awkward, something about the culture of "like" and "reblog" rubs me the wrong way.

Wordpress.com does not seem to allow absolute theme control even with the $100/year Pro package, although I might be wrong - their store page could be clearer.

Posthaven is new and unproven. Going to their website I can't find a list of what $60/year gets me. Do I get to use my own domain or am I stuck with username.posthaven.com?

Blogger does not allow custom themes or domains from what I know, and I remember them pushing some very backwards JS-heavy designs a while ago.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
You can't do anything in the state you're in, except process. So give yourself some time to absorb it. Nothing can be solved at the moment. Don't expect anything from yourself right now, just be there for your family and yourself. Nothing has to be accomplished today or tomorrow.

Blank is natural, you'll move out of it soon enough.

We here approach most things as problems to be solved, and when we have something that isn't solvable we don't know what to do. Eventually you'll reach a point where paths and possibilities emerge for you and your family, and you can start to make decisions. There's nothing to solve today, so don't try. Let it come in the near future.

Sorry.
Yes it's terrible.

If you work in the US and have kids for which you take any level of responsibility chances are you can barely keep up with a typical schedule and have very little leave to play with. Pulling two days out of your ass for a job interview is almost impossible.

For a sufficiently awesome job, sure.
> It's just their existing JIT with more information and a few new tricks.

Spidermonkey is composed of the Baseline Compiler (JIT) and Ion Monkey (JIT), but a new AOT compiler was written, called "Odin Monkey."
> What makes web apps feel like swimming through molasses is the DOM.

I would contend that network latency and the plethora of domains queried to be a greater impediment to a speedy web. DOM manipulation may be absurdly slow however it cannot hold a candle to latency hold-ups.

Most readers on HN live in a quiet and peaceful bubble of high-quality network connections, but the majority of the world is beginning to wake up to the web and they'll have to endure latency issues that we haven't experienced since "broadband" was a new concept.
From the article: "Barbano, who specializes in filtration methods for separation and recovery of protein, has his sights set on the tiny amount of protein in acid whey. He believes it might be usable as an infant formula ingredient. But first Barbano has to figure out how to extract the protein in a cost-effective way, and his research is just getting underway."
In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance
> The next gen consoles, with their power, are going to bring dynamic animation and procedural 3D environments and numerous innovative areas so that small teams can unshackle themselves from the legions of artists necessary today.

Ah, the dream. I've heard the same thing for the last 15 years.
It's technically correct, but it sounds weird and non-native to me. It requires me to jump through mental hoops to explain how it makes sense. For easy communication, I'd recommend sticking with "wanting" in this situation.

(though I'm not averse to using awkward phrasings or the like in casual situations where clear communication isn't the number one priority. At the moment I'm on a crusade to bring back "thrice" and {h,th,wh}{ence,ither}. )
Grandparent may be saying that, but that's not true.

The comparison that is close is code produced from a C compiler for normal JS, versus code produced from the same compiler and code for asm.js. BUT code that would be written by a human would be expected to be more compact and run much faster than either of those.

Furthermore the code that they wrote would not run on all browsers, and if it did run often crashed the browser. Human written code would not have those problems.
The only reason I could see that Microsoft would make the choices they did was to save on cost or to be easier to scale up to 10's of millions of units a year by getting higher/cheaper chip yields faster than Sony can with basically identical chips. The only way that Microsoft can capitalize on that advantage will be to actually have a lower price faster since they don't have a one year head start this time.

Nintendo's only shot right now is to cut price on the Wii U.

Just remember that historically the magic number for console sales is $199. That's why the Xbox 360's entry price is $199 now and the Wii worked so well at $249 with a bundled game (basically $199 console + pack in game).

Mobile devices the sweet spot is more like say $150, which is why the DS did better than the PSP, 3DS than the Vita and so on.

Price makes a huge difference on consumer products and getting to certain price points can be the difference between success and failure other things being basically equal.
While I'm sure they will face many challenges, what they are doing is not the equivalent of putting a ground based turbine in the air.

Their "wing" is the equivalent to a part of a turbine blade, and it moves in circles like a turbine blade would. The propellors in the wing are what extract the energy, but they would not be nearly as big as the blades on a conventional wind turbine.
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can't they just turn whatever is holding the tether in place on the ground?
What makes web apps feel like swimming through molasses is the DOM.

In my experience, it's the lack of threading. Or any way to perform an operation without affecting the UI. Web Workers go a long way to solving this, but they're limited in what they can do.
This seems like rubbish to me. Exams work fine if they're employed in the right incentive system. In US universities it's not exams that are broken, it's the incentive system that they operate in. Today, exams are simply a tool for instructors to get good evals, students to get good grades, and universities to maintain accreditation.

Job interviews work fine if done properly. First, interview the right people (filter out hopeless candidates). Second, have the right people do the interview (hint: future colleagues). It's not perfect, but it's not "broken".

If you really knew the subject, you would have passed that exam.
Scripps Employees Called 'Hackers' For Exposing Massive Security Flaw
I vehemently dislike how they don't inform you that this is a paid service until after you've signed up. I signed up, but was unwilling to pay for the service (it doesn't seem novel enough to warrant use over like HN and Feedly, which constitute the bulk of my reading; and also I have no money).

Due to their disingenuousness, they have my email despite the fact that this is a product which I have no intention of using.

Transparency is important, and this sort of obfuscatory bullshit is not ok. Tell people what the product is before taking their information.
It's impressive how spot on the insights from Marc Andreessen still are.
I usually don't comment, but I'm surprised that I haven't seen anyone mention what I think is the most important part of the story.

The DOE loan was an attractive low-interest loan. Why would they repay it early?
Because the DOE loan had restrictive agreements that prevented Tesla to stay competitive.

From page 44 of their May 10th Quarterly Report SEC Filing:

"Our DOE Loan Facility documents contain customary covenants that include, among others, a requirement that the project be conducted in accordance with the business plan for such project, compliance with all requirements of the ATVM Program, and limitations on our and our subsidiaries’ ability to incur indebtedness, incur liens, make investments or loans, enter into mergers or acquisitions, dispose of assets, pay dividends or make distributions on capital stock, prepay indebtedness, pay management, advisory or similar fees to affiliates, enter into certain affiliate transactions, enter into new lines of business and enter into certain restrictive agreements. These restrictions may limit our ability to operate our business and may cause us to take actions or prevent us from taking actions we believe are necessary from a competitive standpoint or that we otherwise believe are necessary to grow our business. In addition, our DOE Loan Facility also contains a variety of customary financial covenants, including covenants related to current ratio, leverage ratio, interest coverage ratio and fixed charge coverage ratio. We modified certain of these covenants in February 2012, September 2012, and again in March 2013."
Nor is it an area of expertise for me -- it's possible that I mis-remember; it's also possible that my teacher was wrong (they are human too, and make mistakes).
Check this out (from the asm.js spec)

function add1(x) {
x = x|0; // x : int
return (x+1)|0;
}

This declares x to be an int in asm.js, which allows a bunch of optimizations. In a non-asm.js engine, it is an extra 2 operations.

It's not difficult to believe that a non-asm.js engine would be slower with the type annotations than without, although I don't have any performance numbers to check.
I don't understand what you're saying here. If the cost of processing the acid whey is higher than the market price of what it's processed into, then it's waste, right? I can't think of any waste that can't be processed into something that can be sold, providing you don't mind losing a massive amount of money on the transaction.
What are some of the hallmarks you see?
first great response covered a few points I wanted to say about the article...

To add more my family is of Greek and Turkish heritage, I live in NYC and make my own yoghurt (super easy)... I also strain a batch. The water that gets strained you can drink, in fact, its actually the same water that remains in yoghurt when you take a deep scoop and leave higher ground yoghurt relative to the remainder.

Yoghurt has a Ph level of around 4.5-5.0 making it low acidic (for comparison orange juice has a ph of 3.5). This article refers to it as acid whey and makes it sound as if its hydrochloric acid. In all honestly there are much more serious problems to the environment than yoghurt water. How about when excess or spoiled OJ is dumped in Florida? By default its ph is an order more acidic so the impact should be too...

Plus yogurt water is drinkable and is actually good for you (proof by induction).
If the teller gives you free money, that is on the teller, not you. Whether that teller is human or an automated machine doesn't particularly matter to me.

Just don't take money that the teller, automated or otherwise, does not volunteer. Regular safes and vaults, with no teller, have no agency and are not capable of giving you money.
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WinX DVD Ripper vs HandBrake: Best Free DVD Ripper Review and Test
HandBrake Vs WinX DVD Ripper - which one is better? Let's do DVD ripper software review and comparison to see the differences and judge which is the best free DVD ripper.
That might be why Hangouts requires confirming your phone number on installation.
It seems Mozilla and Google are moving more and more toward their own browser specifications and mechanisms. Microsoft and Netscape did this in the 90s, and it ended up causing nothing but pain.

Optimizing JS is interesting, but creating browser-specific applications of code meant for a web audience disturbs me. I don't want a repeat of the first browser wars. Hopefully Mozilla will work toward w3 standards in this effort, since Google clearly hasn't with Dart.
WHO IS UPVOTING THIS PREDICTABLY NEGATIVE SHIT ON HN? What is this? How does this happen? I'm just stunned. Every single time. It's never even the "that's awesome! Keep in mind, there's this additional context" posts, it's just the "this isn't actually awesome, here's why" posts.

NO. It's awesome that a private company sold stock that is hot because they're doing well to pay back public debt. Good for fucking them. People wanted to buy it because they see it as valuable, and they paid back the American people with some of that money. Good for them, period.
my grandmother's ranch :

milk produced by cows -> sell to cheese factory

whey the factory returned back -> feed to pigs, chicken, turkey
For most applications, the Dom is the weak point because manipulating the Dom is as ambitious as the apps get. The exciting part of asm.js is not that it can speed up existing apps, it's all the cool new things you can do on the client side now that were simply to slow to be possible before.
There's no way this fits under the definition of libel. His statement doesn't harm NYT in any way.

And since when does posting "factually wrong" information on the web actually matter worth a damn?
Observables & Data Binding in Web UI
Thanks for pointing out my error.

(Hope you don't mind that I deleted my comment.)
The Shining

Dead Poets Society

It's a Wonderful Life

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard

Memento

(M) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

And what about you? What are you favourite movies?