skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I wanted to point out: There is a difference between food and a service. People are willing to spend more on food than on any service or product if you think about it long term.

When looking at my finances, food is always #2 every month right after housing.
Lucky for me and my ego, we're not comparing popularity relative to one another... anyway this is an implementation of perceptual hashing in PHP, to catch image reposting on forums and imageboards. It counts as the 'most popular' because it's the only repo I have that anyone's contributed to or made a fork of so far (they did it in js)

https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher
I'm sure she was also against the government taking her money to fund those programs in the first place, but she didn't have a choice. Why does trying to recover some of that money make her a hypocrite?
Not really the same. Anything that implements standard javascript will be able to run asm.js code just fine, even if they don't implement the possible optimizations. The same isn't true for NaCL.
There aren't native modules in JS (though they are coming in ES6). The module pattern is a way of having private scope by wrapping everything in a closure. So yes, the module pattern just creates a closure and returns an object (or assigns to global scope) with its public members.
Linux has always handled font scaling better than windows in my experience. Windows has a tradition/culture/tendency toward building user interfaces by positioning UI elements in absolute pixel coordinates. But linux UI toolkits put much more of an emphasis on automatic/scalable layout.
mine is mainly an ornament. I think I got too worried about the shortage. After I got it I realised it could not do anything I wanted it too (e.g. image processing)
> today i choose to work as hard as any man, but I also choose to not move as high the career ladder as possible.

Or the alternative explanation: 'today I choose a different balance in my life.'
I guess it's how you look at it, but Indeed still shows very little movement over the last years with interest in Scala developers by businesses. Even compared to Go, it's very small.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C++go&l=
Nicely put together :) Might want to hide a feature if the selection makes no difference (re-show when it does have potential to make a difference).

Example: Both, Entirety, Fastest, Then it doesn't matter if you say precompiled yes or no.
You keep calling it childish. I have no idea what you mean by that. I think it's a pretty straightforward argument. You'll also see a lot of personal finance articles that will tell you to skip your morning coffee to save some money. I always think, well, my morning coffee is what money is for! This coffee thing is definitely part of the zeitgeist and it seems reasonable to address it.
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I like that there's kind of a subtle dig to the post-Jobs Apple in there.
One big difference is caffeine is a drug and having a chemical dependence is different than impulse. I have nothing to back this up, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a cognitive dissonance between reasoning about a coffee purchase and reasoning about some other product. Much of the OP's happiness, I'd submit, comes from that caffeine rush. Caffeine (and every other stimulant) makes you feel good and reminds you of feeling good other times you've consumed it. I have fantastic, and specific, memories of having espresso in Paris, Rome, and in my neighborhood. It's just not the same with paying for, and watching, a Netflix video.
Mental Model: Bias from insensitivity to sample size
I think the difference is that Windows 7 has easy search for what you want to execute, where 8 allows you to search for intent.
We're using Pi to drive the lights in http://www.ma-brains.com/
I too keep hidden secret offsite offline backups. But there's little to worry about Dropbox or other large US clouds. It's a safe bet that the only judicial system that will squish a cloud will be the US's, for a small cloud or one not based in the US.
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In the article is also the link to: http://www.intransitionmag.org/archive_stories/streetcar_sca...

And Wikipedia has: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi...
>You're talking about Linux, not a BSD.

No, he is talking about desktop environments and windowing systems that run on both, and have very little to do with either. What was your remark supposed to be implying?
I imagine step one for prosecutors will then be to get the judge to specifically order the service shut down, due to hard caused to third parties or some other reason (whether valid or not). It's a common and vital tactic for prosecutors to seize funds of defendants so they can't mount an adequate defense.

I think the only way around that is to get laws changed, or have provisions in place to illegally host your service after it's been ordered shut down. The latter will probably just cause more legal problems.
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Not sure the 140PPI is comparable to the Retina.
Sounds really interesting; I'd be very curious if you opened it up!
I worked on Camino quite a bit in the early 2000s, it was a great experience. It's funny to think that we really felt we were contributing greatly to the appeal of Mac OS X by providing the kind of browsing experience Apple should have provided on the OS much earlier, given their focus on it being designed with the Web in mind.

Eventually Mozilla hired me to help re-write the Firefox port to Mac OS X because the product lagged so far behind Camino. Once I got deep enough into that project my Camino contributions dropped off. Dedicated volunteers carried on. I had forgotten that they still hadn't shut it down yet.

Anyway, congrats to Camino on the long run! It was a great option, particularly for earlier Mac OS X users, and a joy to work on.
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20 years ago today, Marc Andreesen announced the short-lived support for annotation in Mosaic.
Asm.js at least has a specification that's not dependent on any particular implementation:

http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/
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Why would we use something with no well-defined security model and a known polynomial-time attack when we have provably security distributed voting systems? As with digital cash, cryptographers have devoted a lot of time to researching secure voting protocols.
I don't know why this can't just be put into a table/grid to compare side by side
Thia sounds like a swell idea.
You'll have to combine Wine with qemu or something because the Pi doesn't have an x86 CPU.
Smart Config WLAN used in Spark Core: smart in what universe?
Rather, his philosophy assumes that if you are a white hat you cannot be concerned about a reward. In reality white hats simply have enough moral compass to not place the exploit into wrong hands, which doesn't mean they don't care about a reward. By this rationale lawyers, for instance, should not be setting a price on their time when they believe defending a particular case will be doing a good Good Deed.
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Here's someone doing "bare metal MIDI" on their Pi. (http://www.joebutton.co.uk/blog/baremetal-midi-lv2-raspberry...)
Remember meeting Mr G in New Delhi while I was working for an organisation his foundation has so far provided more than $1.2Billion to.

Now I'm working on creating transparency with open data so that others can find out where these and $23Billion more went.

See the project at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-data-for-transparency...
The title makes no sense. The "three laws" are observations about how people respond to a programming language design. They do not make any sense when applied to a design or the design process.
> performing your duty of responsible disclosure

He has no duty. Facebook engineers do, but it was him who found the bug. My understanding of the article is that he doesn't care how much money he gets from Facebook.

The 4.5K is representative of how much they care about customer privacy. That's what, I think, his only point is.
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You can also take a look at Ahrefs, Majestic SEO and Open Site Explorer. All of those require a subscription though. You will most likely be fine just using link data provided from Google itself.
Parents should be concerned about app security
It passes the 3-year-old test better than Windows 7, in a personal experiment. My son knew exactly how to tap an icon to open a game he wanted. He does not understand a mouse or keyboard, really, other than knowing what the letters are and that the mouse makes an arrow move. I would say it succeeds at being intuitive, and fails at being familiar. Most learned people can't separate the two.
It is for a 31" monitor. How close do you plan on sitting to it?
A module is a design pattern and a closure is a language construct. A module (in the context of the "module pattern") is a closure but all closures are not "modules".
You still have that option, I can't imagine any 4k displays would fail to support running at a 2x multiplier given that it is designed specifically for that.
> The problem is that being a young language, there aren't many libraries.

The Go standard library is large, there are many libraries on code.google and github. I feel like this statement would have been more accurate a year ago. My job is almost 100% Go based development and at this point, I have no issues finding libraries when I need them.
>I believe, with tools like that, that if you make the 'personal use' fee trivial you get a wider base that will go on to introduce it commercially at work - so you net more over time.

I believe this is a bigger part of why apple has recently won (and why that win is not permanent) than people think. When I was a child? the public schools usually had (presumably subsidized by apple) apple computer labs.

The thing is? it's /hard/ to transition those "personal use" folks into 'business use' folks. outside use as workstations at trendy places, apple /still/ isn't in corporate the way microsoft is. My own company has a similar problem; I don't really have any products appropriate for the 'serious business' customer, save for co-location, and my co-location is ridiculously low-margin, which is the opposite of what you want to do for your 'serious business' product.
Just looking around reddit you easily pass the 50 tabs threshold.

Bookmarks are far from ideal (at least in firefox) and technically you don't need them today since the history works well in case you need to find something (just typing related terms on the address bar) but the history is erased quite often so it's better to have certain urls bookmarked and using the aforementioned address bar to find what you're looking for (or the search on the bookmarks manager). It works for me.
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I mean, the bar started at trying to make coffee-drinkers feel like cheapskates so they'll blow a dollar on an app.

This ain't exactly the maturity high-jump.
#FUCKAZUCK
The article makes it seem like politics are the only problem. Another problem is that this would be very very expensive. Magnetic levitation train tracks are already expensive. How much is it going to cost to build a vacuum tunnel with some sort of magnetic propulsion system built into the walls of it, not to mention the supporting infrastructure (vacuum pumps, power distribution, safety exits, maintenance tunnels)? Probably not achievable with the current cost of labor and parts (and all the overbilling happening everywhere).

Then there's the danger. What if an earthquake happens? What if the tunnels leak and air or water seeps in? What if your magnetic stabilization system fails for a fraction of a second and your train floating at 14000MPH grazes against the sides of the tunnel? If an accident happened in one of those tunnels, it could easily kill everyone onboard, and disable the tunnel for months.

It's a really nice and futuristic idea, the kind that would once again make the world a smaller place (commuting from SF to NY for work, anyone?), but it probably won't happen until we can really prove such a thing is safe, and we change from capitalism to an economical model where we build things like this because, you know, they're good for humanity as a whole.

Personally I think a project like this would be good for the American economy, but then so would massive investment in solar power plants. Instead you guys gave fat checks to the banks.
No welding involved—beyond problems of forming poorly-performing alloys (already a concern and the reason for plating orders to get some PCB finishes), the heat of welding would certainly delaminate copper from the board substrate.
Apart from the limitation of key length (imposed by the maximum length of SSID allowed), this method will expose the plain WPA password on air. This is very disappointing coming from TI calling it "smart". But what is worse, is that SparkFun's Spark Core which is a few hours away from meeting its kickstarter's deadline describes it as "game-changer for embedded WiFi". Certainly changes the game going backward in WiFi security.
Much of the conversation here centers around the value of reporting to Facebook vs. selling to black hat. This is the wrong paradigm to view this issue through.

Taking the view that selling to blackhats is ALWAYS wrong, it may still make sense for Facebook to pay significantly more to find vulnerabilities in their system. A less vulnerable system is one with a competitive advantage, and I think Facebook is missing an opportunity to tout their security credentials.

Let's take a back of the envelope calculation. Say instead of $4,500, they paid each of the 66 people who submitted a vulnerability $50,000. And since we're not halfway through 2013 yet, let's assume that in total 150 people will submit valid security holes to FB this year. That's $7.5 million dollars paid out.

Now, once word of a $50k payout gets out, say 10x the number of people try to find vulnerabilities, and the success rate increases linearly. So Facebook pays $75 million a year.

What are the benefits of this program? I'd say you get a few major benefits vs. the current situation:
1. You will definitely convert some blackhats away from exploiting FB data in exchange for $50k legally obtained
2. You convert a lot of people currently looking for security exploits in Google, Amazon, etc... to searching for FB vulnerabilities.
3. As a result you have a much more secure platform.
4. You can leverage these payments through media and PR to legitimately show that you care about security.
5. You combat competitors by touting a more secure platform.

$75 million is not small change when you look at FB's operating income, but it's not going to break the bank either.

The point is that it may well be a rational decision on FB's part to offer significantly more and it has nothing to do with the black hat market value of the exploit.
> But basing your argument on an appeal to authority is just a logical falacy(sic) and is annoying.

But you are also making statements full of adjectives and subjective descriptions such "makes me cringe" and "probably doing it wrong". That is quite a bit of flair for someone expecting logical and nice refutation of their own statements.

If you jump in the middle of the discussion, throwing around "you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong" at everyone then don't be surprised you get replies that are equally accusatory and harsh.

BTW I still don't see what is really so cringe-worthy in calling it an operator. It is just syntactic sugar. Call it green tomatoes if you want. Joe calls it an operator. I understand what Joe means. It is like yelling at someone talking about function default arguments and saying "ha! bit it is all assembler underneath, all this is wrong, it is just registers and pointers!".
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This is pretty much why I don't watch TV or films anymore really. I invest time and all to often it's utter crap.
RS-232 is basically required for any serious display. Why? Integration into videoconferencing and other systems with Krestron and other units. This channel is used for switching them on and off, changing the mode and input, etc.
>Quick searches turn up slow compile times as a definite issue with generics

Where? I can find nothing of the sort. And given that we have proof otherwise (compare D to go for example) it seems likely that you are choosing to interpret "some languages made their compilers slower" with "parametric polymorphism must make a compiler slower".
I use gnump3d ( http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/ ) for this exact same purpose. It's quite an awesome piece of software and worth checking out.
This seems a little alarmist
Assange apparently disagrees.
I did not realize this and I am happy that I know now.
Half serious, half tongue-in-cheek, but he's apparently had this idea since at least Iron Man 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuG2AVFB-g0
Ah, that's right. My bad.
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doesn't work for me, chrome on windows
Or for Singapore, I've seen people put in "China" for the country field. But that was just someone from the US trying to ship to us..
Thanks a good explanation.
Actually the republicans give lip service to small government but they are the ones who's actions indicate a desire for a police state (e.g. TSA, Patriot Act, etc.). Democrats are just a less extreme-right (but still right wing) version of the same thing.
The "mobile first" attitude in the Valley these days always struck me as somewhat misguided. As the article points out, it makes perfect sense in select niches, like Uber's. In many others, the non-mobile web offers a superior browsing experience and if your users prefer it, that's probably where your focus should be. As in all things, know your customer better than anybody else and you'll do well.

That, and the interesting fact that "mobile" is a broad term which seems to encompass tablets in most interpretations. Modern tablets often do a pretty good job of displaying sites which haven't been particularly optimized for mobile anyway.
HP claims 22dB. I saw a blog post that swapped the fan and added a variable resistor to achieve 6dB. The one I got at the office is barely noticeable (it's at my feet).

On a home setting a closet would be a good place to hide it and shield any sound from the hard driver or fans.
Wow, I wonder why my extension didn't pick that up. Thanks.

edit: Ah, no meta tags.
Came to say the same. Dust is a bit confusing and complex at times but overall is excellent.
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And even so, Ron Paul isn't really liked by the rest of his party.
"I’m convinced that you could design a language about a tenth of the size of C++ (whichever way you measure size) providing roughly what C++ does."

B. Stroustrup

http://www.stroustrup.com/masterminds_chapter_1.pdf
Can anyone recommend some high-level/architecture/design patterns books/materials about Go? (e.g. similar to SICP or Art of Prolog, or maybe GoF).
This in reference to the recent stream of posts about charging a phone in 20 seconds. Or 30 seconds. Or something.

Here's the most recent, with a collection of links to others:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5798189
These people are doing work that typically warrants a six-figure salary or several hundred dollars per hour

He spent a day finding the exploit, and got $4500. That scales quite well if he can keep it up.

At the point the exploits are harder to find, Facebook can make a decision as to whether it's important to keep searching as hard, and raise or lower the price as they see fit. This is the market in action.

He might have made more on the black market, but why it would be worth more is important. On the black market, the transaction comes with legal risk. Risk increases payout (by reducing supply).
I made this:

http://www.whatcaniseefromtheshard.com
This in no way vindicates Dotcom; the police simply seized all potential evidence without sorting it first. Evidence deemed irrelevant to the case must be returned; the rest will be kept.
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Can't say for gaming, but 120Hz is great for watching movies/anything at 24fps. With a 60Hz screen you gotta do something to make that 4:5 ratio work (either holding frames, or attempting to interpolate/interlace). At 120Hz, you got a nice clean integer ratio, so you can watch 24fps 'as it is'.
It's not an issue of feeling entitled to service. If there were no free email providers, or if the paid services were noticeably better on any of the axes I care about, then I would be happy to switch to a paid provider. But gmail exists, as do scores of other excellent providers with stellar reputations, and I don't see a point in paying a premium for equivalent service just for the sake of being a paying customer.
One rough edge is that it totally ignores my keyboard layout for keyboard shortcuts. It appears to use the Qwerty layout for shortcuts, even under a different layout.

(That's Opera next 12.50 on Linux, with Presto)
This assumes a linear relationship between
(Bounty for vulnerabilities) :: (Identified outstanding vulnerabilities)

Presumably, one would see diminishing returns in the ability to find "low hanging fruit" exploits, and thus the economics @ a $50k pay-out would be even more attractive for Facebook.
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The most insidious thing about this is that the government is probably precluded from collecting the kind of information about us that companies like Google and Facebook routinely gather. But as long as someone else has already done the work, the government can just demand the information.
Microsoft's "the third is charm" strategy is wldely known for year and tolerable since consumer is pretty much locked in by office software, and Microsoft knew about this.

It is until apple spoiled consumer with perfection and true use friendliness that made the contrast that Microsoft product along with the "beta" testing with paid product is no long bearable.

Still, Microsoft can afford this lossy strategy because they knoe nobody can really stop using office.
It's not an appeal to authority. It's Bayesian probability.

P(author_doing_fp_wrong) < P(author_doing_fp_wrong | author_invented_erlang)
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How do you decode the .sgstn stenograph stenonote of the public stenographic record of the Public Meetings of Boston City Council. The public stenographic record of Public Meetings is made available in .sgstn stenograph stenonote not full plain English text.
Yet prison isn't as scary in Norway and they have lower crimes rates than the USA. So your argument is wrong.