skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One that recharges itself continuously via radioactive decay? I wonder if, regulatory challenges aside, a radioactive decay trickle charge could be enough of a trickle charge to meaningfully extend daily battery life...
That's not going to sell a lot of units, though. Its hard enough to get a machinist to set up a cnc system with a full gui. You want him to disable interrupts on Linux? Just shoot me now.
Both (BEAST and RC4) are proven to be real. The only question is which is worse, and if the attacks are practical. In my view, both are equally unlikely to be a threat for an average web site.

I'd love to get rid of the BEAST penalty, but there are no good (high-volume) stats on what percentage of "all" users is vulnerable to the BEAST attack. Because Apple is not yet deploying 1/n-1 in their browsers, the vulnerable BEAST percentage is still quite high. On SSL Labs, about 15%.

Given that attacks against RC4 are not very practical (yet), one possible direction is to focus on supporting TLS 1.2 (without RC4, obviously), at which point both RC4 and BEAST attacks will become irrelevant.
You can, if you're in control of the framework you're using.
Yeah, I am an iPhone owner and prefer it to Android, but this article is just asinine.

First of all, you can absolutely do anything iOS does on the web; it's just a question of how much effort you're willing to put in. There's not a library already in existence that you can use easily which perfectly mimics iOS 7, but if there were then iOS 7 would need more work. But there will be web libraries that allow you to mimic iOS 7.

The whole concept of "X platform can't do this" is so wrong headed to begin with. When it comes to software, the first thing anyone should learn is that anything can do just about anything. The limitation is hardware.
Of HP fame is a bit missleading. HP calculators are programmed with the RPL Programming language,[1] that was both a high level user language and a low level system language for the 4-bit Saturn processor.

This is a free and portable reimplementation, with a few extensions (and some incompatibilities).

There also is a unrelated iPhone RPL reimplementation [2].

IMO the most comfortable way to program a calculator, i personally use a HP-28c with 680 KHz 4 bit cpu. I think it's crazy how much you can do with so little power.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPL_(programming_language)

[2] http://naivedesign.com/ND0/ND0.html
You didn't use “suppose”.
Well, let's look at it this way.

Having a language which simply describes the movement of your tool through space is nice--there is less chance that a later vendor decides to add overrides to your "red rectangle" to be more of a blue circle.

There is also much less chance for hardware vendors to screw up their implementations and introduce incompatibilities: move this bit here, at this speed. It makes the firmware much simpler, and makes the shelf-life of files much longer.

It seems to be a pretty good solution, though with not as great a shiny factor as others.
Um, did you know that "awards" in the software industry are a sort of marketing gray area where companies pay a lot for a submission to some "organization" who then hands out "awards" and "nomiations" that can be advertized on websites?
Scrap your type classes
It's not unheard of. The camera's panorama feature, taking photos while recording video, some other stuff:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5457

Also, some OS X stuff, like AirPlay mirroring or Power Nap require up-to-date hardware:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5444
Is There Any Point to the 12 Times Table?
> How does one omit threading if it's not really part of the language spec to begin with? Care to expand?

Not the OP but I can't resist answering. Threading isn't really part of the language proper, but as a lazy language can make flow control from language or library indistinguishable that isn't a very important distinction.

What matters is that GHC has an excellent threading implementation in its runtime and that the compiler has the primitives to build the Haskell concurrency libraries on.
There is a bench on our main road that says 'Watching porn will lose you your JOB FAMILY FRIENDS AND KIDS. PORN WILL DESTROY YOUR LIFE.'

Caps are not my emphasis. Glorious Waco, TX. Two miles away was a billboard of a mother discarding a baby into a garbage can for some anti-abortion campaign.
Why this when Diaspora exists?
California man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk
Except that, in your analogy, my wife is now married to someone else.
It actually must be a circle with its centre one of the original two points AND the other point on it's edge (so it's one of the two possible first circles you can draw). Sorry that that wasn't clear enough.
> I prefer crontab. It has let me down far fewer times than mortals.

This opens lifestyle guidance for our aspiring youth:

Prefer crontab. It will let you down far fewer times than mortals.

Choose bitcoin over any Ben Bernake or Alan Greenspan currency.

Believe Snowdenspeak over Clapperspeak, Kieth Alexander's mouth moving, or any Obama-ism.

Go to lunch with Richard Stallman before that mean looking bald-headed angry man with that desperate hunted rictus fixed to his face, who works at Microsoft, but not for much longer.
Data, meet spies: The unfinished state of Web crypto
Can we not promote livestrong since they just spam out nearly identical articles all day long? They make finding actual answers on health nearly impossible. Reminds me of eHow. Take a look at:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+protein+per+day+liv...
Youtube download counter-countermeasures applied
It does. That is how a lot of bots and other cheats are made.
Will it be true that Apple still has enough weight to cause ripple effects in design paradigms completely unrelated to a mobile device? I am guessing so, but mostly because a lot of designers are coupled strongly to Apple ideology and it affects their designs directly.

This is of course painful as someone outside of this bubble - watching designs that conform to a device and a way of thinking instead of living and breathing in their own right.
I'll copy what I wrote in another comment: Um, did you know that "awards" in the software industry are a sort of marketing gray area where companies pay a lot for a submission to some "organization" who then hands out "awards" and "nomiations" that can be advertized on websites?
How Much Damage Has The NSA Scandal Done To US Tech Giants?
I'm self-taught in the sense that I learned Javascript before I graduated high school and got a chance to learn to program in a formal setting. Also, I got a degree in Electrical Engineering, even though I use exactly none of that in my current position as... wait for it... a web developer.

I think self-taught or not is not the question. The real question is, are you passionate about programming, or at least about creating things via programming. There are a lot of people who have taught themselves to program as a means to an end, and I think that makes them "better", in some sense, than someone who started their CS degree in search of a paying job without ever writing a line of code.

Of course, the above is very binary, and as comfortable as we programmers might be with that, (and if I may issue a blanket cop-out at the last second), I think "self-taught" is a small facet of the whole that makes a "good" or "bad" programmer.
Value pricing is easy
Hacking Human Behavior
While it's true that porn use is often motivated by deeper emotional problems, that doesn't mean it's an acceptable outlet. Pornography use obviously does cause serious emotional strife to many partners, or they wouldn't report it as a major factor in their divorce.

One may enjoy breaking the windows of adjacent corporate complexes with a golf club to blow off frustration from a day at work, but that doesn't mean it's an acceptable outlet. Pornography can cause much, much deeper, personal emotional damage than acts of petty vandalism.
Is 13 million even close to enough for a "fleet' of satellites?
Heres some sample G-code:

N10 G00 Z0.25000

N20 G00 X0.00000 Y0.29975

N30 G01 Z-0.50000 F2.00

N40 G01 X0.00000 Y1.03725 F5.00

N50 G02 X1.12000 Y1.03725 I0.56000 J-0.37323

N60 G01 X1.12000 Y0.29975

N70 G02 X0.00000 Y0.29975 I-0.56000 J0.37323

N80 G00 Z0.25000

N90 G00 X0.00000 Y0.00000

N100 G00 X1.5200 Y0.29975

N110 G01 Z-0.50000 F2.00

N120 G01 X1.5200 Y1.03725 F5.00

N130 G02 X2.64000 Y1.03725 I0.56000 J-0.37323

N140 G01 X2.64000 Y0.29975

N150 G02 X1.5200 Y0.29975 I-0.56000 J0.37323

N160 G00 Z0.25000

N170 G00 X1.32000 Y0.668625

N180 G01 Z-0.50000 F2.00

N190 G00 Z0.25000

N200 G00 X0.00000 Y0.00000

The N field is a line number and is disregarded

The G field describes the motion type. G00 is a rapid line.
G01 is a feedrate line. G02 and G03 are arcs, one CW, the other CCW.

The X, Y, and Z fields describe geometry

The F field is the feedrate, or the tool's speed
Serious question: Has anyone ever written a "let your husband change the goddamn world!"-type book. Cause my wife is my barrier. Sure, I'll eat junk food, sit at the PC all day, sleep on the couch. But then half of the PC and half of the couch won't be mine for much longer...
Navigation isn't available on the 4.
If you move the Desktop tile to the top of first tile group then you can just press "Enter to launch it"
Only if you use some extensions.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Type_SK
The term I like is "cargo cult social science".

Going to college was highly correlated with a strong work ethic, motivation, future-planning, etc. General success. Therefore certain people came to the conclusion: make it easier for everyone to go to college, and everyone will receive the same benefits. So everyone goes to college, but that obviously doesn't actually increase the prevalence of work ethic or motivation in the general population, it just means that those who don't have it end up with a useless degree and some non-dischargable debt.

The same thing played out with homeownership too. Owning a home was correlated with some types of success -- often the same ones for higher education -- so much effort is expended making it easier to own a home. And we saw how well that worked out.
They're implementing it at the moment, release channel FF doesn't have the capability yet.
> I can't get over there are iOS fanboys out there still
> with their heads so far in the sand.

Those iOS fanboys are just knowledgeable enough. Why don't you spend some time and educate yourself on a couple of things. First, where the first usage of the cornerstones of modern web tech appeared in the wild: I mean <canvas>, CSS transitions and animations. You may be surprised.
Second, learn a bit what native SDKs offer. Once you know the state of "modern web" and the state of modern mobile OSes SDKs you may be less tempted to try to compare them. Trying to portray web stack as superior is laughable and the person making such claim probably has his head in the darker place than sand.
I'm shocked to find out that a politician actually lied..
http://imgur.com/P7nWQh4

In chrome when you select 'Earth' view, it gets you to install a plugin, but then it's all there.
The nation that:

* inflicted syphilis on unsuspecting black people,

* tapped MLK Jr.'s phone calls while conducting continuous surveillance on him,

* imprisoned thousands of Japanese and Japanese-Americans for the crime of being on the West Coast at the wrong time,

* forced the Chinese and Irish to work under horrific conditions building the nation's railways,

* evicted the Native Americans from their native lands, which they had inhabited for thousands of years,

* disobeyed a direct ruling from the Supreme Court in order to do this,

* brutally (brutally!) put down a rebellion in the Philippines after "liberating" the archipelago from the Spanish,

* oh, and held millions of black people in abject slavery, and later poverty and the constant fear of death,

does not warrant your label of being more "the bastion of freedom for all the world" compared to even our modern state.

I get it, you're mad, but if you're going to talk about American history could you at least know a little about American history?

FISC (and its judges) have been around since 1978. I don't even know what "secret police" you're talking about. Torture is always wrong, but America has been there before (e.g. aforementioned brutal Philippine wars). Somehow the "American Dream" survived that.

So what's your goal? To give up? Just to say that America sucks (if so, you'll need to take a number, there's about 200 million Americans ahead of you in that particular line :P)? Or do you want to make it better?

Because making it better requires meaningful political advocacy, of the kind that helped make parts of DOMA unconstitutional today, and not simply whining.
Maybe this is intended to be obvious, but it is not to me. Is this actually counting the number of commits that show a particular convention, or is it showing the number of occurrences of said convention?

The web site states "number of commits" (without really discussing methodology) which is, frankly, not at all interesting to me. Is a commit of 100,000 LOC weighted equally to a commit of one LOC? Are these projects internally consistent or no? Do projects eventually become internally consistent?
I guess just try applying for an entry level job. Many of those places are desperate and will hire anyone.
Thanks for pointing this out -- we're implementing this now.
Time to really kickstart the monetization?
Post-Apocalyptic Stories That Actually Teach Valuable Lessons
All i know is school dosent come even remotly close to preparing you for programming in the real world im self taught and even if I had todo it over again I would not waste any money trying to learn programming from a school.
not to mention you can find EVERYTHING you need to learn and implement programming w/o a school and schools are usually 5-6 years behind so they will be teaching vb6 when the standard is win8rt or very basic php when you should be learning new technologies and concepts...also in my experince most schools dont even teach its more like "heres the book...read it and write an essay" (honestly which employer is gonna ask for an essay or a "open-ended-response" to my projects
I'd say it the other way round: that Haskell was crafted for Haskell's type system, i.e. Hindley-Milner.

(Although Haskell also has type-classes which make my statement not quite true)
So why doesn't the Full Faith and Credit clause of the U.S. Constitution come into play here?

Section 2 of DOMA expressly released states from the requirement to recognize other states' gay marriages, but if it's struck down, "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State."

So why wouldn't marriage apply? If it doesn't, I suspect this will be the target of new legal challenges.

[ETA: Apparently Section 2 of DOMA was not struck down. Sorry about that.]
Its dramatic lamentations over conclusions you've drawn apparently without basis.
Or they spin off sort-of-separate entities to move the profits around (Hollywood Accounting)
Sending Email from EC2
What do you do to send email from EC2 instances? What are your thoughts on Amazon SES (Simple Email Service)? If you use an external service, which one? How hard is it to configure sending email to an external SMTP server?
I would say these approaches were still just bandages, so it makes sense they didn't catch on. GWT, for example, was a fairly nasty leaky abstraction. I don't think it removed the need to understand the rest of the stack, and it added a whole lot of its own Java inspired complexity. XHTML wasn't solving any fundamental problems either.

In an ideal world, now that the web has shifted from being a bunch of linked documents to complex applications, we'd have a development stack aimed at developing applications, with sane means of specifying UI layout and behaviour, low overhead client-server comm protocols etc.
This: "The real question is, are you passionate about programming, or at least about creating things via programming."

I can't agree more but I know there are many who believe the exact opposite and think that only academic education can turn someone into a good coder.
Cold emails: is personalization worth it?
What's funny here is the idea that somehow commodity SoCs will not soon be catching up and providing the same hardware benefit to all the competitors.

Hiding behind a hardware wall is not a safe place to be these days.
Time to start shopping around. Any recommendations?
With the fields dominated by acts, how people make a living gets even more convoluted. Some songwriters who regularly work in-house for a label get paid "advances" that are really more like salaries (regular monthly payments, sometimes considerably higher than the expected royalties). That's especially common for career songwriters in-house at places like Nashville. Young pop or hip-hop songwriters hoping to use it as a stepping-stone to become an act themselves might not get paid a salary.
There is no point past 9.
No, you can use a GUI, you just need to do your polling when you know it is 'safe'.
Well, the California "ruling" was no ruling. The Supreme Court declined to rule on procedural grounds, so the lower court overruling of Proposition 8 stands.
Summertime? I know I build more stuff in the winter.
Due to the degree that each of the major mobile players "cross-pollinates" or "copies" these days, why are we even still talking about who is copying who? Who cares? Looking at these new iOS demos, I see a lot of things that were first done elsewhere. But to most people (outside of our ivory tower), that doesn't matter, and it shouldn't.

But Apple shouldn't be faulted for some of these "borrowed" elements in iOS 7. Google does the same thing, Microsoft does the same thing, and so does everyone else. In fact, I expect them to copy good things, because I as a consumer want the best for my money. Stay on your own stubborn, outdated path and end up like RIM.
The hyperlocal discovery and communication trend
no gofmt on save. Also seems to not pick up external changes in the editor, e.g. from vim.
I have a electrician cousin and uncles in carpentry and EMT.. sure, they don't earn as much as most software developers annually, but they started before and with less debt than almost anyone who went to college.

Throw in the fact that working more than 40 hours is called "overtime" in many cases, it seems like reasonable trade offs.

(Then again, maybe it's a "grass is greener" view.)
You know what would be inclusive? Acknowledging that not everybody is Christian, and being OK with the Google home page celebrating something other than your Christian holidays on occasion.

You know what would be inclusive? Acknowledging that not everybody is for Gay Marriage, and being OK with the Google home page celebrating something other than your pro-Gay Marriage ruling.

Personally I am barely a "believer" and don't oppose gay marriage but your argument made no sense. No doubt you can find people opposing Mandela, Mother Teresa and even Einstein, so no doodles for them to be inclusive?
I read it as "data analytics made accessible to non-technical users", not as "hurr-derp salespeople are dumb".
The recent ruling was on the Constitutionality of Section 3 of DOMA, not Section 2. Section 2 is, as yet, still in force.

But, IIRC, recognition of out-of-state marriages without conditions has never been required by the Full Faith and Credit Clause -- this was actually one of the arguments against Section 2 of DOMA.
But what's the difference? Whether the messages are stored in plaintext, or whether they are stored as part of the iCloud backup, the author proved that Apple can get to them in order to restore your newly purchased phone.
> Trying to portray web stack as superior is laughable and the person making such claim probably has his head in the darker place than sand.

No such claim was made. He simply pointed out (correctly) that the mobile web is in much better shape than it is being given credit for. In that, I agree.
Your argument applies retrospectively to past creations, not prospectively to future creations.

Also, eliminating Pandora might (or might not) increase royalties via other media.
A Diverse Conference
Apple's Jordan Hubbard Joins iXsystems
Ah, yes. Assume I'm ignorant about the technology you claim is superior (the exact same thing happened the last time I tried to point out that the web has advanced a bit in the last 10 years). I didn't even try to make any claim about the web being better than native, but for your own knowledge, I have experience with native SDKs from win32, to cocoa, to android and iOS.

>Trying to portray web stack as superior is laughable

In what regard? Surely not in ease of development? Ease of learning? Ease/portability/availability of tools? Portability of the end app itself? Available developer pool? Open source code to look at and use? I can't imagine a way that any native platform beats the web in any of those categories.

Or just in terms of making a fancy animation and having reusable UI elements? You're probably right, but oh wait, if only you'd investigated Shadow DOM and Polymers like I recommended you'd see that web technologies are rapidly advancing on that front as well.
It seems the biggest problem is the metric used to establish royalties. Broadcast mediums like radio can't accurately account for how many listeners they have, and so their licensing terms are based on plays. Pandora on the other hand knows exactly how many listeners it had, because the stream is per individual, nit broadcast. Neither medium accounts for inactive listeners, but I would expect the distribution would be similar. The bottom line is that Pandora is closer to every individual having their own radio station and so of course you cannot evaluate their worth the same way, despite what the original article was trying to do.

Pandora's model actually works better for the artists, since there is metadata that could be used to spy on American citizens... whoops, wrong story; that could be used to connect to fans in markets the artist may not have had access to previously. Maybe Pandora should be selling that information to the artists and labels, although I don't know that they don't do that already.

Both radio and Pandora are more appropriately described as advertisement. Playback restrictions of both formats means that listening to something is not purely selective in the part of the listener. I can't request that Pandora play Cracker's Low, anymore than I can shout that request to my radio. However both give me exposure to music that I might not otherwise hear. Extra credit goes to Pandora for giving me easy access to the Artist, Album, and Song Title, as well as up sell links whereby I can purchase the music I'm listening to.

Pandora provides much more value than terrestrial broadcast - value for which the music industry should probably be paying Pandora. I fully appreciate the positron Pandora finds themselves in, but they aren't in a fair fight, and the artists that should be supporting them don't seem to understand that distinction for their own good.
I didn't see any reference to G-code in the article. I think the worry is that they will introduce a closed, proprietary standard in an attempt to build their platform.

I'm a bit conflicted. On the one hand, G-code is very compatible with the open source ethos, but on the other it's a very old standard that was originally intended for plotters. I'd love to see something better replace it that can say, use bezier curves.
Not when you have plenty of other avenues to get revenue from and cutting off this specific one own't have much impact on you.
>This needs a dose of cynicism I think. The success of the iPhone in 2007 really wasn't driven by hardware capability (except arguably the capacitative touch screen). Even then, other phones had faster processors, more memory, and equivalent GPUs.

No, they really didn't. Any citation?