skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or that your OS allows a random webpage to bring your laptop to its knees.
The question is how this impacts the various countries that trade with China, as well as China's export economy as well.

Then in turn, how will the western markets, both real and financial react, especially in light of the US Fed giving signs of winding down fiscal stimulus?
What's the value of your anecdotal experience? I can add my own - my 6 month old Lumia 920 has been back to Nokia for repair. Twice.

Nokia hardware may have been legendary, but it certainly isn't any more. Some of the fit-and-finish on their stuff is weak now (sim tray on 920, dust getting in the front facing camera on the 920) and the rest of the industry has moved on.

The 710 isn't even two years old. It's at most, 19 months.
Have them refactor a 200 line program and then discuss with them why they did what they did.

Or given the same codebase have them add a feature and some form of testing.

There are many ways to simulate in a highly compressed manner the typical tasks of a programmer without resorting to algorithmic puzzles.
Used to work at a small digital agency. All of the servers were named after the director's ex-girlfriends - Anna, Bella and Ruth
Please correct me if I am reading you wrong: so you hope that web developers will never get access to a better development platform?
They didn't kill a car for a better horse. They killed a bus for a better car.
They used to broadcast software via FM radio in the 80s :) One could record the transmitted "noise" with their tape drive, and, apparently, more often than not the recorded program would actually work.
The last sentence is very true, but what makes me really sad is that the consequences of this leak is that at least in Germany and UK, the government look for ways to fast-track the same kind of surveillance system. They want the same thing for themselves!
Finding Sociopaths on Facebook
My passport does not have my address on it.
It is just Mozilla has far to few resources and doing far too many things at the same time.

I wish Rust and Servo would come faster.
I have to wonder, why Android? Why not other alternatives? Like FxOS? Or both?
"How is it different than Steam, other than speculating that Microsoft would never aggressively discount games as much as Steam does now (even though it took them several years for their store to be well-liked by gamers)?"

The main difference is that Steam is an OPTION, not the ONLY WAY.

I can get most of the games on Steam off the shelf, either used or new, as a physical copy, or from another digital source (even indie games have most of the time the option of buying a digital copy from their site).

It's a forced comparison: there are ALREADY services, both for xbox and PS3 that do exactly what Steam does, that is to say, provide games as a digital downloads, as an alternative to pysical copies. Steam makes it very convenient to use their service, but it's not something that is forced on you.

What Microsoft was planning was removing any choice. If they come up with a similar service that is convenient and with actual benefits respect to the normal way of doing things, people will start using it by themselves, without it being forced on them.
> if Nokia would adopt Android, they could probably even beat Samsung. It would've certainly been true if they did it a 2-3 years

2-3 years ago definitely, now: not a chance. They fired all their linux talent and burned their brand.
I think Nokia is pretty comfortable with being the de facto standard when it comes to WP8 hardware. Sure, they have a long way ahead, as does Windows Phone in general, but there's some value in being THE major player in one ecosystem.

Furthermore, I've yet to meet a Lumia user that doesn't rave about his device. Hell, even I had a good time with the Lumia 920. However I'm quite deep into Apple's ecosystem, which makes the iPhone the overall better choice.
Smoking graphics performance on the MacBook Pro too.
"I've always believed, and I still think it would be true - if Nokia would adopt Android, they could probably even beat Samsung."

How is his belief a reality? Even the conjecture that he uses to advance Android over WP in following paragraphs, still does not hold truth. Nokia will still have to fight all the vendors, Samsung at forefront, to gain space.
>Do people really not trust that it wouldn't actually be disabled if you disabled it?

Of course, but why would you go through that bother if you can just move to a PS4?
How about Portals?

GlaDOS.
Google's eight pillars of innovation(2011)
If you have a strong offer, you don't need to sell it that well. But based on the results I'm getting, I guess I need to put some effort into this. Thanks for the feedback.
Oh God... MPL 2.0 again. Why Cant Mozilla just Switch to Apache 2.0
What's the value of your anecdotal experience?
(When I said element I didn't mean it in it's chemical sense, but rather in the composition sense.) Glass is SiO2, and that is what the crust of the earth is made of. It's not amorphous, but that doesn't make any difference.

To sterilize a bottle using water you have to heat water, not just glass. Water takes a huge amount of energy to heat. Your calculations are not as straightforward as you think. Plus heating something at home to sterilize it is not anywhere near as efficient as doing it in bulk.

To melt glass takes 984.2 J/g. A glass bottle weights about 200g. So about 200kJ. That much energy will raise about 1kg of water 50 degrees.

1kg of water is about 1 liter. 1 liter of water is not enough to sterilize a glass bottle unless you had a perfectly shaped container to hold it.

So final result: melting the glass uses less energy than sterilizing it. Plus no water. Plus the glass plant can probably recover most of the waste heat. Plus no need to wash the bottle. Plus no need to sort and transport to the original location.

And now you know why almost no one does it: It's a bad idea.
On #1, half or more of these players have been directly paid by Microsoft to develop for WP, and many other popular app makers are being courted if they haven't said yes yet.
I think you're bang on. It really is just as simple as them wanting to do everything digitally ala Steam and then they walked through every possible scenario in which a person can cheat/game the system and built their checks, restrictions, requirements, etc. around those.

And in doing that, they created something truly quite terrible and very difficult to explain to the average person. I followed a lot of the Xbone coverage and have to admit I'm still confused as to how exactly their systems/checks, etc. would work. Based on what I did understand though, it sounded horrible.
Because those are just like WP8, strategy wise, but worse (even smaller ecosystems). They need Android to truly succeed.
> exactly what the author tells you is not true

Wow. What happened to critical thinking and scientific scrutiny?

> It's actually hydro that can screw you really hard when it fails

Seems like you forgot about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disast...
www.google.com/search?q=chernobyl+children&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=orPCUZTFEqm44ATtkIGIBQ&biw=1350&bih=628&sei=qbPCUeHCBKmE4gTn7IG4DQ

Take a good look at those childrens faces.

As for [0]: A strong point at first glance, I will have to look further into it. The details to 1) where the data comes from 2) what gets counted a deaths from which technology will be very important.
Also, think about this: Imagine there was a machine which was constantly running and with probability p=1/10^20 destroys earth, checked once a day, destroys earth. This machine might run for centuries without causing a single casualty. Is this machine not dangerous? Would you want it running even if there are better and cheaper alternatives without the risk?
In Germany wearing masks (and protective gear) to even legal protests is outlawed, too. Though you get 'only' max 1 year and not 10 years for doing so. For the riot police it's inverse: They don't have to be uniquely identifiable [2].

I personally don't think that such laws should exist in democratic systems.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermummungsverbot (in german)
[2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennzeichnungspflicht_für_Poliz... (german)
I wonder if anyone bottles this compound they'd be able to sell it in china given the cultural health interest in animal parts there.
Exactly. I would want FxOS on it. But the truth is, apps will still be a major problem, the one which plagues it right now.
Microsoft is refusing to buy Nokia, their largest asset in the WP market. That tells you they don't want to spend an unlimited amount of money to save WP.
Unfortunately Nokia have not merely gone for the lowest market-share/mind-share mobile OS (which could work out for them, I guess), Elop has gutted everything else about their industrial design and manufacturing (which is what Nokia really did well) and turned them into just another box-shifter of generic parts chucked together in a generic form-factor by the same factory in China that all the other generic flat rectangles are made in. Nokia have abandoned everything they used to do well.
They were thinking about survival maybe? I am not sure how much money they immediately received from MS for the deal, if any?

But even if they diverse, what would be their Android marketshare? Would they have resources do build properly for both Android and WP? Lumias are made for WP, even their design shows that, would that same design work for Android phone?
So yeah, a certain proportion of those who operate cash-only businesses - gardeners, builders, whatever - fraudulently under-report their earnings. A proportion of those will also fraudulently claim benefits, though less than you might think - if you're going to do benefit fraud it makes more sense to do it on a larger scale, you're risking the same penalties and getting more income. But in any case, it's misleading to talk as though this were in any way specific to prostitution.
I think they focus too much on algorithms and not enough on the technical implementation which is one of the major reasons why Hadoop is so slow.
https://twitter.com/asymco/status/309407743150784513

Ok.
Firefox Development speed is slow. Few things that they are working on,

GGC, Generational GC, Hopefully there will be less pauses in Heavy GC Web Apps.

Necko - Their Network Engine that is now causing 30-40% of janks. Will get rewritten.

And there new Graphics Layer that god knows what happen to it.

Sigh..
Damn - that's depressing. Thanks for the heads up. The safety report that I've now just read on the AVR says:

"A safe operation at hot gas temperatures near to those suitable for process heat applications can currently not be guaranteed by pebble bed reactors, even if a gas tight containment is present."
What's the title? (The index[1] is currently hard to search by session number.)

[1]:https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/videos/
I agree. Sometimes there are real consequences to showing up at a protest and a mask is necessary. At any time the protest could turn violent and you've gone from being a legal protester to a 10 year prison sentence in a second through no fault of your own.
This is really bad. I wonder how the maximum sentence compares to the maximum sentence for actual serious crime in Canada? Can anyone dig that up?
I chose both routes. I don't particularly like like LinkedIn, but if it helps me network¹ then it's a positive tool to have until I no longer need it.

¹ yes, I also hate that word, but there you go.
But you're only comparing that decision to choosing Meego. From that point of view, you're right. But it's not a dramatically better decision. Choosing Android would've still been the right decision to make Nokia one of the at least top 2 Android manufacturers right now. So in that way, Elop actually sabotaged Nokia (well, a lot of the blame probably goes to the board, too).
As someone who has done game development (no longer though), I can tell you absolutely nobody is going to do AI or Physics through Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. Absolutely nobody. Never was, and never will. It doesn't make sense.
Whereas those on Seattle buses were?
Welcome to the real world, Neo. Shall they arrest kids during the carnival in Montreal? Or this ruling applies only to those who struggle against corruption, oppression and tyranny?
F.T.C. Is Said to Plan Inquiry of Frivolous Patent Lawsuits
Startup definition
Unfortunately, the OTP is always as large as the encrypted data. So strictly speaking, this is not really "encrypted data + password" but more of a "split data into two random-looking parts". In particular, this is nothing you can keep in your head or print on paper.

You'd have to keep it on a separate storage medium. And if you have to hand out the done medium, what's preventing them to get your second medium? And if you are able to keep that second medium secret and safe, why don't you store the whole unencrypted data on it in the first place?

Either way: OTPs are really cool, but I don't think they have any relevance here.
disagree on this:

• You could install all your games onto your hard drive and not have to get up all the time to swap discs

just allow the user to do it if the user agrees to have the 24h online check.
The whole landfill thing has always prayed on human's inability to get to bigger picture. They see a dump and somehow think it'll take over as time goes by.

Dig a hole, put rubbish in it, push dirt on top 50 years later and you get a nice park.

Don't think it's safe for humans on top, even better a guaranteed wildlife refuge.
A motion proposed. Let's all protests in Canada considered legal!
Oh by the way, it's pronounced doh-koo. For the record. :D
So it's already an "illegal" protest? They could make all protesting illegal and then they've got the population headed towards 3 felonies a day.

Fun fact: Canada has two oil pipeline spills a day, minimum. Just don't protest it.

Sometimes I wonder if we are exporting our legal and political insanity up there.

Does Canada have a "right to assembly" like we supposedly (but not actually) do in the US ?
Awesome tool for doing Kanban, the great Trello
It's a sad indictment of the iOS software ecoysystem that selling a huge, multi-million dollar game at a price designed to recoup the development costs is seen as a `premium'.
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Ah, so you mean that certain words can not only look at the stack but also look at manipulate the input word stream.

Thanks for the explanation. I really ought to do a practical session with Forth.
I could be wrong as I've been out of the powerful-beige-box world for quite a few years. However when I was in it, the upgrade and replace thing was always with consumer grade CPUs and was like this for everyone I knew. The xenon isn't really targeting the same market. Rock solid stability and sustained performance wasn't something the gaming crowd I was in was after. Massive over-clocks, super hot chips (that died hot deaths) and a GPU clocked to the threshold of showing artefacts. The frame rate must stay high at all costs. This is nothing like what the Xeon targets. Just a thought, and again, I may be wrong.
There's a difference between choosing to control your own destiny (Apple and NeXT) and choosing between different masters (Nokia and Android vs Windows Phone). I think it's obvious that Android would have been a better master 2-3 years ago and there are plenty of reasons to think the same holds true today.

Would a path where Nokia tried to stay in control of their destiny have been superior to both? I think so (and I have my ideas about what that would have looked like), but that's a separate question.
Safety of publishing last 4 credit card digits in age of fast computing?
Living in Seattle, I happen to hear through the grapevine that most of the top 100 apps are funded by Microsoft (it's a mix of contractors, in-house, and revenue-sharing agreements). Spot on.

Recent, public example where it backfired: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715889
>>> Its a steep learning curve but if you are willing to learn, it can be very profitable.

That sounds interesting but do you think it's doable for someone without a business degree or something like that? I mean... I am fascinated by everything that's related to bitcoin but I never felt like I could do anything about that because the learning curve is just too steep. I studied sociology so I have some statistical data analysis background but I always felt that competing with guys who major in Economics would be like hobby cyclist trying to beat pros at Tour de France.

Could you please share some more info about your previous experience with trading, your educational background and anything that you think is important? It would be tremendously interesting to me.
With iOS 7 now copying the clean look of WP8, there's one reason less to use WP8.
If you do something that is fairly CPU bound, such as large project C++ compiles for iOS software, it matters, a lot.

GPUs are not going to make those compiles any faster, and apple has abandoned distcc. The more CPU cores the better.

I'm seriously disappointed that they are not offering a 2 or even 3 socket version of the new mac pro. They're all, fuck you iOS developers, the only people who are practically stuck on our platform.
> Fun fact

Source?
"60 servers owned by MegaUpload were directly confiscated by the FIOD and transported to the US."

This implies that the confiscated servers were originally not located in the US. I wonder which country they were located and on what legal basis the US could confiscate servers there?
The WikiReader does have a Forth interpreter embedded in its firmware, but doesn't run it by default. It is activated when pressing the right buttons at boot and allows developers to access a Forth console via serial debug-cable and/or compile Forth programs from Forth sources contained in the built-in micro-SD card.

As Forth is very low-level and allows direct access to memory (and thus memory-mapped registers), it makes testing hardware quite efficient (and fun).

What makes you believe the WikiReader didn't sell well? AFAIR quite the opposite.
You're still thinking inside the box a little. Gamecube used a variety of patented format cds and encryption keys stored in a small area of the cd for their copy protection. [1]

Or, you know, just turn off the always-online or check-in-each-24h requirement and just lock down the hardware from sideloading games onto it. Even without that, something tells me people would still buy games.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_optical_disc#Nintendo_...
Blame EA for this. The Sim City debacle soured a lot of people on the requirement for Internet connectivity for games that they have purchased.

Also that fast Internet speed is still widely available to many people in India, China, Indonesia and Vietnam. That's a big chunk of game console market.
As a side note, these kinds of tasks are also pretty common in at my university in the practical computer science courses.

Often, you aren't supposed to write a big thing at once, but you are given some partially working code, with some incomplete set of test cases. You then have to finish the implementation, and you are also encouraged to add more test cases.

I found it especially interesting that the test cases were incomplete on purpose - you are supposed to understand and solve the given task, not just to blindly write some code that happens to pass a given set of tests.
Youtube is down (for me). Anyone else?
In the spirit of great and hilarious legalese writing... http://www.chattanoogan.com/2008/2/26/122772/Chattanooga-Sen...
I don't think performance numbers have been a good way to distinguish between mid-range and high-end for a while now. Especially for users who are looking for a single machine that covers a range of uses including games.

ECC memory is a high-end feature. As is the specific choice of GPUs. Arguably, the fast PCIe SSD counts, too, although I suspect that won't last -- everyone benefits from I/O bandwidth, and there's no particular reason, other than market segmentation, for PCIe SSDs to be more expensive.
You're probably right. Nature and Science are Nature and Science; they don't need to improve on the status quo because they're already sitting on top.

I hope some lesser journal becomes greater, and soon.
Awesome! I've wanted something like this for a while. About 2 weeks ago, I tried running this and it took upwards of half an hour to get running on my VPS with DigitalOcean.

Today however it took 30 seconds so I'm not sure whether it has been updated but a great improvement :-) The only thing I can't wrap my head around in the README is the 'deploy an app' section.

It says to cd into node-js-sample. Where does that folder come from? I created a bare repo called 'node-js-sample' in /home/git and I tried pushing to that but I get this error:

/usr/local/bin/gitreceive: line 54: /home/git/node-js-test/hooks/pre-receive: Permission denied

I looked and that hook doesn't exist (that'd be why! Haha) What's the proper way of creating an app ready to be deployed on the server?
I'm pretty surprised by the fact that almost everybody in here is of the opinion that Nokias Windows Phone strategy is not working.

Last I checked, selling more and more smartphones per quarter while slowly growing marketshare, especially in Europe, is not the sign of a bad strategy.

It's amusing to me that people consider success to mean 50% marketshare overnight. It's equally amusing to me that people fail to see that Android is absolutley no guarantee of success either, see HTC for example.

Nokia made a bold bet, but because they chose a MS platform it's not surprising that the HN crowd see this as failure. I mean we have people in here saying they should even have gone with FireFox OS!

Wow.

My opinion, this is a slog, and Nokia is at least making a game of it and walking in the right direction.
I assume there is the same system as in the US and it's a way for the prosecutor to twist the arm of the accused into a guilty plea in exchange for a reduced sentence?
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Time to break out the wigs, face paint and glasses?
I'm not sure if this is always the case.

ZipCar (a short term rental car company) provides a credit card that can be used to pay for gas. When you insert the card at the pump, the machine only asks for your ZipCar membership number.

This leads me to believe that perhaps a card that was issued in a foreign country might prompt the user to enter something other than a Zip Code.
Why not check in with NFC cards?
All video URLs I have tried (over 50) report a 500 with a screen like this: http://oi40.tinypic.com/2ni6y4g.jpg

Curious.

Am using chrome on Mac OS X.

But working in Safari and Firefox.

Any idea what all that means?
Many sources, here is one

http://globalnews.ca/news/571494/introduction-37-years-of-oi...