skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a fair assessment. I think the part that can really be attributed to Apple is the hardware accelerated, fluid, instantaneous and very polished interface with touch gestures . It's not any one UI component or gesture in particular but the beautiful integration of all of them together.

The other thing that iPhone had going for it was the iTunes integration that would save you from having to buy an iPod. This brought a lot of monetary value.

For the rest, I remember during the first iPhone reveal thinking it was a more polished, better funded version of the openMoko phone. ( https://www.google.ca/search?q=openmoko&safe=off&source=lnms... )

openMoko was an open source, volunteer made project. One thing openMoko had for it was their plan for promoting third party native apps from the get go, whereas Apple blocked them for almost a year.

In a 2006 article, a few months prior to the iPhone reveal we get about openMoko:

"The Neo1973 is based on a Samsung S3C2410 SoC (system-on-chip) application processor, powered by an ARM9 core. It will have 128MB of RAM, and 64MB of flash, along with an upgradable 64MB MicroSD card.

Typical of Chinese phone designs, the Neo1973 sports a touchscreen, rather than a keypad -- in this case, an ultra-high resolution 2.8-inch VGA (640 x 480) touchscreen. "Maps look stunning on this screen," Moss-Pultz said.

The phone features an A-GPS (assisted GPS) receiver module connected to the application processor via a pair of UARTs. The commercial module has a closed design, but the API is apparently open.

Similarly, the phone's quad-band GSM/GPRS module, built by FIC, runs the proprietary Nucleus OS on a Texas Instruments baseband powered by an ARM7 core. It communicates with Linux over a serial port, using standard "AT" modem commands.

The Neo1973 will charge when connected to a PC via USB. It will also support USB network emulation, and will be capable of routing a connected PC to the Internet, via its GPRS data connection. [...] Moss-Pultz adds, "Applications are the ringtones of the future." [...] As for additional software components, Moss-Pultz admits, "Quite a lot is there, and quite a lot is not there. We're hoping to change this." In addition to a dialer, phonebook, media player, and application manager, the stack will likely include the Minimo browser [...] He adds, "Mobile phones are the PCs of the 21st century, in terms of processing power and broadband network access. "
FWIW, I looked that up and the active lane assist only "steers" by fiddling with the brakes on individual wheels.
1. I wasn't around when the system was set up. I think the idea was that developers could work together on an incremental version in dev repo. Then it could be pushed out as a clear update in the live repo.

2. It was what someone chose 4 years ago. The guy has since left. Everyone is familiar with SVN. SVN is pretty easy to get into. We haven't seen a need to change.
> "but rather go for short term gratification than for creating their own freedom."

How come starting a family is a "short" term gratification?
While not great for migration uWSGI also has chain reloading [1] which will do the same thing as killing each worker. I use Tornado at work for some applications so I had to come up with something for Gunicorn as uWSGI + Tornado doesn't really fit together.

[1] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Changelog-1.9.html#chain-reloading
This is supposedly subversion eg EDL and Where Football Hooligans shade into supporting the UDA but at least some of the 9000 are people who have pissed the met off eg the Lawrence family.

Apparently the undercover stuff is run by the ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers aka the Union for senior coppers now I am a union man but Trade Unions have no business running a private secret service
After reading articles about seized bitcoins, I can't help but think about all those other digital assets floating around that could be valuable: Eve Online spaceships and Plex, prepaid years of service (Dropbox plans are $99 and up)...
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Is it a personal tracking app, or meant for business users? It's not quite clear from the description. If it's for business users, do they get reports/easy way to send their expenses into their reimbursement workflow?
- Freelancing. $1k/Month (30 Days) = $33.33/Day
Yes the Police seem to have less oversight than MI5 do in this case.
This was surprisingly uninspiring.
Freelance. $1K/month should be easy enough to make.
In wordpress you can change permalink, if someone links you to the old permalink it gets automatically redirected to the new link
Out of curiosity what was the issue for mezzanine?

Small anti WordPress rant... it uses absolute URLs for everything which is a total PIA when moving domains.
DoS not DDos.
Stewart Smith has a presentation in which he discusses Browser Pong along with some other projects. It's a very enjoyable presentation to watch!

http://vimeo.com/22433439
I'd say you have a point when talking about wholesale outsourcing of an entire division to a private contractor. But individuals who report to managers which are government employees are not a consequential risk.

Even then it isn't quite espionage that's the problem but simply working to steer more business their way - inside information on operations feeds into the lobbying arm of the contractor and the lobbyists convince congress to create or expand the work available for which the contractor has a high probability of winning the bid.
Linux is obsolete - Debate b/w Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds
This post reminded me of an antarctica blog I stumbled on years ago: http://www.bigdeadplace.com/welcome-to-the-program/

The Q & A bit here ("what are things you wish you brought?") seems to list a fair amount of booze/booze related items. http://www.bigdeadplace.com/ask-an-antarctican-2/
The title is actually "Multi camera movie shoots with your iPhones", not "an iPhone".
Mystery of Snowden’s whereabouts deepens
"bought" a house or taken a loan?
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My guess is that WP9 will just be a tweaked version of Windows 9 without the desktop. The WP8 updates have been annoyingly slow, and Microsoft does not seem to be investing at all in apps (e.g. no Bing apps for WP8).
Wikipedia not held responsible for defamatory content in court case
I'm glad you were enlightened! :P
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Link to Google translation of blog post describing the issues in detail:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
I know some of the people involved in this affair, and I can assure you that they are far from rich or connected. The fact is, NYC has a vibrant, organized, motivated underground arts culture and community.
I don't particularly look down on them for it as they're obviously happy in their world doing it.

You quite clearly do:

I believe that there is something special about not needing to spend large amounts of money on fleeting entertainment.
It's interesting to follow the flow of ideas among languages/platforms.

We've repeatedly seen concepts that were popularized by the enterprise Java crowd flow down to the .NET crowd, and eventually to the PHP crowd.

IoC and DI is a good example of this. It was extremely hyped within the Java community during the early- and mid-2000s. Then this flowed into the C# community, with it getting a lot of attention during the late-2000s and early-2010s. Now it has finally made its way to the PHP community.

An astute PHP user who recognizes this flow of ideas will look at how the trend has progressed within the Java and C# communities. What they'll see is that there has be movement away from IoC and DI. The purported advantages never materialized, but there was a lot of pain and bad code left around.

Many in the Java community have moved on toward simpler frameworks and techniques, or even toward a far more static JVM-targeting language like Scala. Many C# users have similarly started moving away to other approaches.

At some point, perhaps around 2016 or so, the PHP community will come to the same conclusions about the suitability (or lack thereof) of these techniques. After experiencing the problems first hand, they'll too move back to simpler, more explicit approaches.
RC4 in TLS is broken: now what?
He mentions that emails often end up occupying your mind for 30 minutes after reading them. If you're distracted and mulling over some problem that came from an email, you're not fully present.

I'm sure many have noticed this effect from reading email or news before bed. Often if I've been surfing or reading email too close to bedtime, the interesting issues and problems I've read about keep me awake for a long time.
Of fit you up as they tried to do to a government minster see plebgate or if your a victim of a disaster at a football ground see the long running Hillsborough disaster.
sign up doesn't work in Firefox22/Ubuntu
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Ultramarathoners: Faster, Higher, Stronger And Sleepier
What if that car is a real chick-magnet though?
It's all relative. Take a bunch of people of a similar background as Alex, education, opportunities. Then choosing the lifestyle he has is pretty rare. And if you can cope with the tradeoffs, it is awesome - especially the long term payoffs of freedom.
The removal of all responsibility from my life would leave me dissatisfied. For me a rich life involves interconnectedness with other people - families, kids, friends, colleagues. That interconnectedness gives rise to responsibility. And that's the way I like it.
Jobs.

Or I could have said 'freelance'. Short questions tend to lead to short answers. Seriously, your question lacks some information. Where are you based? What can you code? What exactly do you know of "online marketing stuff"?

I'm assuming you're young and/or just starting out. 1K a month isn't even minimum wage where I live, so the upside is that it shouldn't be too hard.

Whether you go the job route or freelance route: showing what you have done or what you can do is often more important than formal education. Having a Github account to show off your work, a StackOverflow profile (with answers, of course), a personal blog, that kind of things.

For freelance work, look at Elance or Odesk. You can do a couple of cheaper gigs to gain experience and good reviews, after that you can go for the slightly higher paid ones.

For jobs, I'm sure there is some sort of job aggregator where you live. Or ask around your network, I got most of my jobs/gigs from people I know.
Good luck!
My name has an "E" right in the middle. It's just a conjunction but the first time I went to the US, the security guard in charge of checking the passports didn't like it, he kept asking me what was the meaning of that letter: "Is it Edward? It must be something like that."
That's an entirely reasonable trade-off. Freedom may be the destination but there's no reason that the journey has to suck.
"There are a few laws that forbid the public from doing things (riding electric scooters on the sidewalk) but don't have any penalties associated with the act. Nor do the police enforce them."

In New York City they absolutely do. I've seen lots of tickets given for regular and electric bicycles, and I've seen one delivery-guy's electric bicycle confiscated for just that.
I've often seen the choice of having kids or getting married being used as a 'quick fix'. Usually for a failing relationship, insecurities or poor financial choices (benefits++). It's not always, but it can be.
> I have seen some of the smartest and most sensible people turn into zombies who would and did sell themselves, their kids' toys and baby's diapers for drugs.

This is because the prices for drugs are artificially inflated by prohibition. Make drugs legal, or -- at least -- make methadone replacement therapy readily available, and price problem solved.
Report: 72 percent of Texas 4th-graders can’t read well
4 (good) reasons to join Collaborative Workplaces
IMO, they played him like a piano.
I can't stress how important a precedent this.

If Wikimedia had been held responsible, would have made the same sense as blaming the builder of a wall for an offensive writing on that wall.
FTA: one of the updates might be lost, something we see from time to time.

You're right, but it doesn't sound like these are high-contention operations since they currently run without any locks and rarely have problems.
> I'm not sure most average people use bit torrent anymore.

Yeah, many people don't - because of Pandora and Spotify. Take those away and people will go back to piracy.
The government already locked up one editor, and a bunch of journalists, and also closed a newspaper down. They are scared.
You're offering her "a direct path" just as much as anyone on Craigslist willing to "let" someone develop their for idea "for the exposure."

So just based on what you've said in this comment, you're giving her the choice of either working for a small percentage of 0 ("equity") or she can wait until you have the money. Should you ever get the money, you're going to pay her just under market for an entry-level job. If you don't get money for 2 years, she's clearly no longer entry-level, you've gotten years of work from an impressionable young girl for free, and you're going to do her the favor of paying below-market wages.

Maybe your intentions are good and it's just the execution that is piss poor, but judging on the comments on this post you are seriously taking this girl for a ride and you should be ashamed of yourself.
I find that the behaviour naturally reciprocates. When you're giving someone your undivided attention, they tend to find it difficult to be distracted without being acutely aware that they are being rude.
Doing satellite tech/eng stuff overwinter in Antarctica is one of my dream jobs (along with obviously doing the same thing for Mars, which would be even better).

9 months isn't that long, and I can't imagine wanting to spend all the time drunk, rather than learning about all the interesting science going on. Plus, obviously, Internet.
yet another "I've nothing to show really but send me your email address anyway" post.
Create some nice themeforest themes or plugins, easy to get more that 1k$ per month there.
I answered this above.

The code base doesn't have unit tests. It was built by a hobbiest 4 years ago. The current version supports legacy features from a previous version. It is mainly procedural with a smattering of random classes. There is a lot of code duplication. It is the definition of spaghetti code.

Honestly I wouldn't know where to begin with unit tests in this code base.
No, it's not too late.

Fox example take Paul Stone, who started to workout after age of 60 [1]

Or Leslie Nielsen who's known for being a comedian started to act in comedies at the age of ~54.

[1] https://pp.vk.me/c418616/v418616330/5e45/LAj3RgtCnIU.jpg
I’m young, inexperienced and a perfectionist
Many people indulge in activities like like reading emails, tweeting, messaging etc. when they are with their friends and family having dinner or just hanging out. There are some people who do this even while watching movies with friends! Sometime it give a negative impression that they want to be left alone undisturbed. This is really a problem with current generation people.
Please be present when you are with friends and family!
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But here's the thing: I often don't know who I'm comparing myself with.

Took some pictures, posted them and looked at other profiles, went back to the camera, worked harder, rinse and repeat. Turned out, the others were working for National Geographics and the like.

People don't start out as the greatest mathematician in the last few centuries. And how do you even differentiate between talent and hard work?
I did. My old firefox instance must've been lingering around and then the remote behavior made it just launch a new window in that.
I am not saying that it is exempt from being an addiction for some people. The issue for me with this article is the approach the author takes. The article reeks with guilt toward pornography.
Really? What kind of hackathons have you attended? I attended one once and all I got was some (crappy) pizza.
Holy copyediting fail, Wired.
Perhaps a play-by-play is more appropriate for /r/snowden
The Long Climb from the Sun's Core (1997)
> nobody else even touched the story.

This is EDIT not correct.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02xxvbr)

0833
Sir Malcom Rifkind, a former foreign secretary and the current chairman of the commons intelligence and security committee, and Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, analyse allegations that GCHQ has snooped on web information.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23059065)(http://www.b...

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23004080)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23048259)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23017108)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23051248)

etc etc etc.

> Why aren't the government being hauled over the coals for this thing?

There's no evidence that GCHQ are doing anything illegal, nor anything new. They've been doing this for many years. It's what they say they do. It's what they're set up to do.

GCHQ having a 3 day cache of communication-content data is little different to telecoms companies keeping a similar cache[1] except the laws are clearer about what GCHQ can and can't do with the data.

In terms of privacy violation there are much worse examples than GCHQ slurping everything. Corrupt public officials (eg: police officers) selling off information to newspapers; workers for telecoms companies having unauthorised access; people with access to medical records gossiping.

Note that the broader collection you mention is, at the moment, just "meta data" (routing information), and not content data. I guess while not be acceptable it is less unacceptable than collecting content data. (If that makes sense.)
I have hired both types of candidate. In my opinion, a four-year college degree is worth roughly the same amount as two years of real-world experience. There are exceptions on both sides, but on average four years of college seems to be roughly equivalent to two years of work experience.

Someone with college experience will probably know more theory, which is useful. But they rarely realize that large projects are significantly different from their college work, and they don't understand why you have to do what your users want instead of what the theory says is correct. So when I hire someone with a degree and no experience, I know my team will need to teach them those things.

On the other hand, people without college degrees can get into a lot of trouble if they don't learn the theory behind their work (especially algorithmic complexity). So when I hire someone without a degree, I know my team will need to teach them those things.
Chinatown. The stretch of tunnel goes from near Cyrystie Street, under the Manhattan Bridge approach plaza, towards Confucius Tower.
Sorry, I misinterpreted the licensing bit.

I guess you have a valid point.

Anyways, ID is still way ahead, not only of Valve but of all game companies (AFAIK). Game engines are not as easy to license free as other software since you cannot monetize support, and often the code carries industrial secrets (which is their edge over other free game engines). I guess ID's stance is the best compromise one could achieve.

I keep my point: Carmack deserves credit for what he does and his respect to software development as a whole.
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You example is easily understood, but I think it is an error to think that if you have an healthy and cautious lifestyle, you won't be affected by any disability. There are many environmental factors that are outside of your control like being exposed to some nefarious substance while you were in the womb, with long term effects. And many debilitating diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson or MS don't have a very clear cause.
This new release seems to have support for Linux and OS X, which is a new addition to the Source SDK. Previously you've only been able to use mods on Windows. This might be enough to get me back into modding for a bit.
No Problem – the power of ASP Security Kit hlies in its flexibility and extensibility. You can provide your own implementation for most things including hashing routines if you don't find existing implementation suited for your particular needs. Till now, it is either not possible (in some cases) or difficult (in other cases) in the default ASP.NET implementation for membership management.
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As soon as they publicized the event, they guaranteed that it would be locked down from this point forward. If you can't tell by the graffiti, many people have been there before them and kept it to themselves, but nobody else will in the future.
That's not what he's comparing himself to, he's not comparing himself to people with sick parents, disabilities or a family to take care of. He's comparing himself to young and educated indulging the life of well-earning bachelors buying shit they don't need.

If one has started a family and doesn't have one's own successful business yet, it's very likely to be forever stuck in the "job-limbo", because one does have responsibilities. Family is the most important thing.

Speaking for myself, I just couldn't start a family without having my own successful startup before, because otherwise I could never give myself and my children the freedom that I consider to be necessary to make a life worth living.
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This is why I'm so critical against informants/whistleblowers (I'm referencing an old Google tax whistleblower...not Snowden or Manning), because most have their own intentions and greed/fame motives.

He deceived wikileak supporters to sell shirts.

Chronicled his "adventure," obviously to source the article.

Attempted to associate with LulzSec and Anon, and did associate with the FBI...for setting up Wikileaks, or ego?

The only thing in this story I like is that the FBI used him and cut him off when he had no more value.

I may be bias here since kpoulsen has done an article on me, but this guy doesn't deserve the attention he'll get...probably use it to sell more shirts
I'm a middle class kid that managed to go to under grad & grad school on scholarships. I've lived an extremely privileged life.

My opinions are formed by the life I have lived as it is the only life I will ever experience. I guess my interpretation of awesome is more in line with inspiring awe.

Depending on her background, her situation could very well inspire awe and be something she never thought possible. From my experiences, her examples of "awesome" in other posts are what I would consider "Sweet" even though she has several things I wish I had. If you measured everything in the world on a scale of awesomeness, rather than believing something has to hit a threshold of actually inspiring awe, then her life would be well above mine.

For more common forms of awesome, things like watching my younger brother with autism be able to take my dog for a walk is pretty awesome given everything else I have gone through with him. Living in the suburbs though, getting a piece of plastic that extends credit to me is not awe inspiring.
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It matters what kind of intervention are you getting into. You can step yourself up as a mediator and act to prevent the conflict escalation and to reduce the damages, or you can just hand weapons to one (or even to both) of the involved opposite camps that will most surely not prevent the conflict escalation or reduce any damages.

...but now, which option is more profitable?
I also found this article practically unreadable.
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