skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience as an agnostic I've been heckled more by my own family than anyone else. My world view is basically opposite of theirs and I've learned to just not open my mouth when they begin talking about it (politics, religion etc). It makes for very uncomfortable family gatherings for me :/
What difference does it make if the user is outside Sweden?
Not to be a party-pooper but I wonder where he stands legally with this.
It's clearly useful to describe a structure independently from its consitutent atoms. Anyone who doesn't do so is virtually unable to communicate.

Social structures do things, and are amenable to institutional analysis. This allows us to act without omniscience. Institutional analysis allows one to analyze institutions independently of individuals; replace all the people, and you may nevertheless expect similar outcomes. Thus we can perform institutional analysis on governments, corporations, mafias, economies, consumers, managers, startups, etc.

If this weren't the case, humans wouldn't form institutions in the first place.
No they don't. At least not anywhere that I've lived for an extended period of time (NJ, NY, NC, PA).
Why put this on HN if there is no English version?
What about NACL?
It seems more flexible that PGP but still provides a fairly high level of abstraction. Not sure what is a good library for doing PBKDF2 or similar though.
>'Master key' to Android phones uncovered

Well isn't that just a terrible headline.
They do not mention sources, but I'd say it is some sort of open secret which is known by a lot of journalists. They mention that this officially does not exist, and from off-the-record talks, it does not exist because it's "secret défense".
Out of curiosity, what does the "tim" in "0.18 kr/tim" translate to in English?

I'm just trying to calculate how much it amounts to per month.
Handy site! though looking at the thread creator's 100+ submission history over the last month, I do not believe they are behind this project, and that the various compliments and observations posted in this thread are unfortunately not reaching the correct person - Hopefully the project creator visits after noticing HN in their referral logs.
A video hosting and streaming service is very expensive to maintain. You have to recoup your maintenance costs in the most effective way. For youtube, that turned out to be video ads with their partner program.
Either I don't see navigation beyond the single page or Canvas section is seriously lacking. It does not list some mainstream widely used libraries like Cocos2D or EaselJS. Then there's MelonJS, Quintus, LimeJS and CanvasEngine, which all have their strengths and weaknesses but are viable options depending on your project.

I suggest author to remove the word "every" from title until he covers at least 90%.
> How hard can it be to re-render an already-created CG scene with a few more pixels?

Quite tricky, seeing that Square-Enix no longer has the original source files to re-render these. A proper re-release would require artists to remake the environments from scratch (based on concept art or the original game).
Cryptocat is not any different from any of the other notable privacy, encryption and security projects, in which vulnerabilities get pointed out on a regular basis and are fixed.

I feel bad for the team that worked on this (although I stand by my belief that they shouldn't be working on it), but this is an extremely aggravating statement. When was the last cryptographic vulnerability discovered in any mainstream implementation of PGP?

Vulnerabilities are found semi-routinely in TLS, which was designed by several of the smartest crypto people in the world. But there's a key difference between TLS and Cryptocat: the whole world is working on TLS security. Vulnerabilities in TLS that are far less critical than this one are career-making. Vulnerabilities that devastate the security of Cryptocat earn a blog post.

I'm also a little confused: if the team put Steve Thomas on their thank-you page, why did Steve Thomas write a blog post linking directly to that page saying he wasn't on it?

I bring this up because it's a valuable lesson for startups. You should have a thank-you page. But you should also err on the side of quickly adding people's names to it when they report things. It looks (from the pull request) like much of this was reported over a month ago. Don't wait a month to thank people who report vulnerabilities in your code.
I think I'd do the exact same thing in his situation, you can either be angry about it or have some fun with it.
> First, I do not think this is about chargebacks, at all.

This case may also have other motives (the pirate bay related?) but chargeback is the issue and the story is more complex than it sounds:
http://www.securitykiss.com/resources/roboblog/credit_cards/
It is very simple: Reddit is a more general audience website, slashdot isn't. You should check out some of the better subreddits like /r/depthhub and /r/TrueReddit for better content and comments.
Nobody's falling for anything except the people who think English is controlled by a secret cabal.
Do you support NetBSD?
Don't feel embarrassed, you have a right to feel however you want. Happy 4th of July!
This article doesn't actually make it to be all that hard.

I mean, let's be reasonable. You are part of a community that strongly identifies with a set of beliefs and activities. You become disillusioned with said set of beliefs and activities. How are you going to stay part of that community? Doesn't matter if its NASCAR, hacking around in python, DIY bioengineering, whatever.

What happens is that there are situations where entire physical communities (in the sense of the set of people you will likely run into) also form a single actual community (in the sense of some sort of in-group), which is really unfortunate. I mean, no matter how welcoming and polite that ingroup is, your going to feel left out and somewhat alienated.
hour. "tim" is short for "timme".
You have to deal with taxation. As a minimum, for EU customers they'd have to extend the same VAT arrangements they give to Swedes, whereas any non-EU customer would get different tariffs, and you have to make sure it's all accounted properly.

Then they'd have to look at other laws and regulations for cross-border businesses, and would likely have to pay higher premiums for their insurance against lawsuits for hosting "bad" content. Also they'd need a lawyer who understands all this, rather than your average small-time small-biz paper monkey.

EDIT: and of course, you have to support international payments through VISA or equivalent on your website, which is a pain in itself.
Boxee to discontinue its Cloud DVR service on July 10
I have a really hard time taking hosting providers that claim 100% uptime seriously.
0.18 kr == 0.03 USD

~ 22 USD per month
Wonderful - so much mischief potential... I love that the user was told to press "meh" repeatedly.
I like Nacl. I also like Keyczar. I would be very worried about a project that oscillated from PGP to Nacl to Keyczar, though.
Wait, if someone created documents to help people use PGP or GPG, and released those as beta versions, I believe they'd get mostly useful help and advice.

I agree that they'd still get some toxic comments. This is a problem. As understand it the Math stack-exchange site had problems with toxic members. Perhaps it's a math thing?
In practice you need a texture atlas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_atlas) to reduce number of meshes. But if you use texture atlas you can't combine surfaces like in the article.

The solution is to create 1 dimensional texture atlas like this: http://manicdigger.sourceforge.net/webgl/data/atlas1.png. Then tile in only 1 direction. Minecraft does it and I first read about it in one of Word of Notch posts - http://notch.tumblr.com/post/176620207/i-rewrote-the-tessela....

It's good enough. Manic Digger (http://manicdigger.sourceforge.net) has great framerate at Pentium 4 and Geforce 2 MX.

But there is one problem: in mipmaps there is bleeding between individual textures. The solution is to use:

glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAX_LEVEL, 4);

It's good on desktop, but there is no GL_TEXTURE_MAX_LEVEL on OpenGL ES and WebGL! I guess it must be done with custom mipmaps or with a pixel shader?
hour == timme
tim is short for timme.
Is this newsworthy? More cheap VPS providers here if you're interested: http://www.lowendbox.com/
> But we can still say that the DF interface is pretty bad for the vast majority of users who want to play the game.

But instead UI people just say it's bad, period. That's the problem.
Yup, that's exactly the point!
Quite some developers are re-inventing this kind of things without knowing how their solutions are lacking. It's tempting and fun and in the end in case of crypto insecure.
Pfft all this 'computer' does is take my inputs and give me some outputs. Call me when you have something interesting
Essential Do’s and Don’ts of Mobile App Development
So who, other than the Bolivians who have a great deal to gain by exaggerating the event, are providing any independent verification of the claims being made? Oh yeah, no one.
Visit Poland (or other ex-Warsaw pact countries, excluding Czech Republic). You're going to change your mind, fast.
In C&C Tiberian Sun the voxel models were stored - and drawn - from a RLE sparse array.

And we used the same data-structures in the modder voxel editors.

So its not really an 'open question' as the article says, more just an obvious step.
https://blog.crypto.cat/2013/07/new-critical-vulnerability-i... There seems to be a response to this on the cryptocat dev blog. Since I have no clue about crypto, I can't make any assessments though; Still might be interesting for some of you guys.
Bye-bye Boxee: how a startup failed to conquer the living room
I was in US only 6 months and it was in Mississippi. But my experience was very similar. Even more radical I could say.
Users are Your Eyes
Which download option do you recommend? I tried Fedora 18 with Gnome and it was a disaster. I couldn't find how to create a new file (you know, right click -> new file, like in every OS ever), so I rage quit.

https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options
Use Rails partials without abusing them
See also the English comedian Tony Hawks and the US skateboarder Tony Hawk.

(http://www.tony-hawks.com/skateboarding.php)

(http://tonyhawk.com/)
I'd say the reverse: that selective abortions are (maybe, in some cases) similar in practice, but not in spirit to eugenics. The difference is that eugenics had an imperative to it. They wanted to 'improve the human race' through selective breeding of humans. They were concerned about the population genetics as a whole, not an individual.

And yes, it was very much an accepted area of thought and research in academia from the late 1800s to the end of the second world war. It wasn't until it became associated with Nazi Germany that the idea became taboo.
The person you're responding to didn't say that a woman designer was the point.

They said you can feel free to ask her your question.

I wish you would too, because I can't stand coming into a thread about some cool new technology and having it turn into a melodramatic women's study.
Apple releases security update for Mac OS X
What an asshole. I mean, really, people contact him asking for help and instead of setting up an email rule of "Sorry, this isn't Zynga" he knowingly messes people around.

It'd be one thing to mess with Zynga but people who've just emailed for help? That breaks "Dont' be a dick".

I was expecting an awesome story about how he looked into the game and took on their role and actually helped people but instead we have someone on the internet being a dick.
The usefulness of the sense of community found in religious groups can be very powerful. People willing to help one another with things like taking care of children and elderly, having a group you can simply ask for help whenever there's a need, being aware of the lives of others around you, a place where your kids can meet other kids. It's a network you can depend on. A place to volunteer and be appreciated. I'm an atheist but I actually still participate at a church at non-religious church events for all of these reasons, although I think everyone knows my family is atheist. They also happen to have a very good Japanese language preschool, which is why we started going there. It's a wonderful place filled with wonderful people. In my opinion it's great not because of any spiritual reasons, but because of the community and the willingness of people to help each other.
I've never really experienced any type of heckling, however, where I live (Missouri) most people just assume you are a Christian of some form. I do feel like if my employer knew I was an atheist I'd see some discrimination at work. Not to mention that, for the most part, you won't get elected to public office if you are a atheist. In fact in Texas an atheist can't run for public office.
> Is it really as bad as it's made out in this article or on Reddit?

It probably depends on where you live. Here in PA, it's been a non-issue for me.

But then, be careful. America is much larger than Europe, and while we are all part of the same country, we aren't the same people. There are big difference among the different parts of the country, and making them out to be all the same would be like me using a single country and extrapolating that out to all countries in Europe.

Even still, I have religious friends, and non-religious friends. It's never come up, and never been an issue.
There is additional hash checking indeed. Google Play will fail to install an APK you MitM to the app.

Edit: the hash checking is done in addition to the APK signature verification, i.e. you can not replace the APK with a different APK signed with the same developer key.
> GNOME 3 is a perfect, and very recent, example of what you're describing.

Agree, in a sense that it has abandoned tinkerers and focused on mainstream users. I'm not sure the result is disastrous, though. In Google Trends GNOME has maintained its position relative to KDE:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=gnome+kde#q=gnome%2C...

If you have more relevant stats, please share!
It's more than documents, it's that they wrote those programs with complex ways of interacting with them. To be fair, they have improved with time, but I don't want to let that get in the way of making my point.

I'm going to dredge up my best Comic Book Guy to comment as an example:

"The audacity these security guys have to release such critical software with such a poorly considered user interface is mind boggling, and makes it clear that they care not one whit for their users. Someone so incompetent in the field of user interaction should probably stay in their room playing with crayons. This software is full of stupid UI mistakes, and run by people who clearly know nothing about interacting with other human beings - our only meager consolation from this is that they will clearly never manage to reproduce".

Now, I'm just kidding around, am extremely glad we have the software we do have, and am pretty shitty at making UI's myself, but that kind of discussion is really not pleasant at all to deal with.
If I understand correctly this is a VPS offer which is $22/month. It's not even cheap at all. I have a real dedicated server for less than that. Also, their offer is not available outside of Sweden. And they don't have an English version of the website. This is not news, it's advertisement, and it's badly targeted. Flagged.
I don't know - the longer GNOME 3 is around, the more people like it.

Sure they've lost some people ("I can't install compiz fusion any more") - but in the last 6 month I'm reading lots of "it's fine - first it was a big change, but now I really like it".

I like GNOME3 and would never want back to GNOME2. But everyone his own's.
It's not immediately obvious but they are an off-shoot of FS Data -- a fairly well-known (and old) Swedish hosting provider. It is in other words unlikely to be a "fly-by operation" in a niche where new companies pop-up very frequently.
I'd assume because Hacker News is pretty geographically diverse.
From what I understand, if the server is in Sweden the laws of Sweden are followed.

For the EU taxation there is no tax if the customer is outside EU, this can be resolved by CC address.

How are the payments going through now, is it not CC?
Parts of the UK (e.g. Northern Scotland, Western Isles) could be pretty strict about some things - particularly observing the Sabbath. Even though my parents were "heathens" we didn't hang up washing outside on a Sunday or go out on bicycles - for fear of upsetting the neighbours.

If you've seen Lars von Trier's excellent Breaking the Waves you will get the idea.

[NB I don't think things are nearly as strict as they used to be.]
There is no general zip for every Traversable, though there is one for every Applicative with a suitable instance (like the ZipList wrapper for lists): liftA2 (,)

The reason is that you need to operate on multiple containers at once and that is what Applicative's (<*>) provides, while Traversable only requires Functor and can therefore only traverse one container at a time.

So what Haskell has is just internal iteration, but we have another interface for internal iteration on multiple containers that allows zip to be implemented easily.
It is price per hour in SEK. 0.18 SEK per hour is 129 SEK per month, which translates to ~ $19 per month in USD with the current exchange rate (according to '129,6 sek to usd' in Google)
Looks good!
Good job!
I grew up in Arkansas as an atheist (I guess that's "Bible Belt" though I find the term insulting), and really I don't have any problems that would cause me to seek out other atheists. I had minor problems as a teenager but that's probably because I had the view that christians cause all the world's problems, such as my inability to attract enough females. Realizing that was far from the truth was a big part of growing up I think.
> Still waiting for a proper HD

I am sure it will come out in the same period of the pokemon MMORPG
Fontdeck is currently down.
> What I find hard to believe is that the majority of VPN users are committing credit card fraud.

The problem isn't the majority. The problem is just a significant amount. Keep in mind how low the chargeback rates need to be to avoid serious penalties. Also, keep in mind the number of people isn't the issue, but it's the number of fraudulent transactions that occur. One person can attempt many.

It's an attack vector, and one person can cause problem for many, many customers.
Well, I am from Slovakia. I was never met with open criticism or any kind of aggression towards me for not being christian. I think majority of Europeans are only Sunday Christians.

The level of engagement I have seen in US is far beyond this.
There have been many large performance improvements to the SVG implementation over the last few months. Check out the latest http://nightly.mozilla.org/ and if you still see issues then please do file SVG bug reports at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp... and I'll take a look.
I'm coming!
I disagee, The cryptocat team must 'suck it up' and do better, or GTFO. If they know anything about their field, they should not expect any respect or politeness.

As software professionals we have a responsibility to accept criticisms from others in our field, no matter what their tone and manner may be - and this is especially true in crypto. In our field we have a lot of very bright people with literally no politeness or respect - and we must still work with them to make things better.
When I saw the link on the "reader is dead" page, I thought oh man alternativeTo is going to blow up... I hope they're ready.
Apple: Filtering the news for the Empire - Drone Strike edition
Excuse me? It is stated that he did the right thing first:

> When Zynga didn't reply to his messages pointing out the error, he started doing their job for them.

He then decided to play along, and that it his right. He did not say "delete system32" or such things. The asshole here is Zynga more than Eric I'd say.
You should stick with the original. Remakes have higher resolution graphics, but at the cost of the creative passion that went into the original games.
While I can't say I've ever looked at the source wouldn't most be able to imply that, even if CryptoCat has issues it's likely better, and easier to use, than other competing projects in this space based on its popularity?

I get there are many others ways to skin this... However the author is at least trying and providing. As a prior comment stated, there are a lot of very good people in the security/crypto/dev realm in this very thread that have provided some awesomely D-bagish feedback.
Yes, I'm sure most of the people receiving these responses were really "messed around"... They have bigger problems if they were actually taking his "advice".
This doesn't look like Hacker News to me...
Measuring cache hit ratios
Aha, it's quite possible it worked before I commented, but it doesn't change the URLs as you click on the checkboxes so I couldn't tell.

I cannot guess the URLs for combinations of checkboxes, e.g. canvas+charting.
This is the hi-res model re-release. It looks like it's identical to the one square released last year, but available via Steam instead of Square. It has all the updated models of the hacked versions and (slightly) improved sound quality, plus a few new `features' like cloud-saving (anti-feature?) and character boosting (who knows).

I bought the square version and the cloud-saving was pretty awful, you sometimes had to wait up to 10 mins to contact their server and save the game. I can only imagine they've fixed that for this release.
<tangential>

"...AlternativeTo had about 217.000 visitors on that first day..."

Why can't we all agree upon a universal, consistent notation for math and science?

</tangential>
Mozilla gets all their funding from Google
Please characterize the proper way for us of the uninformed...
What a good laugh the article http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html mentioned on the link.
> wouldn't most be able to imply that, even if CryptoCat has issues it's likely better, and easier to use, than other competing projects in this space based on its popularity?

But in this case it's popular because it's easy to use than other systems and not because it's more secure than other systems.
Ferrari 512 BBi Is A Piece of Art [video]
When Holger Schubert created his studio-garage space, he did what any self-respecting, Ferrari-loving, minimalist architect would do: he took his work-of-art BB 512i and built everything around it. As any showcased work of art deserves to be, Holger's car is in the spotlight and on the pedestal that is the studio garage, which was designed and built for the specific purpose of working and living alongside the Ferrari. Holger shares the details of his car and of his enviable space, which includes a 16-foot driveway bridge, a ramp to roll the car outside to start, and some of the best views a car can take in of the Pacific Ocean.
Are Android apks converted to BlackBerry 10 bars still vulnerable?
"But then, be careful. America is much larger than Europe"

Europe (the continent) actually has a larger area (10,180,000 km² > 9,826,675 km²) and a much larger population (739.2 million > 313.9 million ) than the United States (the country).

I presume you mean the EU (which still has a much larger population) or maybe Western Europe? Or maybe North America (the continent)?
This is immensely troubling.

If it were an individual or group of terrorists planning to detonate bombs against the public, there would have been a raid and arrests and a big media show. But instead, the FBI knew that someone "planned to engage in sniper attacks" but did nothing? How could this be anything but a terrorist plot? The kind the FBI love to be seen foiling?
When We Build - One of the most inspiring talks ever
XML/JSON parsing trick and benchmark