skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm encouraged but I watched the video here:

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone

We can't lock the phone?
The phone decides how to search?
Developers empowered by Java on Android would have to go back 1 or 2 decades to C or C++ to make apps?

That's sounding pretty limiting.
It's a true statement if you qualify it properly.

It wins you more code reusability with less code written to accomplish aforementioned reusability.

I always run into silly inheritance chains, type coercion or adapter fns/methods to handle reusing code for unlike-types, rather than relying on a common base of functionality regardless of where it was derived from (function API, inheritance, mixin, etc).

Best way I've seen this done is in Clojure. Good mix of the best of both worlds in terms of static and dynamic typing, multimethods, protocols, essentially structurally typed arguments, etc.
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Impeach Obama for NSA Spying Program?
Evidence of massive NSA spying on US citizens that recently leaked was less surprising than the reaction of some of my friends on the left overly focusing on President Barack Obama's responsibility, even advocating for impeaching Obama, when focus on the all 3 branches of government, especially lobbying and litigating for change, are more useful reactions, as I show in this video.
> Can a phone OS survive with just web technologies and not native apps?

Why would you cripple yourself like this, though? Modern web technologies are far from ideal for doing websites, why would I extend the pain to offline apps?
The stark difference being that no hacker has the ability to deploy a standing army, a secret police force, or secret courts for issuing secret warrants.
It was, but the stack overflowed.
I disagree with the term 'more advanced', but there is a huge difference between the invertebrate and vertebrate nervous systems: we have myelin, which insulates the axons and allows signals to travel many times faster.

Without myelin, large bodies with centralized nervous systems are not possible. To illustrate the difference, take an example of stubbing your toe. It's a good example because it's unexpected, sudden and originates at the furthest point in your body away from the brain.

When you stub your toe, you feel two waves of pain. The first arrives quickly, within about a tenth of a second, and is a sharp stabbing pain. That signal travels by the A-delta fibres, which are myelinated and have a conduction speed of 2 to 30 m/s.

The second wave is delayed by 1-2 seconds and is a dull sort of pain. That signal is conveyed by the C fibres, which are unmyelinated and have a conduction speed of <2 m/s. If we did not have myelin, all of the signals to and from the extremities would be similarly delayed. It would be impossible to respond to stimulus or coordinate whole-body actions like walking.
It's not popular to say this but: democracy is a failure.

We have constant political turmoil, constant corruption, and constant interruption by "well-intentioned" but insane government programs.

The world is constantly unstable.

Let's get away from the popularity model of government and move to the competence model.
Which are the most abandoned books?
In Japan the UIs are decent and Microwaves are automatic : you dont have the set the time unless you really want to, they auto-adjust themselves and detect what they are cooking up.
Agreed.

Now consider Bitcoin:

Somebody wants to pay somebody else for something using Bitcoin, but can't because You Can't Buy Bitcoins.
On the contrary, it's exactly that sort of characterization that I object to. How could complying with court orders be the "worst possible privacy violation"? I'm sympathetic to the argument that the orders are overbroad, or that Microsoft should have appealed the orders and hasn't opposed the orders as stubbornly as it could have (though of course we know very little about what has actually occurred along these lines). But why would responding to a court order be a worse privacy violation than selling information about my online behavior to other companies (in addition to also responding to court orders!)?
Do what Asians do. Cook a weeks worth of rice all at once in your rice cooker, portion it into rice bowls with plastic wrap on top and freeze it. For each meal nuke each portion for a minute and a half (or so) with the plastic on (you might like it with it off depending on how it steams).

It's almost as good as fresh cooked rice and keeps for weeks and weeks in your freezer.
How to Eliminate Roolkit.Bit.Phir.c From Your PC Thoroughly?
As society becomes more chaotic, the cops are going to get more violent and pro-active. Look at police in Brazil and other war zones. They have to be this way, and they're not universally competent, so you get the dog-shooters and zombies volunteering for these missions as well as the regular cops.

Maybe instead of blaming the tool -- the cops -- we should fix our fractured and dysfunctional society.
Where should Edward Snowden go?
Direct link: https://heml.is

Hemlis is founded by The Pirate Bay co-founder.
And what about the people that used to buy it as their primary food source? Their incomes did not increase six times, just their monthly food bill.
Meh... Cannabis seed is more nutritious, and has more uses, as does the cannabis fibers, that quinoa pales in comparison.
Cannabis is easier to grow as well.

If our governments weren't so afraid of people getting stoned the economic benefits of cannabis would make it a major cash crop capable of outperforming quinoa in every aspect.
No but they do boost Pfizer's stock price!

Placebos are a billion dollar business!
They're morons not to.

Word of mouth in appreciation of a good deed or good product is the most compelling sales pitch you'll ever hear.
Yes, you can lock the phone.
The main programming environment is QML, not C or C++.
Exactly. Democratizing defenses for the average person needs to become the norm. Every person in the world has the right to be free from government surveillance, both domestic and foreign.
Learn.js, a book about building projects with javascript, reaches v0.4.0
It is, but nobody wants to pay $600 for a phone that could cost you $99 when subsidized by your network operator.
> Is that like "WTF, the primary market for this is not upper middle class women" or "WTF, you are being very blunt about this." [...] If the first, I'd very much like to hear who you think buys premium-priced balsamic.

Upper-middle class foodies. Who are probably less likely to be women than the market for non-premium balsamic.
"The distribution of genetic variants within and among human populations are impossible to describe succinctly because of the difficulty of defining a "population," the clinal nature of variation, and heterogeneity across the genome (Long and Kittles 2003)."

This is completely f'n stupid...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/to-classify-h...

[edit]

BTW, I find it funny that you're wiki-scholaring using old sources that date back to before we learned all non-african humans have some neanderthal dna in them.
You can't get any better advice than from Napalm Death:

1. Change your life.

2. You suffer (but why?).

Something in your life-arrangement is wrong. Fix it and move to something you enjoy.
That's disappointing, Windows has multiple options to handle a smart card's removal, one of which is simply locking the screen, sad they decided to use the "force log off" setting instead.
So, like everything else in the world, success at this task is a balance of many things and not just one single thing?

Tell me more...
You know patio11, sometimes I read your blog posts and get a feeling of lingering doubt, like, "there's no way this guy can be as clever and successful as he claims." And then I see a comment of yours (like this one) and any trace of doubt evaporates.
It's not Flash - I have Flashblock, and there is a flash video on the page lower down, but the upper two are some HTML player. Right-clicking them doesn't show the Flash context menu items, which is another giveaway.
I can't get my eyes to look at the demo playing on the iPhone.

I keep staring at the background video.
It would be fine because pedantry is not the same as meticulousness. Also, we're talking about a blog post here, not a bridge. For fuck's sake.
I can't read the hero text for my life. The white on those pictures is KILLING me.

http://i.imgur.com/UoD5gTv.jpg
Optimize Windows 8.1 for the Desktop
http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
As someone who grew up with ADHD managed by stimulant drug therapy since age 7, I can earnestly say that my experience was that ADHD drugs did boost my grades and were a crucial factor in my career success, to date (and still are).
"The way to make the system secure is that we can control the infrastructure."

This is an incredibly narrow vision of the future. We need an interoperable network that supports a variety of encryption technologies. Users should be able to select the apps they prefer with the features they need.

Locking the social graph into a single service and a single app which like most applications will eventually have vulnerabilities is a tremendous liability.
I'm sure that they don't need to. They just ask the casinos and other places to give them all the footage after the fact.

Wouldn't you want to hold a conference like this in a place where all surveillance equipment were not standard so you can spot them as anomalies in the surroundings?

I would imagine that every single person that has attended is on the list of people whose communications are stored indefinitely.
Fascinating anecdote!
> Shuttleworth said he has been running Mir on his own laptop, an "all-Intel" Dell XPS, for two weeks, and that barring a few minor glitches, the system feels smoother than it did before.

Well... yes.
Exactly. I see it this way: Freeform jazz performers and poets can break all sorts of rules, because they know what the rules are so well that they know which rules make sense, which ones they can bend and which they can outright break.

I would never advocate handing the keys of this philosophy to a young scrappy kid at his first job out of college. More like the seasoned veteran who's seen all sides and knows what it takes to make something (Disclaimer: I am neither of these).
Drivel dripping with sarcasm in a one post tumblr blog. I really hope this crap doesn't get any more upvotes.

>> The competition and choice is essential to the open web. Yet OpenStack wants to be the only game in town?

Yeah, because CloudStack and Eucalyptus are just going to disappear overnight. What do you expect from a presentation given at the OpenStack Summit? "Here's Why CloudStack is Great?" Ya, competition is good so if CloudStack disappears tomorrow you can create your own competitor, what's stopping you?

>> No, absolutely nothing has been commoditized.

Ok.

>> So if I pick up OpenStack or OtherStack they should be basically interchangeable.

They aren't? Given your example of a HTTP server I'm sure I can just slap my httpd.conf onto a ngix server and off I go, right?

>> I’m sorry, but I missed that term in my Operating Systems 101 class. Why? Because there is no definition.

You must have went to a school where you memorized terms and didn't learn to think for yourself. The idea is that OpenStack sits on top of hardware, the same way an OS sit on top of hardware. If you want to get all grammar nazi about it you won't score any points with anyone.

>> So somewhere, at some point, OpenStack completely lost focus and now solely focuses on promoting itself. As though the original problem was that we didn’t have a thing called OpenStack and we have now filled that gap by creating OpenStack.

What does this even mean?

>> So can we get serious now about commoditizing the cloud?

Yeah dude, Amazon, Red Hat, HP, and IBM haven't already done this or anything.

>> I have some thoughts there…

Sure, I'll be back for your 2nd post but I hope it has some actual substance.
Silicon Valley's Anti-unionism and Class Warfare
Here's the Haskell golf

import qualified Data.Map as M
import Data.List
import Data.Ord

countWords :: String -> [String]
countWords = map fst . take 10
. sortBy (comparing snd)
. M.toList . M.fromListWith (+) . map (\w -> (w, 1))
. words
ssh -t myhost.example.net 'screen -D -RR'
I would say the most interesting thing on my key chain is an actual chain - switched from a ring to a ball chain (use aluminum tape to keep it from coming undone.) The ball chain allows the key s & flash drive to lay much more flatter than using an ordinary key ring.

Second to that would be a San Francisco Public Library card, which allows me access to their extensive catalog of on-line books.
Mir heavily emulates Android's SurfaceFlinger design, and Canonical claims it'll be a better fit for Ubuntu for smartphones. Highly debatable whether that'll actually hold true.

In any case, there's no fundamental design flaw in Wayland; this just seems like a common case of NIH.
Wow. For all the years Linux has been stuck with X, I'm impressed they've essentially replaced it in <6 months.

(Disclaimer: IANAE)
That fragmentation is exactly why I chose FreeBSD nearly a year ago.

As the old adage goes:
FreeBSD is what you get when Unix developers get together and create a Unix-like system for the PC platform.

Linux is what you get when PC developers get together and create a Unix-like system for PC.
Bounce rates are probably rising because you've just posted it on HN.
What would the government do if Google bought these guys?
Historical programming was done by advancing from memory location to memory location, one step at a time. The loop is a natural abstraction over this linearity, representing a jump from the end of a line of instructions back to the beginning.

The problem being, as you point out, that it imposes a fixed order, regardless of whether the problem domain requires such an order.

In database programming one of the biggest challenges for beginners is to stop thinking in terms of loops; to learn to "think in sets".
It's an interesting start but seems unfinished. I'd like it to go into more detail/support of the arguments.
As somebody who grew up with "actual/bad ADHD," I find this statement, frankly, insulting. As a result of being drugged with Ritalin/Adderall throughout my childhood, I've had this notion of being somehow "wrong" or "broken" ingrained in my psyche, an effect with which I still struggle to this day. There are plenty of schools in which to enroll children with ADHD, and there are a ton of career paths - generally related to creative thinking - in which we can express ourselves freely without the stigma of being somehow "abnormal."

Have you ever actually taken an adderall? It has an intense narcotic effect, which is why people abuse it. I can't believe we give it to our children.
That is true, but if you could create something that is similar with service that is available via third party. What would you do?
It is an event that I am interested in. It did happen. Isn't it rather scary that our "free" press didn't pick it up . Well it is clear why...but still interesting.

As I said. I wouldn't believe a word RT says about Putin, Russia, or anything that happens in its sphere of influence. But they are pretty good when it comes to other parts of the world.
Totally agree.

I think the problem is that the definition of what a "Cloud Operating system" is actually is quite loose. Mine would include compute, storage, and networking.

And truly, by this definition, OpenStack did achieve something and filled a gap, as it integrated all these components (and so did CloudStack / Eucalyptus).
I wasn't exactly thinking of Optum or Kenda, I was thinking of a Pro/WorldTour level rider. The numbers you mention are frightening close to these I found for Brian Vandborg: http://home.trainingpeaks.com/races/saxo-bank-sungard/2011-u... - not exactly known as a powerhouse (there he is finish 47 seconds down over a 8km TT, and here he is barely beating Chris Anker Sorenson in a 40km time trial a few months before those figures: http://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=20722). Sure, Domencio Pozzovizzio isn't putting out 400 watts sustained (he probably isn't putting out 300), but my feeling is that Siutsou, Chavanel, Tuft, Vanmarcke, Vaitkus, Malori and other riders of their ilk are creeping up towards the 375-400 range sustained.

Don't get me wrong, I'm nitpicking here, I was just noting those numbers feel slightly low.
So we're going to look at grades as an indicator of success here? Grades, which have been shown time and time again to have very weak, if any correlation with success?

I've dealt with ADHD my entire life. As a kid people could see I was smart, but "if only he could apply himself!" One of the most pivotal decisions I ever made was to seek counseling, and ultimately medication, when I was flunking out of college. My grades improved enough to get me through undergrad. However they were never stellar because I was finally able to focus on all of the various ideas I had kicking around in my head that I was far, far more passionate about.

I could rattle off a list of crazy successes that I would have never been able to achieve had I never sought medication, but honestly it boils down to one thing. When I want to do something that requires mental focus, said mental focus is no longer a barrier. I can actually do it. Because of that, I'm happy.

So instead of grades, what about quality of life?
ASIC is the 2nd to last step. The next (final) step is a full custom design, co-developed with the fab process. This is how Intel & AMD design CPUs.
Are you using FreeBSD on a laptop?
I don't think commoditizing the cloud, in the sense of attempting to make all cloud providers ferature-for-feature compatible, is the right goal either. Sure, ideally we'd like if it possible to easily migrate our entire stack from one cloud host to another with minimal disruption, but frankly it doesn't happen that often, so that's too narrow a use case for OpenStack to try to solve.

Instead OpenStack's intent is you have a bunch of hardware in a datacenter, then you use this software to make your own cloud on that hardware. That in turn opens up the market for more cloud providers. Obviously Amazon offers the most mature feature set in that space so trying to offer similar features as Amazon is a worthy goal.
>"all-Intel"

I wonder how well Nvidia/AMD graphics will work with Mir, considering they closed source and have left a lot to be desired in terms of performance and compatibility.
I thought it was quite ironic that this article brings up Google's point of view in the wake of the surveillance scandals.
Any idea whether the NX remote desktop will still work with Mir?
If a kid is taking the meds just for the grades, that's wrong. But ask the parents/teachers if they are paying attention and remembering instructions better if they do (which often have a impact on grades).
I wouldn't say they boost grades, but they did allow me to actually finish my homework (or start, in most cases)
I completely agree.
I was diagnosed and have been treated since around age 7.
This was before ADHD was 'popular', and at a point in time when they thought it just went away when you got older.

At least, as written, the article talks about something different from the study.
The article says "However, a growing body of research finds that in the long run, achievement scores, grade-point averages or the likelihood of repeating a grade generally aren't any different in kids with ADHD who take medication compared with those who don't. "

It then says "A June study looked at medication usage and educational outcomes of nearly 4,000 students in Quebec over an average of 11 years and found that boys who took ADHD drugs actually performed worse in school than those with a similar number of symptoms who didn't. Girls taking the medicine reported more emotional problems, according to a working paper published on the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit economics research firm."

Nowhere, does it say they study studied kids with ADHD, only kids taking ADHD drugs.

I could entirely believe it does not improve grades or cognition in students who are not actually ADHD, but believe it "helps them focus" or whatever.

THe article seems to mix up these things all over the place, in some cases talking about ADHD kids, and in some cases talking about kids taking ADHD drugs.

If the study really only studied kids with some verified accurate ADHD diagnosis, it would be nice to know that.

While, back when I was diagnosed 27 years ago, kids taking ADHD drugs and kids with ADHD were likely much the same group of people, they haven't been for a long time.
Thank you! Extremely helpful.
Adderral does not have an intense narcotic effect for me.

You can also nowadays take straterra, which is a non-stimulant.

Honestly, if your ADHD is so low level that you can function well without drugs, more power to you. There are plenty of ADHD people who literally cannot, and to imply they could just take career paths involving "creative thinking" is, IMHO, somewhat wishful thinking.
Indeed, some others have mentioned the Gossamer Albatross, which was the result of progressive development of earlier fixed-wing human-powered flying machines. Long flying solar variants of this were made, so it is probably quite feasible to get there in a few years with the human copter.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Albatross
To his credit, "moms of the PTA" are quite close to our target customer.
Anyone know of a good tutorial for using client certificates for (2nd factor) authentication? A quick Google search brings up nothing useful.
Correct. Thank you Patrick.
It appears that one of my bees has gotten into your bonnet. My humble apologies.
Answer: as a browser for hosts you don't use commonly.

Long ago I wrote a similar ssh target browser, in just a few lines of Perl/Tk, that pulled all the hosts from my then-employer's server database (several hundred of them, thousands if you included our dev/test VMs, and constantly changing) and created a simple tree view for reviewing and navigating the set, based on location, functional role, sequence number, customer, software level etc.

Also handy/dangerous was having it launch mirrored gterms for a given set.

Half the staff used this tool. I'd be surprised if most admins of moderate-to-large installations didn't have something similar.
Spreadsheet formulas that build interactive Web Applications
What is the purpose of using JPGs instead of PNGs.
but http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/06/lubuntu-kubuntu-decide-ag...
There is a good link below with some technical rationale (I think the most important part, at least according to Canonical developers, is "Server Allocated Buffers in Mir"), but I'm actually wondering - has Wayland officially added the support for working on the Android graphics stack? There has been at least two proof-of-concept projects, but I don't see either of them being actually committed to the Wayland repository. Given that Canonical is working against the clock it's not that surprising that they are going with their own solution - they obviously believe that they can get it working faster.
My Nokia 900 is a great device, and I really like the OS.

Unfortunately the ecosystem never really picked up. I'm already looking to switch back to Android because I can't use WP with devices like my Pebble, among other things.
Ah, thank you! I can't believe we're missing this. We'll add it.
The text is not contrasted enough against the pictures, too.
Show HN: My First Web App
Ask HN: Hacker News missing from Google results?
When I search for "hacker news" on Google, this website is not in any of the results. Do others see the same thing? What is going on?
Well the work done to prep for moving to Wayland has probably helped a lot for moving to any other not-X, I would imagine. E.g. Qt has a lot better abstraction capabilities now than it did for Qt 3.