skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you also "boycott the hell" out of:

Yahoo Google Facebook PalTalk YouTube Skype AOL Apple

Done and done (including Microsoft) for well over a decade; I don't get this whole "can't be trusted anymore" thing. These companies could never be trusted, and never should have been.
Patch Efficiently with Automated Patch Management
I was actually unfamiliar with ATLAS, but I am familiar with Eigen, which I use whenever implementing matrix operations in C++:
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org

With so many available options, you should never really be implementing your own matrix multiplication.
Elnode – evented io webserver right inside your emacs
I'd love to hear the thoughts of anyone who has used / looked at this before... I'm a bit shell shocked I think regarding trying to 'encrypt my life' so I'm finding it hard to trust anything!
If you were even vaguely familiar with the case and/or fair minded---after all, the jury validated to some degree the following---you would know that according to Zimmerman he never "approached" Martin in any sense of the word that I'm familiar with.

Let's put it this way: you're implicitly asking to know the truth of the incident; I suggest you don't ask unless you're willing to face the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The investigating officer testified at the trial that when he lied to Zimmerman and told him a video had been found of the entire incident, he looked relieved and said "Thank God." Assuming that someone with a documented history of fighting like Martin would want the truth to be available for the authorities is ... a bit further than I'm willing to go, and there fails your concept ... well, unless you put the pair of glasses on Zimmerman.

I'll bet you more than a few Neighborhood Watch types are going to start using Google glasses when they become generally available.
So you are on your iPad on a train. Your train goes into tunnel, you lose connection. The application still works because your data is saved in PouchDB.

You exit the tunnel, you gain connectivity PouchDB syncs your data to the CouchDB on the server. Other devices can now sync from the server.
If I had one suggestion for these types of events - focus more on what you're building, less on "issues".

Show, don't tell!
Honestly, the wiki link doesn't give any details on how it works.

That's why this announcement is big news.
The mentioned bug was not discovered by reading sources. The sources were available for one and half years and were used for the most popular Linux distributions. What can we expect for less popular ones then?

I'm not saying that it's better to have closed source, even if we can discuss that too when we consider how often the changes are introduced (for security: the less often the better provided the start is good enough) I'm saying that just believing something is secure simply because "it's open source" is pure hand waving.
An apartment initially, probably a lower cost (in Bay Area terms) one at first, but my thoughts are more long term. I would eventually like to contemplate renting something on a long term basis or buying. The latter seems almost unattainable unless I want to go all the way down to South San Jose or similar, but I'm curious about what locals think and I know there's a lot of SF people on this site.

BTW: the thing that has me floored is that the offer would be jaw-droppingly good anywhere else, but has me wondering if it's worth it in the Bay Area. Your real estate costs are mind-numbingly insane. In the long term something has to be done about this or employers are going to start fleeing the area in search of reasonable wage environments, because employees in the valley have to ask for at least 50% higher wages simply to break even with other places.

What are your thoughts on east bay: Newark and Fremont and such?
Are Mobile Web Apps Really Doomed?
Asm.js is a non-starter for most of the high-level languages out there due to its lack of GC.
>Stop with the proofing stuff already.

>By claiming something is "Villain of the month" proof you just may put someone that really needs security in hot water.

+1
Amusing, this article was submitted 2 weeks ago and got no comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5973914
Given that 'the g00g' is delivering email in accordance with the very same NSLs I'm not sure how that's really better though. I would certainly place more faith in Google to properly maintain the security and configuration of an email server than myself.

The one advantage I see is that someone has to write the NSL in the first place so if you use a hosting provider that is very small you'd probably avoid attention just due to prioritization of resources. But that would only last until enough other people become aware of that refuge for it to become visible on the NSA's radar...
Telligent Acquires Zimbra from VMware
If he can stop California from lighting that $100bn on fire chasing HSR from Bakersfield to Fresno, then this will all be worth it. I voted against all of those propositions, but I'd have reconsidered if you told me Musk would be the one playing with the money.
I silently lost email from my accountants because of some sender verification misconfiguration. Silently dropping email seems too risky to me. Checking the greylist and then marking the email accordingly sounds like a good compromise.
As the original author, I agree. The comment in question made me check the adwords keyword tool for the search volume of "Law School Admission Test"

It was, as I thought, fairly small relative to LSAT searches overall. But it's good to confirm that.

Also told me that there's enough searches to make a post along the lines of "What is the Law School Admission Test?" worthwhile, to catch students at the very start of their journey.
except for Romania and Bulgaria.
> is it really worth putting on a job ad "£25K - 50K" when that's the range we're willing to consider for different candidates?

Yes. It anchors your offering quite a bit. £25k is somewhat north of the UK mean income (not the London one, though), and especially as a foreigner allows me to get an idea on what my budget might look like. £50k is somewhat less what your competitors are paying for decent talent (no, not just finance, although it's a dumb career move to write off finance wholesale), so if I'm making £50k somewhere else and looking to level up, I know that I'll be wasting both yours and my time, on the other hand, if I'm making £30k, and my boss tells me it's a good salary, I know that that's a good chance I could make more.

Also, I plainly enjoy the honesty. "£Competitive" my ass.
The joke is that, even without affirmative action, the minority person (well in tech, women are a minority) is more qualified. Since it's a joke I won't analyze it except to say it's not very funny.
I remember learning this in one of my courses, it's actually relatively easy to create a program for matrix multiplication. Once you know the size of your cache the speed increase by multiplying just small sections of the matrix is a pretty large increase.
It's worth mentioning that their "less conservative" VTVL rocket is currently hitting about 10% of the DC-X's ~3100m record.

While the grasshopper is very cool, the concept of a VTVL rocket is not new. Hell, the Apollo Lunar Module technically landed and took off afterwards, as well!
San Mateo
18k lines? Does that seem high to anyone else? Or am I missing something important?
Close but not quite, PouchDB is the database, you never need to be online to use it and it isnt queuing writes, its doing them locally.

The ability to sync is to let you use the same data across various devices.
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Building and deploying your first web app with Pharo
The intersection of billionaires and people with the ability to try interesting, off the wall projects probably isn't very big.
Thank you very much for that! That really addresses my question, and it's useful because I haven't really thought about getting a PR firm.
Its no less terrifying than the fact that the US gov't can send you off to a top secret location for whatever reason it feels is an appropriate reason, whatsoever, and you will be left there without recourse or access to any Internationally-recognized forms of justice ..
For context, using a hand tuned multithreaded and cache-blocked library implementation of O(n^3) multiplication, a 4096x4096 matrix multiply requires less than two seconds on my current-gen Core i5.
This is an unusually fine hair to split even for this topic.

Or wait, are we really splitting 'hairs'? Or is there some other Latin root for that idiom which is more appropriate?
Your tests are not a benchmark
Super useful tools for CSS coding
Amen!

The fact that it's still insanely easier to write desktop apps, using one or two languages and a layout manager vs. dealing with two decades of WTF! web programming makes me sad.
Every startup entrepreneur should learn image making and PR from Musk.
For someone who is not very eloquent and a bit tongue-tied he has done an amazing job to become known as the premier visionaries of our time.

This also includes making changes to his physical appearance by looking at his old images [1], [2] as well his name brand.

[1] http://www.stepbrother.co.za/images/musk2.jpg

[2] http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18p2ht1rsfinyjpg/ku-xlarge.j...

edit: line breaks added
Whether you're in breach of contract with Apple has no relation to whether you're pirating some third party's iPhone app.
Assistant.io
Great meeting scheduler! Simple to use & user friendly!
Show HN: DARKnetOS - Blocking NSA by P2P Identity Cards and encryption keys
Built on Meteor. We're still really early so would love any feedback/bug reports.
And, even encryption doesn't keep the metadata from the NSA.
Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me either. Especially since the entire point of the recent changes to iOS is precisely to get everything on-screen handled by the GPU, in the first place ..
Why can't Spotify follow the old VHS/Cinema model? If you want it today, you pay the premium. If you want to rent, you have to wait a bit longer.
You know what would make it even worse? Having a note that said the men could bring a woman but only if they're romantically attached. There is no expectation that any women who show up are skilled or even inclined to the topic.
I've got much respect for Jason Calacanis and his "This week in startups" Youtube channel, but I don't see how this benefits the contributors. Half a million donations and the users don't reap the dividends of investment, or earn an interest in the site?

Either the site should be sold as an investment so someone gets a real financial interest, or someone should just make "newhackaday.com" as a non-profit and move everyone over there.
I was just thinking, it's probably true that most people who try interesting off the wall projects don't become incredibly wealthy.
How? Stop sending email? That takes a lot less than two hours. As soon as I email someone who uses gmail nothing you have done prevents the NSA from seeing it. Without heroic measures to run my own private email system and force every person or company that I might email to use it, there is no way to keep the NSA completely out.
Which led to the famous Henry Stimson quote that "gentlemen do not read each others' mail".

Luckily for the U.S., they stopped acting like gentlemen in time for the Battle of Midway.
Using Information About Our Network to Remove Monitoring Noise
The submitted link has a referral ID. (A la Dropbox)
same. well, different articles, but same story.
...Yeah? I mean, if the PIE theory is obviously wrong, then what's the right answer?
Google image "atari breakout" and see what happens
Steamrolling Cloud Adoption Obstacles with CloudSigma 2.0
A common barrier that still persists in the public cloud market is around data security...not any longer! Be introduced to direct private patching
Oregon Legislature Unanimously Passes Tuition Free Higher Education
You're missing something.

The idea is to take one compiler source (S), and compile it with a diverse collection of compilers (Ck being a compiler in C0-CK), producing a diverse collection of binaries that are compilations of S: (Bk = Ck(S)). Because the different compilers are almost certainly not functionally identical, the various Bk should not be expected to be bitwise identical. However, because they are compilations of the same source, they should be functionally identical, or one of the original compilers was broken (accidentally or deliberately). So now we can compile that original source with the Bk compilers, and because these compilers are functionally identical, the results (Bk(S))should be bitwise identical. There is certainly some chance of false positive, due to bugs in the Ck compilers or exploitation of undefined behavior in S, but if you do get the same output (Bk(S)) from all of the (Bk) compilers then you can be pretty confident that there is no Trusting Trust style attack present: exceedingly so, when the various compilers have diverse histories so that it's exceedingly unlikely that all Ck compilers contain the same attack. If there are any differences, you can manually inspect them to determine what the issue is and either issue a bug report to the appropriate compiler, change the source (S) to avoid undefined behavior, or notify people of the attack present in the compiler in question, depending on what you find. This does involve some binary digging, but quite targeted compared to a full audit and it may well not be necessary at all.

Obviously, if you do have a trusted compiler, including it in the mix is great, but the technique doesn't rely on this, nor on any two compilers returning the same binary output except when they are compilations of the same source.
I wonder when the last Congress was that didn't have low approval ratings, in fact.
A must have device.
I develop applications that skip the browser(s) and HTML. But it's not totally cross platform. But then again I don't develop for Joe Public most of the time either....
If you load the analytics script anywhere other than the head, you potentially miss user input while the page is loading. For a slow-loading page, this could make you lose out on useful data. I realize that this argument is somewhat circular.
Interesting. After living for most of a decade in China I've often thought about the very (bureaucratically-)pragmatic decision made by the Communist Party to normalize the timezone across the entire country. Of course, it wouldn't happen today, but now it's a feature of the country and is unlikely to change.

For a great deal more evolutionary temporal trivia see the tz database mailing list; along with many others tasked with implementation, late last year I realised its seeming antiquity of scope and form, but this is being ignored. https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018297.html
If I were from NSA:
1. Go to linode (or your favourite hosting provider).
2. Make a snapshot of memory of a running VM.
3. Extract encryption keys from that snapshot.
4. Decrypt.

The message here is: it does not matter which server setup you use, be it own hardware, cloud hosting or gmail. If data is seen unencrypted in any place which is not under exclusive control of yourself or your peers, it can (and eventually will) be intercepted.
I think a more relevant interpretation would be that the man has "issues" with women, or hates women etc. and therefore only has relations with men.
I had never thought about it like that, but that's a great point. The overall risk of dying on a 500-mile airplane trip is probably almost the same as the risk of dying on a 5,000-mile trip. Risk evaluation is hard.
I'm in the market for a solution here, but really need one with calendar integration. If I have to go back and forth between the app and my calendar it doesn't save me that much time over email.

App looks great otherwise.
Oh, sure, I absolutely realise that a very aggressive JIT wouldn't be ideal for Dalvik. However, given that the article is talking about how wonderful JIT is, it perhaps concentrates a little too much on all the wonderful JIT things that Dalvik (the only mobile JIT of serious interest to most developers) does not do.
Boilerplate response. One would think that they would want to nip this in the but. At least cite some specifics, there are clearly lots out there...

Writing or speaking about streaming music screwing artists? Read these articles first
http://musically.com/2013/02/13/streaming-music-screwing-art...
>> No pointers, no memory allocation.

There are definitely both of those things, they just aren't explicit in the same way.[1]

[1]: http://point.davidglasser.net/2013/06/27/surprising-javascri...
Good read. Insightful!
It’s generally easy to get a “good enough” matrix multiply (achieving, say, 40-50% of peak). Pressing into the 85+% of peak range usually requires quite a lot of work.
This is my guess:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6040206

Rather than maintain a vacuum hundreds of miles wide, why not just ride along the vacuum that occurs along a very low frequency soundwave (low frequency enough that the wavelength is larger than the vehicle).

To visualize:
http://profmattstrassler.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/wavegas...

Since this wave would be going the speed of sound, that could be what he meant by comparing it to a Concord.

And since a pressure wave isn't exactly like wind (it would just pass through the vehicle), there would need to be some kind of propulsion that could get the thing going fast and occasionally maintain speed (e.g. the railgun and PV solar part of his idea).

I can see many ways to work in the air-hockey portion from his hints which would avoid the cost of mag-lev.. but who knows exactly what approach he will take there...
I'm a bit annoyed that you conflate racism with Islam. Muslims come from religious and cultural backgrounds which encourage and excuse violence, gang rape, and hysterical fervor over any potential insult. It's fucking terrifying to be a woman in many parts of Europe now, and especially (in fact, almost exclusively) in Muslim neighborhoods.

It's not a matter of hating other races. East Asians and Latinos have assimilated fantastically well with European values of women's rights and non-violence. But North African and Middle Eastern cultures are the worst in the world, and they're taking deep root in Europe thanks to people like you who accuse everyone else of racism and "Islamophobia."
What's being built is a mechanical god. It sees and remembers everything. Until recently it has mostly ignored the affairs of the average person, or at least operated in ways that have made observation of its activities difficult. But, with closer integration to the other parts of government, it has and will become more like a god who micromanages the affairs of its subjects by punishing their indiscretions. There is nothing to stop it from imposing its morality upon everyone.
The Shortage Of Developer Talent Is Crushing Mobile
An interview with the creator of A Dark Room
Show HN: Startup Ideas from the Charitable World
What SEO? If the community wants it, they can move to the new site without spending $500k; and the traffic will follow the content.
While I'm not a kernel builder, I do aim for the barest possible distribution out of the box. I'm most happy when I have a basic install that includes vi and apt only.

That way I know exactly what dependencies I am dealing with and what all I need to be aware of when configuring any tool.

Might not be the same, because I am in the dist kernel upgrade group.
Can't believe Google's first ever product was named Backrub. Wild!
Good article. I've signed for it
Learn a language where you would like to go. Find a job for a US company that has an office there. Best of both worlds.
Show HN: Campus Bubble pitch deck
I'm curious as to how many fingerprints match multiple users, which could be used to detect users logging into multiple accounts. This could be useful for detecting compromised accounts, or for banning all of the accounts belonging to a user trying to evade bans.
If everyone has to meet in person via bluetooth, what about connecting with people you know IRL that are overseas or just a long way away from you?

This seems like a Facebook on Steroids.
wow, how did he change his appearance so much?
Uh, selling a link for $10,000? Really people?
OK, a general question. I understand why it's really bad that the government is spying on us. They shouldn't do it. But that's a civic and political issue (a very important one!) much more than a personal issue. As a private e-mail (and internet) user, I'm 100 times more concerned about Google reading my e-mail than the US government. I don't think the government cares much about my correspondence, but I know for a fact that not only is Google interested, they're actually sifting through my e-mails, extracting information and actively using that information against me every day.

Government sponsored invasion of privacy is infuriating, but corporate invasion of privacy is constant, on a far larger scale, not subject to almost any kind of oversight and scrutiny -- however slim --, and is much harder to stop (partly because it has less sinister connotations in people's minds, and people have the illusion that they're submitting voluntarily). In addition -- and this may be beside the point and a matter of personal taste -- corporate surveillance is used for far more egregious ends.

Why would you want to NSA-proof your e-mail but not Google-proof it (though that would probably be far harder to do)?
The Peace Prize is not like the other Nobel prizes. It has a different charter and a separate committee. Lately they've been handing out prizes to promote peaceful actions, not to retroactively reward them. That was their justification for awarding Obama one at the beginning of his administration.
Kind of. The feminist movement is a movement, and like all movement it has developed a continually evolving culture, in the same was the US has a different culture than Canada, and Google has a different culture than Microsoft. Seeing how pervasive a culture is almost impossible to do without comparing it to others. It is entirely possible that the feminist movement has developed a culture relatively closed to dissenting opinions.
It has been pointed out elsewhere that if you encrypt your data, you give the NSA reason to hold it indefinitely since you might be hiding something. In other words, the act of attempting to insure your privacy makes you more suspect. This sucks.
Given the sheer number of people with clearances[1], which I assume has grown primarily over the last 11 years, I wonder if demand or scaling problems has hindered the background check and psych evaluations that would normally try to reject those sort of people from jobs involving sensitive material.

[1] The WP's "Top Secret America" series quotes 850K+ with Top-Secret clearance: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articl...
And idols aren't of much use unless people are being sacrificed to it in some form or another.
Did this remind anyone else of the Pokemon theme song?

Gotta collect 'em aallllll!!!! (Your emails!)
Ask HN: What Marketplace Payment Systems are available for non U.S.  start-ups?
I am bootstrapping a marketplace for trading niche digital goods but I am based in Canada. I have found that commonly mentioned marketplace payment systems on HN -- Balanced, Braintree , Stripe , and Amazon FPS only support US based companies. Could someone please advise what options are available for non-US based businesses?
People primarily speak Russian in Ukraine not because they were afraid of being killed but because it was the lingua franca of the region and it was taught in Soviet schools. There was a lot less literature available in Ukrainian because Ukrainian was a language spoken primarily by serfs (educated people spoke a mixture of French and Russian).
There doesn't need to be a single, unified, globally agreed upon feminist status quo, because as soon as a dissenting opinion is voiced the extremist groups are the ones that speak the loudest and the rest of the feminist movement just stands back and watches.