skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that, for example, PGP is much more vulnerable to legislation than SSL, simply because of the latter's popularity. Not that I think either are currently particularly likely to be legislated.
Yep, that's what I did.
Don’t Say Goodbye
I'd like to say something that may sound a bit controversial, but bear with me: for most practical programs, Java's performance beats C++; in fact, it beats C. And assembly. There, I've said it, and now let me try to back this up.

Proving my claim is very hard, but I'll try to persuade you. The task is made harder by the fact that for every possible Java program, there exists a C++ program that performs the exact same task at least as fast as Java (proof by example: the JVM).

And yet, Java is the best performing programming environment in existence (well, in widespread use; there may be runtimes I'm not aware of). How is that possible? When we say that one language or environment is faster than another, do we mean that there exists a string of characters in that language that would produce a faster executable? If that is what we mean, then yes, C++ is faster than Java. But I think the question is not whether that desired program exists, but whether you can write it. To that question, I think the answer is no in most circumstances, especially when it comes to large programs.

Why? because when you write a large, hopefully maintainable, C++ program, you must make use of language features that are hard for the compiler to optimize, most notably -- virtual methods. The JVM JIT does runtime compilation, so it inlines virtual calls, and de-optimizes them if its assumptions are shown to be false. Method inlining is the most important compiler optimization because it opens to door to all kinds of other optimizations like lock elision, scalarization of objects and more.

And there's another issue. What do we mean by performance nowadays? It's not too hard for a single-threaded C++ program to beat a similar Java program (provided that the program is not large, and does not make use of virtual methods). But modern hardware is multi- and many-core, and most scalable lock-free algorithms absolutely require a good GC in order to function well. Java probably has (several of) the most advanced GC(s) in wide use.

To sum up: C++ can beat Java in small benchmarks, but Java will beat C/C++ in most large, real-world programs; and if the program is heavily multi-threaded, Java has even more of an edge.
Whatever "reactive documents" are...

Oh, and before "you're posting too fast"...

FUCK YOU, HN.
You probably wanted to provide a link to your project, that link is missing.
You probably got downvoted due to reading comprehension issues. Fixed it as much as I could :)
If you really bet that, it says more about you than me.

But anyways: what does it matter if your webmail provider isn't beholden to the government, if a suitably motivated teenager can read your mail because of software vulnerabilities?

Google Mail isn't likely to be more secure just because Google is inherently better at building software than anyone else. Rather, it's because they allocate more resources to the problem of keeping Google Mail secure than any other mail provider does (or even can) allocate to their security.
unless you touch type, in which case you should change hand
Actually, we get $ from the Peso symbol
The strangest SEC filing you’ll ever read has a backstory you might not believe
I also think that googling code and problems can be quite troublesome when abused, as IRC, forums, etc...
But I feel like coding by yourself without google, irc is kinda frightening.

I know asking for help when you really need some isn't wrong, but how did older programmers tackle that conceptual "blank page" syndrome, without all that information abundance, when they didn't want to annoy their coworkers?

What you described here makes sense as a software building methodology, but how do you deal with more psychological issues, such as fear and frustration?
silence is considered a commercial dishonor, and allows the other party to dictate the terms of the contract you're negotiating. Police are excellent contract negotiators ("you are under arrest" is a contract offer, legally), and are trained that if you're not in acceptance with their offers/orders, they pretty much get to do whatever they want to/with you.

Seems the Supreme Court disagrees with your opinion as well [1].

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/supreme-court-silen...
The UK Hackspace Foundation maintain an accurate list of active UK spaces:

http://hackspace.org.uk/view/Main_Page

It looks like the nearest ones to you are Manchester and Leeds, both of which are excellent. If they're too far away then you should start a new space!

This is the guide we give to people when they ask for advice on how to get going:

http://hackspace.org.uk/view/Starting_a_Hackerspace
For Europeans, writing letters to foreign politicians is obviously pointless. And given the ongoing TSA facepalmery, I don't think my tourism boycott has made a difference in the US either. What else can we do?
Fractal Tree Indexes
UK flights restricted by computer glitches
forgive me. I was breaking down the fourth wall, and talking to the reader of the thread themselves. I was trying to support your argument. :)
I'm on a MBP early 2011 + Chrome, and have no issues
On Social networks, we have Diaspora*

What's with the '*'?
I'm very curios to see how FirefoxOS compares to WP7 on low power devices. If the UI is as smooth as WP7 i'm looking forward to getting one.
Mopidy - Simple Music Streaming Server
Mopidy is a music server which can play music both from multiple sources, like your local hard drive, radio streams, and from Spotify and SoundCloud.
Taking your logic a little further, Python+PyPy beats Java hands down. Every single argument applies to Python vs. Java or Python vs. C/C++ more than it does to Java vs. C/C++

Which, incidentally, is my tool of choice...

Personally, I've never met nice readable Java code. I'm sure it exists somewhere, but I've actually gone looking for it in the past (including posting a question on HN, out of 10 responses only one was concrete -- Play Framework -- and they've abandoned Java since).

Every piece of Java I've met is an overengineered piece of AbstractAbstractFactoryFactoryBeanSingleton class. I'm sure Notch writes better code. But as far as I can tell he's the only one.
I rewrote in C, and got 10x speedup and x4 less memory. So, it's no longer relevant :)
There's also an issue of quality control and environmental impact: we know that technology manufactured in the EU will, in most cases, satisfy a number of very stringent tests aimed at guaranteeing the wellbeing of workers and consumers, and at maintaining low pollution levels. Despite recent changes in policy, this cannot be said with certainty for most items produced in China. I don't see why prices shouldn't be artificially corrected to reflect that.
That last map has it labeled as the US Secret Service James J. Rowley Training Center. Zoom in on the little blue-roofed building closest to Powder Mill Road.
Try Python or K, you'll be able to afford 5 to 100 times as much :)
There is no need to remember anything actually. If you've ever used Enso, Ubiquity (both made by Jef's son Aza) or Sublime Text 2, or Google Instant/autocomplete, or indeed Firefox's "Awesome Bar", then that is the kind of experience the humane interface describes.
There is one in Bristol yet its a mess and barely bigger than a 1 car garage. Their page vastly exaggerates their facilities.
This is actually a common misconception, and you're wrong. If you read Satoshi's original paper, the probability of someone with substantially less than 50% of the total compute power decreases exponentially as the number of confirmations increases. The reason Bitcoin uses 6 confirmations is because this was judged to give the best balance between time taken to confirm and probability of a sub-50% attacker succeeding.

It has nothing to do with stopping attacks by someone with a majority of the total compute power - realistically, if requring someone to dedicate that amount of compute power for 12 minutes isn't enough to make an attack infeasable, making them dedicate it for 2 hours is unlikely to do the job either.

Edit: Also, requiring only one confirmation - which is what you'd have to do to make Bitcoin as fast as 6 confirmations in Primecoin - is especially risky because it allows any attacker capable of generating a block in a reasonable amount of time to double-spend with very high probability at the cost of one block's payout.
Show HN: Motherplate - A Bare Bones HTML5 CSS3 SCSS Responsive Boilerplate
Talk to your own government and local representatives and let them know you're not happy with their collaboration with the NSA. It's very unlikely they don't collect and share your information already, and very likely they're breaking local laws to do so. Agitate for laws to be passed banning this sort of surveillance and for the repeal of those authorising it.

There's lots we can do, it's just that some of it is hard, time-consuming and probably frustrating. I do know that this will be the first question on my lips when a politician next asks me for a vote.
Just a bit of site feed back:

Maybe its me, not completely unlikely, but when I open the left hand nav menu, with the button at the top left, the whole site shifts to the right to show the menu, but that cuts off the text in the last column. As well as that, no bottom scroll bar appears. Maximizing or resizing the browser window makes no difference. This is in Chrome, Iron(which you don't list and I reckon should), and firefox. Tried in IE, but the menu button at the top left doesn't work at all.

On the up side, the site name gave me a welcome chuckle!!!
I didn't think judges qualified as "inferior officers", which is a term in the appointments clause with some meaning. Am I wrong? What other judge is appointed as an "inferior officer" outside of advise and consent process?

See Rehnquist in Edmund v US, in which the standard for "inferior officer" is (paraphrased) "reports to or is directed by a principal officer", which is something you can't say about an Article III judge.
Good heavens, what is the processor in your laptop?
Presumably lowers the risk: try the devices out on a smaller market, iron out the inevitable bugs, and then release worldwide?

Lower costs, too: Telefónica will be paying for most of the marketing, the sales channels, they might also be providing engineering help...
How ASCII lost and unicode won
"international hucksters".. I don't understand. I know the term CMS. I have shortlisted Mediawiki.
Can people who have used it give me some feedback. Specifically, since I only see about 20 editors, is this the right solutions?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_syst...
It's on the energy rating cards that appliances have too.
"Kill it with fire", is what they must've thought.
And here it is in on sale: http://www.movistar.es/particulares/movil/moviles-tarjeta/fi...
Hinkley Point B is an AGR (or, more specifically, two AGRs). Hinkley Point A was an earlier Magnox station.

It's one of the leading sites for new-build nuclear in the UK, and if Hinkley Point C does happen, it'll be a PWR. Right now, the only operating civil PWR (naval reactors are a rather different matter) in the UK is at Sizewell.

I also had the Hinkley Point tour as a child and remember it fondly.
Nostalgia is also one of the most powerful economic drivers, tied in with social class and prestige. This might make it seem like it concerns only marketers, but it actually affects all of us. It determines how the schools we attended, the cities we lived in, and the jobs we held will be evaluated by others. Ivy League colleges (the oldest) are well-regarded because of a self-perpetuating loop (strong reputation => good professors and students => strong reputation) rooted in nostalgia. Same with star cities. People would rather relive New York's 403-year history or San Francisco's gold rushes than that of a no-name city (est. 1894) where the quality of life might be just as good.

Even Silicon Valley is waist-deep in the stream of nostalgia. Its glory days of 1970-99 have been re-erected, Disney-style, in the current VC-funded world which now provides second acts for fired investment bankers and private equity people who've decided to play startup for a few years. The winners and losers and stars have already been worked out, the equity slices are calibrated in management's favor, but it's a very successful theme park.

Nostalgia is like romantic love or religious faith; it might be good for you on the whole, but you have to treat all the decisions that come out of it with heightened skepticism. It's selective (people remember the good, not the bad) and that's well-documented, but it's also oblique insofar as people compare what they have in the present to what the elite had in the past. It can carry a reactionary impetus because people mistakenly believe they'd have a better life if the past were restored than what they'd actually get. In the U.S., we're paying for the "elitism is sexy again" Reagan Era 1980s, which was a clever way for the old upper class (the one that murdered strikers in the 1900s, tanked the economy in the '20s and was emasculated by the New Deal) to reacquire its old ways of doing things. Those yuppies turned out not to make it into the new robber baron class; they were useful idiots for the new upper class that turned out to be the grandchildren of the old one.

Nostalgia has some value, for sure. Its focus on tradition gives us a community, a historical narrative, and a place that need not be explicitly religious. It can bring us a focus on excellence by reminding us of less cluttered (perhaps in imagination only) times. However, it can also result in some terrible decision-making, and there's the rub.
Brief call-to-arms for the London Hackspace: We just moved to a huge new space on Hackney Road and are now scaling up membership to cover our outgoings.

http://london.hackspace.org.uk

If you're interested in joining as a member please drop by and have a look around. Drop me a message and I'll give you a personal tour!

If you're interested to see how much 13,000 sqft of space costs in London, this is our live-updating "Cost of Hacking" page:

https://london.hackspace.org.uk/cost-of-hacking/
The 23.9gw figure is actually what the article leads with.

I'm guessing you are one of many that don't read articles ry comment on?
Administering a power grid is no amateur job. I don't see why the government wouldn't want to put safeguards in place, in order to guarantee that lights will stay on. Obviously there's a balance to be found, but you can't just give everyone full access to the grid and expect things never to break.
Yahoo shuts down Internet relic AltaVista
Misconception: Your opinions are the result of rational, objective analysis
Meta-moderation enforces groupthink, which is why I left slashdot. If it happened here I'd go back to 4chan.
> It's hard to make that realtime, because you'd need to some sort of broadcast every second or at least every few seconds.

Twitter isn't realtime either - they say they don't succeed to stay within the 5 seconds all the time, and when Gaga tweets it takes up to 5 minutes.

Furthermore, I was talking about broadcasting a request for updates on demand when needed. PGM/UDP can blast through hundreds of megabytes per second on gigabit connection. That's quite easy. 22MB/sec is nothing, even 100MB/sec is not much these days (though you might have to bond/team to make that reliable)

> It's hard to follow a lot of people (you could be getting a large number of replies), so there would need be a follow limit.

Not at all. Make the replies (at most) 5 tweets from each person you follow, with a "and there's more ..." flag in the reply, have the front end ask for more if it makes sense once the 50ms is done.

It's ok if the 300 people who follow one million people take 200ms instead of 50ms to get a reply. And if you want to make it quicker for them, have these ones (and only these ones) on a "push" rather than "pull" model. The vast majority of people follow less than 50 people, perhaps less than 20.

> Facebook has a follow limit and people don't really expect Facebook to be realtime - the central bit is not really.

People do expect facebook to be realtime, it mostly delivers (better than twitter), their limits are not hard (I know people who asked and got them lifted within a few minutes).

> Also, there is no one right way to do these things, in my view.

No, but there's a lot of wrong ways, and twitter keeps choosing among them.
An important aspect of this is to create a fake biometric. I am thinking fingerprint and iris. I work in the area of fake biometric detection, and let me tell you its quite easy to make a fake fingerprint. Clearly, its hard to create a fake biometric that impersonates someone else, but a new fake one is easy.
http://www.wikihow.com/Fake-Fingerprints
D*mn ;-)
The third culture: The power and glory of mathematics
I never ditched Sublime Text. I've installed the last version and it's lighting fast. Emmet and some other plugins and that's all I need.
We have a similar thing going on here in the UK with the feed in tariff. Companies have been trying to sell solar to people in a country that gets an average of 1340 hours of sunshine a year (which is obviously far less up north than it is down south).
A look at the black underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue'
Sure, but who do you think signs up to be military intelligence in the first place?

Remember, NSA is less than 50k out of 300M+.
I think it's a bad idea to lose focus on the important topics in the NSA scandal with little jokes like this.
Hey, good detective work. :) Thanks for that, should probably have gone further in!
I'll be very interested to see how well these take off in the countries they're launched in.

I don't see them as much of a competitor in the UK/US/etc.- the people there that want a smartphone have one that's much more higher powered.

But in countries where most people can't currently afford smartphones, this offers them the chance of having one. And if they can then start to cannibalise sales from beneath, they have a chance of being a real global competitor.
I notice this about Photoshop users myself but I also notice the more time you spend using it, the biggest efficiency gains you make to your workflow come from using vector shapes and non-destructive editing (various types of masks, adjustment layer, layers with blending options). There are a few things where destruction is required but often I stash an old copy of the layer unless I'm dead set on the new version, but this can be rare. You also learn as time goes on how annoying a PSD with rasterised elements that didn't need to be rasterised are!
God bless the land of the free.

Oh I forgot, it's not on US soil, so human rights don't apply.
Forget Bitcoin. Are Litecoins the next big thing?
make them available already for developers world wide! geeksphone is always sold out
Wait, people keep their phones in their pocket instead of their hand all the time? mind = blown
I'm curious - does it automatically get the latest version of FF when it's released for desktop/Android? And does it support all of the functionality that comes with it?

i.e. will it now have the asm.js optimisations and similar?
As Biotech Seed Falters, Insecticide Use Surges In Corn Belt
actually he coined to term "Quasi-mode"
You can state an unpopular truth without being an asshole about it. "Javascript has some problems with larger codebases" is civil and has just as much information as "JS falls apart when you try to make more than some web 2.0 to-do list" (Don't think this opinion is very unpopular though)

Or maybe for some opinions you can't, if so I'd like to hear an example (intellectual curiosity, not snarkiness).
Choir singers 'synchronise their heartbeats'
United States Dollar Dollar?
Esa selects Ariane 6 basic design
Curiosity Mars rover hits the road
This is huge. We were about to develop an web application in our company to achieve this very functionality.

As we have dozens of clients and projects, we want to give our developers full access to developing and staging resources they are currently working on.
similarly Edinburgh Hacklab (http://www.edinburghhacklab.com) moved to a bigger space and is looking for new members.
Your medical records are somehow safe? It's only a matter of time before the govt mandated exchanges go "oops" in a similar way
Yes, they are grabbing government money, but this was the idea.

Most people won't lift their asses, if not getting paid for it.

I want Germany to be green, if it only gets this way with money, I'm glad to spend it.
This is a little like talking about the restaurant scene in Yountville. I mean, yeah, but what else is there in Yountville?
Evolution of our product names
just read the post. didn't see one instance of "home console". I even control-f'd it. However, you specifically mentioned the 3DS in it, which means that you were considering the 3DS to be a console, at that time.

Doesn't this fit the definition of moving the goalposts? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts
The Procatinator
Maybe, but is it more likely than the government stealing the data?
GED VIZ: An HTML5 tool for visualizing economic relations
Sony Cock-a-Hoop on Last of Us Sales
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.VEH.NVEH.P3

Sorry I can't link directly to the info for the United States, but if you look at the data the peak was in 2007. People who analyze this data are predicting the trend to continue. That doesn't mean it will, necessarily, but it seems to me the forces pushing car ownership down aren't going away any time soon.
Good point. I guess PV manufacturing isn't very green.
What, this Null Space Labs? http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Null_Space_Labs
In his own words: Confessions of a Cyber Warrior
It seems to be the same hardware as the ZTE V790 but with half the memory : http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=5134&idPhone2=...
The victim here was not "murdered in cold blood", and the policeperson who shot him by accident was not the same one who'd goaded him into committing the crime.
How about Inkscape?
Cascais Urban 2013 - 10ª Bienal das Cidades e dos Urbanistas da Europa
It's awesome! Although I'm not (yet!) in the position to use it, I can really see how useful it is for larger teams or projects. It always amazes me how AWS just keeps pushing new features while lowering their prices at the same time.
Funny thing is that code is then compiled with a compiler was not formally verified, so it's still a 'fingers crossed' situation.
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The WaPo article does not present the defaulting on the debt and bankruptcy as a theory. Are you suggesting that lower salaries somehow led to default and bankruptcy?

Conveniently, the article also states that Suntech is the largest global seller of PV modules, undermining arguments that it is some sort of special case (if it's the largest on the planet, it must be the largest in China...).
Xbox One is becoming a great ad for the PS4
Actually the Indian rupee sign needs to be distinguished from the Sri Lankan rupee, the Pakistani rupee, the Nepali rupee.. etc., all of whom use "Rs" (U+20A8) as a prefix[1] The usecase is pretty validated there.

Plus there is a logic to the Indian rupee sign and is not just an alphabet with two slashes - its the letter R written in Hindi and in English simultaneously . Pretty cool IMHO (and a shout out to IIT Bombay [2] !!!)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign
[2] http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/events/Indian_Rupee_Symbol.pdf
> So does Playdead So does Turn 10 Studios So does BioWare So does Bethesda So does Dice So does Team Meat

Nintendo has made more great games in the last 10 years than all the above companies combined have made in their lifetimes. It's pretty disingenuous to dismiss them so lackadaisically.