skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well put. One addendum:

> but I had Dr. Bose as a professor in college and he was a fantastic instructor

Most folks knew him from the audio course. Less known was how long his history of teaching, eg his network theory book in the late sixties. That book was how I learned some of the more exotic transformations. (Most folks know parallel and series. It turns out that there are things like pi-delta/wye-delta and friends.)

RIP.
This is quite true. The best students go abroad to get PhDs anyways, or...maybe some very special institutes in China that are up to Western standards (e.g. Andy Yao's lab in Qinghua).

Smart students still come out of these schools in spite of the PhD programs, but there are plenty of wasted opportunities.
DDG's obviously gotten a massive boost from this whole issue:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=duckduckgo

I was a bit surprised that Firefox hasn't:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=firefox

but obviously it has a lot more inertia. (Or maybe everyone switches to DDG first, and THEN looks for Firefox, so Google Trends doesn't know about it...)
Funny you compare them to Apple. Their main product of the 1980s seemed to be a compact stereo that sounded like a really good boom box, but was weak on sound quality at volume.
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Very excited about this. I'm friends with one of the cofounders. Think remittances as a huge market for this. Also look at companies like Xoom that this takes on. or western union.
This is basically my worry as well, these programs aren't going away, they'll just get hidden better.

What recourse exactly do we have? It seems like states secrets have gone overboard exactly like everyone has feared. What can we as a populace do when our courts have this legal concept enshrined in case law?
the following is not true, see below: warning: don't visit the linked site on opera mobile. It seems to download something bigger and also froze the browser for me.

edit: sorry, false alarm! that was something else. the site loads perfectly fine (and I am honestly happy about every site that does not differentiate between desktop and mobile clients but serves a readable, clearly structured, "static" page like that!).

edit 2: even the audio samples worked flawlessly. the accompanying displays not though.
You don't have to be a woman to be offended by profanity. So it is hard to say (based on your few sentences) that this had anything to do with man vs woman. Perhaps the two people sitting behind the person were just offended by the language in a general "I don't think we should be cursing at work" sort of way. Not everything has something to do with the gender of the people involved. Wait... that can't be true... can it? ;)
I can totally talk about the weather in Chinese but as soon as we start talking about work, I have to switch to English.

Thankfully, my Chinese colleagues have much better English than I do.
graeme21, love the idea.

could you get in touch with me? somid3@gmail.com would love to chat with you more
From 1994, if it helps...

"ACM Flight Simulator, revision 4.7

What is ACM?
------------

ACM is a LAN-oriented, multiplayer aerial combat simulation. My main design objective was to provide source code that could be easily compiled and executed on a wide variety of platforms. To that end, acm is written entirely in C, exploiting the programming features of Unix, X11, and the BSD socket interface.

Players engage in air to air combat against one another using heat seeking missiles and cannons.

ACM is implemented as two programs. The first, named "acm", is a small program that, when invoked, starts a flight session on a given workstation.

The second component, named "acms", is a server process that manages the multiplayer environment. It also manages the flight simulation and display management that is required. Most players will prefer to run the acms process on a back-end server system on their local area network. Players at client workstations can then invoke the acm program to begin play."
Fused silica is already mass market. It makes up the bulb in halogen lamps.
I love the flat font. I think I could use this framework for a couple of my prototypes.
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IMHO, the world would be infinitely better if people did not compartmentalize issues. Especially important issues.
I need some feedback on this framework guys!, hope you find it useful!
C macros can cause the same issue when used to concat function names using ##.
Have you used any other cloud monitoring/metric/etc providers? If so, how do they compare to DataDog?
You don't have to be well known to be traceable. Perhaps your Facebook gets updated a lot during the day. Perhaps someone with your name is listed as a felon. Perhaps you have a terrible credit rating. There are a ton of possibilities why using a pseudonym could be beneficial.

I don't understand how the recruiter potentially finding you unattractive makes it "gendered".

Perhaps it's because you're too attractive and so you're threatening to them.
I know the site is a bit rough, and the video could improve, but I have 5-10 personal trainers of all ages and genders ready to help you answer any health related question.

Would love any kind of feedback or suggestions.

Thanks and keep hacking!
I don't understand your comment. Mine was a statement of fact. Your assessment of the information density of Chrome versus that of the human genome was comprehensively debunked.
As the video showed, the healing process does require the external provision of heat. It doesn't self-heal just by sitting there as some other materials claim (eg walls that "eat" pollution).
If someone wants to hire only people of one gender, what's the harm in that?

There are other places to work.
You mean compromised apps, statistically speaking.
Most politicians don't understand the issues they are voting on and are heavily swayed by the media (and other high-power organizations).
Well, there is a complete disassembly of windows code used to re-implement it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS.

Have you attempted reversing code?
I am well aware that few people would be negatively impacted. I don't delude myself, I've already stated upthread that Linux is not a major player and, furthermore, that it never will be.

That does not give me reason to support this proposal.

> in the interests of the overwhelming majority.

It is in the interest of Netflix. Netflix streaming currently "Just Works"(tm) for most consumers, and it will continue to do so. Netflix wants it because it would make their lives easier. I have no reason to support this, and every reason to not.

The only thing that might be worse than the proposal itself is the absurd amount of misinformed Linux users who think that this will allow them to use Netflix or who think that Netflix really just wishes so hard that it could support Linux but is technically incapable of doing so... That is maddening.

"Satisfying, no, but it is tiresome to watch people campaign for openness with one breath and then complain with the next that they can't access things that are paid for and only available in the closed world they chose not to participate in."

I have no complaints with the status quo. I am oppose a proposal that would threaten it in a way that has the strong potential to negatively impact me. "Paid for" has absolutely no place in this equation for me. I pay for and consume many things, some of which I have to use in particular ways. I'm not bothered by this current state of affairs. I've made tradeoffs and I am not complaining about them (unlike many Linux users who refuse to stop complaining about no Netflix on Linux).
netflix has apps in: google play store, kindla app store, ios app store, windows app store...

Maybe they should just go native on all platforms.
Let's trace the problems. I don't think Larry, Sergey, Eric, or Marissa have security clearances, do they?
It would be really awesome if when people read/hear stuff that can easily be perceived in more than one way... they went with the better choice than the worst one. Not everyone perceives things the same way.. so why always assume they meant it the bad way you perceived it rather than finding out what they meant first? I think a lot of this trouble would go away.

Also, badclient wrote exactly one sentence: It is a problem when "sexist remark" has a much more vague definition in court than in everyday life. This is a true concern that does not infer anything about which sex did which sexist thing... only that the definition of "sexist" is dangerously vague. If you think that translates to a "hate of all women", you have projected that upon badclient.
If ewe think the sheep dip station is connected to anything, then you're wrong.
It's great, I hoped that we'll have more distributed p2p services.
You're X AND Y. Not just Y. Just like someone here on HN who worked on their double bachelors of Math AND Physics while there was a minor called Math-Physics. S(he) worked hard for that and.
Exactly what I though, although perhaps not as strongly. But yes, the headline seems misleading to me as well. There is nothing from Obama at all in this article, just Senator Wyden saying that he imagines the White House is willing to reconsider the surveillance policies.
Bose products are kind of like Toyota Prius. It is a car for people who do not like driving. Except that Bose products are much more overpriced than Prius.
>I'll believe it when I see it.

Right. And, that's just it. Will we see it? We will continue to have no idea what's going on, unless another Snowden steps up.

And one thing we have seen before was push-back on the TIA (Total Information Awareness) program causing its proponents to "reconsider" and Congress to defund it. In other words, stop talking about it and just do it quietly under a million different programs with a million different names.

Ironically, this NSA program itself that "Obama is considering ending" was one of the original TIA programs.
I don't know if it's part of your philosophy but I think that adding more javascript tricks and libraries could add some value to your framework. Good job though.
>Anyone has a idea of why the hell someone would build a bipedal war machine?

Off the top of my head...

1.) I'd have think there's something to bipedal locomotion considering the evolutionary success it has had.

2.) We're bipedal. As long as pilots we'd recognize as human are involved, having an analog to the kind of movement they've necessarily trained a lifetime for seems sensible.
The value of a combat robot is in avoiding casualties rather than cost savings. Casualties lose America wars, because it is a democracy, and it fights without an existential threat.

However, I think your numbers for the cost of humans are way low. The US army put the cost to train a soldier at $150'000. In addition, there is pay, and veterans benefits. The US will spend 1.5 trillion on veterans between now and 2022.
Yeah I'll probably add some, if you have some suggestions, you are more than welcome!
Have lunch with Tim Draper
Looks really great. I'm sure it will help plenty of people.
If Clinton would say "I am considering ending relationship with Monica Lewinsky" - that would sound much less ridiculous ...
What if Pinterest and AirBnb slept together?
I think a video tour of the CDC's vaults would be quite interesting, personally.
This is true, but for the vast majority of consumers would supporting a trusted block of javascript be good enough? All the movie industry wants is to make sure that Joe Sixpack cant get a digital copy of the data stream.

I know I am sortof commandeering the word "trusted" for something much weaker than what I think industry wants it to be here, I realize that. Maybe using such a term in a weak solution would satisfy the pointy haired bosses of the world. >:)

Seems to me if some rogue binary goes in and tampers with my Firefox or Chrome binary in order to circumvent browser security, then the browsers would know it and fail with an error. Obviously, any browser that builds from source can be directly modified by a developer.
Timing perhaps [0].

0: http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker...
What exactly is an engineer then?

A lot of my friends are desk engineers at chemical companies. Not a single one is putting anything together at all with their hands, and most aren't figuring out how other people will put stuff together with their hands either. It's an almost entirely intellectual endeavor. In fact, at some places like Exxon, some chemical engineers are also internally known as economic analysts because they're mostly just trying to find ways to optimize revenue flow. If this qualifies as an engineer, why in the world does software development not, especially if what you're doing involves maintaing a server/database cluster or overseeing development practices?
Your marital status and whether or not you have kids should NOT be on your CV. It's illegal for an employer to even ask about it in an interview.
That sounds more like tax evasion, using business bad debts[1]: the rug store is owned by a parent corporation from whom the property is leased (and/or which provides other goods/services, like the rugs themselves). A rate is charged in excess of the store's profit such that the store is in debt to the parent corp when the store goes out of business. The parent corporation makes off with the profits, offset by the tax break from dissolving the partner's debts.

Then again, I have no idea how taxes work and can't help but view everything pessimistically :(

--

[1] http://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch10.html
Of course, laws don't enforce themselves, so unless you're doing it yourself, you're always relying on the "generosity" of someone with power to enforce laws.
> women interviewers felt threatened by having another women take their job

my anegdotal evidence is most women I knew found female peers a pain in the ass and explicitely admitted they in general prefer to work with men.
One shouldn't have to rely excessively on trust or luck just to keep himself/herself out of legal trouble.
This part of the talk is probably the part I have the least interest in, honestly.

It would be cool, yes, to act like a first-party Dropbox client and have full access to my account via open tools.

But in the meantime, they do have a python API and SDK:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/sdks/python

This lets me setup a sub-folder under my account with no more than python present on a machine and perform upload / downloads of content. Nothing processor architecture-specific about it. And with python modules like https://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog it's pretty trivial to trigger a re-upload of local content when it changes. The API provides counterparts for detecting changes in remote content (the /delta command).

In fact, this is how I've got Dropbox access running on my gen1 AppleTV :)

I'm more generally interested in the process of reversing of the code and protocols.
Crowdhoster is a fork of selfstarter bit it's behind a request form.
That is stupid, just push them over and they now are useless.

That depends entirely on whether said machines can right themselves after being tipped over.

But, the way I see it, human cities and human technology are made for our bipedal forms, two legs and hands with five fingers and such. Having a robot match that form makes it easier to exploit urban terrain and implements in the environment. I mean, which would you theoretically rather have, a robot that is a vehicle, or a robot that can operate any vehicle it comes across?
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/1/9/7/5/2/5/3/Who-Ca...
مسلسل حاميها وحراميها الحلقة الثالثة  رهوانة
مسلسل حاميها وحراميها هو مسلسل من مسلسلات رمضان 2013
مسلسل حاميها وحراميها هو مسلسل كوميدى جدا واكيد اكيد هيعجبكم لما هتشفوه وهتتعلقوا بيه وهتحملوا جميع حلقاتمسلسل حاميها وحراميها
انا اليوم جبتلكم مسلسل حاميها وحراميها الحلقة الثالثة
هذه الحلقة تتحدث عن ان اخيرا فطين خلص اقساط العربية رهوانة بعد تقسيط دام 22 سنة بس
وفى نفس هذا اليوم قراءة فتحته ولكن رهوانة قد سرقت من قبل المعلم سبع الليل حتى يترافع عن شخص ما
واحداث اخرى كثيرة وهذه ما سوف تشاهدونها من خلال مسلسل حاميها وحراميها الحلقة الثالثة
واتمنى لكم مشاهدة ممتعة مع مسلسل حاميها وحراميها الحلقة الثالثة
لا يفوتك تحميل جميع حلقات مسلسل حاميها وحراميها
the font looks way too thin to me
it is the #1 related term (duckduckgo firefox)

as of just now

also compare them: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=firefox#q=firefox%2C...

firefox jumped about as much as ddg recently, but that's a blip on firefox as a whole
Chrome looks more and more insecure browser day by day. If the Chrome team gets their act together just not to show saved passwords in clear text I would say it would be big win for all its unsuspecting users.
This is politics. In the short term, the politician gets a boost from being associated with this and the perception if his having influenced Obama. In the long term, even if nothing happens you won't remember his involvement because Obama is mentioned and has a much bigger name.

It's well done, but it's just political posturing.
Almost all startup offices I've been in have high levels of low frequency noise. I have other headphones (including the ATH-M50s), but I've taken to using noise canceling headphones more often than any of my others. You may be underestimating their benefit.
Thank you. Can you recommend any tutorials for Charles Proxy or Wireshark? They are more technical than I understand.
Just for the record, let's count to 100 million. And add the numbers up while we're at it.

~ $ time (echo '(do (= n 0) (for i 1 100000000 (++ n i)) prn.n (quit))' | arc)
Welcome to Racket v5.3.5.1.
Use (quit) to quit, (tl) to return here after an interrupt.
arc> 5000000050000000

real	0m28.561s
user	0m28.308s
sys	0m0.249s
----
~ $ time (echo -e 'n=0 \ni=0 \nwhile (i <= 100000000): \n n += i \n i += 1 \n\nprint(n)\n' | python3.3)
5000000050000000

real	0m30.244s
user	0m30.230s
sys	0m0.013s

It would appear to be competitive with Python on my machine on this particular task. (Also you can make it faster by dropping into Racket.)
There is no way to "see it."

Those were secret programs justified by secret laws written by secret courts. The whole system has gone so far already that a negative proof is impossible in the current legal framework. There is simply no credible way anymore an official could present evidence of the absence of mass surveillance.
I'd be surprised. Most people seem not to care. It doesn't strike me that there would be a political advantage. I don't think that Democrats would suddenly turn Republican since the Republicans are at least as bad on authoritarianism and spying.

I'm getting the vibe that it may destroy world consumption of American electronics and software, but those birds have flown. I can't see us regaining any credibility on that issue any time soon. The only saving grace is the involvement of practically every other Western government.

But, I would certainly welcome such a development.
The one from the headers right?....yeah it seems the same to me, but I wanted to some else tell me!...thanks!
Ask HN: Would you use a native X windows server for Android?
As I've mentioned on this site before, I've previously completed a port for Xorg to run on Android devices.

While I have released all of the modified source on Github (username is tmzt), the instructions to build it are complicated. In addition, Android has progressed far beyond the days of 2.3 and the HVGA devices I targeted.

I'm considering starting over and building a fully native application, targeting Android 4.0 and focusing on tablets. I would also add support for GLES rendering and potentially GLX support.

So I'm asking the HN community if this is something you would use.

If there's interest I can paste a link to the working APK for ARM devices, once I move it to something with more bandwidth than a Dropbox link.
I think is good enough. There are a lot of framework with fat fonts. It's kind of refreshing to see something else once in a while.
> It's illegal for an employer to even ask about it in an interview.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find such a law. What you will more likely find that it is illegal for an employer to discriminate in hiring based on that information, and an employer asking the question in an interview is quite likely to be used in any lawsuit over alleged discrimination as evidence that they were, in fact, discriminating in hiring based on the information, since asking a question in an hiring interview is pretty compelling evidence of an intent to use the response in making hiring decisions.
Yes, I certainly have. I thought that perhaps you hadn't because you kept using the verb "read" rather than "watch" or "listen", which would actually apply to this discussion.

I'm quite well aware that binary blobs are required for the CDM. The requirement of a license server and server-side encryption compatible with a client-deployed CDM would still be prohibitive for the "small fish" (after all, if they cared, they could just use Flash or Silverlight like is done today).
Antitrust enforcement is not politically popular, oh for the last 30 years or so.
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On Being An Asshole
> Also, the use of noise canceling technology does degrade sound quality to some extent.

So does the use of a jet engine a few meters away. ;)

I don't use headphones with noise canceling but I semi-regularly wish I did.
Well, what we're relying upon is the integrity of those gov't officials involved, especially the courts, strength of whistleblower protections, and the press. All have IMO abdicated their constitutional responsibility.
> ""Intellectual curiosity" is not IDLE curiosity."

I agree.

"Intellectual curiosity" is also not mere rage, nor mere social activism [0]. Those things are not what the Hacker News frontpage is for. Intellectual curiosity does require something to be either novel material, or presented in a novel way; this is neither.

[0] Want to build and change society? Come join us at http://www.teachindenver.com/teachindenver/denver-fellows-pr... . As a bonus, it will gratify your intellectual curiosity.
I'll believe it when there is a signed pardon for Snowden! So... Never.
I would. At least not as good as their price point would indicate. In general you can get superior products for less money for most of what they sell.
CIRCLEJERK IS ACTION
Ironically, the "we can work you harder" one was the one that I actually saw the email for. :) The others, I admit, may have been paraphrased.
You sound like a college freshman who heard some words that professors and talking heads on TV say and regurgitate them into your speech without comprehension.
Don't forget:
Privacy is sedition
Few people are willing to do what it takes: ostracize everyone who supports it, and boycott the supporting businesses.

In WA state a turning point for gay marriage was http://whosigned.org/: "Coming soon: A Facebook application that helps you find people in your friend list who may have signed Referendum 71 [against gay marriage]".
Thanks! Any thing in particular you like, or that you would change?
Furatto=Flat in Japanesse, awesome & clean.
Sad but true. If those who in the end are responsible for allowing unconstitutional or straight-up criminal actions by government appointed commissions not being held accountable after they are relieved of their function, the justice system is evidently corrupt, and we could expect anything to happen.

Yet, I'm really sad these days, for common sense is being ridiculed, and only a minority seems to notice.
If you don't agree with absurd infringements of your privacy : you are not a patriot; if you are not a patriot then you are a traitor.
I know it's a bit black/white, but these kind of speeches are reminiscent to that kind of status quo:

"The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry, but we live in a complex world where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will,” Bloomberg said during a press conference on Monday. “And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”