skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, how do you wear that? Does it go over ear or something?

Of course, there are cheaper and more discrete solutions, like this one [1], the one you linked is probably even more conspicuous than Glass, and half-VGA resolution is pretty bad. I use the linked one as cheap motocycle cam, and it is hard to aim properly with no viewfinder, but what you can expect for about $ 10.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj26JjSiazQ (I hope it's the right video. Corporate firewall won't let me go on youtube)
And that, fellows, is the final demonstration of how much damage can do a State that invests money in private industry.
I am not saying his work is not great, far from it.

What I mean is that these ideas were already present in such environments.

The "more-than-REPL" stated by me, means that these environments allowed for an interactive type of work that went further than a simple textual REPL.

Many young HN readers tend to associate REPL to the pure REPL textual version they have access to, while using vi and emacs on their UNIX boxes.
> So what does the author try to say? People should bend over and accept dictatorships and such, lest their economy takes a hit?

Nobody has said anything of the sort except for you.

You don't solve economic problems by failing to analyze them and their causes, and doing so is not the same as arguing any other particular course of action should (or should not) have been taken instead.

> who the fuck cares for "investors"?

The people who just ejected yet another government because they don't have jobs.
Firefox OS devices officially released
Yes they certainly succeeded in making it look robust! You are correct in saying that this desire was based on a previous accident where a bridge collapsed - although it a bridge in a different location (over the Firth of Tay at Dundee rather than the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Bridge_disaster

One interesting thing if you like Science Fiction is that Iain (M) Banks grew up in North Queensferry, which is right under the north end of the Forth Bridge - which completely dominates the wee town. I remember hearing in an interview that Iain claimed that his fascination with megastructures (e.g. Culture GSVs and Orbitals) probably came from growing up in an environment dominated by a Victorian megastructure.

He even set one of his novels on a fictionalized mega-sized version of the Forth Bridge:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_%28novel%29
Take a break from work: Pong.com emerges as a Pinterest for flash games
It would be more accurate to state that Germany's manufacturers of solar panels are imploding due to the large volume of lower cost panels produced in China which are flooding (allegedly being dumped in) the market.

There is a two-way battle between the installation and service companies that use panels manufactured in the EU and other installation and service companies which use Chinese panels and equipment. The former claims potential job losses of 25,000 but the latter claim that over 70,000 jobs are also at risk in Germany and many thousands more across the EU if tariffs are imposed.

The media appear to be presenting this as a clear-cut issue of dumping to destroy European jobs but the reality is far from it. The BBC seems to be one of the better sources for dis-entangling the various points of view, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22766639, but the coverage does appear to favour the anti-dumping suits.
PrimeCoin searches for prime chains. For example 6 is at the center of a bitwin prime chain of length 2.

6 - 1 = 5, prime
6 + 1 = 7, prime
6 * 2 - 1 = 11, prime
6 * 2 + 1 = 13, prime

The design paper is a light and interesting read:

http://ppcoin.org/static/primecoin-paper.pdf

Also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_chain
Has anybody considered compiling and using Zimbra for himself ;) ?
Youth Defence Site Hacked
Defining a new standard  for online radio
All the ideas presented in Christopher Hancock's 2003 dissertation on live programming are compared adequately against previous work. There are plenty of advocates out there for anything that don't do their homework and don't bother with related/previous work sections...only academics like us concern ourselves with that.
The article doesn't state why the solar industry is imploding.

It appears it may be due to reduced government subsidies as well as cheap Chinese solar panels.

http://europe.autonews.com/article/20130325/ANE/130329940#ax...
> ha! that's wolf creek road in eugene. an awesome road for cycling.

Yep, I've ridden and raced up that climb a number of times. It's beautiful in the summer. There are some really great rides out there in the coast range, a lot of them really remote.
Chinese just doing it cheaper.)
The dash in "5,-" simply means that there are no decimals. When you write a price like this which does have decimals, it looks just like a regular number, for example "4,99"... And then you may need something to indicate the unit.

The euro sign is a good solution because it resolves the ambiguity of how to write out the currency unit. Here are some ways how the price 0.99 EUR can be written in Finnish:

0,99 euroa
99 senttiä
0,99 EUR
0,99 €

Multiply this by 20+ nations and you get a lot of different ways to write a price...! Without the euro symbol, there wouldn't be a single reasonably consistent way to write a price in the Euro zone.

Don't forget that there are countries in the Euro zone that use the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. Just the word "euro" spelled out may be unrecognizable if you don't know the alphabet.
The privacy policies do not tend to point out that this information may then be made available to governments.
Great illustration how much media shape people's minds.
Hey, I get user unknown from cs.gsu.edu.
"who the fuck cares for "investors"?"

People who want a non-shitty economy so they can, you know, eat?
The publicity of Google Glass must be what is causing this uproar right? I am assuming this because video camera glasses have been around for 15-20 years.

There have been HD ones which look much less conspicuous than Google Glass ones for at least 5-6 years. They are currently under $200 (I don't own any, I just have seen them here and there and looked it up).
No doubt. The element in question is the state authorization for burglary. Letting "authorized burglars" walk into your house and take a look around when you are having dinner with your family.
Jitsi supports ZRTP and Jingle (experimental).
I did seriously look at Clojure but it doesn't quite fit my requirements. Also, I didn't say the drogulus was an academic experiment... that makes it sound far too impressive. ;-)
> I think there needs to be showdown of who can get the camera out faster.

Making a quick pull of ... something ... out of your pocket around police officers does not strike me as a good idea.
Indeed. Businesses involved in something that falls rapidly in price tend to have these type of issues, and also tend to complain and get government support a lot. Managing a business with fast falling prices is different from one where they gradually rise.

In other news, Germany reached 23.9GW of peak solar power output a few days back, around 40% of consumption http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/07/breaking-germany-sets-so...
Very basic so far, deleting pixels by double-clicking the bitmap image and use the marquee tool + backspace.
All about Perl 6 – interview of Jonathan Worthington (Part 2 of 3)
I think what you're missing is simply that they have explicitly decided not to compute the home timeline on request; they've decided that they need it to be precomputed and constantly updated.
In addition, the Redis config file allows you to specify an eviction policy when the maximum memory limit is reached:

# volatile-lru -> remove the key with an expire set using an LRU algorithm
# allkeys-lru -> remove any key accordingly to the LRU algorithm
# volatile-random -> remove a random key with an expire set
# allkeys-random -> remove a random key, any key
# volatile-ttl -> remove the key with the nearest expire time (minor TTL)
# noeviction -> don't expire at all, just return an error on write operations

Source: https://raw.github.com/antirez/redis/2.6/redis.conf
This is a very strange way to think. In an ideal world it could be enough to just continue to use insecure services. But we are clearly not living in an ideal world, and even if all governments could be stopped from doing this type of thing there would for sure be others that would take advantage of the information. Just acting politically is not enough.

I strongly disagree with your statement that using encryption will make you passive. Instead it is the other way around: if you continue to use compromised services despite knowing the dangers you will become passive and lose your ability to think clearly about the issues at stake.
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I wanted to add our local hackerspace but the site wants to "confirm my email" which requires account. Oh well. If anyone wants to be helpful and already has an account, here's a link: [1]

[1]: https://www.brmlab.cz/
My favourites are HTML and CSS. They're all pretty good though.
For anyone who hasn't read it, Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface is a great book. Makes you really stop and think about how we interact with objects around us - physical and virtual.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Humane-Interface-Directions-Intera...
I think freeing the terrorist that organised the Luxor attack didn't really help tourism much:

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/muslim-brotherhood-...
I discovered Sketch about a year ago, and I should say it keeps getting better comparing to Illustrator. There are still some operations I can't do in Sketch, but it is the fastest and the lightest app to design UI such as http://dribbble.com/shots/1111784-iOS-7-icons-redesign/attac.... It took me few hours to redesign a whole iOS7 icon set in Sketch.
Last months I use Illustrator to convert files to SVG to work on them in Sketch.
The sad thing is that it works on Mac only and is not adopted by the designer community yet.
Sorry, not buying it. The problem here for Germany is the Chinese manufacturing prowess, not their own government.
If you're prepared to do all that, why not write the hot code in C and use JNI?
I've thought it was archy as in anarchy, and until I clicked I was wondering why someone would post article about some obscure political term.
I think Angular is pretty declarative and doesn't do any "magic" unless you ask it to.

Can't say the same about Ember though.
What you say might be true depending on whether you mean the German or Chinese State :)
A big difference between Emacs and Raskins' design is the concept of modelessness. If you've ever typed META+X in emacs in anticipation of typing a command, and then switched windows or got distracted or clicked the mouse, emacs is left in the 'command mode' and will misinterpret your next input.

Raskin coined the term 'pseudo-mode'. The difference between a pseudo-mode and a mode is the difference between the SHIFT key and the CAPS-LOCK key (for entering uppercase letters). The latter frustrates while the former goes unnoticed because it works so well.

If you are in any way involved with usability, read The Humane Interface:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
The 25 minute design sprint
Not a link to the full paper, but a summary is presented here: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/1/17/paper-feeding-fren...
Arakoon 1.6.0 released
A UI designer I know has been using Sketch for months now, and he's very happy about it.
I don't know if you've observed normal people lately, but wearing well-fitted clothes is pretty clearly not "the mainstream".
If you don't mind disclosing, what do you work with?
> I wear crocs to work.

And I guarantee you people take you less seriously as a result of it. You can say "their loss!" and scoff at the absurdity of it, but that's a coping, rather than fixing, mechanism.
Smartphone becomes in-car head-up display
Speaking of RC4 and biased random number generators ...
It looks like brmlab is already listed http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Brmlab
Outstanding

Euphemism for "standing around outside - a lot"
For the sufficiently paranoid, DuckDuckGo is available as a Tor hidden service: 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion

They also run a Tor exit enclave for DDG searches, so using https over tor for DuckDuckGo searches should provide about as much anonymity as you can get doing search engine queries.
Software has become a spoilt brat grown fat suckling on chip industry innovation
Facebook uses a fan-out-on-read approach

http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/Did-Facebook-devel...
No, not really. I guess your best bets are http://replicant.us/ and the openmoko freerunner.
Switching to Internet Marketing
this is crypto. there were 'less serious' bugs like initializing arrays to zeros (see debian) that led to catastrophic results, which is what the explanation is about.
If you go C/JNI you:

1. Have added an extra step to your build process

2. Pay the cost of doing JNI calls, which I believe is quite high.

Look, I'm not saying doing this Unsafe stuff is rainbows and unicorns. It's a hack, but it's a hack that is extremely useful in a few niche applications.
Buried Treasure
Frontend dev bookmarks
This is a case where, even if the businesses are failing, the mid to long term outcome will benefit Germany anyway.
> People with no programming experience should be literally banned by law from writing critical software.

Getting the government involved in who gets to write crypto software...

What could possibly go wrong?
Closed source afaik.
Agreed. Seriously picking up UI design in a post-Sketch world is basically the same as picking up web programming in a post-J2EE world. You dodged a bullet.

(I am pretty proficient in Photoshop, but never had to design a photorealistic mobile UI in it. What a nightmare.)
Easy to install actually. Worked pretty much out of the box for me. Does anyone know how to change the autocompletion popup background color? A black popup window on black background make things a little harder to read.
The entire tweet is not copied; it is a per-user list [0] of 16B to 28B records [1] -- IDs to the tweet and tweet author and sometime adhoc bits and retweet ID.

[0] http://www.infoq.com/resource/presentations/Twitter-Timeline...
[1] http://www.infoq.com/resource/presentations/Twitter-Timeline...

As for what you might be missing, a user will need the latest, for example, 50 tweets from only the 200 people they follow....

Do we pull in 200 * 50 latest-per-user [cached] tweets lists? Now we might have network IO issues; it's also slower and on every read; could possibly ignite some hot spots for certain read sites. We can solve for these things, but they are just different problems and not necessarily easier nor simpler.

Do we walk a [timestamp] range index with a composite of user IDs? We'll have to shard this index with 200M tweets/day, and there's not an easy way to keep the necessary joins or unions local or making sense of how many shards I should query asynchronously before discarding extras. I'll probably have to make several roundtrips with a supervising process, between synchronous fetches.

Then there is paging...

There is probably a sweet spot for not doing the fanout for those with large followings, which they touch on at the bottom of The Future. Ultimately, you have to pay the price somewhere on read or write; they've simply picked write, as it apparently is more predictable and manageable on their working set.
Bill Gates jumping over a chair like a gangster [video]
Ask HN: Looking for a remote UX/Python dev? Can meet in SF Bay Area 15-20 July.
I'm a JS/Python/Anything dev with a user-first outlook.
I'm based in Ireland and am vacationing in California this month. I'm interested in meeting with people looking for a remote dev.
http://linkd.in/1ddr2YA
I agree it isn't great, but it works, and if you need that extra performance in a small part of your application it can allow you to stay on the JVM. I'd rather do that than write everything in C (YMMV.)

The blog posts I linked compare performance to nio ByteBuffers, and show improvement for Unsafe over ByteBuffer. That might be relevant to your case.
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Sketch has much better support for layer and stroke styles than Fireworks did, particularly older versions of Fireworks. For example, you can apply multiple gradient layer styles to both the stroke and the fill of a rectangle in Sketch, with alpha. In Fireworks, you often had to make two or three rectangles to get the appropriate effect of a photorealistic button.
Don't take this the wrong way but for an interface expert Raskin doesn't seem to give much consideration to typography. While it might be innovative, I couldn't use that interface simply because of the bad readability…
the mid to long term outcome will benefit the whole world anyway

Here, fixed that for you. (Pilot projects on a large scale are useful to all of us. Someone has to finally do it.)
It used to be a complement IIRC: the US government set standards which were much tighter than those which were usually acceptable in the commercial world at the time & enforced them. If your work was "good enough for government work" then you were holding yourself to a higher standard than the norm for commercial manufacturing at the time.
Whilst Theo is an asshat to people, he's usually right. I've been on the end of it and took it as education.

In fact, I wish more people would take the attitude of derision as there are too many people who make excuses for people who are ignorant. Without criticism, you cannot improve yourself and you are encouraging ignorance.

Some background: I used OpenBSD for about 3 years as a desktop OS over a decade ago as it was the only thing that worked properly on my old Sun Sparcstation 5. I was very satisfied but out of apathy and discovering valgrind, rather than Theo's attitude, I ended up on Debian/x86. I miss the attitude.

Edit: yes I know this is a joke, but it is a common criticism so I feel like defending it :)
It is bad, yes. But compared to the experiences you get the an ISP and the crappy email services they supply. I recently complained to my ISP about slow services, and they disconnected us and turned off all services I had from the for 3 weeks (whilst trying to fix it). No emails and no phone calls. Fortunately I don't use my ISPs provided email address for anything that matters (for this reason), it was the lack of Internet that was worst. This experience cost us quite a bit of money and a mass off time. 18 hours would have been nice. Orcon. New Zealand.
You are wrong, they specifically say that this is a privacy measure to anyone who whines that they want a "superbar" like Chrome's.

Using Google is a privacy risk but at least you can control it with Firefox, when typing URLs that need privacy. Who the hell can verify what Google (and the NSA listening to their pipes) does with your visited URLs? If you use another search engine, Google can see that, and it's one more piece of information.
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What to do in Guilin? The most worthwhile things are watching Impression Liu Sanjie, cruising on Li River, biking in countryside and climbing Piled Silk Hill, etc
Obligatory comment to remind people this is satire.
Oh I am sure I do. That does not change the fact that for a $250k home I would pay ~400 a month in taxes (of course more or less depending on a variety of factors). Rent is currently $550 for a nice two bedroom apartment with balcony and heat included.

Let's not forget that I have to heat that house all winter, which is a couple hundred a month in and of itself. I could go on.
Geordie Rose on quantum computing
> Are bikes somehow magically different than cars?

It's not so much that bikes are magically different than cars, but that NYC has many more viable transportation alternatives than ordinary American cities. If you find yourself missing a bike for the return trip, public transport is a reliable backup in NYC. This is not the case in most other cities in the US.
Surely we can trust this guy. He knows so much more than us, he must be working at Microsoft or something!
Donnie Berkholtz did a great talk on "Assholes are ruining your project", with data from Gentoo video: http://redmonk.com/tv/2012/04/06/assholes-are-ruining-your-p... slides: http://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/assholes-are-ruining-you...
Florida accidentally banned all computers and smart phones in the state
"Jonestown-like atmosphere of OpenBSD."

Wow.
Posted June 3, 2010. Though that's not to suggest that I think things have changed since then.
Title? Link doesn't work.
Have you even seen the slides leaked by Snowden? They tracking everyone. Of course no one has a problem about using FISA requests. The very problem that started this is that they disregard the constitution and track people regardless of their history.

You must have been living in a cave...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6005249
and nobody cared about it.
Our local hackerspace, the Warpzone in Münster, NRW, Germany is currently in the process of renovating new rooms (>100m², whoo!) with a magnificent view and then moving into those. Y'all are welcome to come around for the grand opening that will hopefully take place some time later this year. :)
In principal, this is a fantastic idea.

In practice, sharing a lab is an uphill struggle when the people you share it with are your coworkers/fellow students. When they're just people that wandered in off the street, I could imagine that without very careful control of the situation the place will end up with piles of crap and absolutely no tools.

I suppose it completely depends what type of lab they've built. I hope this idea spreads (because I would like to have access to this kind of resource), and I hope it works!
"The underlying mathematics behind why six confirmations is a fairly safe threshold is independent of block confirmation time, so the Primecoin transaction at six confirmations is no less secure"

I think this is wrong. 6 conformations in Bitcoin means that 1 hours worth of work has gone into sealing the transaction into the blockchain. To invalidate these 6 blocks you would need, for example, twice the compute power of the honest nodes for 2 hours. With primecoin you would only require this power for 12 minutes, which is 10 times less work.

Lowering the confirmation time only increases the granularity of the confidence in a certain transaction over time.
Yes

Private keys without a passphrase are probably even riskier than passwords

Private keys with a passphrase had better have a hard passphrase or they'll just be bruteforced offline
It doesn't matter. Google can read your emails on the other end of the pipe, and the NSA can fetch the plaintext from them.
It's a troublesome issue for China as well.

China's companies are often state controlled. (if not outright owned, then the government controls a commanding stake) With an intense focus on keeping employment high, they are lothe to cut production in any way that would see to a lost of jobs.

So they're in a catch of their own: They know if they continue to produce, they'll flood the market and depress the price, (mind you, this lowers the profit they can obtain per-panel as well) but if they scale back to keep the demand higher, they'll need to cut factory shifts, which means letting go of workers (and dealing with the instability that follows)

The State's interest is in maintaining stability in society above all else, even in the face of sound economic sense. Unfortunately for all involved, this is not terribly sustainable. One of those shoes will drop eventually. Manufacturing in China is starting to suffer noticeably despite their best efforts to dress it up. Either the economy is allowed to liberalize and adjust normally (as it does in western countries), or it breaks down. Both scenarios would bring a critical eye to the Party.
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Tizen $4M challenge to get developers interested in its mobile platform
Government Destroys $170k of Hardware in Absurd Effort to Stop Malware