skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're meant to make particular kinds of complex application easier. I think Angular's problems is that docs are frankly dreadful. They tell people to fork it and improve it, but go look at their github pull requests. There are hundreds.
Absolutely no way they'll ship with social networking blocked by default, it'll be dead on arrival. Every household will want social networking, and will enable that if they just skip through and realise they can't get to Facebook. Once they do that the whole systems pointless unless people actually see some benefit.
That sounds good. I'd be interested in seeing the open source version
doesn't that assume you can only select each pad once?
AIUI, he didn't leak any actual data. Just metadata. He leaked what information is being collected, rather than any information that actually was collected. Definitely nothing like "one of the biggest security leaks in the American history".
Appreciate this note and your views.

However, that's not been my experience in previous businesses. You can create the worlds best product but if no one knows it exists, why build it.

I view the methods I use as a delivery medium to put information which adds value to the individuals who read it.

If I do that, then I can start to develop a personal relationship with them.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, this post has certainly created some interesting polarising views. I appreciate your comment.
You can easily make doing laundry relatively nice experience, just find a nice podcast to listen to. But watching game of thrones or programming something interesting is more fun.

This kind of dynamic is not with hard to beat I think.
As a sidenote, you acutally need philosophy to validate mathematics, not the other way around.

Forgive my ignorance, but why is that?
The machine in question has a zfs pool that it would be nice to sync, and a MySQL database running off one of the filesystems on that pool. So yes, all of this would be lovely.

But will it work?

You're sitting on an ssh session that's just about hanging on. There's no other way into the system (it's remote). As soon as you issue e (or definitely i) the shell dies, the ssh session dies and your reisub job gets killed, no?

I tried this:

echo e >/proc/sysrq-trigger; echo b >/proc/sysrq-trigger;

but what I described above happened, and the box did not reboot.

(--edit-- deleted comment above had a perfectly reasonable explanation of a safe shutdown using the "Magic SysRq" stuff, but it applied to a machine you're at locally rather than the b0rked remote box I described)
Geekweek
I call BS on this. I want to see there sources for this! I've been developing for iOS since the beginning and I just recently started developing for Android as well to broaden my skill set and I have never made anything near that. 100K seems to be the top most companies want to pay.
Wow, I didn't know android developers make that high, but what about make money just sending little apps, because I don't live in US and I don't think we have here that opportunities for developers.
And I'm still studying so it would be just do apps and send to the store to get some extra money.
But I'll keep in mind that its more powerful than I thought
If you live in the UK, please consider signing the petition to stop the filters: https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/51746.

At the moment, it's sadly languishing at a mere 21,000 signatures. If it reaches 100,000 then that should trigger a parliamentary debate. I'm also going to send an email to my local MP. Does anyone have any other ideas for fighting this censorship?
I couldn't stand that non-sticky footer so I went to fix it and ended up going ahead and making the whole page responsive, cleaning up the code, etc.

I'd be glad if you accepted my pull request with the fixes: https://github.com/kirualex/kirualex.github.io/pull/1

PS: fantastic UI!
There's no feasible way of blocking circumvention tools without causing massive collateral damage.

If they block SSH tunnels for instance no sysadmin will be able to do their job. Same for VPN. A lot of people work remotely.

I will laugh my ass off if they try to do that.

At the same time I won't be able to access my VPS anymore :(
The Android Mavericks Desktop
Yup, OLPC was what "woke up" Intel, making them begin to build Atoms. Frankly, Intel had the foresight to start the Atom project to hedge their bets a little bit.

They never "really" tried to compete in the smartphone market (which is ~2W), the Atom was instead always targeted at ~10W. (IIRC, Intel's real focus at that time were Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage, CULV processors at the 18W envelope. Today... known as Ultrabooks). However, as Smartphones became the next hot thing, it is now obvious that Intel has to scale the Atom down even further. And unfortunately, the netbook market imploded.

Its not all wasted however, IMO, netbooks "became" tablets. From a CPU perspective, there is little difference between Netbooks and Tablets. You want low-power consumption between 5W to 10W, and lower costs. In fact, as netbooks were "dying out", they slowly became tablets. See AsusTab Smart for example, it basically is a Netbook without a keyboard, but built with a touchscreen. (same price range as Netbooks of old, but just in tablet form).

Anyway, Intel hasn't forgotten the Smartphone market either. Thus the Atoms that worked closer to the 2W SoC benchmark... Medfield, Clovertrail, and soon to be Bay Trail Atoms. Clovertrail is winning a few benchmarks here and there, and Bay Trail will be built on Intel's latest process for once. So it looks like Intel is finally taking the smartphone market seriously. But only the last generation or so are actual attempts at a Smartphone chip... and even then, there isn't a single Atom out there that is built on Intel's latest 22nm process. That will only come from the future Bay Trail Atoms.
It is easier to digest a powerpoint presentation than huge load of legal documents. As well what the documents revealed is that program is spending considerable amount of money and no tiny blip on GDP - and it is being used to break all sort of essential freedoms that have been clearly penciled into the constitution by framers.
What has been revealed so far is cronyism, systemic corruption and trampling of citizen's rights while being paid by those same citizens out of their national debt, which is at 15 trillion at this moment.
No, Hadrian's Firewall will be what they deploy to block pro-Scottish Independence sites next year :)

(I don't actually think they'll do this. Probably.)
Yes indeed. And even the pin number can be longer than 4 digits (contrary to the article)
Any chance Leopard support could be on the roadmap? Part of what makes Loom so exciting is the chance to get my photos un-confusingly off of older computers, so I was disappointed not to be able to install it on a 2006 MBP. Thanks!
Sure, I've had one employer who took me on at 19 and I left when I was 21, (six months ago). I disclose my employer in other posts on my site.
So you could call this one the China Firewall of Great Britain.
Show HN: Trellotaire - Solitaire implemented on Trello
That's exactly what I was thinking. And build an android app for all screens take time for those who doesn't work for a company, right?
May be it was a suicide, while handcuffed and tied to a chair.
Rep. Holt Introduces ‘Surveillance State Repeal Act’
Famed Hacker Barnaby Jack Dies Days Before Black Hat Conference
Something you personally should be concerned about? Doubtful.
"DRAFT - Not for redistribution" haha

Very interested in seeing where Haskell is headed in the future. Major props to Intel for the disclaimer that this isn't a definitive study.
Nice, but why are the listed repositories in a code block and not clickable?
This substance will let you turn your skin into a computer
But doesn't that ignore the move toward IaaS we are seeing? Where a customer is buying compute time, instead of access to install an app onto a managed OS?

It's getting to the point where very soon we will have complete clouds on demand - we pretty much already have them, but soon that will be a trivially selected level of granularity.

We can deploy OpenStack clusters extraordinarily easy now with Fuel. Having fully deployed app clouds is pretty much already here, if not just around the corner.
Are the features you listed something that other process libs really have trouble with? Personally when I'm dealing with something as low level as forking processes, I like to worry about implementing the kind of stuff you list as features. Does your project offer the ability to override its default behavior, or is this more in support of the general pattern you tend to use for your own projects?

You mention "writing lots of helpers to get rid of the boiler plate." Can you offer an example? Putting a boilerplate-heavy example next to a beautiful two or three lines of equivalent code that uses your API really helps people to grok your goals.

If I sound critical, I sincerely apologize. As someone who writes a ton of code I'm always so thankful for people who take the time to package up and share their work. It's really quite a nontrivial thing to do.
Well the guy responsible for leaking the pentagon papers (Daniel Ellsberg) had this to say:

"In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago"

http://www.ellsberg.net/archive/edward-snowden
Recoverable System Upgrades · CoreOS
I know what you mean :)

For the last nearly 2 years I make living from doing part-time gigs. At one gig I was lucky to have a rather experienced manager and he taught me about OOP design, a bit on Agile practices and testing. That was an eye opener and put me on the right track for other gigs.

When my class mates talk 'oh man that agile thing is such shit, I just wanna write some code' I tried to convince them at first, now I just smile :)
What field are you in, and what are your biggest pain points with that stack? (I have a long list of issues in "small" science, curious how they compare)
For that matter, 36^3 > 10^4, by about a factor of 5.
Installing Tor on Windows is a breeze, it even comes with a modified Firefox browser that enables your tor session when you open it.
Memory implantation is now officially real
Don't Stress, all skills are transferable
The lack of date/time inputs is so sad. Easily one of the simplest and easiest to add features of html5 that is directly beneficial to users, and we're moving backwards to having less support for it.
PyPy 2.1 beta 2 released
You still can, 3Delight is a REYES and raytracer and is free for dual core use. http://www.3delight.com/en/index.php

I learned a lot from BMRT 'back in the day' until I got full time access to a PRMan license for myself. Shame about how it turned out for both BMRT and later Exluna with that patent squabble with Pixar. Nvidia bought Exluna (spiritual successor to BMRT) and hushed Pixar down, briefly turned it into Gelato product and that's the last I've heard about it.

I even wrote a brief starting tutorial into RSL about 12 years ago here: http://www.vga.hr/resources/tutorials/3d/rsl/index.htm It's still up since it still get lots of visits (mainly from wikipedia these days). It was intended for my co-workers at the time but it gained quite a popularity with studios around the world for some reason back then. I take pride in the fact that there are still sources up for PRMan, BMRT and Exluna Entropy up there. :)
Is your brain actually running a computer algorithm while you sleep?
I live in Austin, do not have much disposable income, and have free time, but I hate doing laundry. I wish they'd come here, I'd pay their rates and cut back elsewhere.
Facebook Says It Has Figured Out Mobile. Wall Street Says It Believes Facebook.
It would have been much more appropriate if the site had instead been archived.

If the change.gov's messaging weren't so contradictory to current reality, it would have made a great feature to any current "forward" content.
Thoughts on Death to Bullsh*t and Information Overload
Yet Another Way to Get a Super-Cheap Web TV Box
A possible silver lining - if you're against the filters that currently exist (blocking child porn), someone might infer you're a paedophile, which would be bad for you. If you opt out of porn filters, you'll go down on a list of people who want porn. If you opt out of everything-filters, the only thing that can really be implied is that you want access to something, which is somewhat less easy to blackmail with.
This whole episode has really shown the fallacy of US = Good, {Russia, China} = Bad.

If you're an American, this might be a bit hard to understand. But for those who don't hail from any of the above-mentioned countries, it's easier to take a more balanced perspective of each.

I don't think we can really look at any country in specific good/bad terms. I personally applaud Russia's actions on this matter.
Microsoft Is Teaching Kinect to Understand Sign Language
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090238
This deserves a lot more of a response but for now I'll just leave this:

Liberty is about the ability of the individual to do things that others disapprove of. You don't need liberty if everyone else approves of your actions. As a corollary, the exercise of liberty does not require a justification, because it's a liberty, practicality or "usefulness" or what-have-you play no part in it. It's onerous to require someone to justify their right to look at porn. It's even more onerous to ask people to put their name on a list as someone who desires the ability to look at porn. And indeed this is how freedoms are eroded. Because once you put things on a different footing and you require people to justify their freedoms then it becomes ever more difficult to justify anything. Can you justify eating a cheap, greasy cheeseburger? Can you justify watching "Jersey Shore"? Are you willing to?

These are precisely the same sorts of tactics that have been used since the dawn of time for busybodies to rein in individual freedoms of others, and thereby to obtain greater authority over others.

People often dismiss out of hand the notion that tyranny could possibly take hold over the first world democracies of the west in the 21st century. And to that I can only sigh. Perhaps it will not be known as tyranny, perhaps someone will come up with a different, more apt name once (if) we are in the clutches of it, but it will be every bit as bad and every bit as difficult to throw off, if not more so.
I was actually just in a similar situation not long ago so I'll explain the route I decided to go:

TL;DR : Cross-platform frameworks at this point in time (to me) are either 1. Expensive, or 2. Unreliable in providing a native-feeling application. We chose to develop a Client-Server Android app and add iOS when funds become available.

I'm a college student and an opportunity came along from our vet program to make a smartphone application, I jumped at it. They had no idea about platforms but eventually wanted iOS/Android and possibly Windows. The only computers I own run Xubuntu, Windows7, Ubuntu, and Fedora at school. So iOS was obviously out of the picture at this point.

I originally researched along the lines of a cross-platform mobile framework. After looking/asking around it seems these technologies really aren't there yet, especially if you're looking at using any native functionality on the device. I read lots of developer reviews and they were generally mixed in terms of reliability and performance. Also, some are quite expensive; I recall seeing a 1-year dev license for $1000 a year per developer. Possibly worth it for a huge corporation, but just not for us at this stage in the game. It took some convincing but I steered them away from this option.

I have experience in Android so we chose to develop a native stand-alone Android prototype (they needed something simple to use to re-apply for their grant next round/present to other investors), and plan on moving it to a Client-Server architecture Android application and I'll either purchase a cheap Mac Mini and learn obj-c or hire a iOS developer once we have allocated more funding to hook it up on the same server as the Android application. This way you can use the same server back-end logic for dispatching data and have native GUI for each supported platform.

edit: grammar
Apple's Boston-Area Team: Working on Speech in Nuance’s Backyard
Well DUH!

Some of the politicians like to say it'll be the same sort of system that's on mobile phones here. These have two characteristics -

1. The filter is full of holes
2. What's blocked is pretty arbitrary

For instance, I was at a music festival last year (Beautiful Days), and access to the online site map and festival schedule was blocked as 'adult' content. The festival itself was full of kids and teenagers (brought along by their parents) for whom the info would have been useful. To get around it, I installed Orbot (Tor for android), because they only care about censoring the web.
Google Cancels Netflix Deal for Chromecast
Space Travel for Everyone: The Intergalactic Travel Bureau
atleast that site is listed as beta. Check out this real estate site that is making millions of dollars selling condos and town homes.

http://www.fairwaytownecenter.com/
Not only it doesn't seem to "need a startup", I wonder what the founders and YC thought about the barrier to entry to the market. If there are already several competitors in this space, what would be the expected good outcome? A single company outlasting its rivals and leveraging economy of scale?

(Obviously YC is smart enough to give this a thought, curious to know what they think)
Node v0.10.14 (Stable)
Startup Due Diligence Success Requires Advance Work
This post makes me happy :)

> "Worst of all, PIH is probably not trying to make the world a better place through technology."

Don't worry, PIH, Startup Guy isn't either.

There are really two main camps of startup founders I've met. There's the type that really wants to bring a vision to life - they have a pseudo-religious fervor about something, whether it's gaming, transportation, lodging, or something else. They really want to change the world, and it's not just talk.

Then there are ones that are really in it to make money. They want to create a company, exit, and go do what they really want to do. Sit on a beach, roll up to the club in a Rolls Royce, travel, whatever.

It's a sliding scale. Every founder has some balance of being genuinely passionate about what their company does, and the desire to just cash out. All said and done though, the founders I meet tend to lean much further towards the latter than the former.
If the concern is actually about enabling people to restrict what their children see, why not create and distribute a free, open-source software package that citizens can run on their own?

Obviously the question is rhetorical, but I'd like to see someone ask it.
Ubuntu Edge reached 6.5 million and counting
Got a 404. Doing a search on the site yielded this.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/hacker-death-idUSL...
With Chromecast, you can easily enjoy your favorite online entertainment on your HDTV—movies, TV shows, music, and more from Netflix, YouTube, Google Play, and Chrome

...as long as you live in North America.
Google’s Netflix-Chromecast Deal Is Over
My gripe about google universal analytics or analytics.js vs ga.js is

broken backwards compatibility (cookie data is no longer stored in the same way) this was an interface many add/systems used and depend on from the days of Urchin.

Otherwise, new interface is pretty slick, features look good, the API to send data server side is so much nicer.

broken compatibility just kinda sucks though
Metadata is data. It's a security leak for the government, not us citizens whose data they're holding.
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I am in astrophysics (lots of telescope and satellite data).
Our main point is that Java provides a complete environment: no shared libraries, no compilation problems when moving to other machines.

The next is productivity. In java, I could focus on the problem. In c/c++ it takes only minutes, until I have to think about why my code doesn't compile. That can easily take me away for hours, sometimes longer.

The most significant downside of java is for me memory consumption. It needs a lot of care and experience to get that right.

Python on the other hand is nice. Although it does not integrate with c++ as nicely as jython integrates with java.
I Connect, Therefore I Am Distracted: Q&A With Author Alex Pang
I moved into management not for career purposes (I could make more money being a programmer elsewhere than being a manager at my current employer), but because after 20+ years or programming I felt I was just repeating myself.

There was no more challenge in it. I could still learn new tech, but I wasn't learning anything new about myself an my abilities.

Even when it came to doing "new" stuff (which as you discover in time is often just repackaged old stuff), I already was 99.9% sure I would master it, and it was just a matter of time and hard work. That not only took away the challenge, but also made me less motivated than my younger coworkers for whom everything was shiny and new, and who didn't have the experience to always avoid obvious (to me at least) modes of failure.

Managing was a challenge I could actually fail at (and still do on a regular basis...).

Yeah, programming is still more "fun" to do than managing, but it now is the kind of fun I do as a hobby (as in, hacking in stuff that will never get finished), not a job. A dead end job for me is a job that offers no more real challenges, and a challenge for me includes the risk of failure.

(Of course one other key motivator was 20+ of experiencing how bad management can completely suck all fun and productivity out of programming.)
The point is : PaaS give you the advantages of shared hosting, but a good PaaS isolate properly all apps. It's definitively a good way to focus on dev and let a ops and constraint on trained teams.
How To Foster Viral Content
> The first Atom processors actually had extremely competitive power characteristics. The only supporting chipset, however, was a) a power pig, because Intel just didn't bother despite it being a much easier task than making a processor

To add some numbers:

The most popular first generation Atom, the N270, had a TDP of 2.5 W. The accompanying chipset and I/O controllers however had a combined TDP of 9.3 W.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnell_%28microarchitecture%29...
You're kidding yourself. It's fully possibly to establish complete control over the Internet. If these power hungry sociopaths have it their way, there will soon be no free network to run a VPS on.
"He's basically exploiting a narrow arbitrage opportunity and is probably either unethical or lazy"

This sentence made me uneasy. I am not good identifying sarcasm so it might be that but... How one would jump into that conclusion without knowing any detail?

On the other hand, lazy is different from being not ambitious. I had several friends like that (not making 5 figures per month though)and I find that is a very legitimate way of live.
You just couldn't resist, could you. I'm shocked no regulation has passed to limit the banker's power. And I'm even more shocked none of them spent any time in jail. Seems like they really do own capitol hill
Thanks, I merged your pull request, looks great !
Hmm, where are you located?
what for if you rape the freedoms now? fighting for what? survillance state?