skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Private browsing-modes "forks" the current state of the browser instead of creating a new "blank" state. And it's this way by design.
Just looking at elevator.cpp briefly, it seems like some comments are unnecessary, e.g., stating that the constructor is the constructor. Also, I was confused by the switch statement that took a boolean and had a case for true and false. Why didn't you use an if statement?
You have cancer. You are going to die. Having a terminal illness changes the risk/reward beyond the bounds that most people can imagine. Even so, it seems that most people can make a reasonable decision, as long as the worst of the snake-oil peddlers are kept out. Here are your choices.

Do nothing. Make your time. You are going to die pretty soon. Try to make yourself and your family comfortable.

Take what treatment your insurer allows. You die more slowly, with a small chance of remission, but also with a small chance that the treatment will kill you sooner. Maybe your won't consume your family's assets.

Take what treatment you can afford. Die even more slowly (probably), with a small (but probably better) chance of remission, but also with a small chance that the treatment will kill you sooner. You may consume all your assets, and or incur huge debt/bankrupt your family.

Get yourself into an experimental trial. There is some chance that you will be in the control group (if one is used) in which case, you will die. There is some chance to suffer some adverse reaction in which case, you may be removed from the trial, back to step 1. There is some chance to suffer some catastrophic adverse reaction, in which case you will die, and if you are unlucky the death will be worse than death by cancer/chemo. There is some remote chance the treatment will work as good or marginally better than existing treatments, you win, congratulations. There is some very extremely remote chance the treatment will work amazingly (as in fairy-tale amazing) well, epic win. It may cost little or nothing, but who cares what it cost, you're alive and you just helped save the lives of many others.
Because it's associated with Perl 6 which is commenly believed to be vaporware (yes, even if there have been releases). And because they want to make it so perfect that people can't remember why they used to be excited about it.
I'm with you on goodwill and lending, or giving. I found that most folks don't give back when I lend so I don't create the expectation that they should.
The only way I've found to ensure this doesn't happen is to set about:config -> network.http.use_cache = false.

Private browsing keeps it for at least one restart (with clear everything set in options), even though I can't see tracker.jpg in about:cache anywhere. Other weird thing is tracker.jpg isn't showing up in a filesystem search anywhere. Wondering if there's something stored in the sqllite files.
Did you read the third and fourth graf of TFA? It appears Mexico gives regular handouts, which still stimulates wise spending.

Microcredit was a huge fad a few years ago, but then some studies found that its effectiveness may be suspect and requires more study. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_microcredit
Case Alleging Google Tracked UK Safari Users, Google Wants To Move Case To U.S.
In his first message, he demonstrates that his bug exists by showing that he exploited somebody elses account. This is obviously, never the way to make a bug report. Heck, it's probably even illegal. You shouldn't need to read a sites terms and conditions to know that doing this will be breaking them. It's an expensive lesson. Hopefully it will lead to him being more sensible in future. I have no sympathy.
i think, as I said above in the thread, something you could really benefit from is some quality reverbs, both to enhance the spatial image (different sounds would be in different locations of this virtual space, and thus get different reverb tails), as well as the fact that reverbs tend to push things into the background, wash them out a bit, and hopefully sort of mush/glue together sounds when they occur in short repetitive succession.

i just had another idea, and you just have to try this and see if it works or what it does: the exact millisecond when an event occurs is not that important. I think you can safely shift an event 20-50ms in time, without losing important accuracy. You could use this leeway to space similar events apart slightly, so they don't give that glitchy "retrigger" sound effect as much. It'd take some code, but you could even buffer all events for say 200ms, and use that sliding window to space them out as evenly as possible. I don't know if it would improve things, because it's really not what happens in physical ambient sounds, but it seems to me like it would smoothen things up a bit more. You could give it a try.
> how exactly do you propose that they write a policy that compensates people for violating the security of their users? Not the security of Facebook, but the integrity of their actual users.

In the appropriate language: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6231153

Otherwise, you should make some good faith effort to not assume devious intentions on someone making a good faith effort to report problems.

> They just can't pay him for having demonstrated a vulnerability by hacking someone's account.

Technically, according to the security person at Facebook, it wasn't a bug. When he did the same thing again on Mark Z's account, it suddenly became hacking. Yeah, he didn't follow a procedure that wasn't available to him in his native language, but he made a good faith attempt to report the bug, and did so several times.

> But good intentions aren't always enough.

Several attempts to contact them despite being told the actions he was taken was not a bug despite clearly explaining why it was?
Quora has the answer already?
Even Stackoverflow-http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-c...
Dropbox faces growing competition in cloud storage wars
Its interesting that US retail brick and mortar is about 300% overbuilt aka in a bubble at this time. All we need to do to revert to the norm is close/bulldoze 2 of 3 CRE buildings, or triple our population without expanding CRE.

You can google for "per capita square feet retail" or just try this link which is reasonably good. The graph of "Square feet of retail per capita by gdp per capita".

http://improvingtheinherited.com/post/7351838533/is-the-us-o...

Its also interesting to look at greater trends WRT income inequality, destruction of the middle class, and permanent downward mobility, vs the existing stock of CRE. Its looking like a bit of a mismatch. That future is here already WRT "food deserts" in the inner city, etc.
Kal means feces in Russian.

>Naming things is hard enough already without trying to cover what it might sound like in every major language.

IMO, when you give a name to internationally used thing, this should be taken care of. I.e. name shouldn't sound funny obscene in any of the major languages.
Not that my comment is related to this post specifically, but I just want to clarify something. ArabCrunch (which founder's ArabGeek on HN) is known for his super weird conspiracy theory views on everything, including that he's being targeted specifically, check this: http://is.gd/0BxLrc and http://is.gd/zXroDO. Also, he uses his website as a tool to link to jihadi websites promoting violence against non-moslems. Check his post congratulating moslems this passing Ramadan [on the arabic version of the site]: http://is.gd/tT5xTb (the link in question is the first one and it's called منبر التوحيد والجهاد which translates to "Tawhid and Jihad platform".

And yes, this is not my account. I created it specifically to post this.
Homomorphic encryption allows one to carry out operations on encrypted data without having to decrypt it; I could encrypt my data, send it to a big number-crunching server, they do the operations without decrypting anything, and send it back to me to decrypt and see the results at my leisure.

It's got some way to go, but it's certainly possible.
You bring up an interesting point. "Winning" the War on Drugs doesn't mean that all those enforcers go away to write their memoirs and join each other in bars to talk about the good old days. There's a whole infrastructure -- courts, police, private contractors, manufacturers and salesmen -- entire bloody skyscrapers full of policy and bureaucracy that simply will not go idle just because the war was declared "won" and it's time to go home.

The immediate aftermath of a war can be just as horrifying as the conflict itself. And we know that it's important to plan the results you want out of a war (because somebody sure is).

So what do idle and technically unskilled hands /do/ for a living? My guess is that they won't change job descriptions very much, and since opportunities for helping Grandma across the street are relatively limited, they'll just be enforcing different stuff.

What stuff is that going to be?
This is actually cool, but I'll wait for an open-source, patent-troll-protected, implementation. Oracle can even try the Microsoft solution of promising never to sue you for reimplementing their stuff, but, if I don't trust Microsoft to keep their promises, why would I trust Oracle?

BTW, Am I the only one who noticed the Lord of the Rings theme?
Instead of clearing the cache, one could stop using If-Match and instead do a HEAD request and see if the ETag is the same. This increases latency by one RTT, if the resource has in fact changed. Also, it could be implemented outside the browser, in a proxy (albeit the proxy won't be standard-compliant and obviously won't work on HTTPS sites).
It took me a long time to pitch old SF books but I never reread them. I feel that each time you read a great book you can get half the remaining insights so unless a book is awesome I will go for new ones.
It's all in comparison. Obama is surely no saint but please name a president (or even a recent president candidate) with better record than Obama.

Clinton? Bush? Reagan? Romney?
Thanks for your comment. Yes I know, and I'm sorry for that but I pretty much had to explain everything in comments because it was a high school project and our teacher wasn't really familiar with Qt framework.
And about the switch statement, you're right, I should have used an if in that case.
The code looks kind of funny but at least it's good to see how much I've progressed during these months. I'll publish some of my recent projects soon!
That's a practical reason, not a moral reason.
Why aren't there legal consequences for politicians lying? I know you couldn't catch everything, but it seems like if you intentionally mislead the public in a high profile context, you should face proportional punishment. Corporations face huge consequences if they lie, even accidentally, in earnings reports.

Lawyers on the clock are always careful that what they say is legally sound; why shouldn't politicians be held to that standard? Maybe it'll make them more vague and hand wavy, but perhaps the law could be structured to be proportional to the malice and deceit behind the lie. If they must do something contrary to what they said, they should have to justify their decision in writing why they have changed their mind.
I am not defending Obama and I am not saying he's going to change.
> (and other crazies who can't wait 30 minutes)

That's an unnecessarily dismissive attitude to a very common medical problem.

Similar attitudes cause distress for lots of people, and contribute to excluding people from everyday life.

Luckily it's probably easy enough to solve. The low-tech solution isn't very nice. (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/24/content_...) (http://rense.com/general69/kdll.htm)

> Migrant workers in south China are wearing adult diapers on packed trains heading home for the Lunar New Year holiday because they have no access to a toilet, state media said Tuesday.

> About 120 million peasants from China's vast rural areas swarm the cities for work and all try to make it home for the holiday, filling all standing room on trains and making access to the toilet impossible during trips often lasting 24 hours or more.
Political parties in Germany receive state funding, which doesn't happen in the UK.
Children wear diapers. Or they are toilet trained. For the year or so in between you either use "pull ups" (temporary diaper stage) or plan your travel to avoid toilet times or to include toilet breaks.

Also carrying changes of clothes, wipes, plastic bags, etc is recommended.
How to build political support for Electric Cars: Tesla test rides
Another great example of how to abuse the term HTML5.
Well, reporting of politics shouldn't necessarily be politics. There is no reason to stoop to the low level of politicians when you call them on their bullshit.
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> Copernicus is 93 km in diameter.

With a big enough computer the mapping data could be imported into Minecraft.

(http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/992750-mapping-using-rea...)

Sticking to one MC block = 1 metre would be tricky with 93 km. And there might be hight limit problems too.
"Perhaps it was power that corrupted him or maybe it was his close advisors that stymied his original purer motives."

...so, his purity, innocence, and honesty was corrupted from the outside, by others? Did he not choose and hire his own advisors? Isn't this like blaming Cheney for everything Bush did?

"he could understand what was wrong with the world ... and maybe fix it."

Obama the Messiah? What U.S. President could ever 'fix' the problems of the world?

"...perhaps the best course of action maybe for him to take a seat at the back of the bus."

So, let's revert back to racist treatment? This statement of yours is what drove me to the keyboard this early in the morning.

Your arguments are _bizarre_. It is amazing what the Left projected onto Obama in terms of hopes and aspirations. His _only_ career has been that of a politician, yet the Left expected him to be something else? He never ran a city, a state, a company, or ever made/produced anything. His career is an extreme example of Affirmative Action, if anything. For goodness sake, he was awarded a Nobel Prize for simply having been elected. That seems quite premature and misguided in hindsight now, doesn't it?

I admit, I voted for him in '08 and was proud to do so. I've never been more regretful of any of my votes in my 32 years of casting ballots.
In Europe there are laws that restrict the usage of cookies (opt-out in some countries, opt-in in others (like the Netherlands)). This website proves how stupid that is. Letting politicians mess with technology is dangerous, at least they should be advised better. I understand everyone is worried about their privacy, but just outlawing cookies is NOT going to fix anything.

Edit: I just looked up the Belgian "Telecommunication law" and article 129 talks about "The storage of information or accessing information that's already stored in the device of a user" [1] (Loose translation). So I guess it's very broad.

[1] http://bit.ly/18DLvov
Apologies for my maths - I think I simplified the serialised expression to reduce space on the slide or something like that, and broke it in the process.
good question. something has changed at HN, the frontpage seems kind of filtered. A lot of quite popular, good stories like this very one never make it to FP. noticed it around the manning, schwartz, snowden trifecta.
My guess is that much of Obama's political
strategy is mostly just to pretend. So, there
he sees a public issue and says something,
just something, just says it, to defuse the
issue and, then, counts on (1) the mainstream
media not getting into the details of what
is wrong with the fantasy statement, (2) the
voters being busy with other things, and (3)
soon something else in the headlines.

Except for the fantasy statements, Obama
is careful about actually doing anything.
He's good at making sure that whatever
happens, he is not held to blame.

But he does actually do some things:
He pushed 'clean, green, pure, pristine,
100% all-natural energy' and got a
lot of campaign contributions. He
has pushed ObamaCare but seems to
want to 'push' its implementation out
past the end of his second term
(fine with me). So,
he wants ObamaCare as fantasy but not
as actual implementation. He does some
little things in Syria, e.g., supposedly
trained about 20 rebels in how to use
some Russian missiles; so, he gets to
claim to support 'fighting for freedom'
or some such in Syria without actually
doing much or much he could get blamed
for. He asks the DoD to give him
options for doing more in Syria, no
doubt already knowing that all the options
would be high on cost and low on
effectiveness and that he won't approve
any of the options; but just by making
public that he asked for the options
he will please some voters. After one
of the high school shootings, he visited
the site and said he was going to 'get
the guns' or some such. Of course the
Second Amendment and the NRA are still
there, along with a lot of gun owners
in rural and Western states. But the
high school shootings are out of the
headlines now. We could go on and on
this way.

For the NSA leak issue, he sees right
away that a lot of voters are concerned
about the Fourth Amendment and so
makes statements, like the one to
Leno, that he is against 'over reaching
government' or some such. But as the
Salon article explained in detail,
what Obama said to Leno was just nonsense.
But such nonsense is about all Obama
needs because only a tiny fraction of the
voters will get as deep as the Salon
article, and the MSM mostly won't
go there. So, superficial nonsense
is enough.

Maybe it's a smart strategy. There is
a danger that once people catch on that
mostly he's just passing out fantasy
nonsense no one should take seriously,
too many voters will get pissed. Maybe.
Maybe not.

At least he's not actually doing much,
and money he doesn't spend isn't wasted
and projects he doesn't do aren't failures.
We've got plenty of government and
in total don't really need more. So
in a major sense, Obama can get by
without doing very much. Actually
I wish that at times W had done less.

There is a risk if the country actually
needs a president; in the meanwhile
it's okay for him to spout fantasy
nonsense on Leno and work on his
golf game and jump shot.
English isn't his first language.
The Graal OpenJDK project is available open source with a GPL license (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/graal/). The Truffle API includes a Classpath exception allowing language implementors free choice of license (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/graal-dev/2013-August...). We welcome anybody who wants to work with us on moving language implementations co-existing on a single platform forward.
"Can't pay him" sounds like bureaucracy BS. I'd argue that it's in their best interest to find a way to pay him. Why make people jump through hoops to report an exploit in your product?

However, it also sounds to me like an opportunity for a bug / exploit reporting proxy business that validates, reproduces, and polishes reports in bulk. You most certainly could extract a much higher bounty per report.
I'd be surprised if this were actually the exploit. If it were, I don't think it would have stayed undiscovered for so long. I'm sure that changing the "xhpc_targetid" was one component of the hack, but some of the other inputs probably had to be manipulated as well.
"I think the real issue is that the money has to come from somewhere"

A lot of the money comes from not running the bureaucracy required for a complex means tested benefits system.

If you took the existing UK budget for social protection, which does not include the existing health or social housing budget, and divided it equally among the population, it comes to about £58 per week, which is more money than you get right now on job seekers allowance if you are under 25 in the UK.
> Dealing with the conspiracy claims would be tricky, though.

That's exactly why conspiracy laws were set up. Engineers/information activists aren't the first people to have these ideas - you can probably find ideas like that going all way back to the beginning of human storytelling.

Using this scheme to evade copyright law is relatively recent but breaking things apart to create plausible deniability is ancient.
I suggest you watch lesterland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g
the alternative was mccain/palin. In the primaries, Hillary was the alternative. Second time around it was Romney. None of these candidates would have had any substantive differences on these particular issues and on almost every other issue would have been far worse. Single issue voting is just as naive as believing rhetoric at face value.

we absolutely need to protest Obama's actions in this area but as far as voting differently at the presidential level, unless we can radically change our voting system to realistically support 3rd party candidates, presidential politics isn't going to change much.
So what is the Substrate VM? The main presentation appears to be about Truffle, a language-implementation framework, which looks neat by itself.

The "Substrate VM Execution Model" slide talks about Ahead Of Time Compilation, which makes it sound like it might actually be the LLVM-based Substrate VM: http://vmkit.llvm.org. Alternatively, could it be a version of Maxine?

AOT as an option certainly sounds interesting...
Fortune Cookie: Count on one's real customers being so.
Elementary OS looks like a OS X knock off. Which is a shame, in my opinion. They say they reached the same conclusion as Apple's designers, but I think they just have a bias. They should be taking inspiration from apps like Fantastical, Soulver, etc. and building in those concepts to the O.S. They should try and set themselves apart from OS X. It just looks too similar. Remember what Picasa said: "Good artist copy. Great artist steal." Elementary OS is just copying. They should be stealing. I'd love to see something along the lines of this Dribbble shot, honestly.

http://dribbble.com/shots/576250-Windows-UI-Concept/attachme...
> In the worst-case scenario, a mishandled rod may go critical, resulting in an above-ground meltdown releasing radioactive fallout with no way to stop it, said Consolo, who is the founder and host of Nuked Radio. ...

It's so easy for a rod to go critical? This nuclear reactors use water as a moderator, the moderator increases the chance of the nuclear reaction.

Just after the tsunami the problem was that the rods had a lot of intermediate short-lived radioactive elements, and need the water for cooling. Now I suppose that most of them had disappeared.
7 Steps to Productive Business Use of Social Media
And herein lies the beauty of the war on terror, drugs, internet piracy, etc. You (the gov'nt) don't have to define who the enemy are, what actually constitutes an act of combat, or how we know the war has come to an end.

Read the Patriot Act. Read the rules of engagement for taking out U.S. citizens. It would not take a stretch of Eric Holder's imagination to think that downloading the Wikileaks file constitutes an act of aggression against the U.S.

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

http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/04/someone-just-leaked-obamas...
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Is there anything like this for the architectural design of buildings?
Sorry, but no. The conditions of your entry to the US will state pretty clearly whether or not you can work. If you're on a tourist visa, you can't work, if you're on a business visa, you can have meetings and similar, but you can't work. If you're on VWP you can't work. Freelancing is work, however you slice it.

The ways for a non-US citizen to be able to work in the US are to either have a work visa (L, H, E etc) or a work authorization via a spouse who has the appropriate visa (L1, J1).
For those looking for alternatives to an Oracle implementation of this concept there is http://www.ffconsultancy.com/ocaml/hlvm/
Which uses LLVM underneath.

Caveat: I've not used HLVM or looked at its implementation, but the scope seems very similar.