skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd advise exactly the opposite. While clojure and racket are excellent languages, they are very different from one another and CL. Telling someone to learn python or ruby if they ask about learning lua isn't a good advice, is it?
The article fails to make a good distinction for the different challenges of adhoc, infrastructure and privacy enhancing or censorship circumventing mesh networks.

Several others and I run a small (50 nodes) mesh network in my area, and it works fine for:

- enhancing WiFi access for all contributing nodes to an area which has limited or no coverage.

- providing fallback uplink connectivity for contributing nodes.

Infrastructure mesh networks are easy split into interconnected groups to avoid performance problems, and are still mesh networks, were a metropolitan area is covered by one ore more meshes to add redundancy and avoid scaling problems.

For enhanced privacy see http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-12...
the big question, then, is what happens to bing? I remember it still not being profitable; if the next ceo cuts it, then who competes with google or does G just get handed the US and European search engine markets?
TorBrowser ships with JavaScript on by default too.
Microsoft's problem is that the marginal advantage of going with its dominant products (Windows and Office) is very low with cloud and mobile devices as opposed to PCs.

Microsoft's strategy of trying to leverage its desktop monopoly in applications to build a similar monopoly(or at least a very strong critical mass in mobile applications) has two critical drawbacks:
1. desktop and mobile applications aren't magically interchangeable, and where they are, desktop users don't like the new interface
2.mobile applications aren't just about functionality, they provide value based on the ecosystem they are connected to. This ecosystem is completely portable among application platforms
3. mobile applications aren't as complex as desktop applications

So I think that the Windows 8 strategy is actually counterproductive.

Nothing about Microsoft's troubles is a surprise. It could have moved aggressively to build new markets but instead it chose to view every opportunity as a way to extend its core products of Windows and Office. If no disruptive technologies came along this might have been a good strategy but we all know the changes in the technology space over the last 10+ years.

Microsoft's core competencies aren't built around blue ocean innovation at all. So changing the strategy will require significant risk. There isn't a magical solution here.
This has been there for a long time. Has there been any change recently?
+1 for focus@will. It has become my default background "noise" for concentration, reading, sports ...
I live in an apartment in Tokyo (not any near as cramped as these places, though). I've stayed at guest houses in Hong Kong and Tokyo. I love it. I don't miss living in a house at all. (I sure don't miss mowing the lawn or shoveling snow off the sidewalk, either.)

I used to romanticize about these kinds of places. I explored them a bit and I liked it. (These days, I'm living in a fairly normal apartment, though. Normal job, normal life.)

I've stayed at guesthouses where I've had lots of socializing with the neighbors. I've had some fun times (and some not-so-fun times...) If you're curious, give it shot!...
I've heard people complain about parentheses, but indentation isn't usually the issue. I challenge you: I looked at your personal website, and you seem to claim experience in Java and C. Show me a large codebase in Lisp and a large codebase in Java or C where the Lisp codebase is dramatically less readable than the Java or C codebase due to indentation.
Would it be possible to make a subset of javascript that would maintain anonymity?
Work is another problem. I wore out my health trying to cope with the "standard environment". (Which, of course, was spun as "collaboration". [Cough - "cost savings" - cough.]) No more. For my own sake, as well as to no longer support people who promote such environments.

How's that going for you? I came to the same conclusion a few months ago, especially the "wore out my health" part. I quit my job in SV, moved back to rural NY and have been focusing on getting healthy again, both mentally and physically. I haven't found a full time telecommuting job yet and, in all honestly, I'm dreading it. I have difficulty believing that, even while telecommuting, any company is going to be truly different from the "standard environment."
ServiceStack going AGPL for 4.0
There is a fortunate side effect to living in such tiny spaces. Having spent a couple of years living in what could be considered submariner sized dwellings, I found that the only thing I used the spaces for was sleeping. When one lives in a tiny, depressing hole, one tends to maximise the time spent out in the world doing things and socializing. With all of that activity I lost weight too.

There is a tendency to beautify and manicure our dwellings as if they were tombs in which to be eternally housed, sometimes with the result us of not wanting to leave them.
This would be great in terms of creating the 'egg' to enable the 'chicken', ordinary web sites, to provide their service over Tor hidden services.
This was patched if you were using the latest Tor Browser Bundle at the time this exploit was attempted [1] . Vulnerabilities will always be disclosed, developers will always have to patch them. Automatic updating and deterministic builds [2] are the way to go.

[1] The version numbers are here https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-browser-bundles-and... Note: these version numbers were not vulnerable to the exploit, patched in June & note the day the exploitation took place (August)

[2] Background on deterministic builds and binary verification http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/564263/1ab0ab93a900ecea/
Travelling in the US, this Australian found that Americans are far more likely to start a conversation with a total stranger, apropos of nothing. It's so rare here, but pretty commonplace there.

So... just try saying 'hello' - it may just be cultural reticence on your part.
>Other common myths include: Unicode can only support characters up to 65,536

Not really a myth. This was UCS2 and was the situation when a load of important early adopters started with Unicode. Winodws, Java, JavaScript all got burnt by this and ended up with UTF-16 as a result. Even Python 2.x on Linux is UTF-16 under the covers :(

>Unicode is just a standard way to map characters to magic numbers and there is no limit on the number of characters it can represent.

Unicode now limits itself to 21 bits of data. This is what allows the surrogate pair coding of UTF-16
Tonight I woke up at 4 because it was totally quiet in the city. It's strange that we feel discomfort when things are quiet.

It shouldn't be that way and it's one of the big problems to be solved. Electric transportation can help. And maybe electric leaf blowers are the next thing Tesla should promote.
'StarCraft' Gameplay Boosts Mental Flexibility, Says Study
also doesn't hurt that it only costs 1/10 the (ridiculous) price of a normal house in Palo Alto.
> 0 to 127. 127 is a power of 2 minus 1, which should be a hint; in specific, it's two to the seventh minus one ...

To expand on this a tiny bit, a power of two minus one is called a "Mersenne number". If the number is prime, it's called ... wait for it ... a Mersenne prime.

When expressed in binary, Mersenne numbers are an uninterrupted series of one digits: 11111... of varying lengths.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MersenneNumber.html
Kupfer and Gajim
If they added all the TSA & more regulations while it was 'regulated' would you still say that?
Actually a much better place to start is Practical Common Lisp:

http://gigamonkeys.com/book/

Or if you are now to programming in general:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
I did give him an upvote, and maybe others did as well. Perhaps it was enough to raise rhodey from the dead? So perhaps my reports of rhodey's death were greatly exaggerated. Unfortunately I can no longer edit my original comment to reflect this.
What I Miss About Film
Half a dozen is pretty easy to hit when you have such a wide variety of people readying your post online. What would be the percentage threshold be?
My understanding (I'm no expert on this) is that the more users, the more efficient routing is within the Tor network, in principle making .onion space less sluggish, but if you have a big increase in the number of users with no corresponding increase in provision of exit nodes, then the existing bottleneck for accessing sites outside Tor will get worse.
25 years ago i used to live in public housing in HK where there are around ~60 apartments (~400 sq. ft) each floor. hallway interactions are common, we even leave the door open so people can have a quick chat when neighbor passes by.

Nowadays more people live in private housing, usually 8-10 apartments each floor. And people hardly know the last name of their neighbors. Not knowing who lives next door is the norm in HK private/subsidized housing now...
More ethnocentrism. UTF-16 results in less bandwidth for any language that has non-ASCII characters.
The laser uses infrared light with a wavelength of 1550 nm, where the atmosphere is typically transparent even with clouds or rain.
Technology doesn't wreck the middle class, but it certainly enables America's corporate bureaucracy to cut as many costly human labor positions as it can.

We could counteract that if invested in our educational system, and I mean really invested in it. Don't just throw money at the problem, but strengthen and expand public institutions of learning. No more student loans and no more financial aid. I'm not necessarily against private schools and universities, but all our current system does for lower-middle-class people is straddle vulnerable people with mountains of debt for a educational experience of questionable quality.
This seems like a nice idea, but the developers of Firefox have made it more than known they would prefer to argue the inclusion and removal of version numbers as opposed to actual issues. Look how long it took them to fix the memory leaks that plagued the browser since version 2 and were only not long fixed?

It's easy enough to set Tor up with Firefox yourself. Perhaps all that is needed is an easy to understand and access Tor guide. Perhaps the first page you see upon loading Firefox after installing or updating is a, "We recommend you use Tor for a safer browsing experience" and then give some scenarios where Tor should and shouldn't be used.
I'm kind of sad of this move. I fear that this will only hurt ServiceStack adoption given that all MS frameworks are Open Source and it is already difficult to move .NET developpers outside the Microsoft confort zone.

I was able to move most of our WCF services to ServiceStack but I would never have been able to do it with this kind of license.

Anyhow I hope him well, ServiceStack is really awesome and mythz definitely deserve to make a living from it.
The bipartisan system has done it's damn best to ensure this will never happen.
Past winners of the Ig Nobel Prize
Ash HN: Short of Building One, Any Available Quadrotor One Can Buy And Program?
I am interested to experiment with Quadrotors, but I am not sure what options are out there for quadrotors that one can program instead of just controlling them with a remote. Short of Building one from scratch, does anyone here know if such "hacker friendly" quadrotors actually exist?
I'm going to be your neighbor! Just have to convince my wife.

But serious: I've got family living 1 km away from your place and they always notice cars passing by because it rarely happens.
Even when you compare post-bubble market cap, say from 2002 to now, it's shockingly bad performance for Microsoft:

AAPL: $5 billion -> $465 billion

GOOG: $16 billion -> $288 billion

MSFT: $217 billion -> $291 billion

I know now you might nitpick that AAPL and GOOG were very small in 2002 and not comparable to saturated markets Microsoft operates in. In that case, take example of even non-tech well established companies:

AT&T: $72 billion -> $203 billion

StarBucks: $7 billion -> $53 billion

However you can still argue that Microsoft increased its revenue 3 folds and profit 2 folds under Ballmer. That might be good metric to measure Ballmer's performance but this does not discount for inflation (36%) and auto-accumulating multi-year enterprise contracts that have been pilling up since Gates era (unknown value).
This is sort of one of the things I am getting at. Microsoft wasn't able to appreciate how different the UI would have to be.
The flip side of this is that there is such a thing as invalid UTF-8, i.e. a sequence of bytes that does not form a sequence of valid code units and so cannot be decoded as UTF-8. UTF-16 does not suffer from that particular problem.

Of course, there's a long ways to go from "a sequence of valid code units" to "a valid string," but it's still relevant.
> Just have to convince my wife.

You're getting dangerously close to figuring out why it is up for sale ;)
Historical context is always needed when one looks at something like this:

The US relationship with Iraq & Iran was very complex.

In 1979 the Iranian revolution occurred, which humiliated the US.

In 1982 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan (which borders Iran). That was significant because it let the USSR threaten US oil interests in the Persian Gulf, and put the USSR one step closer to getting a sea port in the Arabian Sea and/or Indian Ocean.

Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein was continuing to threaten the US's ally Israel but was also smart enough to play the US off against the USSR.

Hussein was very worried about Iran because of the large number of Shia Moslems in Iraq.

When Iraq invaded Iran the US expected Iraq to win quickly, because the Iranians had very few advanced weapons. The US certainly didn't want Iran to win, but nor did they want Iraq to become more powerful in the region.

So the US (with Israeli help) began arming Iran (on a small scale). This is known as the Iran/Contra affair.

Thing went Iraq's way for a while, but eventually the Iranians began to push them back using "human wave attacks".

At this point the US began to fear that Iraq would actually lose, so they started giving Hussein financial and military support.

This is when the Iraqis resorted to gas: (unsurprisingly) they found it was very effective at breaking up the Iranian infantry charges.

There's little doubt that the US knew this would happen.

The interesting thing is that the fact Hussein used gas put a new perspective on the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear program (in 1981, towards the start of the Iran/Iraq war). While that was condemned at the time, when the knowledge of gas attacks became wide spread few people doubted that Hussein would have used a nuclear bomb as well if he had access to one.

Anyway.. a long history lesson.

I guess my question is "What should the US have done"?
"The participant pool was composed entirely of 72 female students at the University of Texas at Austin, because researchers were unable to find male participants who played computer games for less than two hours a day."

The sample size seems far too small and narrow to draw any conclusions from.
Trains of Germany in Real-Time
Whenever I see this kind of poorly-informed bashing of the Mozilla team (always mentioning "the memory leaks") I can't help but wonder how the author would do building and maintaining a piece of software as big and complex as a modern Web browser.

The thing to note is that these issues were fixed and Firefox is still a competitive, solid browser.
> I am interested to experiment with Quadrotors, but I am not sure what options are out there for quadrotors that one can program instead of just controlling them with a remote.

Google is still a verb:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/sp...
You'd make a lot more money by inventing the silent vacuumcleaner.
You might want to check out this: http://www.parallax.com/Store/Robots/FlyingPlatforms/tabid/9...
That's not what I worry about. I worry that robots won't want to have sex with us.
I hope this doesn't happen. I would uninstall Firefox, and not even test development for our application in Firefox. Maybe I could test some other gecko-based browser, like SeaMonkey, but I don't want anything tor related on my computer.
One of the primary tenets of Al Qaeda is to impose Sharia law on the land. They believe that "man-made" laws are unnatural, and go against god's will; They would see the entirety of the world under their strict, revisionist, regressive, incredibly broken system of law. They literally do "hate our freedom". Every time I hear someone repeat that line as a joke, it makes me mad how incredibly out of touch they are. Literally; Al Qaeda, and an substantial proportion of all muslims everywhere, not only hate your freedom, but would kill you just for espousing it.
I know a small kid that has a cochlear implant (born with some bits missing). The sound quality is quite horrible. Better not be a fan of music.
Ask HN: What copyright should I assume for HN comments?
Some of the stories in HN comments are worth keeping or citing in articles or posts.

Say I saw a comment that I would really like to quote on my website, how would you like to be referenced? Should I ask for permission? Use the comment and link to it and its writer? Is there a general copyright (CC or something like that) guideline for HN comments?
Yeah. It worked so well that people would have to turn my office light on or off in order to get my attention, I'd really get in the zone and without external noise I would hardly notice people walking around.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3724560
Not at all. I've watched them for years all over California and in a few other States. I used to film them and show friends, back when making movies with a pocket-size device was novel.

They tend to loiter and run the machinery excessively whether it's needed or not. I'm not sure why. A display of 'work theater' to impress their clients? Or maybe it's to keep the driving/onsite ratio reasonable? Like, they have enough clients to make a living and don't feel like doing the extra travel/setup/teardown to add more, but don't want to just go home for the rest of the day when people are supposed to be working, so... run the leaf blower? I rarely see them in a hurry. It's almost like a form of meditation for them.
Simplify Your Week
My initial post made the connection more explicit. I wrote something like, "At least Reagan had the good grace to keep his complicity using chemical weapons a secret." And then I couldn't believe I had just written that sentence.

That's how things are worse. We've done despicable things in the past, but we had shame enough to deny it, shame enough to try to edit history to hide it. Nowadays a video is released showing Apache pilots laughing while they kill unarmed civilians, and the USG from top to bottom has the temerity not only to ignore the war crime, but to attack the guy who released the video for being a traitor. And people don't riot. That's new. That's worse.

Nowadays men of conscience reveal secret plots that undermine our most basic freedoms. And rather than showing shame, contrition, rather than being apologetic, Obama "welcomes the debate" about privacy, and prosecutes the whistleblower with a ferocity unmatched in living memory. Christ, Obama had a foreign presidents plane grounded on the suspicion he might get his man.

It's worse because the brutality, the cold indifference to principle, the naked self-serving agenda, is entirely unmasked now. It's worse because people can't do anything. The myth that "public sentiment" matters at all in a democracy has finally been busted.
Probably, if FF implements a 'native Tor button.' The other possibility would be, to only support hidden services natively for .onion URLs. ( And use standard TCP/IP for everything else.)
So the way to fix this is to get involved and write some software instead of commenting in a forum as if software is a static problem. Why not open a bug report? Maybe we can prevent password reuse by the browser taking a hash of the password being entered in a form and comparing it against other password hashes locally?

These issues are trivial compared to the bigger issue at play: the right to read and to write without exception.

That is what is at stake here.

Exits sniffing passwords for plain-text forums is a minor concern compared to the bigger issues at play. I'd like to point out that it's trivial to test for this too...(create some plaintext accounts on forums, post there, then run a honeypot server with your own email address and see if you get a login, do this automatically for each exit) However the time commitment isn't so trivial: If you wrote such a program it would be appreciated, please yell loudly about it on the tor-talk list if you do! Tor works by and large by people following some basic principles, like "if you think it should be done, do it".

You could also see the issues with plaintext passwords on HTTP sites and password reuse as a problem of user education. If you're not up for writing software, why not open a bug and suggest some wireframed ideas for how a UI could look to prevent password reuse? There is a whole bunch of ways to contribute.

There are literally 100's of problems like this Mozilla or Tor could get help with... get involved instead of ahead of time saying "This can almost guarantee that this will do waaaay more harm than good." I hope to see your responsible posting of these concerns to a bug tracker. A lot of what gets done in FOSS projects like Tor really is just a bunch of people who've decided "hey, if I don't do this, who will?".

As for doing more harm than good: I can't possibly see how this does more harm than NSA domestic surveillance.
I've been to these hackathons. They are a hack. It's more of investors looking for investment ideas than engineers hacking codes and building products. One event a team won by doing a Powerpoint presentation because the judges (all investors) thought the idea could monetize the most, while the losing teams had built more complete and more impressive prototypes.
Working for Nothing
So: "just use bcrypt" should really be "just use a pluggable key derivation function". Then plug in something suitable. bcrypt is a start, but you might also consider PBKDF2 or scrypt.
As someone that spends a lot of time reading about games, gaming culture and gaming hardware, I can assert that the Xbox One is not the most impressive console of the next (soon to be launched) gen.

In terms of GPU hardware it is a reduced version of the PS4 GPU (50% fewer compute units).

As a package XBox One + Kinect 2 might be quite impressive, but in which markets? None of the TV integration technology works outside of the US (as far as anyone can tell).

Between PS4 and XBox One there are many similarities and a few differences - and in terms of console hardware they're both very impressive pieces of kit.

Microsoft's messaging has been atrocious though - a case study in how not to launch a games console.