skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your own citation proves you wrong. One of the Social Text editors was so convinced of the legitimacy of the work that even after being told it was a hoax, "suspected that Sokal's parody was nothing of the sort, and that his admission represented a change of heart, or a folding of his intellectual resolve."

That is how disconnected they were from anything resembling a "methodology" that could detect basic falsehoods nestled amidst pretentious language and reverential citations of suitably fashionable authorities.

Scientific theories generally yield testable hypotheses. Name one testable hypothesis that's ever come out of "critical theory".
So what would you use as a reasonable prior here?
I was worried about the same thing when I bought my point and shoot. But I used it like one use his cellphone. And the other thing is for a long time I wanted to hack new gadget like leap motion.
Grammar police here.

The (all) is not needed, "what should I buy?" already covers the plural case. I have noticed this a lot in Indian English.
Am I the only one to find this a bit sad?
I have the same issue with no text after the logo. My "GPU compositing on all pages" was set to the default, but after changing it to "enabled" I still see no text. Version 31.0.1626.5 dev-m Aura SyzyASan
Useful. Congrats.
The L visa for multinational managers or intracompany transferees is possibly more suitable assuming that she has already hired a few people and would have some revenue to show. She can also possibly file for an O visa on grounds of extraordinary ability in arts or business given her circumstances, with a waiver that essentially asks the US government to overlook her immigration law violations…

I’m not a lawyer.
I read , much of the night
And go South in the Winter.
Different networks partition the users, and the unnecessary extras "piggyback" on the essential service here -- managing list of contacts. China blocks FB due to the piggyback'd content -- the "keep in touch" part is collateral damage.
Avoid those pesky same-origin policy errors with Corsproxy
My favourite of lighbulb jokes goes like this:

-How many shrinks does it take to change a lightbulb?
-One. But the lightbulb must want to be changed.

That's the problem with most of efforts to imporve the world—people get told, or pushed, or forced to accept the change they do not understand.
I doubt anyone argues that the change is needed, but I am not sure that active involvment does much good. I am also not sure what the right path would be. Show by example? Don't "accept at the table" until the are "mature enough to behave"?
VTSMX
Raising the Costa Concordia (live stream)
Everything .NET programmers know about Asynchronous Programming is wrong
Accidental damage insurance.
So is this centrifugal force counteracting gravity?

So then gravity would be like your hand's grip preventing the bucket from flying away when you swing a bucket of water?

If this is the case then I think I'd understand the way planets don't fall into the sun better. The way I've heard it described before as something like 'forever falling into the sun' confusing.
How about that:

http://www.amazon.com/SmartLab-Toys-ReCon-Programmable-Rover...

Seemed interesting to me.
The biggest obstacle that tech journalist faced was his own perceptions on how Windows should work. I'll admit that when I started using Windows 8 during the CTP, I had concerns about the UX for most of the same reasons he mentioned, but I took the time to learn how the designers intended me to use the system before I took the plunge.
What is interesting to me, is that most of the complaints he talked about were introduced in Windows 7 and even Vista - press the Windows keyboard button and type to search. That was the recommended way to start applications in Vista since the Start menu could be rearranged simply by installing applications. Want to open the Control Panel, [Win] + "control panel".
This of course is a problem for everyone who has learned how to use a Windows computer since the Windows 95 era, and can't be bothered to learn new tricks, but as a tech journalist, was this really outside his abilities to learn?
Windows 8 and 8.1 (I haven't tried the RTM release yet) are designed to favor a new class of touch enabled devices. Swipe down from the top of the screen to close Windows 8 applications. Swipe in from the right to show the Charms bar. Swipe in from the left to bring up the task switcher. These metaphors have a much more strict design language than previous versions of Windows. Printing is always* in the Charms bar under devices. It has a consistency beyond what Windows has offered in the past.
The only problem I have with Windows 8 and 8.1 is the Desktop mode. *Printing in Desktop applications doesn't follow the same convention as the Windows 8 applications use; you don't use the Charms bar, you fall back to legacy patterns such as File -> Print, or [Ctrl]-p. Ripping the band-aid off quickly would have worked better because then everyone would have adopted the new interface out of necessity. Instead, users are forced to compare them side by side on a daily basis, doing little to wean users off the legacy interface.
Coming from legacy Windows to Windows 8 presents some challenges, but approaching Windows 8 with new eyes, on a device designed to use this OS from the start, like a Surface RT, there is so much they got right. It is a shame that Windows 8 is holding users back more than it is ushering in a new era of computing. Microsoft would have been better off if Windows 8 was simply about touch... maybe call it something other than Windows, like Microsoft Touch, and then had left Windows 7 to run legacy apps only. Even something like Windows 7's XP compatibility mode that launched from a card would have been better than making users think that the Desktop was a shipping part of the OS. I can certainly appreciate that Microsoft's management didn't want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, but that goose is dying and we'd be better off if it went quickly.
Instead of brute force, it looks like it's comparing automatically-generated models of the two implementations symbolically.

Success! Amazingly, this proof systems scales to large values of n where exhaustive checking is not feasible:

$ time make n=1000
Proving function equivalent to reference:
encode_aig : [1000][8] -> [1336][8]
Q.E.D.
real: 17.882s user: 16.31s cpu: 1.50s*
A Cold War mansion, 26 feet beneath Las Vegas
So, practical question

I am on Ubuntu LTS 12.04 with GnuPG 1.4.11 (Linux version 3.2.0-32-virtual (buildd@batsu) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)).

Q1. Do I need to fix this potential attack?

Q2. Assuming this fix is not backported [now] - if I compile fresh gpg and swap the binary with the old gpg - will this fix it?
Exactly, its the price we pay for the currency network, which is incidentally much less than what we pay now to commercial banks for using their payment network (spoiler: that money does not help the less fortunate of the world either)
Stop fooling yourselves. Piracy did seriously wound the music industry.

I'm not saying that it didn't. But you also have to recognize that the music industry betted against the Internet.

It took 10 years before I could easily pay for Internet delivered music. I'm not even saying that this is better than CDs, but they should at least have explored the possibilities. They deserved to go bust for all the mistakes they made the last 15-20 years.
I think it exceeds his budget by the fact that he will also have to spend time which he can otherwise use to make more money. Doesn't it?
Well in CSS you can't do anything about it, that's just how the browser works.

If you'd be doing WebGL you can do some things like using square power of two textures and enabling mipmapping and if available anisotropic filtering.

You can also do things like using signed distance field fonts or draw fonts by rasterizing (in the fragment shader) the bezier curves, which can be made to nicely anti-alias (using standard derivatives).
Yes I believe that is the reason. Not a perfect analogy but I guess the point is that a nation can be united from what used to be a collection of fiefdoms.
Bitmap Compression using EWAH in Go
Yep. Which is why we took enormous risks and end up losing 3 astronauts in Apollo 1, which wasn't even a proper spaceflight, on our way to beat them to the Moon.

Russians lost 4 cosmonauts as well on 2 separate missions.

Like I said. Poisoned well.
Forget things. Invest it into your progress, your own projects. Purchase value, Whatever makes you more productive in the things you like doing.
As a Sardinian expatriate, I must say that this would be a practicable course only when you have a stable and steady cachet of clients; and then only if you are content with having almost "remote-only" technological collaboration. While I recon this was the premise of the article, I still feel that this "isolation", lack of support and lack of recognition for your professional figure stunts most of the excitement.

There is almost no technological nor entrepreneurial growth in the area; although pioneering in diffusion and disruption of internet technology (Tiscali), and although many well-intentioned, huge (and ultimately empty) technological poles graciously built in the area[1], there is little interest in investing, outside of just grabbing the inviting national/european development grants and then leaving the island.

There is no real service or attraction to speak of. The very few attractions (mainly wooden kiosks at the beach) have been made close down or subject to numerous certification delays for "sonic pollution" in maybe the most frequented beaches in Cagliari proper. Endless diatribes consume most of the land in similar way, even though you'd think this place could otherwise easily top many of the most famous places worldwide.

Sardinia is a dream place if you're a scholar, or like cities full of down-to-earth and warm people; it's a microcosm of influences and it's hard to take even just a few steps outside the most modern places, and not be able to recognize traces of the many cultures that walked that very soil. The tradition is rich, and every few steps you encounter a different dialect or new colorful customs. It's a magical place.

I would get back there in a moment if I could. But it's the epitome of Italian waste. I had been so angry at it, and everyone, but it also seems that the majority of the people really prefer to just soak it up, and then forget about it, or else spreading outside of the city to start the n-th unauthorized small town in the middle of nowhere, which is of course in a bad location that puts a strain on the few available transportation resources (almost entirely buses), with majors that play for power with/against neighboring towns, derailing the plans for highways (the "new" 125 anyone) which however is nothing compared to such jewels as the "A3 Napoli-Reggio Calabria".

Sorry for the impulsive rant but this touched a nerve. I would really, really love to go back to

[1]: I am happy for those. I worked there for some time, and these were nice, big buildings, with a nice internet connection, space for growth, and they were immersed in that classic beautiful bitter-sweet sardinian splat of vegetation. But while they were built for grandeur and all, no-one really came there, then various powers competed in the area, which resulted in this temple being connected to the rest of the world by a small dirt road which floods periodically with almost no public service to speak of.
IMHO,

-I'd love if there is a button causing the pad to remain as a separate, relatively smaller pop-up ish window.

-Share to email address option.

-Ability to toggle "always on top" maybe?

All I could think of right now.
What Will The World Look Like When We Connect The Unconnected
Why restrict them to the Desktop OS only? They've been very anticompetitive on the Mobile front.
The article is poorly written.

The article starts by talking about pointless consumer spending (convincing people to buy things they don't need). This is a net loss to society.

However, the article doesn't make any kind of distinction between pointless consumer spending and wise consumer spending and instead runs off on a totally unrelated tangent about automation (which certainly helps but isn't related to the macroeconomic effects of consumption).

The article totally ignores the fact that "wise" consumer spending is a significant benefit to everyone – i.e. when consumers are buying things they need or where the benefit of the purchase exceeds the effort input to earning the money. It also helps progress the economy when consumers are buying products that are new and innovative and make technology or business model improvements.
Belgian telco says it was hacked, while reports point to NSA or GCHQ as culprit
Is it really worth #1 on HN?

PS: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
1. one of those aeron (?) chairs - 300 on ebay

could be really uncomfortable or the best chair ever, nerds are

picky about chairs and unreliable at furniture advice

2. your favorite game, GTA 5 coming out soon

3. a phat screen, 25" lcd or 50 tv - 400 bucks at frys

4. oculus vr dev kit (VR) - 300$

VR half life, tf2, portal... cool. also really stoked to try a really scarey game.

5. lucid dreaming goggles on kickstarter - cheap
lucid dreams... cool
Your math suggests that you can break a certificate with 2^61 hash operations, but this page says 2^61 operations will only give you a collision:

https://code.google.com/p/hashclash/

With the ability to generate collisions, it becomes easier to trick a CA into signing an evil certificate, but collisions don't help if you want to break someone else's certificate.
Abandoning PHP for Python
From a security point of view I think using SMS as a way of initiating bitcoin transactions is a really bad idea. It would be interesting to have some more details about how this OTP scheme works. Also, the OTP sign up page is served over plain http.
There is also this one which I posted a few months ago: http://scotch.io/demos/star-wars-attack-of-the-dom
Importance of web crawling in the age of Big Data
For argumentative purposes (if trying to reach a consensus with someone who claims to be 95% sure that the coin is 'fair' and accepts the '45-55% heads is fair' definition), you would concentrate most of your probability mass there, and find a mutually agreeable shape. The 'it's not shaped like a sphere' thing suggests that some people would take into account visual information about the object to inform their priors, and be prone to rejecting the fitness of the uniform.

That may conflict with your sensibilities if you expect very strange coins, but if the priors aren't too crazily bad, if you have enough time for a few more coin flips, and the coin isn't particularly brittle, what's an order of magnitude between friends?

Edit: And for formal mathy purposes, ask someone else :)
Thanks. I'll add the first two suggestions soon..
I don't agree. It's perfectly feasible to properly research the topics you're covering, lots of newspapers do this, and they get it right. Getting a complex technical concept slightly wrong is fine (pull to edit), but 'reposotory', 'e-note'? That's one Google search away from being corrected. This is really just telling your readers/viewers you just don't give a damn.

Why put up a box with terms if you're not willing in the slightest to get them right? Probably just to to keep up the impression of actual journalism - you're not doing journalism, your viewers don't really care anyway, but they kind of feel informed and you found a really cheap way to fill another 10 minutes of screen time.
Is this to say that CSS 3D transformations on text are bound to be aliased [in similar circumstances]? Is there a suggestion to the spec such as a "mipmap hint" that could (one day) be added to reduce this flaw without the need for other technologies?
Star Wars opening crawl (and beyond) from 1977 without HTML/CSS/JS
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Yet, nicotine don't destroy families and make people lose their jobs (unless they smoke it for many years), so there is a real difference in the consequences for the people who do get addicted to alcohol or the harder drugs. So grading drugs on a simple "danger scale" isn't very helpful.
Chart of probability distribution relationships
for 200 extra i would go for a makerbot digitiser http://store.makerbot.com/digitizer.html
assuming you have a 3D printer, that is.
Why do we keep calling it "typical negative nitpicking"? How about calling it "feedback"? Or maybe even "the most useful type of feedback"?

We're encouraged here to post things that add value. But that pretty much implies either criticism or going off-topic ("hey, I've seen something similar here:", etc.). There is no practical value in "positive" comments, no matter how elaborately you can write "I liked it". Yes, it will make everyone feel a little bit better, but it hardly contributes anything of value to anyone.

Not every criticism is a valuable feedback, but every valuable feedback is a kind of criticism. And I think the best thing about HN is that it has lots of civil nitpicking (usually followed by interesting discussions), instead of circle jerks and compliments.

ETA

> Why HN? Why?! There must be a better way!

There is: it's to stop taking criticism so personally and instead extract as much value from it as one can, and discard the rest. I find it to be a good attitude for life in general, not just HN.
> Don't just create a standard for (monopoly) ECMA Script, instead - create a standard for a VM that other languages can compile bytecode to. Create an API in this VM for graphics, video, audio, ETC.

Please no. That's the opposite of where we should be going. Less executable code on the client, more powerful markup.

JavaScript was a huge mistake that we will likely have to live with for decades, let's not compound it.
Out of curiosity: what's an actual assessment of importance, as opposed to a social determination of importance?
"this is almost a parody of how modern web dev innovation HTML5/JS/CSS are so far behind the technology that actually exists in the world today (this was originally created in 1977)"

That's a weird opinion. The original was analog, created by several people and shoot carefully in specific conditions. This HTML version was made by a guy in his bedroom in a fraction of a time and is sharable, editable and can be viewed on many devices, including mobile, instead of just a movie theatre like the original. For me this is innovation across the board (not only in web standards, but technology overall)
Malmö region guy here. Any digital nomad who wants to hang out, feel free to contact me. Email in profile.
I'm not saying this is a bad idea, but it is kind of opposed to the intention of CORS. This takes the decision about which pages are allowed to request a given resource away from the server writer and gives it back to everyone else.
I do something like this in my spare time (not two hours a day of course) and would not ever consider it an occupation.

But it's not community manager per se - I could have chosen grocery packers at the checkout too. I was trying to pick on fluff jobs that are only marginally useful and can only exist because they cannot easily be automated and add just enough of marginal value that companies decide to pay for it. I doubt anyone would notice if they were gone and replaced by an inferior automaton longer than 2 weeks.

The point is: we are not reaping the fruits of 150 years of fierce rationalization, but fight for the 10% indispensable employees, keep the majority employed whether it makes sense or not - and pay the rest just enough that they don't starve. Seems dysfunctional to me.
11" Macbook air for hacking while traveling, at cafes, in the sofa etc. HP Mobile Workstation 8570 running Windows 7 (but honestly wish I had Windows 8) for when I need more power and to run all the Windows only applications I need. I run Crunchbang Linux in a VM on both laptops. For text editing I use PyCharm for python, Webstorm for javascript and sublime for everything else.
You weren't be referring to Quentin Meillassoux would you?
I'm guessing you're asking because you have a gadget allowance from a new job? If so, and assuming whatever you're buying needs to be at least slightly relevant to your job, looking around at what your co-workers bought may be useful. This doesn't mean you buy what your co-workers buy but at least you may get some ideas.
Nothing about bitcoin is tending towards frictionless commerce.

That is an argument people make to excuse the huge waste of power (by extension generating a large amont of pollution) that goes into bitcoin.

The reality is that all the forces that slow down electronic dollars also slow down other electronic currencies.
I'm not sure how 'in the zone' you mean, but i've done that many times (just getting up to pee, etc). I do suffer from mild-moderate OCD though so I think that's likely a symptom of it.
My usual list of book recommendations is as follows:

For general practical guides I'd look at one or both of:

* "Practices of an Agile Developer" http://amzn.to/9B7hJg, which talks about various practices in a fairly methodology independent way. The reason I really like it is that it has some excellent pointers for checking when adoption is/isn't working.

* "The Art of Agile Development" is another nice book http://amzn.to/bksP7T in a similar vein. This is more process-prescriptive though (they're talking about a varient of Extreme Programming)

I'd also also take the time to read the seminal books on the two most important (in my opinion) agile methods:

* Agile Software Development with Scrum http://amzn.to/bOkPZ1 - the book that formalized Scrum

* Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change - the book that formalized XP. Read both the first http://amzn.to/cdLAtx and second http://amzn.to/bqMhEa editions if you get a chance. They're interestingly different.

I'd also add the various books on Lean by Mary & Tom Poppendieck http://amzn.to/9wsASi and also 'Kanban' by David J Anderson to the list http://amzn.to/en6PQ2 as well.

You might also find these of interest:

* The Scrum Guide - http://www.scrum.org/Scrum-Guides

* The Agile Atlas - http://agileatlas.org/

* The Agile Alliance's Guide to Agile Practices - http://guide.agilealliance.org/

lots of useful info there ;-)
That's truly funny. Have you also heard the Anglo-Indian use of "y'all all"? :)))
Amazing, someone who actually replied with a list.
It's actually a very gradual spiraling inward. This is because the momentum imparted initially is slowly dissipated (by impacts & interaction with the gravitational field of the sun), an extremely small factor.

The question is whether the sun will go nova before or after we (or our sterilized remains) finally arrive :)

That's not the only effect, all of this is counteracted by the decrease in mass of the sun and the tidal interaction between the sun and its planets (which slows down the rotation of the sun), both of these should push the earth outward from the sun.

I'm not sure how it all works out (whether it is a net positive or a net negative) but it can't be much or we'd have drifted out of the zone where life is sustainable long ago.
Yes, I think you're correct
What happens when your coffee maker is designed by mechanical engineers
Oh, man, this book. This book is literally the reason I am studying computers. I read out for the first time not long after it came out. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and it rocked my world. I took up programming and began exploring hacker culture shortly after. I can't even express how important this book was to me.

Yeah, it's not a mature fiction novel. The characters are a bit hollow and the story wasn't outstanding; all that criticism is justified. It did what it was meant to do though. It got me and who knows how many others to explore the world of technology.