skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone's always had this idea, and it has very rarely proven to be terribly practical in reality. The few times that VMs of different hardware tend to be practical are when there is an enormous gap in performance between the emulated hardware and the host hardware (such as with old game consoles and arcade hardware).
Some of those ideas can actually be valid startup-ideas.
I'm thinking about exploits that only have a limited range of motion. They need code to perform part of the action for them, that they can take advantage of. You can't just use arbitrary code for that, you need code that is vulnerable in very particular ways.
Emulating a processor of another architecture will not be as quick as having the hardware, will it?
And if an individual decides to opt out, what then? The current solution is "throw them in jail for a decade", which seems way too excessive for me. I keep hearing people complaining about how others get sent to jail for drug-related crimes, but not many similar complaints about tax evasion. Is this crime so bad that we have to throw a person away for years?
I've used both Lisp-1 and Lisp-2, and really, this is a tempest in a teapot. It makes zero difference to how I think about code and very little difference to how I write it.
i like the look of earthbag homes http://home.howstuffworks.com/earthbag-home.htm
> Third, political correctness is a phenomenon of white liberal prigs who go out of their way to take offense because they have nothing useful or productive to contribute to the public discourse.

If you've defined it that way, of course that'll be how you see it and nobody will shake your conviction. This makes conversations with you on the topic as dull as someone who doesn't grasp enough statistics to understand trivial errors, but so be it.

The rest of the world has a more nuanced take on it, which begins with the idea that being rude to people who lack relative power in a given situation is still morally wrong and tactically quite stupid.
A tool I love to learn new languages (as a guy living out of his hoe country), is Anki.
https://ankiweb.net/
Flash cards are really helping to get new words stick in your brains.
What I usually do then is to read a book I already read in my native language; and force myself to catch up the grammar .

The brain does a wonderful job searching for patterns and similitude.
Ha, and watch tv and listen to radio. Period.
Pioneering Bitcoin hardware company to offer full refunds for all chip orders
that's a pity. however I do remember a similar study done ages ago (pre-internet) showing how some mathematics could improve their solving capabilities the ingestion of alcohol (wine in this case). after a certain amount there was a - plausible and expected drop in performance.
New Smartphone Headset for Quantified Self Launches Indiegogo Campaign
Many VOIP providers are exactly that.
I was recently working on an iOS app where I needed a 1-to-1 chat feature. I was surprised that there wasn't an established market leader in this space considering how many apps use such a feature. When I saw this post I immediately thought "yep, that is a gap I'd seen in the market".

Some existing platforms included Scringo, Lobi SDK, QuickBlox. None seemed polished or customisable enough for my purposes. See more here: http://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-existing-APIs-for-impleme...

I ended up using an open-source iOS chat UI control (https://github.com/jessesquires/MessagesTableViewController) and Firebase (here is a sample project of a real-time iOS chat app: https://github.com/firebase/firechat-ios). It was incredibly easy to setup a real-time chat app and provides me with full UI customisation and a flexible and scalable data backend.

Send and receive code:

// Setup.
self.firebase = [[Firebase alloc] initWithUrl:kFirechatNS];

// Listen for messages (real-time).
[self.firebase observeEventType:FEventTypeChildAdded withBlock:^(FDataSnapshot *snapshot) {
// Add the chat message to the array.
[self.chat addObject:snapshot.value];
// Reload the table view so the new message will show up.
[self.tableView reloadData];
}];

// Send message.
[[self.firebase childByAutoId] setValue:@{@"name" : self.name, @"text": aTextField.text}];

Thoughts on Layer

If Layer was around when I was looking I would have tried it out, however I am happy with Firebase as my backend now. The API looks insanely easy to use though.

Media sharing features would be difficult to implement using what I described above so Layer would be advantageous here.

Great branding.

Also Layer, please make your iOS framework available on CocoaPods.
It's possible they're using an older version of MSVC or an alternative compiler. I don't think /DYNAMICBASE is on by default in VS2005/2008 and it's definitely not on by default in MinGW GCC.
"I would have some sympathy with this if you made it easy for single people to pay you to be able to use your data in a manner outside of the ToS of the free APIs.
"

I'm not sure why you assume, among other things, that upstream contracts always make this possible.
Koding Dev here. There is also a Rails app that let's you create Rails instances very easily! Look at the screenshots here: https://github.com/fatih/RailsDashboard.kdapp

This is already in our Apps section. Just install and use it. Let me know if you like it or something goes wrong :)
Harvard could afford to charge nothing for any of its students. However, by having a form of price discrimination where they gouge the wealthy, they then get to subsidize their low-income students, so that they don't have to miss out on as many of the non-economic opportunities that their classmates engage in, and still provide all the amenities (nice gyms, libraries, clubs and activities) that the upper-class students expect.

The issue is, after the most endowed schools ($/student), there is a steep drop where schools suddenly aren't able to provide the same opportunities for their low-income students, but still compete for students capable of paying in full. This leads to escalating costs, as schools construct nicer gyms, study areas and dorms, pricing out the mid-to-low income students.
Victim-blaming. Just because abuse happens commonly, and has happened to all of us at one time or another (to varying degrees; and I was certainly on the receiving end of plenty of abuse and bullying, as a kid), does not make it OK.

So many responses here are of the form, "Toughen up! I did!" Would you not have rather had a safe, non-abusive, school experience? I certainly would have. Would you not rather girls (and boys) in school today have a better experience than you? I would.

There are techniques teachers can use to address these kinds of behavioral problems in their classrooms. And, there are ways for schools to help prevent them in the first place. Smaller class sizes consistently reduces behavioral problems and increases success among students, for instance. I don't think it's useful to merely blame the teacher...the system as a whole is culpable (and, society as a whole is culpable on some level, if our budgetary priorities place making war over education). But, the teacher could certainly be better educated in his job and more responsive to a child who is being singled out.
I've noticed typically I agree with your views, but on this case we diverge.

I think it's reasonable to assume that when the service cannot be accessed before the accessor clicks "agree", and the accessor clicks "agree", that constitutes a valid contractual agreement. It's no more silly than mailing in a credit card application and being bound by those terms.

The fundamental attributes are present. There is a contract and you can agree to it or not. Your interaction with the company is viewing the terms the lawyers wrote and agreeing to them or leaving the website.
People can talk about how the real world is without endorsing it or thinking it should continue to be that way.

Do you understand the statement above? If not, I'll quit wasting my time.
Solar-Powered ATMs Bring Clean Water to India's Slums
Thanks, I knew about Revel and mgo.

I just forgot to say: a FRP* [0] Go equivalent of Play and that there's nothing like these upcoming Coursera courses [1] [2] for Go with examples.

[0] http://www.reactivemanifesto.org

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

[2] https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive
I see a lot of posts here simply making excuses for the teacher, proclaiming why it wasn't really his fault or responsibility. So what? The situation presented is unacceptable, and we're kidding ourselves if we think that whether the details of this particular instance are sufficiently condemning or not makes a difference as to the fact this this kind of thing goes on all the time in our high schools. It's not okay. This woman at least made an effort to do something about it.
Why does it animate counter-clockwise when I click from San Francisco to London?
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. If you want to be the anything of the internet, other than laughing stock, then at least make your page function without javascript.
Media as Critical Infrastructure?
Your startup might not be a good fit for you, culturally or otherwise. You need to sit down and analyse what, specifically, you don't like about working at A. How will you find a job that you like if you haven't qualified/quantified what in your current job you don't like?
Sorry:)

Not planning to have database distributed all over the globe and even if I had to distribute the data I would do this on application level with tools like RabbitMQ.
Bullying is violence, and I wonder how you know there was no rape.
If I may ask, why?

Are you bumping into some significant performance problems, for instance?
I would say more than three years to recoup costs of buying.
Indeed, I guess it depends whether your x86 application is going to be MS Word or some new game.

It would be cool if both the ARM and the x86 cores could use the same GPU.
Accessing a quantum chip through the internet
This sounds like a great idea. Solar energy is abundant and can be easily tapped in India.
> Why is it even possible for DLLs/applications to disable ASLR by themselves

Compatibility with old apps. There is software out there in the world that relies on the address space not changing, either deliberately or due to bugs. You could argue that they shouldn't do that, but people get pissed when their stuff doesn't work with the new Windows. The most cautious thing they can do for these apps is make it opt-in. (I believe the default may be different for amd64? Not sure..)

> decision for the ... admin

I believe the policy is also a system setting, and maybe even you can override the value in the PE header this way.
Not in the US, where Java is required for the Advanced Placement exam in computer science.
Thanks for this. If I can use U-boot with Nexus 4, I will certainly investigate.
> Yes, and that is not going to change unless we privatize education.

Because poor people don't really need to learn how to read!

Yeah, go back to the glory days of the Forties. The Eighteen-Forties.
well.... China's favorite encoding is GB, which encodes ascii values as one byte and chinese characters as two bytes. It's hard to see how UTF-8 (one byte for ascii, three for characters) would beat that, on the assumption that nearly 100% of what a chinese website would want to transmit is either ascii (where UTF-8 is equivalent to GB) or chinese (where it's inferior).

How do I know GB is preferred? I'm going off of three things:

- According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB18030), software sold in China is legally required to support it.

- I was once given a chinese ebook, which I had to figure out was in GB before I could read it. (And now, I know about chardet!)

- I worked with a chinese programmer who accidentally committed files in GB, even though they were supposed to be in UTF-8.

And since the latest GB can in fact represent any unicode point, it's hard to see why it wouldn't be preferred indefinitely.
As a non-US citizen, I've been repeatedly asking this about news stories emphasizing the collection of domestic communications as the bad thing. I thought your declaration of independence say that all humans are endowed with inalienable rights...
Hexagonal Grids (2013)

http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
I was wondering why the MonoFur example was in italics, then I tried it out in Sublime - for some reason it uses the Italic version as if it is the regular version, and I haven't found a way of fixing that. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Has it? I think it's very pragmatic to want control over your hardware and the ability to repair problems or add functionality as desired. If you consider it from what is best for society as well, it's very restrictive to have hardware where the software cannot be modified.
Cool !! Is it robots.txt compliant? If not, it might be a good idea to make this available as an option/parameter.

For 'quick and dirty' tasks, wget -r can come in handy too.
Yeah, you're right. It would not match this use case.
Its primarily the team [not the product], I just don't feel that I am right fit.
The assumption with rop exploits is that the targeted library will support any arbitrary sequence needed. So far, this seems to be a generally valid assumption.
Because, as we know, the best way to get children to do anything safely -- from driving to drugs to sex, or all three at once -- is to...

... make them do it exactly how we did it. Because that's clearly superior to all this goodarned whipper-snapper fandanglin'.
LeapMotion might be the missing piece. Doesn't have haptic feedback, obviously, but it would be better than trying to type.
No, the point was comparing the binary output of the same compiler, compiled by itself, compiled by different compilers... (Yeah, I missed that the first time round, too).
European here!
Here in Germany a great deal of people are renting instead of buying houses including me and I never felt it harming.
To the contrary, I could freely relocate within the country several times in the past years without hassle.
Owning properly in my mind seems like a chain holding me down which would have been very restrictive in my early adult years.
I also see people that did buy a house and now have 3-4 hour commutes every day as their job is at a different location that their house.
Buying just seems so inflexible. Are renting conditions here in Europe that much different that in the States?
To be honest, he is right. Not only what he said is correct, but cryptography is one of those strange fields where saying "I know more than you about this and I am right" is an acceptable thing to do.
Still waiting on a replacement for my Phenom II x4 955 ... I love how they added more cores in the last 4 years, but the single threaded performance has barely grown to the benchmarks I could look up. Lets just hope their high dense library lib, and other enhancements will save speed-up their single core speed. Then they get more money.

Why am I waiting for AMD, and don't I buy an Intel? I'd like to support competition in the market.

If I'm misinformed and the new CPU's ARE faster, give me a poke.
Show HN: We're running out of accounts for Techendo this week
>> Instead, they pull away, get depressed, or drop out completely, just like they do in IT careers.

Maybe it is just me, but this part came off as particularly sexist. Is the author claiming that women respond worse to negative social pressure then men?
Mixpanel is looking for engineers to build the most advanced mobile analytics
That's too bad.

Best of luck as you move forward as a cleaning company.

The biggest issue I see with most on-demand cleaning services is that they don't do the type of cleaning I actually need done. I don't need my surfaces dusted as much as I need laundry picked up, washed, dried, and folded, and trash, like soda cans, the occasional pizza box etc. gathered up and tossed.

Basically I want an on-demand cleaning service I can call when my place is a total mess, without doing any pre-cleanup.
There is another issue:
People who are studying a PhD often work alone and develop interpersonal connections. Certainly the damange to mental and physical health are irreversible.
The causality may actually be the reverse of that I inferred from the title:

...But it is not clear if the process of having a baby may have some effect on the father.

"We know, for instance, that testosterone levels go down when men become involved fathers," said Dr Rilling.
What I really like about Source Code Pro is that it has a 'Light' version, which looks absolutely perfect on OSX with its fatty font rendering. Before this, I used to always have t acclimate between Ubuntu and OSX and Windows, but not anymore!
Worth noting that the courts are unlikely to agree with you regarding the "unlawful" nature of the restraints you find yourself in. In other words, this is a good way to escalate a bad situation to way, way worse.
Government subsidies towards student loans is a well known fact. Just like government subsidized the cost of borrowing for mortgages, so has it inculcated a perverse system of college financing. Evidence of this can be seen in the largest increase in student defaults since 1990 at around 9.1%. whereas car, mortgage and credit card default rates are around 1-4%. That is called adverse selection run by a government system that is incentivized to give out bad loans due to the profit it sees in the long term.

Colleges, in a theoretical free market might compete on cost, but in real-life they actually are competing on providing amenities and extra curriculars, not in any way associated with how well kids are educated. College prices, inflation adjusted, have gone up by 120-130% in real terms, while median family income is stagnant. Most of the increase in Net revenues in colleges is NOT spent on paying educators since their wages and teacher/student ratios have been increasing linearly. The rise is mostly attributed to budgetary items for Other Employees, coaches adminstrators etc and large infrastructure funding.
Reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003)[pdf]
Being fat is an unhealthy choice. Slanteyes and niggers are born that way and remain that way no matter how much they diet.
Holiday: time to do some in-depth reading
Don't do this. Post the link and then make a comment.
Bruce Schneier is pretty bold as well.
Sounds like an excellent way to get tazed after resisting arrest by removing handcuffs.
Yeah if you thought the beat-down you got before and after the cuffs went on was bad, you're really not going to enjoy the one you get after they come off.
Sounds like a great way to get shot in the head.

Does anyone have reliable stats for the number of people illegally held in handcuffs?

Or what the best course of action is? I suspect (in the UK) you should stay calm, and polite, and cooperative up to a point, and say nothing without a lawyer, and then sort it out afterwards (and collect some money for wrongful arrest.)
Nanomsg: Towards Full-Blown Configuration Management
Exec cancels errands, pivots to just provide cleaning
Yup. The world is full of mediocrity and failure, though :(.
Reading this, I was reminded of an article using the dos debug[1] command to bootstrap tools written from (memorized) assembly language.

Note, I can't find the actual article now - I think it may have been in one of the early issues of Phrack[2].

[1] http://www.intel-assembler.it/portale/5/Write-an-assembly-pr...

[2] http://www.phrack.org
Poor people not learning to read does not follow from having privatized education.

If in 100 years the government provided clothing, and I advocated privatizing clothing, you'd say, "Becuase poor people don't need to wear clothes!"

Where I'm from (in the US), many poor people _don't_ achieve a basically acceptable level of education, because the public schools don't ultimately serve them well for various reasons, and they drop out (or just don't learn but keep getting passed on through the grades). We're talking like high schoolers at a 5th grade reading level, for example.

So it's not like the status quo is a panacea.
Don't they use large thick plastic zipties nowadays? And why would handcuffs use the same kind of keys?
Why not just have a safe word?
If you graduated from high school more than three to five years ago, you missed it, but there's been a huge uptick in formal efforts to end bullying in the United States, and especially California.

I can't really speak to efficacy, but a formal accusation of bullying is a big deal these days.

http://www.stopbullying.gov/
To all the sarcastic commenters here, sounds like none of you have ever been unlawfully cuffed. I'm happy for you. If you or a loved one ever had been, you would be thankful that products like this exist.
exactly. this is actually where it could end up really useful for windows 8 even. run unmodified rt versions of software or the original x86. enabling it could be very interesting for the surface tablet. it would also be in theory doable for osx and ios that way.
It's very easy for bad people who are not law enforcement to purchase and/or acquire peerless cuffs.
> when is it OK for a regular font to be unclear about which character (a zero or 'O') you're looking at?

This is OK virtually 100% of the time, in that there are no circumstances where you'd be confused over which was meant. In contrast, I write 1 and l exactly the same way under most circumstances. That could be pretty annoying if, say, I was doing a geometry problem involving a line named l, since numbers frequently appear in math problems. In fact, I suspect that many other people have had that same problem, since high school geometry textbooks, while they still like to name lines l, use a cursive font for it.

It's very rare for a literary work to feature e.g. one character named Oscar and one named 0scar.
"Unlawful" to me sounds just like a marketing gimmick.
For the more stylish, white-collar, french-cuffed
arrestee (or perhaps kidnap victim):
http://www.sparrowslockpicks.com/product_p/link.htm
"Fix it later" is almost certainly the best course of action with the police. "Fix it now" (via force) is almost certainly among the worst courses of action.
This is useful as a novelty for the modern activist, but nothing more. In practical terms it would make most arrest situations far worse.

This tool only makes sense for hardcore criminals, with little to lose by running from the police, maybe some law enforcement or military application, and for activism fashionistas.

As a hacker, such a simple tool defeating handcuffs is rather cool. Are they all on a single un-keyed unlock tool, like a cheap interior house lock? I'd expect specific keys matched with specific cuffs.
Unfortunately third-party MAS apps can only add items to the menu bar, first come first served. The last item is added on the left. You have to run EasyRes before the other apps to get its menu bar item to appear first. Apple's system menu bar items appear on the right-hand side, and can be moved around using command-drag. We don't get access to that, unless we use private APIs (like iStat Menus does) but then we cannot distribute via the Mac App Store.
Bullying can be, but it isn't necessarily. Please don't trivialize real violence.
>In my experience, life gets much better after the end of high school, because in my experience, adults don't bully adults [1]. And if you are bullied, you can generally leave.

In my experience, life does get better but also one's ability to handle bullying gets better which leads to less bullying.
> I don't think this story as anything to do with sexism in IT.

I agree, but it'd be nice if it could be nipped in the bud.

> It's also possible (but we will never know) that she was bullied more because she was doing great in the course than because she was the only girl (which is still unacceptable of course).

Children are horrible to each other and will use anything. Ginger hair? Your life will be hell. Overweight? Your life will be hell. Only woman / man in the class? Your life will be hell. I agree that none of this is acceptable.
Those are incredibly interesting talking points. If you had a bi-monthly newsletter I would read it. Do you discuss languages anywhere in particular?