skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The impressive thing is that this happened with Netflix Canada's selection being a joke compared to that of the U.S. version of Netflix. This doesn't just show that people will choose the legal path to obtaining the content they want if it's available. It actually shows that a significant number of people will limit their choices to what is legally available!

Personally, I was hoping Netflix Canada would have a tougher time until they bother to improve their selection just a tad.
> SHA-3-512 truncated to 20 bytes of output

At this point, your fellow software developers are pointing and laughing at you for "inventing your own cryptography". Your function doesn't come standard in any library. Every single 3rd party audit of your architecture raises a red flag about this and you have trouble finding any official documentation to back you up. (Ask me how I know about this :-)

I'm not trying to say you don't know what you're doing or that that wouldn't meet the security properties, I'm just saying that the whole point of NIST defining these standards is to save us from having to come up with this kind of thing on our own.

NIST actually does define truncated versions of SHA-2, e.g., SHA-2-512/256. But they specify a different IV so that the functions are distinct.

> some confusion among people who do understand the current hash security situation

Right. I totally agree that most of the time we should assume that collision resistance is the relevant figure, whether we can see the attack or not. But still, SHA-2-256 has has 256 bits of preimage resistance just like a 256 bit random oracle. But SHA-3-256 will have 128? Can we use SHA-3-256 to derive an AES-256 key?
The way a solar cell works is it absorbs only at one single frequency.

Photons below that frequency are lost and not used at all. If the photon is above the frequency then the energy up to that cutoff is used and the rest is wasted (either emitted as a new photon or as heat).

Meaning if you set the target frequency at infrared then you loose all the additional energy UV has over infrared.

By making multiple layers (junctions) you waste less energy, the more the better (in theory anyway).
Less space means less installation costs, and it means less raw materials.

Silicon is OK, but some of the other stuff doesn't exist on earth in sufficient quantity to use solar energy in quantity.
Afaik the Android IDE is the official Android IDE now and supported by google, thats probably why its free!
We hear you and believe you are correct about the problems in Brazil. However, its not really the point of this discussion... why I think you're receiving some negativity.
It probably is a violation. I'd like her and her staff to state exactly what laws, or what principles and precedents that imply a law, were violated, and then take that charge to the appropriate court. Or introduce a resolution to the UN, to force the US the embarrassment of blocking it.
The parent commenter is correct: This is specific to speech, and not in general. You also have not explained how your argument invalidates President Dilma's UN speech.

(side note: you don't need to be arrogant like that to defend your point. The parent commenter was respectful in his/her response)
Apologies for a slight tangent, but if you really need SQL's structure and you can't shard the data to avoid scaling issues, please let me know what kind of system you are running because it IMHO has to be pretty weird.

Even in these cases, there are always other potential options, for instance using query playback with a combination less frequent FS or blockstore layer provided snapshot functionality.

In practice, in my own experience, generally when people get an SQL based database to a huge size the often greater issue is that someone has a huge mess of bad application code relying completely on the current database configuration that is not time or cost-feasible to modify.
Looks like https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/specifications.html has been updated as well.
imo you are making huge tradeoffs for very little benefit, as there is no such thing as a 100% secure system anyway.
But still its your decision, to each their own.
Very cool! I've been a long time Alfred user but hadn't upgraded to the power pack before. This finally convinced me. I just put together my first workflow (ip details - info at http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/3157-ipinfo-workflow-ip-add...). It's really simple to do and very flexible. I can see myself building more and more of these and them becoming a regular part of my "workflow".
The article says 7 milliseconds, so this title is wrong.
Not to my taste — looks really stodgy and conservative to me.
Of course everybody would like their team to be all "A" level players. But unless you work at an elite startup with a tiny team and buckets of cash - you have to learn how to build a team from players of all levels. An all "A" team is not realistic for most companies, and even if you did assemble one they won't all stay forever. If you have a good process and thoughtful management then you can get great results from "B" level players. I see that as a great challenge as a manager - to get the most out of the whole team.
Thanks! That's a cool new feature.
I'll throw this out there: what if the clock in Chicago was just 5ms slower than the one in NYC. The logs would show the transactions happened at the same time, but they didn't.

The NYSE mandates that business clocks never drift more than 1s from the atomic clock [1]. What is the resolution guaranteed between the two clocks being compared? After all, it's impossible to guarantee perfect synchronization of two clocks at any distance (bounded by the speed of light and the drift rate of the clocks) [2].

The only retort I can think of is why do the other players react at the proper time.

[1] http://www.nyse.com/nysenotices/nyse/rule-changes/detail;jse...

[2] Cristian, F. (1989), "Probabilistic clock synchronization", Distributed Computing (Springer) 3 (3): 146–158
The fact that you don't see the connection does not mean that the connection doesn't exist. It just means you have no idea how the business of art actually works.

Indeed, it seems like you don't know much about art itself. When you note that artists used to rely on patrons for money (for materials and living) you forget that patrons also told the artists what to create. This meant lots of Biblical scenes for the Church, plenty of portraits, sculpture, and landscape paintings for the Aristocracy, and not much else.

One of the most important cultural developments in the history of cultural developments has been the emergence of artists a autonomous creators. This is what elevated their roles from those of highly skilled craftsmen to leading intellectuals, pushing the boundaries of human perception. Culturally and creatively, we started to live in a totally different universe once the artistic class freed itself from the very narrow, conservative, and self-glorifying interests of the patron class.

I'm sorry, but the idea of "going back" seems like going back to government by heridetaty monarchy, alchemy, candle-lit everything, and anastesia-free dentistry. It's not what most people want.

Copyright leaves a lot to be desired, and it has plenty of room for improvement. Even so, it is vastly preferable to the alternative.
No, I never said only foreigners can complain. And I am far from nationalist: Like I said, I am normally the first one to criticize Brazil, and I was accused of being "unpatriotic" on every country I lived, so I am pretty sure my views are balanced.

I am just explaining to the (mostly foreigner) audience that your comments are connected to the local Brazilian politics, but this is not the point of this discussion.
Apple Swipe Keyboard Patent Shows Cupertino Knows Typing On iOS Is “Tedious”
Unlimited 2 day shipping for $79 per year.
I wouldn't hold my breath for a backlash.

Among the western nations, at least, passengers claim to ant all sorts of amenities -- checked bags, in-flight food and entertainment, etc. -- but all of those claims go out the window when presented with the price tag, which is ultimately the driving force.

The logical result of that is unbundling of all of those bits, such that you can get a bare-bones "just fly me from A to B" fare and then anything on top of it is charged as a separate fee. And that is overwhelmingly the fare people choose, because it's the cheapest one.

There are some airlines bucking that trend, many in Asia or the middle east, and one or two in the western world. But mostly the way they do that is by distinguishing themselves to international business travelers, who are far less price-sensitive than vacationing families.
One more example of people who don't actually make anything, just making money off other people's work.

They allow this game of "being first" by milliseconds to make someone more money. Doesn't have to be that way, but they let it happen, so it says a lot about their mentality.
Not really necessary - more than 90% users upgrade anyway.
Is it just me or does the announcement time seem strangely late at night? Wouldn't a company normally announce something like this during business hours, assuming a US target market?
Webstorm will be open-source any minute now...
Steve Ballmer inspired programming langauge
I think in most cases the average user will only have one account, with their real name attached.
>> Seriously, whitelist only the domains necessary for the job

Ok. How _exactly_ do you plan to whitelist the domain of every search result for every query of the form "How do I do [technical task] in [technology/language]"?

I can find at least seven of these in my browsing history for the past week that aren't SO. Not being able to access them would have added hours to the time required to finish the tasks they were related to.
How Larry Ellison revolutionized sailing
Flexie provides a polyfill for the outdated syntax `display:box`. The library's creator (@doctyper) is working on a new polyfill for the new syntax `display:flex`, but as far as I know it's still in development.

https://github.com/doctyper/reflexie
Congrats to the dev team(s)!
No[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
But I'm sure software had existed a long time before you started. The GP's point was that being a "Senior web engineer," when the web itself has only been around a few years is impressive.
I'd argue that successful angel investment is based almost entirely on a.) and negligibly on b.). These are not the public markets, where a startup has been growing for 5-10 years and largely tapped out its markets. These are very speculative markets where the vast majority of startups end up earning nothing and the one big hit can represent a 1000x return on your investment. Valuation at that stage is the difference between ponying up $1000 and ponying up $2000 for a seat at the table.

When you're investing at $100M rather than $8M the equation changes substantially. That's where we were during the last dot-com boom; we're pretty far from there, unless you're a Facebook investor.
Rockstar: Release GTA V on PC (Petition)
Thanks this is working for me.

I just switched b/p (since I use p w/ ctrl-p as a fuzzy finder to list all files).
Nothing in the music space is more innovative than beamz by Flo Rida http://vimeo.com/72153180

Uargh...
I'm excited for the Surface 2 and will likely get one, but I'm not sure the idea of creating several use-case specific keyboards beyond a standard QWERTY makes any sense. Isn't the whole point of having a dynamic touch screens to enable ANY use case?

It also appears to be connecting via a proprietary connector rather than Bluetooth or USB which means it likely won't work with any hybrids/tablets from other vendors.
As mentioned above, these aircraft are actually less stable at slower speeds, and tend towards stable at higher speeds, so flying a jet capable of great speeds is much easier at those speeds as opposed to reduced speeds. With beyond-line-of-sight secure datalinks, there is really no reason to having manned aircraft in the vicinity. Live-fire exercises with modified, unmanned aircraft (which are not uncommon at present) as targets are not controlled from manned aircraft, but from the ground, and not necessarily from nearby.
New Approaches to Teaching Fractions
Think about it this way: the blade is a second control surface that allows you to make use of the full screen for data or other touch UI.

In audio mixing it's common to have an enormous digital mixing board that's linked up to the mixing software, so that you can fill most (or all) of the screen with the data you're actually working on. Some of those boards have literally dozens of channels with individual sliders, buttons, etc.
This market is becoming more and more impressive by each financial quarter. I know people -- the older folk who don't know how to computer -- who have less powerful desktops. Given they're significantly older, it continues to amaze me that we can continue to not only engineer this kind of technology, but pack it into such a small form-factor. I always look at my 64GB MicroSD card and say "holy shit"

I am aware that you can't directly compare desktop hardware and tablet hardware. But I do think we're only a few years away from being able to do that.
So... this brings up a question... are trading orders 100% anonymous?
Ah, yeah, true innovation alright; an application specific touch-UI? Dang, tablets will never be able to offer that XD.

In the comments: "Apple has a patent for a similar device. However their touch sensitive keyboard is also an e-ink type display so each software you run can have it's own custom keyboard/input tablet displayed without having to purchase or install anything extra. That will be a game changer and make the MS device look primitive."

Man oh man. There's no point in putting the '$' in M$ anymore. What a great day for the rest of the world.

I'm waiting for the infospasm posts self-assuredly advising start-ups leave room for your product to pivot by not implementing the UI in static hardware and 'How Flaviboard Increased Our Revenue by 30000% by Getting Hardware Out of the Iteration Cycle'
I hate to say it: but when Apple comes out with such covers for the iPad during their fall iPad event, it will all suddenly be innovative and revolutionary. Some people will point out that the Surface has it, but then people will say 'but Apple added this feature that makes it work'.

Why can't we see it for what it is? Microsoft was the first (I think) to use an extremely very flat keyboard that doubles as a screen cover on a tablet. While not revolutionary, it is a good step forward, as good as Apple's introduction of covers that double as a stand. Now they added something fun and playful to the range. Maybe professional musicians won't use it, but it adds a lot of fun to the device for amateurs. And if they open up the 'platform' and provide an SDK, it may lead to interesting new covers.

They are trying nice new things (touch covers, hybrid devices), pushing tablets in new directions. In fact, my next tablet may well be a Surface Pro, after being an iPad user before it was introduced in The Netherlands.
Product line is too confusing as per kindle, seems a bit contrived. For example 8.9 version retina-like display resolution yearns to be model "hey we can do iPad too".

I can see these things being sold at Walmarts/K-marts etc to family dads that often go out of town by car on frequent business trips. I'd totally replace pay per view with this thing.

Material quality looks sketchy too. That garish reflective plastic at the back at the top of the beveled edge. I think the design looked very cool on paper...

I love my kindle paperwhite, ipad and iphone5.

Kindle fire can be another device I can toss into my backpack when travelling but I am already thinking of replacing my iPad with iPad mini and get rid of to reduce overall travel weight.

my 2c.
When a “Ridiculous” Argument Is Correct
Sounds like poor contract negotiation more than anything. Fixed quotes are very tricky things to navigate. I simply don't go there. If the client insists then I try to negotiate a fixed budget, then when the budget us running dry they can extend the budget or reduce scope. If they don't agree to that I walk.
Not only in the US, unfortunately.
I've even seen company creating other kind of superlative, when lead, senior, manager or director was taken.
What about "International Senior Art Director" (even if your job is basic graphic designer in a 25 persons company) ?
Hot damn, you blew me away:

Since 30 Oct, 2012, @alfredapp has been used 3,492 times. Average 10.5 times per day
The shittiest project I ever worked on was a php project that was converted from another language (I don't remember which one). This doesn't sound bad, except they used software to automatically convert it. The PHP code had no comments, minimal white space, and the variables were all hex. My job was to fix bugs.

I worked there for about a week before I quit in frustration.
Alton's Rules for Coding in a Real Language (Such as C) …
A reporter could also break the rules and stealthily send a text message.
Read some comments here and feeling bad that I spent the past ~6 years using eclipse.
I just released Flying Focus 1.2 that doesn’t do anything on mouse interactions.
I Design, I Refactor
Also, people who accept but turn down/off the permissions.
> It may prove popular with professional musicians and amateurs alike.

Yeah, operating hardware without any tactile feedback in very dark environments sure sounds nice.
I dont get why varnish should be any faster than any other raw static http server.
Ok a bit faster i can understand. But like 300 times faster than without it that i don't get.
Chasing Ice - Documentary
I learned this paranoia while running Windows XP through the 2000's and I can tell you it served me very well. While others were rebuilding their systems I was working.

I realize Linux in 2013 is not so dangerous, but take a gander at recent java security bulletins when you get a chance anyway. Steve Gibson recommends not even having it installed if you don't need it (I don't) and that's good enough for me.

Also, I think you may be overselling the trade-offs. I've not been inconvenienced in the last decade of avoiding java, as far as I can remember. On occasion I will install random things into a VM for temporary experimentation.
All the sources except piracy, for movies and TV (and books too), are missing features you can use with other software if you have DRM free media. For example, I have amazon video already paid for and never ever use it because of this -- missing features that VLC has.

IMO they should try achieving feature parity -- or better, actually innovate -- to cut down piracy further. (Yes the paid stuff is arguably ahead on certain features like convenience. But not others.)
While nearly 45% is impressive, I'd rather see "cheap as paint" solar cells at 10% efficiency that are football fields in size.

Put them on every commercial rooftop and all that free space we have out west in the USA.
WSJ buries the lede deep on AIG’s CEO
The tricky part is often convincing a client that pre-planning is a necessary part if the process and, though it is billable time, will ultimately save money. Many client don't appreciate that programming is not just writing code.

Also you can wind up meeting and planning yourself right out of a gig sometimes - which is fine if the gig wasn't truly necessary. But can be bad for your business if you spend hundreds of hours doing this for no compensation. This is a real situation that happens - you get a client that wants a big project and after many meeting and calls you determine that a Wordpress install will suit them perfectly. Their network guy does the install and for all the money you saved them your reward is that you don't get the gig!
Containers That Never Change
You're thinking of read-write magneto-optical drives (like the NeXT cube had), but the rest of the thread is discussing optical drives (CDs and DVDs).
I don't know what happened to my earlier stats, maybe v1's stats was lost. But I think I was consistently 200+ or 300+ a day once I gotten used to using it. Works incredibly well as a task switcher once you map a few key single characters to apps (like v/vMacVim, x/Xcode, i/iTerm, s/Safari, c/Chrome etc).
8.9 version retina-like display resolution yearns to be model "hey we can do iPad too"

Yeah! It sure is annoying when everybody realizes high-res screens are good, and put them in lots of different devices! I hate it when that happens, don't you?
I think this is a sentiment we don't see enough around here.
Boy, do I feel with you. But look on the bright side of it, we are not alone, are we? ;-)
I don't understand what you see as a fundamental problem with PV. Prices for panels are dropping like a stone and efficiency is increasing. What's the fundamental problem?
No way they are turning a profit on a $139 tablet... I wonder if I can use it for a Rasberry Pi display?
They are going to release it on PC.

There were debug logs left on the ps3 version of the game that said so.

Just google it
Looking for a "Few Good Developers" - to Become Community Members at Large
Not that surprising, really. Ever since the new Nexus 7 was introduced, the Kindle Fire has looked weak. This, at least, brings the Fire on par with the 2013 N7.

The real surprise, though, is the dog that didn't bark. Where's Apple in all this? The iPad Mini is still basically a shrunk down iPad 2. Do they still think that the 7" tablet market isn't worth pursuing wholeheartedly?
Honest question. Not just for knappador, but anyone else who wants to chime in. How do you all feel about a single piece of glass vs. actual buttons?

Personally, I tend to prefer real buttons more often than not. I'm fine with tapping and swiping when I'm just browsing stuff (browser, certain apps, etc) on my phone or tablet.

But I feel like if there's 9 or more buttons grouped closely together (maybe less), an interface where I can feel the boundaries between buttons without activating them and get a physical response when pressing them is just better.

I wonder how many people feel just a touch interface is on par or better. I know I've never really gotten used to typing on my tablet like I do my keyboard. But maybe I just need to spend more time with it.
Bogotá Is Becoming South America's Premier Tech Hub
You've posted this link a few times now. Maybe you'd get a better response if you posted more info instead of dumping people onto the login page?

Maybe some blog posts about the server infrastructure, overall design or creating random content? Those are some things I'd like to read about.
AngularJS, Redis, Rails, ElasticSearch :)
So technically... The Netherlands could still decide not to buy the Joint Strike Fighter, Rip some stouf out of our 'old' F16's, retrofit it with a souped-up PS4 and it can still go for miles and miles?

That's going to get interesting in Dutch parliament...
You are correct. Prepared statements without connection pooling is moot
In the real world I would like to believe every parent pays attention to what their kid does.
XCode is not cross-platform!
It doesn't integrate with other build systems: autotools, CMake, premake, Scons, etc.
Amen, brother :) !
Why not try QtCreator then? It comes with GCC 4.8.1 for MinGW on windows if I'm not mistaken.
> A sovereign nation can never establish itself to the detriment of another sovereign nation. The right to safety of citizens of one country can never be guaranteed by violating fundamental human rights of citizens of another country.

Now just apply that logic to individuals, and you'll be called a nutjob libertarian.