skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How is this still a thing?!"

Because the alternative costs $900 and doesn't fit in your pocket. Oh, I get what you're saying, I loved OneNote back when I had the old TabletPC. It's the best thing going, IMO. But I'm not spending that kind of money to run an OS I have no other use for, just to take notes. Make a $300 machine with a good digitizer that runs nothing but OneNote and I'd buy two.
I'm talking about this product here:
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/xbox-360-wireless-...

Though mine was in white.

From the page. "Xbox 360 Controller for Windows works with most Windows XP-based PCs and Xbox 360, delivering a consistent and universal gaming experience."

It comes with a wireless dongle thing you plug in to your PC. Both the controllers that come with your 360 and this controller can be swapped between your PC and your 360 on demand by pushing the resync button on the controller and on the device simultaneously.

I've never heard of a 360 controller that didn't work both with the PC dongle and the 360 itself.
Intel proves once and for all that PCs are not coming back
Reproducing an earlier comment I made on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1mn2nk/ssltls_deploy...):

If you want the short version for Apache, Nginx and OpenSSL: http://blog.ivanristic.com/2013/08/configuring-apache-nginx-...

SSLCipherSuite "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384 EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+RC4 EECDH EDH+aRSA RC4 !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !3DES !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS"

For those who don't give a shit if Windows XP / IE can establish an SSL connection with you, here's a cipher string without RC4.

SSLCipherSuite "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384 EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+RC4 EECDH EDH+aRSA RC4 !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !3DES !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS !RC4"

More details, including the configurations for SSL/TLS protocol versions, can be found at the link above.
The FBI's preference for total secrecy, in complete contrast to the law, is a very scary fact indeed. There are many things that I love about living in America - you get to be at the pinnacle of tech development, you can make a good wage, but all that is starting to pale in comparison to the Government's agenda for KGB-like activities. The USA used to be the champion of civil rights. Now it uses that image to perpetrate abuses of public freedoms that would impress the NKVD.
Mostly true now, but not historically true - until SNI [1] was rolled out widely, implementing SSL absolutely required a dedicated IP. Short story shorter, the TLS handshake happens before the Host: header exchange in HTTP; before SNI there wasn't any way for a host that responded to multiple names to identify which cert to use for the handshake.

[1] SNI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Ah, they got a lot of their ideas from us, and honestly, we got ideas from them, too. (Alcubierre's "warp drive" metric in general relativity was evidently inspired by Star Trek, for instance. And I seem to recall that Arthur C. Clarke invented the concepts of geosynchronous communication satellites and the "gravitational slingshot" maneuver that's routine in spaceflight today.) The cross-pollination between science and sci-fi is something that I quite enjoy.
Ivan has consistently provided excellent resources for configuring SSL. The docs and analyzer have made it so much easier to get people to take the steps to fix their SSL setup.

He also has a book that is coming out and will presumably be excellent, but you can get the OpenSSL Cookbook now for free: https://www.feistyduck.com/books/bulletproof-ssl-tls-and-pki...

(Not affiliated with Ivan or the book, just a fan)
Universe May Be Curved, Not Flat
Congratulations! How VLC is currently backed financially? how much extra money do you need for the project?
> Do you want the US to invade Qatar?

I don't want anyone to invade anywhere.
They're smelling hydrogen sulfide, which is a volcanic gas also found in combination with raw natural gas. It's the "rotten egg" smell.
Did Amazon Just Solve the Two Eternal Problems With Tech Support?
I'm a tiny bit concerned.

Can I download the OS to try it out?
You will be able to download it (including the source code, if you're into that) but not yet.

Open source os. Hardware partners for devices. Sound familiar? >_> android.

So, when I buy a samsung steambox it's going to come with its own BallsWiz UI customization as they try to differentiate isnt it?
At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was dead
My first thought when I saw the slides, especially the "cross-platform part", was "yay, no more DirectX!!!". This might mean that we're finally going to have AAA games on Linux too (DirectX was a big obstacle to that).
I was actually throwing you a bone. By drawing your attention to institutions that were obviously bad (and which were duely changed) I gave you a clue about how you could have been smarter in your response.

Which is not to say that copyright represent injustices similar to either of these institutions. But at least you'd be saying something only halfway stupid instead of something completely stupid.
We receive only donation through paypal, that pay for the server, and going to conferences...

The rest is volunteer work :)

If you have a million or two to spare, we could do something though :)

To be honest, we need code more than money.
I'm sure Feynman had a beautiful mind and we should rebel in his thoughts. However, let's not mistake that for science.

... What? Feynman wasn't advocating this theory at all.

"But, Professor", I said, "there aren't as many positrons as electrons." "Well, maybe they are hidden in the protons or something", he said.

I would be shocked if there's a single thing Feynman has ever said in a scientific context that you could reasonably say, "Let's not mistake that for science."
I think its horrible an example of a decent semantic class would be div class=loud leave css inheritance up to less mixins.
Is there a term for these types of countries that are not very developed, but have a lot of wealth (through oil, or other means)?
Smartphone With Curved Screen Is On Its Way
Feynman's Nobel Lecture (1965)
The latter. The iPhone 4S was the first model with BTLE hardware.
Why do you have both "RC4" and "!RC4" in the second string?
Wait... _may_ be? I thought we established that spacetime _must_ be curved.
A lot of people involved with politics are unsavory characters. How is turning down their money going to help the dying in India? All it does is puff up someone's self-righteousness.
Hmm,

Over the last forty years, a Moore's Law of processor speed, transistors per chip, information storage and I assume other things has operated [1].

Moore's Law of processor speed has definitely broken down in the last ten years and I assume that this research is attempting to address this fundamental limitation. I believe Moore's Law of transistors per chip is still here but that without increasing speed, this tendency is nowhere as useful (we don't want a whole lot of slow cores, we want a few fast cores).

Moore's Law of data storage is still here but it's also not as useful without a similar exponential increase in system data throughput [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throughput
the real world example using it is priceless.
what are you using this for? how did you get started?
Meet Gary Webb, the Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist who committed suicide in the wake of the public tar-and-feathering (and financial impoverishment) he endured as his reward for bringing Ross and his exploits to the attention of our great nation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
Real-Time Sensor Double Checks What's in Your IV Drip
It seems to open faster on Windows, too.
ESA Developing Rocket-Hopping Mars Robot
I recently got back into regularly riding (I now regularly commute to/from work on my motorcycle) and I completely agree. However, I absolutely would love to have a HUD, but not anything people keep thinking you need a HUD for. A decent GPS unit + bluetooth or smartphone + bluetooth is good enough for those "I got lost, now need to get home" rides. I don't want any sort of communication provided on it. I want a real HUD, giving me real time, easily interpreted information about what's going on around me.

I envision something closer to aircraft/fighter aircraft HUDs:

* Roll indicator
* "target indicator" (in this case, any non-stationary object). Can be as simple as a diamond shape near the center of the detected target
* Visual indicator of direction/speed of the target (something like a line from the diamond as a 3d projection for where the diamond will be in 4 seconds based on current speed/direction)
* Similar direction/speed indicator for you

If done with thin lines (like all the aircraft huds), all the same color, it presents a substantial amount of useful information in an easy to process/digest way without being overly distracting. But, definitely not an easy problem to solve, it's just what I'd like to see.

All of the HUDs I see coming out (Google glass included) seem geared towards providing you information to distract you from what you're doing, not enhance it, which is the opposite of what I want.
In digital oceans defense, the right answer if you need an additional ip for an Ssl secured website is to pay $5/month for it and get a free 512m/20G droplet for it. If the price difference between Linode's $1/month extra ip address and DO's $5/month extra vps is a sticking point - you're not indicating that you care very much about privacy/security.

(There may well be other reasons spinning up additional vpses for each SSL secured site doesn't suit you, but a few dollars a month price difference is surely only being used as an excuse for inaction rather that a show-stopping financial burden - at least for anyone in the top 99% of HN's demographic…)
I think it's important to have a standard API going forward rather than porting to ten different APIs. We'd be more than happy to support OpenRC if you implemented the logind APIs we require.
I've often wondered why Apple doesn't have an "iPad Pro" that includes a Wacom or Wacom-like stylus system. I know that Apple is very much "no stylus" and I'm positive that was the right move for most uses, but there seems to be an obvious market here for creative types that need a real stylus (as in tip angle detection, pressure sensitivity, on-stylus buttons, etc).
x = sha256(); x.update(str(0xcafebabe)); exec("[x.update(x.hexdigest()) for _ in range(int(0xcafebabe * 1.1598231680392955e-07))]"); x.hexdigest()[50:54]
What about the [Gumby Framework]? Doesn't that count as a third with traction already?

[Gumby Framework]: http://gumbyframework.com/
I too have switched from GNOME 2 to Xfce, since it suits _my_ needs better than GNOME 3 does.

I'm not sure if the hypothesis is correct, but it seems that GNOME 3 is targeting the desktop market that Apple has so well-cornered and optimized. There are things that do not logically make sense, to me, within Mac OS X and subsequently GNOME 3, but just the same they are included in the desktop GNU/Linux initiative.

I'm not entirely convinced that this is the path forward.
We're always trying to work better with graphics drivers, and I personally wrote a bunch of of patches this cycle to help with performance. If you're still having issues, please file bugs with the radeon driver and with us.

I also sit twenty feet from the the lead radeon driver developer, so I'll ask him tomorrow if there's anything we can do to help him out.
We use opentok a lot and are developing a system for it. My biggest issue with it is reliability and incorrect behavior on the opaque opentok side of the libraries. iOS support on the iphones seems unreliable right now and has a bunch of unspecified silent errors when you init a subscriber from a new stream. Even with the javascript libraries we sometimes find ourselves in situations where the best solution is to programmatically refresh the page because the opentok errors become unrecoverable. The javascript side is better though. However, if tokbox.com is blocked by the firewall right now it does not seem to attempt to route around it.

Right now I think opentok is still one of the best webrtc offerings in the market but that is mainly because of the mobile support race which they seem to be losing ground on.

My one big request is to make the ios sdk less opaque. Just give us the source of the ios sdk. If it is going to be broken and have a bunch of issues that sucks but as long as I can start digging around into the sdk and fix my issues I care much less. As it stands right now it does not support iphone 4 and below and currently it is not showing the subscriber video on an iphone 5 even though the code works perfectly on ipads. Since the sdk is a blackbox and is the source of the silent errors all I can do is throw a bunch of weird hacky try/catch solutions around it.

TL;DR - Release the sourcecode for the ios sdk because it is buggy and the developers who use it need to route around the bugs.
If I had to guess, the market isn't large enough nor or are the margins high enough for Apple to actually care. Aside from the Mac Pro, Apple seems allergic to creating products that only serve a single niche.
Yeah, sorry about that. We really should have handled that differently.
Been using VLC for as long as I can remember, but recently I have had loads of audio/video sync problems with VLC. Really annoying since I don't want to use any other media player, and I've had to. Will this release do better?
I have stared at you're work for over 150 days straight.

Around 8 TB~ of content, estimating about: 666 KB/s.

It's probably higher then that. I just wanted to thank you.
That's incredible, I had no idea! I always thought the book was based on the book.
I seem to recall that Intel paid for that right with the SSE2 instruction set. Do you suggest something similar would have to happen? Please refrain from sarcasm as it adds little to a discussion and had the effect of insulting the previous poster.
HUDs use light focused at infinity so the point of focus for your eyes doesn't change when looking at the display (it "hovers" mid-air). Holographic sites, HUDs, Google Glass all use the same principle, with varying ways of getting the light onto your eye (curved mirror that changes the focal point of the light properly that reflects on a piece of glass, a piece of glass curved to focus the light properly when it's projected on it and a lens on the projector to focus the light properly are the 3 primary approaches).
You're probably right. In that case, I wonder if Wacom could make some kind of a "frame" around the iPad that can triangulate a stylus and receive pressure data, etc?
So, just to clarify, GitHub is releasing the preview for an API for the Releases feature that they released last summer.
There is nothing wrong with a 'whole lot of slow cores.' In fact, it is essentially how the human brain works.
Cool content, or?
That is true too :) But the increase should be smaller than on OSX.
I mean, don't quit your day job or anything but if this type of thing interests you, check out Rick Ross and some other major drug dealers in this documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxRVhgbVN9o
These Magnetic Nanobots Could Carry Drugs Into Your Brain
>SemiAccurate

Says it all...

/thread
What happens if you add lots of wind and solar power to the grid?
A few reasons to avoid StartSSL
Almost all of these benchmarks are very poor-- they're microbenchmarks, and many focus on numeric performance. HHVM is focused on executing giant, complex web apps (Facebook) quickly-- not executing code like `for ($i = 0; $i < $runCount; ++$i);` quickly.
I use a PS3 controller with my PC, using the Motioninjoy drivers. Better than having to buy an wireless receiver for my wireless XBox 360. The PS3 wireless controller actually sends control commands over the USB port if it's connected, whereas the wireless XBox 360 controller does not.
Flat design is all the rage these days. So, perhaps flat intelligent design?
This seems rather contrary to the heterogenous computation interest group that AMD was involved in. http://hsafoundation.com/
Why Entrepreneurs Need Charisma and Six Easy Ways to Project it
The just add certain amount of CNT transistors together. There is nothing worth for nature...
I think a paper of Graphene transistors "computer" will publish on nature recently....
This is Bluetooth LE, which is a standard.
I'm sorry, but this is is the biggest list of strawman arguments I've ever seen. People dislike CrossFit because elite CrossFitters are perfect physical human specimens and they're jealous? Huh?

Here are the real concerns with CrossFit:

1. Incredibly poor quality control across affiliates means that a lot of instructors are not well trained in teaching how to do mechanically complex lifts to participants that have never done them before.

2. Which leads directly to increased rates of injury amongst participants trying to perform too many reps of the same exercise using too much weight causing their form to break down because their instructors are not paying attention to them. The culture of CrossFit exacerbates this by encouraging you to push yourself beyond your limits...and potentially beyond what is safe.

Now, if you luck out and end up at a good CrossFit gym with good instructors you might not ever experience these problems. But that's the issue. How do you, as an untrained athlete that has never done a power clean before, determine whether or not the instructors at your gym know how to properly teach them?
"Hey Cool challenge dude, any relation to AI? Didn't think so..."

or

"You too could solve this problem, a get a Phd and joined that overcrowded labor market"

Just consider that if you have M categories and you have N Phd students who can each four years to create one clever algorithms to distinguish category i from category j, then you need M(M-1) Phd students for a complete classification system - which when you consider many, many categories there are in human knowledge, works out to being more than can even be pumped out by excess student loans today and exponentially more than can find tenured positions.

IE, once you'd add to the "deep but not wide" algorithms of computer vision, And twenty years ago, we might have believed this adding-to would lead to something broad and general but it's been twenty years and the trend is becoming clear.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6401026
It's mainly because the raster images are going to be more accurate than @font-face as they'll display properly amongst all browsers and OSes just like a PDF would.

edit: Also the most obvious reason (which I forgot to mention) is that they are type specimens and type specimens are (AFAIK) always done in raster images.
Thanks for the link. I've sent an email to our $work hosting provider with some ideas to upgrade our TLS support, among other things.
Damn, ".. Webb was found dead from two gunshot wounds to the head, which the coroner's office judged a suicide." Two self inflicted shots to the head sounds intense.
Apple is making a bet on NFC like they did on Blu-Ray. Nothing has proven that NFC is going to change the world one device at a time yet, just ike so many computers still don't come with Blu-Ray drives. Besides, every iPhone and iPad currently for sale support BTLE, whereas there are only a handful of devices that come with an NFC chip. Why wouldn't Apple leverage a technology that all of their current devices support?
I wouldn't be surprised if they were required to keep the info for auditing purposes to report on how many FOIA requests they get, if they responded in a timely manner, etc. If they dumped that info, I can see another group of people all pissed off that the government is hiding the stats about the whole FOIA request/response procedure. It really doesn't matter what the government does... there is always going to be some group of people that will complain about it.
I'm all for semantics.

http://betterfrontend.com/ is what I started a while ago but haven't been able to put time into.

This is not a semantic framework. Just because the class names are more defined, they're still the same classes for the same purpose.

A CSS framework that uses classes for decoration will never be a semantic framework.

In order to achieve true semantics you have to have a complete separation of presentation from markup.

Nonetheless, I like this framework, specifically the UI modules that are in place. We need a standardized set of modules like rating, and so on. Good job.
Steve Jobs said PCs are trucks of our time. Companies make trucks, some people use trucks but not everyone needs a truck.

I hope this trend do not lead to slowness in PC innovation.
It's been studied and pointed out that a green-bar does nothing to conversions and sales.

I'm not debating this point, but if you have some citations for this assertion, I'd love to read them. I've always heard and read otherwise.

I just completed a multiple-month-long process of converting a dynamic-domain application to support SSL-friendly URIs and implementing SSL on it's web servers based entirely on the concept of adding a green bar for boosting conversions (data isn't quite in yet to verify we did anything). I would really hope that I didn't waste multiple iterations on a pipe dream.
"How to make money selling drugs" also has a bit on Rick Ross: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276962/
How CMOS Transistors Work, Part 1
I would say that when you reach the point of being able to accurately represent final CG in realtime, a huge number of possibilities open up :)
Did they release it with select to copy disabled? Can't find anything about it on the site.
No words can replace mathematical structures without carrying normative baggage.
Money on the Mind [video]
What he meant was that Google Analytics will correctly identify visitors coming from a link on a SSL secured site (for example https://news.ycombinator.com ) if your set is SSL secured as well - all browsers strip the referrer header if they're going from an https page to an http one.

Google search queries/keywords are a different issue - Google is intentionally making it impossible to see most of those (presumably, they've got a plan about how to sell that information to marketers using Adwords…)
Similarly it means that a group of consumers could work together and create a great build to use (eg Cyanogen Mod).

As long as we can install our own OS it'll be fine.
They'd probably be more inclined to find out if the market response to Surface had been something better than tepid.
It sure feels heavy compared to CDE or twm either, but that's hardly fair.
That's dumb.

If you're going to install a new root certificate on all your client machines, you could just as well generate your own CA inside your organization and do the same thing without trusting some third party.

(Edit: I think I've been trolled.)