skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do this app-side by checking the version versus what's in the app store via itunes webservice. For example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2221436/can-i-force-an-ip...

I don't recommend that unless you have a mission critical bug, and even then I'd discourage it. A user is in charge of his/her device. I version APIs on the backend and then simply push out updates like any other software. If they choose not to use it then not much I can do. Eventually I'll turn the older API versions off and they'll either have to upgrade or stop using the app.
The greatest potential is ofcourse having a cloud service where people can store their disc and hibernated emulated RAM and then switching to another browser on another machine and continue working like nothing happened.
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-App...

You're welcome.
So there is a possible future in which the President, his advisers, and others in the executive branch throw out so many reports and briefs as "useless, not worth the paper to print" the stench of ineptitude so overwhelms the NSA brass that they spontaneously decide, themselves, to stop building in Utah and not collect all the data?

Yeah, right. Pull the other one. Next you'll tell me an incumbent chief of police has realized the folly of The Drug War.
Have you ever talked with a young teacher? Ask them how they're doing on paying back those student loans.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=quantitative+computing
I recently read "Intuition Pumps And Other Tools For Thinking" by Dennett (http://www.amazon.com/Intuition-Pumps-Other-Tools-Thinking/d...). I think you are not giving him enough credit. He actually spends most of the book arguing against popular ideas in philosophy that either have no support in science, or have counter-evidence in science. I found the book was written clearly, with very little philosophical jargon.
I personally like the new flat designs a lot better.
Core Functions in Depth | Clojure for the Brave and True
Not sure why but from just reading the title I was expecting a new way to view diffs of normal files in some funky 3D mode
Yeah - looks like you can unplug the Lightning cable and plug in a USB cable
Finland also doesn't have any homework for its students. There's a very nice Infographic which offers an in-depth look about Finland's educational system.

http://www.onlineclasses.org/resources/no-homework-in-finlan...

Edit - It seems they have "less HW" and not "no HW".
Facebook’s Cassandra paper, annotated and compared to Apache Cassandra 2.0
Show HN: A simple poll app with real-time results
Hi!<p>This is a web app I made over the past few days as a little project to learn more about AngularJS and Firebase. The app lets you create a simple poll in a matter of seconds and without the need to register. The votes and comments are updated in real time.<p>I was impressed by Angular's features and its relative ease of learning. Thanks to Firebase I could concentrate on writing client-side code only; there is no back-end to this app. This means I can host it for free through GitHub Pages.<p>Your opinions and suggestions are most welcome. What do you like? What would you change? Any feature requests? You can have a look at the code here: https://github.com/dbbert/personal/tree/gh-pages. Coding style advice is also much appreciated.<p>Thanks!<p>Bert
Kerala state to allocate 1% of annual budget for youth entrepreneurship
>> I'm uncertain as to why they would want to engage in this form of marketing, though

They might not want to on their own, however if some advertiser really had the desire to try to hit the entire seed population then LinkedIn could sell that target population at a higher CPM because of the relatively high projected value of those individuals.
It could have been much worse, $50K default penalty if he ignored it or his apps and others going off the market.
NSA Hiring Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer
We Moved Our Startup from SF to Berkeley--and Lots More Will Follow
Most of these look MUCH better after the redesign. And, surprisingly, they look a lot like Android apps. For years and years Apple was way ahead of Android on app design, but now I think an app that follows the iOS 7 design guidelines and the Android design guidelines will look about the same.
No, I don't. The gnu link says CDDL is not compatible with the GPL. What Linus is saying is, if a kernel loadable module relies on kernel internals, then it may count as a derived work, and must be licensed under a GPL-compatible license. If it does not -- for example, it is a filesystem that was ported to Linux (like AFS, and zfs fits here too IMO), then it may not be a derived work, and can be licensed under a non-gpl compatible license (like the CDDL).

Obviously, including the AFS or zfs into the source WOULD DEFINITELY create a derived work, and would require AFS/ZFS to be licensed under the GPL.

So Linus' is only explaining how a kernel loadable module could be licensed under a GPL-incompatible license.
Embarassing bugs in open source C/C++ projects
> The end of the Soviet Union was not a threat to the U.S.

But it was. When the Soviet Union was at the height of its power, all it wanted was to stay in power (the mandate of any empire). But when the Soviet Union ended, that was a time of maximum danger -- a rogue general, or a political radical, might take control of the state, and use doomsday weapons that the old guard was too wise to consider using.

Believe me when I tell you, the Soviet Union under Brezhnev was quite stable, all appearances to the contrary, but a collapsing Soviet Union was extremely dangerous.

And since the collapse of the SU, we've been doing all in our power to keep nuclear materials out of the black market, something that wasn't a possibility during the height of Soviet power.

> thus predicting the exact date of its occurrence was not a priority.

On the contrary, for reasons given above.
Isn't this what makes his outlook special, though?
I'm sorry, what was your point again? Tens of thousands graduate from high school every single year in Finland. From all kinds of backgrounds. If you didn't graduate, are you sure the system is to blame?
Ask HN: turned 40, too late to get into security?
Software dev here, did mostly Java backend work. Always had my side projects but never got enough traction and I think the start up route is not going to work out. Also losing interest in programming and looking for a new challenge.

What I'd like to do is specialize and consult. In recent years I got interested in cryptography and security in general. However I don't really have anything to show for it. I also don't know if I "have what it takes" to be working as a security consultant. Taking into account my age, what do you think, is it realistic for me to consider changing careers into security? Anyone did this? Or should I search for something else (I also like machine learning and other AI fields).
The statistic mentioned in the article for recidivism was around 16% "the lowest in Europe"

That's interesting considering the US had the same rate in 2007 and we have treat our criminals completely different. This would lead me to believe treating criminals like people isn't the key to successful punishment and eventual rehabilitation.

"During 2007, a total of 1,180,469 persons on parole were at-risk of reincarceration. This includes persons under parole supervision on January 1 or those entering parole during the year. Of these parolees, about 16% were returned to incarceration in 2007."

source: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=17
This should do it.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
Is that evidence?
Node.js and Mobile News Round-up – September 17, 2013
I have a sense of humour, so I gave you an upvote.
Cocos2D founder moves from Zynga to Chukong Technologies
The "after" screenshots don't seem to have anything in common anymore. Some of the apps look like Android, some look like Windows Phone, some look like Palm webOS.

The previous iterations at least shared a few button styles and navigation bar styles, but now it seems like everyone has taken the opportunity to reinvent those too.

It's certainly ok by me that app developers are taking more liberties in making their apps look unique. But if I were running the iOS show at Apple, I'd probably be worried about this development: if the visual presence of the OS disappears entirely from apps, it becomes that much less scary to pick up an Android phone because the apps won't look any different there.
I posted this on my fb.. Let hell break loose, thx. :P
flagged, next time sub a link that people can read without having to register an account.
It's already happening: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/less-tapering-becom...

Considering that for a period of time it was practically free to borrow money (interest rate < inflation), I don't think it's that unreasonable to describe that as "unsustainable".
AWS has different risks. Many, such as Linode, will bend over backwards to fix your systems if they've suffered a hardware failure or data corruption issue. In using them for six years, with 50-60 instances at any given time, I've only permanently lost one instance.

AWS is a purely do-it-yourself model, where hardware will blow up from time to time and data will get lost. Any and all infrastructure on AWS is to be considered temporary. Safety only comes with redundancy or a service layer like EngineYard that handles durability and persistence for you using their tooling.

In three years of using raw AWS and hosting about a dozen instances, I permanently lost six instances, had several others corrupted and rendered unusable. You need to be prepared for parts their infrastructure to completely evaporate at any given time. Everything has to be persisted to S3 and off-site relentlessly.

As much as it's true that you need backups for any provider, it's especially true for raw AWS. You're a tiny boat in a big ocean of trouble if you only have a few instances, no redundancy, and infrequent backups.
Currently there are about 1 million people who do this on about as regular a basis and they are the members of the US Military. So it's not as rare as it would seem. It is a little different, but in reality not so different as to not be applicable.

For most of us, it is exactly what we want to do - we like to see new places and get new experiences and it often is great. The toll is also pretty tough for our families and there are plenty of stories and studies about those impacts. For those who like it and it works, great, but often even if kids say they like it, there are things that they don't talk about that impacts them regardless.
What's interesting, and not covered by the article, is why this is interesting to the military. I imagine that by identifying this group you could also stop virality of ideas, eg radical Islamic terrorists. Presumably the US has lots of data connecting phone records of these people, and they could use this network analysis to figure out who to target to reduce future flow of new ideas... could be powerful!
"A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last."

This may be true of some companies, but we can see that Apple is quite successful at making products which continuously make last year's invention seem outdated. Of course, if making highly polished products takes a huge toll on your resources and impedes your greater strategy, then you may be better off not being "shiny".
The analogy to dating is problematic. Such a strategy is indeed effective for dating, but feels mercenary or even sociopathic to most people. Making the analogy raises moral issues that aren't relevant to fundraising.
Meh. I think the "meatheads=people with only HS diplomas" equation is facile. If you're speaking specifically about blue-collar workers, it's still pretty insulting, but you could probably make a better case with that differentiation up front.

Practically speaking, there is nothing sacrosanct about a college degree. It is the educational system, with its bureaucratic filtering mechanisms, elitism, and status-consciousness that has turned it into a humanist sacrament. Education need not be formal for it to be both valuable to the student and the society he/she lives in.
I love how whoever mods this site now doesn't even have to follow their own rule about not editorializing headlines.

Mods: Don't be hypocrites. If you're going to enforce your "only use the source title" trash on us, follow it yourself.

Original title: "Don't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big"

Mod-invented title: "Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big"
Some of the levels in stream-adventure still need a connection since you need to install modules (if you don't have them already). Otherwise this was a great way to learn!
I'm running into a registration wall and then being redirected to another page when I don't register.

Some related links below.

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Hi!

This is a web app I made over the past few days as a little project to learn more about AngularJS and Firebase. The app lets you create a simple poll in a matter of seconds and without the need to register. The votes and comments are updated in real time.

I was impressed by Angular's features and its relative ease of learning. Thanks to Firebase I could concentrate on writing client-side code only; there is no back-end to this app. This means I can host it for free through GitHub Pages.

Your opinions and suggestions are most welcome. What do you like? What would you change? Any feature requests? You can have a look at the code here: https://github.com/dbbert/personal/tree/gh-pages. Coding style advice is also much appreciated.

Thanks!

Bert
It looks like the Norwegians have gotten over the fundamental problem that we have in the States (and presumably in other countries): the idea that people should be made to suffer for perceived transgressions even if it costs the rest of society more (and yes, I do mean after accounting for the accompanied reduction of the undesired behavior by making an example of offenders).

Apparently we're too primitive to get beyond the juvenile practice of cutting off our nose to spite our face, and it informs our drug policy, the way we deal with the homeless, our prison system, our views on social welfare, etc.
Apart from contacts and files, what other kind of data is worth synchronizing?
I believe there is value in syncronization.

Do you see any particular unexplored field where we still lack such a treat?
Tesla Motors hiring talent for developing self-driving cars
If the syntax ends up being a great match for your ideas, I've got a lot to look forward to! Syntax is a big aspect of how much or little I enjoy working with a language. I'm hoping for something Python-ish in terms of simplicity and readability, but I think there's room to improve upon even that.

I'm very happy to not see much redundant punctuation where formatting makes meaning clear, and to not see keywords where punctuation makes meaning clear. But since mutability is being deemphasized, maybe we can even get a single equals for equality, and give assignment the longer symbol?
Good point. Mean performance, that is used to compare countries, may rise while variance shrinks resulting in fewer if any extremely high and low performers. Reminds me of Stephen Jay Gould's book "Full House".
Does this apply to new purchases as well, or just redownloading something you already bought before?
We shouldn't forget that these are all iterations on existing designs, and that at least partially the improved readability/understandability(there's a better word that is escaping me here) is in part due to this in addition to the flatness. It isn't just "flat" that's doing it here, a lot of these examples are also making better choices with whitespace and data presentation in addition to downplaying gradients (chatter moving to cards and ditching the tabbar for example).
Wouldn't making the search itself provide enough clear intent of buying a certain trip regardless of your previous browsing?
> In Finland, all education schools were selective. Getting into a teacher-training program there was as prestigious as getting into medical school in the United States.

Immediate implication: teachers are actually paid well over there. The job is actually desirable and respected.

> At the education college, Bethel discovered that he didn't have to major in math to become a high school math teacher. So he didn't. Nationwide, less than half of American high school math teachers majored in math. Almost a third did not even minor in math.

Quick note: I've a degree in Physics. They pumped so much math into us all in college, I could easily teach high-school math. Easily.
I thought the same thing. I thought the title was implying that they were offering "3D diffs for files," not "diffs for 3D files."
Wow, I love how Github is transforming into the a great tool maker for the digital world.
There are many public schools with Olympic sized swimming pools, and funding that would rival the better private schools any day of the week. Money and funding are not the problem... In Detroit, teachers get paid much more than the national average. And we know how well that school system does.

The problem is that for the last 40 years in the US, to bridge the gap between student groups to 1 standard deviation: the only thing that has worked was the systematic dumbing-down of teaching content and testing material (for example: with the elimination of written answers by multiple-choice questions, and 30-40 point curves on each test). Everything else failed. No matter how much money was thrown at the problem, no matter how many teachers were fired and replaced, no matter how many experts and better management staff were brought in from other parts of the nation, it just got worse.

So now we have one of the worst public education systems in America, all because no one could go into a class-room and ask the students that wanted to learn to raise their hand. And then present more challenging material to that group (relative to the other groups).

And I'm not talking about what we already have now - a few Advanced Placement classes, I'm talking about the entire education system being free to cater differently to A) students that want to learn and compete, B) students that need simpler material, and C) students that want to clown around.

Instead, we have a system that caters to the lowest-common-denominator (C) in the room at the expense of every other student. So no one get's taught anything that enhances the mind or prepares him/her for the challenges ahead.
Dependency Injection In Node.js
Sounds like they used points similar to Kevin O'Connor's RICO lawsuit:

'Lumen didn't do "any meaningful pre-filing investigation"...he company's expert witness not only hadn't investigated FindTheBest's services—he'd never heard of the target company, according to O'Connor.' (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/angry-entrepreneu...)

Compare to:

'The key to his response is that Dovden's case was made up of off-theshelf pieces, careless about details and indifferent to exactly what Dunkelman's BusBuddy app does...' (article)

True Larry Dunkelman's is a Canadian case but it will be interesting to see if there is consistent value in this line of defense against patent trolls.
Easily?
Brutal honesty is not less brutal because it is honest, though. Different people prefer different amounts of brutality and honesty. In my experience, I've found that the honesty stops mattering after a while: all that I see is brutality.
Few of these look better, IMO. And I'm definitely not seeing a lot of consistency in design. That said, many of them weren't great in the first place anyway.

One clear trend: getting rid of the bottom tab bar. I will mourn that loss - the top left corner is the least accessible place on the screen, and Apple saw fit to put the most important button (Back) there. The bottom bar was a very accessible shortcut in many apps. Although many faulted Android for having a back button, it's actually incredibly convenient to have it accessible in all apps.
ZFS has the notion of version numbers - for both the zpool and filesystem. The last FOSS releases are zpool 28 and zfs 5. There have been subsequent releases of ZFS by Oracle, but versions 28 and 5 are the latest used by all the open source implementations.

What the FOSS community has done is to add "feature flags" to ZFS instead of constantly bumping the version number. So encryption is a feature on top of zfs, but the encryption introduced in FreeNAS for ZFS isn't the same as the encryption in Oracle's zpool v30.
Photographer here again...

Haha—the idea has already come up!

Stills are a little easier though, and probably more importantly, they're way less intrusive than full-on filming. There's just something nerve-wracking about knowing everything you do is being recorded. I wouldn't want to subject a team to that.

I'll also note that we nailed down expectations right at the beginning for what was on and off the record. I have a bunch of much goofier pictures, for example, that won't be getting out ;)
The shell company owns some right to assert the patent. It may even own the patent itself. This right is a revenue generating asset. The shell company should even have records of just how much revenue that asset generates.

Can anyone point me to an instance where an infringement defendant went after the assertion rights or patent ownership? My search-fu hasn't turned up anything in the validity or success of this tactic.
Reading Textbooks for Pleasure
Interesting that he mentions hackaton's as one of the keys to his success. Does anyone know of a good place/resource to find out about upcoming hackatons?
> Of these parolees

16% of parolees, not 16% of ex-inmates, right?
Key selector is the most important one in CSS
Same here, perhaps "GitHub announces Diffs for 3D Files" would be clearer. This is a really awesome feature though, I'd be curious to see what other types of files they do this for (if any).
Isn't that the % of people breaking parole, not the total recidivism rate?

Elsewhere:

> recidivism rates between 1994 and 2007 have consistently remained around 40 percent.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Repor...
BEAST Cryptographic Attack Mitigations Overturned
Why your API IS your Strategy
I wonder if they have any plans to add support for other 3D filetypes (.ma, fbx, obj, etc)? It would be great to use this with more organic VFX-type models where some of the intricate detail updates are hard to discern at first glance.

Blue sky thinking, it would even be awesome to have something like this as a plugin in Maya where we could load in a previous version of the model and onion-skin between them with a slider like in the demo.

Going to check out the links in the article. Very cool!
Personally, I like the redesigned "flat" app design. However, in the case of Photo Investigator, it seems that the "flat" design is worse off. The buttons are no longer visible due to the cluttered background.
In my opinion a more important effect of this is that the upper class children with better role models do not become role models for the other children.
The articles mentions that the reoffending rate is 16%. I'm pretty sure they're referring to the lifetime reoffending rate vs the one-year rate. On the same page you linked, the US reoffending rate is about 67.5%.

EDIT to add: To further support that interpretation of the figures, the European reoffending rate is about 70%, and it's a lot more likely that the discrepancy between Europe and the US is ~2% vs ~50%.