skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can attest to this.

I tested on python a music playlist and randomly arranged the numbers, and also tried the same on vlc. I found in python, numbers were really random (done maybe a month or two ago, so they implemented the new algo). However, in vlc, this was the issue:

Songs would come in as [6, 7, 8, 3, 4, 1, 2, 5]

So the "random" or "shuffle" was kind of half-done. You would have the same artist's songs being played because if you sorted by album they were right next to each other.

I went on #vlc once and I tried submitting a bug report. I seem to recall one or two was submitted online, but many claim it is simply not a bug. Random or shuffle, either way the definition is skewed as there is some linearity.

Luckily, I have cmus, and I connected that with cmus-remote to my android. ;) Trust me, once you have a nice linux ncurses player for terminal, it is very hard to seriously consider any competitors. Vlc is still nice though to tell my friends to install on windows machines for anime. And because they have a music library of ~30 songs, they will probably not notice the shuffle issue.
Consider that statistically it can happen to any other messaging service provider. And switching to other instant messaging service won't offer you additional protection due to that the core problem (it is impossible to guarantee zero bugs without huge overheads) is the same for all services.
That's absolutely crazy. I'm a paying Fastmail customer, and that really puts me off. I'm "trialing" them for 6 months at the moment with a personal domain before I decide whether I want to permanently switch to them, and so far had been very impressed... but that makes me think twice. I hope they're paying attention to this!
Just happend to me today.
A coworker was writing to someone else and everything was coming to me as well.
I'll assume your question was not meant to sound condescending (because I don't think it was).

Christianity, in its purest form, is not compatible with evolution. Christianity believes that the Bible is the infallible word of God and therefore is complete truth. The Bible says the world and everything in it was created in 6 days and so is incompatible with evolution. That being said, there are lots of denominations of Christianity that have accepted evolution by "reading between the lines" of the creation story and assuming things that are not there. Catholicism, for example has made an official statement (by the Pope) that there are no incompatibilities between the two.

But, your question and the statement that follows are not related. I am not a Christian because I don't believe in evolution. The converse is also true; the reason I don't believe in evolution is not because I am a Christian. I am a Christian simply because I believe there has to be something more to this life. I am a Christian because having hope that someday everything that has happened here on Earth will someday be worth it is what makes me get out of bed in the morning. I couldn't imagine going through life believing that this is all there is. IMO it would be a miserable and mundane existence if there was no purpose to life.

(And yes, I do consider myself an intelligent developer)
IPhone 5s Fingerprint Database To Be Shared With NSA
If you're asking me specifically, then yes I'd be willing to pay for it, preferably as a part of a set of services/tools (that would need to include imap, contact management, calendaring). I'd happily switch away from Google services for that, providing usability isn't hugely compromised [1]. I'm actually working on open-source infrastructure to get us closer to this [2].

If you're making a general point about why people would pay for such things then privacy/security is just one more axis on which to consider purchasing decisions. It's up to the individual/organisation to decide what they really care about when they're choosing between different options. My concern is that there aren't really enough options that do consider the privacy/security aspect as well as the usability, so I see a gap there. I'd be glad to hear others' opinions on this though.

[1] I was already a paying user of MobileMe purely because I wanted auto-syncing of contacts and calendar so that price-point ($99 per year) is clearly one I'm willing to pay for something that works. I paid it grudgingly at first but I did pay (and renew). Whether that's actually a sustainable price-point for the provider is a different question.

[2] http://nymote.org/blog/2013/introducing-nymote/
Care to share your results and/or notes? I recently started messing with VLC's stream output capabilities and would love to see some interesting examples of what is possible.
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Many thanks for clearing that up! I had no idea browsers strip referrer headers with https->http navigation.
Way to go on creating an completely irrelevant religious flamewar. As others have said, Islam has nothing to do with this.

This, as others have pointed out, is a case of rich-exploits-poor. Unsurprisingly, with the full support of the law. Exit visa laws, for example, aren't exclusive to the Middle East. (Actually, of the Middle East, only Qatar and Saudi Arabia have it.) The Soviet Union had them, Uzbekistan still has them, even Nepal has them. And for a short while, both Germany and Italy had similar laws.
If you add some kind of "snap to DOM" ability or whatever, so that the rulers align with "places" already "defined" by the DOM+CSS, it might even be better.

But it may not, obviosly.
> PC's are the same trash can size devices they were two decades ago

Do you actually visit your local PC stores regularly?

Because while it was not unusual to see full sized towers on display, these days it's rare to even see a standard ATX case. The typical form-factor even for the desktops have slimmed down massively, and a large number of the devices are now "all in one" models with the PC and monitor in one.

That's actually why I agree with you about mobile - the performance _most_ people needs is low enough that the form factor has been steadily going towards mobile, and yet sales are still anaemic while mobile device sales have sky-rocketed. With the rise of Android "TV sticks", coupled with increasing support for mirroring/streaming display from your mobile devices, and/or HDMI/MHL ports and bluetooth keyboards, the desktop is going to be redundant for most people within a few years.

The irony is the desktop trend towards small devices, bluetooth keyboards and "all in one" models are accelerating the demise of the desktop more than it is propping it up, by making people used to wireless keyboards and not having a big box PC.
HTTP Performance Is a Solved Problem
Besides the fact that this is a pretty serious bug, I'm rather underwhelmed by the care Google has been taking of their hangouts product after releasing it last May.

And I'm not even talking about things like online-status 'missing' (it's a design decision on their end), but more the general experience of using hangouts.

As far as I can tell you're still not able to mute the new message sound, without turning off notifications all together (hangouts in Gmail). Chatter picking up in a hangout and you want to mute it for a while? Again, not possible. Turn off all notifications for that hangout and chances are you'll completely forget you were ever part of that conversation (snoozing notifications hangouts-wide makes sure you miss all other personal messages sent to you as well).

Uploading a photo on a slow network is a pretty terrible experience: it'll start telling you the upload has failed and it's retrying (no progress to be seen anywhere). If you delete the message and try again, you'll probably end up with two of the same messages in your conversation, because often it doesn't appear to correctly 'receive' your deletion request either.

When you've received a photo that you need to save to your gallery (maybe you want to zoom-in a little, or share it with someone else?), be prepared to hit that save button for a while until you finally get a confirmation that the photo has actually been saved.

Stuff like this is not a problem when it's your first release, but 4 months on you'd expect a company like Google to be able to iron out quirks like these. But no, we get extra emoji as one of the few updates to the hangouts platform.

[edit: spelling]
I don't understand what your bank details are doing in your mail? Or what do you mean by 'details'?
You're assuming of course that EU companies have a better privacy track record.
nope. a trusted chat system can have bugs. just not THIS KIND of bug. the architecture should make these kind of bugs non existent. with email you don't see these kind of things happen, with dns lookup you don't see these things happen. WTF is up with google here?
How To Make The Most Of The New Google Maps
>Semiaccurate

Please stop reading this. Also the "PC is dead" discussion pops up every 5 years or so.
I think the rulers also need to be position:fixed
Our iPhone and Android apps both use native UI components (table views etc) that are defined by data from the server, so we can ship new native-feeling features without compiling a new build.
For some time I've pretended that anything I write that should be private (IM, mail, etc.) is actually public. Nowadays it has become so easy for your recipient to transfer a mail to the wrong person. Once I've also been victim of my phone sending texts to the wrong people.

So from now on, just write things you can assume in front of the whole world. Don't write shit about people you don't like. Keep that for face-to-face talk with your friends. Things written last so much longer than things said.
Instagram gets consistently more downloads and happier users than all of Google's products. IE, take a look at the review history on youtube: https://sensortower.com/ios/us/google-inc/app/youtube/544007...

In aggregate, google's apps have more installs -- but many are installs by the same user, that use gmail, google maps, youtube, etc. Also, the value is about the apps, not the companies / engineering teams / brand recognition behind them.

Instagram has actually been historically dropping in our valuation as the growth curve dips down, especially on iOS.
Exactly.

I know many people that use Facebook (including myself). It's a website that almost freaking everybody is on; it's used for sharing stuff from daily lives, instant messaging, organizing social events.

I have no idea what Twitter is for.
Gizmodo had this with the title of "Scientists discover a way to make real life lightsabers" lol

http://gizmodo.com/scientists-created-a-new-form-of-matter-a...
Umbraco 7 Alpha released tomorrow
Am I the only one who thinks the vertical lines should be triggered when you click the top ruler and vice versa? Now it's the other way around and it feels counterintuitive.
All bugs are not created equal. Complete privacy violations in the core functionality of the app are unacceptable. They need to be made aware of that. "It was a computer bug" is a poor and intellectually dishonest excuse coming from a company that takes pride in hiring some of the best engineers in the world.
We are all fortunate that there were a lot of good people on both sides during the Cold War.
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Continuous delivery for Android - part 2 - testing
This brings back that sinking feeling when a client gets out the ruler and holds it up to their screen and then down to the printout the designer gave to them. shudder
Rebuilding the line-mode browser (in node.js)
Much better!!
Excel: How can I add custom gridline to a chart?
I've just installed the update, and the inconsistency between the countdown timer start button and the stopwatch start button are probably deliberate. I didn't think about it at the time, but starting and stopping a stopwatch should have as precise a timing as possible, adding a fuzz of a "pressed" state for buttons which can respond instantly will reduce accuracy of the stopwatch. But for the countdown timer, accuracy doesn't matter so much, and these buttons work like normal ones, with a pressed state.

So, rather than evidence of bad design, this could be evidence of good design.
I don't trust hangouts ever since I discovered, by accident, that if you get somebody else's invite you can set their status and messages for the invite in calendar as you want. I reported that to google to which they said it's by design if you're sending out invites to non-google accounts or if invite is received in a non-gmail client. While I understand you can't do it any differently if you want that functionality, but this was on a business account. I'd rather see limited functionality then where you can set status for the invite only in gmail/calendar and if you're non-google account or 3rd party email client you get to only view the invite.
It's a political power.
Instead of locking the account, couldn't you just have blocked all outgoing UDP packets from the IP address of the customer's droplet?

Blocking UDP would have stopped the attack, it would have given you a time window to contact the customer (allowing for time zone differences) and would have given both parties a chance to resolve the issue in private and with much less drama.

(speaking as a current customer of DigitalOcean, using UDP (thru collectd) to monitor my droplet and starting to have uneasy feelings).
Things are getting better slowly. The next line of Vaio Flip will have a 2880x1620 display. Full HD is also quite common in 13" range now.
The price has moved down, the tech hasn't moved up, at least not a whole lot. I bought a Sony 20" flat trinitron in 2002 from a dotbomb property sale. It was capable of 1600x1200 and up to 120Hz. Traditionally, the high end displays come down in price and the volume sales pays for R&D for the next high end displays. Today this is not the case, look at the displays going into 300$ tablets compared to desktop displays. tablet resolutions are rocketing while laptops are static at 768, 900, or 1440 (if you pay for it). The GPUs are more than capable of 4K now yet how many 4K displays are available?
I'm still hoping that moving the consumers to consumer-oriented devices opens up possibilities to make the unfriendly platform (the desktop PC) more poweruser and developer-friendly.
I think they turned off Hangouts and reverted to old talk. I noticed that messages I've tried to send with Hangouts from G+ web page were not delivered and chats from gtalk dekstop client are saved in gmail as "chat" not "hangout"
But GTalk isn't 'really, really good' from my perspective/experience.

- Multiple sign-ins cause issues all the time (Gtalk in GMail, GTalk on the phone/tablet is already enough to cause it to go nuts and send messages here or there, seemingly random). It _could_ allow me to specify what I prefer (XMPP should support that), but it doesn't.

- Loses messages all the time (every ~10th message doesn't arrive. My wife and me stopped using it for anything of value because of this)

- Hangout. The "We don't like XMPP anymore, want to force you to use G+ and .. have the most ugly show-me-some-comic-bubbles interface to make the transition extra smooth" app

Actually I wouldn't be surprised if the issue is hangout, not GTalk-the-original-xmpp-thing.
Here it is: "Contractors are responsible for this. They are no longer working with us" :-)

http://www.slashgear.com/google-blames-rogue-contractors-for...
Man won $57 million, casino blamed 'software glitch'
Happened to me this morning. I listened in for a while to my friends chat to his client about a bug, while interfering several times with messages of "wtf" and "what ok?" before realizing the situation and horrified at the prospect of the client receiving my invaluable inputs. Called the guy up in a jiffy and told him about it. It seems that I was just a passive receiver.
Woaw, fantastic talk. Thanks for sharing.
Thought the same, you're likely to click the point on the ruler that you want the guide to appear at.
Found more about the subject here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57341753-71/man-wins-$57-m...

How is it allowed to happen?
Casual networking with people you would not want or dare to directly communicate with.
I had problem with AirPlay in Mac OS X 10.8.5. When using internal speakers the sound is normal. But when I switch to AirPlay speakers the program hangs and looses sound. Now I'm going back to 2.0.8
Because the browser is going to check if the certificate is revoked as part of the ssl handshake. We have gotten sites being not available because the service that the browsers use to do this validation were not responding fast. The handshake took up to a minute.
So far I've looked into 1984hosting.com and orangewebsite.com, both pricey compared to what I'm used to but I guess that is the price of better privacy. There is a cheaper one called icelandvps.com but they are owned by a UK parent company so I am little unclear about what that means for Iceland law, privacy etc. It may be cheaper to go to a German host, I am not yet decided.
> the fossil's jaw looks a lot like those of modern fish... She says this shows the Placoderm to be the ancestors of modern fish.

Admittedly skeptical layman here... but is that really enough evidence to draw that conclusion with that much certainty? Or is there more unreported context?
I worked on various projects in the region for more than a year. That has been my experience. I'm not white, if that matters.
This guys makes some valid points ... as far as I read the article.

To be honest I stoped reading pretty soon because the valid arguments are burried under a truckload of pointless ranting and "I told you so!".

I have no problem with someone having a strong oppinion but the article is just horrible.
Switching to the dark theme has made it more pleasant for me, but there is still room for improvement.
Single embedded video spam. Here is a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8
Pedant here.

Moore's Law is was originally only for components per chip. Other people have applied it to the other items you mention, but I don't think it's accurate to say "Moore's Law of data storage" because there isn't one.
This was in response to:

>> Islam encourages freeing slaves, but only in one circumstance : after they have completed a successful military campaign

> Missing a day of fasting must be atoned for by freeing a slave.

As an example. Among a hundred other ways in which slaves are set free. Your post was ignorance and lies.
Entrepreneur Success And General Business Expectations
Re your last point, is it not better if machines are in a colder climate?
But most successful online services are attractive even without knowing much about them. Tweeter doesn't feel attractive at all.

The consequence is that after seven years Tweeter simply ignored by half of the IT population.
I had the same problem with playlist. Going back to 2.0.8 now. It's more stable even though it's a bit slow when closing the app.
From Guns To Drums: Pedro Reyes Turns Weapons Of Hate Into Musical Instruments
Pedro Reyes frequently travels through dangerous territories. Not just creatively: pushing the boundaries of how we appropriate materials for use in artistic works, but also literally. Frequently working in places like the notoriously dangerous Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the site of numerous gang murders and the "disappearing women" unsolved mysteries, Reyes has set out to make his homeland a better place through art. In an area of the world where journalists routinely vanish and civilians are gunned down in broad daylight, Reyes hopes to reclaim the tools of violence and turn them into a force for good.
Wildcard search in Gmail
This is irrelevant. Just because you had a positive experience from it doesn't make this bug less serious.
I think they could really get an edge over other email providers if they went all out as a pro-privacy/non-US email alternative. They would need to exit the US though to take such a claim seriously, which is unlikely.
First Nanotube Computer Could Be Future of Electronics
This is about some OpenStreetMap problem from January 2012. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with today's issue?
I believe you missed the target here. The argument against 4k gaming is more about the fact GPUs have to draw this increased amount of pixels, this is why the current generation consoles only draw at 720p.
Gaming also hasn't peaked in any way at the current level of resolution, as only the very top end of cards handle AA, AF, etc. in games, GTA 5 shows the need for every ounce of processing power by the fact that it looks horrible on both consoles.

As far as movies are concerned the jump to 4k has already begun, but I do believe you're right and there needs to be an alignment between the industries. The BluRay still competing with DVDs shows that, hopefully the new console generation will outside enough for a serious shift in physical media.
In a number of scenes, people are recording the moment (birthday cake, proposal, rock concert).

Ted Chiang's latest short story explores the potential pitfalls of logging life's each and every moment:

http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of...

Edit: clarity
Why so serious ?
relevant article: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-har...
"We don't need the ability to specify that a pixel should be brightness level 64823 vs 64824."

Actually what is needed is anatomically defined range - the "true brightness", like it is for the 24-bit "photographic" (tetra-chromatic) range of colors. This would be a limit defined by the anatomical limits of human eye. There is a limit of absolute darkness (relative to the eye) and there is also a limit in the brightness of the light that the human eye can safely be exposed to. In this defined range there is a limit in granularity that the human eye can distinguish. I am not aware if such a definition exists, but I am aware that a display to respect the "true brightness" is impossible (for the mere fact that the light reflected from our faces sheds upon the dark portions of the display, and those dark portions can not perfectly absorb the external supplement of light).
Twitter has a 30 day waiting period on account deletion to subvert this. What you need to do is set your password to something really obvious and disable two-factor.
Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake, blames IBM
Alternatives to web development? Help me get out
Freelance developer here, 10+ years, mostly Java backend but also Django front-end work. I need a new perspective and I'm considering a slight career change. I don't want to do web dev anymore and wondering what fields I could go into to apply my programming knowledge.

I'm open to anything. It can be something engineering related (or physics), in business or security. I also wouldnt mind if I had to study for some time. The only requirement would be that I could continue working as an independent contractor/consultant/freelancer because I really like that life-style.

Any tips, ideas or shared experience very much appreciated.
"computer with 178 transistors". What is the minimum number of transistors to be called a computer ?