skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here, I just use a map in my tank bag, and check the directions on google maps beforehand (that includes looking at some potentially problematic intersections on street view, which is incredibely helpful.) Also here in France the signs on the streets are usually really good.

And I didn't choose to ride a motorbike over driving a car to be in a hurry, I enjoy it a lot more and taking my time is not a problem.
VLC is a great piece of software, but it's always missing some last pieces of polish that stop it from replacing my default video player (I only keep VLC in those rare cases when I have some unplayable video).

Two issues that are very annoying to me:

1. The lack of "Remember last played position" option is very frustrating. This option is now part of many popular media players.

2. The "Disable screensaver" option doesn't work properly. When you pause a video, VLC will stop the computer from going into sleep mode. This is pretty awful! VLC should only disable the screensaver while the video is being played.

And one last thing that would be nice: the ability to move the main VLC window by clicking and dragging on the video area, and not just by the titlebar.
Well, there are different flavours of crhistianity as well as different flavours of islam. While christian Americans did indeed support slavery, the eastern (Orthodox) christianity was never involved in such behaviour. I'm pretty sure that not all islamic countries were openly supporting slavery, it's just the desert ones.

That being said, I agree that it's more middle east phenomenon that islam phenomenon.

The other poster also mentioned women rights as a part of islamic slavery. How is that different than, for example, Switzerland, where women got a right to vote only after black americans got it? And it's not like extremist christians treat their women in any way better, except they mostly allow only one woman per man.
>MS offers that because it tries whatever it can as a differentiator, but it's not working very well for them.

which serves Apple as a great "field test" in case someone at Apple had actually thought about this. We all know how "well" MS does with their tablet. And if that proposed market would be significant, MS would have sold more of their product as they offer just that which Apple does not.

So, Apple does not just stipulate that this niche is not big enough for them to cater to, they have real life data that devices with this feature don't sell.

But, to be frank, that of course has other reasons besides this small niche not buying the product.
So is the photon molecule, after it exits the medium, still traveling as a massless particle would; at the speed of light?

I'm trying to picture complex 3d structures made only of light, as mentioned in the article, and thinking they are going to be moving at light speed... Do I have that right?
The study seemed to indicate that men were less affected by gender stereotyping then women. Why is that?
I did a bit of research on tablets and hybrids recently since my fiance needed a new machine. I ended up buying her a Sony Xperia Tablet Z (Andriod) since there really wasn't any good Windows hybrids on the market except for the Surface Pro. However, the battery life for the first generation was terrible and Surface RT isn't a smart investment because of the OS [place bet]dead in the next few years cough[/end bet].

However, I personally want a compact machine with the full Windows 8 experience so I've been waiting for the Surface Pro 2.

If this thing has an all day battery life it will be an instant sale for me.
I've spent time in labour camps in the Middle East - Ask me anything
I've lived in the UAE for over 3 years and had the opportunity to visit labour camps a number of times, and speak to the labourers. Feel free to ask anything...
> For example, Amazon.com only uses only SSL when you log in, check out, or access "Your Account". Everywhere else Amazon.com uses HMAC request signatures over HTTP, similar to how AWS API requests are signed.

My main concern about a scheme like this is the vulnerability to SSL stripping.

I'm not sure what you can do mitigate it apart from have SSL on all the time, HSTS telling the browser that it should be using SSL and hoping that the first time a user comes to your site is via a https link.
UML is not only about class diagrams.

If you use classes and objects in LISPs (Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure...), you can create the class diagrams and they will work. In Clojure I usually started (and I've seen others do the same) with some functions which operates over hash-maps (or a-lists in LISP). And on the end of the day, when I was creating the interface for call from java, I put the the needed hash-maps to defrecords. If I did the class diagrams, it was afterwards when the relationship between records was clear. Honestly, I don't usually create them anyway even at my work (C#) - only when the releationships between objects are complex or in some "unexpected" ways.

But other UML diagrams are perfecly applicable even in functional languages. The component diagram, use case diagram, communication diagram ... they are universal. The same for E-R diagram - if you use relational database in functional/logical language, it's sometimes good to have it.
Sadly, suspending a system which is the target of a ddos is the only action an ISP can take. Even if you're not ddossing anyone but merely the target you'll get suspended, assuming you're not paying enough to make it worth it for the ISP
Text of SXSW2013 closing remarks by Bruce Sterling
From my perspective, this seems why perhaps iBeacon isn't an NFC killer? NFC seems to have an advantage of requiring contact (baring a few millimetres gap because of device/case) to trigger an action (better for actions that are more 'intentional'?) whereas with iBeacon distance is bit of a woolly concept.
That sounds nice. The only downside I can think of is losing the benefit of seeing one document redacted differently by different reviewers.
"Everyone is capable of autonomy."

Thank you for so concisely and cogently resolving what may well have been philosophy's longest-standing and most ontologically profound line of inquiry. I'm confident that one day I will look back and consider myself blessed for having had the opportunity to effectively witness such an historic event first hand.
Ask HN: How to learn Linux?
I have a macbook pro 2013 15inch OS X 10.8.5. I love this machine. A few years ago I switched from Windows to Mac and I never looked back this machine is awesome and powerful I love it and use it every second of the day but lately I've been having a craving for Linux plus I'm always in the mood for expanding my knowledge for technology and always want to learn new stuff.

To be quite honest I've always heard about linux but never actually tried it the idea of it confuses me in a way. I would like to play with it and learn all about it plus I hear it's important for any programmer to understand how linux works. A lot of jobs are also in Linux!.

I want to learn Linux in and out from how to set it up to all the Linux distribution (distros) like Mint, Ubuntu and Debian, what they're, which is best and how to use them. Thanks!
You're absolutely right. I've been riding a motorcycle for something like 30 years now (in Paris!) and I'm still alive. Over the years you develop a sense not unlike The Shining; you know who's driving the car in front of you, where it's going and what its driver is doing, with only a glance.

And yet, is driving assistance that distracting? I think I could get used to it (and in any case would only need it on long trips to a place I don't know already).

The objection that a helmet is completely disposable seems more relevant; maybe they should develop only a shield that you could attach to your helmet when you need it (or a device that would work with any helmet)...?
Three reasons.

First, professional courtesy. Search was a very small world in 1998 (that is, in terms of people working in the field). There was an academic quality to the industry, with a lot of freshly minted college kids, teachers and universities involved.

Second, a stamp of confidence in their technology. That is: if we're not doing a good enough job, we deserve to lose, and here's our competition.

Third, money. Companies often paid to be listed at the bottom of search engines. In 1998 Google was still highly reliant on partners that used their search technology (they were battling eg Inktomi in this respect).
Almost every drone strike kills several people - usually only one of those people is the intended target. In many cases (including the one linked) they have admitted that the people killed were not the target. Not as an apology (those are rare, they don't feel the need to admit mistakes because of course the missions and targets are secret), but simply to say that those people were not the intended target, just collateral damage. Here's another well-known example of firing on a crowd:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/03/afghanistan.luk...

By the time you're firing missiles at a restaurant, you have accepted that as long as your target is killed, some innocents will die with them. Any civilians, waiters, passers by etc who are caught in the blast are clearly just the cost of doing business. The attacks don't happen in a war zone or under cover of war, except the eternal and ill-specified 'war on terror'. If you want to argue that is not specifically targeting innocent people I'd respond that they are indiscriminately targeting innocent people in the hope of hitting their targets, which is worse.

It's remarkable to me that people still try to defend these attacks - if missiles were used on targets in a town on the US, killing several bystanders, there would be outrage, and rightly so. For the civilians on the ground, it is equivalent to suicide bombers taking out a crowd, some of whom are off-duty troops - the two acts have very similar consequences.
It can get worse than people snooping on what you're reading ... they can also modify the content. In many places, like at cheap motels or providing free Wifi, they inject ads into content pages or other crap.

So how do you know if the content you're reading has not been tampered with? You don't, unless the connection is encrypted.
Happening to my friend too. https://plus.google.com/109519053198990469779/posts/CBFhud1b...
What gives me the most headaches is how to protect my private key. The key has to be accessible to all web servers at all times, which usually means it is stored in clear text on the hoster's machines and automatically backed up on media that is stored who knows where.

I have no control over who can access it there. I'm not running the data center. I'm not hiring the staff. I'm not deciding on any monitoring. I basically just throw that key over the fence hoping the hoster will keep it secured.

And then I turn around and tell my users, trust me, only me and you can see the data we're exchanging. Isn't that one big lie? How do I handle this in a less haphazard way?
I don't know how Samsung's NFC implementation works, but the only correct way to use NFC or Bluetooth Low Energy is to exchange a session key, and then use WiFi for the actual data transfer. NFC and Bluetooth LE have way too low a data rate to be useful for anything else. (Well, I guess it's OK for syncing my step count from my FitBit.)

Actually, this makes me wonder why anyone bothered with NFC or Bluetooth LE for file transfer, etc., when WiFi Direct is just as good.
Show HN: how much time do you have left
I have 52 years 3 months 4 days 17 hours 59 minutes left. It's a good enough motivation to make me stop procrastinating. I hope it does the same for you. Available on Web, iOS and Android for free.
I still run on a Core 2 Duo from January 2009 as my main machine (a laptop) and it is still plenty fast enough for me. I just don't find the latest generation CPUs to offer me anything that I don't have except doing things "a little bit quicker" but that isn't all that noticeable to me. I suspect this machine will die (in a way that makes fixing it financially unviable) before I out grow it. Visual Studio 2012 starts in ~1 second (warm startup) and performs great. The only issue I have is that Hyper-V (as part of Win8) requires SLAT which my CPU does not support which is annoying but I just use VMware Workstation instead.

For me there has not been enough improvement in CPU features since the Core 2 range was introduced for me to need to upgrade. Sure a Haswell would be nice from a battery life POV but as I am plugged in 99.9% of the time that isn't an issue to me.
Ng-conf 2014
If you're looking for a religion to blame, start with capitalism. Islam has nothing to do with this.

While you're at it you can start by looking at how unrepresentative of the Muslim world (if you an even use that term) the Gulf countries are - India and Indonesia are both home to many times more Muslims than the Gulf but yet you continue to judge the adherents of a religion by the actions of a few small countries made significant by their oil and gas reserves.
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...Nepalese men and women leave their towns and villages for jobs overseas. More than 100,000 head to Qatar, where a booming construction industry and insatiable appetite for cheap labour has been fuelled by its successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup...
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Just like Rome's slaves built the Colosseum so that the upper classes could keep the masses entertained to keep exploiting them.

We really have not learned shit in the past couple thousand years.
There were some displays that did that ten years back with a low res matrix of bright white LEDs behind I seem to remember.
It's funny how your opinion contrasts against mine.

For what I've seen, displays have become a commodity and that's a good thing. I can go buy any kind of display, choose a size and I'm probably fitted with more pixels than I ever need, the panels are neat, flicker-free and flat, and the best part of it is that they cost next to nothing. You buy a laptop and you choose the size based on how much hardware you want to carry around — not because you need this huge screen because all laptop screens are "good enough" as you mentioned: I haven't had a laptop with less than 1440x900 for... a little less than a decade. And the resolution has never been inadequate for browsing, coding, drawing, writing and watching movies which is what I mostly do.

This is completely the opposite of what we had in the 90's when 15" CRT was the baseline, you were always a bit short of resolution and you never had the money to buy that huge one-cubic-meter-in-size display that could do your 1280x960 at 60Hz or something, and for which you probably had to upgrade your graphics card and probably your PC too. That totally, totally sucked. One could live with the basic resolution and screen size but I remember the agony of something better always being almost at reach. These days screens are something you don't think about twice. Everything is, again, dreadedly good enough, and if you need something professional you can get that too it probably won't cost you the price of a small car.

In the last 10 years or so I haven't considered once whether I should soon upgrade to a "better" display or to a laptop with a "better" screen. That's bliss, IMHO.
what hosting provider are you looking into, for iceland?
When will we get over this complex? Who cares if a bunch of easily-swayed people go here or go there? Reserve your little social engineering projects for hard barriers. The field is already overrun enough with Johnny-come-lately dilettantes without legitimizing the idea that we need to pander to people who have zero passion for computers. When did computing become the property of the rabble and their endless clamoring for personal advantages ("rights", "equality")?
It's probably the luma range. I remember having this "washed out" color in KMPlayer and wondered why VLC's picture was darker.
I know this is a sarcastic take on HN's overall conservation, but you must admit Ajax has its place, and it's not necessarily on a search engine result page.

Besides, it ruins much of my browser behavior, shortcuts for example don't work at all, such as backspace. A barebones page would have been a better fit in the target environment (the web).
Monetize that data like selling it to clients or selling their customers data about their data to them? Will opera run some analysis and sell that?
TLS ciphers preferences of top domains
Its still just people talking about stuff. Things coming from an official corporate account are different matter, but people should be able to say something sucks without having to fear repercussions.
At least those requests are being tracked:

1. https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/5315

2. https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3724
There is no "muslim race". You could call him a culturist :)
That infinite scrolling is AWESOME. I absolutely HATE everyone else's version that makes dragging the scrollbar useless as it jumps around.
Sounds like http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/indias-200-million...
But 3000 times more hits, so it's actually 500 times faster. :)
"Typical PC hardware", at least in my recent experience, has sizeof(int) == 4, sizeof(char*) == 8 and so the reason they're different should be apparent. I believe you are correct that there is no difference when they are equal.
Do carrier-pigeons count as a third-party?

> It's not an "oh well" attitude.

> I don't care if the NSA reads them..

Indeed. However, I've used Royal Mail (postal service in UK) all my life without thinking that I needed to worry about what I said - I always found that very liberating, looking back. Even postcards I assumed wouldn't be read by anyone, and certainly not photographed and archived permanently against my name. Given that IP traffic is replacing the postal service, to not have this assumption any longer is painful on several levels.

> You shouldn't be practicing security through good-will
Fair enough. That said, the need to defend myself against a well equipped foreign government is just not a job I'm up to on my own. I'd prefer it if the government demonstrated goodwill, which would seem to be their job.

I believe the solution is political.
Still alive: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/
Forget affording a lawyer, they can't even read the contracts that they sign in the first place as they don't read Arabic. Hell some don't even read or write, and have to put an 'X' where their signature should be. Even if they could read it they'd sign anyway, because shit what choice do they have when the family needs feeding? We're talking about asymmetry the like of which people in the developed world cannot begin to comprehend, and that is the reason that unrestrained free markets can never operate effectively.
Orthodox church supported serfdom, monasteries owned peasants.
It may be incorrect, but how is it "regressive"? This is a common argumentative tactic: to suggest that one side (your side) is on the side of progress. Can you disprove it?
It was my understanding that those involved with or in the know about both Wayland and Mir felt that Mir is a project in a very early state of development [0][1] that was started for the wrong reasons [2]. Could you point me to a knowledgeable person who doesn't work for Canonical who mentions that some significant good idea(s) from Mir worked their way into Wayland? :)

[0] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26254.html
[1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/27327.html
[2] http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/05/mir-in-kubuntu...
Ugh, that was at once an impressive and disgusting array of not just wrong but ill-willed information, basically from start to finish.

You don't deserve a full rebuttal, but just in case anyone should be in doubt.

For just one example, Islamic law practically guarantees the eventual freeing of slaves. It is probably the most highlighted charitable act described in shariah. Missing a day of fasting must be atoned for by freeing a slave.

But as said, everything you said is wrong and the spirit you said it in is despicable. Fuck you, honestly.
I'm not sure I agree that being able to draw properly on the go is such a small niche. While most work undoubtedly happens at a desk, it could be useful for artists / illustrators on the move.
This competition is the first "Playground" one just for fun http://blog.kaggle.com/2013/09/25/the-playground/
Nice points. This is pretty much why the old Google blog search failed, too.

The problem with your similarity scoring idea is that it fails badly in adversarial conditions (as I'm sure you are aware). It's easy to work around that failure, but then you end up using something like dot-product. I'm not at all convinced that normalizing the scoring is throwing anything away at all.

On another point:

Would you mind explaining this a bit more: Because these algorithms almost always get the wrong idea about the prior distribution, you often make a "failing" machine learning algo very useful if you do logistic regression on the output and use that to convert the output into a probability score.
You only receive a validation email from Comodo if you use their services.
You picked some bad examples to illustrate your point.
yeah but those wallst and google jobs are not top 10%.. probably closer to top .5%
Apple was barred from acting legally because it is an at-arms entity - the lawsuits do not technically involve Apple directly so no matter how much money or resources Apple had, they couldn't countersue for the subject matter at hand. In this case, Apples hands were tied.

Apple can sue Lodsys directly for something different, but cannot countersue for claims that Lodsys have brought against indy / small apps publishers.

Of course, a solution would be for Apple to purchase an indy developer currently being sued, and thus be able to defend the developer because it now involves Apple, but I doubt that is scalable for all the people being sued.

Another solution might be to provide free, ongoing legal aid (100 free lawyers for the community would be great) for all companies being threatened this way - but Apple is not running a charity.

Martha Stewart is being threatened directly, so they have the ability to respond (since they have the funding/resources to do so).
You know google has a security program with bounties, right?
On external validation, I wondered about whether a social network or community with a karma system could fake that validation for each user to motivate content creation or positive sentiment?

e.g., if I actually got 5 upvotes on a HN comment, but HN showed it to me as 54, and then 78 and then 104 on subsequent comments, would I be more likely to contribute more? As a new user, would I be drawn in deeper?

It wouldn't work too well with public validation like Twitter, but it could for something like HN (and /. from memory) where the upvote count is now hidden.
The first link mentions EV certificate handshake is slower. Is that really the case? What is the reason?
I don't think there are huge difference between Mac OS and Linux, they all derived from Unix.

I suggest using VM to learn Linux, for example install Linux VM in VirtualBox and have a try.
> Desktop displays stopped moving forward in capability in 2001

Are you kidding? In 2001, it was pricy to get a 15" 1280x1024 LCD monitor. Are we in the same state of affairs today? Would you be willing to wager that the quality, viewing angle, etc of that LCD monitor compares favourably to today's models?
That's just your culturally-induced scientist-worship talking.
What sorts of jobs do you think these people will have then? If you aren't using a computer your job can be replaced by one...
"would have", no?