skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are certain games that work better with controllers—the best example I can think of is Mirror's Edge. I would be upset if I couldn't use a controller, because sometimes you need joysticks.
Reminds me a bit of http://pythontutor.com/
They are completely worthless for the reasons you stated. A few months ago I connected with a colleague from ~ 15 years ago. He endorsed me for skills that weren't even invented when we worked together.

Recommendations are even more unreliable.

Case in point: A manager who was on the same level as my direct manager contracted an 'Architect' to come up with a high level estimate for a big project. The guy basically drew pictures in Enterprise Architect for 6 months and barely interviewed any stakeholders or technical folks. I was in the meeting where it was decided that it was a worthless exercise and big waste of time/money. We let him go right after he turned in the project plan and scrambled to redo the work.
The manager that hired him wrote him a very positive, over the top, gushing recommendation on LinkedIn.
I don't know if it was 'quid pro quo' or just the manager trying to save face but it definitely showed me that they are worthless.
So you were trying to get rid of mongodb as a backend, and you ended up at writing your own? Well I'm not sure how set you are on that, but maybe you should look into some other databases, what did you dislike about mongo?

And yeah, with such a specific goal, you could very well make a very nice niche DB that optimizes for the kind of data you're trying to search! Especially with map data becoming more and more important, I think it's actually a pretty awesome idea.

However, I would say that you should go in with the intent to make a kickass latitude-longitude database, rather than just having it be a piece of something you're trying to push to production (you have better things to worry about with something that's going to production -- don't make the db one of them)

You never know, you might find that the database is the more important project!
Macs with ARM processors don't seem like a possibility. Intel Haswell processors are shown to have comparable Performance per watt which is expected to get better with Broadwell.

ARM64 Apple chips are play for iPads. Current iPads are lagging on performance when we compare it to something like a Baytrail Intel tablet or a Haswell equipped surface tablet. There is going to be convergence point for Intel where a tablet with Haswell level performance with a Fanless chasis and 500$ price. Apple need to converge there to compete.
> The iPhone doesn't need a 64-bit desktop-class processor, either.

It doesn't need it, but it certainly helps, as benchmarks and my own development of an app that does live video effects has shown.

so that they could have a "killer feature" to lean on if they don't manage to figure out a more novel

Apple has never marketed, nor revealed (to my knowledge) what amount of RAM is in an iOS device model. This is always determined later by a 3rd party.
Depends on a few more things:

1) If it's actually 7% of your revenue as opposed to just global traffic stats.

2) If entrenched IE customers would actually stop using your product rather than just install another browser.

3) If the cost of maintaining shims, backwards compatibility and ultimately just falling behind the competition in both experience and features is less than that potential 7% market.
It's anecdotal, but I went to high school in a town of 1300 people, and I'm comfortable having friends of all ages. My friends from Denver, Seattle, and DC tend to associate exclusively with people closer to our ages (mid-20s).
GOP hires Andy Barkett to leap into digital fray
Initially by the title, I thought this was going to be another overly-dramatic simplification of problem article. Turns out to be a good one. I was thinking about this a lot lately.
Presumably you won't ever raise your thumb from the circle, therefore never losing your place.
I don't know for certain, but US Companies can't do pitches this way. It isn't legal. I don't know what the rules are for US Companies investing in Non-US Companies in this regard. But I would do some serious checking. It would suck to raise money only to have the FTC decide you did so in an illegal way and have it disappear.
Yeah, IMO Natural Earth[0] data is much more valuable, and easy to get into any format one could need. Countries would be covered by the "Admin 0 – Countries" file[1].

[0]http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

[1]http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vecto...
I likewise was never a user. But the EMACS package of TECO macros was intended specifically to enable screen editting on terminals as I understand it (though surely there was overlap). Basically EMACS:TECO as vi:ex.
Here's a video of a malicious PCIe device extracting both plaintext and encrypted main memory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chvJpEmXvDk
The reverse of the conservative one is:

"A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
Fair enough.

I suppose my "complaint" is that they could do a better job of bridging the gap, but perhaps I am wrong. You do make a good point that the mouse+kb may be too cumbersome for some (most?) consoler switchers.

I do wish that I could see what sort of solution Valve could come up with if forced to keep the primary mouse+kb, though. Some sort of streamlined solution which you partly imagine in your post.
It's pretty early to say that, and a lot of things can change in the meantime. But for the short term, remember that in the U.S., representation is not entirely proportional to population. Voters in Wyoming have quite a bit more influence than those in California due to how the Senate and electoral college works, and voters in Iowa have more influence than either due to the whole interaction between media and the election process.
Getting Started with Flat UI Design
I'm pretty sure it maps out the same if you filtered for, say, non-Hispanic white voters. The curve might shift towards GOP overall, but the correlation would still be there, because the cities also tend to skew more educated and that correlates in a positive way with voting DNC.
Google's First 15 Years
Republicans consider “blocking net neutrality” among debt ceiling demands
The problem with just saying "conservative" is there are fiscal conservatives and then there are social conservatives.

You think 50 years ago they ever thought there would be gay conservatives? Conservatives that would support gay marriage? So they aren't socially conservative, at least not completely.

On the other side, I am not sure how to explain this properly but I find I am less liberal with age but even more progressive.
I prefer my maps in SVG.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_by_count...
Machiavelli argues that it is better for a Prince to be feared, rather than loved and in-fact does not argue against cruelty, just excessive cruelty. I think you miss the point of The Prince, a device Machiavelli hoped would ingratiate him with the Medici and restore his place as civil servant. How did Machiavelli really feel? One has to read his work, The Discourses to understand this as there are connections between the two books and Machiavelli intended to conceal his preference for an egalitarian republic to the common reader.
Dude, What's with the Web Site?
Thanks, that seems like a very thoughtful response to my question. What are your thoughts on how hard angular is to learn?
Soulseek
I\m Overknossys

terrorist of syria living in greek

you can find me in soulseek
> Should Canada succeed in their claims internationally, it may be a good opportunity for other countries to make use of the new doctrine as well.

To be fair this statement is pretty inflammatory.

There is no new doctrine. Canada has always claimed they owned these island and no other country has ever disagreed with this(1), until the past 20 years or so when oil was found under the water and the north west passage started to open up.

And to be clear, Canada has claimed ownership, of these islands since 1880, so this isn't exactly a fresh land grab:)

As can be seen from this diagram, any ship going through here sails directly through Canadian waters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northwest_passage.jpg

(1) with the exception of Denmark and hood island. However here both countries disagree about which side of their territorial borders a small island lies on.
Isn't there a YC company[0] doing the same thing who raised a tonne of capital?

[0] https://keychainlogistics.com/
Source? Gallup polls, please.
Thanks! I appreciate Indian food quite a bit when I can get it even if I don't know much about it.

So I took a look here http://blog.mahindrahomestays.com/a-taste-of-india-typical-i... and some of these look like they'd be nice diversions every once in a while.
Mother Jones, Huffington Post, or CNN will undoubtedly make a post shortly entitled "New Study Shows Republicans are Anti-Social and Despise Their Neighbors". However, all this data shows is that Democrats tend to be on the lower income side ( see http://n.pr/QFg1Yo ). Lower income people tend to live in higher density areas.
Really very cool. I can't wait to see how these interactive tutor things evolve. Programming is such an abstract thing for many people, something interactive like this is really powerful.

One suggestion: please add some form of code intelligence, so that when I type "pad." a popup appears with all the public pad methods and their descriptors. That would encourage playing around even more imo.
I would argue that spam is an even bigger one.

Basically, the Internet has spam because identity isn't a limited resource. IP addresses are kind of a limited resource, but they're not really the property of the person using/abusing them, so a blacklist doesn't inflict precise targeted damage, can't be made too draconian, and is easy to evade in lots of ways.

And everything above the IP level is unlimited. If there's an unlimited supply of identities, you can't tell the difference between a new customer and an old enemy. You want the first to have positive default reputation and the second to have infinite negative reputation.

People in the personal cloud community often point to email as proof that spam can be solved. Yes - but spam was solved in email because email already existed in an spam-free Internet. On the Internet we have, there's a much easier solution to the fact that any new protocol which is successful starts to attract spammers. The solution is: stop using the protocol. Google turned off XMPP federation for this very reason.

Basically in an orc-infested environment, you can't have your own cute little bungalow in the cloud. You gotta have an apartment in a giant fortified castle in the cloud.

Having a limited supply of identities, in which identities are (a) property and (b) property you control cryptographically (Bitcoin style, "allodial title"), makes it easy to make spamming not pay, once the price of an identity is greater than the profit a spammer can earn by burning it. And it does not require a central governance authority, or even a central reputation authority. (Reputation authorities shouldn't be built into any system, because if they abuse their own reputations the consequences are insanely dire.)

NAT is a problem, but there are lots of ways to tunnel around it. Which all suck, of course, but...
An interesting article, but a little politically charged. The repeated emotionally loaded descriptions of liberals and conservatives cannot have been accidental.
Consider that support for those browsers is quickly becoming a niche market, especially where new ventures are concerned.
Long time users of trackball mice will disagree with you

http://mobile.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/trackballs
class action lawsuit time.
the Internet really needs some form of "named data" networking

Don't we already have that? URIs are names for data. I had this same reaction when I read about "Content-Centric Networking" back when it first came out.

Maybe we'll evolve browsers and HTTP into a named data network

They already are. We don't need to evolve them so much as use them in the way HTTP was originally designed to be used: you retrieve and (if you have the privileges) act on data by addressing appropriate HTTP verbs and payloads to its URI.
Give up 7% of revenue to speed up development by 30%.
This appears to be working demos of the ideas that Bret Victor brought up when he initially criticized Khan Academy's CSE program -- the ones mentioned at http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/.

I feel like the OP is missing the forest for the trees; the key takeaways from Bret Victor's lamenting seemed to indicate to me that we need Yet Another Programming Language, but one that non-programmers can actually use for "real programming" in conjunction with a "real IDE" (as opposed to one where you just "learn programming" but don't use for "real work").
I often get asked by "kids" in High School or college how they can show off their talents. Building a complete app is hard, but building something that showcases that they understand how apps are built by leveraging other people's API's is a great way to show off their skills and product vision.

The problem is that if you show me something I have seen 100x before then I just assume you did some graphic design over an opensource project. If you instead work with something like these API's and show something unusual, and unique to you, then I sit up and take notice.

Plus if you build a small niche app, you can generate some serious money. The "Campus News" app that covers everything about your school, or the "Everything BitCoin News" app could do quite well if you are already participating in a community that you can leverage to be your initial users and kick start the app.
Clojure has OO faculties too, just not in one big tangled ball of mud like Scala and Java.
Does Rails come with goegraphically distributed cold storage these days? That's pretty sweet if so.
And of course the urbit frontpage itself: http://urbit.org.

Basically thanks to HN, 8300 people have watched a 10-minute screencast of a command-line session. Totally insane. My lovely and talented wife, who put together this video, was really hoping people would spend more time watching it than it took to edit.

Edit: And Google makes my point and VJ's brilliantly, by breaking the link to his Google TechTalk. Brilliant!
Power/battery. Extra RAM doesn't come for free power-wise, it costs energy to keep it's state.
Having fewer places in town results in meeting people you know more often. Having fewer people doesn't - your probability of meeting someone is the number of people you know (which is arguably larger in a city) divided by the number of places they could be. The number of people you don't know in a place is mostly irrelevant.
It is true that no system in the world has or could ever have a perfectly accurate merit assessment system... but has any one noticed that improvements in merit assignment and lower barriers to entry lead to less representation of women at the top, not more? In highly structured environments with statistical ranking systems, the portion of women at the top is miniscule. For example, women make up about about 55% of registered players in the American Scrabble Associations raking system, but on some occasions there are no women in the top 50 ranked (the most there has ever been was just a few) [1]. The only places where women are highly represented at the top are places with strong diversity programs. For example, Rwanda leads the world in terms of women's representation in parliament, but that is because a very large number of seats are reserved exclusive for female candidates, while the rest are open to anyone [2].

1. http://rcm-papers.net/scrabble-ratings-gender.html

2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7620816.stm
Ideas are worthless. Products are valuable. If you're afraid of being associated with a failed product attempt, then use a pseudonym.

The only way to verify whether an idea is worth pursuing, is to pursue it, and decide if it was worth it or not.
> Or am I misinterpreting something here?

To be brief, yes.

Conservationism has historically been associated with a strong central government, under the belief that a selected group of suitable people are better at governing than the general population. The definition of "suitable" has changed throughout the years: typical examples are "King chosen by divine right" or "general with enough troops to seize the capital".

Liberals have emphasized the idea that the general population should have a loud voice in their own future. In an ideal liberal society, people lead their own lives according to their own desires, with decisions affecting the entire group made by group consensus. Authority figures would be temporarily elected by consensus to lead the group during times of danger, and would step down once things are back to normal.

Both extremes have been tried during various times in history, and there's a lot of evidence that we don't yet know how to make either one work. Purely conservative societies tend to degrade into dictatorships when the wrong leader comes to power, while purely liberal societies fall apart when they grow past the size of a small town.

Major modern nations are a compromise between both conditions. A liberal nation might have a leader with weaker powers elected by direct vote from every adult. A conservative nation might have a leader with strong powers, elected by successful businessmen or the aristocracy. Smaller societies tend to be more extreme than large ones, with successful examples of both totalitarianism and communism existing in small towns throughout the world.

Among liberals, one of the popular ideas is that everyone should have some basic quality of life. This can be accomplished either through government (e.g. taxing according to earnings and then distributing according to need) or non-government (e.g. church or charities) mechanisms. Strong liberals prefer the first because it can be more fair and efficient, whereas more moderate liberals prefer the latter because it gives the donor more choice over who receives help.

Personally, I lean more towards the liberal side because I feel there is significant evidence that when a program needs to cover a large majority (say 90+%) of the population, letting it be run by the government will make it more effective and less costly than letting it be run by a corporation.
It's "required" by Apple's ABI that the frame pointer always point to a valid stack frame; just the same as on armv7. It's for debugging and ensuring backtraces are always valid. Not modifying the current frame pointer complies with this, which is what -fomit-leaf-frame-pointer does. But it's an ABI violation to use it as a general-purpose register.

It sounds like you're partially confusing this with r9, which is a completely different story - r9 was globally reserved by the system until iOS 3.0, then allowed. This equivalent in arm64 is x18, which again is globally reserved by the system.
The military isn't as conservative as many people think -- it's actually a pretty good representation of the voting preferences of the public at large.

"It is true that the upper echelons of the military tilt right," but "only 32 percent of the Army’s enlisted soldiers consider themselves conservative, while 23 percent identify as liberal and the remaining 45 percent are self-described moderates." [1]

For reference, the officer corps of the military only makes up ~16% of the total number of service members.[2]

[1] http://andrewgelman.com/2009/05/05/how_soldiers_re/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces#Pers...
First- yeah, sure, which is why I explicitly said "that this seems like a marketing site".

Second- That's not the bar I'm setting at all, and putting that extreme viewpoint in my mouth is silly at best. I do agree with your underlying point though, which is that you can't gauge code quality without looking at the code. That's why I think they'd be better off saying "and we do regular audits" and detail that bit. Otherwise this is basically them saying "we do security well, trust us!".

Third- They aren't really naming the best practices, simply stating that they follow them. If they're going to say they follow the standards of the payment industry, they should have some standard to point at and say they follow (even if it is a joke).

Fourth- I'm not expecting them to disclose everything, just pointing out that without that disclosure the number found there seems a bit high (especially for a company that's only 18 months old).

The major difference between these guys and Github is that I haven't seen the Github CEO and Founder post his security page on this site. This was clearly an advertisement to the people on this site, and I don't think it does a good job at all of saying that they understand security. What it tells me is that they understand security blogs, as most of the content in that post seems like it was ripped from topics on this site over the last year.

(I also like asides- if Github's appsec team is so good how come their enterprise product gets nailed with exploits all the time? Their last set of releases broke their authentication system so badly that it allowed anyone to log in as anyone else, including admins).
Secure, on Linode eh?

;)
The second article is quite alarming. Don't run any code in an enclave which you didn't compile yourself! One may not even be able to use a virtual machine to peer inside an enclave by emulating SGX: the software could demand a valid public key stored uniquely in every Intel chip and signed by Intel's private key, which a hypervisor would not have.
MiCarga co-founder here.

First of, our operations are mainly in Colombia and Argentina for now, but we are incorporated in Delaware as a C-corp.

Second, as of monday this week, it is legal. You could find more info here: https://angel.co/public