skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The united position of Tiffany's and Walmart is interesting. Perhaps both are concerned that unrestricted flooding of the market will new gold will hurt both of their profits. Or is it altruism?
Toshiba's in trouble - cutting 3,000 jobs
I'm guessing: Total time will vary dramatically depending on whether the database is on HD, SSD, or in memory, so he is separating out that component. Of course, he might be optimizing something that doesn't help much if it takes forever to read the data from disk.
Android makers need to make money on the phone while MS needs market share credibility. So these users are more valuable to MS than to Android vendors and MS is outbidding Samsung et al with spiffs for salespeople.
This is good advice if you have the experience to be hired for an F1 team. F1 pit crews aren't hanging out at career fairs.
Four rules to make Star Wars great again
"within the next week" -- Awesome!

"We're turning on CORS for the Google JS Library CDN, too." -- Awesome!

Things are looking up!
First, let me just tell you, you are not the only one. When I had my first panic attack, I got very scared and everything just hit me like a train. Anxiety, worry, strange pains and the worse, sleepless nights. I panicked about not being able to sleep and therefore I wasn't able to sleep. I know exactly how you are feeling, after a few weeks of almost no sleep, I thought I had lost it and I was in too deep and that it would never end. Let me just assure you that this isn't permanent and that you can change a lot but you have to put your mind to it.

Let me tell you what helped me: Questioning and Thinking, I will explain. Because of the panic/anxiety I had especially when I was laying in bed, trying to fall asleep, I also had a phobia of my bedroom and sleeping (this of course made it worse). I would lay in bed feeling miserable and not understand why my body wasn't letting me rest and why this was happening to me. I would lay there scared and all I thought about was that it would never end and this was permanent. But with the help of counseling and just experiencing the symptoms enough, something in my thoughts changed and I started questioning: "what's the worst that can happen? This can't kill me. If I don't fall asleep, I may not feel great but nothing bad can really happen." And with that, I slowly started to get more and more comfortable and having better sleep. Some nights are better than others and when they aren't great, it's not permanent. Get your head out of thinking in patterns, if you can't fall asleep, get up and read a book, get away from your bed, do something and tell yourself that you will fall asleep but if you don't, it's not a big deal.

Although I did use medication, try to go the natural route first. And try distraction as well, as others have mentioned, there is some great meditation and other kinds of music you can listen to to help you sleep. Just Tell yourself that it doesn't matter if you fall asleep or not. Understand that your body and mind know what to do and that they will do what is right. When you get the pains, once again, tell yourself that it may be uncomfortable but it is not permanent, it can't kill you and it doesn't have to keep you from sleeping.

Stay positive and remember that everything will be great. My email is in my profile and I would love to answer any more questions you have.
Ex-Spy Christopher Boyce on Snowden, WikiLeaks, and NSA Backdoors
Hard to tell which are continents, and which are oceans.
Doesn't mean it isn't accurate. It is inaccurate to say that casinos and insurance are dissimilar in that regard.

If casinos find themselves paying out too often, they change the size of those payouts with respect to how much it costs to play, until they are back in the black. If insurance companies find themselves paying out too much, they raise their premiums. Same basic concept, the only thing that is different is the motivation of the customers.
And you can't in Javascript? Sure, the syntax is a little clunky, but the semantics are precisely the same.
if we say it is not ok, then it is not possible to have technology that looks at the content of email for delivery purposes.
thus virus checkers, deep packet inspection and firewalls instantly become unavailable.
Do you have any idea what you talk about?

gitmo is actually full of people whose crime was to piss someone in off, get handed in for a bounty, then get caught in the middle of Republicans rousing their inbred base by opposing trials.

From the wiki article: "The Center for Policy and Research's 2006 report based on DOD released data, found that most detainees were low-level people who were not affiliated with organizations on U.S. terrorist lists." [1] One example: "The U.S. offered $5,000 per prisoner and distributed leaflets widely in the region. A perfect example would be Adel, a Chinese Uighur and dissident who had been sold to the US by Pakistani bounty hunters"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#D...
I didn't say this was impossible, just probably a bad idea. If your application is simple enough for this to work though, go for it.
urgh, can't download with linux
Glad you guys hit ramen profitable. Any word on when the API is opening up/how much that'll run?
Or if they altered them to be reasonable - knowing what "processes" your data, especially if it's a ton of things, in no way protects your rights as a consumer since most consumers wouldn't understand it anyway.
When you love, disk access doesn't count. ;)
I've always been curious, what makes Excel better?
I've had people worry if I was dead when I stopped writing to certain social media accounts.
I de-activated my Facebook account a long while ago. going to reactivate to see who's still there and reach out to them with phone calls and emails. :( thanks for the reminder. Real Life.
Generations in the workplace
> Isn't step one President Obama ordering these programs
> to be stopped? It's hard to see how he's going to
> prosecute anyone for carrying out programs his own
> administration either started or allowed to continue.

Yeah, President Obama is the one driving all of this. How can anyone even imagine that he would stop it? And, the next president (probably Hillary) will drive it even harder. 9/11 pushed the US past a point of no return. If you read some recent US military history you can get a well integrated picture of what's really going on. The Office of the President essentially has it's own military, separate from the US Armed Forces and the US Legislature - SOCOM. The President by his hand alone can order SOCOM, in secret, to strike at any time and even to assassinate American citizens. That's an incredible power. It's not the only way the Office of the President has become more powerful in the last decade, though. The number of "signing statements" used by Obama to bypass congress is mind blowing. The only way the power of the Office of the President will be reduced in the future, and things like the NSA domestic surveillance activities stopped, is through a civil war that ends in a new constitution and completely restructured government. Does anyone really think that members of congress aren't being blackmailed with information the domestic surveillance activities produced? Look at the recent monitoring of press phones to see that the capabilities are turned against our representatives. Look to the recent insider trading investigation to see the kinds of things they'd be blackmailed over. They're powerless.
Those are nearly full-sensor images. If you download the supplemental materials, the large images are all 3492 x 2205. That's 7.7 megapixels -- and the Canon 40D is listed as a 10.1 megapixel-camera.

They shot the photos with a hand-made, one-element lens. This is a very bad lens.

The photos may look like they're out-of-focus, but they're actually in-focus. (The width of lines does not change after the processing.) They just have an extreme amount of diffusion, chromatic aberration, and all sorts of other distortions.
Those are terrible examples though, not because they're bad programmes but the teams that designed, researched and implemented those design and UX choices are probably bigger than many entire software companies.
When releasing a disguised press release, you can be a little loose with your math.

For example, say your overall market share is roughly 3.1% of the entire market. You just had a banner month and your sales were roughly 7.7% of total sales for the segment for that month. You can honestly say that your market share is "nearing" 10%. You say this knowing that many people will just read the headline or skim through the body. Now, many have a mental picture of your company actually having 10% market share.
Does the NSA or another clandestine organization monitor the EFF's communications to watch for exactly this?
The safe/private thing to do is not visit any website at all. Ads don't have special access to your computer that a normal website does not. By visiting a new website, ads are by far the least of your worries.

Being online at all exposes you to risk and creates a footprint of your existence. Much like moving around in public does. And just as in moving around in public, the safest and most private thing to do is to not be in public at all.
How so? I think eyeareque is correct.

In the days before the Internet, there were generally three ways to stay in touch with distant friends: writing letters, making telephone calls, or visiting in person. All three required varying degrees of time and effort on ones part, but this was offset by the simple pleasure of conversing with a friend. People didn't bother engaging in this sort of activity with acquaintances or "rather pleasant kinda-friends", because the personal connection didn't exist. There was no "payoff" significant enough to offset the effort.

The likes of Facebook remove most of this time and effort requirement. You can "friend" people you haven't spoken to in years or even decades with a minimum of difficulty. While I'm sure there are plenty of cases where the lack of communication could be due to external causes (divorce, reassignment, death, job loss, etc) there are undoubtedly many more cases where people simply "drifted apart" because they found they didn't have strong common interests.

Many Facebook (and similar social media) relationships really aren't "genuine" (as eyeareque stated) for this reason. Neither party really is interested in putting additional effort into the relationship beyond a simple "like" button click every now and then, if even that.

The OP's story is sad, and while I agree with their summary that we should treasure our friends and family while we have them, let's not pretend that the Golden Age of Social Media has somehow provided us with a revolutionary relationship tool.

Facebook is a dynamic, 21st Century version of the old "phone number and address book": full of people to whom you might send a Christmas card, but little else.
If you care, read the article! ;)

The article makes it clear that Jaakobou is dishonest (which is a different concept from Jaakobou actually being dishonest, but if the part I quoted is true, I'm satisfied that he is). In the original there is formatting that was stripped out by my copy-paste into a hacker news comment. Finally, as I parse it, the text "citing the content to Peace Now is problematic [...]" is a statement that the article attributes to Jaakobou, not a claim by the author.
Not like that in the UK. They're everywhere.

They're really cheap here (820 = £179 SIM free) and they work perfectly with giffgaff for a mere £15 a month for unlimited SMS, data and 400 mins calls.

There is no better experience for such little cash. Cheap androids are all crappy.
So, I found this from back in 2011: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ibm-patent-gpu-accelerated-...
However, I couldn't find any commercial or even (active) open source projects on this topic.
It seems like something that would be valuable to businesses working with big data, so what's the hold up?
Has nobody reached this scale yet? Is it still too expensive? I don't get it..
Maybe I'm overthinking it.
You know which kind of substance flows in, when you open the "floodgates" "wide open", right? Try searching for "minion" in the WP store.
clickable : http://craftedinchicago.com/
Report: U.S. Copyright Office on Challenges in Resolving Small Copyright Claims
Elo Rating System: Ranking Champions League teams using Clojure
> The only way the power of the Office of the President will be reduced in the future, and things like the NSA domestic surveillance activities stopped, is through a civil war that ends in a new constitution and completely restructured government.

I'm inclined to agree. My knowledge of political history is rough at best, but I have a hard time recalling a large-scale reduction of a government's power through legislation and prosecution alone.
That's one of many. The first one that comes to my mind is http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Buntin...
I hope they will not do to WP what Google is doing to Chrome (hiding the recently closed tabs, pushing the crappy Chrome app store etc.).
Wow. This us uncanny. Replace 'Mensenne primes' with 'Perfect numbers', 'math encyclopedias for kids' with 'Geometry teacher', 'history teacher' with 'spanish teacher', and 'struggling country' with 'midwestern US state in the early 90s' and you've pretty much described my introduction to programming--right down to working on it with another nerdy friend.

I don't think that means much of anything, and I don't identify with the rest of the post, but I find it interesting that someone from another time and place has a nearly identical programming origin story.
Here's my perspective as both a user and developer.

Most paid apps there are the equivalent of small side projects. They're simple things that should exist, and after enough time, someone will make them for free. The ones that are not free tend to have better visual design. Big whoop. I'll take my coffee please.

Here's an example of something that's worth more than a coffee: Shazam. It identifies music around you by doing some crazy audio processing and database magic. Aaaand I'm still using their free app (haven't had the need to upgrade yet). So if someone offering that much value still can't convert me to a paying customer, how will you?

I'm a developer as well. It's hard to create something worthwhile, I get it (I still haven't really). My theory is that if it's not technically defensible in some way, or doesn't get a network-growth lock-in effect quickly, then it's easily replicated as a free app.

Would love to hear counter-arguments to any of this. Frankly all I see is people complaining about everything except the intrinsic value of the apps, which is exactly what the article mentioned would happen. We live in an era of increasingly less low-hanging fruit.
" Microsoft made sure no other system, free or not, has a breathing room"

I would believe this if Linux didn't dominate Microsoft in the server space.

Linux did hand Microsoft it's lunch--- in areas where the users who know what they were doing get a say.

Linux has always struggled with the non-technical user and ridiculous OS-size gui's have to be written for Linux just to make it palatable by the common user.
What Techies Should Know About A Government Shutdown
And also Energia is working on the PTK NP project.
What i don't see (maybe haven't looked hard enough) are another security review/s.

Until bitmessage is thoroughly reviewed by serious people ,and results are displayed in a prominent place, it would be hard to trust.
Brackets - Open source code editor
what makes you think the number mentioned in the classified document is, or intended to be, accurate?
And of course they'll pull the plug in 18 months or so thus leaving people wanting for a replacement :P
AFAIK what Microsoft forcibly ended was a support agreement for the software. I don't see how this is less possible with FOSS. If your third-party support provider doesn't want to support some software anymore and nobody else you trust wants to either, this puts you right where those companies were vis a vis Windows XP.
Sometimes it's nice to have a place to actually send things. It's like writing a letter to someone you never actually intend to send. I think in the case of Facebook, it's probably nice to actually push that "send" button on the message.
What's your point?
You quoted a fact that he stated, which happens to be wrong, and I pointed out that it was wrong. That's evidence for my view of things, not yours. It's not a teaching moment, he had nothing useful to say. He still doesn't so far as I can see. Where we are now is let's just re-iterate the same wrong point over and over again, and pretend like it means something.

Maybe if you're so concerned about me getting it, you can point out what his actual point is, which you seem to think is so obvious? spell it out for me.
Your manner degenerates any productive conversation. Thank you for reaching Goodwin's law first.
arg, too late for me to do it
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I would love your feedback.
kontact/kmail (KDE mail ua) used to integrate all that stuff the only thing it lacked was an ability to handle HTML email. At the time the developers kept insisting that email should all be plaintext and they weren't going to allow HTML mailing in kmail.

I moved to thunderbird.

The rest of KDE4 caught up to being release standard at about version 4.6 and Kontact looks good but I've become entrenched with TB now.
I play that game on my nexus 7 (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotemu.rty...)

love it :)
Whhat does that have to do with my post or the article?
A feature, in my opinion.

Well, Clojure's a different language so it doesn't matter as much. If Clojure had enforced purity and pervasive laziness (a la Haskell) it'd be a real pain to use monads without polymorphic operators for them.
AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, among other recent rulings.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/04/scotus-rules-att-...

http://blogs.reuters.com/alison-frankel/2013/08/22/how-scotu...

This is why they can require you to waive your rights to participate in a class action. If you look at the ToS for every company you do business with, you'll probably find that several of them were revised almost immediately to take advantage of the AT&T decision. (PayPal comes to mind.)

IANAL but my understanding is that class action lawsuits are basically done at this point.
What he said in his first sentence is false. Thus, there is no alternative.

It's a quite strange way of writing a sarcastic comment, but it does agree with you.
Instant help desk community, Wizpert, launches - starting with programming help
When you have a pain you need to do the CBT stuff - stop the thoughts; examine the hot thought and emotions and evidence, and then reassess. It's disappointing that your therapist isn't helping with that.

You can also do CBT for sleep problems. So, uh, try that too.

(http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/insomnia/Pages/myquestforsleep.as...)

> Dr Chris Idzikowski, of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, says that people with insomnia often worry about their sleep. "They worry about the consequences of not falling asleep," he says. "This worrying turns into a vicious circle: the more you worry, the less you sleep."

> Dr Idzikowski says that breaking this cycle of anxiety about sleep is an important part of treating insomnia. "I tell my patients to focus on letting go of being awake rather than focusing on falling sleep," he says.

You might need extra help. "Sleep hygiene" is useful, but it's mostly about setting up a routine and sticking to it. Do you think a calming routine would help you unwind, and go to bed un-anxious?

There are exercises around "mindfulness" that might be helpful. Classes of meditation are helpful for this, but I'd be interested to see if there's any decent online meditation guides.

You might want to look on YouTube for ASMR videos. These are odd, in that they feature people whispering and using objects to make odd sounds. Some people feel the ASMR "tingle". I don't, but some of the videos are calming, and they're strange enough to distract me.

I liked Zopiclone as a short term intervention. I take it for a few days to kick me back into a sleep routine. It might not be a good choice for anxiety!

(http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/insomnia/Pages/treatment.aspx)

Obviously this is not medical advice and I'm not a doctor and I have no experience or training etc.
You should see the latest models - they have 8-core CPUs and the scrolling is now almost as smooth as in WP/iOS!
This is awesome :)

I like the frontier stuff most of all.
Still, I'm not sold on the "old" part. That's only true for the rebels, and anly for episode >4. In the previous one, it should be newer. Obi Wan Kenobi WAS young, in a certain moment in time, you have to admit...
Not really. MS Word was designed to generate HTML that would look like your original MS Word document and be round-tripped. This is not particularly easy. However, it made sense if you wanted to use your word processor to create and edit web documents (rather than find and learn another program), or publish existing documents as web pages. Which some businesses did.

This did actually make the world a better place insofar as the web got some HTML pages that would otherwise have been Word doc file downloads.

MS Word also produces much smaller HTML pages if you save your web page as "filtered HTML", sacrificing some Word functionality in the process.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/about-using-filt...

However, to do that, you would have to know the "filtered" option was there, and why you might want to use it. Which is probably not your average office drone.
Most of my errors are injected javascript. (not that I'm a bug free programmer, but I can fix my shit. the other stuff, it just keeps coming. and coming. It's like the fecking zombie hordes.).

It's especially fun when it's a totally useless error, like Invalid object, line 1, no file. yeah, thanks IE.

So what I've done in my window.onerror handler is enumerate all the script tags and look for ones that have a origin that's not my server. Then I send that back along with the trace of the error and all my other debugging data.

If I see a pile of scripts from google cdn and superfish and whatever, then I know that it's not my problem and if they call and bother support, support can tell them to clean up their windows install and then we'll talk.

idle speculation -- I wonder if there's a way to bugger the dom so that any script tag that's injected gets diverted to my code...
CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison; feels vindicated by Snowden leaks
I am continually frustrated picking up other peoples shit. I abhor the "get it working" attitude. This industry is full of sub-par engineers and lazy attitudes. No excuse, do it properly and then we can stop this "pass the buck" attitude which is common in this industry.
I think it's impressive that you think the figurehead has the power.

I promise you that if you think Congress is being intimidated by the intelligence community, than it's equally if not more so likely that the president himself is as well.

Here's the likely scenario: the President has his first real sitdown with the intelligence community after inauguration, and they hand him a manilla folder. Inside the folder is the file they've kept on that new president for decades. Every phone call, email, text, app-download or piece of mail they ever sent is in there. It's all there, every blackmail piece, every high school sweetheart, every illicit lover, everything. The blackmail isn't overt, but the nature of the asymmetric relationship is established and the truism that information is power is reaffirmed.

I simply cannot believe that the figurehead-of-the-decade is the puppeteer and not the puppet.