skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, I don't think it's restricted to the U.S. I live somewhere in Europe and mobile phone contracts are always less advantageous (fewer benefits, higher cost) as compared to regular prepaid cards. The only reason I've held up a contract is out of fear of simply not running out of minutes in a personal emergency-type situation.
Kylo: An Open Source 10ft UI Web Browser
Yes, you can call a binary C/C++ function from Python.

The important point is that C++ does it for me, automagically.
Running any DRM code is giving up your privacy and security, or to say it more properly increasing risks of their breach on your system. Since DRM is never trustworthy. It's like voluntarily running some malware.
Both Rust and C/C++ sit squarely in the "no GC" or "optional GC" camp, which has very important implications for certain applications which strongly favor that compared to a generalized system-wide GC.
See my answer below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6502485
How do you know what else that DRM can or can't do? I doubt you have any idea. Yet for some reason to blindly trust it?
Are you sure about that?

Yes.
You are mixing up what people can afford to what people think they need. It's a style your are criticizing. If anything Zurich has the highest frugality to wealth ratio on the planet, quite possibly.
This algorithm is also known as Ancient Egyptian multiplication, Egyptian multiplication, Ethiopian multiplication, Russian multiplication, or peasant multiplication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_multiplicatio...
St. Mary's Janesville Hospital laptop stolen (with patient data)
It's not that users are spending most of their time in a browser, it's that browser technologies are quickly becoming an ubiquitous platform. The OS is not changing in a browser, the browser is changing in an OS.

The fact is many peope don't care about the word processor. The computer isn't an accounting and mail-printing device anymore. People buy phones and tablets, use iOS and android. ChromeOS is perfect for them.

The best thing that could happen to open source today would be to have an html5 desktop to replace gnome and friends for consumer devices.
A program that consists solely of println("Hello, World!"); is pretty stateless and trivial, there's not much that a JIT could do with this.

Somewhat anecdotally, I remember hearing Rich Hickey talking about how the JVM JIT loves stateless code. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Java code in use is deeply stateful. I don't know how much of a difference this actually makes but it seemed like a relevant data point.
Thanks. It did occur to me that I could get pretty close to a black and white 32x32 picture by replacing the 8 colors with 8 patterns. You'd have to make impossible some patterns, but constraints breed creativity!
This isn't particularly scalable for T-Mobile and I'd say they haven't done themselves or their customers any favours. The customer service experience should be the same regardless of whether you go in from the top or the bottom. If a customer has a better experience by going in from the top, I think that just implies that the customer service frontlines are failing.

It's good that the CEO is so accessible, but no reasonable customer should need to reach out to the CEO in order to get the a good CS experience.
I'm skeptical of that claim - I don't think you needed to be literate to follow the story in a Buster Keaton film.
Install GNS3 (http://www.gns3.net/) and a bunch of virtual machines (servers, routers, firewalls, etc.) get to learnin'!
I miss geocities...
Setup servers in a virtualized network at home and try to build a "mini-internet". Setup fake companies with internal and external resources. Web servers, email, DNS, DHCP, routing, etc.
It is the only movie that I have re-started as soon as the end credits started rolling.
The amount of engineering rigor that has gone into sqlite over the years boggles the mind. It's a project that has been held up as a sterling example of successful software development many times, rightfully so. I especially like this part of their license, from the top of sqlite3.h

"The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of
a legal notice, here is a blessing:

May you do good and not evil.
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
May you share freely, never taking more than you give."
The point that corresation is making is that none of the optimizations you did had anything to do with C++. You could have easily done them for the Go version, but you didn't. Then you put up a chart and said "this is why C++ is better." Huh?
The subtle reference I was referring to (which made me mention Twitter) was that s/he wrote "scala" in place of "scale" in ["companies had to move off it to scale"] presumably by mistake, since it was later edited.

So that makes for half about the irony you are accounting for, the other half coming from you (and I really can't see no reason for it unless you had a hard time liking ruby/rails, which in turn would represent a very poor reason).
On some level this seems like sn interesting debate but the realist in me sees this a useless navel gazing. Why don't you go to a movie theatre, see that there are, in fact, many people there regardless this death of sophistication or whatever you're talking about. :)

It's a bit like reports of Mark Twain's demise.
yeah that's how i use them
U.S. Intelligence Chief Attempts to Break Tor Anonymity Network
"fail miserably" would be fine. Unfortunately it is "live miserably".
> There is nothing stopping the Go compiler from using SIMD and automatic vectorization, it just doesn't yet.

Those optimizations would almost certainly reduce the speed of the Go compiler (requiring SSA form and aliasing info).

> There is nothing about the language that prohibits it from a very high level of optimization, indeed the language is generally sparse in a manner that allows for those optimizations.

Autovectorization is very sensitive to good output from alias analysis. This is where the const and restrict keywords in C, absent in Go, are useful. I think you will at least need runtime guards in Go, whereas they are not necessary in well-written C.
Silk Road shutdown: how can the FBI seize Bitcoins?
Well it means the system tries the best it can do make the value durable. It will do a sync after every write perhaps. If the disk lies, well there is not much sqlite can do. If disk has a capacitor and battery maybe it can still lie that it wrote but keeps it in its internal buffer and if someone pulls the cord it has enough energy to flush everything it "lied about" to disk. Oh but what if you shoot a proton beam through it and blow away its capacitor and battery, well then you are out of luck.

As someone mentioned, this is contrast to say how MongoDB was shipping not too long ago. They had turned of any acknowledgement for writes. So doing a db write was more like a throw over the fence and pray operation. So it didn't even try to be durable, by design.
To me, expressiveness is about expressing an idea with as little incidental complexity as possible, which is definitely different from as in as few characters as possible.
I'm testing an LED light currently, it's color-changing via remote, but not the expensive Philips Hue kind.
I'm using it on Orange for early mornings and Red for when I have to stay up late with work.

I think it's probably similar to what you're doing with your amber compact fluorescent lights. I'm happy with the results.

Btw, there was a new study recently, http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/neuroscience/science-n... or the paper directly http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/32/13081.abstract

Supposedly red light during the night is the least 'traumatic' to endure.
Hm, that's a nice-looking app, but news:yc's interface seems superior to me.
In recent years there's been the rise of "premium lounge" type cinema products, with features like large recliner style seats (and many fewer of them), in-seat wait service, less or no advertising and a separate pre-show lounge serving restaurant-style food. With of course a pricetag to match.
MongoDB Raises $150M, Ready to Take Down Oracle
I'm in a similar situation with Sprint where I wanted to get an iPhone 5s as I have had the 4s since its introduction.

Well I was told I couldn't get it until Dec. or I could pay $150 to get out of my contract and get a new contract to get the 5s now.

I actually ended paying the fee and after doing so was told to text 1311 for more info. There in the text it said I could upgrade now or go with their new and better plan OneUp. No one told me about OneUp which is the more modern and better option. Sigh I spent $150 because Sprint hasn't trained their reps on this program, but they put the info in their SMS marketing....errrr :(

Well Sprint did solve that issue but then after solving it and because its still a new option/plan mis-information abounds. Getting a new iPhone with Sprint or trying has taken to much time and effort and have tried to work with them for the past two weeks. But I'm done... See ya Sprint!
This article made me think about the relationship between metadata and data. The dangerous thing about metadata is that if you have enough it, you can derive a whole lot more than one would expect.

Maybe the same thing goes for surveillance in public areas... Given enough of it, does that start to show you what's happening in private? (Imagine for a second that people are packets, and public areas are the network)

At what point does that become unacceptable?
You can help fund the sequel on Kickstarter, 5 days to go.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1759006687/the-man-from-...
Worth noting: the author of the Hacker's Diet, John Walker, explains why his choice (exponentially smoothed weighted moving average) is a good choice of smoothing function (vs. some other common functions) for tracking weight over time. See the section "Signal and Noise".
That's pretty serious. :)
This camera man is made of STEEL
You'd be surprised how ineffective such techniques are with such a small message size.
We(book),grandfather of 1984, banned in Soviet Union for 80 years
Lavabit founder shut down his service rather give the FBI private user data
If a python back-end doesn't give the performance numbers, then you find the bottleneck and write that 1% of code in C++. Tada - you get the performance anyway, but gain in development speed (which often is more valuable than the cheap processors).
I may be responsible for the term "layout thrashing" and tried to explain it in a blog post a while back: http://kellegous.com/j/2013/01/26/layout-performance/
If you identify in this, you should be welcoming silence.
Except my brain isn't a Turing machine. What expressiveness means then is how easily I can fit the concepts of the code in my head (not on my harddrive). This is not the same as how short the code is, though the two are often closely related.
Ant user here. Ant is Turing-complete, which serves as an object lesson in "can" versus "should". I have actually had cause to program in Ant - because that was the right place for the complexity in question - and would characterise it as what COBOL would look like written as correctly-formed XML. Oh the verbosity!

To be fair, I'm doing things that are actually bad and wrong. (At which point ant-contrib is your last friend.) Ant does its actual job - makefiles for Java - pretty well once you know it. It's fine, y'know, probably pretty much complete.
A quick read: CEO AlleyNYC: "Why I Do What I Do"
It hangs on the "Loading" animation to the left of the screen. Chrome 30.0.1599.69 m, Win8x64.

Console output:

Unexpected identifier in definition of component "app-image-gallery". ceci.js:502
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
at Window.Function (<anonymous>)
at Ceci.processComponent (http://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/vendor/ceci/ceci.js:497:19)
at Array.forEach (native)
at processComponents (http://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/vendor/ceci/ceci.js:541:16)
at XMLHttpRequest.xhr.onload (http://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/vendor/ceci/ceci.js:573:15) ceci.js:503
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier in definition of component "app-image-gallery". ceci.js:497
Which is not a reason to consider these practices valid (overcharging and DRM).
They couldn’t accidentally invade Liechtenstein any more…
The "this is code but you have to write it as correctly-formed XML" bit is whacky. OTOH, as syntax goes, it probably beats syntactically-significant varieties of whitespace.
I noticed

> [some RDO graphs will be nice-- add these]
What problems does a $1 trillion military solve that a $200 billion military doesn't. I'd hazard a guess that a $200 billion military generates significant funding cuts above and beyond because it's a bit difficult to get into unilateral quagmires at that funding level.
Great parody.
Very true ... JavaEE is dramatically different that J2EE. The emphasis on POJOs and inclusion of a CDI system allows the same functionality with dramatically less code.
I loved this guide. I appreciated the information on expenses, transportation and the summary of which companies are where. I'm impressed that it is possible to live on 30k/year even with the high rents and other costs.
Great movie. It goes to show that, just like in video games, graphics aren't that important.

The producer even thanked piracy for spreading awareness of the movie:

http://torrentfreak.com/producer-thanks-pirates-for-stealing...
I wish I had this two years ago when I moved here.
1. You've just explained what exactly is wrong with class action lawsuits too - they claim to represent 10k people, but roughly all of those people actually aren't very involved at all, even though someone is claiming to represent them.

2. Unlike class actions, you can actually make it fairly easily to arbitrate, or you could compute the value of their claim, and then pay them half to do it for them.
You have to start somewhere, right? You're assuming that all those people are going into straight-up developer roles. I'm guessing many of them are starting in junior roles in a best-case scenario, othewise doing testing or an internship until they get some solid commits under their belt or have their code reviewed consistently. I also think you are applying some federal, governmental definition of "unskilled labour" to the market for developers. I doubt any of the companies you see in, say, the typical "Who's Hiring?" thread here on HN (or in the rest of the market) care much about that. They just want to get the work done.

Also, equating new developers, no matter how n00b-like or inexperienced, to burger-flippers is an attitude that is pretty unfortunate and insulting, and if I ever sniffed that out in a company I'd avoid them even if interviewing for a senior role. Company culture is important, and you can tell a lot about a business by how they treat their least experienced people.
People need comprehensive basics: food, health/personal care, shelter and transportation. I'm not sure one program in one area can address or even a patchwork of programs will cover all of them, without some sort of single-point-of-contact facilitator (not sure if this exists or how that works, throw me a frickn bone ppl.). Also, at the bottom, there tends to be more emergencies and narrower margins of safety (eg unplanned costs), so some cash is an absolute necessity.

Perhaps a path from basic subsides that encourages people to think about how to manage their own cashflow: a) credits for specific basics as a starting point and fallback and b) after education and coaching, incremental more fraction of cash (as atm/check card) given as budgeting and receipt tracking skills are demonstrated. If they slip (off budget or failure to track), it's back to plan a) and possibly trying to get back on plan b) again. This way, people can choose to become more accountable for managing their own existence rather than assuming big mother "always knowing best." It also has the side-effect of instilling some self-confidence, regardless if the person is otherwise capable or not of gainful employment. It might give just enough confidence to pull someone up out of their condition to a less stressful existence or perhaps occasionally into self-sufficiency.
T-Mobile is probably the best mobile provider in US.
I saw someone post that apparently, the display resolution is too high which creates scaling problems with most DEs.

I don't really understand the gimped ChromeOS approach, they should just give it a real terminal, and a Debian based 'app-store'.
It's really that the movies are something of a loss leader. People don't come to the movies to buy snacks, but snacks are how theaters really make money. Which means that you're ripping them off worse by sneaking snacks than you are sneaking a video camera in.

Though with the way the prices of movie tickets are going up, I've begun to suspect that this is no longer true.
One of the aspects of contract law, at least in my country, is that a contract is - in principle - supposed to result from a more or less equal bargaining procedure. Having an extremely strong bargaining position, and jamming it up to the hilt in someone's chest, is grounds for the contract to be held invalid here. It's called undue influence.

I believe there was a case a few years back where it was even specifically held that this invalidated a mobile phone contract because the woman couldn't predict the future as well as the phone company.
> One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income.

people who talk about this always do so with the assumption that someone else would do the boring, low-paid work. but if you think about it, why should boring work be low-paid? it's unpleasant and time-consuming, so it should ideally be paid commensurately.
Yeah, but he is the President...
In node all IO is async by design. So it is likely any lib you'll use will be async too.
Well, I clicked on http://www.smithsonianmag.com/about/internships-employment.h... and an interstitial ad popped up that I couldn't close.

I don't think they're federally funded.
New Web Browser coming form Seattle
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> go into read article about chromebook development

> signup for nitrous.io
Pay closer attention to information regarding Dihydrogen Monoxide
I grew up in the valley, and I can tell you that in 2007 the traffic on 280 and 101 going north in the morning was much lighter than it is today. As SF tech companies have grown dramatically in the last few years, so has the traffic. The same was true building up to 2001; after dotcom, the traffic went down dramatically. Of course, improvements to the highways and interchanges around that time made traffic feel even more sparse on the peninsula.

Those post-dotcom days were sad; the reason there was less traffic was the unemployment of people you knew. You felt that everywhere you went.
I actually think Testflight is great but I do have an issue with having to add each phone to Apple's profile. The process is quite cumbersome and sometimes the tester(s) cannot add their phones. Oh well...

Thank you all for the feedback.
I wrote an ebook that sells fairly well on the ibookstore and Kindle.
Nice service, well done!

Needs a verification email, though. I get people signing up my email for pissweak revenge, and I have someone who signed up to iTunes using my email addres by mistake, and Apple spam doesn't have an unsubscribe link ...
> So I don't see Edgerank as a band-aid fix, but a fundamental requirement for a large-scale system like this. Because (a) on the demand side, recommendations are what people actually want - let computers do what they're good at and reduce the human tedium of sifting through inane FourSquare checkins etc

I can't speak for everyone, but I believe the Google Reader model would work for most people. The interface is entirely based on the source, not the post content, the keywords, or an algorithmically derived importance.

There is nothing technical about it: you notice who posts interesting content and who does not. There is no need for automatically ranking the importance of two posts from separate sources, people are very good at deciding who they find interesting.

Edgerank or proposed twitter feeds of the future are based on the idea of algorithmically figuring out what is the most important news for you right now. But if you don't care about learning about the "news" two weeks later, then a source-based manual filtering would let the user do that far better than a ML algorithm can. And if it's out of date in two weeks, it wasn't worth reading at all.
The responsive design view is very handy. It switches the size of the view port without changing the size of the whole window. I still use firebug most of the time, but there are some issues with firebug you have to be careful of. See this post for an example http://perfectionkills.com/understanding-delete/#firebug_con...
There's the old but true "never take a No from someone who doesn't have the authority to say Yes." So in most situations, the CEO wouldn't be helping, thus the customer service agents should have some authority. I've worked in a call center, I know the kind of BS that's pushed. Everyone just says what needs to be said to get the sale or get the customer off the phone (if it's a problem).

As an aside, I once had a problem with my Citibank and I found a little known 'elite team' of Citibank people who called me in a foreign country, on my cell phone, within minutes of me contacting them via email and resolved my problem in about 2 minutes flat. And they reversed charges I felt I shouldn't have had in the first place.
Not just diskless, but somehow incapable of flashing the BIOS, rewriting the CPU microcode, and loading new firmware into the NICs and other peripherals.
Sounds about right. My ballpark estimate just now arrived at $67. It's really funny whenever someone complains that the Bay Area is so expensive; in all areas except housing it's a lot cheaper than where I live. Salaries are higher too, if you're in software. If you work on McDonalds, though, you should probably be in Norway.
Voyjor
Voyjor Is a new Chromium-distribution coming form a seattle startup
I wouldn't call it racist, but the receivers of these benefits are closely correlated to their origin and race -- Switzerland is not famous for accepting immigrants to their country.

I just want to point out the inherent contradiction of the claims

(a) The system is unlikely to be exploited because humans innately want to work and will be productive in this system.

(b) The benefits are only distributed among a certain group of people, only those who are natives to this country in particular. The only reason for this, I imagine, is the fear of the system being exploited.

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that those who like this concept think that only native Swiss people will not exploit the system.

You're right to call me a weirdo though.
Oh! maybe I'll wait til after I implement some of these feature requests.