skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1999 was right about the time Java starting getting fast enough to use for servers (where you don't care much about start-up time).

About that time, I needed to decide whether to use Java or Delphi (an ahead-of-time Pascal compiler) for a new project. I was worried about garbage collection overhead. So, I designed a trivial benchmark wherein an array of simple objects was constructed in a loop (as we revisit each slot in the array, we replace the old object with a new one). Java came out ahead. The superiority of GC, along with platform independence, convinced me to go with Java.
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Hackers Have Seized 38 Million Adobe Customer Records
How much current? Do you think it would be doable to make a "thinking hat" to wear at job interviews?
You know what would outrage the public? Having any of this affect them directly in any tangible way. It doesn't. So they don't care.
Lenovo Hires Ashton Kutcher As New 'Product Engineer'
I do agree that having a hydraulic (or cable)-clutch car eliminates the ECU from a critical path (power to wheels), but there are plenty of electronic-ized manuals.

There are all sorts of advanced DSG / dual-clutched transmissions in many newer cars, but even some older cars like the MR2 and Smart cars have a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrohydraulic_manual_transmi... : quite literally a manual transmission where the clutch has been actuated electronically.
Come on, say it to my face! You don't believe non-US people have a right to privacy. That's me! Your agencies can do whatever they want to me, but not to you.

You're on the public Internet, you're not "within national borders", and everybody can hear what you just said. Say it to my face. Tell me how you feel that it's just fine to violate my privacy, that it's apparently perfectly fine to pry into my life, hack my phone networks, to gather any possible information there is to know about me and all those around me, just because I'm not a US citizen, and you are. You are better and are entitled to these protections, I don't.

> The same holds true, modulo agency name and country, for any other country.

Not every country believes that their citizens are somehow exceptional and non-citizens can be treated however they please.
People who use their Windows laptops primarily for business/accounting data-entry tasks love the number pads.

This blogger does not know the market better than the large and profitable manufacturers selling into it. The manufacturers have real numbers backing their decisions – not subjective aesthetic and ergonomic hand-waving. If customers weren't choosing (and even paying extra for) for the numpad, it'd disappear quickly.
I don't think so. Perry and Yancey have very similar ideas for the company, and I don't think Perry is truly gone (Charles, it sounds like, pretty much is). This sounds more like Perry taking a break after 6 years of nonstop crunch mode.
> From our parent: I used to work in the antivirus industry, and, as I recall, anything that even hinted at a history of hacking or virus-writing would lead to instant dismissal and black-listing (from pretty much the entire computer security industry).

A number of notable, convicted hackers have done additional work (whether employment or successful entrepreneurship or both) in the computer industry (in security-related or other subfields) after conviction. Kevin Mitnick, Julian Assange -- long before WikiLeaks -- and YC's cofounder Robert Tappan Morris are among the more notable examples.
My Fucking Mail would be a better name. As in, it's mine, do fucking not read it. Sorry for the profanity but I think it fits how many people feel about this.
Are they saying that WebRTC is going to standardize H.264, or they are saying just that Mozilla will have an easy way to implement it in cases where nothing else is possible?

It would be better if WebRTC standard remained ambiguous about video (like it is now), but in practice H.264 could be implemented by everyone, rather than making any such encumbered codec mandatory. The big failure here is of course not making VP9 mandatory, but it looks like before Daala comes, we won't have a mandatory free codec for the Web.

If H.264 will become a mandatory part of the standard - then it will be pretty bad.
"I wear it all the time when I drive and I've even traveled at ~95mph..."

And that's why I don't drive.
Google isn't making anyone rich anymore - they have >20,000 engineers. They aren't a startup, they're on a similar scale to HP or Accenture. Decent salaries but no equity worth a damn and senior management have no idea who you are.

And secondly, 19,999 of those engineers are working on displaying ads and billing companies for displaying those ads. I'd wager that isn't actually very exciting work.
That emotional appeal only has value is you can also show that wearing Google Glass causes an increase in accident rate.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transc...

(Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I'm not suggesting armed rebellion against the government. Rather, I'm pointing out that this situation has happened in history before, and, well, that's what we called it.)
Well, no. They accused Samsung of lying and a judge found in Samsung's favour. Interestingly enough, the very same judge is now "consulting" for Samsung.
I use the numpad for every number i type on my keyboard. It's much faster and the time/energy i would save by having to move my hand a shorter distance to the mouse, is no where near the amount of time/energy i save by not having to look at the keyboard and find each individual number.
you even cite the source but can read the paradox on "open source [...] and provide a binary blob"? Read the response from Firefox to understand. If you are not a coder, than i apologize and provide a car analogy :) they are giving out cars with the engine bay shut, but they are providing 3D files under BSD license so you can print a glove and a shoe to use when driving the car. And the shoes and gloves are so bad, the the mozilla driver said he will just sew his own and use the car for free, which he still has no idea which engine it is using or what fuel it takes.

as i said, no "significant code" will be provided. The code they are open sourcing is HEADER FREAKING FILES for the entry points on the binary blob.

It is the exact same thing as nvidia provides. and nvidia even provides the header files as GPL! so let's all go buy nvidia drivers as they have GPL OPEN SOURCE DRIVERS PROVIDED BY NVIDIA! huray!
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Thanks for sharing and I always have this thought at the back of my mind. I am 36 and launched my first serious part-time(gotta pay bills) startup last Dec after working on it for over a year. This was after 2 attempts half-ass ideas with no solid business plan. This article definitely boosts morale.
How about not musing out loud that people who are criticizing companies just "want to hate on these companies", if you're entertaining the idea of not being insulting and condescending.

Google is a company that's been leading the way to get everyone on the cloud. It turns out what it's also been doing is making mass surveillance massively easy due to poor security practices. One individual having bad locks is not analogous to what is at play here. You keep suggesting that Google should get a free pass because the adversary in this case was too sophisticated of a player: no, that does not matter, that is an excuse. Don't give me excuses. Google makes billions, it should simply have done a better job. Your earlier post took issue with Google's brand being tarnished unfairly, this is what I'm talking about to you right now, so the question of just 'who' I will trust is not very relevant.

To answer your question anyway: basically I'm going to pull away from the cloud as much as I can. No more google apps for me, no more gmail, no more anything where I end up putting my personal data or my clients' data anywhere but on my dedicated servers -- and using end-to-end encryption when any data needs to travel out. That does not remove the possibility of getting compromised, it just mitigates it.
> What if the code contains a security issue that is exploitable, but only in remote cases and the maintainers do not want to accept changes to the code for whatever reason?

Surely, Mozilla will release an update which disables the plugin under these circumstances.

> How many attacks will there be trying to redirect the Cisco DNS in order to let Firefox download a malware-ridden binary?

Are there currently attacks trying to subvert Firefox's self-update mechanism? Or Chrome's for that matter? My understanding is that Firefox will be checking hashes or signatures for the download.

> How is this a victory over using GStreamer and using the encoders/decoders available on the OS?

As stated in the blog post, not all OS's have support for H.264, in particular Windows XP. It sounds like Firefox already supports H.264 video when the OS provides the codec. It's not clear to me whether Mozilla will move to OpenH264 across all platforms supported by Firefox, or only when there's no codec provided by the OS.
Nearly 10 years ago I bought happy hacker keyboards without numpads for all of my desktops and I haven't missed the numpad one bit. I did get the model with cursor keys though (edited to add: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000U1DJ2/ ).

Giant keyboards are even more of a waste of space and ugly eyesore on the desktop than they are on a laptop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard
Man Forgets About Buying $27 of Bitcoin, Is Now Worth About $1 Million
I got ticketed for having a GPS attached to the centre of the screen. According to the cop, all devices that obstruct the view must be removed. So, GPS is permitted on an attachment on your dash or far left corner of the windshield.

Google Glass is not a phone but an obstacle in view. Therefore, I guess that the cop decided that it should be ticketed. I think this ticket will be upheld in the court as well.
Has anyone actually confirmed that Ladar Levison is behind this?
Ask HN - My manager called Rails passé.  Is he wrong?
My manager called Rails passé this morning. It was in a conversation about upper management trying to get our team to start using a single page architecture and he called it a trend just like rails was a year ago. I disagree (on both fronts actually), but I'm have a hard time formulating a good argument. Can HN help me?
Lenovo's been shipping 14" and 15" business laptops with 1366x768 screens for a while, and no one seems to want that. No users were benefited by trimming ThinkPads to a 6-row keyboard, yet they pushed ahead with that anyways.

HP shipped plenty of laptops with massive heat issues (literally painful to the touch, even sitting idle at the MS Store).

To think that OEMs always know best is wishful thinking. Although in the case of a numpad on a large style laptop, I'd probably prefer it.
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I completely agree with your sentiment that no one is justified in thinking they are superior to anyone else. Furthermore, I have never said anything even remotely to the contrary.
I'm not a doctor and I'm not going to give you potentially dangerous advice for you to fuck about with while experimenting on your nutritional intake.

Recommended daily calories are 2000 for adults.

One week of soylent is $65. 48 bottles of Ensure Plus is about $80. 6 bottles of Ensure Plus would be 2100 calories.
Building relationships with stakeholders: A founder’s experience [video]
Does anyone else remember "the green button" ?
The US government throws its weight around by ordering sanctions against countries that have policies it does not agree with. I have no doubt that, where sanctions would be politically unpopular, there are back-room blackmailings of some type.

That said, instituting similar sanctions against the US should absolutely be the number one thing the rest of the world responds with! It might not be every US citizen that is culpable, but they are your representative government, and your responsibility. (I assume you're from the US, but I use "your" as a collective for anyone from the US that may be reading this).

Do you think the people might take a legitimate stand if business dealings, travel, and exports were banned to the United States? Do you think US citizens would go absolutely fucking crazy?

> As for fixing things, the government has become literally unmanageable, and things are a mess right now

Well untangle yourselves and then we'll talk.

Unfortunately, the US has so much power around the world that most countries are literally unable to respond. They are the new Rome, using political and economic power rather than pure force (but use force where necessary) to control the world. It's disgusting.
So, to be clear. I need to contact Github directly to see if my source has been downloaded using compromised deploy keys?
To be fair, Apple popularized the buttonless trackpad trend and is reasonably good at executing it; originally I was skeptical of it but Apple's clicky trackpads are very nice to use.

That said, Lenovo made the decision to integrate a Synaptics Clickpad in a lot of the recent ThinkPads and it's basically untenable - on my ThinkPad I've turned the trackpad entirely off because the Clickpad is just so unusable.
It's 5 O'Clock. You Should Have Waited Until Now to Buy Your World Series Ticket
We "betrayed" by not doing what, exactly?

H.264 won the HTML5 video battle, as noted at http://brendaneich.com/2012/03/video-mobile-and-the-open-web.... If anyone betrayed someone then, it was Google for not doing as they explicitly blogged they would by removing H.264 support from HTML5 video in Chrome. (But I understand why they didn't; they're realists.)

For WebRTC where there is no extant/legacy content reason for us (not speaking for Cisco) to require H.264, we prefer VP8 over baseline H.264, but do not at this point want to rule out either. And on mobile devices, especially at the low end, the h/w codec advantage for H.264 is material.

Even next-year-announced chipsets with VP9 support tend to have only h/w VP9 decoding and at best s/w encoding (perhaps on an extra ARM core!).

Your fancy camera with video short-take capabality has boiled H.264 encoding as well as decoding into even low-end SoCs. How much this means for battery life, we are still digging into, but it's not trivial for long WebRTC calls.

Instead of dramatic talk about betrayal, where you seem to expect Mozilla to fall on the nearest sword stood up and aimed at our gut (probably by a competitor), and die a glorious but pointless death, think about the long run. H.264's price ceiling is now $0.

This matters for future codecs. Between our work on Daala, and downloadable codecs such as OTOY's ORBX.js, there is a better and unrestricted future to invent. Join us, if you can be realistic about H.264 h/w advantages.

/be
The bandwidth out of one PCI-E slot is pretty ridiculous on newer motherboards, even high end cards don't use it all. This is why things like those Thunderbolt PCI-E enclosures can even conceivably run a video card, since thunderbolt 2 is only equivalent to just over one lane of PCI-E 4.
Looks great. How is the performance, do you expect to be able to produce guis(awt/swing) soon?
People are less likely to report their bonus.
Definitely part of British English, and also an allusion to the phrase "dustbin of history".
The stupidest trend in laptop design is... having a screen, you know, because I just use my laptop to feed music into my sound system. I don't need a screen I'm not even going to watch. And the mic input? The webcam? Come ooooon, are the designers just that f.... stupid??? Why do they keep bloating laptops with a lot of useless features that just add weight, moving parts and create health problems in the long run???
Like the design :-)
Not sure if other seeing this, but there is a tiny comma near the closed button, screenshot here http://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/?id=3590fd8
Computer taught to breat CAPTCHA
because the phone browser is "sold" to you. When you buy a phone, even if you are going to wipe out the OS and install something else, you already paid hundreds of dollars on licensing. Heck microsoft quarter only had a profit because of license fees on android.

It is the microsoft taxes on PC all over again. Only this time MPEGLA learned the lesson from MP3 and got their licensing claws sharpened.
The older guy will almost certainly have more experience, more confidence and more money. A young guy with a shaved head, if he isn't a Marine, is an emo or a hipster.
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I need numpads for fast stuff. Numpad keys are also not just duplicate numeric keycodes. Figure out a better laptop design, yes, but taking it out for good eliminates some use cases. While you're at it, make function keys work consistently across all manufacturers.

edit: and I love butterns.
What claims in the Guardian PRISM story have been shown to be false?
there is also very easy other way around - "ask for help" [to fight terror and defend Motherland, err... USSR wording, today in the US it is "Homeland"] an existing Google employee.
I'd like more information, which may or may not establish that you're correct. Or incorrect. Or wrong in a way that's subtle. Or right, despite that, because of legal precedence I'm not aware of.

I recognize that such a utility would make it harder for lawyers to make money, since a hefty chunk of their value-add is removed. I'm okay with that. It would be even awesomer when local laws aren't de facto locked away from public perusal through paywalls, though that probably doesn't apply to this particular case.

I honestly don't care if you're making it up. I want to know what's actually on the books. About 20 minutes ago, a mailing list informed me that Tetris has been used to treat flashbacks and Chess has been used to treat ADHD. A 5-second google was able to confirm that this isn't complete bullshit. Googling "states that make driving with a television illegal" gets me nothing but random things about driver's licenses and illegal immigrants.

Seriously. Full-text search on up-to-date records of law. That's all I ask.
But really though, that could be amazing! Or fail! I can't decide.
"So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual
record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for
reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess. At no point have I ever been able successfully to
keep a diary; my approach to daily life ranges from the grossly negligent to the merely absent, and on
those few occasions when I have tried dutifully to record a day's events, boredom has so overcome me
that the results are mysterious at best. What is this business about "shopping, typing piece, dinner with
E, depressed"? Shopping for what? Typing what piece? Who is E? Was this "E" depressed, or was I
depressed? Who cares?"

Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook"

Apologies for the long quote but this is pretty much how I feel about all attempts at "personal analytics" so far. As other posters have mentioned, analytics are great for businesses who have their FOMs and TPMs and KPPs and whatever to maximize already, but on a personal level the best use of diaries and journals is to force yourself to realize what your goals are, not to help achieve them.
Yes, but it would seem that a system like this is intended to work counter that, by keeping your communications secure from all.
The prism is a mirror that lets you see the screen. But you're focusing entirely in the wrong part of this. The important thing is that it's a small display off in the corner, not blocking or overlapping what you're looking at. It's not aiming a light at your eye any more than a book would.

http://www.catwig.com/google-glass-teardown/teardown/display...
Snowden isn't a patriot though.

Certainly he has revealed a lot of scary information about the government that the people needed to know about, but opposing the state (which is what Snowden seems to do) does not always equate to supporting the nation.

Some of Snowden's disclosures have been directly harmful to American interests without a corresponding harm being done to the American people that would have warranted that disclosure. For instance, his leak of details of NSA hacking attempts against China.

Likewise, his disclosures about spying against allied heads-of-state. Knowing what your friends truly think would be invaluable for American interests when negotiating. I certainly agree that spying on friends like that is distasteful, but revealing that can't possibly be said to have helped the American people.
Facebook Admits Some Decrease of Usage Amongst Young Teens for the First Time
Exactly what I was going to say. When that A New Microsoft came out, I was blown away and wondered what would happen to the person who produced it. Now he's on the Xbox design team, Awesome. I'll be buying a PS4 this time around though, I hate to use TCO as an example, but it really does matter - If you owned a 360 from day one and you subbed to xbox live, well in Australia that's $90 per year for the last 8 years, that's the cost of a whole second console. Hey how did I turn this into a PS4 vs Xbox One comment.
The title was "I-Tier: Dismantling the Monoliths"

And it's actually not just about going from RoR to Node. The European operations are of nearly equal size and value as those in the US, and they were on a Java/Apache/PostgreSQL stack. I-Tier has been nearly as much about about unifying everything under one uniform architecture as it has about performance.
NYC City Council Votes to Raise Cigarette Purchase Age to 21
> If customers weren't choosing (and even paying extra for) for the numpad, it'd disappear quickly.

You are assuming that consumers are making rational and informed choices. The fact that people buy numpad-equipped laptops does not mean that they prefer it, but rather it means that it is what is being sold to them.

If there is a minority that is willing to pay extra for the numpad, and a majority who are ignorant about the compromises involved and thus ambivalent about the choice, then of course manufacturers are going to cater that minority and squish couple extra bucks while sacrificing the majority. But that doesn't mean that numpad would be beneficial to the ignorant majority.
"... keep their software in a so called 'subversion' repository, clearly for nefarious ends."
I'm a big fan of Kim's concept work and read his blog regularly, as I think that his insight and designs are top notch.

That said, it'll be very interesting to see how his talent will be used. I wonder if it will just be industrial/hardware design or if he'll be designing UI's. I think that he's better suited for the former.
America's Start-Up Silver Lining
One of my favorite essays. I re-read this every six months as a reminder to be as clear and precise as possible in my communication.
No, I'm referring to the languages themselves. JS does a very few things better than Java, but it is simply chock full of bizarre type coercion rules, strange semantics, and other "hall of mirrors" gotchas which make it much harder to learn and work with than other dynamic languages. And yes, Java has some of these too, but they occupy a much smaller share of the language base, and are often a side-effect of useful features (such as signed integer types) which JS doesn't provide.

We're stuck with JS because it's "the language that runs in every browser," but that's no reason to grant it praise that it hasn't earned such as "easy to use."

Fragmentation will create headaches regardless of which language is running in the browser.
Haha, a valid point! :) I wasn't thinking of Leviathan, rather some of his thoughts on liberalism[1]. The right of the individual, that political power should represent the people etc.

[1] Liberalism in it's classic and original sense (not the skewed meaning that it somehow has gotten here in the US).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United...