skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably a silly question - but can regular people buy Twitter stock as soon as trading begins?

I am thinking of buying a very small number of shares & "gifting" them to my sister - a super user of their service..more for novelty than as part of any serious investment strategy.
Looks like you can no longer triple-tap to reply, or tap-and-hold the back button to go all the way back to your timeline. These were very handy gestures and I don't see why they'd remove them.
To me the bigger news was that iframes in emails are run inside mail clients. Anyone know if other mail clients do this or is it just the one in iOS?
My beefs:

1. Slow animations on image dismissal.

2. Lack of triple-tap to [reply|retweet|favorite|translate|view in favstar].

3. Hides a tweet's timestamp if you favorite it.

4. Makes noise when I tweet, even though I have sounds set to "Notifications Only".

#1 is subjective, I suppose (and in keeping with iOS 7's slow animations). 2-4 are, in my opinion, significant UI/UX regressions.
Fair point. FWIW, we're all on OS X, running bash, zsh, or fish on either Terminal.app or iTerm2.
My wife has been using a 4K monitor on her desktop for a few weeks now. It's fantastic. This evolution to 4K on the desktop is so overdue that I am simultaneously delighted by it and frustrated that it took so long.

I too am disappointed that 4K (or even better!) has not been adopted by hardware vendors, Apple included. But I personally have made the argument that Microsoft should embrace ultra-high-end desktop computing as a competitive advantage [1] because they seem to be most in need of something to differentiate them from the crowd.

I will open my wallet and tap it empty for the first vendor to deliver desktop computing that is immersive, with bezel-free large form-factor displays. I'm not suggesting Apple should pave the way—if anything they have distanced themselves from desktop computing—but it is nevertheless disappointing that they are not advancing that front even modestly.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/microsoft
I like that they're charging again for it, but only because I prefer TweetBot 2 and want to continue using it. If they released TB 3 as an upgrade to 2 it would be very difficult not to upgrade.
I'm involved with one of these programs and am very encouraged to see DARPA's focus as very much inline with the goals of the broader field of neuroscience.

In heading off some of the anticipated snark, this is very much a program with the goal of understanding basic science and developing tools to better understand how our brains work.
> Google is smearing the smartphone market, at the expense of Apple's cash engine

That statement is not borne out by data. Apple’s iPhone revenues and market share have continued to rise since inception. Please remember that Apple was never the biggest phone manufacturer. In the last couple of years, iPhone (and in general, smartphone) growth has mainly come from people switching from feature phones. The rest came at the expense of Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry. The number of people switching from iPhone to Android is negligible on the whole.

In the last reported quarter by Apple, in which the iPhone offerings were awaiting a refresh, Apple sold 20% more iPhones compared to the same quarter last year. Unit sales reached an all-time high for the June quarter.
And hegemony is a dangerous thing that must be watched closely.

It is entirely reasonable to apply expectations to all countries that they not operate in ways that encroach upon the sovereignty and privacy of other nations, especially their allies or even less friendly nations with whom a declared state of war does not exist.

The hegemon ought answer to a much stricter standard than the "pleasant little countries" who do not wield such power.

Hegemony does not implicitly grant universal assent to be a total asshole.
The Bitcoin revolution could change government
Wow. I mean HN does have its douchebags but is it really getting this bad?
Thanks for the heads up, and the feedback! I didn't mean this as a resume exactly...more like a portfolio that would be linked to from my cover letter and/or resume. It depends on who I assumed this would hit first...if it were the CTO at a small startup, perhaps I would feature this more prominently. A non-developer and I might not link it at all.

I was debating the "humorous" negative parts, but ultimately I like to be myself...if it rubs a company the wrong way, then perhaps we wouldn't be a good fit anyway. However, I'm fortunate enough to be in such a situation...if I were job hunting right out of college I probably wouldn't take the risk.

Could you link other public resumes/portfolios you've seen similar to mine? I of course hoped I was being clever and unique, but that never works out.
1. A law firm paying for 3rd party email hosting is not the same as every employee routing their mail through some random website.

2. Executing software on your own device to reformat content is not the same as every employee sending their content out to a random website to have the content reformatted.

5. Please identify yourself and tell us how you know that Linkedin will not store the content of messages in the future.

I had to stop reading at #8. Now I think you are just being sarcastic.
Microsoft even charges less for Linux VMs on Azure than Windows Server VMs with the same specs.
> You should never, ever, never, nevern, nervenvarn build your own production ECC code.

Well, ultimately, somebody has to.
I must've missed something because the site says "launched" but I can't find the app on the site or in Google Play. Or is it only available for certain devices? I have an HTC One Google Play edition.
The automatic background updates feature might be the most important feature of all in 3.7. Hopefully this goes a long way to plug some of the rampant security issues that plague the CMS because of failure to update to a later version. The new date querying features are also a welcome addition as it has been notoriously hacky in prior versions querying advanced date values in Wordpress and finally we search has been given a little love and is no longer so horrible that it requires a third party plugin to fill the void. Best version of Wordpress to date by far, wonder how they can top this list in 3.8.
MS-DOS Viruses in Action
C++11 - the new ISO C++ standard
Falling profit on rising revenue indicates shrinking margins, which should be an outcome of a capitalist marketplace.
If the United States is becoming a Latin American country, why would you expect it to have macrostatistics comparable to Finland?

It would be interesting to see international test scores from 1960, when the US was ~90% people of European descent. I would bet the US would compare closer to Europe on those. The demographic changes in the US over the last 50 years have been huge, and you can't ignore them in international comparisons.
'The Tweeting Bra' Sends A Tweet Each Time You Unclasp It
Not sure what AI mysticism is, nor how you arrived at the conclusion that statistical learning models will come up with thunder gods.
Finally got a chance to test this on a spare machine at work. Apple directs you to download Oracle's Java 7 installer, but I was able to download the recent 2013-005 update and install it on Mavericks. Seems to run fine.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572
Thanks...yea in the process of getting my personal site together, and should probably put up something a little less off-putting in the mean time.
A Ph.D. is like haute couture: fit is everything.
So if Android didn't exist, Apple's profits wouldn't be higher?
Dear Doug,

Thank you for sharing the GitHub. I work with some of the hottest startups in the Bay Area and one has an immediate opening for a rockstar ninja.

Are you available to come in and implement bubble sort on a whiteboard tomorrow, Friday, October 25 at 10:00 am?

Sincerely,

A. Typical Recruiter
This is the understood and expected function of the NSA

The task of the USG should be to level the actions of its intelligence agencies. If it's ok for the USG to fuck with their allies, then it's the way it is. But don't expect every of its allies to agree with that. There's a difference to spy on everything which moves in Iran/North Korea or France/Germany/you call it. This is making waves in Europe ... I am not sure if that is worth to piss off your close allies.

This might not be getting the big news in the US, but it certainly does in Europe. And if there is only a slight chance that this might affect the opinion people in Europe have about the US(G), everybody in the US should be worried.
Right now I'm sticking with Twitterrific. I played around with TB3 but the lack of a dark theme is a dealbreaker for me, among other things. Especially when Twitterrific looks really nice, and Tweetbot looks really bland.
and automateit, llama and even microsoft on x..
The Seiki 39" 4K display is $700 [1]. It has some limitations (you can read all about them at Amazon), but it establishes that the $3,400 price-point set by ASUS and its ilk is quite possibly made up mostly of profit.

I contend that Seiki could outright dominate the desktop display market if they replaced their display's HDMI 1.4 with 2.0 and made the display function a little less like a television and more like a monitor (no splash screen, no speaker, no remote control, better support for ACPI). Drop some things, upgrade some others, keep the same $700 price.

A smaller offering around 32" would also be welcome, I'm sure. But the 39" model makes for a superb desktop display assuming you can be made comfortable with the 30Hz refresh rate thanks to HDMI 1.4.

[1] http://www.seikidigital.com/products/seikiPro/4k.php
No I'm not arguing for a statistics-only scheme, just that you can't ignore it / abstract it away, and that its role is crucial in cognition. I think we agree with each other.
In the United States, low income whites perform better than high income blacks on the SAT - it's not a fact I suggest you go around citing at parties[1]

" Blacks from families with incomes of more than $100,000 had a mean SAT score that was 85 points below the mean score for whites from all income levels, 139 points below the mean score of whites from families at the same income level, and 10 points below the average score of white students from families whose income was less than $10,000."

[1] http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html
It's got nothing to do with survivor bias, it's just logic. The original commenter is effectively saying 'if A, therefore B'. I just listed several cases of 'A' where 'B' did not result. Therefore 'If A, therefore B' is not true.
Thanks for the answer! It sounds like you're taking a bottom-up approach when reading code. Do you think we can use software to build this dependency graph and make it easier to read code?
Ripple gives away 2000-4000 XRPs for GitHub users
Who knows. If it weren’t for Android, perhaps Maemo, WebOS, and Windows Phone might have had a shot.
The thing that I find interesting is if LinkedIn goes ahead and does this, how many other companies will want to join the bandwagon and then we'll end up with our email being bounced around through a slew of different proxies so everyone can add their spam and ads to it.
It looks like they're comparing averages from all those countries, when we all know that the population of the USA is largest. Even though the distribution might be different, the number of people that fit into the distribution are very different.

We have some really smart people in Canada, but we also have 1/3 of the population of the US. Even if our average proficiency with problem solving is 10% higher, we still only have a fraction of the people who are proficient as the US.
I think I enjoy the sound design as much as the visual design of TweetBot 2.

Has this been changed/improved/degraded in the new version? Anyone?
I thought Adblock did a deal with Google so Adwords etc were whitelisted?
> A Galaxy S4 is so much bigger than an iPhone it's practically a separate category of phone. Name a single Android phone the size of the iPhone 5s that's even close to its capabilities.

Motorola X.

It's literally designed to be the Android version of an "iPhone" form factor. (It's technically larger than an iPhone, but only marginally.)

http://cdn04.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09...
I really love Twitterrific's notifications, too. The icons make them much easier to recognize, which in turn makes acting on the right notifications (specifically mentions / replies) easier.
if someone could find past results

There are no past results. These are the results from the first OECD "Survey of Adult Skills"

http://skills.oecd.org/documents/OECD_Skills_Outlook_2013.pd...
Having worked in a very secure/compliant/regulated shop, I can understand those concerns (I was not a sysadmin, I was a developerish person).

I'm going to presume from your answer that OpenLDAP is not sufficient then? Certainly Linux systems can use LDAP.
> it's philosophy, the one discipline that has yet to produce a single result.

I agree that the signal-to-noise ratio in philosophy is very low. (I also strongly agree with the rest of your comment.) But let's be fair: it was philosophy that produced

1. Formal logic
2. Occam's razor
3. Scientific method
4. Church-Turing thesis
Of course, but you won't know what the price will be until the shares start trading. If there is a lot of demand, they could be priced higher than the offer price.
I am really pissed off when the app producers release major versions of their apps as a new app in the store so you have to purchase again. Same thing happened with Reeder app (which is a prominent RSS reader) or Shares app.

I already pay you $5-$10-$15 whatever to trust that this will be a lifetime purchase. Why would app developers do it? Why does Apple allow this? If I develop an app and publish 10 versions (all has new features every time) as a new app in the store, is it legitimate at all?

Anyway I purchased this one as well but it is not about $2.99, it is about the brand and I started to hate Tapbots. When Twitter releases a better client, I will throw the app I paid for away just because I don't Tapbots apps anymore.
What do you mean when you say compare it to what you see? How do you take the files and lines of code you read and model it into a working architecture? Where do you start? Do you think we could write a program that can make this process easier? (also, thanks for your answer!)
Although Google is usually the brand associated with self-driving cars, DARPA actually did most of the work. The self-driving car challenge went on for many many years with ever increasing goals until DARPA decided the tech works now and stopped the competition.

Google then hired the team that won the last several competitions and kept the ball rolling.

Seems to me like this is the only path towards true innovation since companies are great at exploiting existing tech and making incremental and efficiency improvements but are usually really bad at making great leaps forward. If you provide incentives divorced from the market for desirable goals the market can later pick up the successes and build on them.
>Linux certainly has killed commercial unixes, but MS Server products never got popular for web and other areas Linux is traditionally strong in.

IIS runs a lot of websites, ~23% of websites tracked by Netcraft and does that while their competition gives away their products for free. I wouldn't say that it's not popular.
Perhaps because foreign leaders do not consider tapping the phone lines of our allies to be within the scope of NSA's stated mission "to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our allies under all circumstances."[1]

Or maybe because SigInt is supposed to be working "for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes and to support military operations."[1] They might not get why tapping their phones supports America's military operations, or why the US wouldn't just schedule a meeting/call to for "intelligence and counterintelligence purposes".

Might be that some fail to see how this qualifies as "operations to defeat terrorists and their organizations at home and abroad, consistent with U.S. laws and the protection of privacy and civil liberties."

There are wide-open channels for gaining intelligence from the leaders of allied countries. We've been using them for a while. They work pretty well.

The NSA is causing the US to look like it's the distrustful mate who is sneakily combing through his partner's texts, emails, messages, and other media to assure himself he can trust his partner.

The world is, perhaps, not liking the feeling of being spied on.

[1]: http://www.nsa.gov/about/mission/
You know, I've been a big defender of the role for signals intelligence, including NSA's hand in such.

But there is a lot to be said for discretion, especially when you're talking about the top echelon of our NATO allies! Even my defenses of NSA have been predicated on the actual need for intelligence collection. This has the corollary that collection without any use should not be sanctioned.

So absent some evidence of our allies conspiring against us in things like WTO negotiations, I don't see a justification for such phone tapping. Even though it's probably legal, was it really the best use of NSA resources? What actionable intel could they have hoped to gain? We're not talking about Medvedev or Putin's phones after all.

Certainly we have known that the NSA has the capability to tap into many international communications circuits, but we've also "known" that such taps are predicated on the national security interests of the United States. So now the question: Was pushing far beyond the envelope worth it? Was causing a boatload of whistleblowers (not just Snowden) to form still beneficial to the U.S. in the end?

I would judge that it was not, at this point. What I'm interested in knowing is when these taps of allied leadership's telephones actually stopped? Specifically, was it only after Snowden's leaks? Did Obama put a stop to it? Sometime in between? All we know at this point is that the U.S. isn't doing it now, and pinky swears not to do so in the future.

As far as the Germans doing it to us... maybe. But the NSA is also responsible for ensuring that they can't break our comms even if we do assume they're trying. But maybe I'm naive but I honestly think they are probably focused more on Russia, Islamists and other threats to Germany, than on what Obama is saying to Boehner.
I'm there baby! I'll be practicing my bubble sort skills all night!
Yes, even if there is any recent open source alternative to build 16-bit code, selecting the 20 years old compiler binaries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C++) for which it can be easiest to be sure they haven't changed (there's still enough CD's around produced at that time, I believe I still have one too) is a damn good decision.
Emails should (admittedly they're often not) be treated like postcards, they're not secure. They'll go over the wire in plaintext, they'll be read in public, etc.

Most businesses which actually require secure messaging will tend to use self-hosted web based email (like most banks do), encrypted messaging (Salesforce Chatter, Reuters Messenger) or secure virtual deal rooms.
"massive amounts of tooling necessary to fulfill the promise of ZeroVM"

For sure. To me it seems like a good environment for isolating processes and users in security and execution contexts -- just boot up an instance, perform a task and then destroy. How it applies to data processing is not very clear.

"But the specific product is of interest to me, not just the environment that spawned it."

I see what you mean. I feel that anyone creating such a product/environment will run into massive problems that are very non-technical. How do you get language owners/implementers to agree to a common standard especially in today's web where we see common denominators of data sharing like RSS slowly being strangled by the big players -- let alone co-operations in programming environments/runtimes. The reason I mention the "big players" is that without somebody getting funded to think about this in a serious manner for an extended period of time, it will be very hard. Organisations like universities have the brainpower for this but not the money or the drive.

Something encouraging here is the recent slew of JVM languages -- they share objects with Java. Limitation here is its all on a single platform.

Maybe with the recent announcement of a Haskell kernel for IPython environment there is room for doing some inter-lang op work?
+1 to this. There is the 'form' which is a resume, and there is the 'fun' which is something like this. There are several in loops while (! dead) { ... }.
Thanks for your answer! Your approach sounds like it works well if you have to write a new component from scratch. What if you had to jump into an existing codebase? How would you go about understanding the code?
Anyone who wants to see the dramatic impact of deep brain stimulation needs to see this video[1]. Just by turning off and on his neurostimulator (see starting 2:00-ish) see the dramatic change in his body.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBh2LxTW0s0
You should make it throw a FileNotFoundException, if you're gonna go with that motif.
It's LDAP. I'm not looking for "points", but I'm looking for a broad understanding of why an enterprise would definitely select Microsoft. From a techie in the trenches with an eye on founding his own company, I simply can not grasp why I would use Microsoft or other proprietary technology at this point.
apparently it does, in addition to other sources (https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/results/sources). But you are right about Bing being one of them. Though I wouldn't go so far as to say that duckduckgo is Bing like the gp said.
That's true, but the easiest way not to get caught is to not do it at all.

Presumably spying on friends may be needed someday, but it brings the kind of diplomatic flamefest that should keep such spying restricted to Very Important Things and not just "we'll tap them because their numbers fell in our lap".
They could charge money for the app? It doesn't say anywhere, but I'm guessing it's going to be free given the analytics business model.
You're not quite right. The hardness of the discrete logarithm depends a lot on what mathematical structure you are using below.

For example, the discrete logarithm on the group of the integers modulo some prime is known to be more or less as hard as breaking an RSA modulus of the same size. Those are the two problems that seem to be linked together.

However, attacking the discrete logarithm on the group of points on some good elliptic curve is a very different problem, and the same techniques that work above just don't seem to apply here. So you're stuck with the generic attacks, which are much slower.

Bottom line: the discrete logarithm on elliptic curves is harder than factoring and the discrete log on the integers modulo a prime.
No, the most expensive would be a 3-monitor setup at 2560x1440 on ultra settings.
Thanks for your answer sharemywin! What if you were looking at a large project that doesn't have a well-defined "beginning?" How would you pick what code to run through the debugger first?