skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although they wouldn't be categorized as 'news sites', both marginalrevolution.com and thebrowser.com consistently have great links (some of which are culled from HN, I think). The actual blogging at marginalrevolution can be excellent.
Indeed. Here is the actual poll from Gallup with historical data:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-huma...

And, more importantly, the linked poll questions and methodology:

http://www.gallup.com/file/poll/155006/Creationism_120601.pd...

So, yes, while there will be a fair bit of overlap between those who answered "created in their present from in the last 10,000 years" and those who believe the earth is less than 6,000 years old, the questions are not equivalent.
"Liberals tend to believe that other countries cooperate with the United States because American ideals are attractive."

In the ongoing debate between politically-controlled versus theocratically-controlled law, the majority of the world population finds the "American" ideal (rather French-revolutionary, no?) of politically-controlled law not particularly attractive at all. The system amounts to asking the population to vote every few years for politicians who will invent new laws. The question then becomes: How many new laws do we need before all our needs for new laws are finally and entirely satisfied? The theocratically-controlled alternative on its side says: The only one who can create new laws and further restrict your freedom, may not even exist. So, my question becomes: What exactly would be wrong with that?
No, it's more like an imperfect lock is still more security than no lock at all on your door.
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdown...
I've done a couple of successful campaigns, and as far as I can tell, Kickstarter has absolutely no mechanisms in place to track that sort of thing.

(the first campaign delivered everything a couple months after I said it would, I'm in the middle of the pre-press portion of the second one.)
I don't think the experience requirements are exactly where you're imagining, but I think it's still there. I've been doing database backed web development for quite a while now, and I've had jobs doing that in C, TCL, perl, java, C#, python, Delphi and ruby. But they were all chiefly database backed web development, so basically the same thing, despite being completely different languages.

I expect I would have significant trouble getting hired to do a different specialization, like parts of a videogame engine (say c or C++ or python or lua). So as long as database backed websites are in demand I'm probably ok, but if those disappeared tomorrow I could become a statistic - if everything becomes apps, I'll manage, but that round of interviewing won't be as easy as the last few rounds of interviewing were and I'll probably have to take some personal time developing a demo to talk about.

I've seen two friends with mainframe experience end up having lots of trouble finding new jobs - they could certainly program, but had nothing they could point to that seemed relevant to the web dev jobs. And a friend who works on videogame engines is trying to make a switch to websites and it's looking hard to make that switch.

So, I don't think it's strictly along language lines, but I do think employers are hesitant to sub in one type of programmer for another. I'm not convinced they are wrong - there's lots of specialized knowledge to pick up along the way that mostly seems to be taught by screwing up a project at some point, and it's safer to hire somebody who has already screwed it up elsewhere once.
[PHP] Dlinkd D-Link backdoor checker
This script will scan any backdoor'd dlink deviced and tell you if they're vulnerable. Wrote it for testing and educational purposes only :)
I'm intrigued and would like to read more about this. Would you happen to have a link to a description of the episode?
The 12 Types of Procrastinators [COMIC]
The Importance of Making Your Big Data System Insightful
Though this isn't implemented by the reference encoder yet, the VP9 bitstream supports this (encoding a downscaled frame and signaling to the decoder to upscale it before displaying it).
Maybe get enough karma to downvote?
OTOH, things in the background are unlikely to move much which is ideal for frame-to-frame compression, so getting rid of those areas is unlikely to really buy you much.
This isn't a cultural effect, this is a Human effect.
What I don't understand is why haven't anyone done a comparison of modern day China, arguably at the same stage of development as the Industrial revolution (Circa 1800) era Britain/France. Anyone read any stories from that time period could easily do a one-to-one social phenomenon comparison. Young homeless/helpless girl frozen to death/killed on the street on Christmas day/broad day light without anyone batting an eye? Check. Middle class is generally a crappy place to be in society? Check. Oliver Twist? Any stories by Victor Hugo? Charles Dickens? Thomas Carlyle? Any Victorian era writing?
I'd seen that before. Leads to the embarrassment of interviewing "Javascript Engineers" for a Java position and having to inform the applicant that your HR department is full of fools.
Can a phone last forever? Motorola's Project Ara aims to find out
Pakistani family of drone strike victim gives harrowing testimony to Congress
>> Mises, sometimes called the last knight of liberalism

>By whom?

Jörg Guido Hülsmann wrote a book titled Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (2007):

https://mises.org/daily/6022/

PDF and epub here:

https://mises.org/document/3295/Mises-The-Last-Knight-of-Lib...
The economist is conservative, back when that word meant something other than reactionary, but that's been a long time.
I contacted Dr Doraiswamy (a well known Alzheimer specialist) and he could not think of any other reason than "higher rate of APoE4 genotype due to greater Scandinavian heritage". He also suggested this could be coming from the way the death ratio is calculated "ie the denominator of deaths to all other causes is lower due to better diet".

I'll see what I can find.
Fantastic article. Every teacher should read this.
That's not necessarily true. Proportional representation often has the undesirable side effect of dramatically increasing the power of small minority parties. The reason is that in order to gain majority control of the government larger parties often have to make significant concessions to a smaller minority party to get the votes. Also, you can end up with a lot of gridlock if no coalition can reach majority.

Two party systems have it's flaws, but what we are seeing now is more typical of a proportional system. Due to overly effective gerrymandering, the Republican hold on many congressional districts is so secure that the only real threat to those seats is from party extremists. Under our normal two party system with less polarized districts, extremist politicians couldn't win in general elections, but now that so many Republican districts are so secure, the party has essentially been captured by extremists (it's not a stretch to call the Tea Party a third party). In the past, the two party system worked by consensus, the more moderate members of each party would work together to carve out solutions to a problem, and keep in mind, the more moderate party members were typically from contested districts, so they needed to demonstrate leadership and good results to get re-elected. The end result was that the party that demonstrated the best leadership would get re-elected.

The Republican 'take no prisoners' strategy can probably be traced back to Gingrich. We are now seeing a culmination of that strategy, and I think most would agree that it has backfired. If I was in the business of making bold predictions, I think I would bet that the Republican party might get replaced by a new, more moderate party in the next 20 years. More realistically, they are going to shift back to the middle. Two party systems won't work otherwise, and our government isn't really designed to allow multiple parties.
I believe nmcfarl's saying that if someone was to use your service and automatically make have every page of their website loaded (by an instance of a headless browser, javascript running manually in a web browser, anything really) after each time they uploaded new code then the videos would have already been transcoded and be cached on your end, fixing the issue with delays for first views.
I always thought that Blackberry would be a strategic buy for Oracle. They would then be in a position to provide near end to end business services for enterprises assuming assuming they started manufacturing laptops and PC's or acquired someone already in that space.
What's the reason why battery life is better on the iPad Air? More efficient processor? Better hardware?
If this were a seamless experience, this would be really amazing. Not going to sign up for Alpha because I don't need it right now, but I'll be back.
It's part of a hardening process that has been employed by weapon smiths for time immemorial, known as "quenching". After you form the laptop case / sword / rifle barrel, and it is still hot, it is to be submerged in urine. I'm surprised it's taken laptop manufacturers so long to catch up.
But this is why risk assessment is part of choosing and using crypto.

If you think the NSA is after you then all bets are off and whatever you're doing is probably not working because most people don't have an armoured bunker with armed guards. We need to be careful to differentiate between active NSA snooping (in which case anything we do is probably weak) and passive snooping (where we just want to make it expensive enough for them to not bother with our communications).

But if you think the FBI is after you then you'll want to avoid something that can be done by a court order - such as your encrypted email provider being forced to serve you a malformed client that allows law enforcement to view all your communications. This is a real risk, and is what happened to Hushmail.
Given a client side crypto implementation with SSL as the delivery mechanism, the only load on the server is the content delivery and the SSL computation itself. Any of the application-specific crypto load can be done on the browser instead on the server.

Let's say the app is encrypting 1meg Excel file and 100K people are using it. I would rather letting the browsers do the work than beef up the servers to do the encryption on server side.
There is no way in which The Economist is libertarian -- they believe in a very strong governmental banking system and frequently poo-poo countries for having too few taxes or too few government services. Also, reference the editorial opinion on government's role in health care.
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So, a question.

Why does the industry use something like C? Even with the MISRA guidelines, it still seems like the wrong tool for the job when you have things out there like Erlang, which are designed for fault-tolerance and concurrency from the get go. I can imagine the requirement for hard real-time operation might be an issue (not sure enough about Erlang specifically to say if it does or doesn't address or hinder this, so I'll leave that to someone else).

What's that industry moving towards, software wise, to address this? Is Ada an alternative?

C (even MISRA) just seems like a horribly risky thing to use in this scenario.
The best short description is probably "fiscally conservative, socially liberal".
You must have the paid version. When bandwidth is scarce for me, it just drops the call.
Wdired: editable dired buffers
I had a 2004 BMW that used to smell like that. I was told it was the glue they used in the car's interior. I loved that crayon smell; it wasn't offensive, just odd.
Rest In Peace, Nalini Ambady.
That's of course because left vs. right originally referred to the factions seated to the left and the right of the president in the French parliament after 1789.

The left were people supporting the revolution. The right were people supporting the king.

The left were thus generally looking for change, and more freedoms, and formed the core of liberalism. With the rise of socialism, liberalism in Europe got confined around the centre.

But of course as you point out it is difficult to classify, as e.g. already back then socialism was by no means uniquely left wing (Marx criticised ideologies he considered as "feudal" or "reactionary" socialist ideologies that would fit on the right in the "classic" French left/right split, for example), and terms like libertarian also spans the full spectrum (you have libertarian Marxists, various anarchist tendencies, left-communism etc.).

If you consider a few axes, though, you get a good idea: - level of support for authority and personal freedoms (e.g. from no state at all to authoritarian state), level of protection of private property (e.g. no legal support for private property of means of production to considering protection of private property as one of the most important aspects of government), and level of secularism. Of course there's plenty of oddballs combinations.

> Or you can be against abortion rights, and also want welfare programs for the poor.
> These things are in no way tied together by any philosophical reasoning.

You might be surprised. In Europe, most Christian parties fall centre-right to moderately conservative and tended to have separated out of either the conservative or liberal parties, or become the dominant force in their countries conservative parties, and do indeed often argue against abortion rights yet want welfare programs for the poor for clearly defined philosophical reasons.

The general philosophical reasoning for most of these parties in Europe can be shortened to "personal freedoms and personal responsibility, but not at the expense of christian morality", and the christian morality part both moderates the personal freedoms (abortion views etc.) and strengthens the social commitment (welfare). In Latin America, these parties tends to be more left wing. There's at least a century old tradition of "Christian democrat" thinking.
I used to sell Volkswagens. This crayon smell is actually common in many German automobiles because the manufacturers fill the doors with wax to help prevent corrosion.
Could you provide some more information on this? How is the temporary file generated and what are the tradeoffs against the final, properly transcoded file?
Some companies are unable to judge talent. Others are able to judge talent quite well, and those companies still have difficulty hiring (mainly at the mid to senior level). That is my argument for there being a talent shortage.

Re job postings, most jobs are not filled through job postings. If you want to find a job at a company that knows how to hire, you will have much better luck if you find the opening through networking or a referral. I have literally never got an engineering job through any other channel. (Note that this does not serve as evidence toward your indictment of HR, most networking/referral hires still go through HR to at least some extent).
FB phone an epic flop - let's buy the dinosaur of the market!

Id love to see FB buy rim just to see the debacle of throwing their hubris at the HW and see how widely it misses the mark.
For tech news: here, verge, gigaom, TNW, lifehacker, venturebeat and various subreddits.

When I have time to read for a little longer and non-techie: The economist, guardian, the atlantic and other stuff in my mother tongue.

And of course if I want to read mainstream news I use my app http://newspo.st : it magically guess what news are trending on Twitter so you get what people are reading the most, which is surprisingly interesting. Still an early version, I'll soon introduce categories and custom topics as well. At the moment it's only available for iOS in US, UK and Italy.
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No, it's more like people thinking they have a high grade lock on their door, when in fact they have a broken lock. They can't see it's broken, but anyone who knows about locks knows it's broken, and how to bypass it with a bobby pin.
As an agnostic white man who is also a feminist, this comment makes me sad. So sad in fact that I created an account just to come say something about it.

There are undoubtedly angry people, willing to lash out at anyone they think may have wronged them, and some of those people may identify as feminists. That doesn't mean that feminists hate men, white or otherwise, anymore than men hate women as a class of people.

However, white men have a lot of cultural privilege in America, and privilege is an insidious beast. It's really hard to see unless you're on the wrong side of it, or spend time giving it some thought. I've been trying to be better about that lately, to at least become aware of the things that society have given to me with no effort of my own, but it takes time.

I don't want to rant at you, but I like to try to educate people when they mis-step. Personally, my ability to respect anyone comes from a place of understanding that they are trying to work to better themselves and others, and try to elevate the dialogue a little. Respect for decent Christians, and respect for Feminists, for me, comes from the same place.

They're just trying to do right in the world. It's hard though. The world is a tough place to get by for anyone, no matter where you come from.

Anyway, I hope you have some opportunities to grow and realize lack of respect for a group of people seeking to be respected is a failure of imagination on your part. I'm sure the world will keep presenting you the lesson until you've either made progress on it, or become so set in your ways as to be blinded to the possibility.

Ciao!
Google wants you to use the web interface, or their own mobile apps.
I thought quenching was done with water...
'The claim that [insert political force here] is able to claim legitimacy only through hypocrisy is one of the oldest in politics,' and it sounds like something from Noam Chomsky's playbook too.
There is an easy solution and I don't know why so many companies can't understand this. It's simple, pay a fair amount and there will be lower turn over. Every employee should be evaluated every two years so that their salary is at least the market median. And a raise doesn't even have to match what an employee would get from switching jobs. For example, if an employee could get 10k raise by changing jobs, many would stay if given a raise half of that. The reason is, switching jobs is risky. Next job could have a bad boss, bad coworkers, etc. If offered, it would often make sense to stay at a good job and take the 5k instead of going for the 10k with unknown risks.

But instead they just give no raises, or even insult their high performers with a "generous" 3% and cause resentment and lower morale.
Hello David,
The temporary file is not generated and its preloaded. A default tiny video file which will be streamed till your original video is ready.
It is a little better than that. What about an enterprise application where you have control/trust of the server, but want to securely cache data in offline browser storage.

That covers common scenarios, like people who provide web based access to Microsoft Exchange.
For me, also related to focus is the amazing, best feature ever of having two windows open and write on one and, scroll on another without losing the focus from where I'm writing :)
It's called a parking break now. Only useful when the car isn't moving :)
Nextdoor raises additional $60M in funding
Doesn't strike me as very secure, since everything here happens through the url and anyone can just go in and grab the required values to spoof a transcode request. It's mostly mitigated by the necessity of file upload access, but even with that this can still be taken advantage of, especially if there are rewrite rules on the file server that might expose the same file through different urls (also if this service follows 3xx redirects that's even more vectors of attack).

In case resolution choice is added as an option, what's to keep any random Joe from requesting videos with various resolutions (or very huge resolutions) and racking up the bill for me?
Almost a year ago to the day, The Economist ran a leader ([1], also cited at the bottom of the OP) that described itself as "radical centerist", blatantly "stealing" ideas from both right and left. The surprisingly poor article posted here not only fails to clarify or improve this position, but actually muddies the waters of discourse, because it fails to spell out what it means when it uses terms like "left-wing" and "conservative". These definitions are particular and subtle, and it is worth explaining what The Economist actually means in this article. This is especially true given the international audience of the paper (and HN), where these terms sometimes appear to mean contradictory things.

I won't pretend to be a master political theoretician, so corrections are welcome, but at a high level here is what is going on.

In most of political theory, the spectrum breaks down roughly into two huge types of political party (and yes this is a massive generalization):

* those on the right wing, which are typically fiscally liberal and socially conservative, that is, they believe that companies should behave as they like, but people need to be told how to behave even in their private lives, and

* those on the left wing, which are mainly socially liberal, that is, they believe that the government should tax and regulate more heavily, but that people should be able to do what they like privately.

Across the globe what it means to be "a liberal" is different. In the US, the "liberal" signifier refers to the fact that the person believes that the government should not regulate personal decisions like gay marriage. In France, it is the opposite: the "liberal" signifer refers to the fact that they like less regulation on the markets.

The Economist, simply put, is liberal in the sense that it tends to favor less regulation on both these fronts: it favors legalization of drugs and gay marriage, but also less regulation for markets.

There are of course exceptions (it favors gun regulation for example), but this is basically the position that it has come to call "radical centerism". The magazine is often called libertarian, but only conveniently so -- the gun control exception in particular casts this supposition into doubt, and rather than accept this branding, the editorial staff has evidently decided to pick this new title.

This is probably the right move. For all its flaws, this is something that the article did get right.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/21564556
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Seems like they're pretty clear that they're still culpable for designing a system that relied on the trust of a 3rd party vendor to protect user data.

They waited until after MongoHQ made their own disclosure, and all evidence (including comments on the post) point to a fairly good working relationship between the two.

I'm sure both parties wish this hadn't happened, but I don't see any bus throwing...
BBRY has a market cap of ~4B, and 1.5B in cash still. So really they are being picked up for practically nothing.

Edit: Make that 2.6B in cash apparently (as the article says).
Moreover, the LLVM compiler can perform many optimizations during compilation, so the resulting JavaScript is highly optimized.

Optimization may actually be an argument against C-to-Javascript translated cryptography.

NaCl was written in C, according to the constraints and degrees of freedom of a standard C compiler -- which are not the same as those of an interpreted or JiT compiled language.

I am not a cryptographer, but source-to-source translation of cryptography is looking for trouble.
"the rule of law, democracy, and free trade"

All corruption begins with the corruption of language.

The rule of law? The rule of whose law? Democracy? Does that mean the right to vote for politicians who will continuously invent new laws and further restrict your freedom?

But then again, it is "free trade", that is the biggest joke. Does that mean: "free", as long as you don't trade in bitcoins?