skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the image of the woman typing away at her computer while her date, boyfriend, husband, coworker even sits attentive to her, to be appallingly rude. Now I am much older than nearly all of you and I grew up when the only electronic distraction was a portable radio. I remember being at a restaurant with a date. She told me that she liked being with me because I paid attention to her and ignored all the people around us. My partner and I have been together for 12 years, but I still pay attention to her like it was out first date.
AES-specific instructions are also the only sane way to implement AES without timing attacks.

I'm curious about this "instructions for speeding up all sorts of crypto algorithms" proposal -- how would you do that, given that crypto algorithms tend to have a wide variety of implementations and a wide variety of mathematical underpinnings? Do you want instructions that speed up all sorts of math?
Apple already has such a service - iTunes Radio.
Nice to remove everything else so there is no context.

13:50 <+tylerknowsthis> it's cause they are rich nerds who can't dance and have terrible taste in music

Woooo, that is me! :)
He was denied bail due to possible LIFE IN PRISON sentence. WOW! I just do see that A) He did illegal activities B) Money was involved. A Jail sentence is very likely BUT life and denial of bail?
Audio processing works, but certain codecs do not come bundled with it. It should be possible to configure it with --enable-libmp3lame if you had the source alongside and had everything set up correctly. We didn't have time to try this, but the closest thing I found similar to this when researching was: https://github.com/manuels/unix-toolbox.js-imagemagick. You can see that libpng, libjpeg, etc are all being included in the output.

If you'd like to give this a shot, definitely open up an issue on Github and we can talk more about the details!
FYI link on iPhone redirects to homepage
anyone have any actual information on the algorithm? this is just fluff.
So quote that, instead. "I plan to read and exercise" is hardly scary.
Yes, website operators that don't have any Windows users they care about aren't affected. All three of them.

Somewhat more relevantly, CAs that don't have any customers who have any Windows users they care about aren't affected. That's probably closer to zero.
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They'd have to talk to the processor to allow them to identify as "gas station" or "grocery store" and so on depending on where it came from. I'm sure there's a way to do this - there are many third-party processing systems that do pretty much exactly the same - process transactions from different vendors and put labels on them depending on who actually sent it.
Counter-argument: the PS4's desktop is the one place where performance least matters. But they would like to add new UX features there, over time, with less dev effort. Especially basic UI content. That can be fetched remotely or locally, relatively seamlessly. Which is what browsers already do well.
The issue is that the C in CI is a convenient fiction. Someone on your team is always going to be changing the code, which means that they will have it, at some point, in a state that fails validation. Requiring that they get it to a point where it's fully passing is fine, but in many cases that just means a longer time before checkins.

DVCSes, on the other hand, bring to the surface and keep in the record that the code is always branched to some degree. It's not that it's incompatible, it's that it's giving more granular information than the CI process can work with or needs.
According to this EFF presentation [1] (slide 24) where they scanned the internet for SSL servers in 2010, it's actually an underestimate -- in fact around 99.995% of servers use SHA1. The query shown only considers certs created in 2010, though; I'm grabbing the data set to verify now, but I suspect that 98% is not unreasonable.

Edit: Here's the full data. ~99%:

mysql> SELECT `Signature Algorithm`, count(*) FROM valid_certs GROUP BY `Signature Algorithm`;
+--------------------------+----------+
| Signature Algorithm | count(*) |
+--------------------------+----------+
| md2WithRSAEncryption | 4 |
| md5WithRSAEncryption | 13942 |
| sha1WithRSA | 3 |
| sha1WithRSAEncryption | 1441335 |
| sha256WithRSAEncryption | 106 |
| sha512WithRSAEncryption | 1 |
+--------------------------+----------+

[1] https://www.eff.org/files/ccc2010.pdf
A grain of salt now, a mountain later. I'm not saying the numbers are legit, just that if they are it's only a matter of time before Apple is enveloped by the Android hoard.
Just wanted to post that if you enjoy giving feedback and suggestions, you could register at criticue.com. You give feedback to webpages/apps and get credits for reviews of your own stuff. I have gotten decent feedback for my sites there, although mostly I just like opining on others' work!
Interestingly enough, I've just got a new card from one of the major banks and it has the chip. Looks like US banks starting to warm up to this chip idea.
The bulk of my money is in index funds. Given my age, it's mostly in equities.

I started off with advice from this article by transferring a bit of my savings weekly into a target date retirement fund.

http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/asset-allocation-i...

Today I have other index funds in other sectors, but the asset allocation is pretty much the same ratio. Hope that helps!
At >$1 mil, you never have to worry about any of the basic fundamentals of survival pretty much ever again. To me, that's rich. Quibble about "what constitutes rich" all you want, it's not going to help the OP.
I personally push that even further. If I finally convince someone, I usually take the other side to make sure we have the big picture and we didn't forget or misunderstood an argument.
Just to amplify your point, I'm actually seeing a lot of faux-content that's exactly like this, and I'm sick of it already. I've never clicked on it and every time I see them my resolve hardens further.

They don't sound like traditional ads, as they're maybe one or two shades away from "one weird trick." They're just too on-the-nose. "One thing which makes alzheimer's worse," "what cruise lines do to fill empty cabins," "10 signs of an affair." I feel dirty just typing these.
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It may be an issue with data loading slow? Works for me on my iphone...
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I took it as implicit that a measure of skill is something that should work for most people. If you just mean it can be an indicator of skill (that is, something that tells you positively that some people have skill, but doesn't tell you anything about most people) we have no disagreement, we just were using words differently.
So it turns out that SmallTalk is a dating service.
>Nobody writing 2D native apps deals directly with GL at all, and nobody wants to.

Who says you need to work directly with WebGL. There are and will be some wonderful 2D frameworks that wrap WebGL. Exactly what happened with Flash's Stage3D. Starling and the Feathers UI Toolkit are great in creating smooth 60fps animations effects in AS3.
I quite like the idea though I don't know whether people would accept it, guess I can at least use it in ATM!

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JS+WebGL may make the store's development more agile compared to C/C++.
If a manufacturer is putting out virtually disposable electronics they should be on the hook for recycling them. Electronics are a horror show of toxic waste and that cost should be born by the source. 7" Android tablets go for as little as $30 on eBay.
Your link crashes the browser on my ipad mini. Not what I would consider a nice result.
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Let-caribou-in
Why not roll the dice and go not guilty then?
We use gitflow and it works well for us. We run tests before integrating. git isn't anti-agile at all. I don't understand the article.
You still have this idea that China has a strong central government, which is not very true. The provinces have lots of autonomity, and even if higher officials are disgusted by rural official family planning practices, they hate whistle blowers more as they cause "loss of face."

We criticize Pakistan for failing to govern their rural parts adequately, the same happens in china just at a lesser extent. Heck, India is considered a "modern" democracy and they have larger problems than china in this regard.
And on the other hand, the complete lack of prosecution against Wall Street executives for fraud over the financial crisis. Shows our government's priorities.
(I work on the software infrastructure team at Loggly -- philip at loggly dot com)

We at Loggly are pretty excited about Kinesis -- I was at the announcement yesterday. We're already big users of Kafka, and we see Kinesis as another potential source and sink for our customers' log data. Our intent is to support pulling streams of log data in real time from our customers' Kinesis infrastructure, if they are already stream data to there -- and then analyze and index it.

And ss a sink, where we can stream customers' log data to their Kinesis infrastructure, after we've analyzed and indexed it for them, just like we do today with AWS S3. It could work really, really well.
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Actually the whole list of open source licenses is interesting.. JQuery, Lua, Mono, Protobufs.
Apple's investors, I can assure you, take precisely zero "comfort" in Apple leading in revenue. They care about profit. By that metric, the only metric that really counts, Apple is dominating.
For me ` is taken by tilda:

https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda
You're right. I made it sound like they shit-kicked some old Nazis. Actually, all they did was hit some random uninvolved person with a bottle.

Sorry, though, they all get rights.
3 strikes laws are the extreme of what you're talking about. They created a situation where a man could be sentenced to life for a moment of stupidity and a pair of socks.

Fundamentally, in the US, the issue is that prison is not for rehabilitation, it is for containment and retribution. We don't provide for their mental health. We don't provide for their safety. We force non-violent criminals into association with violent criminals. There are people who can't be rehabilitated, but we never really try so we have no way of distinguishing the repeat offenders who learned but had a moment of stupidity from those who simply didn't learn.

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/cruel-and-unusual-...
This is the moment where "ecommerce" stopped being "tech". Just like using electricity, or the telephone is no longer tech. Remember those fancy companies that use the new running-water system? Me neither. That was once tech, but not any more.
This is only because Apple basically invented the entire tablet market in 2010, just a few years ago.

This will change quite rapidly, starting approximately now, as various tablets begin to become more and more obsolete.
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That's terrible, so many cards will be left behind.
With a vimscript [0], ctrl-a can increment dates, times, roman numerals, ordinals, etc. Pretty damn handy along with ctrl-x to decrement.

[0] https://github.com/tpope/vim-speeddating
I'd say the answer provided is so simplistic that it has very little explanatory power.

Commenters have already mentioned Uber and Groupon, but I'd go further and add YC love child Airbnb as well. They famously sold cereal to stay afloat etc. What does that have to do with tech hacking? Yet they have been lauded everywhere Zulily hasn't.

I'd be interested in how one separates a disruptive business that uses technology from Disruptive Technology? It seems to me there is a hair's breadth of difference between the two.

This is news for the simple reason that it isn't news.
I guess I'd turn that around and ask if every online retail site should be considered a tech company?

Was Groupon widely covered by the tech press? That's not my recollection but I could be mistaken. One could perhaps question whether Groupon deserved the coverage it got as a "tech company", but that doesn't mean other online retailers should necessarily be covered by the tech press.
Great advice. I get antsy when I start to have too much in savings.

Saving is tough to master. I wish more people would embrace the emergency fund. It's so nice to have. You don't really need to worry about any catastrophes and if you want to splurge, you've got the money to take care of it.

But, anything above your emergency amount, put that money to work. Funds that pay dividends are also nice to haves.
So what happens when my markup needs to change? I also need to update the SASS right? If that's the case, I see no benefit.
Thank you. My company uses ApolloMQ but in a relatively low-data setting. (10-15 queues, with less than 5000 messages in a queue at a time) I don't know that it would make it worth it to move to a different data store but the idea was fascinating to me so I was curious. Thanks for the response.
I can figure out how to download stuff so it is available for offline playing, but I can't figure out how to filter out only content that is available offline.

This is a feature available in the Android app as an "On Device" filter. Has anyone figured this out?
Any video of what it looks like?
Is this why netflix releases their original series all at once?
It depends on what you mean by a ‘tablet market’. On the hardware side, sure, there are plenty of companies that sell Android tablets (albeit often at a loss). On the software side however, I don’t think there’s a tablet market, there’s just an iPad market. Owners of Android tablets don’t buy apps and many of those tablets don’t run recent versions of Android which makes it very hard to create the same quality apps that are available for iPad.
Sorry about that. Aether isn't a website, it's a desktop application. It crashes your iPad mini because it's running out of memory caused by retina screenshots. I'm planning a new website soon.
I find both Steam and the Mac app store a huge pain in the ass to use in their native clients.

Fine in a real browser though.
agh. i have preordered coin because of that feature...
I'm using "illegal" here in the narrow sense to refer to violations of criminal law, rather than civil ordinances. Breaking into a computer and stealing files isn't a civil offense like driving without a license, it's a criminal offense that's illegal because society considers it immoral.

Re: drug laws, people do consider drug use and dealing to be immoral.
Sorry if it wasn't obvious I was cheerleading you. Fully agree. One of my pet peeves is that any criminal thinks himself an idealist and that's not fair to real idealism.
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Now we have a Bitcoin ASIC bubble in addition to the regular Bitcoin bubble. I have a feeling some of these guys are not going to recoup their NRE (especially at 20 nm) when customers are only willing to pay $0.50/GH/s. Never mind, I'm sure suckers will buy them.
Reader of that book, you finally got me to kick my screen habit with it and now I have a new tmux addiction.

That said, tmux is way easier to use compared to screen. And with 1.8 and text reflow it pretty much has every feature from screen I ever wanted/needed/used.
Isn't that what game consoles are for? =) Pissing things away like your time, money & health?
How do I deploy a Tizen application to the Tizen emulator?
> The basic purpose of criminal law is to establish norms for behavior.

Once you start making assertions like this, you're already into a particular kind of theory of justice. There are a few. It's not really possible to say that there is one true purpose of criminal law.

Now, if you qualified it with our current legal system, it absolutely subscribes to a particular notion of what justice is. And maybe you mean to, without explicitly noting it. But given we're in a discussion about different forms of justice, it would make sense that not everyone agrees with this assertion, and therefore, your others.
None of us will know if Mark Cuban is truly happy. And we cannot tell for sure if you will ever be happy. What is clear from all you have said, is that riches will not make you happy. You have studied and worked to get where you are. You do not live in isolation so there must be others who have benefited from you being you. I do not doubt your temptation to give up, but I hope you choose to improve. Losing someone who has made such an impact would surely be painful to those you touched.

Though you should not strive solely for wealth, you do not have to refuse that which comes to you. I believe, along the way you can find happiness.

Hang in there.
like your breakdown of the 80% solution vs 100%-optimal. Makes a lot of sense!
My desktop performance on both my 32GB Linux desktop at work, and my 8GB Windows desktop at home is generally flawless, and I rarely have fewer than 10 tabs open in either place. I do use Chrome exclusively; maybe the performance in another browser is a different story? I assume Chrome's process-per-tab design would make this experience a little more robust.

Secondly, did you try w/ both Flash (the default) and the HTML5 player? You can enable the HTML5 player in the Labs section of Music; that might significantly alter your web experience.
Even that is better than keeping a dead-end conversation going.
You just shifted the goalpost ("absolutely required"). The logically fallacy is yours. I merely claimed a "massive role," which is accurate.
This page is an excellent counter-point. Crashes the iPhone 4S browser and grinds Chrome beta on Android to a halt.
"one organisation having the power to unilaterally dictate to everyone and expect people to listen to them"

In tech frequently a benevolent dictatorship is the only way to get things done. They could take this through the IETF or ICANN or something but they'd spend 5 years listening to people prattle on about edge cases while SHA-1 becomes progressively less secure. I worked with airlines for a number of years and the amount of effort spent trying to keep old devices alive on their networks FAR exceeds what it would've cost to just upgrade the devices.
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PS4 unit broken? ...how to fix it.
jnycs: you have been hellbanned for no particular reason.
You're right that it displays the last four, but the whole reason why the cashier has to type in the last four digits is a check that the physical imprinted numbers on the front of the card match the data on the magnetic stripe.

Typing in the last four on the coin completely bypasses this anti fraud measure since the last four will always match on the coin because the digits it displays come directly from the magnetic stripe data.

Cool product. I want it to work, but I fear it won't be widely accepted.

That said, if they were to license the visa and mastercard logos for it, that would probably be enough to get it accepted during most transactions by cashiers who aren't savvy or don't care.
Awesome, that site confirms that the PS4 has Opus support [1]
I was hoping it would since its low-latency makes it ideal for gaming.

[1] http://www.scei.co.jp/ps4-license/opus.html
Ask HN: how do you conduct market research?
When I think about the side projects that I have abandoned in the past, most of them didn't work out because I ended up finding that the market was more saturated than I thought, or that my service did not fix a common enough problem.

Talking to consumers and businesses (when I can make this happen, which is rarely) so far has resulted in me hearing about problems that already have lots of solutions online. I would like to be able to interview more consumers/businesses, but that has been difficult to orchestrate.

How do you decide what to build, and whether or not that thing is worth building?
I'm curious if there is an application for these types of large scale malware analysis systems combined with a near real-time data feed. Maybe it could ultimately lead to automated protections systems that react quickly to new threats.

Similar to DARPAs "Cyber Grand Challenge" to create "fully automatic network defense systems":

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/10/22.aspx
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I believe I read that one also. It seems more confrontational at quick glance.
It's not like any of that is difficult to do when your ecosystem is closed and you are the only one in control of it regardless of how you decide to execute it.

And (memory) performance is of critical importance if the PS4 supports multitasking such as the Xbox One does (don't know if it does).
Many (perhaps even most) people can be talked into the later Kohlberg states of moral development. This is basically what tends happens in the lead up to a category of laws being rejected by society and eventually dispensed with.
They guessed at the revenues, not the profits. Apart from Apple and Samsung, no one is making money selling tablets.
nit: you want to deliver the best possible ui experience. UX encompasses more than just the ui.
I have seen a few articles about the announcement of the IPO, but no mention of it today. For what it's worth, I think Zulily is a great site and very useful if you have kids. Maybe flash sale sites are just old news and this one isn't breaking any new ground in that respect, so the company isn't as big of a tech news story.
Thanks for your pledge! Looks like it'll be successfully funded. Can't wait to send you your board!
Here are some screenshots from the personal site of the author:

http://donolmstead.me/portfolio/trilithium-webgl/
As opposed to something that advances humanity. Not another McMarketing engine. How about innovative in a new way that transcends the current freeze,that solves some serious issues that really need solved. Not willingly signing up to be spammed, not overtly consumerist. Think Eudaimonia!

You did ask!
You're assuming to many things.

You assume the renderer they're using uses a large chunk of RAM. You assume they use exactly the same browser for the home interface as the normal web browsing. You assume that they're keeping the home interface in memory (and wasting resources) when you're playing a game.
I point you here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6633515

Quoting:

The popularity of this story evidences how universally hated are CAPTCHAs. here are some of the submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625245 (forbes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625247 (kurzweilai.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625351 (technologyreview.com) <- Main discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626405 (vimeo.com) <- video of process in action

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6627848 (vicariousinc.tumblr.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628086 (cbc.ca)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092 (wired.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173 (wired.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629559 (newscientist.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629656 (dailydot.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629708 (mashable.com)

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There are two other comments worth reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173:

That's a lot of fancy words to say that they overfit
to their training data.

That makes this sound like a very typical result in
supervised machine learning (if it's a result at all).
They have used an algorithm to learn a brittle heuristic
that works in the cases it was trained to work on.
I would also add a follow up, what is your go-to for testing if an idea for a solution matches the problem?
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