skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how there are two comments on the article right now:

Comment 1: "This has to be the stupidest article just to bash Apple which this author continually does. I only read him to laugh at his misguided comments."

Comment 2: "Sam Mattera sounds like a gigantic Apple troll. Android is 1000x times better looking and more useful than the Fisher Price looking Apple iOS."

You can never win...
Cellphones As Radios: Immigrants Dial In To Native Stations
Very cool. Naturally, scraping out of HN is gonna provide a few wonky teasers, but a great idea nonetheless. Just submitted my book per the site's instructions for kicks
http://www.amazon.com/dp/111866146X
The ACLU page is rather manipulative in that they construe the facts very favorably to the convicted. E.g. "After serving two years in prison during his mid-twenties for inadvertently killing someone during a bar fight." Oh yes, he just accidentally killed someone in a bar fight. Happens all the time really, right up there with leaving your credit card with the hostess after getting a little too tipsy.

It would be less biased to show statistics for the kind of people sentenced under the three strikes law, but that wouldn't tug the heart strings as much. California's law is particularly dysfunctional, because it applies to any three felonies while most states limit their laws to serious felonies. As a result, about half of three strikers in California are in for non-serious or non-violent predicate felonies (burglary, robbery, and drug possession). But in other states the law is more limited. For example, the Georgia law only applies to: (1) Murder or felony murder,
(2) Armed robbery,
(3) Kidnapping,
(4) Rape,
(5) Aggravated child molestation,
(6) Aggravated sodomy, or
(7) Aggravated sexual battery.

Besides that, what you're missing is that nobody is really intending for these specific, cherry-picked, people to be kept in jail for their whole lives. Their sentences are the unintended consequences of three-strikes laws that offer no discretion to sentencing judges.

When legislators voted for these three strikes laws, with public support, they were thinking of people who are "irredeemable." Hardened convicts who end up in jail on three occasions. What they didn't count on was the fact that there are people living on the edge who rack up a number of felony convictions for relatively minor things even though they're not the kind of hardened criminal legislators were thinking about. If you live in the ghetto and have friends who engage in gang activity, it's pretty easy to get drawn into some bad behavior that results in a couple of felony convictions, so that "one mistake" later in your life can bring you under the three strikes law.

Why don't these laws get repealed? Because Americans are really not sympathetic to people living on the edge. Ordinary people don't live in the kind of circumstances where they might wander into a felony conviction from a minor lapse in judgment. They don't have drug dealer boyfriends or friends who try to recruit them into burglarizing a house. It helps that 75% of people sentenced under California's three strikes law are black or hispanic (45% are black despite only 6.5% of the state population being black). Americans are particularly unsympathetic to racial minorities living on the edge.

I think sentences in the U.S. are deeply dysfunctional, but I hate this sort of publication by the ACLU. It makes people who support sentence reform seem dishonest by cherry-picking the edge cases, instead of trying to paint an accurate picture with statistics.
Some people can only complain, all you can do is avoid them.
If you have enough information you can make educated guesses about where the market will go. I've been following Bitcoin since 2011 so my predictions are accurate enough to invest.
Finally Tmux pairing from anywhere, on _your_ box
Remote pair programming with tmux has always been a little tricky. Usually you need a box in the cloud, or at least port forwarding setup on your router (Bad Things™). By George, I think I've found a solution!
I was trying to describe something where that isn't a problem. Hence the emphasis on being able to slide out in my original comment.
Journalists have long had a special affinity for Apple. During the 90s, journalism was one of the last bastions of Mac usage. This fervor translated into iPhone fanboyism.
I'd be interested to know where you heard that Rust was enabling GC again, because that's never been the case. The plan for quite a while now has been to move the machinery for garbage-collected pointers out of the language itself and into a library. In the bleeding-edge version of Rust, it's already the case that you have to explicitly opt-in to using the old built-in managed pointer scheme.

As for your side note, I just want to point out something: Rust's two remaining built-in pointers (owned pointers (~) and borrowed references (&)) are raw pointers at runtime. There's no dynamic overhead, all their magic happens at compile-time.
Can anyone explain why 2009 news being posted now? OP has some context in mind?
I am in fact very surprised it's not available in the US but it looks like you're right:

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/d...
Me too! I tried to get a picture but was too slow unfortunately.
Yeah, I knew about that particular example, but I felt that the parent could have argued that it was a special case because they had foreknowledge of what was happening, whereas these other cases they took initiative.
In any case, you are completely correct.
By easily do you mean at the whim of the company? Coinbase is pretty famous for stealing peoples bitcoins and/or not paying out.
The best timings I'm aware of are ~7cpb for AES-CTR, and ~14cpb for GHASH on Nehalem [2]. It's a bitsliced implementation, so it makes sense to compare it to counter-mode AES-NI. A recent AES-NI implementation on Sandy Bridge [1, pg. 25-26] achieves 0.79cpb for AES-CTR, and 1.68cpb for GHASH.

The point: the ratios 14/1.68 and 7/0.79 are quite similar.

PS: The performance of PCLMULQDQ was vastly improved in Haswell, and I believe AES-GCM in there runs at something like 1.5cpb. However, the vector size of Haswell also doubles to 256 bits, which would also improve an hypothetical bitsliced AES-GCM implementation. Hard to say what that speed would be, so I won't try to compare things in Haswell.

[1] https://crypto.stanford.edu/RealWorldCrypto/slides/gueron.pd...

[2] http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/129
http://www.xkcd.com/1286/
I use screen quite a lot -- and with xmonad as my main wm, I really don't need many features from screen -- I just have one screen per terminal window.

A friend of mine uses OS X -- and there tmux comes more to it's right as there's no (Free) way to get sane (for biased values of sane) window management under OS X.

[edit: It might be worth noting, that after running into a lot of problems with unicode input and urxvt, I switched to sakura[1] for my terminal -- and it's basically a lighter gnome terminal that's easy to set up without any chrome. Under debian I bind that to my x-terminal-emulator alternative, and I can ctrl-enter to open a new terminal via xmonad (xmonad needs a short config to use x-terminal-emulator though).

[1] http://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura ]
"	Call me if you want me to get on IM. I'm running around the house and
putting things away but would be happy to come back to my computer and
chat w/ you. Smoochies Hunny. I love you!
XOXOXOXOXO
Amy"

Seems a bit too personal to me
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/13/snapchat-spurned-3-bi...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/15/5106950/google-snapchat-4...
b - information saturation is huge when you follow 100+ people in the same topic
or with GCC: gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Werror or exchange -ansi with -std=c99 later on when you grasp the core of c89.
I didn't actually read the whole post, I just noticed right away that when I hit the page, it showed me a collapsed nothing with just the footer and I assumed it was broken, then the content appeared. This was a little weird for me, but I also immediately recognized it was because they are loading the page, then hitting an ajax call to load the page's actual content. After checking comments here, this is probably because the blog is running on meteor.

This is a trend that I sort of understand, but in another way entirely baffles me. While front-end apps are awesome, in this case the content could easily be compiled and served immediately with the page. This would make the load huge amounts faster, and a lot less confusing when every single user shows up and sees a header and collapsed footer every time they visit the page (no cacheing with this ajax method).

On the other hand, like some other people mentioned here, there are cool benefits to running js apps. A realtime post count is a nice tweak you couldn't have with an entirely static site... wait, or is it? No, you definitely could. Have the blog post content as static and then a snippet of js connects to your server's socket and displays the count as soon as it can.

I've seen a lot of people jump all in onto trends in building web apps when they make no sense, and this kind of bothers me. Blogs especially should be static, always. There is simply no reason to be hitting a server every time someone hits your blog, and especially no reason to be hitting an ajax call on page load, because this just makes the blog slow and puts additional unnecessary load on your server. (The number of sites running wordpress that could easily be static and would be much faster and less expensive that way baffles me - a problem begging for a solution.)

So I guess my conclusion is that while I am sure Meteor has a lot of value for real-time intensive apps, it is a ridiculous decision to use it for something like a blog. As web developers, we have a large toolset and the luxury to choose among hundreds of awesome, mostly free tools for any project we work on. Don't get stuck in the mindset where you have one tool that solves every problem (I saw a lot of people do this with rails too) - engineer your app to be the quickest and most efficient it can be : )
Lost Skills
Fun name. Took me a moment to realize it's a word combination.. but cool. :)
Comey: “There are no safe neighborhoods. All of us are neighbors [online].”
Whether it's an article from 2009 or not, Jason has some good points.
Transhumanism will override all the genetically programmed behaviour :)
The boring answer is no one knows. My personal theory is that within a few years, either Bitcoin will be worth a lot (5 digits?) or it will be worth nothing.
When the PS3 isn't running anything, the icons don't spin or need to load in. When in a game or app, however, they do. Why? Because the majority of CPU and memory is reserved by the game; the icons will not be in memory; you have to async load them and the game might be using some streaming resources.
Before I got a studentjob, I thought I was pretty good with the Office Suite and the rest of Windows, but then when you get a job in that kind of industry, you realise, that these people who wouldn't know how to open regedit, use Excel in ways you wouldn't think possible.

For that reason, whenever i look at job postings, if there is any mention of Excel or VB script, i instantly close the browsertab... I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
It's funny, my gut reaction to your explanation is one of technological conservatism. "This is a problem that shouldn't exist! Don't use JavaScript for that!", I want to exclaim.

But I remember thinking similar things years ago when Slashdot introduced a bunch of JavaScript enhancements on top of what had been a very spartan HTML-based comment UI. The technologically conservative point of view was wrong then, and I think it'd be equally wrong now.
Have any of you used LiveScribe? Wondering if I should go for it or not
If you've got an idea for Watson, it seems that you can submit it here:

http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/getting_started.s...

for more information, and I assume for some early access. I haven't yet been able to find any technical details, and this is the closest to signing up for updates.
> it would arguably contribute greatly to society.

It would contribute to the system that is perpetuating these kinds of injustices. Recall that a good portion of these people serving life sentences for non-violent crimes are in state prisons. How is helping them build their software systems going to find justice for a man in jail for life for stealing some tools?

By the way, this is not a rhetorical question: I'm honestly trying to understand this point of view.
For me the desired characteristics in a framework are the quality, stability and efficiency of the end product and then ease of use comes later. Its not that way for everyone, but I wouldn't simply say ease of use is the defining characteristic of the best tool sets.
Not only that, but after using my N5 and then using a 5S, the brand new 5S feels old. My friends who have iPhones are moving away. The few that are left are only holding on because their other Apple gear.

I was an original iPhone owner. For years Android phones were second class in hardware and OS. Android 4.0 fixed the OS. The N4 and now N5 have fixed the hardware (and removed the carrier crap).
Posted at 9am EST on a Saturday? This won't be a fair fight for a few hours.
Someone described the smartphone market in interesting terms to me yesterday: both Apple and Google are winners. And I think that's true: Google have a higher global marketshare, and Apple are making money hand over fist.

Apple aren't a stupid company. If they think there is a market for mobile devices with larger screens, then they'll introduce an iPhone with a larger screen. If they don't think that'll result in increased sales, then they won't.

As it stands, both platforms are in a pretty good place. Do we really need either of them to "win"?
So, from my 6yrs in SBC/AT&T, the OP is completely correct and I don't see anything insulting in his comment. That's exactly how they made decisions when I was there. It doesn't make them wrong per se, but that's how they functioned. In fact, I think OP was being nice. A lot nicer than the description I'd give.

I could type up 3 pages of my experience there, but I'll just say that because it was my first job: It took me 4 years to confidently identify the 3 points OP listed(that it wasn't me that had a problem), one more year of research for me to learn that living in the bay area put me in the middle of the tech-start-up scene that had a mindset like my own, and another year to replace all the expensive proprietary software tools on my resume with trendy open-source alternatives.... then I left.
Vista, FF 25, IE 9, all up to date.
I got the text on the yellow bar to display in FF by disabling Adblock Plus.
IE hasn't got any relevant extensions running.
I'm the lead developer in a company that does just digital signage software in Brazil.

Recently we rewrote from stratch our software in Qt so it would run on Linux and Android, even on the Raspberry Pi.

The main barriers we found in Linux adoption were:

- Support staff only knows Windows. This gets worse when screens get installed in remote areas, like we have some screens at Manaus, in the Amazon Forest. There is just no one to support Linux there.

- Flash support state in Linux is unknown. Adobe seems to be discontinuing support for flash in Linux, and flash movies cannot be run on the Raspberry Pi or any ARM device.

- HTML5 is the next target, but even on Windows the embedded webbrowsers are not up to par yet on performance, in Raspberry Pi it is inviable. It cannot replace 100% Flash yet.

- Remote admin support on dynamic IP is great in Windows with Logmein, terrible on other platforms. Yes there's TeamViewer on Linux but it seem not too stable, not to say it looks like to be running emulated. Our customers don't trust it the way they trust Logmein.

That said, we are seeing increased Linux adoptions for some markets. If the Qt5 Blink-based webbrowser is more on par in performance with current desktop browsers, than the adoption may rise a lot.

EDIT: fix newlines
This took me a little time to set up but once I did, it worked perfectly. Finally, terminal pairing without all the pain!
How does one actually play this "game"? The app is in Czech and the map does not have anything displayed. Has everything been found?
Lulzsec member sentenced to 10 years for hacking intel firm Stratfor
I'm not an expert in embedded displays, but I assume you'd simply run a webserver on localhost.
I typically scroll back to catch up with overnight tweets unless I have missed a few days worth either due to travel or busy work schedule. I don't follow just to reciprocate and am very ruthless unfollow people who are noisemakers.
I'm just surprised they don't hide the bootscreen given that the only troubleshooting the flight attendants can do is a power cycle.
Same on United — we actually got to watch the full boot sequence (^ ^)
Glad you liked it! Name was one of my concerns.
Apple are posting record sales every quarter because the smartphone market is growing way faster (39.9% year-on-year) than Apple's share of the market is declining (1.5% year-on-year). http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24442013
A friend of mine collects photos of monitor and advertising display fails in airports. He's been doing it for years and he has a large collection. I think that over 95% are Windows.
Sorry was just wrong.
"I feel a man could steal 1000 wallets and not deserve 10 years in jail"

After, say, 100 wallets stolen how do you prevent the next 900 victims from suffering? The victims have absolute rights for protection and compassion; but a repeat offender has intentionally chosen to throw away whatever ties with society he had. There's a social contract about things we do and don't do to each other; we generally don't take others stuff, don't hurt each others and we show compassion to others in our society - so if you repeatedly choose to break the social contract, by taking others stuff and not showing compassion; then why should others show compassion and refrain from hurting you?

If someone can go to my house and take my stuff, why should I be forcibly prevented by police from going to his house and taking his stuff?

If someone is an unquestionably repeat offender, then preventing future crimes is a mandatory goal; respecting the offender is important but, if we can't do otherwise, it's optional. If there is a more humane way to solve it than permanent isolation from society (life sentence, permanent mental institution, execution or exile), then I'd like to hear that and would greatly support it.
There is this attitude, but there is also the other thing: economic and racial social conflict. It cannot be ignored that in California, which has only 6.5% black people, almost 45% of offenders sentenced under three strikes laws are black. Americans not only hate letting people get away with things, but they have particularly little sympathy for policies that disproportionately affect racial minorities. This is the legacy of segregation and suburbanization: it's hard to care about what happens to people in other racial and economic demographics when you're living in a racially and economically homogenous suburb and never actually encounter these people except to hear in the news about crimes in their communities.

That said, I don't think these attitudes arise because Americans are bad people. America genuinely has a crime problem. London's murder rate is about 1.2 per 100,000. Chicago's is 15.9 per 100,000, while places like New Orleans and Detroit are around 50-60 per 100k. It's not particularly surprising Americans are less sympathetic than Europeans when it comes to punishment.
http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/mtgox/btcusd
They have macs for the same reason fancy shops always have macs, they're a status signal and just look better.
Chrome 30 on OSX Lion
Agreed. It's one thing to disapprove of the NSA's spying, it's another to use that as a reason to cheer for the compromising of (assuming some of the critics are American citizens) your own government's classified data (not even just that of the NSA) and a potentially disastrous vulnerability.
Meh. Sorry you ever felt awkward at parties?
Using Slate: A Hacker's Window Manager for Macs
This situation is why there is "hello world"; that program seems trivial but actually has important implications; for instance, that your environment works, that you know how to feed programs to the compiler, that you can actually run the output.

I never took "hello world" seriously until I started doing embedded systems work; it's now an extraordinarily important tool for me (I work an anomalously weird number of different environments).
Why Snapchat's ephemeral nature is a major threat to Facebook
a timely repost.

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value revenue profit

TWTR 25B$ 0.3B$ -0.08B$

AMZN 170B$ 61B$ -0.04B$

CRM 34B$ 3B$ -0.27B$
This is a really cool idea. I can see it being a fun family outing trying to find them and a good way to introduce kids to the tech involved. Anyone know what the cost was for the project?
I always use that log option. It's amazing that people look at the normal chart.
You are techie. But I think its fair to say for a non-techie that perception (true or not) is there.
It might not be truly embarrassingly parallel anymore but H264 and VP8, the web's bread-and-butter codecs, both support multithreaded encoding and will comfortably max out all your cores.
Cool :) Good luck and mind out for black swans along your way ;)
To some people! :)
look up crossfilter.js
It's like a joke I heard about Icelandic banks a while ago. Neither of us have any money, but if we're banks I can sell you a cat for a billion dollars and you can sell me a dog for a billion dollars so that we're both billionaires. The way that insufficiently regulated banks and stock/commodity markets effectively allow certain people to create new money from nothing and then trade it for things of real value is only a tiny bit more subtle than that. Of course, sooner or later what happened in Iceland will happen anywhere that such things are allowed to occur.
Wolfram Language: Introducing Knowledge-Based Programming
If you're producer of mining equipment - yes.
You sell shovels to gold diggers and make tons of cash, optionally by delaying prepaid shipments to end users (dirty tactic) until usability of your mining equipment diminishes greatly.

If you're gold digger - we all know where it ends.
Yeah,

My mind initially had trouble accepting the changes in how to think about data and reactivity, but I think it has been worth it in the end. Very much a "there is no spoon" type of moment.
I want to get into real market to see how many unstable is Windows. I really, really want to see that.
I'd buy $SGNL.
Pretty much sums up what I do.
Here's a plausible argument: "That only means that the smartphone market now has segments. And, the consumers who are now buying other smartphones predominantly fall into the segment in which Android is stronger."

It is plausible because these predictions are worthless.
Three.js ported to C++
I find that emails like that have the opposite effect and push me away from products/services. If the product/service was useful to me, those emails would not be required to keep me engaged.
Point taken, but I highly doubt most investors would roll their eyes at AMZN's numbers. It's not that they can't turn a profit; they're opting not to at this point.
I have also been trying to curate lists and I use tweetbot to easily switch between them. I find it is a great way to catch up on one community segment or another.

I wish twitter made list building easier.
Wall Street on the Tundra [2009]
Why is the freedom from carriers thought of a great advantage for consumers in the US? There is no advantage as I see it. All the carriers have the same price for a data plan. And more importantly it has only increased since the iPhone's inception. Only T-Mobile because its desperate is offering $50 plans now. And if the other carriers see it as an advantage they will offer it too. But I would guess that once T-Mobile gains enough customers they will start jacking up their rates again.