skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or salesforce employes that were pressed into evaluating this, just took an easy way out and viewed apps without watching videos.
> You can get lucky for awhile. At some point it stops being luck.

No, it doesn't.

There is no length of a run that cannot be luck. If you have a quantifiable expected distribution of results, you can say how improbable it is that you would see a run of a particular size in a given sized universe of data, but the fact that such a run exists in the data doesn't prove that its not luck.

> I'd be willing to bet you'd have a hard time finding anybody credible that would say what Buffett has done is just luck, which is exactly what you are claiming.

Er, no, its not what I'm claiming. In fact, I'm highly skeptical about EMH, to the point of having said that there is no particular reason (except for known-to-be-false assumptions) to assume that it should be true.

On the other hand, I am saying that the claims that it is "disproven" by the existence of runs like Buffet's overstate the degree to which the EMH is even falsifiable.
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We have merged Ecore, Edje, Eet, Eeze, Efreet, Eina, Eio, Embryo, Emotion, Ethumb, Evas and Evil into a single EFL package.

This embodies a lot of what bothers me about Linux UI projects.

Enlightenment has always seemed interesting, but it's also very opaque. The announcement contains one external link to EFL, and I tried to follow that link to find out what all this strangely named stuff might be, but it lead to a site that required a login.

Elsewhere in the announcement, they mention that they're building a new object system called Eo (props for the Michael Jackson reference, I guess). Of course every Linux UI project already has one of those, with Qt and Gtk+ being the most notable ones with truly sprawling object systems. Why is Enlightenment inventing another one? They don't say, and they don't compare their own take to any of the existing ones either.

All this gives the impression that Enlightenment is partying like it's 1999 on the Linux desktop, while the world has moved on.
So many:

- Distributed stock market. By using colored coins, for example Bitshares, Protoshares, Zerocoin and Mastercoin.

- Distributed Document registry and notarization.

- Market prediction applications (distributed consensus)

- Foreign Currency transmission (you can move dollars, euros and yens using bit coins). Look into the Ripple project.

- Scientific data mining. Using currency mining to solve scientific problems. For example, the Primecoin project.

- Stateless companies: http://firstblockchain.com

- Online lotteries

- Online giveaways

- Micro-crowdfunding

- Content monetization

- Machine to machine payment

- Distributed digital signatures

- Stateless IDs, passports, etc

- Corporate memoranda automation

- Government transparency projects

- New Internets (Public and private). See the Namecoin project

I could go on forever, but I hope you get the picture. Bitcoin is truly disruptive.

@jordhy
NASA might build its very first Warp Drive
Police in Iceland are unarmed. [1]

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22288564
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Maybe in modern OS/CPU combos, but on a 70s era 8 bit CPU like the 6502 the code as described above is definitely vulnerable to a hardware interrupt overwriting the out of scope memory area in question before it is used. One way to make it safe would be to disable interrupts, although non-maskable interrupts would still be a problem.

However, although I haven't checked the details, I suspect that something much cleverer does make the trick robust. What would the hardware interrupt service routine overwrite the out of scope memory with ? For many CPUs, maybe for the 6502, it would be the return address from the interrupt service routine - which is slightly different to the originally pushed return address, but still on the same page, which is all that's required. So a little bit of Woz magic perhaps.
Surely Amazon doesn't employ staff that can only use the shift key when caps lock is on? And what is with the habitual ".."? I can't imagine that any review of the chat logs of this person would call them acceptable - it looks like you're talking to the most vacant of teenagers.
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I love this sci-fi by way of anachronism stuff.

The transfer rate of ~20 bytes per second is tiny, but of course that tiny amount could be the difference between two machines appearing to communicate and not appearing to. If your network traffic is confirmed to be zero, that's a state of confidence that's easy to take advantage of, and a deeply-rooted bit of malware like this could strike in extremely subtle and devious ways.
Because if they rescinded the Upshot prize, they would have wound up having to pay more for the Upshot app they wanted to acquire. They aren't going to throw that deal away, ever.
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Why shouldn't teams do what Upshot did and develop the cool tech beforehand and polish it during the Hackathon

They should: If you know what you're building, and the prize is enough motivation, of course you should do everything you possibly can in advance, and any rules that tried to prohibit that would essentially be crippling only the naively honest.

Even if there were keystroke and screen loggers and you had to "show your work", a prepared team would have gone through the process multiple times, completely refining their work to the point of rote re-implementation of version 10 of a proven out implementation.

This may sound cynical, but it is truthful. Which is exactly why most such competitions simply announce the goal and an end date in the future, and people grind as they see fit.
"9 times out of 10 youre just their product"
> Good point.

And I'm not looking, so not worried about burning bridges. Thanks for the back-up.
How do we know anything actually happens?
Not only that, but the listening application must have some kind of exploitable vulnerability.
That's how it seems to me. But a well-hidden bit of malware won't have a problem turning on the mic for a few seconds on the hour every hour to listen for a handshake chirp or the like. It's a limitation, but far from an insurmountable one.
shrug

This doesn't strike me as inherently scandalous.
SEEKING WORK - remote.

I'm a front-leaning, full-stack developer based in Brooklyn. I have experience with every aspect of creating an application, from mockups and UX design, to the graphic design, to the implementation, to the deployment.

I've successfully built and sold a past start-up of mine, and have a great deal of insight with product development. Because of this, I'm probably of most value the earlier a project is in its life cycle.

Backend stack: Ruby on Rails or Node.js, with DBs/data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, and Redis. I've also worked a bunch with Elastic Search. I also have many years of experience with PHP, and don't mind dipping back into that world for interesting projects.

Frontend stack: my preference is Angular.js, and I've also worked Backbone and Meteor. I am very well-versed in current best practices such as building responsive mobile-friendly websites, and coding pixel perfect CSS and HTML5.

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Email: jeremy@superplussed.com
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Yes, you can parse without executing. I think shell is easier to parse than it seems, there are definitely some nuances that might be tricky to emulate, but I guess it's a matter of effort and how far you're willing to go. For syntax highlighting in IDEs, you probably don't need much, and maybe even a few regexs can get you close enough.

I actually spent a considerable amount of time going over bash's parser [0], and also zsh's [1]. Bash uses lex/yacc with some custom code. zsh seems to have a custom written lexer/parser.

Unfortunately none of them were written to be used as a library, as evident by global state, and a lot of hooks for prompts while parsing, etc. It might be possible to somehow make it work, but it seems like a lot of work to me. You might have an easier time looking at the parser I wrote, and extending that, or rewriting it in another language (as it's fairly small compared to the ones you find in shells). There's also libbash [2], haven't looked closely though.

[0]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/parse.y

[1]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/master/Src/parse.c

[2]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/libbash/
Looking forward to more salesfarce hackathons.
So you think, by 2025, we'll be -as the article says- "rid[ing] in the back seat reading a book, sipping a cocktail, or sleeping as your car drives itself to your destination"?

Count me skeptical. As I said, I don't think little over a decade is enough for that to happen.

Since the iPhone, we've added some pixels to its screen and a fingerprint scanner to the button.

Sure, in some circumstances we'll turn on this advanced version of cruise-control. But we won't be lounging while we get from A to B.

Or rather, I don't believe we will.
Do I got screwed with $4,000 at coinbase?.
In my opinion BlackBerry is just too big and important to fail. It's the only non-american major player, and it's well known for its security and reliability.

Anyway, if you're trying to decide between the Q10 and the HTC One, I think the biggest difference is the keyboard. If you prefer a physical one, just go BB. If you prefer a larger screen to watch pictures, videos and play games, buy the HTC One.

FIY some days ago Nokia gave me a free lumia for development purpose, and while typing on its screen keyboard I really missed the physical one of my Q10. With my BB I can type precisely without watching the keyboard, and I love it, while on touchscreen I feel insecure.
Sometimes I'd like to have a bigger screen, but I wouldn't trade the keyboard for that (If you want to watch a movie, tablet are a better choice anyway).

Speaking about apps, as I already said I don't really feel such a huge gap. I have all the apps I usually use, and for the missing ones there is always the android runtime (which runs pretty well and is constantly improving). In addition to that, I feel a greater UI consistency in BB10 native application, compared to iOS and Android ones. You have settings on the top, main bar on the bottom, togglable action bar on the right and menu bar on the left. Imho this is a great value for BB, which is instead missing on Android.

Then, we could speak about swipe based ui, blackberry hub and a lot of things, but I think you already know all I could tell to you.

So, regardless of your final decision, I hope you will be satisfied with your new smartphone. Good luck!

(and sorry for my poor english)
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I wouldn't want to watch a movie at 30hz, or at 4k.
"I owned a string of PalmOS devices during this period. Their ‘app store’ was literally boxes of software in a store which you had to install from your computer. No different than 1980s PCs."

That's not really true. Mobile devices around that time were designed as peripherals of the PC, so you could download apps to PC and install them by cable-syncing. Palm apps were just .PRC files.

It really wasn't too complicated and was a far sight from buying shrink-wrapped software in a physical store. It's just a shame that Palm, MS, and other platforms left this stuff to third-party websites instead of making it a more seamless experience for users and a more profitable one for them.
Wow. If you ever want to read something that's a major downer in the afternoon.
Thanks!

I work full-time right now, so money isn't really an issue. I'll gladly accept commits though! ;)
Apple buys Topsy for $200m
we've all got our preferences I guess.
This article[0] refers to 1.8 homicides per 100,000 people per year, or about 5 per year. So the ratio is much much lower than the USA.

edit: [0] http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22288564
This is awesome! Thanks. I love the what's possible with the technology but think that a currency actually under-utilizes its potential.
Off topic, but it really annoys me when they write "according to people familiar with the matter." There is very little information in that statement!
I can understand his exasperation. The responses he was getting from the Amazon employee were unacceptable. They didn't even try to understand his problem, or even his name and gender. They're better off with no support than this crap.
I don't think there's anything that will change the class names, but there are minifiers

http://yui.github.io/yuicompressor/css.html

Changing the class names would be difficult as it wouldn't pick up any dynamic class names, like

var className = 'user_' + user.getState(); //'user_deleted' or 'user_active'
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Canadian.

And I just meant that I would assume that, unless the article further elaborates on this "first", at some point in the entire history of the country of Iceland, somebody had died at the hands of law-enforcement. Even at a rate of once per decade.
I doubt they'll ever run another hackathon like this again. What a farce.
Wow - that's actually really cool.
Welcome to 24/7 customer service - a sales rep handling multiple chat sessions and failing to context switch between them.
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The flip side of equality is Jante law.
The Topsy API is the best way to surface "trend" type data from Twitter. I'm a little confused as to why Apple would make this acquisition, but of the companies doing things in the "make the Twitter firehose accessible" space, Topsy has had the best product for some time.
Put the command in a sticky header.
OECD says 0.3 per 100,000, or about 1 per year: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/iceland. Your article says "never went above 1.8" but apparently in 2009 and 2011, they had just one homicide each year. So maybe there was a freak year with 5...
Deals like this are usually confidential so the sources can't reveal themselves for fear of breaching contract.

Yeah, it leaves you in a situation where the information is just a rumor. All you can do is trust (or not) the original publisher of the rumour. The Wall Street Journal is usually pretty good with this type of Apple tidbit.
I'll take both, several of each!
When you're calling out someone's credibility with nothing backing you up it's a hit piece.
What else would you exfiltrate/steal besides passphrases and private keys? Serial numbers/IPs/hostnames of any discovered devices on the air-gapped network?

Send to the airgapped computer(s) software updates and new commands to run? 20 bytes per second is enough for that, or is it bits? A shellcode is about 40bytes or less.

I guess if you want to guard against this the reasonable thing to do would be to physically take out the mic and speakers of any to-be-secure-computers. Or have one computer listen in on these high frequencies on the perimeter or whatever. Would be interesting to discover chats.
Mr. Ondesign (can I call you Josh?), your website sure does use a lot of CPU when it's in the foreground. What is the deal there exactly?
Microsoft/XBox1 backpedal probably beats this one. SalesForce isn't giving up much here. What's another million to a company they've already invested in?
Aren't all movies at 30Hz or 24Hz? I don't think there are any mainstream releases at a higher FPS...
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I thought the assertion was their apps were never run. Not that the videos were never watched.
If it was possible, annualized gains from the stock market would be much higher than 7%. If there was a way to consistently get 100% YOY returns on an investment, someone would be getting rich on it. I'd happily pay someone 20% -- hell, 50% -- of the gains if they could get me 100% growth YOY. Instead, hedge funds have actually underperformed the S&P 500 over the past few years.
We see it with our own eyes or are given proof of it. A one sided rant is not "proof".
Per capital, though, police in Denmark kill more people per year than those in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, or England. [1]

[1] http://www.politi.dk/NR/rdonlyres/20DE43AF-33F4-48C5-A710-6A...
I personally would not want #2-#4. One of the reason I like Hacker News is that it's system is not customized to my personal behavior. I like that front page looks the same to me when I'm logged in and when I'm not (as far as I'm aware). I prefer the wisdom (or madness) of the crowd to the bubble of myself.

I also think #2-#4 would result in the diversity of topics & sources on my front page to erode.
I can also understand the way he feels but this is no way to deal with it.
You must have forgotten the grand prize was for $1 million. Not exactly chump change. I'm sure if you felt slighted after entering, you'd be right there complaining about the rules as well. For $1 million I know I would raise my concerns.
Their rules were just too complex yet weak and ambiguous. If they want to level the field, a simple fix would be: make all previously written code available to others at least one week prior to the Hackathlon, everything else is kosher.
When your only tool is an oversimplified, outdated, bigoted take on libnerdtarianism, every problem probably does look like a shooting range and a "brown people only" lane at the airport.
That makes sense, should have read more closely.
>You can't say that Erik Meijer doesn't know Haskell

That's true. But I can say that he is quite happy to tailor his message to his audience, If you listen to what he is saying, he is making the argument for haskell. He is just wording it for the PHP crowd. Haskell does allow side effects, which is entirely the point. But the "unwashed masses" as it were are under the misconception that it does not. So he has to take the "side effects are awesome" sales pitch, and kinda tosses haskell under the bus in the process. Unfortunate, and ironic given that haskell programmers genuinely feel that side effects are awesome, but what can you do?
OpenSCAD is pretty good for programmers transitioning into 3D modeling. The minkowski can get slow for high triangle counts, so it's not used too often. But it's as a result of relying on the underlying 3D graphics library, CGAL.
I assumed the note at the top was an addendum to give some historical context for those coming across it at a later date (as we have :). This isn't some random guy spouting questionable views on the internet, Eric Raymond is a respectable (as far as I'm aware) hacker, author of the famous book, The Cathedral And The Bazaar.

Not sure why he's chosen a pyramid insignia, but in and of itself it is a benign symbol. Only when one attaches conspiratorial notions to it (as you have) does it take on more meaning.
Yet it is being used in Tizen mobile platform, also by Electrolux and Samsung. They are working hard and there are some new nice features in this release:

It now fully supports [0] Wayland 1.3

New library Eldbus for using the DBus API

New library Ephysics, which allows using Bullet Physics Engine features in EFL way

New library Ecore Audio for working with audio

New widget theme Elementary

The Evas rendering engine is now working in async. mode preventing UI from hanging

New object model Eo which unifies the access to EFL objects

More information about the libraries can be found at http://enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about&l=en

[0] - https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/wayland/
Just because i think it seems to be an interesting fact:

Killed people by police in 2012:

U.S.: 587
Germany: 3

Even less in Canada or the UK.

(From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... + the links at the bottom)
The most striking thing about this, besides the (morbid) milestone, is this statement:

> "Police regret this incident and would like to extend their condolences to the family of the man," Icelandic police chief Haraldur Johannessen told reporters.

Is it because the Icelandic state is more humane? Maybe, but more likely, it's because it was unprepared for such an incident. I can't imagine a standard police department issuing regret because it would be a statement that could easily be used against them in court (justified or not).

A couple of recent NY incidents come to mind:

- A couple months ago, the NYPD shot at a man they considered dangerous...not only did they miss the man (who they later tasered), they ended up shooting two innocent women, as it was Times Square. No statement of regret made: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/nyregion/firing-at-man-in-...

- A year ago, police shot and killed a man who had just gunned down another man near the Empire State building. They hit their target...and injured nine bystanders. A lawsuit was filed in that case: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/22/justice/new-york-nypd-lawsuit/
No, you interpreted it as condescending. Just because I enjoy unbridled optimism does not mean I am condescending.

You are suggesting that you are infallible, as the "dead simple errors" you refer to get out into production systems every single day. More than one serious security hole in rails has been due to very similar problems. You are very much implying that you are a better programmer than the entire rails team. And virtually everyone else, as examples of these kinds of bugs are everywhere.

And finally, crying straw man while presenting a straw man is poor form. If a particular library has a deficiency, that's unfortunate. But it has absolutely nothing to do with type safety. Haskell for example is more type safe, and it has two http client libraries, both of which provide safety while also allowing arbitrary headers (and methods, etc).
Do you have examples of how it's possible?

For me, I believe it's not possible, because I can't sufficiently model a reader's reactions while writing. If I want something to be good, I have to let it sit and come back to it as a reader. Only then can I see the imperfections. Or rather, some of the imperfections. It takes me 3 or 4 passes before a piece really settles down, and showing it to others often yields new avenues for improvement.
Anyone developing Salesforce apps will not raise a stink as it will hurt their relationship with that company. So anyone writing Kudos about Salesforce for this extra $1M prize should keep quiet as it's disingenuous. It's been mentioned many times over that many of the teams that competed could tell via analytics that their apps were not looked at. This statement alone should invalidate the entire contest and force new judging.

So how does this constitute a full review and audit. The reality is that SF royally fucked up on many fronts and lost developer cred in the community. As if they cared in the first place.

If they attempt this next year, they need to appoint an outside 3rd party to oversee the contest and git rid of their own employees from the process.
He seemed to be implying it, though.
Yeah, but it's not very long at all in Retail Time.

It's taken us 20 years from Amazon coming online to Internet sales eclipsing retail holiday sales (which I believe is projected for this year.)