skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an extremely talented commercial suggestion: On one side, as a European, I would NOT support it; and on the other, it looks like a very, very legitimate bill ("why would anyone oppose!?"). Good job for the PR people behind that move! Here's why:

* It says "Governments" (plural). That means because US security agencies have thoroughly breached the borders of acceptable privacy, now all governments should diminish their control. I'm aware Eu agencies do the same, but they don't build as big datacenters as the NSA does. By not having the same budgets, Eu agencies don't overreach as much as the NSA does.

* As a European, the best protection I see against all-spying programs is to have competitive European web services. For example I would support a Eu decision to require a European email address for communication with governments, or similar rules designed to make sure Europeans communicate through safe channels with their governments. It is also EU's role to make sure we have enough competitors so that citizens can use local providers (competitors to Fb, etc) to store their data in Europe, if those consumers trust European spying agencies. As a desired side effect, it is a way to grow our economy.

The Reform Government Surveillance would prevent us from passing reforms to locate European citizen data in Europe. Therefore, it's a very talented move from those 7 companies, and comes right at the right time.
Yeah I noticed that on 9.1. I tried it on one of our "monster" 48 core boxes and it was pretty good with some sysctl poking.

Waiting for 10 before serious evaluation starts when pkgng is default. That and freebsd-update pretty much nail it then for me.
Sorry to hear it didn't work out for you. We are doing something very similar with http://onsite.io, and have encountered some of the same problems.

People won't update their availability for 2 reasons, they can't be bothered or they want to keep their options open. Good freelancers will often have a few offers on the table at the same time and can pick and choose between jobs.

One of the ways we have attempted to deal with the problem is by building in the option for available and qualified freelancers to state an interest in a position. Hiring companies are still returned a list of matched candidates, but can further refine it by showing only those interested in the job.

We are looking at also building in a simple 1 click update via email (I'm booked next week, I'm booked for 2 weeks, I'm booked this month) that will allow freelancers to update their availability without having to sign in. Unfortunately people don't like emails much either. So this will require careful testing.

Agree that curation is important. Nobody is going to pay for access to a list of people of dubious quality. They would rather have 4 good results than 200 bad ones. You will get accusations of elitism, but if you are serious about building a valuable product, quality control is paramount.

Cheers.
Yes, I read your comment properly. And yes, the longevity of your account matters if you're just giving us the usual tin foil hat spew.

As cromwellian also said, Google didn't provide direct access, the NSA cut the fiber. Sure, Google aren't the best company and have had their privacy issues before, but the Government is much worse.
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the language of maths is precise yes but its still only one way of looking at maths. there's too many people who think because they have rote learned something it is the only way to see it. its like saying you shouldn't read in Japanese because everything can be adequately describednin English.
What do you want to do?

Do you want to freelance, get a full time job, and/or go to school? Think about why you would be doing each one. Do you just like to code? Are you interested in making a lot of money? Do you just want to learn more?

I think your next step should be identifying a passion that you have. Do you want to develop/design mobile applications? Do you want to get your hands dirty with backend development? Etc.

Once you have an idea, start building a portfolio of projects using the technologies you are passionate about. That is the easiest way to start finding work (freelance or full-time).

Think about what you want for your future. Do you want to work 9am-5pm every day? Do you want total control over your hours? Do you want to be in class every day? What appeals to you the most? Figure out what lifestyle you want to live right now and think about how a full-time job, freelancing, and/or school might affect your ability to get to that point.

Also, here's a tip for freelancing. Stop thinking about yourself as a C developer or a [Insert Language Here] programmer. Instead, focus on specific problems that combinations of your skills can solve. You are probably doing this now as you describe "coding for websites". If you're making websites now, that might be a good place to draw an example from. Businesses need nice websites. I would find plenty of businesses that either don't have or have bad websites. Contact them. Instead of offering yourself as a PHP programmer, offer to build and design them a nice website. Show them examples of your work.
Yeah, but when one of your friends writes that he's just had his dog put down, another announces that an old venerable club has sadly had to shut down, and a third announces the premature death of a friend of 25 years, you really, really don't want to "like" those posts (all of these examples are in my feed this week, for example).
In addition to this, there are plenty of people on HN that could throw you opportunities. You may want to reconsider posting your experience.
That's your opinion. I took away at least one solid tip and that more than justifies reading it.
its also possible to achieve similar effects using whittaker iteration as a 'sloppy but fast' alternative to the sphere tracing/distance field approach

there is not much good reference on it though (which is why i am compelled to self link)

http://software.intel.com/sites/billboard/article/star-chart...
http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/whittakers-method-...

its less well known by far... Steven Wittens came across it, and I shamelessly nicked it, back when we were doing AVS presets for Winamp. Speaking of Winamp, back then Geiss (the author of this article) created Monkey - it used D3D and hardware acceleration iirc, but also rendered an isosurface similar to the method described in this article.

It was an interesting period of actual innovation in those days...
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I know, right? Quake seemed to manage this stuff on my plodding beige box back in the day without sweating.

The excuse I hear from people who understand this stuff properly is that the quake engine didn't need to have a top of the line text rendering engine running on every surface, and this is what makes visual effects in browsers so expensive.
I now use this: https://offpocket.com/

It has much the same effect. You can leave the phone powered on, but whenever it is in the case it is effectively in flight mode but without requiring me to do anything.

It feels quite liberating to be in control of communication like this and to consume when you want to. A form of zero-distraction for life.
Very interesting explanation as to how colour or elements are what they are, least for explaining silver and gold.

Certainly for non oxided elements, Bismuth being a wonderful element colour wise with oxidisation in effect.

I do enjoy articles like this as they explain the more common building blocks of elements in a way that gives you a different perspective beyond the periodic table list and would love to see this expanded into a colour chart of elements and there relationships.

Had quick look and found this: http://periodictable.com/Properties/A/Color.html

Which is interesting as many are describes as Silver in colour, though very few yellow (sulphur, chlorine) and Gold being described as gold. Though that is the only metal yellow and with that would possibly explain its unique colour.

On a side note I recall in the early days the fuss about creating that perfect gold colour with R,G,B and the arguments abound with whos gold was gold and whos was yellow. With that it is a fascinating colour and one that not easily replicated.
I disagree -- some apps are better when hover effects appear instantly, even in response to scrolling.
He wouldn't have made it to Iceland. The USA grounded a government owned plane travelling within Europe to Austria when they thought he was on it.

Realistically, China and Russia are the only nations powerful enough to stand up to the USA.
If Snowden fled to Iceland, Switzerland, Germany or France he would be already sitting in a US prison cell.
Trash talking on HN. So, sad. Got any data to support your claim? Let's see how you can make 17% = 49%.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4175089/

By adding noise to the argument, you are hurting Snowden's case. People are simply going to conclude that Snowden must be wrong people because people who believe in him are wrong. The fact is that most people live busy lives and actually don't spend much time thinking about Snowden. I think his 15 minutes of fame are up. I don't see him mentioned in the news, except HN, where the story will never die.
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OmniGraphSketcher ends
Omni group is not selling new licenses of the plotting app OmniGraphSketcher "so that we can focus on our other products."
It's been removed entirely in Xcode 5.1.
Nobody give this person any more coffee
Are there architectures where a programmer can just use a specific opcode to inform the cpu what's most likely?
I'm a bit surprised browsers do in-scrolling events: browser performance has been under heavy optimization for years and switching to "panning mode" with no events emitted while scrolling would seem like a splendid candidate for something like a "Turbo mode". Alternatively the change to disable events could've plausibly been written as a fix to usability bugs caused by in-scroll hover events.

This is because I'm not sure if, since -94 or so, I've seen a single case where event handling while scrolling would have actually added to browsing usability at all. It consistently creates two kinds of problems: first laggy scrolling as elements with heavy events handlers get focused and unfocused and secondly crazy behaviour when on-hover menus will open abruptly while scrolling and the state of the page ends up messed up when the scrolling stops.

It makes sense to scroll like it happens in mobile devices: the input events drive the scrolling only and the page just pans around as long as the fingers move on the screen, and the browser effectively returns to interactive mode when the scrolling stops.
That's fair. Although I would suggest her view encourages you to take care of yourself first, and only then pay attention to others.
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It's saddening to watch our shortsighted conservative government tearing up visionary policies such as the National Broadband Network and the Carbon Tax.
Very nice, but is this practical for games? What about collision detection, AI players etc? Or would you use it mainly for backgrounds, skies and such?
Well, first check out usage:
"accused of being a cheerleader for" -bbc

(a BBC headline dominants the first several dozen results)

You'll see that it's very commonly used in reference to males. In fact, it appears that most of the references are to males.

Also, you may not be aware, but most university cheerleader squads in the U.S. are co-ed.
I believe I had already expressed that this was my personal preference.

If you scratch that line and read the rest, my other points would apply generally.

We aspire to give people personal choice in their lives. People have the choice to drink or smoke or get obese or even break the law and risk the consequences. People should have that personal choice in their medical treatment as well.

It's a matter of respect for patients.
Also demostrates how easy COBOL is, once you move past the stigma of it not being flavour of the month.

As an educated guess I'd say it is also the longest serving programming language still in use today, but I'm sure somebody with a weaving loom would argue that.
Yes, its called static branch prediction. I'm not sure how popular it is in modern ISAs, but MIPS and SPARC had such instructions.
storing the 'mark' bit with the objects themselves is not so good for COW semantics, but should be just fine for this toy example i think...
> There is nothing more reviled by people who were born during the cold war than a criminal who defects first to china and then to russia.

I was born during the Cold War and I don't see it that way. In fact, I think you have it precisely backwards.

I remember being alive when the USSR and East Germany were going concerns, and those countries seemed so horrible -- the USA really was on what any sane person (by my definition) would describe as the right side of that struggle.

Living under constant surveillance, scared to speak out even in private, corruption and bad pretense in place of the rule of law? Those things were horrible, and living under such a regime sounded unimaginably awful.

Fast forward some decades and here comes Snowden. That shit really resonated with me and virtually all friends of my age (39).

America is becoming that kind of place. Most of us had a creepy feeling that was happening after the G. W. Bush debacle, but Snowden proved it.

It's the same fucking fight, man: the fight for freedom. The fight for human rights and a non-dystopian future for our children.

The Cold War resonates, but in exactly the opposite of what you describe. We've got all that shit now: hyper-surveillance, secret and therefore meaningless 'laws', kidnapping, torture, America has fucking gulags now. The difference between us and East Germany is now mainly a matter of scale. But as Snowden showed, we were scaling up pretty fucking fast.

Snowden blew the lid off of it, he exposed the massive scale of it, and then he was literally running for his fucking life like some kind of Jason Bourne figure. He had a massive, ruthless security apparatus chasing him, willing do who knows what, and if they caught him it meant he was going to be tortured in solitary confinement for the rest of his life like Bradley Manning.

Nobody in their right mind would begrudge him from going any fucking place he had to in order to escape that.

And to my Cold War-shaped mind, it is impossible to think of him as anything other than a whistleblower that this country badly, badly needed.
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There were some. At at least some points. However they cannot generally be used and I do not think they are included in current CPUs. You can however do hints to GCC and GCC should convert them to the opcodes if they exist. You do this by using "__builtin_expect".
https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/dashboard is even "scarier".
A combination of your locations history and nearby places.
Your right - my bad.
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I'd argue that Minecraft has it down pretty well too. You get an intuition about what to expect, but then there's always that little thing here or there that keeps it interesting.
It is one thing to avoid Russia from a position of power and freedom but it is completely understandable to go to Russia as a place of personal safety when so much of the world is denied to you as was the case for Snowden. I think it quite reasonable to assume that Snowden opposes Putin's nasty politics but also I believe it is reasonable for him to keep his mouth closed about that, having all the major governments of the world actively hating you is a bit much to ask of one man.

His going there made no statement that Russia was free or good just the for him personally it was possibly the safest move at that time.

I would also argue that his publicly speaking out on the abuses in the US, UK etc. may in the long term do far more to improve the freedoms in Russia by improving the acceptable international standards from where they are slipping to than if he had never leaked.

Politicians and even athletes who go to the Olympics have a greater responsibility to speak publicly against some of Russia's policies than a whistleblower on the run.
This is damage control by cowards Paul.
So, the US' biggest data collectors are coming together to fight government surveillance?

I'm not the only one thinking this is a tad hypocritical, am I? It just makes me think that somewhere, some powerful dude went "They are trying to cut in on our action?!?" and decided not to accept projected financial losses by something as petty as a government.

But obviously, this might be the first voice governments actually listen to. Not because what they propose is the right thing to do, but because money.

Apparently this is the best the system currently allows. Capitalism depresses me.
People here read too goddamn science fiction. And the problem with dystopia fiction is that it treats the masses of people as mindless sheep, easily placated by whomever the evil character happens to be (Big Gov, Big Corps). These characterizations don't match the agency exhibited by real people. They don't give sufficient credit to a people who animated the civil rights movement and survived the cold war. They fail to appreciate the inherent resiliency of democracy.
had to make my chrome window smaller to make it work. Seems some floating problems (they needed to test with bigger screens ?)
So this is from HTML5Rocks, I go to their site and in the footer. "This is a Google Project"

I want to subscribe to their articles, Twitter? No, Google Plus? No,... they only have RSS.

Now I wish there was a Google product that works with RSS.
M-g g is the default and is just as quick, if not quicker. M-g M-g is an alias; hold alt and double-tap g.
Where does it say in the leaks that Google was providing the access?

That the NSA had access wasn't because Google was providing it. The NSA got access through some shady practices. They have access to all the files when the NSA can listen in on all the traffic. Not because Google gave them permission.

Very irritating when you claim something with a source when the source counters your own point:

> "If they are doing this, they are doing it without our knowledge," one said.
There is a huge difference between companies collecting data on their customers and a govt collecting on their entire population...
The point of the page is that the Mill CPU (of which I know almost nothing, I don't think I had heard of it before) does not do branch prediction, instead it focuses on the memory traffic and does transfer prediction:

[...] it predicts transfers rather than branches [..]

So, the title of the post is annoyingly misleading and I would really appreciate it if someone could edit.
Upvotes here. This is why Citizens United was rightly decided. Right here.
It depends on the job you're applying. But to say learning how to solve changes your thinking about problems(any problems) and makes you better and faster solver. For just passing job interview you can check Skiena's Algorithms design. That said I highly recommend Topcoder, especially their cookbooks contains valuable information on very rare topics.
As a Google shareholder should this really worry me? Adsense isn't Google's only revenue stream correct?

Meanwhile "analysts" have upped Google's price target to $1175, based on Google's "move into the cloud computing market" [1]

Hang on, weren't Google already in the cloud computing market?

[1] http://www.thestreet.com/story/12137733/1/google-inc-goog-pr...
I was born during the Cold War, but I'm capable of understanding that

(i) when the government failed to give Bradley Manning due process, they forfeited the moral right to criticize Snowden for fleeing. Daniel Ellsberg is in a better position to comment on this than just about anyone else; here's what he said (http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-07/opinions/40427... ):

"Yet when I surrendered to arrest in Boston, having given out my last copies of the papers the night before, I was released on personal recognizance bond the same day. Later, when my charges were increased from the original three counts to 12, carrying a possible 115-year sentence, my bond was increased to $50,000. But for the whole two years I was under indictment, I was free to speak to the media and at rallies and public lectures. I was, after all, part of a movement against an ongoing war. Helping to end that war was my preeminent concern. I couldn’t have done that abroad, and leaving the country never entered my mind.

There is no chance that experience could be reproduced today, let alone that a trial could be terminated by the revelation of White House actions against a defendant that were clearly criminal in Richard Nixon’s era — and figured in his resignation in the face of impeachment — but are today all regarded as legal (including an attempt to 'incapacitate me totally').

I hope Snowden’s revelations will spark a movement to rescue our democracy, but he could not be part of that movement had he stayed here. There is zero chance that he would be allowed out on bail if he returned now and close to no chance that, had he not left the country, he would have been granted bail. Instead, he would be in a prison cell like Bradley Manning, incommunicado.

He would almost certainly be confined in total isolation, even longer than the more than eight months Manning suffered during his three years of imprisonment before his trial began recently. The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture described Manning’s conditions as 'cruel, inhuman and degrading.' (That realistic prospect, by itself, is grounds for most countries granting Snowden asylum, if they could withstand bullying and bribery from the United States.)

Snowden believes that he has done nothing wrong. I agree wholeheartedly. More than 40 years after my unauthorized disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, such leaks remain the lifeblood of a free press and our republic. One lesson of the Pentagon Papers and Snowden’s leaks is simple: secrecy corrupts, just as power corrupts."

(ii) when they forced down the Bolivian presidential plane, they forfeited the moral right to criticize Snowden for staying in Russia.
This is all well and good, but it only really matters if they start lobbying heavily for this change. Words are cheap, it is actions that matter.
Several reasons: Although the US government sets the pace, it isn't the only government that is snooping. Secondly, many governments will always consider some level of spying legitimate.

Therefore it is up to technology and service providers to secure their customers against any and all snooping.

The idea that surveillance can be "reformed" is unworkable, unrealistic.
I think they found a nice balance between honoring her life and creating something that is pleasing to look at.
Mildly interesting (from a branding/style perspective) how Apple, and only Apple, chose not to feature their logo at the top, but to add it to the bottom where only people who read (or at least scrolled) the whole thing could see it.
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Maybe they don't connect to any telco, but most mobile devices are trackable. They send and receive data.
I hate when people talk about entanglement as some separate phenomenon, while it is actually an effect of considering non-local QM in local approximation -- such post should be titled "considering entanglement improves DNA model accuracy" which is catchy adequately to the true value of the paper.
This way it is like calling a sports article "Goalkeeper foiled by... angular momentum!".
HN is the one place that I like to read entire comment strings. If I find a comment to be junk, I will generally pass it up immediately.