skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone already knows the NBN is now going to 1) take forever to build (~10 years), and 2) deliver terribly retarded service that will be obsolete once it exists.

I can't wait for them to pull a Telstra as well, and try to sell it off to the public in shares to 'mum and dad investors'.

Its embarrassing to watch the farce unfold.

(and will, I predict, continue to be, for years to come...)

(the irony is, there is NBN fiber in the ground outside my apartment right now, up and down all over. ...but we're still on the '2-3 years' waiting list, and so is everyone else here, because maybe 40% of the homes in this area are apartments. Stupid doesn't even begin to cover it.)
We are using PBE for the messages in the secure chat ( you can choose whether to start a normal chat or a secure one ).

The encryption is done on the client side, so the message going through the network ,storing on the server are all encrypted. Only when you type the correct password then you can decrypt the message.
"Executive" is commonly used for any reasonably senior management position. This is arguably correct.

Executive: relating to the job of managing or directing other people in a company or organizaton[1]

Interestingly, for me Googling define:Executive gives the following definition and example: a person with senior managerial responsibility in a business. "account executives"

(Note that "account executives" are the specific example given).

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/executive
What about potential negative side effects[1] of VR ? Some of them are quite serious(depersonalization and derealization which are pretty serious mental illnesses). Combining those side effects with the probably addictive nature of VR should be done with caution. Is there any thought given to this issue before massively marketing this technology to the public ?

[1]http://www.quora.com/Oculus-Rift/Virtual-Reality-Oculus-Rift...
The EU Antitrust Ogre is surely grumbling about this...
I get that it's profitable, but is it really "economic" when the market price is guaranteed like that?

I'm curious how long out your firm's / colleagues' projections are for when small hydro like that will be competitive sans tariff, or if it only makes sense on the tariff?
See also http://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html (though that's only the editor component, not a whole vim implementation)
Wintersoepje van kabeljauw en spruitjes
Not disputing your general point, by Clark's original description of geostationary comsats was in a letter to Wireless World magazine, followed by a paper in the same publication [1]. It wasn't popularised via fiction, although later he did write some fiction that used the idea.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#The_Geostation...
Who said that you have to submit link to your server? Just force it to load large images from other servers. Well you can use help from Google search.
I've been looking for a website that is exactly what this is. Thank you!
Iterated learning using Youtube videos and speech synthesis
Create an Android Webbrowser in Delphi 
Create a webbrowser in delphi XE5/ Rad studio xe5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXuBnMN_e3M
looks great! Liked the mock-ups.. would love to see a real screenshot. How far are you into it? Looks like you've been building it for awhile?
The Endurance expedition is an example of truth being stranger than fiction - a remarkable tale of adventure and leadership:

"Scott for scientific method, Amundsen for speed and efficiency but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton."

The voyage of the James Caird must account as one of the greatest bits of seamanship in history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_James_Caird
Well, I don't know what you mean by slow, but it could be the use of setTimeout() every 10ms to simulate[1] Vim's synchronous busy-wait is affecting responsiveness.

Lu mentioned[2] on vim_dev that it was necessary to write a hack for this portion.

[1] https://github.com/coolwanglu/vim.js/blob/master/web/vim_lib...

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/AQTHbUHijgg
Like HipChat?
Instagram senders can delete their messages from recipients’ phones
Most Western nations seem to be moving that direction as well.
I think its quite cool as well. Great application of the technology, where the custom capabilities of 3D printing make it a true advantage. On demand, custom surgical training tools and implants are the future.
Ask HN: was "JavaScript: The Good Parts" translated in Romanian?
Breaking the cycle of generational poverty in Harlem
Tip - get the unabridged audiobook versions from Audible, I couldn't finish Quicksilver in print form but I've listened to the entire Baroque Cycle multiple times.

Edit: Jack Shaftoe is probably my favourite fictional character: King of the Vagabonds, L'Emmerdeur, Half-Cocked Jack, Quicksilver, Ali Zaybak, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner....
> When asked for comment, Google told us that the feature had only ever been released by accident — that it was experimental, and that it could break some of the apps policed by it.

Oh, it would definitely break some apps. Considering it would introduce new uncertainty. It's still an amazing feature.
2014: the year of the linux gaming console?
It is built with the compiler flag: --with-features=tiny.
I've had a lot of time with the development version of the Oculus Rift, and there's more things than just that which will cause headaches/motion sickness. Many things where the eyes and other sensors disagree will cause headaches.

In game side to side motion, rapid changes in heights, UI that is not fixed in world space, things that are too bright, taking camera control away from the player (slow horizontal rotation seems to be okay, vertical rotations cause immediate headaches in my testing), FPS lower than 60, etc. The FPS one is particularly interesting I was mirroring on a monitor, and I couldn't tell that the FPS was low(it was running at around 35fps), but in the Rift is was super obvious something was wrong.

I attended a talk for developers given by the founder recently, and he mentioned that stairs also are troublesome, and ramps work better right now. Something to do with how the brain has been trained to know the sensation of climbing stairs.
It's not specified how to create this .data file from the original game. It appears to be an unviewable png file, a format which didn't exist back when the game was released. The original game can be downloaded here:

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/x-com-ufo-defense-1pl
It's not just that it could be faked, it could be an accident that you modify a file but the file modification date is not changed. For example, say you edit a photo, but later you run a script that sets the file's modification date to the EXIF data in the photo.

So I guess the point is that also including the file size will be one more (fast) data point to help ensure 'accurate' change tracking, without adding the overhead of computing content hashes.
I agree that central banks also create money, but I'm afraid I can't agree with how you frame the rest of your reply. Let's look at it from a balance sheet perspective.

When a bank creates a loan, it adds an asset and a liability to its balance sheet. The asset is the loan (that is, the bank's customer's promise to pay back the loan), while the liability is newly created money in the customer's bank account.

The money supply is defined as the sum of all money in existence, and this includes money in bank accounts. That is, when a loan is made, the money supply grows.

When the loan is paid back, the reverse happens and the money supply shrinks again.

And yes, the amount of money in existence is increasing continuously, but so is the amount of outstanding bank loans. In other words, the evidence you present is perfectly compatible with what I'm saying.
Could you go into more technical detail? How are the messages encrypted? I mean, is it subject to a brute force?
An example: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=263620283790579&set=...
"We're using PBE" is obviously not quite the kind of answer that was expected here. For all we know, you could be OR-ing the characters of the password and doing a rotX with the result. Hardly secure.
Wow, how did you create this list? manually? automatically?
A highly detailed explanation on how encryption is used and what type etc, is most definitely needed on the products website to make anyone vaguely trust this.

IMO, the app interface needs improving.
I think it's a great feature. There have definitely been some apps where I would have liked to use them but they've had permissions requirements that I did not believe the app's core functionality needed.
Gothic 2, Risen
If a large enough population is using X for a long time and it's mortality is not distinguishable from those not using X, then that is proof that using X doesn't kill you.

Of course, that takes decades, and can't be proved before X is widely used - but it allows us to reason about the [lack of] deadliness of various wierd cultural habits, diets, etc.
I'm surprised this feature wasn't in place from day 1. It probably involves almost no implementation overhead on the OS side of things.

Apps, on the other hand, would have an extra error case to deal with, but they should be dealing with other error cases anyways.
And not providing any backwards compatibility is BS :)

You do need a stable base to build upon. Not quicksand.
It's quite simple to reset gmail to it's normal, older inbox. Hover your mouse over the word 'Inbox' in the list on the left, hit the down arrow, and you get a list of different inbox styles to try.
every time I open facebook messanger with gps enabled, I see it querying my location. I hate it so much. Would love to be able to turn that off
European Parliament WiFi Hacked
I think code visibility is more important (intention revealing). It allows you to move forward (with proper abstraction) while still provides a chance to refactor later. DRY and Boy Scout Rule should always be honoured.
Post and Discussion from earlier today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6898015
Old keyboard from 1997 (cherry MX 5000) on ebay at 360 USD
stumbled upon this auction
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231113789511

it is just a keyboard from the late 90s. but it is currently at approx. 360 USD and the auction lasts for another 8 days.

the last time an auction with this type of keyboards ended with a bid of nearly 9000 USD
http://www.geek.com/chips/cherry-mx-5000-auction-1491235/

one thing is for sure .. that is a lot of money for an keyboard .. and way too much that i would buy it ...

who pays that much for an old keyboard?
Or if you're Slackware Linux:

"In 1999, Slackware's release number jumped from 4 to 7. Patrick Volkerding explained this as a marketing effort to show that Slackware was as up-to-date as other Linux distributions, many of which had release numbers of 6 at the time, and Volkerding expected them to reach version 7 by the time of the jump."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware
Given way the password is distributed, I doubt the encryption is salted.
Typical LISP guy: delimiting the pairs with whitespace - good enough :)
JQuery Automatic Geocoder
http://www.last.fm/listen/user/wittysense/personal[0]

[0]: Just sayin'.
Europa Erupts: Possible Geyser of Water Seen on Jupiter’s Moon
Bitstrips Confirms $3M From Horizons, Sees 30M Avatars Created In Two Months
So, there was a second code hiding in DNA, with different types of instructions, and those scientists discovered it.

That's nice, that's how science progresses.

Now, let's go to how business works. What about all those "scientists" (nay, engineers doing whatever for a payroll) and all those corporations, cocky and convinced that they had all the knowledge they needed, working as amateur magicians with DNA to create synthetic food, organs, new drugs, etc?

They essentially said "fuck" to a better and timely scientific understanding, in order to greedily rush to market some half baked results -- and consequences (medical or otherwise) be damned.
It's been a pretty shitty week for privacy, hasn't it? First the Disqus hack, then the changed Block feature on Twitter, and now this?
David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation [video]
How one tech company is talking about online privacy
Twitter Folds, Reverses Changes After Outcry
> I suspect this is a UX anti-pattern. I've gone back into my settings and changed it back

Gmail has done this enough times around already for to me become a UX anti-pattern in itself.

It's weird to look back to the days people were begging for invites and Gmail was the best game in town. These days the few times I'm forced to use GMail it almost makes me rage.

The "normal users" I know which are forced to cope with Gmail are constantly and consistenly confused, asking me where things they used to know have gone, and why Google is ruining Gmail.

Glad I migrated to something better, somewhere where I know for a fact that I am the customer, not the product.
Death Throe, the first 'game lab' for Self Experiments: http://selfexperiments.com
The Second-Most Shared Website In The World Is Run By One Guy
Politifact 2008: You Won’t Lose Your Insurance… Politifact 2013: Lie of the Year
Show HN: Responsive web app in JavaScript on HTML5stac
Ha ha ha ha, of course not! This is venture capital, not freaking moral philosophy. If it's addictive, good, we'll make more money.
Yet another closed-source "secure" messenger.
That's interesting, but if I was a chinese dissident I would never trust a closed-source messenger.

(btw I would try it for sure if you'll port it to BB10!)
Two years ago when the tables were turned and Google announced Dart, which has the same compatibility strategy as asm.js (fastest with explicit support, falls back to regular JS), Brendan Eich had these harsh words for Google's move (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2982949):

So "Works best in Chrome" and even "Works only in Chrome"
are new norms promulgated intentionally by Google. We see
more of this fragmentation every day. As a user of Chrome
and Firefox (and Safari), I find it painful to experience,
never mind the political bad taste.

But now "runs best in Mozilla Firefox" is cool?

I actually like asm.js and think it's a totally reasonable approach. I mention this only to highlight that maybe all of the bad-faith assumptions Google gets are not entirely deserved. Objectively these two are similar moves and I think they are both in good faith.
1-3 times a day
Everyone is going to be saying how Bitstrips such as fad and whatnot. But they've been around since 2007 (see Founder's LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-kennedy/6/395/522)

It's only recently that they've had a big spike. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitstrip
Probably not while you are scuba diving. Unless you are an instructor and someone wants lessons from you.
> * Images are now loaded through a proxy, which means that all tracking images will no longer provide information like cookies, IP associated with the account, etc - the only information they'll provide is "this specific email was viewed by someone, somewhere."

No, if you know who you are mailing, you can add their ID to the link of your tracking image, so you know exactly who opened the mail.

<img src="www.tracking.com/image.gif?user_id&other_tracking_info" >
Okay, what form and key size of encryption is in use? What implementation is it?
Does it do PFS?
is it salted?
Where/for how long/how are messages stored?
Who has access to the encrypted form of the messages?
What block mode is being used here?
How are you handling the iv initialisation? Per message? per person? per conversation? What are you using to determine the IV value?
Twitter halts blocking change after user anger
> Do you really want to be completely dependent and beholden
> to some public transport system?

With a car you are dependent and beholden to a public transport system. They are called roads and highways.
Not sure why i cannot reply to the comment below, so i reply it here. The encryption use is PKCS #5 (5.3 PBE with MD5 and DES). The algorithms are outdated but in the subsequent release we can update it to SHA-2 and AES-256.
I hope it wasn't just an "accident" and Google really was working on a way to make it work for both developers and users, and perhaps it was there much like the ART runtime is in there, even though it's not ready for primetime.

I think Google can make it work, but they need to be committed to it. Surely there's a way for the apps to gracefully transition to not needing certain permissions. Google just needs to introduce the proper rules for developers to make this work.
Twitter has gone back on that after listening to user feedback. I honestly think this 'App Ops' feature will also return, it was only found by sniffing about in the APKs and could only be activated (easily) by installing an app which surfaced the settings pane; that's not the same as it being a default menu option that was removed - it wasn't meant for public release yet. I appreciate the EFF and their stance on this but I'm giving Google the benefit of doubt on this one, hopefully we'll see it soon in its full glory.
Or buy it here:

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-XCOMUD/x-com-ufo-defence

http://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/

No client is required for GamersGate, but you will need to run their installer to get at the files (works in WINE though last I checked). Sadly it's not on GOG yet.
10 alternative Christmas gifts for gamers
There is no advantage of prefetching images from familiar senders. It's not about faster image loading.

The ideal thing would be to just prefetch all the images sent to existing and non existing accounts. This way there is absolutely no way for a spammer to tell whether an email is existing or not.
Erm, addictive nature of VR? What about the addictive nature of video games themselves? The Quora article there describes a kind of escapism; perhaps more immersive than video games already are, but tbh I don't think there will be that big of a difference in the end.
Great way to discover again this awesome game.
BTW the game is called UFO: Enemy Unknown
The newly released XCOM : enemy unknown is great too.
There is probably more than these options that you want to serialize into the URI. For example the MySQL client can be configured with an encoding charset, or maybe you want to specific the size of the connection pool ?
I'm in! The older the better!
Game publishers vow to help YouTubers fight rogue copyright assault
I'd just like to add my annual joke that Gates really should get an Amazon affilliate account or he's never going to make any money.
I didn't use App Ops. Did it allow a general policy to be set? I can see you can set permission per app from the screen shot.

I'm not sure I buy Google's excuse. Any app worth it's salt should be able to cope with not having the permission set. I'm guessing this was impacting their own core apps.
I edited my question : the addictive nature of VR combined with potential mental illnesses.
BT outage leaves 37,000 Sky customers in London without broadband or phone
No, because any joke is a "dumb joke" in the context of a HN discussion. There's no debate about the smartness of them.

The "dumb" part is about it being a joke, as opposed to a serious contribution, argument or commentary. Not about the joke's quality as a joke. That is, even if you're Woody Allen, HN does not want you to write jokes in here -- and especially one liners without any other content.
I found this much more amusing, and it shows just how "real" Oculus VR can be to people, to the point where it physically affects their movements:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9po7_2hYaU
Google might ditch Intel and design its own chips
1. Chaos: Making a New Science [ http://amzn.to/1fbmC73 ] still makes an awesome read despite its age.

2. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers [ http://amzn.to/1kFszdH ] - great book on stress and its effects by Robert Sapolsky (have you seen his lectures on behavioural biology? Fascinating stuff, even if you always thought 'meh, biology' - the guy is an amazing lecturer)
This is what I'm seeing when testing it and found that all my tracking images (tracking pixel) have hits as below.

Remote address: 66.249.x.x [any google ip]

Referer: [not set]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (via ggpht.com)
New Google Tips is surprisingly helpful
It's a private project with quite different motivations than a commercial one would have. I doubt that a scheme that size would make sense commercially as the costs to build would be a lot higher (land acquisition and costs of project management are essentially zero on a private project).

There's various prices that power gets sold at, each with different economic cases. If the project simply replaced the power used in a house, then at ~10p/kWh it would still pay for itself within a reasonable timescale. If you could only get wholesale power prices then the case would be tenuous.

The case for micro hydro is made or broken by the site. If you've got good access, reliable flow and a fairly high head then it can be cheaper than any grid supply. The "low hanging fruit" larger hydro plants have been competitive with other baseline energy supplies for decades. The main issue with hydro is that in most of western Europe we've already developed all the really good sites.
Q: If I set 'display images' to 'off', will Google still retrieve images when I open my email?

If so, then anyone can include an invisible image and always know when I open the email.. whereas before they had no way of doing this.
I used to play this game on the original PlayStation, a lot.
The reboot of the game really brings back memories of the original.

I am now playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown on the iPad, even though I have the computer verion on Steam.
The changed block feature on Twitter didn't do anything negative for privacy.
if something is free, always ask yourself how it makes money .
The best way to code fast is to code well.

When your code sucks or you intentionally code fast you end up adding tons of things that will drag you over and over again. And unavoidably you'll end up asking yourself "why didn't I code well. I would have ended up much faster".
Anonymous Browsing with Tor Browser
How to hide your tracks from The NSA by using this anonymous browser called tor webbrowser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3z317WdezQ
makes it revenue
Microsoft joins the FIDO Alliance to put an end to passwords
Plain text is great for ASCII. But try reading a plain text email in a right-to-left language with English words (like technical terms, abbreviations, etc) between sentences. I usually have to copy-and-paste it into Word and do some formatting before it becomes comprehensible at all.
>It depends. For instance, Borland's Turbo Pascal with its one-pass compiler was pretty damn fast. Its edit/compile/run cycle was amazing (an "ECRL" as fast as a REPL). And this with 64KB RAM.

Still, not comparable. That means that TP had to work on the memory, and not touch disk (else it wouldn't be speedy at all).

Which probably means that the libraries available would be miniscule. A decent graphics (or even math) lib can be well over 1MB. Did you got much out of that era TP besides the ability to use the core language structures?
You can have closed-source or you can have secure. This is the former.
yep, but it is open and you can self host your Cozy.
So far you can't say the same of FB :-)
For me it was The Prophet by Khalil Gibran.
it's in the old keyboards that we do the best code
like confiture
The encryption use is PKCS #5 (5.3 PBE with MD5 and DES). The algorithms are outdated but in the subsequent release we can update it to SHA-2 and AES-256.

We cannot do PFS because we have the feature that a person can login to different devices and can still see the same messages and continue the chat ( given that he knows the chat password)
If you really want it, the CyanogenMod firware has something similar packaged with it.
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