skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I missed the part in Mandela's biography where he avoided jail time by skipping the country, and then proceeded to go dark in order to continue avoiding jail time. Snowden is better compared to spies than to revolutionaries. At best, he's a Loki.
Bah. This is getting a bit out of hand. It is one thing to maintain quality of your app marketplace, but demanding that people remove features because you are ideologically against them is crazy.
Self-signed certificate, not a real one: http://i.imgur.com/35Szn2S.png
p^μ is the μ-th component of the vector p, and in an equation p^μ = m u^μ, μ is to be taken as a free variable, i.e. the equation is true for every μ. In relativity, Greek indices are taken to range over time and the three spacial dimensions (whereas Latin indices only range over the spacial dimensions).

This notation can be naturally extended to tensor products of vectors in the tangential and co-tangential spaces to the base manifold that is spacetime (simply called "tensors" by physicists): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_notation
Bill Ford on Ford Motor's transformation into a tech company
The race to register something more understandable like cafecorkboard.com in 3.. 2..1..
Pandora, Tumblr, Twitter
"'you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that they are each worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners, but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.'"

Michael Lewis in Boomerang
Congrats, you managed to outline a scenario in which there will be no doubt that your day job will own your startup. Talk to a lawyer, you need transparency in 40 of 50 states so that you can document what IP of the startup isn't the company's.
Not true. People won't be on the streets unless the gov actions directly affects their lives in the ways too grave to ignore anymore.

Manning disclosed that US military was killing civilians basically for fun [1], and yet no people were protesting on the streets (not in large numbers, at least)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogFZlRiTHuw
Google catches French govt spoofing its domain certificates
That was supposed to be how it worked in the US, at least in the late 90s/early 00s - phone (and cable too, I think?) telco network operators were legally obligated to let other ISP companies lease their lines and deliver service to customers. There was no real enforcement though, and network operators just waged guerrilla warfare on independent ISPs - inexplicable "delays" connecting lines for customers that disappeared if the customer got impatient and signed up for the telco instead, service limitations and outages that telco customers on the same lines didn't notice, etc - until most/all of the independent ISPs went bankrupt or gave up.
Verizon Plans to Acquire EdgeCast Networks
Makes me think twice about changing my Internet from Earthlink (provided by TWC) to a faster offering from TWC. It works now and I don't think I've ever had an outage in the almost 10 years I've had it in 2 separate houses. Only problem is it's slow as dirt. They advertise 15/3 but I rarely get over 380Kbps upstream which makes working from home all but impossible for me. I'd love to get 30 or 50Mbps down, but I'm afraid of what might happen if I switch...
Meaden's a trailer park owner who tried and failed miserably to do some dancing, Bannatyne runs a gym, Hoppen lines cushions up, Jones is the only one who actually has any money despite the only thing I know he's behind is expansys.com (I suppose that backs the HTC accessories store so I have used it) and Linney... well, apparently has something to do with cloud computing but when he first appeared I looked him up and didn't recognise anything he'd been involved in.

I'm not surprised no one idolises them. Especially Meaden.
XCPretty - fast and 100% compatible xcodebuild formatter
XCPretty is designed to be piped with xcodebuild and thus keeping 100% compatibility with it. This means, when xcodebuild works, xcpretty works. It's even a bit faster than xcodebuild only, since it saves your terminal some prints.
That would be interesting. Slightly similar to the new region boundaries in Snow Crash? Who needs countries/states as long as you have big enough clan/mafia/corporation groups...
Well, let's see...

In the case of my monitor, the software sets a single byte in a direct memory array which is then sent directly to the monitor via a direct, dedicated connection, for a total distance of about 3 feet.

An HTTP request is usually closer to a kilobyte. So there's your two orders of magnitude, right there. Then add in the fact that the communication channels are miles long, routed through dozens of separate hardware modules, shared not only with other traffic but with other protocols, subject to synchronization and concurrency issues, etc...

Really, the situations aren't comparable at all.

Not to say networking couldn't be faster. But it's a very, very different problem.
Fortunately the developer of CoinJoin built an HTML5 wallet which is unbannable by Apple:

https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/406604212009566208
That is not a 'once' - it is an 'if', and a big one at that.
What happens as a startup ecosystem grows (Hint: Painful)
How Violent Porn Site Operators Disappear Behind Internet Privacy Protections
I think the real problem is that it isn't clear what makes it different from VLIW architectures aside from esoteric features like this that I have major issues with (other comment:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6874853)
This is wonderful.

LICENSE = Apache 2.0 https://github.com/guardian/frontend/blob/master/LICENSE

And then...

https://github.com/guardian/frontend/tree/master/resources/f...

They have put under Apache license their commissioned fonts which are normally available for a decent fee: https://commercialtype.com/typefaces/guardian https://commercialtype.com/typeface_images/guardian/Guardian...

This is extremely generous of the Guardian.
So did I.

I felt that if I wasn't 'great,' then I was squandering my life, and that I always had to hustle more. I'd internalized a bunch of toxic messages (some from well-intentioned family), lived in a fast-paced area that focuses on power (DC), had impostor syndrome, and was a nerd when growing up. It was easy to think that once I reclaimed my 'rightful' place, that life would be as it should be.

It should be little surprise that I was well on my way to predicating my identity on my career. I placed enormous pressure on myself to succeed, and rapidly started viewing many facets of life as inherently zero-sum. I became reductionistic in many areas, and my interests narrowed, as I pursued only things that I was good at.

It was all an enormous lie. I'd bought wholesale into a weird, Nietzsche-Darwinian belief system where I had to become the ubermensch before I could allow myself to be human. I had to become someone so I could see myself as someone worthwhile. I had to achieve so I could rest. I had to be the best, lest I become undesirable.

In short, I believed I was not worth loving until I'd received a certain amount of external validation. I'm still being broken of this, but the break/repair/rebuild cycle is much better than the desperate grasping. Fuck status. We think we have to waste our lives accumulating it, when it's really borne out of fear of the future.
anycast. If you announce the same IP from multiple networks your request will be routed to the nearest one automatically.

It is how Google is also able to provide Google DNS on just two IP addresses while having tens if not hundreds of physical locations those requests get routed to.
This is just a self-signed cert.
Have you tried benchmarking it against a non-annotated compiled version?
> Wait, actually I don't give a fuck what you think. I'm busy helping people while you're busy calling me a cock. Fuck you.

You so don’t give a fuck that you replied straight away.

But at least you didn’t have to repeat how busy you are helping people, since the poster you so-don’t-care-about-that you-had-to-reply-to specifically called it out as noble, amirite?

Whether the post was ment ironic or not: golfclap
Office of Technology Assessment
Then the men realized there was money in it...
Using Your Terminal From The DevTools
German Post/DHL testing package-delivering drones (similar to PrimeAir)
So now anyone snooping on visitors to Guardian's site can decrypt the communication. Don't see why anyone would waste time on this given that there is no 'money' involved.
Gift HN: I'll build your project/MVP for free
First of all, thank you HN for getting me started on my dream of being a coder. I started november last year with Udacity's CS 101 and followed up with Steve Huffmans Web Development course. For the past year I've been learning Javascript and played around a little bit with Django and Objective-C building projects for friends, and I'm really having a lot fun with it.

I was recently about to embark on my first large challenge of helping a friend build a dating site for a niche market, but he pulled out in the last minute. So now I have two months with a lot of spare time which I'd like to focus on doing a fun programming project. Unfortunately I don't have any good ideas atm and I rather help somebody with a real problem.

So my offer is: If you have a real problem you'd like to solve, or a product/app you'd like to create, I'd be happy to help you out. My main condition is that this is something you really will want to use, so I can get feedback from real users. I make no guarantees regarding code quality, it'll most probably look like spaghetti under the hood. My biggest strength is just that I love coding (and am good at googling), especially for people who really need it.

I have no idea if this is a good idea or not, but I thought it could be worth a try. Merry Christmas :)

//Jonas
mail: bolin dot jonas at gmail dot com
Responsive is awesome, but the number of extra information is increasing cognitive burden. Duplication and buttons like print (srly?).
Yeah, I imagine that is used for testing SSL on dev boxes or similar.
It doesn't help Apple to block a desktop app from their app store because if they do, the developer could release it outside of the dev store.

Safe to say that the ability to release unapproved applications on the Mac is now considered a bug by Apple, and being addressed accordingly.
Peter Higgs interview: 'I have this kind of underlying incompetence'
Issuer: C=GB, ST=London, L=London, O=GU, OU=tech, CN=*.int.gnl/emailAddress=martyn.inglis@guardian.co.uk
Subject: C=GB, ST=London, L=London, O=GU, OU=tech, CN=*.int.gnl/emailAddress=martyn.inglis@guardian.co.uk

This isn't the Guardian's certificate. It's self-signed, for starters.
I believe Apple is monetarily opposed to these apps.

My crystal ball says Apple will likely release their own wallet services in the future and when they do, they don't want any competition.
Wouldn't this allow someone to do a full man in the middle attack with a compromised server/dns server?
Yeah, this is the kind of site you expect to see for One Weird Trick, not programming.
Allowing staff to use "language of the week" can be an excellent way of retaining staff when you can't pay them market rates.
Still with the emotional arguments. Which part of "don't force me" was unclear?
"Always look for the hidden agenda."
Okay:

(1) Get publicity for the VC firm and,
thus, more deal flow. We can conclude
that they are not getting much deal
flow.

(2) Have criteria that look good to the
LPs, that is, easy to understand and
like nearly all other VCs. Then forget
about the 20% and live on the 2%.
If it were the actual cert they're using, yes.
Before everyone gets hysterical, please vote ^^^ that comment up. It's a self-signed cert, it is not used in production:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6875023
You know. How people post local notices on a lamp post? For like, missing cats. You see it often on college campuses.

Maybe it could have been called cafecorkboard.com like the other post here, or telephonepolenotes.com
U.S. Military secretly developed mobile app games that spied on users
Yeah is ugly, but is more about the frontend package
Or "acquired" by HBO since their interface is so awful.
Wealth disparity
I remember Steven Chu[0] and GM getting behind envia[1], it's unfortunate that it hasn't worked out. A lot of people had high hopes for their technology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu

[1] http://enviasystems.com/pop_video_chu_annon.htm
atleast majority of bitcoin millionaires will be more of a sharing culture type and they will play their part in helping the poor. There is higher chance of good with bitcoin wealth than banking wealth. Internet is inherently kind and wealth inequality will be resolved when it happens here. IMO
Really?

http://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Markets-Regulations/Dr-Red...

Because at $75M to $250M a pop, they're way cheaper than developing a new Biologic ($1B-$2B) and that's because while none have been approved yet, the pathway in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is shorter than that for a new Biologic. I think Big Pharma will do what it takes to make this happen myself. Just like Google will apparently do just about anything for the bottom line despite their corporate motto.
There was no need to suspect, the Maps team published a blog post about how they get traffic information: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-side-of-sittin...
Oh I see now that it's just the self signed cert. Awesome :)
It's been open source (on this URL) since ~May 2012...
Yep. Though it opens up a (probably hypothetical) potential attack if this cert is widely trusted on, say, Guardian employees' development machines.
That's my impression, too. He seems to be one of those persons who never ever can't be wrong at all and if evidence is provided which shows that he's clearly wrong, he gets angry/insults people/threatens lawsuits¹.

I just hope he adopts another language and drops Scala, because his behavior seems to become an increasing burden to the community.

¹ The last one is only hearsay, the two others certainly not.
HTTPS does not seem to be properly configured on their servers anyway, I get an "You attempted to reach www.theguardian.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.a.ssl.fastly.net." error when trying to connect over HTTPS.

That's interesting because they do have content protected by a sign in system. Are they just not using HTTPS for that? I kind of expected more from the Guardian.
A couple of times: Sparc chips that did some notable damage on their way out. One was pretty old, one not so much.
Show HN: SVeN, A SystemVerilog BNF Navigator
Yes, just checked now.
Can you tell me where is safe place to live? No joke, I looking for safe place to move to in some years.
Do Lectures
Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life
That's unlikely - Google notifies you if you login from an unusual location.
Thanks for your interest, we now use webp on the mobile site (look at your network tab in the dev tools: the mime type of most images should be image/webp).
It's an architecture thing. Most message queues are written the way you'd initially think to manage a message queue, you keep a big queue of objects in memory, and in order to get delivery guarantees, you have to hold on to them until the consumer confirms receipt. This leads to pathological garbage collection scenarios, the old "holding onto an object just long enough to make it really expensive to GC".

Kafka, on the other hand, when you write a message to the broker the broker writes it immediately to disk queue rather than holding it in memory. But isn't that slower? No, it's not, because it's in page cache, which is managed more efficiently than garbage collected memory. Then, when consuming, rather than keeping metrics for each individual message being received, consumers simply have a log position -- they periodically commit, which tells the broker that all of the messages until that point have been consumed. If they never commit, eventually another consumer will get those messages.

So basically, it scales a ton better because you're just doing scads of sequential I/O with occasional commits, rather than tracking a bunch of messages in memory individually (which in theory should be fast but causes GC problems).
IMHO 2-gram corpus is very easy to implement, what do you find difficult with it?
I just input the exchange prices I want into xsetroot (in a script), which makes them appear next to the time on my status bar (in dwm).
I can't say about High School, as I went from there into the military, but later in life, after several years of factory/warehouse type jobs, I got fed up and went to college.

I initially went to a community college, and the guidance councillor there tried talking me out of going a Physical Therapy degree route (switched several times and ended up going CS) into a Trade direction instead. The only thing keeping me from regretting the decision is the fact that I'd never had met my current wife if I hadn't gone to university.
Nail on the head.

We live in a bizarre world where everyone that founds a startup is often a credentialed, healthy Stanford grad re-implementing an unremarkable idea in network effects. Is it mobile or social? No? You might as well get on the next flight out of here.

To me, it seems utterly remarkable that our industry has grown up from kids running computers in their basement to a new breed of slick, Macbook-toting framework programmers that couldn't set up WiFi or SSH to save their life.

The things that I moved here for have been gamified and manipulated. In the process we've not only damaged our own industry, but destroyed San Francisco's cultural identity and pushed out the artists and misfits that make this such a special place.
I don't believe this is the result of an ideological belief. This is standard Apple app store policy that if you allow any sort of in-app purchases, they have to go through Apple.
Share Price = Present Value of Future Cashflow...

That analysis is hard to do correctly if the company is not even generating revenue... Unfortunately it has now become standard practice to use what is basically goodwill (hype, or more charitably, brand equity) as the primary value proposition for many startups.

Goodwill is something you add to the value of a company to sweeten the pot during acquisitions but it should never be the primary value proposition.
It's time to make Internet access a public utility, just like water and electricity. In this day and age, Internet access is as much an essential part of life as both of the above.

Remember that the cables that they use were paid for with public tax money. The private companies are selling back to us the infrastructure that we already paid to build.

This is one issue on which neither progressives (who tend to favor government utilities/services) nor libertarians (who tend to favor the free market) are happy, because we have the worst of both worlds: a government-sanctioned, unregulated monopoly, using infrastructure built with public tax dollars, and re-sold to the original payers (the public) at monopolistic prices.

Unfortunately, recent efforts in this direction have completely failed. A North Carolina town dissatisfied with Time Warner banded together to create a municipal ISP, and Time Warner sued, on the basis that they "couldn't compete[0]" with the superior speeds and lower prices that the municipal ISP provided. In the end, Time Warner won[1].

I, like 80% of people in the US, have no choice as to my broadband provider. I don't have a landline. I don't have cable TV. All I need is Internet access, and for that, my only option is paying Time Warner Cable, at whatever price they decide to charge, for whatever service they decide to give me[2].

[0] read: "didn't want to compete" == "it's cheaper for us to sue you than to lower our prices to market rate"

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/11/the-price-of-muni...

[2] Pro-tip: If you're stuck with TWC as well, don't pay for the higher speed levels. That's just the maximum possible speed, and they don't guarantee you anything close to that, for any portion of your monthly service. If you live in a congested area, you're likely to get the same speed regardless of which tier you purchase, so just pick the cheapest one.
I don't see why those coins can't re-enter the system. Just tell everyone that coins stagnent for over 10 years will re-enter the system through miners, and have people consolidate and refresh their holdings. There's no reason that old coins can't be reintroduced.
Getting out of hand? This isn't some new behavior from Apple breaking with past behavior. Apple already bans competing web browsers with their own rendering engines (forcing them to use the slower Mobile Safari without JIT), bans any app which duplicates any functionality Apple has or is considering adding to their platform, and forces all providers to either give them 30% or not have in-app purchases or even links to purchases. Banning bitcoin send functionality is tame compared to that.
Lately, I don't mind connection speeds as much as I care about absurd data caps.
It's almost 2014, for god sake. Are we still having to fight for our data usage?
Seems like this is posted every few weeks or so.
No, it's really not. Could you explain why you think that?
Leaving aside the bitcoin angle, this is actually a pretty good primer explanation of the market mechanics and psychology behind technical analysis.
I've had a similiar horror story with Eircom, one of Ireland's main providers. We were paying for 3mb/s at €40/month but only receiving around 0.4mb/s. I gave customer service a ring and they said they could downgrade the line to 1mb/s which would improve the actual signal but we'd still have to pay for the 3mb/s. I really wish it was nationalized like electricity but I don't think our government is technically competent yet.
Project on the history of calculators
Hello everyone,

I am a student in History of Science at Cambridge currently doing a project on programmable calculators made by HP in the '70s. I am interested in the magnetic cards on which programs were stored and how/whether HP's user library was actually used.

If you would be willing to discuss with me I would very much appreciate it! I am interested in the following questions:

1)	How common were they to have? HPs were notoriously expensive and their being programmed in RPN may have led certain groups to turn to other companies like TI. I don’t know how much discussing RPN would figure into this account but I am interested in programming language entrenchment/preferences as well.
2)	What was the incentive to enter programs into the HP user library? Was it financial? Did people code programs on spare cards and send them to each other? Was it enough to buy the various packs that HP marketed (Statistics, Flight, Medicine, etc.) or was this seen as facile/not trustworthy?
3)	If you yourself worked with these HP calculators with magnetic card readers in the ‘70s and ‘80s, where were you working and to what extent was it desirable to shop for programs rather than simply writing them yourself? I am interested in how different calculators were used infrastructurally.

Thanks so much, I can be reached at mcgovern.mikey@gmail.com. This is an academic account and I hope to both give the computing community information about the cultural history of programming as well as making these projects visible to historians of 20th century science!

Sincerely,
Mikey McGovern
Yip, it's just used for internal SSH testing. No harm to be done there.
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Not strange at all. Neoliberals are for big government everywhere except government regulation of big business. They want government and big business to work together as one organization of plutocrats to control everything.
He is amongst the best at converting the craziness of Wall Street and Finance into plain English.
to code yes, to write real good software, no
I have not, but I believe those who originally wrote it did.