skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite browser features are ones that combat user-hostile website features. For example: popup blockers, cookie blockers, Safari Reader.

I would love to see more features along those lines, such as de-pagination and blocking popover psuedo-windows. However as Firefox is funded indirectly through advertising, Mozilla's loyalties are necessarily mixed.
You don't have to have all of your memory mapped into your address space at once.
It's not a matter of knowing that a specific war is coming, it's a matter of preparing for what may come. Wars (or, at least, situations which require military intervention) happen all of the time. As such, we will always be preparing for the next one.

The point is that humans are always fighting with one another. Until that stops there will always be a war looming.
We have no steel industry anymore.

I'm not sure this is still true of the US, perhaps china could do this now
True, but this is in reference to the US at war...
This specific case might only apply to Apple (I don't know, haven't read about it before) but the quirks of ARM's 32-bit instruction set surely apply to everyone else.

The transition could have happen later, maybe, with not too much repercussion, but why not make the jump now, especially when you have a whole new OS engineered to take advantage of it?
OK, I will try it out for something and see how it feels different.

Related: The comparison to a dynamically typed language makes me suspicious. I spent a bit of time trying to find any examples of dynamic code that actually provided any benefit. Even read "Metaprogramming Ruby" and was dismayed to see examples of reading a CSV - big deal if I save a few quotation marks. The others were just places where the static type system wasn't good enough (duck typing), or dynamic code was a pain to get going (poor reflection/codegen APIs).
I wouldn't have thought full stack ranking (i.e. actually firing the bottom x% each year) would be legal under British/European employment law.
Technically he implicitly said that superstition is a form of irrational thinking (few could argue otherwise with a straight face). He further implied that being deeply religious can be another form of irrational thinking.

What he did not actually say (though we can certainly infer) is that all religious thinking (or all deeply religious thinking) is necessarily irrational thinking.

If we merely grant that much deeply religious thinking is irrational, then I see nothing inherently wrong with suggesting that people who engage in one form of irrational reasoning might be susceptible to other forms.

Instead of commenting on religion, I will wager that people who claim to be superstitious tend to buy into horoscopes and homeopathy more often then the general population. That's not an offensive statement, is it? Yet what really is the difference between astrology and other things that we describe as religions?
There are certain data (session, message ID, session message, server salt) that are contained in the initial part of the unencrypted message; the message key must be the same as the 128 lower-order bits of the SHA1 of the message body (including session, message ID, etc.)

Not even HMAC-SHA1, just "SHA1"? So you leave yourself open to length extension attacks? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack
32-bit Windows Server 2003 supports up to 64 GB (although SQL Server is probably the only application which can actually do anything useful with that).
As someone who might have larger than average hands (I don't know), I find the iPhone rather small. I currently have a SGS3, and I find it a much better fit for my hand than the overly skinny (and previously too short) iPhone. However, I may very well be an outlier in that.
Show HN: biztalklee.com
To mark the occasion of one of their colleagues leaving to be come a BizTalk consultant, the team built that person a web site.
http://biztalklee.com/
FileMerge (should be in your Utilities folder)

or Kaleidoscope - http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/
Those religions also often encourage attempts to communicate telepathically with their God and interpret/act on the results, which from the outside looks like the same kind of activity. Religions don't frown on those kind of things, they only frown on those which aren't approved by the religion.
But I could say "I would bet that the vast majority of people who fall for this stuff are also jumping to conclusions which please them without actually checking the facts or giving a good thought on the matter". Which is exactly what the author of that comment above did.
I really want someone to tell the story about the one time ...it turned out to be legit.

In that vein:

http://xkcd.com/570/ (and do hover for the alt-text)
> Sure, but there's a reason why you don't drive a car with a V12 engine, too.

Fortunately, phones are not cars, and engineers don't make design decisions on the basis of strained or completely bogus metaphors.
Feeling bad to an extend. After all, he knowingly wanted to participate in illegal money laundering.

I don't think this kind of activity ends well for ordinary Joe.

Greed and easy money are powerful motivators though. There was (is ?) this Nigeria scam where Nigerians would buy electronic stuff from eBay at above market prices and sending fake PayPal emails to make the seller send his object.

I worked as a CSR at PayPal years ago and had to tell French people every day that PayPal had nothing to do with this and that they will never get money nor their device back.

I would feel bad for them sure, but in the meantime their desire to make too good money from some Nigerian was what prevented them to see the red flags.

When something is too good to be true I always try to remind myself that Santa isn't real.
>Apple is simply just x-many months ahead of everyone's product roadmap

I don't know. I think the lack of water resistance makes the iphone obsolete for many.
> But where does the FDA get the authority to regulate soap? It's not food or a drug - you don't put it into your body at all.

The FDA regulates cosmetics, which, like soap, are supposed to stay outside the body.
I remember the same argument being employed against 64-bit server operating systems and later desktops, too: it'll waste pointer space, nobody can afford 1GB of RAM, etc. It quickly became obvious that they were underestimating the value of all of the little optimizations and bigger design reconsiderations[1] which this made possible – from little things like having more registers to larger boons like not having to play games either mapping memory around the operating system reserved block. All of that added up both in making things faster but also in making systems simpler in ways which allowed more ambitious improvements.

1. Think about designs like e.g. the Varnish cache versus squid where the latter team has poured an enormous amount of effort into features which allowed them to manage storage manually, work which is increasingly counterproductive when you can simply mmap() 4GB and let the kernel perform that complex, error-prone task for you while you focus on more interesting features.
Perhaps this would create an incentive for contributors to better explain the significance of their changes in their commit messages. Whether or not this would be a positive effect is up for debate.
If your processor doesn't have special pointer registers, you can use banked memory. (e.g. the high bits are selected on a page-by-page basis by the OS, which understands 64-bit-wide pointers.)

If the processor does have special pointer registers (e.g. 6502, 6809, 8086, AVR, etc.), you use those.
That's prescriptive. In reality, people's identities do vary. Masks are useful.
Never has a truer subtitle been written.
The magic middle step is that the job market would decide that crappy jobs need to pay a lot more. This would make it reasonable to invest in robots where it doesn't make sense today.

One we make a few decades of progress on that front, I would expect the robots get so cheap that it's overall more efficient than we are today.

In other words it would be the kick we need to get out of this local maxima of enjoying the benefits of cheap labor, and would end at a much better/more efficient/less abusive system.
How to create an app like cut the rope
My point was that Christianity forbids practicing Hinduism just as much as it forbids practicing divination. Being forbidden by religions does not make something non-religious.
Why not just use a materialized view inside your SQL system? No need to cache invalidation; let the system handle it for you. Same benefits, truly a single query, and only one system.

If you're going to concatenate relational data into a document, I'm not sure why a simple KV table doesn't fit the job.
Twitter working on “edit” feature for tweets
I don’t recall the exact wording of the email, but the gist of it was that the governor of Lagos West constituency, Bola Tinubu, had hidden around $1 million in a secret bank account to avoid taxes. The money had been stolen from public funds, the email continued, and the Tinubu family couldn’t use it because they were being closely monitored by the government.

What did this guy expect? I mean, it's one thing to fall for a scam like this under the pretense of helping a wronged/deposed Nigerian princess. But it's another to be told you're participating in a corrupt business deal and still go through with it.

My concern is less about the intelligence of the author. Rather, I'm concerned about the morality. Sure, people do bad things when they're in need. I just have little sympathy for someone who knowingly decides to participate in organized crime and then gets taken advantage of. You've made a decision to take advantage of someone else, and then you're going to complain when you get taken advantage of?
i really hope i don't need to explain why this is a beyond terrible car analogy argument. do you have a better way to explain why a 64-bit chip is overkill for a phone? is 2013 iPhone hardware overkill for a "phone" because it is 20x more powerful than the first iPhone? 640k should be enough for everyone, and all that.
In that case, one should warn others away from drinking vodka and whiskey. Best to stick to beer, I guess. :-)
You discuss Carmack's pixel scrolling and miss the fact that this guy here who claims he did "the same" just had to draw one character of the snake's head at the new position, overwriting the previous head with the "body" character. And the tail character with the "empty" character unless the snake eats something.

What in the world has that to do with Carmack's algorithm of updating Mario after one pixel hardware scroll (after which he has to redraw the "unmoving" part fully) and adding more background once he spends the hardware moves?
Because there is

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesinnungsethik

and then there is

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verantwortungsethik

... and the later Amazon seams not to care very much about when setting up their working places/conditions and contracts, all of which when embedded in the real world right now "try" to establish new standards which ignore the damages. Other parts of the society have quite different ideas about the future of work even if it is low-skill-work.
Probably as close as you will get

http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=bVEFCfjadN8C&pg=PT144&lpg...
Yes, "the people" formed the United States. This isn't disputed. The entire body of the Constitution deals with limiting and delineating federal power.
It's Not Entirely Crazy to Think the Universe Could Exist in a Hologram
http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html shows it's not, although it's definitely improving. The best way for that to continue is not to pretend the problem doesn't exist but rather to keep reminding carriers and vendors that this is one of the reasons they're less successful than they hope.
By that logic, 8-bit computers would only access 256 bytes of memory (which is definitely not true). On processors where the hardware word size is less than the useful size of memory, there generally is another means of extending the addressing range (either per-page bank addressing, or special pointer registers).
So like an Wikipedia for news? You may be on to something there!
I ran into the same sort of scam back in the day. I was trying to get by as a content writer, and a guy called me up and said, "Look at my site, I think it needs some new content." He wasn't sure what he needed, and it was definitely poorly written, so I figured I could help out. He told me he wanted to meet me at his office at a local community college. Community colleges regularly have offices available for small start-ups, so no red flags had been raised yet.

I showed up and there was apparently a conference going on. The guy said, "I just thought this was the best way for you to see what we do." Fair enough, I grabbed my nametag, sat down, and started taking notes. I was pretty down on my luck and cash at the time, so I wasn't really in a place to be asking too many questions; I would literally take any client I could get.

The presentation was among the strangest things I've ever seen; a guy talking about how he got in at the ground floor and throwing $20 bills into the audience, showing pictures of his mansion and Lamborghini, full of lines like "fire your boss!" and implying that anyone who isn't rich has been duped and isn't as smart as those in the crowd obviously were.

I can't remember what the company was, but it was something about a lawyer on demand; you pay in $40/month, and anytime you need an attorney you have one - like insurance but with lawyers. To be able to sign up you had to pay $250, then you got x% of everyone that signed up under you, x/2% of anyone that signed up under them, and some sort of commission for getting your friends and family to pay the $40/month: The classic multi-level marketing garbage where 99% of the presentation is about making money and 1% is about the product.

There were people who had obviously been placed in the front row talking about how much money they had made, how they were here just a month ago and already had reached level X, and they would methodically nod their heads whenever the money-throwing guy talked.

It was really slimy, and by this point I was just ready to get out of there. The guy brought over an application and said, "Alright, so for you to be a content writer legally we need you to be a part of this program, so you put up the $250 up front and then I'll pay it back once we've gotten our project going." He refused to spot the "membership fee" up front for me, so I left, though he even stood in front of my car to try not to get me to leave.

I had almost forgotten about that.
The processor, in 32bit mode, offers more on-core registers, and a beefier instruction set.

Programs compiled by a compiler aware of those distictions should significantly, measurably, perceptibly outperform those compiled for the older more constrained architectures.
>> You're not actually giving an intellectual argument, for the most part. You're just... "erm"... asserting the opposite of what I said in a hand-wavy manner.

OK, here's what you said earlier:
>>> I think the government should use retaliatory force, never initiatory force.

But government is based on the initiation of force in taxation. Without taxes, there is no government, and without the threat of violence inflicted on you for attempting to keep your property, there is no taxation. That is immoral, plain and simple. It's extortion.

>>> Preventing alternate defense agencies (the anarcho-capitalist idea) and levying taxes for the proper functions of government (police, courts, and military) actually are retaliatory exercises of force, not initiated force.

Who are they "retaliating" against? If A initiates against B, is B then allowed to "retaliate" against C?

>>> The threat of initiated force is tantamount to initiated force. So, retaliatory force to stop a threat is legitimate.

We agree on the first part, but who exactly is government retaliating against when taxing people? Remember, an individual is free to live all his life without aggressing against anyone, but if he doesn't give up his money to the government, then the government will aggress against him. Where's the retaliation in that? -Nowhere, that's where. It's simply clearly the initiation of force against an individual, even if he's never hurt anyone ever.

>> You cannot justify the claim that taxation is immoral

I already did, see above.

>> Yes, it is a rational idea. In a state of nature, everyone is a threat to everyone.

My point was that you can't both be sane, and "retaliate" against people who have not initiated against you. The possibility that someone, somewhere might want to violate your rights, does not make your force a retaliation if you're just aggressing against somone who's never done anything to you.

If A never actually initiates against anyone (regardless of any perceived/imagined willingness to do so), can B then "retaliate" against C? -That's roughly the idea you presented before.
ARM 32-bit did not have SIMD (vector) double precision, while ARM 64-bit does, so here it's definitely a win.

On x86 though, both 32-bit and 64-bit did double precision vectors just fine, so it didn't really apply there (except that the fp register count was doubled).
It is not necessarily illegal means, but simply means that the government do not want to expose in open court. Perhaps this is because they are illegal, or perhaps revealing the source of intelligence could compromise an active intelligence operation. The NSA does not want its methods exposed in open court. You will probably say that this is because they are illegal. But an equally plausible explanation is that revealing details of their capabilities is of benefit to their adversaries.
which religions do you mean and how exactly do you know they encourage telepathic communications with their God? Do you have sources that confirm your opinion and if so, which sources are those?

>>> they only frown on those which aren't approved by the religion.

That's a vacuous statement - of course religions approve only things that they approve, and disapprove things that they disapprove. But among the things many religions - including Avraamic ones most common in Western world - disapprove, directly in their scripture and in many other sources - is divination, fortune telling and seeking omens.
Mobile multimedia developers rely on hardware decode for codecs, Fourier transforms, and the like. Such code can only slow down if moved to a vector processing unit similar to Intel's SSE. Embedded web video is standardizing upon H264, and accelerated audio is everywhere as well.

Game Programmers will prefer a faster GPU, since none of that stuff is actually calculated on CPUs now-a-days. (in fact, Apple's superior GPU is one of the reasons why it "feels" so much faster than many Android stuff).

So unless you're gonna be doing software-decode of H265 (or some other future codec), or something... my bet is that multi-media processing will remain the same. It will go to the dedicated multimedia DSP that is on every phone, and be translated extremely efficiently (powerwise).
As far as I have understood it, the pay and working conditions aren't actually that bad at Amazon, at least for people who can't get any other job.

What makes these workers so miserable is that the work they are doing is sucking your heart dry, and it must be almost as bad as cleaning toilets all day (which pays less, by the way).
Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math
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Yes; this is true of any vector operations in algorithms that are not constrained by memory bandwidth.
> It's interesting to see how much marketing is put around 32 vs 64 bit chips and the effect it has on how people market.

It's because it's a much more approachable pitch than "we doubled the size of the reorder buffers and added another instruction dispatch port." In Apple's case, they're simply using "64-bit" as a proxy label for all the other architectural improvements in Cyclone.
Selective laser melting 3D printer designed by high-school seniors
Only if your code were SIMD aligned. But that is not code that your typical compiler outputs.

Most SIMD code is heavy number-crunching stuff like multimedia or GPU shaders. But much of that low-level handling is handled off CPU on phone platforms. It is simply more power efficient to have a hardware decoder of multimedia.
Seriously? Could you really even get $1,300 (or equivalent) in a single draw from an ATM in Lagos in 2002?

Update:

Found this article [1] stating that before 10/2012 the limit was 100,000 NGN, which at the end of 2002 traded at about 125 to the dollar [2]. That would put the withdrawal limit at about 800 dollars, but I'm not sure that's far off enough to call this article a fraud.

[1] http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/10/10/banks-raise-atm-daily-...

[2] http://www.likeforex.com/misc/historical-rates.php?f=USD&t=N...
I had a Sharp Actius MM10 in 2003, which in some respects was way ahead of where most of the market is today. Criticism centered on the lack of an internal CD-ROM (yeah) and video playback performance. But I could hack on something in Visual Studio for 6-8 hours with the extended battery. A quick search pulls up a Wired article that calls it a 'fugly black box' (mine was a silver Mg-alloy case actually), but people would ask me about it so frequently that I printed up an info card to hand out. I'm not even mentioning some of the more interesting features. Of course the thing was expensive, but so is a 13" Air today (and it doesn't come with a docking station). Then vmware came out and I was sure it wouldn't be long before I'd be able to dynamically share compute power between my laptop and workstation, when I plugged the former into the docking station. Then OQO showed up and I thought the same thing there. But all of it died, for various reasons.

Apple deserves credit for pushing a more aggressive roadmap than most, and I'll be buying another round of systems here shortly, but being 'first' isn't enough. The Transmeta chip in the MM10 was dual-core 128 bit VLIW with a soft x-86 translation layer. The next chip was 256 bit. Both were very low power devices for their day.
Lenovo already has the P780 with a 4000mAh battery which lasts for multiple days:

http://www.gsmarena.com/lenovo_p780-5544.php
I'll do my best to answer your question. We already have a couple hundred users who are quite comfortable trusting us with their lottery tickets, some have won, but clearly not the millions you're referring to. I would not expect everyone to trust us, especially so early in the game. What we plan on doing is making our legal documents clear and simple, building a recognizable brand that is closely tied with the lottery (state/goverment), and maybe building some more security layers and ways for users to feel comfortable with the process. At the end of the day, earning the trust of the Jemaclus's of the world will be tougher. If all the things I outlined above happen, then it'll likely be much easier. So, yes you should trust us, maybe not now, but someday. Thanks for the feedback.
>You are missing the point. It is already "normal" -- and it is a major part of business networking. It happens all the time. An older man having dinner with his younger male business associate, no problem.

I'm not missing the point. My point is we don't have to worry about this if people don't do business dinners. It's not common in every industry, and IMO we should resist it where we can.
You can run Ghost on that VPS...
Education Value = Perceived Value from Employers + Abilities Post Graduation