skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid, I wanted hair like Stringfellow Hawke so bad. I don't feel the same way now after reading this and learning he can't read hex :(
Wages for Facebook
Why would Apple do this? What possible reason could they have for selling their own product short?
"So the real question isn’t whether the law is going too far, but whether it will be enough to save the 2,500 independent bookstores in France"
IMO this law itself needs to be revised. This sounds like union law that we see in some companies. They are good in certain cases but not in this case. We're in internet world where technology is shaping our lives daily. Govt. is going opposite direction.
New document: "Building modular applications with Riot.js"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036274
Yes, we have noticed this on a customer installation that has its traffic increased from 47 to 69 Terabit/s during December.

Oh well, at least it only affect our installation and should not affect the customer network more than that. They have a stupid amount of capacity.
Settle? Ignoring the absurdness of this, how would you settle this? I mean, who would settle with who? He (supposedly) broke restraining order.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone’s Launches Jelly, And It’s ‘A New Way To Search’
Flask supports Python 3, but a lot of its plugins don't, according to http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/python3/.
It's interesting to see an open-source language fail like that. Perhaps there is a need in some sort of strategical direction, to ensure new versions don't cause upgrade issues?
Pop over to deepcapture.com and see for yourself. (It's maintained by Overstock's CEO as a side project, but it seems to me that the endless stream of scathing accusations would have brought swaths of libel suits if the stuff had no basis in reality -- enough for them to defend themselves against a court shutting them down anyway.)
It is not impossible to conceive of malicious code being able to exploit an unpatched browser flaw and overdrive the motor to destruction.

Uhm, if your argument against a HTML5 API is "it's possible that the browser is hackable" then I don't see the discussion going very far. Like, you can use the same argument against HTTP support.

Combine it with a WebRTC call and you're looking at a very convincing scam.

WebRTC does require explicit user permissions.

I honestly don't see how the buzzing is in anyway crucial in in the explained examples. You can mimic real UI and trick users. This has been around on desktop for ages with fake Windows dialogs. Take away the buzz in the example on the webpage and the majority of people will still "pick up the phone".
Mildly interesting concept. Abysmal execution.
Indeed. So if people always lock their screens when walking away, they should be safe. In practice, they often don't.
I'm surprised to learn that a web site doesn't need to ask for your permission to access the Vibrate API. I think there must be a warning screen with the list of permissions the web site wants, like the ones we're getting when installing apps from app stores but with a twist so you can disable individual permissions for a web site.
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Pastor tries atheism, loses jobs, gains $19,000
I'd love to have a good 39" 4K monitor, but I really don't want any other developer in my office to have one. For some reason, everyone else feels that they should use the entire screen width for code.

So we end up with 200 character long lines on our 24" monitors. Can't imagine the horror they'd produce with 39" monitors.
Think I understand where you're coming from, but for me virtual desktops give the same separation.

Do you use virtual desktops as well?
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At $500, there are FAR better monitors. Bad contrast, bad brightness, bad everything. If you buy your programmers this, buy them a years supply of pills to deal with the headaches it will induce.

Again, this isn't like a "bad for picky art professionals" type of bad. Just awful, I wouldn't even sell it to anyone I knew personally because I knew it would come back to bite me.
I believe the "data race" definition pcwalton is using is the one from C++11: "a race condition between non-atomic variables". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition#C.2B.2B
Since HTML pages cannot open up by themselves, and user can navigate away, the risk is lower compared to a native app which can do far more damage. Never the less, permission mechanism should have been enabled.
Having had a six-display setup for about 5 years, I agree. The Mac Pro made it quite easy to set up, too. Having separate (preferrably HD) panels, each dedicated to one window, feels excellent.

For about half a year now, I've been using a 3-display setup centered around a large iMac. While the iMac display is nice, I kind of miss my old work flow. The iMac resolution is quite awkward, actually, because it's too small to split in two or four separate work areas, but at the same time it's way too big for just one window. There is really no good way to use that screen efficiently. So I often end up splitting it into two overlapping halves with a code window and some other window, but on the whole the setup is not as satisfying as the 6-screen.
In Firefox right-click a page -> Page Info -> Permissions.

Some APIs are allowed by default and some aren't. For the discussion about Vibration, see: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/Security/Vibration
Using deep learning to listen for whales
It works. Arduino, Makerbot, DIYDrones and a couple of others had 1M+ yearly revenues in 2010, they probably have all grown since then. Open source hardware is probably easier to commercialize than software, because it still has to be manufactured by someone.
How to ensure financial independence in the long run
Could you link it? I'm interested to see that, because most of my circles are very much not in that camp.
I like Ninja IDE for Python. Don't have a nice looking one for Java. NetBeans is a bit less visually offensive than Eclipse.
That's spot on. Regarding license protection logic that is also true, but maybe this could help with further nails in the DRM coffin — software running on the end-user's hardware is never safe against tampering. :)
Somewhat related talk from 30c3 (speaker is a bit dull but the topic matters):
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5529_-_en_-_...

Edit: I see the author was also there, nice (the talk I linked is not the one he gave though)
Yes, there clearly is some substance to the complaints, it's merely the Jezabel writer who is clueless.

As for the money thing, Elizabeth Fry (who?) was replaced by Winston Churchill. I don't know the criteria, but that hardly seems to be an unreasonable choice. Could you explain why it's unacceptable? Last I checked no individual (besides the Monarch) has any right to be on the money, so I don't see why any group of individuals would have the right for one of their members to be on the money.

(I also freely admit I find the whole royalty thing ridiculous. But I'm a Yankee, so when I see the British hereditary monarch visiting other hereditary monarchs, typically Arab dictators, I just don't get it.)
If the libraries you need are all ported, absolutely.
The samples presented aren’t always representative of the accents of the region. For instance, english57 is much closer to a ‘typical’ Birmingham/midlands accent than english2.

Awesome archive all the same!
(OP here)

It's certainly not "crucial" - but it's a lot easier to trick someone by exploiting their brain's heuristics.

Phone vibrating means alert. I think that could be enough to trick people into overlooking elements like the title bar being visible, etc.

For example, I've noticed that some dodgy web adverts play the default Windows Error.wav when displaying a fake "Your codecs need updating" error dialogue. Not crucial, but adds credence.

I agree that the browser hacking is unlikely and probably shouldn't be mentioned.
Installing Go on windows was a breeze.. thanks =)
Why do projects continue to support old Python releases?
My strictest, and most beneficial, professor was so hard on my writing that, when I finally produced something up to his expectations, his feedback comment casually wondered whether I had plagiarized it.

It's cliche because there's some merit: he wasn't our friend, but had an incredibly positive effect on our abilities in the subject.

I've no strong opinion whether public shaming is good or bad with spelling errors. Maybe the hypersensitivity we've culturally adopted to the emotional state of children biases our perception of the impact of such things.
I would not read too much into this. Whether FB is good for business depends on your business. I know a company who is scaling back everything but Facebook because all their business is done through facebook, with clear analytics showing the discovery of their product is foremost on FB.

FB, for some industries, has great targeting. Tech business, probably not so much.

PS they target demographics, not getting likes
anyway 1.9.3 => 2.x should be pretty straighforward
2 threads can't access the same variable in Rust without unsafe{}. I think, anyway...
...

They don't adopt it because the ecosystem is so much smaller, as I said. Chicken and egg, and Python had the first mover advantage. I embedded Python from C++ in less than a day too, that is not the problem. It's the design of the API for the integration which takes the work.
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This really isn't that hard to understand:

1. Banning persons with open affiliations encourages people to hide their affiliation with those organizations.
2. Then, banning persons with supposed affiliations encourages abuse of the banning process.
Go back to living on the 80% of GDP that is not from the oil + the returns of the wealth fund.
Some people loath the seperation between screens (I am one of these people) -- So I have a single nice 30".
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"We stopped advertising on Facebook to get Facebook “likes”, because we felt that it was a giant fruitless scheme of making Facebook rich. "

Yes, if your only objective is to get Facebook likes don't do that.

And by the way they don't seem to get Facebook. Or Social Media Advertising.

But I hand to them that 'like' has become a random thing.
It may surprise you to know that roughly half the population of the UK is female. So doesn't it strike you as odd that off the people featured on the reverse of UK bank notes, we had a period where 100% of them were male? Surely I shouldn't need to explain this to someone in 2014.
What about ads? The ones that now e.g. pretend to be Skype pop-ups.
Are any of those examples really only convincing if they can vibrate the phone? Surely a scam that just involved that fake call screen while playing a fake ringtone would be more or less just as effective? I can't imagine it's a lot of people who wouldn't be fooled because they think "oh, it's fake, it's not vibrating" who would suddenly be fooled by this.
AFAIK, there isn't a single store in the United States that will let you buy anything with gold. There's several places that'll let you buy stuff with bitcoin. Double the value of all the gold ever mined actually seems like a pretty reasonable estimate.

Not trying to say btc will hit $1m... but it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility, especially if it really takes off, which seems more and more likely.
I believe that you can. Take a look:
http://www.guidingtech.com/15008/adb-control-keypress-broken...
Assuming of course the programmer wanted to output an F.
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The Floyd Leg
<pedant>You're not a Yankee, you're a Yank. Unless you're from New England, in which case within the US you may be a Yankee. Outside the US but in the Anglosphere you're definitely a Yank. In the Hispanophonie and possibly the Lusophonie you're a Yanqui (Yang-QUEE) or more likly a gringo. </pedant>
It must have been safari as you suggest because it went back to normal today.
NSA Spying Sends Data Clients North of the Border
"Hasn't been sued for libel yet" isn't quite the quality of evidence I was looking for.
I have a MBPro Retina and I'm not enjoying developing on it much like I did on my Ubuntu box. I wanted to know what developers on Mac used.
Exposing the Ripple Scam | OpenCoin Inc's Cash In on Bitcoin's Popularity
Facebook may be targeting more traditional big brand advertisers than it is small business advertisers (who need ads to convert to sales in a much tighter window). e.g., the Coca-Cola commercial you see on TV probably doesn't make a single person get up out of his chair, go grab his car keys, and drive to the store and buy a Coke. Yet, over time, get exposed to enough of those ads, and when it's time to buy, your hand instinctively goes for the one your brain is bombarded with ads for all day.

Then again, Facebook ads give advertisers much less of an "in your face, brainwashing you against your will" impact than TV commercials do.

This might just be a case of a revenue model that simply doesn't fit the platform. It may be that Facebook is going to have to figure out another way to justify its high P/E ratio.
Getting Started with Web Components
"By the way, the Retina image on the blog post was 46kb over the wire which is bigger than all the JS in his app."

Boom Baby!

Sorry, I just love how you picked up on that. Yeah, lets complain about size of our code, but hey look at my pretty high-res image!

"The lady doth protest too much, me thinks".

Anyway, at the end of the day its about creating an experience that gets the job done (and ultimately get more $$$ in your pocket). Many of the problems I see (here and in the office) are debates on which framework is the best for this and that. Though those are good debates to have, one shouldn't sacrifice the end goal for the "proper" software solution.

Jobs said it best here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE
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The world's first $99 eye-tracker.
I love it. Very useful.
Please, do not stick to a number. Use your common sense.

You can use this simple question:

1. In which way is this chunk of code easier to read, one liner or split?

That is it.
"I'll do one hour of community service." "Plea accepted."
Also note that despite the name of Norway's fund, it is not in fact the "real" current pension fund.

Pensions are paid from the Government Pension Fund - Norway. The sovereign wealth fund in the article is the Government Pension Fund - Global.

The former is what people pay into from their taxes, and is used to directly pay pensions. The latter is currently only used sparingly.
Not an option. This is a criminal charge, not a lawsuit.
15" 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display + 22" secondary display + PC keyboard & logitech mouse
This is just silly. Even Facebook discourages buying likes at this point and says they have no value. Of course, you aren't seeing performance.
Every time I go to google+, usually because of an email notification, i get redirected to an interstitial that helpfully wants to email all my gmail contacts to invite them to google+. Every time I go to google+ I'm one accidental button press away from annoying all my contacts.
A central company-wide repository and modular code are not mutually exclusive. It's not that people at facebook or google are having all the code in one messy unmanageable soup.

The build systems offers fine grained dependency management and the repository is organized so that different teams have responsibility over their components, just as if they were different repositories for all practical purposes.

The advantage of having them in a single repository are:

* atomic operations, i.e. you can refactor components and avoid code rot, or apply and API upgrade to all the clients, thus reducing the amount of time you have to maintain backward compatible APIs

* having a single, monotonically increasing, number that describes exactly which bugs or bug fixes your codes has. This simplifies greatly the management of rollouts in case of complex component dependencies.
They were marked for destruction 50 years ago by those publicly funded officials. That they remained is something in itself.

The blog post says they'd secured space and funding for restoration; it's curious then why they left everything in the basement if they had the space set up. And, calling the state archivists (knowing they were out of their league) suggests they were far out enough that reading SOPs and tweeting folks wasn't going to cut it.

I can certainly see a case where the state group, with what can't be unlimited funds, did a cost-benefit analysis and determined that it wasn't worth it. That makes sense to me -- maybe I'm not intimate enough with the industry to know what really happens.

I'm surprised with the hostility here; I acknowledge that your profession is very important to you, but seriously, this isn't an attack.
Norway has only ever been debt free on two occasions: The end of World War I (because we were neutral, and making huge profits with our huge merchant fleet) and World War II (because most of our debts were written off combined with aid).

The only reason our net position currently is as good as it is, is the oil combined with the realisation that spending all that oil money would drive inflation through the roof.
This made me remember the code from Vivek Ramachandran being used in the movie White House Down and him writing a blog post about it including the quirks in the code[0]

[0]: http://hackoftheday.securitytube.net/2013/04/my-code-made-it...
Will Your Book Sell? There's An Algorithm For That
Who would keep such a site up to date? How would the validity of the information be checked?
Quick first impressions: Cutting edge designs nicely implemented, but personally I find these style of websites a bit annoying to navigate. Not their fault though. Web design is all about trends and this framework is certainly riding on the latest.

Also, I liked this little gem: "This is a probably the best plans ever born"
Are we really entertaining the notion that this was a subversive, opportunistic political power play?
Thanks, I did check glassdoor a couple of months ago, at the time my take away was they might go 120, but that's not enough for me and my situation.
Hmm. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=slit+photography
Your third paragraph is the thesis of my argument.

As is obvious from the archivist who has gleefully and thoroughly lambasted me upon her holy pike of preservation persecution, the layman may know painfully little about the costs and logistics involved in preserving such materials.
This was from the best episode of that entire series in a rare instance of the writers not trying to shoehorn a helicopter dogfight into an otherwise mundane domestic misadventure (assuming you're willing to accept that a helicopter can fly above the atmosphere and attempt to start WWIII of course).
Unless you're a country bound to a currency controlled by another nation.

Say the Euro collapses. There are many countries who may suddenly decide it makes sense to switch to a new currency. Some may consider BitCoin. In the historical case of Europe, this is unlikely, but it could happen elsewhere.

BitCoin might be a harbor in the face of runaway inflation. Even the swings of BitCoin pale in comparison to periods of massive inflation in several countries.
Leaving aside views on who should or should not be featured historical people rotated in and out of currency print runs, how does this one matter render the actual topic, inappropriate harassment on the internet, ridiculous?

The harassment here wasn't simple disagreement, we are talking about people who considered it appropriate to make death threats, suggest Criado-Perez should actually be raped, and similar. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25641941

The argument is that automated report response systems, as social media necessitates, can easily be abused to actually attack those who are undeserving of being banned. It doesn't pose a solution, however, as the world is, well... a bit shit and near-impossible to fix.
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First Maker Conference to Accept Bitcoin
> At $1,000,000/btc this would mean all the Bitcoins would be worth twice the value of all the gold ever mined. Seems too optimistic.

hell, $1/btc seemed too optimistic ;)
nice work! i think this is certainly helpful for founders that are just looking to validate their ideas without spending big bucks.
I think Facebook Ads to get likes are really good to get those first 100 or 1000 likes that make you look like a serious product. However, you should never expect that ad spend to generate any other value than that.
I used to use this, and it is convenient for small sites. But it quickly gets hard to manage. It also makes it extremely difficult to share compiled assets between pages with different templates.
This article from devhumor: http://devhumor.com/193/

The assembly panel is very funny.
+1 for django-assets. I've found this to be the best solution so far. I've used it combination with django-storages to compile and push assets to S3.
Well spotted; in fact one of the Scots speakers says 'go to meet her' by accident, and the other one says 'meet her on Wednesday'.
Does it work too if the account opened on the Mac is a non-admin account?

I'm a Linux person but my gf has a Mac. It became so slow an unusable after the years that I re-installed everything and created her a non-admin account to surf the Web and, months later, things seems pretty ok for her. I'm wondering if such a quick attack by plugging an USB device works too on an unprivileged account?
70 million customers had data stolen, Target Update on Data Breach.
I don't know much about accents, but I wonder if it'd be possible to match different accents and see how well they'd understand eachother.
How can it be debatable? Either your sales increased, or they did not increase.

If your page views went up but your conversion rate dropped by the same amount, that would be worthless traffic.

This is an honest question as why should we believe anything you say if you're not even doing the basic maths? Did you measure anything?
I honestly first read this as "1kb Minimum Viable Product library", which would admittedly be kinda cool.
FCC chairman offers his strongest endorsement yet of net neutrality
Can you point me out what new features are you offering me with your product in comparison, for example, to WhatsApp, Line or Google hangouts?

Or, are you simply offering a new player into this market?
Discussion here:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7034451
very cool! thanks so much for this!
Another tool: rukzuk (https://rukzuk.com/en/)
Beautiful! I've started using it now to post comments.

Wonderful unicode arrows!
Heh. Lots of articles about "technology sucks" on a page which has broken middle click so I can't open new tabs, can't right-click to copy a link URL (in the 'more' section), breaks the back button if the AJAX request completes after you press back again...
With many apps stuck on DataMapper, thus ruby 1.9 - I can't help but think: why do programming languages evolve so quickly? I suppose the language must be the slowest moving part in the architecture...Due to immense competitiveness from other languages, all language designers rush ahead to add more and more versions..

I wish, Python/Ruby moved slower and focus on non-visible or backwards compatible improvements
Hey, have you tried paid version too? http://designmodo.com/startup/
Matthew Green wrote about GSM and LTE a few months ago:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/05/a-few-though...

TL;DR: GSM security is a joke. LTE is okay, except for two critical issues: One, an attacker can jam LTE and cause a downgrade to GSM. Two, it doesn't offer forward secrecy, so an attacker can record your traffic, obtain the private key from your carrier, and decrypt it. It's a reasonable assumption that NSA and your local sigint agency routinely make copies of your carrier's key database.

Edit: Reword last sentence.