skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are an impressive feat of technical prowess, no questions asked there. Whenever I look at the innards of an iPhone or a Galaxy I am not only impressed, but -- with all the wear and tear of the EE that's buried inside my soul -- I can only shrug and admit that the electronic design is way, way past my skills.

That being said, the impressive design of the PCB and of some of the chips aside, smartphones are a failure of engineering. As mobile phones they have to do two things:

- Move, and

- Allow you to talk on the phone.

Very much like a mobile seat, say, a car, or a wheelchair. If I were to build a car or a wheelchair that could only go for fifteen kilometers or so -- and generally move, but not at an impressive pace, would you be happy? I, for one, wouldn't,

Battery technology is, indeed, the major setback, despite the incredible research activity that goes into it. However, I think they made the wrong trade-off, not only regarding to battery life, but also regarding software development and deployment options and especially user interaction. Choosing trade-offs is the root of engineering.

> I guess we should all go back to our brick phones and blackberries for the business types then?

I'm dead serious about it. Between my tablet and my brick phone, I can do everything that my colleagues who have smartphones can do. I also enjoy a) the benefit of a larger screen estate and b) the laughs when their portable devices are useless in the evening because they forgot their chargers at home. Bonus if I'm the one who has to call the cabs for everyone after a few rounds of drinks, because my phone is the only one still running.
No - that's awesome.
I really enjoyed your post, I'm happy I could contribute a little!
I am really trying to integrate balanced into my software but I am just getting stuck. A few video tutorials or a live workshop/meetup/hack day would really help!
25,000 is a bit on the small side for major universities. The university I went to just kicked off a construction project to increase the stadium capacity to over 100,000.

A few miles north of where I currently live, the high school football stadium seats 18,000 [0].

[0]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Stadium_(Allen,_Texas)
A Man Is Facing Jail for Harassing Women on Twitter
> To take the argument further, you could say may actual citizens don't benefit from it, for example if they live healthy, or don't have children, or pay for a private education, etc. Subsidies are rarely fair and create bad incentives.

"Many citizens" and "Subsidies are rarely fair" seems horribly distorted in the context of free education and health care in Norway.

IMNHO you have a rather distorted idea of "fair" if you think that everyone should get the same, rather than that everyone should get what they need (or could benefit from). The two would only ever be the same in some fantasy realm where everyone started out on equal footing.
Computer viruses vs biological viruses
Am I right in assuming you have below-pro level "farm leagues"? In the States, for various historical and financial reasons, some sports will effectively replace their farm leagues with Division I inter-collegiate sports.
Surprisingly, different economic circumstances call for different approaches.

Norway is swimming in money from exported oil. Countries with balanced foreign trade need a different approach to the macro-economy.
We do export some oil related technology.
How does HIPAA compare to PCI? Is it easier or harder or about the same difficulty?
There's also the sudo fail (fixed in 10.8.5)

http://cvedetails.com/cve/2013-1775
Have a look at Pyramid[1] if you plan a slightly larger project. I've been looking at it for years.

[1] http://www.pylonsproject.org/
SPIP Vulnerability Scanner (Python)
Dear God, yes! That was a beautiful platform. Beautiful.
You should try a tiling WM in which you can switch between windows based on their location. eg, alt+{left,down,up,right}
Java wrapper of Sonatype and Eclipse Aether
jcabi-aether is a Java wrapper of Sonatype and Eclipse Aether, that simplifies interaction with that rather complicated libraries. Version 0.9 was released today
I mean they lack in harmony IMHO, like KDE, which has ugly icons and button with not harmonious paddings
It is not clear to me how

"Trunk based development with tests and code-review pre-commit"

is tangibly different from

"Branch based development with tests and code-review pre-merge"

The article talks a lot about trunk-based-development, but if you're doing any sort of checking before "commiting", then don't you essentially have a short-lived branch?
Shame the "expert system" was wrong!

With that history you should have been seen urgently. There are a number of serious things that are possible with those symptoms.

Plus, the nurse was relying on your accurate reporting of symptoms. Things are often very different face to face than over a telephone. People very often under/overplay their symptoms.
Cables, for one. Most living rooms already have antenna plugs and power in one convenient wall or corner, where the TV is supposed to be located. The beamer needs to be opposite of this position (to beam at it). To not cast shadows, it will commonly need to be placed high. Not very popular with wifes, this setup.
Yes, being a solo-founder is a total mind-f* but, the journey is well worth it! Don't give up no matter what anyone else says or suggests. Break free from social-conditioning and group-think. There really are no rules!
Your mistake is in assuming that it is about things like "running", "kicking", and "throwing". Sport is about the subjugation of human, by another human. It doesn't do anything for the development of humankind as a whole - that is the point. Things like sportsmanship and game rules exist to prevent full regression to our savage roots.

I do think competition is a healthy and necessary trait for individual development. Meanwhile, education holds the potential of freedom from subjugation for all humans... The balance is disturbed.
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Countries could also (I would argue more easily) nationalize the companies the fund has invested in.
Isn't it more the challenge of the establishment rather than that she is a woman? Surely the various steps and outcomes in this would have been sadly identical if a man had done the research and published it?
Assuming a sufficiently high pixel density, I think what most people care about most is physical height. Being too wide might make a display difficult to fit in to certain work spaces, but it's not nearly as big an issue with desktops as it is with laptops.
I'm not sure if this is actually a problem? You wouldn't share your password-recovery e-mail with anyone either?

I guess it's not the best thing to do (and not telling you to not share that mail), but a tremendous security hole? Are the login-tokens they use in the URL guessable? It not, I think that might be a little bit exaggerated...
Financial Times have a very interesting article about Farouk al-Kasim, "The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil" (link requires registration, but it's free):

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144...
There was a great piece in the financial times called "The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil": http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144...
It seems unlikely that oil and gas wouldn't be valued for both use as energy source and for chemical processes in the future as well. With an added benefit of less oil burnt now, might decrease the chances of a cataclysmic climate event in the near future.
Researchers propose alternative way to allocate science funding
Being reminded of an earlier article about how facebook contributed to Mercurial to optimize it[0] because their code base had become so large. Wouldn't it provide a much better flow if they built their system around separating things into packages and using a internal built (or smth like that) package manager to update etc? Making it much easier to divide things up into different repos instead of one giant one (which, quite frankly, seems like a terrible idea at this size).

[0] https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
You are right that of course, not everybody has my usage pattern. Since my daughter becomes a mindless, staring zombie whenever a TV is running in her field of vision, we only watch TV late in the evening (for us, a lamp lasts about two years).

Before I first set it up, I expected the configuration to be a lot more tedious than it actually was. If you have the computer, some sort of sound system and your TV receiver lying around, all you need is a switch for the different audio sources and you can basically plug it all together. (In my setup, TV does not go through the computer. We don't have Hulu, HBO or Netflix over here.)

I'd say about 80% of the work was mounting the beamer to the ceiling and getting the upper hand on the cable mess.
One of the stated goals was being able to build the firmware from source. As firmware can be considered an integral part of the physical objects that constitute the hardware, I'd say that qualifies it as being an open source laptop.
Does the alleged productivity boost come from the increased screen estate, or the feeling of value that comes from your employer investing in you? I had a distinct boost when I went from a 17" Dell laptop to a 13" Mac Air.

It'd be interesting to see if any increase lasts.
I tried doing this as well, about a year and a half ago. I gave up relative early in the process, though, as I had hit the upper limit of my electronic design skills, and figured I'd better wait a wee bit more until they would either be on-par with the difficulty of the task, or a good-enough SBC shows up. Based on that experience, I'd venture thinking the price is in the 1000 USD range, with the costs of actually producing the boards (alleviated by more or less preferential access to the required tools) being a significant drag.

That being said, I think it's worth it. I can't think of a single laptop which I'd actually love to use forever, or at least until it's so old that it becomes utterly unusable. The only thing that prevents me from declaring this one as the one I'd like is that OpenBSD is a bit shaky on that architecture IIRC.
http://www.srmti.com/news/cash-machines-raided-with-infected...
> College coaches are usually the highest paid people on campus.

Not only that, in most states they are the highest paid of all public employees: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672861/infographic-whos-your-st...
I'm most curious how you intend the most basic part of the user interface to work: how do players aim? That's the biggest problem right now with first person shooters and the Rift. Do you have a crosshair that's always exactly in the center of the field of view? Do you motion track the dummy rifle and use that you position a crosshair that can move around in the field of view?
Check out "How to socialize with Norwegians":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYILBHDlDUc

and:
http://monda.no/blog/ifln/

=)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-18093981

gives a new meaning to 'hole in the wall' (the British term for an ATM)
Obviously you believe everything you read on the internet without question .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7030283
Totally agree. Using a single monitor works well if you use an IDE otherwise a multi-monitor setup is better.
The general lack of interest in minor-league baseball also shows one reason why other sports aren't keen to move to that model (though the long history each sport has built up makes that kind of change pretty hard to do anyway).

From a marketing perspective, college sports are a minor league that comes with a built-in fanbase, the students & alumni at the universities (especially large universities). The top end of college sports teams are essentially the NFL's and NBA's minor league outfits, but compare how many fans and attention a Texas, Michigan, USC, Stanford, etc. game gets (in either football or basketball) to what a minor-league baseball team gets...
I'd say that notes is better than Textedit if you're looking for something dead simple. Simply because it cross syncs to all your Apple devices (considering you're in the Apple ecosystem). So I end up starting blog posts on my phone and finishing them on my computer as if they were synced with dropbox or something. Mavericks added notebooks so you have some simple organisation. The lack of formatting just lets me get back to writing.
No one implied men didn't get death threats, settle down. However, it is true that women are targeted much more (especially when they are challenging mens sports).

There exist many in this world who wish all women were in the exact same position they were in the 50's.
It's funny, discussing this story on Facebook, a friend of mine, staunch left-winger, said that Thatcher "pissed the money away". Hang on a second, I said. Are you now saying that government spending/the welfare state is just pissing money away?
> Physical objects don't have a source, either open or close.

Wrong.

The schematics for the motherboard and any other boards (like the LCD connector board) can be open or closed. Also, the CAD files for printing the case components on a 3D printer.

Hardware absolutely can be open-sourced.
Apparently cheese is so expensive in Canada that there are (profitable!) cheese smuggling rings:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19751695
When did you stop developing with PHP?

edit: you know what would be great, if you could show some common programming examples in PHP and how Go would manage the same situation.
It refers to numbers like these:

http://www.ssb.no/en/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/aku

Some 70% percent of the population that "should" be eglible for work are "in the work force". 3% of those, are not employed currently.

Note that such numbers are very hard to compare without proper context -- you have to have numbers for pensioners, those too sick to work etc -- to compare it. IIRC Norway's work force participation is pretty high -- so you can be shocked by the "1 in 5" number, but it's entirely unremarkable.

edit: Here are some numbers quoted by NHO "the main representative organisation for Norwegian employers" (note, employers, not employees):

https://www.nho.no/en/Business-in-Norway/Norwegian-Labour-Ma...

edit2: More relevant statistics from OECD at eg:
http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=27359
FYI with Ghostery your article is completely empty, I had to pause it to see the text
Ok, I was lucky in that regard. Now it looks all neat, but the first time I set it up I was really, really sloppy. Fortunately my wife is a lab-hardened scientist, so the conversation went like this:

Me: "Do you mind if I nail these cables to the walls in our living room?"

Her: "Whatever. Just be done by tonight so we can watch something."

This time, I worked with well-hidden cable conduits and it is not that noticeable any more.
Mostly it's just annoying.
Not sure about a "rock hard" body but I'll check with Stephen Hawking
> At our office, we just equipped all of the programmers' workstations with Seiki 39" 4K televisions as monitors. [...] For the time being, there is no single higher-productivity display for a programmer.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm most productive on a 13" laptop. I can change my work place and position as I want, plus only one app fitting on the screen actually helps me focus. Emacs/tmux/IDE users can do most programming work in a single application anyway.

I've used a 27" monitor and before that two 20" monitors for years. It was great for other activities, but when it comes to programming, it only distracted me.
This isn't really a new attack, but it is pretty cool way of automating it. Other comments mention this being mitigated with full disk encryption and a firmware password.

As mentioned in the OpenBSD FAQ[1] an attacker with physical access wins.

[1]http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#LostPW
Yeah it reads like a PR puff piece. I am sure that is what it is. It follows the template described in http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html.
> For example, everybody knows that root is allowed to do basically anything on a system. If you write a blog post about a technique that requires root access, the typical reaction is "boring, of course root can do that". Everybody knows it's possible, and therefore it's considered uninteresting.

It's considered uninteresting because typically, the difficult part should be becoming root. The root account is a single point of failure in any security architecture which includes it, so the expectation is that access to it is guarded in such a well-thought fashion that executing code with root privileges is a great feat.

Not that the code you run as root shouldn't be good all by itself -- hiding traces, being difficult to wipe out and so on -- none of which actually applies to the one presented in this article.

But in any case, the fact that, in ten seconds, one is able to do nasty things on a machine which readily exposes unlimited access in about 8 seconds is, at best, an impressive feat of automation.

> Why doesn't that same attitude apply to other software development? If I write a new chat app or a new operating system, nobody replies with "boring, of course a computer can do that".

If you write a new chat app, I'd probably reply with "boring", but a new operating system? No, that's a reasonable feat of technical prowess, even if all it does is boot, expose a minimal shell and multitask a couple of processes with minimal I/O. It's not necessarily impressive, but it does nonetheless allow for an interesting glance in the thought process of another programmer. It also requires a little work -- unlike, say, rooting a machine that basically gives you root prompt on boot.
Small satellite terminals (VSAT) are vulnerable to Cyber attack
Porn is also an obvious use case. And porn could drive the market much more than anything else.
I think what he was trying to say is that these actions aren't really related to misogyny at all since they are also directed towards men, but general human idiocy.
Yep, this is a problem particularly for women, who tend to get paid less than men and take time off to care for children -- for example, half of all women aged 45 to 59 have $8,000 or less in their superannuation funds.
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/gender-gap-retire...
Perhaps part of the problem is perception.

When people download an exe installer on Windows, they generally expect it to install something that works out of the box.

Please note that I am not saying it should be expected that there is a one-click (or double- as it were) solution for Windows at this point, I am just saying that people might ge t that impression from the download link on the front page, and the fact that it is an exe installer.

Perhaps if you put it in a zip -- I am sure the people who can find and follow the notes for installing the rest of what is required can handle zip.
If it's for a game and walking through walls makes winning possible, people will be crossing walls in no time.
Also another step away from privacy.
Yes, I started reading the reference. The normalization form issue is different to the #[non_ascii_idents] feature, though.

The issue 2253 does mention address it, but all the comments mention the issue of NFC/NFKC normalization specifically for filesystem lookup and for program identifiers, but not for the lexing stage. That issue is obviously the best place to continue any conversation about it.
I bought into BTC when it was $30. It fell to $1 very shortly thereafter. It can happen.

I'm still long on BTC, but please have no illusions. Don't put anything in that you can't afford to lose.
Agreed that if Google automatically sent the invite then that means that the accused didn't send it, and hence didn't break the law. However we don't know, in this case, if that's the case. If he did sent the invite, then he broke the order
Tip for those of you who want to limit/remove this feature, it's found in the main settings page (General tab) between "Conversation View" and "Send and Archive".
My two 23" screens area already too big for me. I could cut half off each almost. They're nice IPS panels with minimal glare and really good for your eyes. Putting a cheap 39" TV in front of my nose 8 hours a day sounds ridiculous.
That was Marx main argument for the inevitability of a socialist revolution: That capitalism will eventually become efficient enough to on one hand create enough goods to make it possible to totally eradicate poverty, but on the other hand become efficient enough to substantially reduce employment.
What type of technical recruiters are you trying to reach?

I've had decent luck with recruiters, and landed my last two jobs through recruiters, both first party - first party recruiters work directly with a company, who have a nice incentive to maintain good relations with the company and sometimes get a retainer rather than being fully commission based. 3rd party recruiters(overwhelming majority) are basically just getting a bounty if they manage to place someone, and have no direct relationship with the company - Think mechanical turk for job placements.

If you're interested in the latter kind:

- resume parsing and candidate sourcing
- skill matching. I cannot overstate the lack of technical knowledge of the median recruiter(based off of the experiences of my friend/longtime roommate who just left working as one), most people are doing straight word mafching between the job listing and the resume, no knowledge of hierarchies (Angular includes javascript, is a front end framework similar to backbone and ember) - to pick an example at random, my friends company routinely passed over dozens of candidates for not listing JSON experience, or not highlighting it prominently enough, regardless of other qualifications given.

I'd be happy to put you in touch with him, it's an industry that's nonstop pain points and inefficiencies, email is in profile.
The private universities are rarely better than the public ones outside of a couple of narrow fields. Certainly if your want to study a STEM subject, Economics, Medicine or most humanities the public universities are at least as good and probably better than the private ones. The only area where private universities arguably have an edge is in Business and Management subjects.

And even the most expensive private universities are 'only' $10-15k a year, which while certainly a lot of money, is quite cheap compared to the US. Combine this with a relatively high minimum wage and it's quite possible to pay the tuition with a part time job while studying.
If you query Google with a Jeopardy style question you won't have a valid answer as the first result, so at least for this particular application, yes it does a better job.

I'm sure there are plenty of reason to believe that this cannot be generalized to real world problem but no one here has given these reasons. So I am not really sure why people claim that it might not live up the the hype. (And I would genuinely like to understand).
It's Okay Not to Be Okay
Most of the industry wouldn't characterize themselves as "white hat" just ask them and they will say their more "gray hat" then white hat.

At least in private anyway if you ask them in public their force to keep up appearances.

Now we can argue about the percentages all day but you have to agree being "gray hat" and keeping the power on your side by not exposing your identity is the safer way to go about it unless you want bragging rights which is whole other level of psychology.

I'm not after the attention I'd rather be the guy who nobody notices.
That is interesting. When the local third league football team plays, here in my part of Germany, the stadium is packed. I recently read a news report about how our local government is complaining that the police operation surrounding the game costs 100.000€ per game for that third league team.
This is probably the case. However, I don't see how it is relevant to education (other than money mentioned elsewhere). "Minor/second/.." leagues could survive on their own. No need to take schools into account.