skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've read, the reason is simple:

Base 12: 12 is a number that can be divided by 2, 3, 4 and 6. This makes it a much better fit than base 10, which can only be divided by 2 and 5.

Base 60: As good as base 12 is, it misses division by 5. So what do you do to make it divisible? You multiply 12 x 5 = 60.

Now you can divide an hour in 2 parts of 30 minutes each, 3 parts of 20 minutes, 4 parts of 15 minutes, 5 parts of 12, or 6 parts of 10 minutes. This also means that if for example you want to divide a job in 3 shifts, every shift will be 8 hours, not 3,3333333 hours or similar, what you would get in a base10 system.

I mean, the stars and the gods and the tip or our fingers might be also a justification, but I think those were rationalized after the fact. I find it difficult that the guys that came with base12/60 didn't realize the particular properties of those numbers.
Using MirrorsUsed in AngularDart Applications
I know this isn't a popular opinion, but I think we need to reconsider accepting precedent that we're OK with the US government regulating the Internet (without legislation, no less). With the concern about surveillance, copyright abuse, DMCA/Computer Fraud and Abuse Act abuse, and content regulation (in the case of the UK and China), is this really the solution we're looking for? Neutrality is a real problem, but this seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Ask HN: Review of getlambda.com? 
Hello,

I've seen many comments here at HN from getlambda.com (especially on freelance related topics).

Does anyone here got a job through this service. If yes, can you tell us your impressions, thoughts about it?
Snapdragon and every other baseband coming out has them on an 'all in one' chip which is application CPU and baseband sharing direct memory. Unless you have a microscope you can't build a hw firewall.

Cryptophone uses an older Samsung to do this but has no SIM protection. The firewall isn't foolproof either it only detects extended use of the baseband cpu without the application cpu being busy then shuts down the device, which makes it a brick open to denial of service.

A hardened Android build is fine for most shady activity and avoiding dragnet surveillance. If you are a drug lord or foreign spy use a laptop or tablet with ostel or silent circle, internal mic removed and running hardened free software, your dongle should have TurboSIM or similar wrapper that can be coded to reject OTA updates and not reply to silent tracking SMS. Marlinespike is also working on a new Whispercore, I have a forensics resistant project, and there is of course Cryptophone GSMK. Is the project you're talking about the build that runs Xen then boots Android in phony isolation because the snapdragon chip can still access memory.

Another problem is simply walking around with 2 phones which is an opsec indicator for feds that you are up to something and req targeted surveillance. They have full automated access to every cell tower db to look for this as per snowden docs dumped on cell meta data
> Calling something a scripting language implies that you can't write a full application using it

No, it means the language is interpreted instead of being compiled to native code AOT.
Similarly, people will claim it makes no sense that American M/D/Y dates are neither monotonically increasing nor decreasing, but then they'll find it totally natural to use "D/M/Y H:M:S" or "H:M:S D/M/Y" and not even notice that they share that same alleged flaw.
"Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass" "Why?" "Because, they are all the same electron!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
"The trains are not only running on time, they're running on metric time."
Do you write word-for-word scripts, or just loose collections of keywords? I've never managed to give a good speech while trying to exactly recite a prepared script, I either screwed up or it sounded as if I was just reading it off (vs really talking to the audience). I also struggled to find the current position in the script when looking down. Completely memorizing doesn't work since I just can't.

My best talks (based on the feedback I got) have been based on a few keywords and connecting them with a narrative, live. Free-form storytelling, so to say.
Happy to take any questions :-)
Right, except it isn't a physical object like cash is, it can't be stolen from your person like cash can, and most people keep nearly all of their 'cash' in electronic accounts anyway.
Why do special forces guys need to get medicine this way?
Depressing child with cancer will never go viral, say Upworthy
YCoin? BecauseCoin.
So hows that "change the US govt" (or any other world gov) going so far since the leaks?

I called bullshit from the beginning that anything will change politically, and now six months later I'm more certain nothing is going to change at the political level. They've dug in their heels for the long ride.

The only positive developments has been private companies like Google encrypting their data centers and privacy software finally finding an audience. But at the same time, not even the most die-hard cypherpunks think you can achieve 100% secrecy from a dedicated adversary. But that's not the primary goal. Countering mass-surveillance is.
> those same guys who brag about giving open access to knowledge and technology

Those same guys are forced by US laws (ie at gunpoint) to block these countries. The alternative would be bypassing these laws, going to jail and shutting down these companies. And they don't "brag", they just encourage open access and practice it as much as they possibly and legally can, no need to be so negative here. If you want to be mad at someone, be so at the US gov, not at these law abiding companies, just saying.
The author is missing the point that the ruling was about the specific language of the FCC regulations. See: http://gigaom.com/2014/01/14/breaking-court-strikes-down-fcc...

"That said, even though the Commission has general authority to regulate in this arena, it may not impose requirements that contravene express statutory mandates. Given that the Commission has chosen to classify broadband providers in a manner that exempts them from treatment as common carriers, the Communications Act expressly prohibits the Commission from nonetheless regulating them as such. Because the Commission has failed to establish that the anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules do not impose per se common carrier obligations, we vacate those portions of the Open Internet Order."

It seems very likely that the FCC will rewrite their regulations to fix this. Everyone knows that net neutrality is important, and this ruling is just an issue in legalese. It's a little early to resort to torch-and-pitchfork hyperbole.
> Thus, we're still stuck with C++, and we're still suffering for it, having nightmarish bugs and myriads of security holes and whatnot.

There have been alternatives in the form of Ada, Modula-3 and Oberon, Cyclon and a few others.

Except for Ada, they were left in the research labs.

Looking to the history of systems programming languages, the only ones that have become mainstream have an OS vendor to thank for.

So which OS vendor will push for a C++ alternative?
He doesn't know what browsers are, I think. The only way it makes any sense is if you read "open source browser" as "Tor site".
I have successfully diagnosed and treated MRSA and upper respiratory infections in myself. I NEVER suggest anybody else to self medicate. Most people do not take it seriously enough or do enough research to self medicate.

All that being said, I think it is a shame that we live in a system where it is so expensive and inconvenient to see a real doctor that people resort to this kind of thing.
More technology where none is needed. How about just being responsible and accountable for our own actions?

Want to improve ___ about yourself?
Just do it(tm).
Get it done(tm).
Do what it takes.

I don't need devices and a dashboard to tell me I'm winning at life.

Fuck this arrogant and stupid product.
Vodafone offer free access to Spotify or SkySports with some packages, although I am not 100% confident it's free data, or free service.
The NSA is only one fear - there are other actors you'd expect to be doing similar things. e.g. Chinese, mafia.

Using things like Blackphone can potentially increase the cost of anyone doing this kind of spying, to vastly reduce who will do it for what reasons.

This talk by Dymaxion is good on economics and usability of this stuff: http://dymaxion.org/talks/EaPitLW.html
I don't think that's true. Most consumer focused startups will target the US market, even if within the EU. It's by far the largest homogenous (well, relatively) market. Targeting "Europe" isn't really a thing - You have to target each country individually.
Glad you liked working with Dragdealer. It's awesome that a JS lib written 4 years ago is still useful, considering the moving speed of the industry. The code wasn't rewritten much, just a few known bugs fixed.

The big increment is having a public repo with tests and documentation to build on. I'm sure there are many other people who could come up with better performance optimizations than me, that's why I worked to make this available
Uses for a LaaS off the top of my head

- Homeowner Associations - they throw parties and stuff for the kids, there's probably a house or something they can throw it on. I remember one year for halloween someone had "The Great Pumpkin" playing on their garage door.

- Event companies. It's an interesting offering in addition to the standard inflatables and maybe jumbo movie screens. I could see it being a big thing at corporate events and college campuses.

- Student associations. Generally they have some money for this sort of thing so they own it and don't have to rent it. They probably wouldn't fund a kickstarter though because of restrictions on how they can spend their money.
He said that it works seamlessly. You're putting a window on a seam, so it doesn't work, duh.
It's true that you can't have privacy or security in the mass-market apps or in voice or sms over big commercial carriers. However, if a device solved the problems indicated by (username) revelation and following posts on this page, you could then run secure applications - e.g. something with public-key encryption and PFS for the data, and a p2p or tor-style network to obscure the metadata.

It still wouldn't be perfect, but would succeed in many scenarios and would greatly increase adversary costs.
The idea is you don't use baseband functionality at all in the main high-side device. It can be a PDA, connected over USB to a separate radio. There's no way the radio can do anything particularly evil except if there are implementation bugs over USB (API problems with whatever interface you build between them, most likely), but at least that can be inspected by end users and problems found/fixed.

These highly-integrated devices are basically inimical to decent security.

No (that project was an earlier version of blackphone/geekphone, actually! from what I've heard)
Why you should care about Net neutrality - CNET News
Lock-free Condition Wait for Lock-free Multi-producer Multi-consumer Queue 
The lock-free multi-producer multi-consumer queue on ring buffer described in my previous post has following properties:

in pop() the queue calls sched_yeild() which leads to 100% CPU consumption;
consumers are waiting for particular position in the queue, i.e. if you put an item to the queue with all sleeping consumers then one and only one consumer can eat it;
the queue has fixed number of consumers and producers;
say we have 4 consumers and there are no available elements in the queue, then all consumers will wait on 4 consequent positions (x, x + 1, x + 2, x +3);

The first one is undesired due to too high power consumption and misleading system statistics. To cope with this we can use usleep(3), but it looks like dirty and relatively expensive solution. It would be better to make the pop()'er to wait until a push()'er adds an item to the queue. In the naive queue implementation I used conditional variable to do this. Also, the spinning behaviour of the queue leads to unnecessary cache bouncing and degrades performance.

In this post I'm going to show an efficient way for condition wait. The original article about lock-free queue has used C++11 for the code implementation, however in this article I'll be mostly talking about Linux kernel because the algorithm was developed for kernel implementation of the queue. I'll be explaining all kernel specific things, so no special skills are required from a reader.
What is the biggest mistake you've ever made as an entrepreneur?
A guess would be that obtaining medication in an official way may affect them when it comes to selection relating to field readiness. I.e. if you are being prescribed anti-biotics it may be showing that you aren't in peak fitness so may get passed over for other fitter team members.
The Shorter Matt Blaze: NSA Hacking Is OK, As Long As We Take Away Hacking Tools
IF the only places you go to are Canada and/or Mexico, it probably makes sense for the price difference.
Renowned cryptographer believes his 'Blackphone' can stop the NSA

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/15/5310710/phil-zimmermann-si...
That sucks, I'd def go 1440p screens then. Though if all you are doing is development, does framerate matter?
Notice our friend was already in a world of hurt by the time he went for help. Not only had he likely made his infection worse by helping it build tolerance while misdosing random antibiotics, even if he hadn't, he made it worse by waiting to get professional care.

Antibiotics are a balancing game of just the right dose. I suppose vet medicine is better than nothing at all in dire straights but if its at all possible, see a people doctor. They're good at that sort of thing.
Do most programmers honestly enjoy programming?
Not very well. Chromium/Chrome is almost unusable, ditto for Skype. Firefox is ok, but many of the icons are quite small and hard to decipher, and you have to use NoSquint to make the pages readable. The Dev Tools are even worse.

Gnome terminal looks good though :) Many Gnome apps are fine, but Gnome 3 itself has problem.s
I guess if they are $500 or less it would work. Otherwise you are spending a lot for lower pixel density, and I'd probably just use some commodity $120 1080p IPS panels until 4k ones came into a reasonable price range with IPS 60hz 2160p panels between 24 - 28".
> Regulations do not make you free

Regulations prevent more powerful others from removing my own freedom as they want.
I would rather find out someone is obtuse sooner than later. Preferably before I've met them for a date. If such a filter you described was in place many would keep things clean to get through the filter only to behave poorly in person. No thanks.
It's not just that. Not all anti-biotics are suitable for all infections - treating a skin infection and a gut infection will tend to require different anti-biotics.

Self medication is possible and, with enough research, can be done successfully and responsibly, but for most people it's really not a good idea.
Interesting, although I stopped reading at the end of page 1. It seemed the article already explained most of it and while I would've scrolled down to skim the rest of the article, waiting for a page load seemed too much effort.
Wanderu Expands Services to the South, Adds CMO with RailEurope Background
Isn't the credit due to the choice by Apple (NeXT, actually) to go with Display Postscript?

I'm sure they figured that as amazing as the resolutions of the original NeXT monitor was (1120×832 in 1988), in the future it would be greatly exceeded. Not to mention they wanted to be able to use the same routines to draw to a 300 or 600dpi printed paper as a 72dpi or whatever monitors were at the time.
You cannot do that right away unless you have enough reputation (I've been bitten by it, and it's terribly frustrating)

btw, I agree that such behavior is actually positive: more thoroughly researched answers are a plus, not a downside
Sky's AdSmart brings targeted advertising to your TV
> Tell them what you are about to tell them

Where's the element of surprise?

> Tell them

Yes, tell them.

> Tell them what you told them.

If they were listening then they'd know what you told them. Fuck 'em if they weren't listening.
The Goal (Goldratt) led me to see everything as a system and how to Hack it.
That is a really terrifying and cynical possibility. I wish I could conclusively disbelieve it.
...almost as much of an embarrassment as...

Why is it embarrassing? It's the best we've got so far, and it's been pretty useful. We're working on making it more intrinsic to the universe. Chill.
Mozilla Starts Developing Firefox OS on Tablets Built by Foxconn
This is different. This is forwarding on the application level, not the entire screen.
It's a rootles VNC, and has more compression options. Haven't gotten it to work with webp yet, but x264 works very well for me; I usually can't tell if it's local or remote.
Isn't that what NX does as well?
Why would I use this over ssh -X?
Best Web Designs of 2014 Design Conferences
The World's smallest ID Card Reader
Quick script to track the active application in Mac OS X
If you can, try to pull in some of the reviews from App Store/Google Play. Your primary sell is to get people to give it a try and there's no better way to do that than by testimonies.

Can you perhaps give a better translation for the copy than what I'm getting from google translate?

- With heythere you'll always know what's happening around you. Let me show you interesting places in your area and tell others what is happening at your place.

- Look at how heythere works

Your copy should answer the following questions:

1. What is this website for? (The picture of the mobile suggests it's some kind of app)

2. What is this app and what do you use it for? -> Answer this question in terms of what your target market wants to hear. The copy will be different for business owners and for regular users.

3. Why should I give this app a try? The video looks nice, but it should be optimized to answer question 2. What other options have you considered showing off the like/comment functionality?

You should also let people subscribe to a mailing list. You can setup one for free with Mailchimp if you stay within their free usage tier. This will allow you to communicate with your target audience things such as updates, offers, competititions, greetings or sale pitches.

It would also be good if you started thinking about how you could use the app as a tool to offer business services (ex. competitions, advertising).

Hope that is helpful. Best of luck.
Google’s New Business Model
I thought about this idea myself. But then I noticed there were tons of good apps doing exactly this. This stopped me from implementing it, because i would not be "first app in the market", because I woudnt have the unfair advantage of being first.

(yobong, palringo, whoshere)
Yes. Me too (hence the comparision with IRC/mIRC Scripts). However this kind of communication is just purely personal, I doubt anyone is interested in the fact that some friend wanted to know how full his dropbox was at some time in the day. Maybe the _result_ is interesting, but the trigger is not.

But if this works with direct messages, i'm buying it!

(edit: typos)
Base 60 has many advantages, but bare in mind that this is dated almost 4000 years ago. When people developed language and started counting, they would need something to keep track and help them go from one number to the other, so the finger tip theory is actually quite accurate.
In theory I'd prefer a timekeeping system that had its base unit in terms of the smallest discrete unit of time (basically planck time) and let everything else arise naturally from that. Sure, days may not be a perfectly XX kilo-mega-ultra-plank times (I'm unsure of the Metric nomenclature going from a power of -44 to a power of around +4) but I am always peeved we have designed our timekeeping, temperature, pressure, etc measurements bound to arbitrary properties of things on the surface of our planet than on the fundamental properties of the universe.

It is going to make space travel a much bigger hassle, to say the least.
No, you're absolutely right. Thing is, most of the time, when dealing with miles, I don't care how many feet it is. Any distance measured in miles is sufficiently large that its equivalent in feet is largely irrelevant. I suppose it's nice to know that 1.73 km is 1730 meters, but either way, it's a medium-long walk. If I needed to convert all the time ( I suspect this it's really only when using compound units like pound-feet ), that is where I find metric more useful.

Also, I haven't read GP's post, but I find Fahrenheit degrees easier to work with primarily because they're smaller; differences in temperature are easier to express in whole numbers.

Gallons, cups, tablespoons, quarts can go DIAF; I have to convert between these all the time, and it drives me batty!
...And sentators are still debating bulk phone records (the first Snowden leak from six months ago) and can't even decide whether or not the NSA should require rubber-stamp court orders to access them.

What are the odds senators will debate the privacy implications of hacking routers all over the world (let alone stop them from doing it)? I'd bet almost zero.
I can revoke permissions on any Android app with App Settings[1].

[1] https://mediacru.sh/DRUrAHvxdlfS
With all the respect what they have done so far, I can't see any reason why this is securer than the other mobile phones..

With the latest NSA stuff, I came to conclusion that a true secure system can only be built under these conditions and just to put it out there, this is just my opinion;

- A computer company that manufactures their own hardware such as hard drive, ram, cables, network cards.

- An OS that is newly written and not based on any other existing operating systems.

- Building the whole system with INDEPENDENT hardware and software mentioned above.

- Keeping the mobile device's source code offline from Internet as much as possible

These are just the first steps on developing a secure system, then comes the mobile network architecture and encryption etc.

I admit, it is not an easy job but, trying to develop a secure system with "not secure" development tools is not the right way to go :)
When its android app is coming?
blubber c
>The Greek astronomer Eratosthenes (who lived circa 276 to 194 B.C.) used a sexagesimal system to divide a circle into 60 parts in order to devise an early geographic system of latitude, with the horizontal lines running through well-known places on the earth at the time. A century later, Hipparchus normalized the lines of latitude, making them parallel and obedient to the earth's geometry. He also devised a system of longitude lines that encompassed 360 degrees and that ran north to south, from pole to pole. In his treatise Almagest (circa A.D. 150), Claudius Ptolemy explained and expanded on Hipparchus' work by subdividing each of the 360 degrees of latitude and longitude into smaller segments. Each degree was divided into 60 parts, each of which was again subdivided into 60 smaller parts. The first division, partes minutae primae, or first minute, became known simply as the "minute." The second segmentation, partes minutae secundae, or "second minute," became known as the second.

This makes no sense. For this to be true, it implies that the ancient Greek already had knowledge that the Earth is round, 1600 years before Galileo.
Huh, they look fine on my MBPr.

Because I'm using Chrome? It has a very good sharpening filter.
Shouldn't you be building bombs to prop up your economy?
Because xpra is faster.
Has anyone read 'Hooked' yet?