skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing Apple will shut this down. The thumbnails are there for the sole reason of you visually identifying the apps as you left them. If applications can change that snapshot at will then it becomes a mere gimmick.
This is cool to see. I added the React benchmark yesterday (https://twitter.com/soprano/status/423659115743682560) and @ebryn updated it to compare against the Ember+HTMLBars implementation.

I wanted to mention that this is pretty much a worst-case scenario for React: with everything changing on each frame, we gain almost nothing from the virtual DOM diffing. It's encouraging to see how fast HTMLBars is; hoping to see if any of the techniques they're using are applicable in React.
Yes, I believe that is the origin of the phrase "reined in". Reining in is the act of pulling on the reins to stop a horse.
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Ken Burns did a terrific documentary on the RCA/Armstrong fight and the birth of radio generally, Empire of the Air.

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/empire/
Then so be it.

Plenty of criminals have been caught using traditional detective work. No issues, here. Many FEWER criminals have been caught using blanket surveillance, and the cost to democracy is high.

I'd rather have the occasional bomber than the government having this kind of access.
I don't know quite what to make of this ... It almost sounds good. But then again, it almost sounds like elitist trifling ...
Well, to put some perspective into their "weighing in" on the issue: the guys at Spotify really do care about Free/Open Source Software. (Especially Noa, for what I've noticed).

I interpret their "weighing in" on the issue as a balanced and constructive feedback claim to the community, from a community member.

I think it's great when people participate and especially when they go full disclosure; iesaying who they are and from where and especially why (in a positive/constructive way).
(A note on a note on usage: Yes, living for some time on the Gulf coast is what made me familiar with "might could be" but I learned it in a professional setting that hardly fits lower-class so perhaps the usage has become wider. Maybe you have to live with it to appreciate the very subtle difference between that and "could possibly be." As I heard it used it expressed a much stronger likelihood of the possibility.)

Thank you very much for the JPay JPlayer tip. I will definitely investigate Jpay.

As may be obvious I have a long standing close friendship with someone who, through stupidity more than evil, finds himself incarcerated for quite some time in a Federal prison. He may be stupid but he is far from dumb and while reading helps him retain his sanity, he is older and his eyesight is failing fast. Thus my focus on finding a way to get audio books inside. It could also greatly assist the less than literate. Any tips from anyone on how to go about that will be greatly appreciated.
Oh so true.
I also imagine that when people are working in the intelligence industry, they have more to fear for crossing boundaries than a normal employee at a normal company.
Many libertarians do not believe copyright is a form of property. Rather, they believe copyrights and patents are a form of state-granted temporary monopoly. The state grants people temporary monopolies as a sort of social engineering, in order to incentivize certain kinds of intellectual activity that the state considers worth incentivizing ("to promote the progress of science and useful arts", as the U.S. Constitution says). Hence libertarians with such a view would oppose copyright and patents, like they oppose any other state-granted monopolies.

One essay on the subject: http://www.freenation.org/a/f31l1.html
The closest consumer equivalent appears to be the Sony SRF-59 which retails for about $15. It uses the same CXA1129N chip and takes a single AA battery which should last 100-140 hours.

http://ukradio.info/SRF-59/

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-SRF59SILVER-Walkman-Stereo-Radio/...
The Inspector General, in this case of the NSA. Basically an internal watchdog. They were aware of at least 12 cases of abuse according to the article.
If you had watched Apollo 18 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772240/) you would know what that rock is.
Nobody ever said police work is easy, or is suppose to be easy. There are a number of rights that we could dispense with to make their job easier. Imagine how easy their job could be if they could go wherever they pleased, and detain and interrogate whoever they pleased for as long as they pleased.
I understand what you are saying, and I am not looking to become a mathematician or statistician. It has just been so long since I took a math class that before diving into any of these courses, I'd like to be aware of the minimal fluency expected.
It may have been big, but curiosity has a scoop to scoop up dirt, a drill, and a laser that can vaporize rock to look inside of them. It's not like the rovers can only look at the surface.
"And oh, this is all just a hunch, we've got no evidence at all for this yet."

Then, really, the 4th Amendment should be tossed out the window because all citizens should be subjected to search at any given time based upon the "hunch" of somebody in law enforcement.
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I'm not sure what you think I'm trying to fool people about. When Go comes up, I sometimes want to talk about how good I think it is. I hope you don't think I'm trying to hide that. It is pretty common on HN to comment on the merits of a thing when the thing itself comes up, even if said merits are not the specific subject of the link.

I can see that I am putting some people off with my commentary, but other people apparently got new information. Hard to say whether this is a win or loss on net. Time will tell, sooner or later.
> I really want to start using Nimrod for real work.

I have actually used both Rust and Nimrod for real work (same project, first Rust then rewrite in Nimrod). My experience is that Nimrod is far easier to handle than Rust. It feels like Python with the native speed of C. There are a lot of nice features built into Nimrod, for instance native Perl regular expressions and seamless import of C functions. As for me it is the most productive language I ever encountered. I know many languages.
What original en-visionary of open source solution is reclusive?
Well, I'd say that "reining in" refers to pulling back on the reins to stop the horse, while being "at the reins" or "having the reins" refers to merely possessing them (they could be used to stop the horse, or turn the horse, or have it speed up, etc).
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With yearly revenue of $340K, why couldn't they keep going? I realize that is smaller than their costs, but $340K is enough to pay 2-3 employees and the other costs (hosting, etc). Didn't they only have seven employees? Why are the total office expenses $128K? Why $565K for legal fees? Seems like they wasted a lot of that $2.3 million investment.
I don't understand how this is still anything to discuss. systemd is the only option; GNOME is already using it for some parts and will probably not hesitate to integrate it even more deeply to push Poettering's agenda.

Whether or not the sysadmins want to learn systemd and regardless of whether it's the technically superior super-init system (you can't really call systemd an init system anymore), it's going to be forced down our throats anyway. What's with the holdup?
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Great article surfacing a really important issue. I think a good beginning would be a shift in culture. I'd like to see more hacking/making tech culture supported and celebrated in schools from kindergarten through college. Such a shame that Yale didn't rejoice at what its students did with its course catalogue: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/16...
My assumption would be if an acquirer is willing to make you an offer too good to refuse and you aren't actively looking to sell, then not talking to them would be the best way to actually spur that offer.
"“So my best guess for this rock … is that it’s something that was nearby,” said Squyres. “I must stress that I’m guessing now, but I think it happened when the rover did a turn in place a meter or two from where this rock now lies.”

Opportunity’s front right steering actuator has stopped working, so Squyres identified that as the possible culprit behind the whole mystery."

Reading a lot of speculation, but this seems pretty plausible - without the need for anything crazy like aliens, subterranean oozing or a rock falling from space and just so happening to land in front of the rover... But, Hey! Perhaps it is martian-cow dung afterall!
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Wait for the future. That diabetics contact lens will be the new Google Glass. Machines will know what you're doing (no more RescueTime on the desktop for example). We aren't just getting enough data: but if you hired someone to follow you around 24/7 and note everything you did you would. After a year, imagine how useful that data would be. And please encrypt it securely. Health insurance companies will have a field day.
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Ask HN: How to promote my free html5 games?
Hi HN,

A few weeks ago I started a pet project: build one new html5 game per week [0]. I already submitted this project to HN, and got a lot of positive feedback [1].

My goal now is to get more people interested in my little project. I've posted about it mainly on reddit and here. Do you know any good community/blog/website that can be interested to talk about this kind of project?

Thanks for your help!

[0] My project: www.lessmilk.com

[1] Previous HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036486
Heads up that http://aesopstories.com is a bit mangled on the latest version of desktop Safari. I do like the concept, but I was trying to figure out if there's a way to host all of the javascript and assets on my own infrastructure after the story is created.
Yeah. I think being able to write is one of those things that acts as a multiplier on your other skills; It's not worth all that much by itself, but knowing how to write and having some other skill is vastly more valuable than just having that other skill.

Right now? I think just programming pays pretty okay, even when you don't have much else... but I don't think that will last forever. I think in the future, having basic programming skills won't get you a good job by themselves, but basic programming skills plus something else will be vastly more valuable than just that other skill alone.
Then again, isn't the current Nest made with metal (and I would guess, CNC milled just like Apple computers)?
Take as given that under condition X all people can exhibit Y behavior. It does not necessarily follow that a particular person can exhibit Y behavior only under condition X.
The Exomars project will land a 2 metre vertical drill on the surface, sampling much deeper than anything done so far.

It's just a question of priorities. Drilling 4cm into a rock with a specific surface abrasion tool is a long way from plunging a 2 metre metal shaft into unknown terrain. Engineering this so it has no chance of jamming, breaking, overheating etc is not gonna be a trivial task. How do you lubricate a drill without contaminating the environment and with such a wide temperature variation?
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> Mass storage of phone conversations doesn't appear to be ended, just shuffled off to some private contractor instead of being NSA-internal.

Exactly.

Except it is not going to be 'some private contractor', it will be dream come true for Lockheed Martin. Or, if it is not them then it will be some other military contractor because otherwise people will cotton to the fact that, for all intents and purposes, the NSA is Lockheed Martin.

At least the NSA is theoretically accountable to the government, and the people by proxy. A private company is all about shareholder value. So, strip away the presentation by the cuddly President and you get yet more privatisation/outsourcing of the military-industrial complex.
Please don't try use informal fallacies as a way to move the discussion. Such arguments do not belong here, do not become you, and when ever one is written a kitten cries somewhere in the world.

If my choice is between being a POW under the "care" of US, NK, China, Russia, Belgium, Norway and Iceland, I would not pick the US. Would you?

Why asking such questions when the answer is obvious? It doesn't contribute anything to a civil discussion. If the choice is between a country that torture, and a country that do not, the choice is obvious. If one is asked to pick between two countries that both perform torture, the obvious answer is to not pick either.

The US has condone acts of torture. When it has not condone it officially, they often refused to use the full force of the law against people who has committed illegal, immoral, and plain evil acts against prisoners and civilians.

Read the legal actions against those responsible for the Abu Ghraib torture, and compare that to trials of personal who participated in Nazi army and conducted similar act of torture and violent acts. How many people in the world has just got a few years in prison for pleading guilty to torture, in a place which deaths was ruled as homicide from torture?
I think we're all well aware that if the authorities were able to implement a perfectly omniscient surveillance network then it would effectively solve all manner of crimes.

The point is, we don't want it.
To fill my experience out a bit more, it wasn't something I was planning to do when I got hired. From a personal standpoint, I had a kid, and my wife got a higher-paying job so my salary became less important. From an office standpoint, there were a couple people already doing a similar schedule (I do three 10-hour days T-W-Th), so I wasn't going completely out on a limb. It really did fall into place pretty easily.

(I work for a very large company which HN would probably scoff at, plus I work with very uncool things like Java and Oracle.)

My situation has me fall in-between for a lot of HR things -- my pay has always been given in terms of a yearly salary, and usually as what it would be if I were full time. I just get 3/4ths of it. And I'm technically paid hourly, which helps keep any requests to come in on my days off to a minimum, since they actually have to pay me for it. I accrue 3/4ths of normal vacation time, but I still get all the other standard benefits. And I get to spend two extra days a week with my now two children.

Really the only "bad" thing is that I know it'd be difficult to get into this situation again, so if my job stagnates, it would be hard to go out and try to find a new job, unless I am ready to go back full-time.
Just a heads up, but require.js supports moving everything into a single file:

http://requirejs.org/docs/optimization.html

Your comment makes it seem like it doesn't.
This is a good read. Clearly if the series A type people get too risk averse they will lose out on winners, if they are not risk averse enough they sink a lot of capital into non-winners. Greed and Fear the eternal balance.

What is interesting to me about the analysis is the people vs infrastructure costs. 15% of their costs went to the product, most everything else was people cost. Inverting that number suggests to me that you have to have 85% gross margins just to break even[1], and you're looking at "growing" the business on one or two points of margin better than that. Ouch. Mitigating legal and office costs might help.

[1] I understand that at their current subscription level vs new subscribers and lifetime value of the subscribers they get, but as gross measure breaking down the costs and separating the people costs from the 'product' costs it is pretty sobering.
This doesn't apply to data about you. It has been ruled legal that ATT / 3rd parties can collect and store who you call and when since this data belongs to them anyway.
Really? This is your plan for grads? I'm somewhat underwhelmed by this grand solution, just saying ...
That's what we do with Composer, we set the minimum PHP version.
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ah got it, thanks for the reply.

EDIT: Also, we have your article in /r/angularjs if you want to keep an eye out for questions/comments from the community. We've finally reached a decently active tipping point over there.
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While two-factor authentication is a good thing from a security standpoint from service providers, I can't help but worry that it's a worry from an individual's standpoint: It's nothing but serving an IP address+account <-> mobile phone number relationship on a silver tablet. Do we really want that?
I am confused to why Yale behaved this way. It is a big organization so one part may not behave consistently with the rest. From my experience at Yale, I would disagree with the notion that Yale professors are brilliant researchers and lousy teachers. I've had 1 of those out of almost 50 professors in my 4 years there. I don't know why they made this terrible decision but I don't think teacher quality is the reason.
>His take is that communication absolutely critical. But what college English courses teach you is not so much how to communicate as how to bludgeon readers with how terribly erudite you are by using longwinded, stilted, and dense verbiage. ie, they teach you the exact wrong way to write.

Yeah, but I was talking about the "gen-ed" classes. I would expect gen-ed English to be, you know, basic. I would expect graduate courses in English to be more about writing as art, which is rather less generally useful.
No, its something. Its saying the U.S. spymasters will not spy on Germany's spymasters without getting the approval of the secret U.S. kangaroo court. I dont know about you but I'm feeling more confident in the system already.
> Leaking details of NSA attacks on Chinese networks doesn't help the American people.

Let me ask a facetious question: does spying on Petrobras help prevent terrorism in the US?
"Type I is genetic. If you have the faulty genes, you get it. Regardless of lifestyle, health, country and whatnot."

Also, this statement is not correct. From OMIM on type 1:

"IDDM exhibits 30 to 50% concordance in monozygotic twins, suggesting that the disorder is dependent on environmental factors as well as genes. The average risk to sibs is 6% (Todd, 1990)."

There are other studies with similar conclusions. Having the "faulty" genes does not guarantee disease manifestation because the disease is multi-factorial.
They would kick you out before they setup the restricted area, so you wouldn't be a felon. You just wouldn't be armed near the POTUS either.
Why is it better? It doesn't have any of the interviews.
hahaha this was hilarious even before I saw the 15 or so additional contradictory suggestions below this thread.
I agree that some kind of permission from a judge is needed for oversight.
No, that's what I do too. My point is simply that crypto only protects you from attack vectors targeting the data. If you are the target, your crypto won't save you.
Note that MePIN does not collect or need user's phone number, e-mail address or any other user information. You can use MePIN fully anonymously.
Such a nice UI. We all like fast food!

- Eggs should not be washed.
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Great example, another metric I like to use is to look at the history, to see how many times the file has been patched
You do realize that go has lambda expressions (anonymous, in-line, functions) right?
> I think he's talking about the NSA as a whole as a matter of policy

The NSA lying to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- as the FISC called them out for in a ruling which has become public -- about what they are actually doing in order to get things approved is prima facie evidence that the intent to be unbound by law was not an exception but a matter of systematic policy.
UN: Online Privacy Now Considered a Human Right
Wow that's awesome. I work at a big bank and we have none of those things. Everything is shit and I can't wait to leave.

Our mobile development environment is a locked down internal Windows XP laptop that doesn't let anything in or out, so we had to write our own tools to package code to leave the laptop.

We wrote a simple little "chat" client in Node, but before sending the code off, it was packaged into a .jpg, and unpacked on the other side (my development macbook). This is how we've been dealing with code for over a year now.

Shit pay, 0 resources basically. Can't wait to leave.
Yes, 1Password does this. If you have it unlocked, and then switch to another app, then switch back, the thumbnail is the lock screen, even though that's not the last thing you had onscreen.
Thank you for your reference. I wish I could save it somewhere when I have time to go through it.

- Eggs should not be washed.
Nope, but it does mean I've been a little slow about them this week.
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php5-cli is pretty robust, to be honest. It is a fairly slick server-side scripting language to integrate processing tasks inside of a normal web environment.
There is a per capital (college-aged male population) view.

Yet there is an issue with the scale, which is quite distorted by single player/low population (<50k) county values. They should be filtered out for the definition of the coloring scale. They don't provide any good information since county population sizes vary by magnitudes. (I wouldn't even recommending filling the county with a color in these cases as simple dot at the county centroid should suffice)

Granularity matters, counties are a not a optimal unit for this, aggregating by congressional districts would better, yet still not optimal.

[added]
Alternatively counties could be clustered to some minimum size.
The US Census Bureau provides sets of counties with above 50000 total population as a XLS spreadsheet.
http://www.census.gov/people/eeotabulation/data/eeoupcoming....
Nobody wanted the etch-a-sketch screen. It shouldn't have been a core feature of the device. I get why they liked the idea - it unified the 3DS and U interfaces into a single common set of controls/screens.

But honestly, the Wii was such a smash hit, they probably would've been fine to just provide an HD refresh of it. Stick on a few more buttons so it's better for cross-platform gaming and make rechargeable controllers standard, stuff like that. The Wii was a solid console with a few flaws. Instead of "hey, there's a new HD Wii" the reaction was "Nintendo released this weird freaking tablet Wii thing - is it a new console or a peripheral? What?

Their experiments with the etch-a-sketch controller would've been better handled with 3DS integration - provide the etch-a-sketch as an optional alternative to the 3DS-as-controller. Normally optional peripherals are a dead-end but wireless 3DS integration wouldn't be as cumbersome as previous generations where you had to buy a special dedicated piece of hardware for the purpose (at the very least a special cable for GBA/GC integration).
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I'm in the process of making a clone of the site for node.js [here](https://github.com/L8D/nodebyexample)
If a user is willing to press the button, a PIN isn't going to stop them. Your app is decreasing security in favor of usability, which is not something look for when they are looking to implement two factor auth.

I think anyone who would blindly use your proprietary two factor solution that makes it easier for end users to authorize other people to log in would be silly.