skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Decimal date and time" is probably the more proper phraseology. But that'd just be pedantry, of course.
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> Female programmers in Sudan hindered by U.S sanctions on Internet access (techpresident.com)

s/Female p/P/

The sanctions are bad because they hinder progress, not because of the genders of some affected parties.

edit: This is all in the HN title. The article focuses on a few women, but doesn't make a thing out of their gender.
Fraud protection in the sense that, if you protect your private key no one can steal your bitcoins. With credit cards you are constantly giving away your secret to third parties when you transact with them.

Bitcoin/cash shifts protection from third parties, like stores, to the user. This dramatically changes the nature of security in both good and bad ways.
It's for your inactive friends who want to become active.

One of the things that you'll notice if you go to /r/loseit is how obsessively weight losers will measure everything. It's a way to keep themselves focused and accountable.

I can see the uses for this, just, as many people are saying, very creepy branding.
'HiDPI' turned up as a MacOS term for a mode where physical resolution is higher than logical resolution. "High DPI" just means higher than 'normal' dots per inch. The terms are often used almost interchangeably.
Reminds me of Trepia which tried a similar thing only on desktops, 10 years ago. It died, unsurprisingly. I had been wondering when someone would revive the idea.
You guys should check out Yobongo. A similar location-based chat app which has since closed down post-seed round. You might like to see what worked / didn't work for them.
They were around in 2011.
Easiest way to get your access token?
I'd like to believe that many European entrepreneurs will reconsider going to the US to start a company. The European Parliament and the Commission have been straight shooters with net neutrality and they will not consent telcos to play with the pipes.
Chrome was a bit broken and jerky when HiDPI Macs showed up, too. It got fixed, and presumably will on Windows, too.
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I have enzyme issue with Alcohol, but I believe that is a nice trick.

From personal experience, and from someone who had tremendous problem with public speaking to someone who performed very well at a toast master event in NYC without any preparation. I can say quite a few things on the subject.

One thing is for sure. We are all afraid of other people. No matter who we are. It is just that fear get expressed in different ways. Some people are being shy and passive, while some are being aggressive and over-confident. Until we discover who we really are. Using tricks (power point) and strategies (drink alcohol/weed) will not take us far.

What made the most difference in my process is some ontological training like this leadership course. The course doesn't really say that it will help you with public speaking. Just that you will leave the course

"Being a Leader and Exercise Leadership Effectively as your own natural Self-Expression"

Nothing more, nothing less.

However, the course has nice side-effects, like public speaking.

The course is NOT cheap, but I consider it worth more than my college degree. Next one is at Singapore. FYI, I have no financial tight to the course or University.

http://beingaleader-singapore.com
But was your project more oriented towards a tech audience or the general population. Over a few hundred people, especially tech people, for example your very likely to get a very very low IE user base compared to the average user ;)
I definitely hope so. I detest the politicized appointment process for the supreme court, but if you're going to appoint them, appoint this one.
Yet another headline phrased as a question without a clear answer in the article body...
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If you could tell me how to do it that would be great. I'm still stuck turning it on all the time. Auto-on would be awesome.
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In all honesty, Google's apparent predestination as the world's preeminent data corporation has me strongly considering looking for employment with them. So many opportunities, so many potential benefits, and a fantastic way to hedge one's bets against ever being unemployable. Working for Google allows exposure to just about any interesting technology, whether it be robotics/AI/NLP, health/genetics, knowledge mapping & information organization, general web services, infrastructure, hardware design, sensor tech, consumer products, automotive, geographic mapping, mobile devices, media, marketing & communications, social networking, ... the list goes on and on.
It probably varies a lot with the nature of the product and the wealth of the individual. It's a hassle to return things and someone busy might not bother returning something that was not, to them, very expensive. Still, I suspect it's true to a much greater extent for physical products than ad-funded on-line services. If you spend real money on something and it really doesn't work, I think most people I know would err on the side of returning it and claiming a replacement/refund.

It might also be worth mentioning that many places have explicit consumer protection laws that cover this kind of situation, so vendors/manufacturers can't just brush their responsibilities under the carpet because providing actual customer service people to deal with customers is expensive.
I want everything Mother knows/finds out, to be stored locally (i.e. on my pc, not in the cloud), to be kept secure, private and I want to access it at any time from anywhere.... can Mother do that? I don't think so.

Still pretty good but as long as there isn't a privacy promise that would satisfy the basic security principles (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) I don't see it as a successful device.
It's now reasonable to assume that any resources the NSA have are being used on innocent people form around the world with no connection (supposed or otherwise) with terrorism.

So I think it is valid for victims to be made aware of the tools their enemies in the security services are using against them.
"See these fists? They're getting ready to fuck you up."

-Officer Manuel Ramos, before sadistically beating unarmed, homeless, schizophrenic man Kelly Thomas into a coma that would eventually lead to his death, all while Thomas apologized and begged for mercy
For example not all people will find "buttons" in your flat design when only difference is background colour, even if they can perceive the difference. Adding more "signals" like usage of icons, shadows, borders, fonts... makes the intent more obvious.

It's not about how to communicate with minimal amount of signals, but how to make the communication clear to greater number of people.
The power isn't moving up, but turning the model into a pay-to-play one. The economics for US startups and businesses overall will change considerably (for worse).
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> Ask HN: I was thinking the other day, someone should make an Oculus Rift app that is just a giant conference room of people staring at you. People with stage fright could use this to practice public speaking and hopefully improve.

This is a brilliant idea.
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What do you need beyond the nearly-complete video and full audio of the entire beating?
While I agree the restrictions the regular Sudanese population must face are deeply regrettable, it's easy to see why they're in place, and it's mostly Sudan's fault. I know people working at a cc payment gateway company you've probably heard of, and they regularly block whole countries because of widespread fraud and the fact that the local police simply do not care about their citizens stealing from foreigners and will do nothing. It's too much to expect companies to open the gates and constantly lose money to fraud just on the off chance one of the transactions might be to an honest actor.

Don't even get me started on the stories I hear from my friend at Western Union. It's very hard to do business with a country where there is simple no rule of law as we know it. The sanctions are likely a symptom of that, not the cause.
Yes, it sucks. This is not a support chat but rather a lead generation one. They are so quick to get you on the phone with sales people it is crazy.

The upside is that if you want to demo their products, the right reseller can make it happen.

I find their site quite frustrating. So many liks are either broken or lead to a sign-in, sign-up, or contact pages.

You might get more traction with a local/regional reseller. Just be prepared for the barrage of email and follow-up calls.
For many jobs, you need a professional rather than a politician. Judges, public prosecutors, police chiefs, etc should not be political positions.
I would hate to say this, but people here and there, are cashing in NSA fiasco. I would have loved it more, if this was more focused on 'features' than playing with people's emotions. this is valid for everything currently cashing-in NSA issue.

As for, NSA spying how exactly can this phone ensure 100% secrecy. Given a user would have to use the same apps, and above all, the carrier that other smartphone users use.

Point is, US Govt is hellbent on spying on you. And they will no matter what. Either change the US Govt, or suck it up. Nothing else is gonna work.
I'm 25 years old and Ukrainian. Had like 2 'natural' opportunities to stay there(but I'm still in Ukraine). My model is the following:
* Start with something
* Remote worker for a while
* Good feedback on the stuff done
* Personal connection - we tend to get along

Starting in my case was based on the following factors:
* Cost
* Some not rather common knowledge/experience needed
Apparently, it was Microsoft which raised the red flag first http://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf. Irony?
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I put female in the title because I thought it would get more attention due to the recent "controversies" on gender and programming.

It's a cause I care about so I'm willing to be link-baity to get more attention.

But I definitely agree with you.
Nice, so you use an external service you have no control on to command external services you have no control on. Great !
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The loneliness thing is fixed for myself by working on-site for digital agencies. In terms of pay, I get to ask for 5x what I'd get full time, so it's worth it for me anyway :)
> all the reasons people don't pirate and instead buy on Steam.

Because the sames are stupidly, insanely reasonably priced. $5 for 20 hours of content? Games from time to time being 50% off? The ease of getting new content in a few clicks?

Contrast that with movies that are available for download at the same time they show up on DVD in stores: $15 for <2 hours of content that's probably not going to be that great, when my alternatives are to go to the movie store and pick it up for $2 as a rental or to pirate it for free.
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Still, if you're located in Europe but want to target the US audience as well (a huge market), you're going to be affected anyway.
How else would you have an article referring to an open question phrased?
> Fraud protection in the sense that, if you protect your private key no one can steal your bitcoins.

To swap out a word or two: "Fraud protection in the sense that, if you protect your wallet, no one can steal your cash."

I don't think that matches the commonly understood meaning of "fraud protection".
The sanctions are in place because the Sudanese government has numerous human rights violations and supported terrorist elements in the 90s, including Osama Bin Laden.

The issue is that the sanctions hurt regular people way more than the government.

The government is a dictatorship that has been in power since 1989, there are protests against the government almost every year, usually ending in a few deaths.

I'm not sure if fraud has anything to do with it, but I can see that it may be an issue.
Hmm, Ireland doesn't exist. I guess they don't want me to get one, or find out about it.
I download movies and TV shows using Bittorrent and index sites like TBP because of DRM. Often these DRM systems are not available for Linux, or if they are, they require installing some big blob of binary code. It is easier and more secure for me to use bittorrent.

I would happily use the legal services, if not for this DRM. Those services sometimes are even free (e.g. BBC iPlayer). I would happily pay for a subscription service (I pay subscriptions to a number of different of online sites, mostly journalism or data-organistion - I've no problem with that).

The industry standardising proprietary DRM in W3 will just ensure that I continue to support the distributed, end-user provided services which are DRM-free.
Interestingly enough, in French you find the hexadecimal system:

dix, onze, douze, treize, quatorze, quinze, seize | dix-sept, dix-huit, dix-neuf
Male programmers are not hindered by U.S. sanctions? Why title is so stupid and sexist?
Facebook already does this in india. I remember seeing an advertisement of a telco that said you wont be charged for data for facebook. Does this means that India already had this non neutral internet? It didn't change the scenario much here.
Of course laws will protect us. They are actually our only real hope. With the right laws, Snowden is a whistleblower with due protection. There is no debate as to whether he is a "traitor" or who broke the law, and the entire dynamic is changed here.

Either we are a nation of laws or we are not. Laws are what constrain our government and what confer and protect all of our rights. Why should this be any different? Why should we suddenly abandon law here in favor of some (inevitably inadequate) technical scheme? It is naive to believe otherwise and it is more naive (catastrophic) to advocate a model wherein we do not rely on laws, but instead our personal capabilities to protect our rights from our own government. Advocating encryption over laws is just one example of that.

Protecting ourselves from the government with tech is a tempting, freedom-figthting technologist's fantasy. We cannot even duly protect ourselves from zero-day exploits. Why on earth would we abandon the law and position ourselves to play cat-and-mouse with the U.S. government?
The algorithms are simply different and solve different problems: disruptor is a messaging queue (if a producer P0 emits M0 into the queue then all consumers C0..CN receive M0) while our queue is a classical work queue (if P0 and P1 emit message M0 and M1, then only one consumer Ci receives
M0 and only consumer Cj receives M1 (i could be equal to j)).

Our implementation competes with boost::lockfree::queue and it's much faster since Boost implementation uses more heavy synchronization techniques. The benchmark on GitHub also has Boost implementation, so you can compare both the queues.

Unfortunately, there is no adequate algorithm description for disruptor queue, only some indistinct descriptions mostly suitable for business people rather than engineers. So it was not easy to dig it's source code. However, I learned it and there are some notes about the implementation.

The implementation is bit inaccurate: there are a lot of branches without branch prediction information available at compile time, to avoid cache line bouncing it wastes two cache lines instead of simple align an item on cache line (I mean vrt_padded_int). I didn't pay too much attention to memory barriers usage, but giving that X86-64 provides relatively strict memory ordering, probably some of them also could be eliminated. Disruptor uses very cleaver ideas, but I believe its performance can be improved after good code review.

One more point is that while our queue implementation is C++, it's still self sufficient and can be easily ported to C for using in kernel space. It's doubtful (in my humble opinion) that generic container depends on non-standard libcork and moreover logging library (clogger).
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US Sanctions are useless. they only affect the normal people, not the Governments or the people in power.

I lived in Syria for some time and it is impossible there to buy/use online services (hosting, apps, payment processing etc ..) or to use most Google services.

The funny part is that those same guys who brag about giving open access to knowledge and technology they themselves blocking it from the people who need it most.
I built something more general months ago[0], but I found that using twitter to send commands adds a fair bit of overhead and noise to your twitter stream which is annoying.

It's a novel idea and the I see the appeal, but keeping down the clutter in the twitter stream is a key issue imo.

https://github.com/k0nserv/twicmd
This "common knowledge amongst all branches of the american special forces" is going to be a breeding ground for resistant strains.
Yes, but it's rarely the case. US startups don't target any other places outside the US at first. The friction to start is in the US not in Europe.
Oh right yeah that makes sense, cheers
I wish I could give this more than 1 upvote. Really good response.

My Haskell experience is a few years out of date (and not as deep as my OCaml knowledge) but it sounds like the language has advanced pretty far.

I'll still be using Clojure for the next 3-4 years (my company uses the JVM heavily, and Clojure still beats Scala IMO) but I'll have to look into the current state of things in Haskell.

Out of curiosity: what were your experiences with OCaml, and why didn't you like it?
Your information is just plain wrong.

My wife does a lot of pixel redlining at her job: the artifacts they produce are all done in Illustrator, a vector program. And believe me, they would love to leave them as vectors...less work for them! However, they must be converted to bitmaps and manually redlined to eliminate sub-pixel alignment problems.

Bitmaps are not easier, otherwise the designers would be cranking out pixels directly in Photoshop and not Illustrator. The fact that NO ONE has produced a decent general purpose vector renderer that avoids pixel artifacts, even a non real-time one, means that my wife will be redlining for quite a few more years. Even font rendering (arguably simpler than icons) requires substantial hinting to be effectively resolution independent.
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>> Apart from a few very rare contraindications, pretty much everyone is eligible for a flu vaccine. There are essentially no serious side effects.

Too bad a large percentage of the population has been scared off from getting immunizations for various reasons, mostly spread by uninformed people on the internet or media.
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Correct, and yet the poverty rate is higher than the US, with 33% of the elderly living in poverty. The unemployment rate is not a good measure of opportunity.
This reminded me directly of some mIRC Scripts. For example, if you had to change your nick, instead of using the private command `/nick newnick`, the script will give you a command you can use publicly on the channel, like `!nick`. So everyone can know twice that you're changing your nick. Also people who was using theses scripts used to change nicks every time they do something (eating, sleeping, going to work, ...) — and I always hated that because it was adding too much useless noise to IRC.

Now... this tool seems quite similar. Controlling your life should happen in secret - I don't want to know when you want to turn on the bulb in your toilets, I don't care how much space you have in your dropbox, …. All theses things are private matter.

Twitter is already full of useless noise, don't add more...
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because of Rayleigh scattering [1], son

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
The slowness is largely due to competing interests & implementations by those interests. I don't think blowing away CSS completely would be a good solution - just look at the skepticism by many over Google trying to implement Dart in Chrome, and whether it'd be successful in eliminating JavaScript.
"Entire West"? You're showing your prejudice. Not everyone in the Western world is content to bend over for American tyranny.

And you think the NSA won't interfere, should I start up a company that will compete with the US? They sure will. This is why there is such heat on this subject, duh .. why compete with the American Industrial Spook Empire, if they can inject code into your systems, remotely, without detection. If they can inspect all the packets, wherever. If they decide, after I become successful at something that might impact an American-Industrial Giant's applecart, to use my neighbours router to hide their destruction of my business?

Screw that. I don't want to hear an excuse - I want to hear a solution, from our American friends. Damn right I want a revolution!
Brisbane, Australia, for one.
If you discovered a cure for guys being horny and stupid go ahead I'm listening.

This is not something new women have been dealing with this since the birth of the internet and there's nothing you can do about that.

All you can change is yourself and learn from other guys stupidity.
In the US, yes, the selection and arrangement of facts _can_ be protected by copyright.

It needs to be an arrangement or presentation that involves a significant degree of creative choice, not an arrangement that is obviously inherent in or determined by the facts themselves. (For instance, an alphabetic arrangement of terms would obviously not be copyrightable either, but the order of a list of buildings ranked by prettiest might be).

The individual sports statistics are definitey not protected by copyright -- nobody can require me to get permission to tell you that Joe Blow has an RBI of X. But if you copy the entire database of sports statistics from someone, and present them in the same order/categories, those elements (selection and arrangement) _might_ be copyrightable -- it depends on the specifics and how well the lawyers make their case that the particular selection and arrangement involved were creative choices, not just obvious in the data itself.

In the U.S. , that you "applied meaningful resources to extrapolating" is completely irrelevant to copyright -- that it took lots of resources to assemble purely factual information still does not make them copyrightable. This is known as the 'sweat of the brow doctrine', and the courts in the U.S. decided that it did _not_ apply to copyright here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow#US_copyright_...
Deceptive [expletive].
As an American with a physics background, a while ago I casually reviewed how bad our non-metric system is -- http://joshuaspodek.com/metric-system-isnt -- and found it not nearly as bad as people treat it. Among other things, when I build things it's useful to divide in half a few times, which is easier with inches and feet. And I've found no benefit to Celsius's 0 and 100 coinciding with water's state changing.

I bring that up here because I've never heard even the staunchest metric proponents use kiloseconds or megaseconds or hesitate to use hours, minutes, days, and so on. I know people experimented with decimal times, especially around the French Revolution, but it didn't stick. It's funny when someone talks about the value of using base ten and then switches to base 60, base 12, and base 24 in the next sentence.

I should say that in physics experiments people used seconds only (which is where I learned that to within about a percent a year is pi times ten to the seventh).