skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SIMD is important to hand-coders, we get this (so does Dart, and sauce for the goose...).

> It's possible to do this later, after (and if) asm.js becomes popular

+1, and also when JS is more "done" (ES7 or 8; http://sweetjs.org/ + SIMD + value objects + minutiae is the nirvana.
How to Build Mobile Application?
Judge rules TSA no-fly procedures unconstitutional
From your link:

The subjects—*none of whom regularly ate or drank caffeinated products*—

Tolerance is the main reason why caffeine is a (mostly) zero sum game.
I'm glad to know I'm living in a cultural desert. Looking at both the bands and the visual artists out here, we must have different usages of the word "desert" :)
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The Register hasn't posted its bang-laden made-redundant story yet, but here's their take from when De Castro joined YHOO:

Yahoo! hires! top! Googler! to! revamp! operations!
Marissa Mayer gets her man – for a price

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/15/yahoo_hires_coo/

"Henrique is an incredibly accomplished and rigorous business leader, and I'm personally excited to have him join Yahoo!'s strong leadership team," said Mayer in a statement. "His operational experience in Internet advertising and his proven success in structuring and scaling global organizations make him the perfect fit for Yahoo! as we propel the business to its next phase of growth."

So! Much! For! All! That!
I don't get how LA has this reputation for being a cultural desert. I live in the Bay Area and go down to LA several times a year to work on films, and I find it has a very vibrant cultural scene. If it wasn't for family ties I'd have moved down there years ago.
Well, others from his programme, Mock the Week, like video games as well. Farming Simulator 2013 for the win. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6rqYMOKEfs
I kind-of enjoy writing web scrapers.
Yahoo Mail's "Not Spam" button bug causes spam reports instead
But there will be fewer of them in 2015 than today.
I was using USF as an example of the onerous, misguided sort of program that is imposed on telecommunication service providers regulated under Title II. I wasn't trying to imply that only telecommunication service providers can be subject to USF fees (frankly, I was trying to punt on explaining the distinction because in practice voice providers are subject to USF fees but broadband providers are not subject to those fees). The fact that USF money is now being used for broadband doesn't change the fact that internet service is not subject to the tax. Moreover, while classification as an information provider doesn't prevent internet providers from being subject to USF fees, classification as telecommunications providers would pave the way for them to be taxed.
Tutorial on how to rip Blu-ray to iPad mini with DVDFab 9
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Although I believe this is true, I've used more fluid interfaces and played/have seen better performing demos/games in Javascript rather than Java.
This list of things telco monopolies see as competition is nicely summarized by the blue part of this picture :

http://toddbell.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Earthrise.jpg

And they're getting really suspicious about the grey parts in the bottom too. Better safe than sorry, right ?
Perhaps you read someone else quoting him in the other HN video games thread on the front page?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7067283
Seems it can't see the stuff inside angular views.. well at least mines..

But for the rest, awesome product. Thanks.
Could there be a North Korean “Spring”?
Millions of machines about to loose MS support.
Millions of machines unable to run windows 7/8/9.
Millions of people suddenly very interested in linux.

MS isn't worried that people won't upgrade. They are worried that they will.

Also, this may have to do with the Target malware as the afflicted POS machines appear to be running XP.
Interesting to see the hotspots in non-populated places. I took a look around the Washington Cascade Mountains and you can see photos aligning around the main trails, peaks, road turnouts and other sights.
best of luck on this initiative.

-bowerbird
"[North Korea] has no Internet."

One of the most entertaining mindfucks (and there were many) on my trip to North Korea was being shown a "classroom" at Kim Il Sung University with a poster explaining IP and DNS, as if the students would ever have internet access. (http://i.imgur.com/suTx2Rv.jpg) They also let us do whatever we wanted in a computer lab full of Red Star OS machines (http://i.imgur.com/7VyHVQP.jpg), but once I saw how terrifying a console looks to the untrained eye, I gave up trying to traceroute everything I could to avoid the labor camps. I did get to connect my phone to a North Korean wifi network (http://i.imgur.com/UfyjdfP.png), which was as neat as it was pointless.

If you've ever thought about going there, do it. Pretty soon, there won't be anywhere you can go in the world to be ineptly propagandized, and it's a beautiful thing.

http://www.youngpioneertours.com/
I'm only arguing about naming conventions here -- I probably wasn't clear enough about that. I know what the IO type constructor does. My point was merely that if no one ever says "getChar is an IO", then maybe its type shouldn't be called IO.

For all of Haskell's beautiful concepts, it does have some flaws. I think that overly cute (and, as I explained, sometimes inconsistent) names are one of them, because that's at often odds with readability. Haskell's identifiers are not Perl-level bad, but they are not shining examples of clarity either.

I hope I didn't offend you with this. I don't actually think we'd disagree much if we had discussed this face-to-face.
It depends on the privacy settings of the user. I just tried this on myself and it did not show my name or photo. The most conspicuous thing it showed was a starred-out version of my old university email address, but that's my own fault for leaving it there.
don't forget mlock() regardless.
they're talking about how the OS will page to disk in TFA. My comment answer that with mlock - for platform that have it of course :)
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much they were acquired for, seeing has Google dropped ~3 billion on Nest..
Well, she did an AMA - it would be kind of expected that most of her recent comments are about herself. But unlike you, she's posting under an actual account, not a sock puppet specifically made to insult.

If you want to disagree with her, how about cutting the insults and engaging with a real account?
ah yes the obligatory G+ slam
This looks good enough to be a product on it's own. It's got a crazy amount of polish.

I know it's highly-coupled to your particular infrastructure, but would it be possible to open source?
There's a lot of notion that North Korea has cyber-espionage groups that operate against external nations.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/11/north-kore...
I would say one time supply of cheap(!) video game equipment is far easier to finance and organize than a reliable distribution of food and electricity for almost 25M people, so i doubt that argument. And I would be anything but surprised if only 1 million or less people would have access to those machines, but my guess would be that a political chance depends more on (semi)-privileged people like those in Pyongyang than on the population of the country side which has even less possibilities of resistance and reform.
They're speed bumps with guns. The strategy for killing them hasn't changed since Space Invaders.
If I remember correctly, that only occurred if the panorama was extremely wide or extremely tall in aspect ratio. I think it had a limit for the maximum dimension. But I remember exporting approximately 4:3 panoramas that were quite large.
Overlooking Downtown Seattle (360 degree photo by Bradford Bohonus)
> I don't get how LA has this reputation for being a cultural desert

los angeles obviously isn't a cultural desert. it's the 2nd largest city in the US, the largest city in the most populous state, and the metro area is absolutely massive. if it's art, food, language, or entertainment that exists in the world, there's a high probability you can find it in LA. people just think they know the city from driving through it on a freeway 2 or 3 times, or going to one part of the city once.

there's also a lot of immature hatred in a lot of bay area people for LA because LA is bigger than SF and takes up a lot of global popular mindshare that they feel should be directed toward the bay.

also, by putting something down, people feel more sophisticated/superior to something they feel maybe doesn't deserve the attention it's getting. basic human psychology.
[video] The Problem With Facebook
> The DHS engaged in witness tampering (denying Dr Ibrahim and her witnesses access to the courtroom by putting the on the no-fly list) and argued that neither Dr Ibrahim nor her lawyers should be allowed to see the evidence against her

I was going to write about the gross abuse of power and how we should change the people and the system but I think their thuggery is so obvious we don't have to belabor the obvious and the more appropriate thing to say is: What a bunch of assholes.
I don't think this can beat the speed of a hand-tune crawler. When I write crawlers, I skip rendering page and javascript execution if it isn't needed, which massively speed up the crawling process.
There was a live chat today with the former CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry, and she said the average height of a North Korean soldier is 4'9". Not too imposing. They do not have adequate resources to feed their people, let alone to project power.
When I saw this, that was my first thought as well. Wow, if I had this, it would be so easy to answer a lot of our technical questions especially -- they're absolutely right, those typically require a ton of back-and-forth to dig into the issue, often resulting in us asking the end-user to provide a console log/dump.
I'm torn between CoffeeScript and TypeScript. If there was a language that had the syntax sugar of CoffeeScript plus static typing, I would be in heaven.
Yes you can.

Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright law sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair.

* The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes

* The nature of the copyrighted work

* The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole

* The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work

You don't have to prove all four factors. You just have to prove that the use is fair. For example, if I write a haiku and someone writes an article analyzing my haiku for educational purposes, the use may be considered fair, even if they use the entire poem.
Holy crap, Somalia.
I can't imagine that anyone would design a system in such a way. It would be far more likely that transaction data would be uploaded to a central database which tracks store inventory.
Since everyone who will ever buy a $600 USB cable is totally price insensitive when it comes to audio equipment, this review is "mission accomplished" for any company selling those cables. "Subtle" is at least something. Expensive speaker cables are a Veblen good, but nobody wants to knowing plow money into Veblen goods; they need to believe there is some return on the investment.
The "ROI"? Really? Some people want to risk their lives if it means progress for everyone else. What was the ROI for Snowden?
San Diego recently removed their cameras because they found that they were put at intersections designed to maximize revenue, regardless of the pre-RLC safety.

They also found that accidents were increased.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Feb/01/san-diego-red-lig...
PrivExec does something similar with ephemeral keys http://www.onarlioglu.com/privexec/
http://newfocusintl.com/north-korea-mostcoveted-items/

This is thanks to Chinese businessmen, who produce items according to the needs of the North Korean market. For about US$20, North Koreans may purchase a Chinese-made portable DVD player. In the past, a DVD was required; but now, people can watch movies off of a USB stick. This makes it even easier to conceal the set-up from the authorities, and is a perfect fit for ordinary North Koreans.
I think it's a good side project, but don't bet your life savings on a donation-based business model. Hope is not a good business strategy ;)
Wonder if you could mine Bitcoin based on how much content is consumed for free (i.e. The more they stream movies, the more you can generate for yourself and the content creator/publisher). Just thinking out loud.
The author somewhat addressed this when he mentioned that the number of people buying in at the lower price that wouldn't have bought at full price have to offset the people who wait.

However, I think you're completely right that the number people imagine exist may not be there. Obviously 100% of the sale buyers would have paid full price. I know that the majority of games in my Steam collection are not games I would pay full price for, but they are game that I was happy to pick up in a Humble Indie Bundle. Half the games in those bundles I don't even plan on playing ever and just bought because they were bundled with a few games I thought might be interesting.

Choosing to participate in a sale increases revenue over not participating, but the author is worried about a world where sales become the new norm. Of course, if that's the case, bump your price from $16 to $30 and feel free to participate in those 50% sales after you've done your initial price bump. The market will sort that out.

Additionally, sales are great for increasing brand awareness. Many retail sales aren't designed to make money on their own as much as get people into the store where they might buy full-price merchandise. As an anecdote, I bought Terraria for something like $2.50 on a steam sale. When I first heard of it I thought it didn't sound that great. It turns out I love it and spent 60+ hours playing in in the span of a month. Now I will definitely buy the company's next game, Starbound for full price when it's released. If they hadn't had the sale I would never have bought either game.
So far the most interesting point they have made is that these guys are smuggling in foreign media/tv and people are consuming it. The pitch is that the latest box office hits (sky fall 007 was mentioned) are the best way to influence N Korean culture. I guess I was surprised by this, but it does make more sense than trying to give them hard truth, which they would more likely reject due to their own cognitive dissonance.

This makes me wonder how our own media is manipulated to influence political movements?
Cold boot attacks don't work on DDR3
Looks like a continuation of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850408
If you're interested in more of a bottom-up approach, I have a series of articles on my blog explaining category theory with the programmer's perspective in mind (though I do assume you know a little bit of higher maths; sets and functions, mostly). See the section titled "Computational Category Theory" on this page: http://jeremykun.com/main-content/

I've let the series sort of fall to the wayside recently as I focused on other content, but there's enough to get you up to a categorical understanding of map, fold, and filter (and a mathematical justification for why fold is the "most" universal one of the three)
I wouldn't say too early. There were a fair number of temporarily successful co-processors in that general era of many different sorts; aside from float (and smaller markets for FFT chips and boards and some efforts at vector co-processors), the most famous were probably the multimedia coprocessors on the Atari ST and on the Amiga (Jay Miner etc).

If that's too late for your tastes, look at the nearly universal support chips for 8080/z80 like DMA. Possibly one could count UART and PIO too.

But Moore's Law kept killing them, and eventually it became common wisdom that such was the case, so they faded.

Over a long time period, external devices to offload the primary cpu come and go, under different guises, as Ivan Sutherland noticed already in 1968.

Intel's 8089 and related may have been partially motivated by the success of IO processors in the mainframe and supercomputer world in the 1960s and later.

P.S. Hi Chuck :)
Does anyone know the data source for this?
I have my settings as restrictively-set as possible, and it showed my name, photo, and 'primary network'.
Lots of great nuggets here. Connecting logging data to customer feedback seems especially worthwhile.

There was one line that really surprised me: "We personally respond to almost every one of [the messages], without using response templates." Is that a feature? I think you can sound fairly personal even while using templates, and they could save a lot of time (30 seconds saved per message * 20k messages per month = 1 full time employee).
Hopefully, but I think the rate of change decreases over time. Increasingly, the computers left on XP will be computers that won't be updated. One example is the following: we have a computer in my lab we have several computers that are controlling lab equipment. They will not be upgraded, as the software won't work on any modern OS. Our option is to stop using tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment or unplug them from the wall.
For a better video experience (I couldn't get the BI video to play for the ATD segment):

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=eUAPHgiEniQ

Again at the 1:34:30 mark
Look at North Korea
It seems that the Perl community isn't afraid of tiny, single-purpose modules. Take File::Which for instance. [0] It has just to functions used to find executables in your path. I like the idea of using a library. While the logic itself is pretty simple, there are some corner-cases that come up between various OSes. I'll save myself the hassle and use the library instead of writing it myself. Plus, once it is in a library you can get rid of the 5 copies throughout your various projects.

[0]: http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/File-Which-1.09/lib/File/Which...
This change is inevitable as rents increase

It's not inevitable; rather, it's because of a series of political choices. Steel and elevators are very old technologies and as such it's quite simple to increase the supply of dwellings on a given quantity of land. San Francisco's development rules mostly prohibit anyone from doing so, however, per Matt Yglesias's book The Rent Is Too Damn High (And What To Do About It) (see http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO?ie=UTF8&tag=thstsst-20&l...).

In the face of constant supply and rising demand prices increases. Want to change that dynamic? Increase supply by building new stuff.
From reading the blog post it doesn't look like security updates will be released. This means you can be infected by any new vulnerabilities, but can clean it up.
Thanks a lot! The polish came from a hack night we did to redesign it.

I don't think there's much to open source -- it's about 2,000 lines of code. It's mostly just writing custom sql and elasticsearch queries to show data related to the users we're about to respond to.

Re: the log integration, all our application logs get written to logstash/elasticsearch/kibana, and one of the fields on the logs is the person_id (they're unique id whether logged in or out). When we show the logs in the feedback center, we just query elastic search and group by the different log types.
Thanks! Here's more info on how time is logged: https://www.wakati.me/help/faq/general#what-happens-when-im-...

Would you prefer:

1. embedded video on the website

2. interactive walkthrough after signup

> if it's possible, you want to have a little icon that shows when it's tracking time, and maybe even the ability to log time manually from within Vim.

Both those are possible. The status icon would be great as long as it works with all types of vim configurations. Logging time manually is possible but I probably won't build that since there are already many start/stop timers out there and my goal is to be invisible and just work.
Very nice. I like the idea of tying logs to users like that.

Seems like there would be a lot of overhead for that amount of logging though. Could you elaborate a bit more on how it all works? Do you run an internally developed mixpanel/GA type tool? Or, is this server side logging (the JS issue speaks otherwise).
It's about the same bit he says in Brooker's Screenwipe
I was just looking for a transcript of it, so I submitted this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLi7HlAB_CI
The TSA actually put her daughter on the no-fly list so she couldn't testify against the TSA at her mother's trial. This is egregious abuse of powers. There needs to be a congressional hearing and some firings.

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/04/dhs-stalls-no-fly-list-tria...