skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean a standard way of distributing binary executables where anything the plugin author wants can be done (within a sandbox). For example the decoding and display of protected data. Much like flash, but with some form of standardized bytecode vm. I understand that the implementation if the actual DRM will probably be closed, but the plugin standard that hosts the DRM code should not have to be.

Apart from allowing closed binary applications it should of course offer some other benefit over javascript, such as offering good hardware support (true multithreading with shared data, access to all peripherals, and so on). Javascript even with WebGL+WebWorkers+similar frameworks isn't it.
> What is funny about premining critique...

To me the funny thing is there is enough consternation over this to have an official term for it.

Satoshi, whether a group or individual, invented Bitcoin and planted the seeds for its success against all odds. Now that it's huge everyone is regretting not getting in early, but I see no reason why the creators and early adopters don't deserve their spoils.

It's nice that Litecoin decided to start everyone on equal footing, but let's not fool ourselves: that's an adoption tactic not altruism. At the end of the day Litecoin is the most successful of the copycat digital currencies but it's still a copycat.
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Anecdote is not data. Period.
Keep reading down to section 7.4.9. After the negotiation is finished, the client and server exchange MACs of the previous messages to be sure they weren't tampered with.
After the french revolution there was a short period (3 years) when the French had decimal time. It didn't catch on because that meant the workers had 10-day workweeks instead of 7.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar

As a result, decimal clocks from that era are very rare and highly sought after!
This entire thread was about hollywood. To say that we aren't interested in what hollywood produces is a strange assertion, or a rather narrow definition of "we".
The verification occurs at the end of the handshake, not at the start. After all, at ClientHello, the peers haven't agreed on anything yet.
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> But the actual problem is the baseband processor running completely non-free software

True, and once that one will be made open-source too, there's still the NSA tracking mobile phones worldwide and generating all kinds of privacy-invading data based on it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tr...

(And until that is resolved, my mobile phone will stay in flight mode only.)

So once again, while tech may help in the short term, long-term solutions will have to be structural/systemic ones regarding government in general.
Is it an Android phone?
OP URL isn't a permalink, for future viewers: http://stratechery.com/2014/googles-new-business-model/
Ask HN: How much will I get for selling this site?
The site makes an avg monthly google ad revenue of around 2k USD. The age is 4 years. Google page ranking of 2 Alexa ranking avg 22k
How did Jezebel get unbanned?

Aren't they part of the Gawker/Valleywag hive of scum and villainy?
Well, there's always filter settings.. let everyone rate a few messages into acceptable or not and go from there. (Maybe go from real inbox messages in case one wants to minimize additional exposure.)
Matching couples looks like an easy problem to solve, here, you have my little algo to find the optimum match for n couples: https://github.com/kfk/scripts/blob/master/match-date.py

Ok, joking a bit, but there is a point to this. If you have a finite set of people (and I bet in a short time frame you can make that assumption), then in the WORST case you have to do n*(n+1)/2 matches. Let's say it takes 1 hr to run a date, then we can match 10 people in 55 hrs in the worst case.

Now, try matching 10 people using these websites. Enter the texting game and no proper filtering (by looks, age, location, etc.). It will take X time my worst case scenario to maybe match half of the population.

Point is: somebody should make a system that clusters people and randomly assigns them to dates. Without any prior texting that is. Which, by the way, would simulate the way people met until 20 years ago more or less.
It's humorous that at the end of his article he asks:

> "Do you have any examples of high-DPI frustration on the Desktop? Upload them to ImgUr.com and link to them in the comments!"

Yeah... your blog post looks like shit on my MacBook Pro... all your screenshots are blurry messes.
I don't know about the current situation, but at least first 6 months after the update the site did grow faster than it used to. But yes, we did have quite many problems after the rewrote.
If that's the way you work, then your employer has made a mistake.
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I wondered that as well, could entirely just clever branding because of neutrality.

They state in the video: "Blackphone is a Swiss joint venture between Silent Circle and Geeksphone"...

Still doesn't reveal much, as both companies in this joint venture aren't swiss and in the swiss company register I couldn't find an entry for them.
One area where Apple has been incredibly aggressive — and Microsoft has been sorely lacking — is in actually producing and preparing high resolution content well in advance of the display technology.

Apple new this was coming and for years have demanded icons, images, and artwork to be provided in high resolution. They developed assets for their own software in high resolution before retina displays ever hit the market.

Contrast to this article where Microsoft's own Visual Studio (one of the "best cases" mentioned by this article) doesn't even have Hi-DPI icons. Microsoft's own software displays blurry icons and it's listed as a "best case."

Apple also pushed Intel very hard on driver support for their integrated graphics. Rewriting the driver-level image scaling to ensure that discrete and integrated GPUs produced identical images, again before retina displays ever came on market, to allow for seamless switching between GPUs on their hardware.

This sort of foresight was necessary to pull off the high density display introduction as smoothly as they did.

Same goes for multiple monitors, which "just worked" when Apple introduced their high density displays. You could connect a regular monitor to your laptop and drag windows across. The DPI and art assets adjusted dynamically. This is something Windows is only just now getting around to fixing in version 8.1.
hi,
The niche is indian movie,celebrity gallery.
We are looking > 100k
You need a pretty large corpus to train a filter effectively, so probably not practical to train on a per-user basis.
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why not block a user from sending messages to anyone after, say, 3 complaints? yes, maybe it's a little harsh and not democratic, but it will make men much more considerate
Computer, external HDD and Amazon Glacier for emergency backup.
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By mining your own genesis block, you can adjust starting difficulty.
If the difficulty is set too low, then first miners will mine enormously more blocks, before the difficulty readjusts.
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The phone image is missing. Check "images/teaser_site/img03.jpg", css #phone style.css line 396

Thanks
"Blackphone is re-shaping the landscape of personal communications. Pre-ordering begins..."

How is it re-shaping anything before it's started shipping?
> I'm not here to bash guys , I am one.

We've got to get rid of this misconception that if you're a certain gender, you can't possibly be generally hostile towards that same gender.

Just a side-note about this in general.
The solution is for your phone to not be a phone. Strip out the baseband entirely, use usb or wifi to a 4G LTE dongle, do VoIP. Extra benefit that you can explicitly know when you're radiating (and thus being location-tracked).

Blackphone is pretty lame, IMO. There's something better coming from a trusted source in weeks, and plenty of work being done on the "there is no phone" phone concept.
You are right - I am basing this on my subjective experience.

Also, I suspect that this is a problem if 80% of your time you are at a desk typing, but if you move around a lot, it's not going to be such a problem.

That said, if you are coding at a desk all the time, a quick google finds research that backs up the posture -> injury thing.
> ASM.js is the most horrible hacky thing. It gets the job done, but there are no good things to learn about how it works.

There's no denying this, ASM.js is an awful hack but that is for a good reason.

You're just going to have to accept the fact that JavaScript will be the only language supported by all major web browsers for the near future. No-one really likes the situation but there's nothing that can really be done about it, at least in the short term.

So if you're doing software for the web browser, it must be compatible with JavaScript. That is a fact you can't escape. And as much as asm.js is a dirty hack, it retains JavaScript compatibility while being a more sensible intermediate representation for compilers.

You're not supposed to like (or dislike) asm.js, it's intended to be written and consumed by computer programs, not humans.
Someone should try a similar experiment: "Unemployed Homebuilder poses as Software Engineer on Jobs Site, OMFG too many recruiters".

Or "Poor Indian wears Fair&Handsome and poses as Rich Western Tourist, barely lasts two hours before getting annoyed by beggars".

Related thoughts from the often interesting Scott Alexander: http://squid314.livejournal.com/327849.html http://squid314.livejournal.com/327957.html

(Yes, I'm one of those big jerks who has as much sympathy for the sexually deprived as the monetarily deprived, which is not a huge amount. Feel free to make status-lowering comments in response.)
> EDIT Took a look at your HN profile statement, now its clear that you have an agenda.

Give me a break. You are paranoid.
If you wanted to be more or less confident of this, you could try running some of what (s)he wrote through that application that guesses your gender from how you write stuff.

EDIT: I put the paragraphs quoted into http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php#Analyze

Genre: Informal
Female = 1683
Male = 1466
Difference = -217; 46.55%
Verdict: Weak FEMALE

Weak emphasis could indicate European.

Site carries this disclaimer: The system generates a simple estimate (profiling). While Gender Guesser may be 60% - 70% accurate, it is not 100% accurate. This is better than random guessing (50%), but should not be interpreted as "fact".
Erm all bitcoin transactions are public

ALL

If you know someones address then you can go back and check all the transactions.

As for refunds, merchants selling using bitcoin still have to follow law of the land, in most civilised countries there is a "Supply of Goods and Services Act" or equivalent legislation where a customer is entitled to a repair, replacement or refund if the good/service is bad.
Buying with bitcoin is no different to buying in cash

You obviously do not understand bitcoin or are confused about some aspects of it.
I have a 166 dpi laptop at the moment and yes, windows was pretty bad. Only recently found out about the dpi settings thanks to a commenter here.

On another note I really want that laptop!!
The entire West is complicit. Pretending it is just America ensures the status quo remains in place. Also look up the word tyranny, it doesn't mean whatever you want it to.
You're right, but Haskell is also statically typed and can be compiled, so my question still holds.
There's also a strong branding presence of Swiss products in UAE and China (including some brands you'd never hear of in Switzerland itself), there seems to be a very strong association of "Swiss Made" with luxury product. I've even seen opticians advertising "Swiss Glass"(?) in Hong Kong. Thinking back to a talk by the founder of Virtu, I wouldn't be surprised if the middle and far east are key markets for this type of product.
Systems like this are too easy to abuse.
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Geeksphone actually made Android phones originally.
Not to mention, on a Mac you can have a combination of hiDPI (internal display on rMBP) and regularDPI (external display) and it works seamlessly.
I'm going to take a guess and say the same isn't true for Windows?
That's standard IEEE 754 floating-point behavior. Almost all languages will do that (and languages that use bignums by default have their own problems). If you want more accurate floating-point (at a cost in performance) you can use Spire.

> This is the guy who has worked on the Scala compiler. He says it will never be fast and there are things which are fundamentally broken (like above, and there are many more).

He also says it's the best language available at the moment. And he's right.
Its China who is heating the issue time and time again. With Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam. They even sent troops into India last year.

Its only with Russia that they signed a peaceful border agreement two(?) years ago, because Russia would be too strong an enemy to play these kind of games with.
In online dating, and human interaction in general, you need 2 basic things.

#1: People to talk to.

#2: The person need to a person you want to talk to, ie not a "predator", scam artist, bot, creepy, and so on.

The question the person had was if women had a easier time on dating services than men. By experiment, he concluded that the mass of men wanting to talk to a female profile and the over predatory attitude quickly overwhelmed the person who made the fake profile. By this, he concluded that women has a worse time than men.

Just me who do not think he actually answered his question?
Such a system was built for images; if user images got too many complaints, then those images were hidden and sent to moderation queue where moderators could decide wheter those complaints were valid or not.

It would have been fairly simple to do same for messages, but problem is that Finnish law does not permit moderators to read private messages. So it would have been unfair for some users.
I think it'll stick around for a long time, due to external displays: projectors, TVs, etc... which either don't benefit a great deal or won't be upgraded to hiDPI for a long time.

I posted a separate comment to the effect that the Apple solution also allows using both hi- and regular-DPI displays simultaneously with no issues.
And my completely understaffed KDE does it beautifully.
Hmm, I'd say the real privacy issue is the user who installs and runs all those Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. apps and freely shares his private information with everyone.

You can't really prevent that with technology unless you start to educate kids/users better. But who am I kidding? People will forfeit their private data for shiny stuff as long as there will be shiny stuff and private data.
I took a screenshot of the GIMP on 256 DPI:
http://i.imgur.com/2GpqyND.png
(XFCE4)
I'll give you another quote: Joseph Heller — 'Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you' ;)
> There's something better coming from a trusted source in weeks...

Could you provide more concrete info on what you are referencing there?
Eeeeexcelllent... That's great to know, thanks.

My gf has just aquired a lower-res BenQ 27", and it's a great monitor - good to know that their 1440p models are as good.
This was my immediate thought.

It doesn't read like the (somewhat stereotypical) male character they're describing. It's portrayed as some cocky male who frequents 4chan having a deep and heartfelt revelation about the plight of women.

But I wouldn't expect anything on that site to not be biased.
How much work does it take?

What expenses are there?

What are the traffic sources?

How is revenue trending?
The prose sounds like a schoolgirl wrote it: "At first I thought it was fun, I thought it was weird but maybe I would mess with them or something and freak them out and tell them I was a guy or something..."

(Without wishing to offend females of school-attending age)
> Chinese people

The only "proper" enemy would be Russia, and therefore China signed a border agreement with Russia, basically giving up their claims. Because Russia is stong enough to not play these silly games the CCP is playing with the weaker neighbors.

Like a common school bully, China is only bullying those that can't defend themselves. Doesn't give China much face, I'd say.
I understood that this had been fixed in Android a while back so it would start up automatically? Personally, I'm still on 2.3 which requires a manual startup...
No need to comment if we simply disagree. That's what downvoting was made for!
> For base 60, this is exacerbated

Sorry to nitpick, but "exacerbate" is to make worse. It's like "ex-acerbate". It doesn't mean "even more so" in a good way. Just thought you'd like to know.
Take advantage of symmetry, especially translation symmetry.
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I don't know whether it's due solely to the resolution, but I was pretty shocked to realise I can tell the difference between 300 and 600 dpi photographic prints (assuming there's enough detail in the image to do so, you need to print a 23 MP DSLR shot with high detail at a 7x10" print size to get there).
I have had other photographers tell me that they don't see any benefit to retina screens at all... you're giving me the reason why here. :)
Even if that were generally true, you can't just jump metrics from messages to men like that.

People using the site respectfully could be the vast majority, but still be drowned out by a small subset of users who copy and paste the same messages to as many profiles as they can find.

If I applied your same logic to my inbox, I'd conclude that 95% of online businesses are dubious Canadian pharmacies selling Viagra without a prescription.
I don't get it. Let's take your software engineer example. Software engineers often do complain about spam from recruiters, in cases where the recruiters:

a) Plainly have not taken your skills or location or pay grade into consideration

b) Refuse to take "no" for an answer

c) Turn hostile or somehow imply that you owe them your time or should be grateful for their attention

And we generally assume that the engineers are correct in their complaints. I can't say I've ever seen recruiters being abusive, but I have heard voicemail messages that start with "I know you said not to call you again, but...", and there's really no question about who is in the wrong there.

Whether it's actually important is a different question. I get a fair few pointless enquiries via LinkedIn, and I ignore them. I can't say that it troubles me much. But if the people sending those messages were insulting me, making sexually explicit statements or generally being persistent beyond all efforts to make them stop, I would probably feel much more strongly about it.

What puzzles me is that the behaviour of the recruiters does make at least some sense in a way that the dating site behaviour doesn't. Sure, getting a job spec for a senior Java developer and then mailing everyone with "senior [something] developer" in their past job titles on LinkedIn is going to fail quite often, as you'll hit Senior Python Developers and Senior C++ Developers and so on, but sooner or later the recruiter has to get lucky. But who the hell responds positively to the kinds of comments that the OP received? Are the people sending the messages doing so because they believe that sooner or later it's going to work? Even worse, does it actually work sometimes? I can't easily believe that it does, but it's hard to understand the behaviour otherwise.
Not gonna happen sorry. Need a lot more revenue to get anywhere near 100k. Disclaimer: I founded a celebrity gossip site: PopCrunch.com
>There's something better

Is this IndiePhone by Aral Balkan?
s/ a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can//
>No-one really likes the situation

That isn't true. Mozilla likes the situation. That is why they are pushing Javascript so damn hard: as the only language for the web, as the only language for apps, as the only language your phone can run, as the only language your tablet can run and so on. If Mozilla disliked Javascript why would they create an operating system that forces you to use Javascript? None of the backwards compatibility concerns apply there.

It's just politics and a power grab. If all user facing software has to run inside the Javascript sandbox then the people that control that sandbox are given massive power. That is why Mozilla and Google want a web-app future. It hands them the keys to everything. In a web app world if, for example, Microsoft brings out a new input device (like kinect), nobody will actually be able to develop software for it until the gatekeepers of the 'web standards' decide to design an API for it. Since those gatekeepers are mostly Microsofts competitors they would likely block it if they saw it as any kind of threat, or at least till they had developed their own competing version.

Javascript/web standards based OSs will be a huge roadblock to innovation.
I'm annoyed. I came here to point out who the heritage foundation is, but bazzargh has it covered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7062656

TFA complains about "marginal income rates of %43" as though this were the general case. For what it's worth, %43 is the highest capital gains rate, the highest income rate is %39, which is for incomes of over 1.8MM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States

With that out of the way, the highest marginal tax rate was around %90 during the boom of the 50's and 60's, and is lower now than during Regan administration for example: http://www.ntu.org/tax-basics/history-of-federal-individual-...

If one is a member of the very highest tax bracket, then one might be tempted to measure freedom by the myopic comparison of income tax rates. It would be unsurprising if the Heritage Foundation were concerned about the very highest tax rate in great disproportion to it's nominal consequence.

There are other economic freedoms: freedom from excessive gov't granted monopolies (patent/copyright), freedom from protectionism, tariffs, limited work visas, etc. Even rich guys driven to distraction by high tax rates ought to be able to find something say about these sorts of things in an article about economic freedom, but no specific structural reforms are proposed. News flash: partisan think tank doesn't like taxes, president.

For the rest of rest of us, real freedom also means not being imprisoned for interacting with other consenting adults in ways that are illegal, and not being denied due process in various ways such as: torte reform, civil asset forfeiture, being spied on by agencies who are immune from judicial review, etc. Could we take a break from wringing our hands about the welfare of the ultra-rich, and work some of that stuff too?
I haven't been so creeped out by an ad for quite some time.

This looks like a solution desperately looking for a problem; that is, unless your problem is "I want to spy every single step of everyone in my family".

And seriously, "mother"? Do they even ever had one, to be that much off-mark? The very first quality of anything motherly is to be human; this is a wireless log collection system. Call it a "warden", or at best "coach", if you really need an anthropomorphic comparison.
Seems really interesting but not a huge fan of filling other peoples timelines with my Tweets controlling things. Or am I missing something?
I think this is named after the Indian river. 'Kabani' is also a river in India.
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Thx! I hope it can appeal to non-hackers as well as it involves typing commands, much like CLI IMO.
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