skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should have hired a 12 year old to point out the obvious flaws in their products, which are typically quite good but with arbitrary gaping holes.

I hope the VAIO machines stay around, under the rule of someone that knows how to transform their high-end products into high-end products that people really want.
Yes let's.

Standardizing DRM extensions is bullshit. No new browser can ever be standards compliant when being compliant requires having the appropriate binary blob as distributed by the approved parties.
I've been using this in beta, and can't believe how much time it's saving me--and how effective it's been. We will be using this through our launch. Super savvy and to the point.
And for the most part, there's a serious commitment to composability. e.g. You can add liberator to your luminus project seamlessly without re-engineering.
If he was unconvinced why would he have had to make a statement at all?
Your pricing page (http://www.pressfriendly.com/pricing) says "Premium Pricing - All premium plans include access to a PR advisor". But then you have an actual plan named "Premium".

So do I get access to a PR advisor if I subscribe to the Premium plan, 3rd plan from the left, or if I subscribe to any of the non-free "Premium" plans (any of the main 3 boxes)?
Cost should never be an issue since NASA is an arm of the federal government. Have the Federal Reserve fund NASA directly. Double the budget. Hire STEM majors. Pay them well. NASA's achievements should only be limited by technical capabilities. Leave finance out of it.
My trust level for recruiters has just fallen dramatically
Some quotes are correct only if you frame them, for example: if you’ re passionate enough about your project, you can make it happen anywhere - Care to try in Greece, Nigeria, Syria?

I know there's a war in Syria at the moment. But what's going on in Greece and Nigeria?
Show HN: coinmail.io – Ephemeral inbox for Bitcoin, Dogecoin
Graphene is mentioned every 6 months in articles and magazines I read and I cant remember how long this has been going on. Same goes for quantum computing.

I really hope at some point it will actually become a reality. The skeptics at the bottom of article dodnt believe graphene will work for digital applications.
At a minimum, professionalism.
Peer-to-peer connections are possible right now with Chrome and Firefox using WebRTC peerconnection.

The WebRTC connection is bootstrapped through a server (STUN and TURN), but that's the case with almost all peer-to-peer software (take a look into how Bitcoin or Bittorrent is bootstrapped if you don't believe me). But anyone can run a STUN and/or TURN server.

Once the connection is bootstrapped, it's entirely peer-to-peer between browsers.
Is Evernote about to be acquired?
We need IPV6. We need every device to be fully connected, not the halfassed solution we have now. Full connectivity plus ever increasing distributed and unused computing capacity is the right playground for a new set of network usage paradigms.

The mainframe->distributed->mainframe cycle will then once again swing to distributed (yes, we now live again in a mainframe age).
depends where in the world you are i guess (regarding the consoles).
also in the long run people won't remember about the whole lending fiasco.

now to me sony laptops are a bit ovepriced. my last two PC notebooks were from Asus and I am happy with them. They were at least 25% cheaper than similar sony models.
hoplon is cool, too
All three plans get and advisor. Yes, I can see how that would be confusing.

Free plans get online support, but not a 1-1 call with an advisor.
API for image processing and analysis in the cloud
Presumably at that point your general counsel will inform your defense counsel of the legal theory upon which he told you to "go for it", and you'll see whether it holds up at trial.
The wings were dictated by DoD requirements, and the size of the Shuttle almost doubled.

But the idea of putting it on the side of the fuel tank, where insulation could fall down and damage it -- that configuration predated the DoD-driven doubling in size.

See: http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttledecision/p219.gi...

It was already a bad design, it just got worse when the DoD got involved. It needed to be a lot smaller -- small enough to fit on top of the stack. And there was no need to risk astronauts' lives to launch payload -- use an unmanned launcher for that.
The coup was over and Greek military had already left when the invasion happened. It was simply an excuse..
OMG. Tried refining my search with the word agency and the sites that came up are even worse. How would I find these high end agencies in San Francisco? You would think they would have at least some Google presence.
Unfortunately, getting a lot of those stats requires the the app logs everyone's activity. I guess this is fine for a game client that needs to connect to a server to work anyway, but for an app whose main functions don't require internet access, most people probably wouldn't want to share the above stats.
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Wow you're right. Maybe I was their only customer!
> To be consistent between allocation and reallocation (like malloc() and realloc()).

Consistency is a tool that is often useful to promote program correctness. You're suggesting using it to accomplish the reverse.

If it's important aesthetically that all sds operations be consistent in this regard, you can structure the allocation interface in the same way:

sdserror sdsnew(sds*);

sds mystring = NULL;
sdsnew(&mystring, "Hello World!");

This is a common practice in relatively new interfaces like pthread_create.

> And you still want to access the old value if reallocation failed.

If you want to provide commit-or-rollback semantics, you could signal error via return value rather than by replacing s with NULL:

if (sdscat(&s,"Some more data") != SDS_SUCCESS) {
/* failure path; s is unchanged */
} else {
/* s now has "Some more data in it" */
}

but this may be completely useless, depending on the environment(s) in which the library or program is intended to be used. On 64-bit Linux systems with memory overcommit enabled (the default), this failure path essentially shouldn't ever happen. Instead, some process (maybe yours, maybe not) will be picked by the kernel OOM killer. Many programs just use an allocate-or-die interface, as the sds README mentions.
Accounting compliance is serious business, for the simple reason that when irregularities cause a company to restate its books and tens of millions of dollars just vanish, it can be very difficult to tell the difference between honest mistake and purposeful manipulation.

That said, there is a bit more to the story than revealed in the article. From what I can tell, the criminal charges and jail time was for income tax evasion in connection with the backdating of stock options: http://www.law360.com/articles/229277/ex-mercury-cfo-gets-4-.... Specifically, the process of her backdating her options resulted in her filing tax returns understating her income: http://www.justice.gov/usao/can/news/2010/2010_09_16_abrams.....
It's independent of the phone. So the phone just acts like a remote control
It's not that they don't know about the flaws; it's usually bureaucracy and compromises that lead to obviously broken features in products. That will take more than a 12 year old to fix.
Business Model Canvas- A Primer
I used Go quite a lot until version 1.0 got released.

You are not explaining nothing new to me.
Some similar work is in the very early stages for MMA. I won't say much more than that, but if you're interested and willing to live in the Washington, D.C. area, FightMetric is hiring.

Don't be fooled by the job title - I started here building Rails apps and wound up building things that are ... decidedly not Rails apps.

http://blog.fightmetric.com/2014/01/fightmetric-is-hiring-fu...
Can't you spoof using an emulator also?
Making sds a typedef for char* is very convenient. But it makes it very easy to pass an sds to a function that expects a C string without checking for null bytes.

Ruby, Java, Perl, PHP have all had security problems when interacting with C because they failed to properly distinguish binary-safe strings and C strings.

http://insecure.org/news/P55-07.txt
http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/626.html
You're totally correct that private interests can and do influence the political process!

One of the wonderful side effects of fishery privatization is the creation of a new lobby which does battle against the existing fish lobbies. See, the ultimate goal is to get less fish pulled from the ocean - at least in the short term until fish populations recover. So the fish lobbies are going to go absolutely insane! Imagine all of the out of work fishermen - and not only in Ireland, but Nigeria, Brazil, the Philippines, Indonesia: These are people who literally depend upon the overfishing and plundering of the ocean for their livelihoods.

These organizations (the fishermen, loosely) are already influencing the political process. They are one of the reasons why the current regulations utterly fail. [Remember: It's not as if we just noticed this overfishing problem yesterday. Governments have been trying to 'solve' this issue for decades using traditional statist regulations - and of course failing, predictably.]

We already know that privatization of food sources works in practice. All we've got to do is apply what works so incredibly well on land to the oceans.

Edit: Oh, and if the fish lobby gets the government to help with policing? That'd be great! [even if not ideal] Isn't the whole goal here to force 3rd world trawlers from pulling out too many fish? You're going to need a lot of guns to do that!

Edit2: We are completely fine with the government protecting private farms on land. What's wrong, philosophically, with government protection of private fisheries in the ocean?
Imagining Instagram In The 80s [video]
Or as the second comming of the 1983's game crash.
I found more info on the CFO here:
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2009/lr20964.htm

>Abrams [the CFO in Ben's article] Also to be Barred from Serving as an Officer and Director of a Public Company

I wonder what people who get caught up in these sort of things do afterwards?
Last time I checked standard cards were $34 and thick were $40. Now it looks like Standard cards are $40 and thick are $50.

So it seems that the price of business cards went up.
Um, hey, I'm the author of the paper. I'll check this thread again in a few hours, in case you have questions about it.
That's quite insulting. The trend for Germans to rent and not buy is a choice, not due to being too poor to afford a house.

They don't share the homeownership fever prevalent in the UK and USA. Germans (and the French) rent due to cultural reasons, it's not looked down upon at all, it's a pragmatic alternative and puts the renter on a much more equal footing with the landlord than in other countries (like the UK).

Of course this is all quite obvious by glancing at the rental prices in nice neighbourhoods in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Paris...
The linked blog talking about the "suspicious" rise of the game misses the appearance of flappy bird on Pewdiepie.

There's also a comment talking about how to monetise the game "properly" which gives advice about some reasonably ghastly monetisation techniques:

> At the very least he should have added a interstitial upon opening the game, and maybe one everytime the game becomes active. He should have included a retry button.

> There should have been a more games & free game button. He could have added a remove ads in-app purchase, and made it so that you can only get rid of the ads for ‘x’ amount of time before you have to buy again.

> He could have provided upgrades like buying shields and/or lifes so you can get further, getting rid of peoples frustration.
This is an excellent idea. So many companies either ignore PR or pay WAY too much for an out of touch agency. Looking forward to using the base plan!
I think Lob is awesome! I built my postcard sending service with it, postperfect.co.
Nepal President Offical Website Has Been Hacked By Dr.3v1l
I've been trying to think about "rethinking" government for quite a while. The idea of a web based governance system seems really appealing, in the sense that I think the greatest strength of the web is how quickly ideas can go from concept to execution. Its about the closest thing to a meritocracy as we've ever come, and that's simply because the gate keeper is thrown away. Think about how many great things have sprung out of places like Reddit. Ordinary people who have a quick flash of a good idea can take 30 minutes to type something up... and sometimes it gets traction. Getting things done in our current system requires an inhuman like persistence, and the luck of making a relevant connection. Even if you have a good idea, its a difficult thing to execute.

I have this image of a framework/protocol in my head around allowing various policies to be created, and built on top of each other. As a programmer I pretty much used object oriented programming as an inspiration. Though I guess even OOP had its inspiration from biology. Its a way for an organic system to grow and adapt robustly. I think just like computer programs, government needs that too.

Added to that, if the web has a decent self regulation mechanism, that makes the justification of regulating the web even harder.

The one problem is, the advantage "physical" governments have is they have sovereignty. If Amazon starts doing illegal things, the FBI can arrest Jeff Bezos. The internet doesn't have an equivlent means.

However I think there is away to have the essence of sovereignty, and that is through a new crypto-currency like bitcoin. Imagine if to be a part, and to receive the benefits of this online sovereign nation you had to register your receive address. If the sovereign entity had a way to embargo your ability to accept payments in the currency, it might be enough penalty to fall back inline with whatever regulations were created. I think it also provides another means to give legitamicy to a crypto-currency.

An example of something that would be cool is this. You want to create an open source space program, so you propose the idea on your local netizen forum. The idea has overwhelming support, so someone creates a new policy component, and gives permissions to suction tax funds. I can imagine something like that happening in hours. Imagine initiating a public effort going from idea to reality in hours.
What is described here doesn't sound strictly illegal.

It is my understanding that most of the options violations (of various forms) stem from not carrying the options as the liabilities they are. It was usually pricing them at zero cost until exercised as many companies did, or backdating them and drastically changing their value.
This is really cool, unlike other enterprise teleconference vendors, this is single fee up-front and free ongoing.

Can you chromecast to a chromebox? If so this can replace the crap load of Apple TVs we have at work, great for the 1/2 of folks that're on Thinkpads.

edit: missed "includes first year's $250 management & support fee"
Unfortunately, the solution "everyone just needs to be more like me" rarely works.
Autobahn's still help you get from A to B quickly if the distance is <250km...
Since the era of zoomable text on phones appears to be over, tablets have a bright future.
Yes, probably too difficult to move entirely, but you can build it off of the current web, and just migrate it over, or: You don't move a mountain, you move stones.
In performance critical nested loops, goto is the only way to exit early. A typical example here is performing a matrix multiply. In cases like this, it is absolutely necessary, because C doesn't provide a more granular 'break'.
Sony reportedly sold 4.2 million PS4s in 2013, over Microsoft's 3 million Xbox Ones.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is another victim of extremely stupid drug laws
Great, but any company big enough to be in the market for this should probably not be using Hangouts to hold meetings in.
Unrelated to the story, there is a dead comment on this thread.

It looks like it was written by a racist bot? What? Why is somebody paying money to do this?
Academics Launch Site to Share Papers and Datasets
1) Non edible fish don't really apply to this specific discussion.

2) If they decide to fish as fast as possible, then at least it's at least identical to the status quo :)

First, do no harm
quantum computing might become reality faster than you think. the next gen d-wave with 256 qubits has the potential find a commercial niche im super computing. they already have demos where a combo of d-wave and classical supercomputer can perform some annealing tasks much faster than classical only.
I'm serious about the 12-year-old point: that's not pejorative, I think that young people can sometimes be very good at identifying the problems that older people miss. Maybe youth has less to do with it than staying distant from convention, and having an imagination and attention for detail.

Sony will get so close at times, and then just... miss the mark. My super expensive ultraportable Vaio had some great ideas but a flimsy screen, bright aggressive LEDs, giant VAIO lettering all over, an awful out-of-box Crapware-Inside accept-these-license-terms experience, tragic speakers, a roaring-hot battery-draining graphics card, and a host of other little problems.
I played basketball for Gaddafi
First, when we started the company, Marc and I agreed that the company’s General Counsel would always report directly to me. This is different than in many technology companies where the General Counsel reports to the Chief Financial Officer.

This needs to be in bold 72-point font. Corporate behaviour aligns with corporate structure, and if the General Counsel is subordinate to the Chief Financial Officer, complying with the law will inevitably be secondary to making money.

If you want to avoid jail time, you should either have General Counsel reporting to the CEO or General Counsel / Chief Legal Officer appointed by and reporting to the board.
Apple eyes quantum dots for next phase of Retina display development
Apple drops top Bitcoin app from marketplace
Not sure if this is ARM Holdings Ltd specifically, but try this: https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded

"As part of its ongoing commitment to maintaining and enhancing GCC compiler support for the ARM architecture, ARM is maintaining a GNU toolchain with a GCC source branch targeted at Embedded ARM Processors, namely Cortex-R/Cortex-M processor families, covering Cortex-R4, Cortex-R5, Cortex-M0, Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4, and Cortex-M0+. As part of this, ARM will, at regular intervals, release binaries pre-built and tested from the ARM embedded branch. The improvements will be freely available for integration into 3rd party toolchains, and for direct download by end-users.

ARM employees are maintaining this project. Contributing to this project should be via GCC trunk http://gcc.gnu.org and binutils trunk http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/. This launchpad project is for communication and downloading. No code change is done in lp project."

Also! If you like building for ARM under gcc , you might get a kick out of my Virtual Development environment I created for it. It's intended for Cortex M4 CPUs, but probably works well for other ARM cores:

http://diydsp.com/livesite/pages/virtual_development
Ah, I suspect you're right. How is this solvable? Management engineering??
My point is about privatizing the free range salmon and has nothing to do with fish farms :)

Of course, PETA would undoubtedly find that even more offensive.
From the way they act, looks like modern banks get no marginal return from a client that just puts money in them. Instead, they are botlenecked by the amount of people they can lend to.

I have no idea if that's the real case, or just a bad case of the right hand not knowing what the left one is doing. If it real, I don't understand how it's even possible, since governments are all eager to get loans from anybody... But they do act as if it was true.
Intel layoffs
A little bird just told me:

"Intel is offering VSP(?) early retirement plans for close to 10K employees starting Feb 9. Employees are expected to be gone by April 1. Employees in India are exempt from VSP(?) plan.

Nearly 100% are USA employees:

Major effected Areas: OR, CA, AZ, CO, MA"
The town that's building life around sleep
Almost always, something like this just results in a civil investigation and monetary penalties if the SEC concludes you did something not-kosher. The criminal indictment for "Michelle" was for tax evasion linked to the back dating: http://ww2.cfo.com/accounting-tax/2008/04/mercury-interactiv.... In general, tax crimes require a high standard of "willful" violation in which the defendant purposefully violates a known legal obligation. A violation based on a good faith reliance on a reasonable (or sometimes even unreasonable) interpretation of the tax law will not meet the standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheek_v._United_States.
You can only comment on images that are explicitly uploaded to the gallery. This is an extra step after uploading an image. There are no commentable images on imgur that are not intended to be (reposting unsubmitted content aside).
They're not overselling their inventory, their purposefully throttling data from competitors to either a) extort more money from them or b) promote their own competing offerings.

Most in the US have no other options for high speed Internet access other than their local cable monopoly which is about as an extreme "lock in" as you can get.

Sure they're pissing people off but there is no alternative unless the FCC steps in and forces them into an "open carrier" model or at least some model other than what we have now which clearly isn't working.
2014 San Francisco Rent Forecast
because ... ?
I noticed that you send the "native threading" case through your library as well. Have you compared to just using "naive" Java - Threads and a BlockingQueue?

Also: if the Google patches for the user-mode threading are adopted, will Quasar have any advantages over a JVM that uses the same syscalls? Can you explain where this would come from?

I think what you've done is genuinely cool, I'm just trying to better understand what the 10x advantage actually comes from.
What's the point of governments attacking IRC? It's wide open for spying.
These guys have been working at this for almost a decade (maybe longer), and they finally got Office 2003 to work... year of the linux desktop cometh!

Guys, let's be honest here, even the "disastrous" Windows 8 in all of it's horror has sold more copies than OS X has since the very first OS X shipped.

ReactOS isn't going to make any meaningful impact on the average computer user's life.
Can't you only have like 8 people in the meeting or something?
The right time is a big key factor on successful apps.
Yeah, that's creepy as fuck.
Probably a month ago I noticed a dead comment that was a lot like that one. It was posted by some user with an account a good bit older than mine, which makes it fairly old at this point. The user's whole comment history was filled with comments exactly like that, many a day. Felt like peeking behind something I shouldn't have.

edit: yeah, that's the guy.
You can do better than Chromecast with the Chromebox setup, you can share your screen, window, or document, into the hangout so that all participants can see it. You can do this now with Hangouts, you don't need the Chromebox.

We use this at Google for all of our video conferencing, and have for years. It's very well battle tested.

Edit: It looks like there's a $250/year fee per Chromebox. I'm not sure if that's good or bad compared to other vendors. You can connect from your computer or phone for free though.
Is Alex still heading reactos?
Hands-on with Beep, a new wireless audio platform (photos)
Not free ongoing.

> Chromebox, plus everything you need for video meetings. Starting at $999.

> includes first year's $250 management & support fee

source: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/solutions/for...