skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BBC can not show the majority of their content on the iPlayer because the rights owners won't let them without DRM.

The BBC needs DRM to be able to give us that content.
Don't see any mention about encryption on the page.
Or are you suggesting that it can be done manually by user?
They currently are leaving it, there is a lot of content I can't get through a web browser that I can through a native app or through a plugin player.
It is unfortunate that they ask you to "confirm having read and fully understood the hubiC General Terms and Conditions (sic)" in English, but then present the terms and conditions in French. Absolutely nothing against the French language, but there's a clear disconnect there.

Hey ho, it's not like I read them anyway!
It has a hard time with phrases like "I want to do X so bad"...

http://www.etcml.com/jobs/8354
There's no shortage of people smart enough and willing to become JIT ARM superhackers.
This just goes to show how asymmetrical Afghanistan and Iraq are in terms of war. We just don't know what is like to be on the receiving end of war.

Think about it: an Australian soldier in Afghanistan has made a choice (maybe forced by her economic condition, sure) to risk her life in Afghanistan. Afghan civilians didn't really have that choice.

The estimates for civilian deaths in Iraq are above 100k, around 20k for Afghanistan and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight for this quagmire the US has put themselves in, so I really don't know what you mean by not a particularly difficult war.
Kiiroo Online Social Interaction with Tactile Sensation
Close to over a decade now, the world seems to have taken this magical leap into the social era of interaction which happens to be one of the biggest advantages of going online. Social media has indeed been a benchmark in globalising the world by bringing individuals from across the planet together within a few clicks here and there.
I partially agree with you in the sense that we don't need new network with p2p or self-hosted solutions, but need stable distributed applications. How?

I cannot agree with you to realize it via data redundancy and replication. The way you mentioned is just what Google is doing right now, which is not true distributed computing. Google's architecture relies on replicating services across many different machines to achieve distributed computing/storage and fault-tolerance across the world. See the reference here:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

The real distributed computing solution for providing a well-organized web has been proposed to build a layer on top of the existing physical infrastructure of the internet to present the web in a de-centralized manner under a systematic way. http://bit.ly/MwT4rx
https://hubic.com/en/data-security

It's marketing but...
"""
Only you can access and share the contents of your hubiC space using your username and password. You are also solely responsible for the content you place on hubiC and share with your contacts. As the OVH servers are installed on French soil, the hubiC service is subject to French legislation, which is particularly demanding in terms of personal data protection and respect for privacy. So, unlike many online storage providers that use machines located on US territory, hubiC does not fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Patriot Act, which authorises the security services to access any computerised data held by individuals and businesses, without obtaining prior authorisation and without informing users.
"""
French/Euro laws are fairly good iirc. (feel free to check yourself) and companies generally follow them.

Interestingly I lived near Roubaix for a while and never noticed a data center :)

Edit: from my not so great French (reading the terms): They are responsible for security, everything SSL, privacy respected, won't hinder you if you want to move your data
[IANAL but looks like a fairly standard French legal IT document...at least it is similarly structure like my work contract was]
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It makes sense to put pricing on your front page if and only if pricing is a feature.
Super hexagon is pretty much the only game I play on my phone. Terry Cavanaugh is an evil genius.
The stats can include how many average push notifications they send over a time. If they send a lot, but you keep the app installed for a long time then you like the push notifications and that would show in the stats.
That's a shame. Probably, the problem is that they are idiots. Rule 1: never ever fire a person without speaking with the person first an let him know what is wrong, give them a chance to explain themselves or to change the way they behave.

Two weeks is a very small period to train a person unless they were expecting (or your mislead them without intent) you to be an expert in the technology or similar and work from day one.

Or maybe they have found "a friend" and they prefer to hire another people and they have simply told you a lie. You will never know so don't let this affect you.
If you open offices in the UK, let me know...
"easy to debug as a segfault would"

I'm on a weird embedded platform where segfaults are almost impossible to debug; the only way to get information out is a log facility over USB that loses the most recent lines of log when it segfaults and resets :(
Congrats, we're a customer and we're approaching 10K builds...
If you think that is bad then consider WW1 - UK 995,939 deaths, France 1,697,800. No wonder people here were rather skeptical about another war.

On the subject of Soviet deaths though - my father, who served in the RAF during WW2, always said if I asked who beat the Nazis that it had been "the Soviet people". The suffering that country had to endure in the 20th century is staggering - WW1, the Revolution and Civil War, the famines and purges of the 30s and then WW2...
For starters - it's _huge_
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Promises do not leak memory.
This is unfortunately not true. Great Britian declared war on Germany, but provided none support to Poland. This was also the case during the Warsaw Uprising. After the war has ended Poland has been sold by under the Russian occupacion. The polish fighter squadrons that took part in the battle of britain were not even allowed to join the wining parade. They were sent home to what was now considered an enemy state. The Brits may have done a lot of things, but most certailny not the right thing.
Not a long time ago, similar youtube video with Russian subtitles appeared with a phone conversation of a Lithuanian (where I'm from) ambassador in Azerbaijan having a conversation with another official.
This was as well with a goal to discredit Eastern Partnership (a cooperation agreement between the EU and several post soviet states).

One of the conclusions: diplomatic lines in many countries close to Russia are tapped by Russians. Ironic that Snowden is taking refuge in a country which has even less regard for privacy than the US. Not saying he had a choice..

On another note, not completely clear from the audio why the US diplomat is saying 'fuck the EU'. Wouldn't be surprised that EU is not being effective in making hard decisions in helping solve the Ukraine crisis.. causing disappointment among US diplomats. EU should be taking the lead in this IMO, but it's possible it's hugely ineffective due to lack of power (EU is not a state, it has to get a mandate to do things from member countries).

It's just a speculation, however.
Hmmm. I talked with a taxi driver in Dublin last year. His friend was in the IT business. The friend said that couldn't find enough experienced developers. Well, they were there, but they were asking for too much money.
I really didn't see much of the point in tablets.

They're too big to be properly portable like a phone, needing some kind of case or bag, but lack the OS, real keyboard, and general power of a laptop. Being stuck between the two doesn't seem appealing even without their general lack of mobile data capability.
Do you know if it works on ARM? I'd be interested in running this on my network harddrive enclosure or perhaps a raspberry pi.
I think you're exactly right about the options. If you see blatant criminals living much more comfortably than you, you don't see any of your peers succeeding via other routes, and jail doesn't seem that much worse than your normal existence, then it actually seems pretty rational to try your hand at crime.
If you get publicly caught bugging world leaders like Germany's Merkel, it's open season on your own diplomats.
Is wanting both unreasonable? I didn't think so.
The problem with that assumption is that it's very domain specific. While all good developers of web apps definitely know HTML and JS, there are a lot of fantastic programmers who have never touched it. The world of software is much, much bigger than just web apps.
Out of curiosity, what are the favored money laundering methods of modern day? More creative/impressive one you've heard of?
"Even" the guy who stole from his business partner and supposed friend? The fact that Jobs was doing something isn't much argument that it was legal or right.
There are 100s of flash games that are the same as what this game looks to be (but with various different kinds of characters like a helicopter, a flying dude, ...). How can this game be noteworthy?
Value of education depends a great lot on other aspects of personality and circumstances and at least to me, is not undeniable (while for most people, it has some value).

Education gets you some extra miles in the low-middle class range, like, you are more likely to get to mid-middle class if you were low-middle without it. It won't save you from poverty, and it won't make you rich. None of the moderately rich/high middle class people i know are well-educated. If they have anything in common then it's that they are smart and sociopathic.

Education itself even doesn't much improve chances to get a good career as an employee, most Ph.D. and MBAs i know are wasting their time doing mundane pseudo-intellectual work for meager pay. While i know senior and top management in large and powerful corporations, earning ca. million a year, without any business or economic degrees (one of them has a programmer diploma by the way). Just people who have a habit of getting work done, reliable and proactive. Be like that and nobody will ask you which school have you finished.

Proof: median income of a Ph.D. is not even 2x the median income of an American in general.

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm

And Ph.D. are a high elite when an education attainment in concerned, under 50,000 are graduated each year, compared to 4.1 million Americans reaching age of 25 each year. So Ph.D.s are top 1.2% and getting under 2x as much as median. Top 1% population gets 1.6 million a year on average compared to under 50k median - a difference of about 30x. Even if you compare thresholds it is over 10x. So an highly elite education does not get you into a highly elite social class, or does not get you even a marginally comfortable life. It definitely gets you SOMEWHERE, but probably to a very, very low degree (difference is not even 2x if you remember that an average guy is mentally incapable of becoming a Ph.D. - he is just plain too dumb. so if someone capable of making it did something else instead he will anyways earn somewhat more than median guy will, it is impossible to tell how much more, but somewhat more for sure). In my opinion it is 1.5x difference max.
Yes, in fact at my current company analysts have to work with them almost daily.
Two weeks is still far, far too soon to be making any kind of decision like this. Two weeks in you're still working out which way is up.

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/ninety-days/
A rare glimpse at the geopolitical game that is played behind the scenes every day.
Not sure why the downvotes here! It isn't an anti-Apple rant, it's true! My day job involves writing OSX software on a Mac Pro and at home my only machine is a MacBook Pro, where I funnily enough write OSX software!
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That is because to my knowledge we does not have something like "crealloc" to grow allocated memory effectively. Naive implementation of such function will lead always to coping memory from old to new area and effective would far more difficult to implement (thus more error prone IMHO).
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In your experience are bfs and samba really slow on a virtual network? I have trouble imagining that it would sliw things down enough to be a problem.
What is FERRETCANNON?
I've stayed away from MtGox due to their issues w/ fiat transfers from last year (which seem to be ongoing), however, technical problems aren't a new thing for them over the years. I've heard not so great things about the technical underpinnings of their custom Bitcoin protocol implementation.

Here's a discussion from r/bitcoin that talks about how their implementation is out of spec, as well as some of the long-running bugs they have w/ unconfirmed coins, etc: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x91xq/mtgox_announ...

and details on what may be the actual bug w/ their bitcoin_tx implementation:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x91xq/mtgox_announ...

When I got back into bitcoin recently, I tried signing up w/ a bunch of exchanges, but ended up using Coinbase and have been pretty happy with them. I've still been transferring coins into my own cold wallets though. The whole point of Bitcoin is that you don't need to introduce counterparty risk by having someone else hold your money.
The other day, I was talking to a friend in England and the topic of The Second came up. I told her that even though I have no first hand knowledge, I still find it deeply, deeply disturbing and humbling to ponder what happened during that time.

She offered words of consolation: 'Well, but that really was a long time ago.' - 'Maybe, but all those people are still dead.'

I refuse to find closure with that part of my countries' history. The least I can do is be eternally sad about what my country has done to the world.

Thank you to the OP and thank you for sharing those links. They have reminded me once again to stay deeply disturbed and humbled.
Seems to be based on OpenStack [1] Storage [2].
That means any client that supports OpenStack (and Rackspace Cloud Files [3], for that matter) like Cyberduck [4] and a lot more should already be compatible with hubiC.

[1] http://www.openstack.org/

[2] https://api.hubic.com/

[3] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/openstack

[4] http://cyberduck.ch
Tell me where to apply for a job that will hire a competent programmer for 80k and I'll split my income with you if I get a job in a month.
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That's refreshing to hear that outside silicon valley that the salaries are at least comparable to here in Europe. I feel very short changed reading this site and seeing what the average US developer seems to earn.

Cost of living must be a big one. I released that with different tax rates I would need to add around 50% extra onto my Spanish salary to make a move to Germany worthwhile.
Apple is keeping the entire space pure for Dogecoin apps.
Oof. Have you read the accounts of the Cuban Missile Crisis? The cases where people were ordered to fire their missiles by faulty warning systems but refused and got canned, or where 2/3 keyholders on a boomer wanted to fire their payloads and it was down to the last man who refused? I don't think you should be so blasé about our history with nukes as though it was always a paper tiger. Human civilization came extremely close to destruction at least a few times, and it came down to a few individuals that talked others down. It could have very easily gone the other way.

I highly recommend you read Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy for a largely first hand account, parts of it are chilling.
Does anyone know if HubiC supports file versioning, like Dropbox? Or will older revisions be lost when a file is changed?
There is no shame in having a failed startup. There is no shame in being between things. You just need to get out and talk to people. Let inspiration find you.
Thank you for sharing. Care to elaborate? — industry sector, company size, type of analysis...
What would be cool is <script sha="2afdb28d" name="angular.js" version="1.2.10" src="xxx"></script>

This would mean that browser can essentially cache the exact version of the script from any source, verify it with a hash, and still have a fallback URL to download it from.
Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call
I agree. I work as the database developer for a scientific institute. I occasionally do something smart and my team leader says, maybe you could write it up and get a paper out of it. I am not in research, what use is (another) paper to me? A payrise would be appreciated.
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At first I was hesitant to submit it, but then saw that there are quite a few relevant aspects to this:

1. If the US state department can't keep its communications secure, how are we supposed to do it with the communications between our web services and customers?

2. Russia is using a very smart "marketing" tactic to discredit the US: Instead of making stuff up, they leak uncomfortable parts of the truth to the public. They have been doing so for quite some time now, though most of it remained below the radar.

3. Even though many of us (here in Europe) have been led that we're equal to the US and its citizens, these things serve as a reminder that Europe has yet to assert itself on the international stage (and in the digital realm for that matter, see the state of the startup scene in Europe).
It's not necessary and we didn't go out of our way to get it. We just happened "for free" as a result of writing portable code, a clean client-server architecture and the appearance of the boot2docker project in the community.
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In a now deleted comment somebody claimed that this info didn't contribute much. After all, this isn't reddit. However, while I was at first hesitant to submit it, there are IMO a few aspects to this that are relevant to the HN community specifically:

1. If the US state department can't keep its communications secure, how are we supposed to do it with the communications between our web services and customers?

2. Russia is using a very smart "marketing" tactic to discredit the US: Instead of making stuff up, they leak uncomfortable parts of the truth to the public. They have been doing so for quite some time now, though most of it remained below the radar.

3. Even though many of us (here in Europe) have been led that we're equal to the US and its citizens, these things serve as a reminder that the EU-Europe has yet to assert itself on the international stage (and in the digital realm for that matter, see the state of the startup scene in Europe).
I hope I don't have to worry about Apple remotely deleting my wallet app. I swear, the control freak approach of Apple pisses me off more than anything.
Sites for finding roommates in SF
Young professional in the tech industry planning a move up to SF from MV in the near future, looking to pick up a roommate so that I can find a place that I can afford in a quieter neighborhood.

Willing to pay a fair amount, but am having trouble finding roommates except via craigslist.

Are there any sites out there that exist to match people in the hacker community with others who might want to room with them?
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According to the website, they store copies in 3 different locations.

> Data is copied in 3 seperate datacentres in France.
I think the point is that you can't trust third party encryption/privacy statements anyway. If you really care about your privacy you should encrypt your files on your side. There are plenty of solutions to do just that.

Everything else is the equivalent of the "do not track" header, security through homeopathy.
But then they are not loaded in sync. That's not the purpose here.
Works for some situations.
The Linux client requires mono 2.10+, so I assume this is something written in .NET.
Sounds like we're orbiting back to the travel agent model...
Flappy bird is already a clone itself so they were there even before. And there are also similar games that are really polished and beautiful (like Badland with its great story and graphics). Flappy bird is a fluke (regarding popularity), I think. Being free definitely helped them too.
never ever forget about the flu. Many role of it. So it is probably the third in the list.
Plus your own 1 or more copies of the data
I wonder if hubiC uses deduplication across accounts like dropbox does.
I wonder if there are any public APIs for those "TSDB, TIDE, CLASS, KSTF, TECS, IBIS, TUSCAN, TACTICS" etc. databases. Would be interesting to look at the data.
What are the acronyms?

select * from TUSCAN.Errorists;
So what? Anyone with a brain knows the media does this thing called "sensationalism" and does not accurately reflect reality.
It always perplexed me as to why economies - even prosperous ones with plenty of resources and manpower - always under-prosecuted hyper-violent mafias, drug cartels, international arms dealers and other crime rings that ran up body counts by the hundreds and thousands, each year.

Is it because, if ghastly criminals don't hit the headlines frequently enough and at regular intervals, the ruse for tighter criminal enforcement in the form of improved convict-prosecution machinery and technology[1], bigger police forces and larger prisons would go away?

In general, the case for a very vast and well-lobbied-for penal industrial complex would go away?

Is that why?

The people making fortunes out of these things, really can't be that base and venal. Can they?

[1] The armored vehicles used in the post-bombing manhunt of the

Tsarnaev brothers is but a trivial example. Surely there local

law enforcement forces across the nation have more substantial

technological wares at their disposal.

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2013/04/29/manhunt-2

http://media.wbur.org/wordpress/9/files/2013/04/AP1280555201...

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"Check for NULL at beginning of function or blocks which are dereferencing pointers to dynamically allocated memory"

I really strongly disagree with this. Better for it to crash if you expect this memory to always have been allocated. This way you can fix your bug instead of putting your app into some potentially unexpected state... if allocations fail it doesn't make sense to just 'carry on anyway' in many situations.
You are wrong (no citation needed either).

On the other hand, the apple store is complete joke. IDK how anyone can use a store where such basic application like bitcoin wallet is missing.
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Remember when Georgia attacked Southern Osetia night before China Olympics?

Our western friends are more delicate this time.
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That's not true at all. This is a federal system, and she probably plead guilty because her choices probably were plead guilty and get 3 months in jail or plead innocent, go to trial, and get 20 years. The federal system is beyond fucked up, and they are making it worse every year.
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Noted, thanks, failed allocation is definitely good candidate for fail fast scenario.
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