skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be an opportunity for the antitrust agencies, to force Comcast to open up their network to the competition like Netflix. I would not be so pessimistic about the deal.
I am talking about providing exactly what the subpoena is asking for, complying both in letter and in spirit.

And transferring your coins to different keys.

The subpoena isn't "for all keys, and no using them on the blockchain". It's just for the data. There is no such thing as ownership of bitcoin.
Fuck stupid rules!
Skimmed the article and the comments, thought the app seemed like a cool idea. It was when the App Store couldn't find any results for 'Hueman' that it struck me; the whole point of the article! Ha. Damn it.
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Yeah - and I mean that its not being driven by the hardware folks, but in fact is a cultural phenomenon derived from the academia world and industrial world having different gears.

Yes, hardware is progressing (though we've reached a few limits) at an amazing pace - and we've pushed technology into quite a lot of cracks and crevices in the last 40 years (at least, thats as long as I've been in the computer scene) .. but what I observe is that, every 3 - 6 years, there are cycles of entropy and creation which are a result of the endless churn of 1. Industry -> 2. Academia -> GOTO 1.

Today's Rubyist is tomorrow's Cobol'er. It goes on and on, and this is - in my opinion - a people thing. Not a hardware thing.
What kind of limitations?

Everything you can do in Python, can be done in PHP too. For long running processes you can use libevent, and for threading (web server) you can use libcurl. You can write native C or C++ extensions for both Python and PHP. Facebook's HHVM PHP JIT VM is very scalable and there is PyPy (Python JIT).
I'm reasonably sure that bring is a typo for burn.

I mean yes, the way it was written is a valid sentence, but it's an odd one. Assuming a typo makes much more sense, especially with the concluding insult.
I agree and disagree here. Disagree because you need to master the rules before you break them. This is surprisingly true for most skills say Cooking, Novel writing, or Sketching. Though you might think that it is best to be completely creative and unconstrained, there are written or unwritten rules in every artistic endeavour which is inherent in the medium.

I agree with him that working on a project is often the best ways to learn a new skill. But for heaven sake, heed to what the experienced folk say and deliberate on whether to follow them or not.
Less wrong, but still off. The p-value is the probability of committing a type-1 error (false positive: we declare X to be president when he really isn't) given a sample and a null hypothesis. P-values are not the 'chances' of seeing the given data, it is a test-statistic that describe how reliable your probability estimates are for a given sample and null.
Technically it has to be applied at the edge; effectively where the end users are aggregated. It's not really feasible for transport networks to do anything like this.
The second is there's little/no business benefit to applying this to your own network. The benefits are enjoyed by other networks, your competitors.
Interesting. Then that would mean that not only iPhone will be affected by this. Would be nice to see the code.
Obama is the Smiler.
Now all the flappymmo author needs to do is have players controlling the pipes and have players controlling the birds.
So you are saying we should not trust Chris, instead we should trust you.

I would surely trust more if the private forum for Glass owners was not private at all, so that we could rely on hundreds of different experiences.

As for being in HN frontpage, good to see people are interested also on real life experience and disavantages of new tech.
As a counterpoint, there are very good engineering reasons for standardized code layout and enforcing const correctness.

They are there to optimize the use of the mental energy of the programmer.

Const correctness makes it much easier to read and reason code someone else has written. Or myself, months from now on.

Standardized code layout should be strict enough that you can identify scope at a glance when browsing through a 10 MLOC engineering CAD application and hunting for that one bug or strange call path.

But - these are necessary features for _production_ code. For _prototyping_ code you should optimize for maximal mutation rate and not necessarily legibility rate. Although the code should not be garbage (if you can't read it it's kinda worthless) strict conventions often hinder fast iteration and you should really figure out which ones are necessary constraints for the problem at hand and which are not.
The first one is a lawsuit against a college for referring a crime victim to the police. That's exactly the reason I'd avoid high-risk students - colleges are already being sued for not doing the job of other industries (police work, medical system, etc). Why bring on a student at high risk of needing special help from other industries?

The risk is not just losing millions, but also bad publicity and legal costs. Big organizations are extremely risk averse.
Actually I might say about someone who had a heart attack or cancer. A father whose doctor and family begged him to change his diet and exercise habits for years before his fatal heart attack, or a mother who continued smoking even after the cancer set in, for example. Yes, mental illness is very much like any other illness, and like any other illness it can often be prevented and managed through lifestyle changes under a doctor's direction. I'm with GP - with a few rare exceptions suicide is a purely selfish and preventable act.
&lt;span&gt; for your terminal
Tired of the boring white on black output of your terminal? Need a little more emphasis? Or maybe display some quotes that make you smile or inspired in your terminal? (We all know that a quote is not a quote if it's not in italics)
Well, those traveling to fight in Syria are (as I understand it) fighting alongside Al Queda and that's probably why they are being labeled terrorists in this case.
I think (Chrome & Firefox) you can use a content security policy to prevent JavaScript running from the address bar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy
It would be to take something like what the UK did - have an entity that doesnt own the network itself do the retail sales, and lease a portion of the network, or simply build multiple networks, its a much harder thing to do with cable than phones.
For one thing: kidney stone are a very common issue when ketosis is sustained for a long period.
That means that you always have ketonic bodies in your blood (checkable with a quick urine self-test), which may not be the case for many diets that are just low-carb and not strictly "keto".
You should get it working on Android -- but only so I can use it. In all seriousness, it looks like a great app, I'd keep appealing it.
>A scientist comes up with a test to determine if someone is the President.

It's a poor analogy, because it's not clear to people why such a test is "natural." It's not clear how your specific test could be broken in the peculiar way that it would have 99.999% chance to confirm that someone who isn't the president is indeed not the president.

And people would get caught up with what you mean by "If they are" and "If they are not," since it's not clear how you would know the error of your test without a real president around to identify.

False positives or false negatives are not at all intuitive to people who have never done experimental design. Most people would get stuck at percentages anyhow.
Okay, but what you said was that any time we don't act and can act we are operating "in sin", which leads to the conclusion that if we don't always act in the most optimal way for society, we're acting in sin.

So even if you didn't intend to, you just made all selfish acts sinful.
While they're at it why not arrest every musician, poet, and writer who ever penned dark or violent writing.
Authentication tokens should expire after first use; other sanity checks:

1. Tokens should expire after no more than five minutes.

2. Embed a 1-pixel image in an HTML-based e-mail also contains the token. When the e-mail is first opened, the server associates the IP address from the e-mail with the token. Only subsequent authentication requests for that token/IP address pair pass validation.

3. Log IP addresses used by an account. Additional new IP addresses outside the usual geographical area (GeoIP) should fail validation. This assumes that the first person to click the link is the intended recipient.

Any other ideas?
This was well written. It also sounds like suicide and I can't imagine how one must feel to do such a thing. But it reminds me that despite all cool toys and great achievements, what really matters in this life is others we can talk to and rely on. And this shouldn't only include friends and family but society as a whole.
If you want control over your own vision, you don't build for Apple iThings. You build for open platforms. Walled gardens are not for people with a vision that conflicts with the walled garden owner's.

Apple? Fuck them. Their "Eden" is a place without knowledge of sex, without knowledge of freedom, etc. And if you eat the forbidden fruit (jailbreak your device), then beware the consequences.
That's not what I'm saying at all (quite the opposite, I specifically said I don't doubt his experience). I also am glad that people voice their experiences good/bad with tech, that's what I'm basing my opinion on. My issue is not with anything Chris did, it's that any negative statement is amplified because it grabs attention and positive statements are generally 'boring' as news.

I do agree with your comment about the forum and I've lobbied for that to be opened up myself on numerous occasions. I think it's largely for legacy reasons at this point since people assumed their posts would be private it's tricky to make them more public than they had expected, but there are highly active communities on G+ that are public.
Project Canvas: a BMC inspired process for project communication
Does your local grocery store sell porn? Just saying, it's a company's store, if they want to have some sense of morale (and tbf, quality), it's their right to deny porn apps.
Given how it's (self-admitted) just two webviews and push notifications, a port should take just a week (if that) to build.
Nothing to hide – an HTML5 anti-stealth game
Wow, I didn't realise US police were that bad. After reading this I don't think I could ever feel safe enough to visit the US. Sounds like you'd have a better chance of getting justice in an African dictatorship where at least the dont-rape-me bribe would be affordable. Tourists really should be warned about this, because it's not the image the US tourist boards present to us at all.
Pinning is still a joke, years after multiple known instances of malicious certificates in the wild. When will Firefox actually implement pinning in the browser itself, instead of via some random add-on?

Supposedly Google pays Mozilla $300m/yr. If we can accept that astronomical number, then WTF happens to all that money? Trivial FF changes like moving tabs above the address bar. But useful improvements like pinning languish.
"I hope you give them hell you fucking prick"? I don't think so.

It's just a garden-variety wrong-word typo. I often make them, as do plenty of others.
So how's the Android version doing? Please tell me there is one. Because complaining about the walled garden and then ignoring the larger and more open platform, that's rather silly.
If they cared about that, I don't think they would be throttling Netflix.
Definitely yes. I worked in teams with 25 different nationalities and I loved it. Even every-day-stuff like buying groceries is possible without a single german word. Dealing with german authorities (immigration!) might not that easy, though (means long waiting times as they are short on english-speaking staff). Pro tip: if possible wait until april before moving to Berlin, winter is dark and cold ;).
Well, I've got the same idea about people who acknowledge every bleep and buzz their phone gives. I'd say it's the same thing, and notifications on the thing can be acknowledged or ignored.
How can one add "Python" to Google Trends?

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F060kv%2C%20%2F...

If I input e.g. "PHP" I can select "PHP (programming language)", but the search suggestions for "Python" make it impossible to add "Python" (the programming language) :(

Search suggestions are for me: Python molurus, Monty Python, Python reticulatus, Burmese python
Intrinsity did design, not process. They did some design work for Samsung around the A8/Snapdragon days. Shortly after that Apple acquired Intrinsity and brought them in house ala PA Semi.
Java Vulnerability Discovered by US CERT And Hackers
The second argument he's raising is that the novelty and thus the daily use has worn off.

What I gathered from the first users of Glass who said it was amazing... was also that they were the center of attention all day long, people interested in them and the device, wanting to touch it, etc. If that novelty's worn off, or if people get tired of the attention, I can imagine it's not that great a device anymore.
You have no definitive proof of that, and I think your assertion is as laughably specious as the prosecution's in this case.
Yes, making breaking changes in "stable" versions is no fun at all.
Yes & there is no doubt about it...
Why do you not support Firefox? WebRTC and WebAudio have hit Firefox stable. Do feature detection, not UA detection.
I thought Flappy Bird was hard until I play this game. Another FlappyBird variant that is also hard to play

http://roguelikegames.com/flappy-typing
Digital culture of a nation is fundamental for this to happen.
The day before yesterday a 14yo girl took her life here in Italy. She was being cyber-bullied by some other anonymous teenagers on her ask.fm page.
I think that's an unfortunate situation that relates more to child care than the Internet, and I know this single event can't be a case against anonymity. It's obviously not a case pro-anonymity either.

Try to explain that complexity to my 62yo father that gets angry because people are free to do what they want and be as mean as they can without facing any dire consequence because of the internet.

Journalists were not that good at explaining that IPs exist and those people who mocked the girl and told her to take her life will eventually be caught.

My father, like the majority of Italian people now gets the idea that ask.fm is a Wild West of anonymity where you can actually say whatever you want. Certainly, it's not that. Yet, it's not a place that "fosters" creativity.
3) Municipal fiber-optic lines that ISPs can lease access to in order to provide service to customers. Boom, no more monopolies.
I appreciate people sharing their stories about Apple's rejection motivations. This helps other developers to avoid doing the same "mistakes". But, isn't it against the TOS we agree on when joining the Apple Dev Program, to talk about rejection reasons and even cite the feedback mails? I was under this impression, can't say that I would be sad if I'm wrong.
That's just silly.

By that definition, Smalltalk is not a dynamic language: you cannot change the definition of assignment ( := ), message return ( ^ ) or the messenger itself. You also cannot change the the way the GC works.
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Is he charged with anything? I only saw a reference to a "terrorist threat", what kind of fucked up country is one that gets you ten years in jail for joking about committing a crime? Don't you actually have to commit the crime to go to prison, usually?
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia - fear these places.
The MagPi Raspberry Pi magazine releases volume 2
Native US English. "I hope you burn in hell" is normal. The comment as written, "I hope you bring in hell you fucking prick", is nonsense. If someone asked me what it meant, I'd be confused, but I wouldn't assume that "bring" was a typo for "burn".
iWatch territory.
Well nobody today thinks twice about posting something on the internet, especially youth, and while they should, it's still OK, because it's the way social messaging and posting works, and everybody else should be more or less OK with that too.

10 years for trolling is way over the top, just fine him already and let him go.
The link didn't work for me but I found the article here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57618750-92/mozilla-to-sell...
Well, not really, many people got mugged at stolen-cookie-point in the twentieth century too.
Most (not all) people who commit suicide aren't in their right minds and aren't thinking clearly. Denigrating it as being selfish misses the point of what's going on for the person.

it accomplishes nothing

It accomplishes nothing for you. For the person committing suicide, it frees them from significant pain of some sort. That might be psychological pain due to a disturbed mental state, but it's still pain.

Guilt is a hard one and you have to learn to deal with it and move on, but blaming the victim isn't going to help there.
Netflix and other services can throttle their subscribers, too. :D
South African bank trials bitcoin internally
There's a notable difference between writing a book and publishing an announcement that you're going to go on a killing spree. The former is relatively benign, the latter has far too often been done right before a killing spree. The former is done over time, in relative peace; the latter is done in the spur of the moment.

It's like writing the Anarchist's Cookbook about how to make a bomb, and writing a tweet about how you're going to plant a bomb in Boston in a couple minutes. The latter is a direct threat and requires immediate action. Most of the time, it's too late even for that.

Personally, this dude should've known better and restrain his impulsive internet lulz behavior.
I will make a chuck palahniuk app someday.
In my opinion they simply produce a better overall owner experience. All products/platforms have their warts, but warts and all, I find my life is easier and generally more pleasant when I use iphone instead of android and OS X instead of Windows or Linux for my desktop/laptops.
The ironic thing is that Apple is asking you to do something very Un-Apple. I imagine if you loaded the app up with "Share this with your friends!" kind of junk, they'd accept it.
Not sure why this article doesn't include a seemingly important detail, but it was widely reported that Justin ended his comments with "LOL" and "JK". Mens rea indeed.
This is not an isolated case either. I don't mean facebook-comment-wise, but rather wtf-wise. From Internet, through airports and car stops to interacting with random strangers. Lot's of horrific stories where you end up in the justice system, while done absolutely nothing that breaks the law or would endanger someone in any way.

But maybe because the US is so big it's bound to happen sometimes? I don't know, but USA is certainly not on my want-to-visit list (though it's on a wish-to-visit along with Pakistan).
It also reminds me of that episode of King of the Hill where Hank and his family join another church and they keep getting calls asking how satisfied they are on a scale of 1-10 XD
Outside the internet, death threats are serious business and usually a crime, regardless of whether you have the actual intent or ability to kill someone.

Likewise there's that tired old example of yelling fire in a crowded theater (though i don't think that applies here)
> The latter doesn't require the language to change; the language implementation has been around for years and now people started to do things outside the original norm.

No, but it certainly has pushed for decent dependency management systems, and has led to more complex libraries.
He also wrote for The Inquirer, and before that The Register, and before that ... some other print trade mag I can't recall. This goes back to the early 2000s when those papers actually broke stories and not press release. IIRC Semiaccurate is "his" project after leaving The Inquirer a couple years back. And yes, a lot of what Charlie Demerjian reports is rumors with a little corroboration. But that's why he scoops other sources by months.
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Frequentist approach would be to design an experiment, determine rules for interpreting data, and then consider the probability that the experiment lead to the correct conclusion.

In this case, the experiment is really "who is president?" and not "is person X president?" The "who is president?" question does not really have a null hypothesis, so it makes no sense to talk about p-values. Instead, we can talk about two different results: identified the president correctly, and identified the president incorrectly.

We then have to design the experiment in such a way that probabilities can be calculated. But this is not possible if you say the repeated experiment is testing a bunch of people to see if one is president--because the probability depends on who actually is president, and that's not known.

So you consider the experiment to be "the president goes about their business and ends up in some random place, we get amnesia, and then run the test." We can simulate this experiment because we can come up with some probability distribution for where the president is. We can't come up with a probability for who the president is, because that's unknown and either 0% or 100%--only Bayesians would let you do that.

Then you can choose the order of people to test to maximize the probability that the president will be identified correctly.

And then you say things like,

* The test had a 92% chance of succeeding.

* We only had to test 14 people, and in such cases, the test had a 98% chance of succeeding.
If the tool is just bad then there is no good reason to deal with the community.
World of Tanks, Python, Pickles, and Security
Wow, sounds like an exciting premise!
I think anyone agrees that this whole situation has been blown out of proportion on a massive scale. But threatening to shoot up a school, in the light of recent events... really? What if he actually DID shoot up a school, and afterwards people discovered that authorities WERE warned?

People need to realize that what you post on the internet can be interpreted different than what you actually meant. Besides, threatening with an act of terrorism is never funny, and always a bad idea. My El Al (Israeli airline) flight was delayed once because some prankster thought it was funny to say 'I have a bomb' to the flight attendant while boarding. He was thrown in jail and had to pay for delaying the flight.

In this case, the punishment doesn't fit the crime. I do wish people would think twice before making threats as a joke, though.
Not at all. Thousands of innocent people at sitting in our jails as we speak. Most of them will never be free. But that's beside the point.

He's not in prison, he's in jail, and there's a big difference.

Depending on the circumstances, you could sit in jail your whole life while you await some technical process to complete. You don't even have to be charged with anything.
> "We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value," to users, she said.

Nice bit of doublespeak there. Not showing me ads is valuable to me, you jerks.
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