skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's how you can tell if newspapers are objective or not: you don't hear much about him in "balanced sources of information"... and you definitely don't hear about his banner or car.

I don't have French TV here (or French newspapers) but judging from the little I can find on the Internet about this character, I'm not convinced much of his activities is particularly newsworthy.
For 1. Go here: https://getclef.com/developer/ it's in the middle of the page "Completely Free"

For 2. The App was free and I was able to use it free.

For 3. No idea :)
PIN is short (usually). Which means if somebody gets their hands on your phone, they need to only guess about 13 bits of information (for 4-digit PIN) to get access to every site you ever logged in with this phone. That provided they actually use the PIN to encrypt the data, not just to check access to it, in which case once somebody gets their hands on the phone, it's game over.
The US has invasion plans for every conceivable scenario, friend or foe.

As fascinating and as much as I like these topics, this is on Hacker News because....?
The code for this is impressive. 2131 characters total to establish a connection to a server, send back and forth game state, and then have an actual game on top of it.

As much as I despise trying to engineer large team projects in JS, this is a great example of what JS is good at.
Good way of putting it so that people can understand. Feynman was a scientist, not an engineer, so that's a clue that the Manhattan project involved science, not just engineering.

The same is true of fusion research. That's why it's "research", not merely "development".

In particular, the physics of plasma instabilities has always been quite imperfectly understood, and that has been one of the key problems with controlled fusion since the 1950s.
my understanding is that the TxID is a sha256 of the entire transaction, hence it would be feasibly and even rather simple to scan the blockchain for invalid transaction IDs.. however we would have no idea which ones could be attributed to mtgox
Worse, they all have different levels of acceptable surveillance. Many Americans think that the current spying is ok, many more think spying on all non-Americans is ok, many other Americans thing ANY spying is bad.

The vast majority of Americans could recognize that SOPA was just plain bad: bad for business, bad for users, bad for everybody.
> This is newsworthy despite "They didn't get more fusion power out than they put in with the laser"?

It's not newsworthy, but most reporters are not educated enough to tell the difference between a real breakthrough and a bogus press release.
Sounds like a 'needs more funding' article to me.
What you described is called Run In Crowd, except no constant tapping, but only when there is a ditch to fall through.
The douchiness of King's move is not in question. I'm just pointing out that, apart from generally being similarly evil, it's not at all related to the Scamperghost thing. We should be angry at King for two different ways in which they are evil, not two counts of the same thing. If anything, this makes them worse.
Seems like there is hope:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/possibl...
The cost of the B-2 Bomber program has cost as much as ~5 Large Hadron Colliders.

B-2 bomber program cost 44.75 billion[1] LHC cost ~7.5 Billion Euro ~9billion USD.[2]

[1] http://www.fas.org/man/gao/nsiad97181.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Cost
And if the media portrayed Africa as rich, prosperous, democratic Continent and Asia as a corrupted war zone with 30yrs + longevity rates, we would believe it too, right?
> As fascinating and as much as I like these topics...

From the guidelines: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Seems you answered your own question.
Can't tell him anything. He's dead.
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Starttls.info checks if a mail server allows transport encryption
Actually, it is just the opposite. According to wikipedia, SRP was carefully designed to avoid any current patents, and according to this stanford page[1], it is available commercially and non-commercially under a royalty-free license, along with a BSD-ish-licensed Open Source implementation.

[1] http://srp.stanford.edu/whatisit.html
Or, for that matter, Javascript, if you write it like this:

aRect.Draw({x:50, y:50, width:10, height:21})
On the subject of women who love passionate startup founders, did you see his previous vignette?

http://www.leveragedsellout.com/2014/01/the-founder-hounder/

/ducks
This is why you're silly. Because a post critical of Milton Friedman launches you into Leninist/Stalinist diatribe. There are more than 2 sides to an issue.
Amount of losses due to depositary institution failure since 1934:

$0.

This is a rather good record compared to bitcoin.
Totally agree.

Just so you know, the purpose of the NIF was for military testing right from the beginning. The reason it initially got funded (shortly after the end of the cold war) was to help with stockpile stewardship (making sure our aging weapons still work via simulation, without having to do actual weapon tests).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility#NIF_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockpile_Stewardship_and_Manag...
I can't thin of anything in English, but I'm reminded of this Russian word. http://betterthanenglish.com/stiob-russian/
Do not want to argue with the main thrust of your argument (because I agree with it), but at least part of the reason why people had an issue with the NIF as energy research, but less so as a nuclear test simulator is because the NIF as a device is pretty clearly designed to simulate nuclear detonations. If the problem is "you're wasting taxpayer money", the issue isn't the dollar amount spent, its the return on the money. As a science experiment, the return of the NIF is probably pretty crappy. As a nuclear arms tester, its almost invaluable (infinite return!!!) if you accept the dual propositions that America should obey its nuclear test treaties obligations, and that America gains significant benefits from maintaining their nuclear arsenal.

The NIF was clearly built to maintain America's nuclear arms capabilities, both in providing employment to nuclear physicists, as well as maintaining the viability of the current stockpile. It was practically transparent from the beginning.
That's not what was said. OP said it's not about fundamental science, which is somewhat true. Nuclear weapons research isn't fundamental, although it does require some fundamental research.
Thanks for the pointer here. Will explore it more closely.
Yeah, like from Red to Pink is all yours, and I take the truth.
Looks like reports of the Yutu rover's death were highly exaggerated
Google has achieved impressive accuracy for speech-to-text (especially for open-domain large vocabulary speech recognition).

If you use Google Web Speech though, you receive text and you still have to do NLP to "understand" the user intent. The other problem is, if Google does not know about specific words (like your company or product name), you have no way to customize the engine (no "Add to dictionary" entry point in the API!).
Kinda related, but I know there's a pretty decent-sized market for startups/companies/groceries that need barcode data for the entire universe of foods for their apps (Think MyFitnessPal). I know of someone making 6 figures a month selling this data (he makes 5 figures per sale on average), and he's probably one of the few reliable data suppliers.

So for anyone looking to get into this type of market, that's an idea for you.
I think the dropped punctuation isn't due to semi-literate people, but is due to pressure from them.

As a complete-sentence/full-punctuation texter who has been known to text a semicolon, I've noticed that most sloppy texters conform to my posture after about three texts, because they can tell that I'm not going to loosen up and drop punctuation and spelling, and they probably fear they'll be judged badly. The only people I know that don't adjust are the people that I know actually don't know how to spell or use punctuation well.

When the flexible adjusting texters text the semi-literate texters - if they start in a complete/full posture, I bet they adjust towards sloppiness (as I sometimes feel a pressure to in that situation) in order not to appear stuck-up or judgmental. Also, the first text is often a greeting, and formal greetings are not really a thing (at least in the US) anymore, so there's actually more leeway to start a conversation sloppily. Especially when it's a probe to see if someone is available ("hey"), rather than a fully formed idea. "Hey." seems a lot weirder in that context than "hey", because the word 'hey' isn't a sentence.

The pressure to not seem stuck up or mean might simply be more dominant amongst flexible texters than the fear of being judged. I think that says something nice about people.
What is the fuss with Reactive Cocoa?
The main issue is that the bar moves location. It's really jarring. It would be better if it just sprouted above the text I was editing, instead of flying in to position.

Other than that, great job, impressive work.
What do you suppose they hoped to convey to your brother with that statement?

It's quite possible that their experience with black guests was negative. But by telling your brother of those negative experiences (which he had no need to know), weren't they, at least in some sense, effectively differentiating themselves from another, negative category of blacks?
Sphinx is a bit too 1:1 - it only works as a single server, not a cluster.
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I don't feel like I've learned much about Go from this article.

make(chan bool, 1)

what is that 1 for? Why is it not using constructor sytnax shown earlier? (`Chan{bool}` or `BoolChan{1}`?)

`go function` is nice, but in ObjC there's `dispatch_async()` and `NSOperationQueue`. Go does some magic with green threads, segmented stacks and whatnot, but the article doesn't elaborate.

And for an Objective-C developer Go's lack of proper interoperability with Cocoa is disappointing:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6322194/cocoa-bindings-fo...

BTW:

(CGRect){0, 0, 320, 480}

is valid in ObjC (doesn't apply to classes though).
Your making a distinction that borders on sophistry. Certainly people have to play violins for them to be melodious, and others have to appreciate music and design. So Stradivari was also making "products" that "people" loved and bought.

If there's a real difference, it's the various technological and economic revolutions that make it possible to combine the efforts of thousands of individuals to work in concert to make things that millions if not billions can afford and use.

The iPhone I'm holding isn't the product of a lone, solitary master craftsman, but hundreds of master craftsmen and engineers who honed their discipline in many different fields. This would not be possible without a organizational structure (corporation) that incentivizes them to work together.
Asana employee here. We have 58 people, about 20 of which are engineers. Even just focusing on engineers, there's so much we'd like to do and growing the team enables us to work on more of those things. It took 3 engineers to build the recently launched calendar feature, for example. And then there are other product features, growth, mobile, platform, data, and a bunch of us working on infrastructure (from keeping the site running to making it fast).
You're bringing up spelling errors and things that have absolutely nothing to do with the argument that the article author presented. They don't mention improper spelling at all. They don't mention education or lack thereof.

They're specifically talking about whether or not "personality" should be shown through a message, and if it is or isn't, how it can be misconstrued. As in, to some people (contrary to your experience) seeing a full stop indicates formality, or anger, and to some people not using capitalization and not using punctuation infers a lack of professionalism.
> It’s oddly common to see people talk about how a programmer can pick up something new in the matter of a few days or months.

I see this and it bothers me as well. Sure, picking up new language syntax isn't that big of a deal, but to become reasonably proficient at solving problems with a programming language takes a huge investment of time and energy.
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Clapper Fear-Mongers Over Transparency
>In all honestly, I would say the U.S. is just about the least racist country on earth.

Even given the institutional racism evident in things like incarceration rates and educational outcomes?
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Not necessarily true.

A lot of great innovations have originated from military research. War necessitates innovation.

Not to say that we should just funnel everything into the military, but one should not underestimate its importance in the technological landscape.
http://jekyllrb.com/ maybe?
From my experience YES!

Before I start, I'd like to note that I am a young white, non-handicapped male.

Most of my participation in the shared economy comes from hitchhiking, and I've done a lot of it. Only once has a car stopped that had a black passenger in it. I don't think that black people are racist towards white hitchhikers, but I think there is a deep barrier of trust at issue. Black people do experience racism at so many levels of society, that when it comes to shearing excess resource with some white opportunists.. HELL NO!, I wouldn't do it.

I'm not saying that black drivers are racist towards white hitchhikers. I'm trying to demonstrate that there is a huge racial gap in our societal battery. White people are privilege enough to be able to trust a fellow citizen. Normally, experience tells black people not to.

ps. The same can be said about women, handicapped, and the homeless. But definitely the case of black discrimination is one of the most severe there.

pps. The pattern I described seems to brake with anarchist and charity groups. I've done food-not-bombs, homes-not-jails, occupy, and there blacks, whites, women, etc. participate together in a shared ecosystem. I wonder why?
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I think this is great. If only more people agreed on writing and maintaining markdown. Often it's the non-technical folks who are driving how a marketing site is run.
It goes both ways - they're still reaping the benefits of making it very easy to interface with low-level native code, too (plus sidestepping GC variability).
The B-2 Bomber is child's play compared to the F-35's 1 Trillion USD program [1], but the comparison to the LHC's pricetag really puts things in prespective.

1: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-lockheed-fighte...
Related Wikipedia page:

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

Also, if you find that interesting you might like the exercise "Operation Skyshield" that had UK nuclear bombers successfully penetrating US air defenses in the 1960s:

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

Edit:

Also, the book "What Ifs? of American History" has a scenario with the US going to war with the British Empire in 1896 - with the apt title of "The Whale Against the Wolf".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Ifs%3F_of_American_History
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The problem with sinking a lot of money into science is that it only pays dividends if solutions to the big problems actually exist. They may not. It may in fact not be possible to do better-than-breakeven fusion on a small (relative to a star) scale. The only way to find out for sure is the hard (and expensive) way.

By way of contrast, when it comes to military technology you're not competing with nature, only with other humans, and so a "solution" (if you'll excuse the irony) is almost certain to be found by one side or the other.
Its entirely possible to do both...
That's fair enough - I'm always happy to have descriptive methods names. I still want to know the compiler type of what I'm getting back though.
Wit and CMU Sphinx are friends with benefits :)

Wit leverages several speech engines, including Sphinx.

And Sphinx speech-to-text users can send text to Wit to do Natural Language Understanding (turn text into actionable data).
Having grown up in the UK, lived in many countries around the world, and now been in the US for 15 years I dispute that.

To fight anecdote with anecdote...

Moving from the UK to the US I was shocked by the pernicious levels of institutionalized racism and the undercurrent of subtle racism. It's everywhere.

There's certainly more of a veneer of tolerance here, which covers up a deep seated pathological racism, which is missing in parts of Europe, so when you experience racism in Europe it's more blatant and obvious.

What you do get a lot in Europe is a lot of discomfort with the muslim minorities - whether white, or of color - which is often falsely equated with racism (because racists are often also Islamophobic too). However it's a mistake to conflate the two. With the religious issues it's mostly a stance on the totalitarian nature of the religion and the cultural practices that adherents look to bring, which are often incompatible with accepted norms and values in those countries (particularly regarding the treatment of women).
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> When you think about it, most of the internet depends on open source software built by "us".

I wonder whether that could be a possible "fix" to get companies to push back harder against the government. If the various OSS licenses were amended to include a clause that forbade the use of the software to aid government surveillance, it would force providers to choose between continuing to leverage open source software and continuing to cooperate with the government.
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Ian contributed a huge amount to the python world, both in code and in general community presence. But I can easily imagine him contributing just as much, or more, to Javascript. Good luck to him!
Show HN: Why you should be recognized as an expert on Africa (and not others)
Seems like his article is way over your head. The issue is not whether or not lavabit could circumvent their own system and decrypt the emails stored on their server. With less than 5 lines of code they could grab Snowden's password the next time he logged in.

The decision to shut down lavabit was purely financial. He bet that he would make more money (via donations) by shutting down the service than he would if he kept it running. So he shut it down. It was always about the money.
Fastmail having issues with at least one server
One of the proposed drives for the Daedalus starship design involved laser fusion. The pellet would detonate and would push against a magnetic nozzle to produce thrust, like the Orion nuclear craft, but more efficient. Also, the expanding magnetic fields could cause induced currents in networks of wires designed to capture energy, powering the ship and the next detonation.
It is interesting, I experienced a similar feeling to:

I don’t want to get caught up in the weeds again, building tools for something I never manage to make.

when moving away from PHP as my first language to master. I built large swaths of library code for projects that I was going to build - from encryption code to a diffing algorithm, a full-featured ORM and more. I did learn a ton along the way - the most useful being the protocols, algorithms and other things I interacted with in PHP.

However, I ended up moving to other languages for what I was "making". First using Python, but now also venturing into native development using C. I guess part of it was wanting to not have limitations on what I could build. PHP was limiting in dealing with crappy hosts, Python less so, but the sky is the limit with C.
I also went and tested it.

Baseline JSON:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JSON
packTime 0.612724065781 s - 163205.601975 items/s
unpackTime 0.782174110413 s - 127848.772631 items/s
size 174.26637

Baseline cPickle, ascii protocol:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cPickle
packTime 2.41442704201 s - 41417.6938297 items/s
unpackTime 0.875658035278 s - 114199.831408 items/s
size 286.26637

cPickle, highest protocol:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cPickleHP
packTime 1.02942800522 s - 97141.3245929 items/s
unpackTime 0.583297967911 s - 171438.965162 items/s
size 198.26637

For giggles, I evened the playing field and let cPickle at the same data structure as JSON, ascii protocol and highest protocol:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cPickleJsonData
packTime 0.642832040787 s - 155561.629874 items/s
unpackTime 0.478959083557 s - 208786.101847 items/s
size 205.53356

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cPickleHPjsonData
packTime 0.285845041275 s - 349839.897708 items/s
unpackTime 0.340456962585 s - 293722.881273 items/s
size 175.26637

My conclusions? Serializing dictionaries is easier than serializing objects, and using a non-ascii protocol offers some obvious benefits. JSON is not obviously better than cPickle when comparing apples to apples.

It's also worth noting that comparing the json module to the pure python Pickle module isn't a fair fight either; json is at least partially written in C.
Yeah... I see no benefit in those, having a few more colliders instead would be really great.

Or just start building the next version already!
You mistake my point -- the nature of the work Feynman did at Los Alamos was different than the nature of the work he did at the Institute for Advanced Study. All of the work was science, but at Los Alamos the target was a working bomb, at Princeton it was a deeper and more fundamental understanding of nature, and thus criteria for judging is different.

The Manhattan Project can be judged by the simple question, is there a working bomb? Evaluating basic research is much harder.
I'm not sure what your point is, other than trolling. I'll leave you to it.
It fits great on an iPhone.
A protein that could destroy all men on Earth
The flip-flop comes from mainstream media interpretation of the science, usually not from the people that are part of the missions. Even the "science journalists" that are attached to bigger missions frequently dramatize findings in order to "make it a compelling story" (source: one of my exes was such a journalist.)

> either went hugely under-budget on their Mars' missions or they spread themselves too thin

I think that is a misread of the situation; the lack of a consistent narrative and publicity across NASA and its missions has more to do with the organizational structure of the PR and public education/outreach within NASA than the science or the mission management itself.