skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have thought about pulling stake and going to another country because of the privacy (or lack there of) issues in the US.

The growing number of police brutality incidents aren't helping either.

Clearly the Fed believes that they can create a police state and no one will notice if they simultaneously let the populous get high at the same time.

I really expected riots in the streets over Snowden. I thought "The day we fight back" would have more participants.

If I didn't have family here I'd have left by now.

Am I the only one who thinks this way?
I created an example app using our embedded JSON sync database. Maybe someone would find this as a good introduction to data-driven apps on PhoneGap.

http://docs.couchbase.com/couchbase-lite/cbl-phonegap/
> Do people really know the difference between weather and climate?

In the UK, people worry about the climate and moan about the weather.
Yes, I maintain Fedora and Debian packages for my upstream project (I'm not a Debian developer - I pass my package to a sponsor).

Debian is much harder to get right, though I do have more experience maintaining Fedora systems. The Debian packaging process seems an order of magnitude more difficult to get right, mainly because of the magic documented in various scattered documents and the many different build systems. I've yet to find a good document explaining how all this stuff interacts with each other. rpmbuild is much more conceptually easy to understand for me.

You also have more boilerplate documents (e.g. copyright), that Fedora doesn't care about. Fedora also has a nice system where you can get builds done on a server with various architectures and for different releases.
Free wifi.
Complex dynamics 101: life is a complex dynamical system. If the math of chaos is wrong, the processes underlying life would not operate as they do. Life would not exist as we observe it.

Also, your iPad would not work. As I said, QED. This is not controversial.
I think the three points you raised are about how the company was built.

For entrepeneurs, it's good to study success stories, but it's sort of like the comment below saying that "J2ME is how it was built, it's not really the story." Knowing how WhatsApp was built gives some clue as to how it reached success, but doesn't fully explain why the value is so high.

The article is right- it "reached the middle billion" of people who spend $10/day and don't have a smartphone.

Here's a really interesting question: how many of WhatsApp's customers overlap with Facebook's? For the ones that do overlap, what are their usage patterns (i.e. which service do they use more)?
Anyone with this problem is most likely working on a horrible monolith. You have far too much nesting and you're simply hiding the symptoms of a greater problem. Flat > nested. Simple > complex. Law of demeter also applies to reaching and in/out of folders. Break your app into more smaller modules rather than sweeping your mess under the rug.
Why you should do each thing as if you're doing nothing else.
Maduro was Chavez's chosen successor. Elections in Venezuela aren't "democratic" by any normal definition of the term: the government controls all media outlets and suppresses campaign ads from opposition parties, nationalizes huge chunks of the economy and turns employees working in those areas into public sector employees who are required to vote for the incumbent, further buys hundreds of thousands of votes with giveaways, and withholds police protection from areas that support opponents in what has become one of the most violent countries in the western hemisphere.

Maduro is a strongman out of central casting.

Not for nothing, but the notion that the opposition is calling for violence has been reported as Maduro propaganda:

A campaign started the day after the election to accuse members of the opposition of inciting violence. The word went out that nine people had been killed by opposition members on election day, and several voting stations set on fire. (There had in fact been angry confrontations between supporters of both sides, but the government has yet to provide evidence of politically-related arson or homicides in addition to the average of nine people who are murdered every day in Caracas.)

In any event, the new epithet for Capriles and his followers is “murderers,” a serious charge and a political mistake, considering that they represent half of the electorate.

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/may/08/chavismo-af...
On Jim
"Our new paper... reviews 20 testable predictions of Orch OR published in 1998 – of these, six are confirmed and none refuted."

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-quantum-vibrations-mi...
I would think you are responding to a sarcastic comment.
I don't know about the Ukrainian opposition but Putin is pretty evil. And many people who live in countries that used to be a part of the eastern block understand very well why you do not want to find yourself in Kremlin's orbit.
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From foodstamps to whatsapp billions
"Google turned me down" (2008)

(have been calling me back in since 2012. Haven't gone (yet). Currently laughing all the way to the bank NOT rendering ads in every place imaginable).
Tesla really doesn't need the money that Apple would have to pay, either on a company function or executive compensation level.

What Apple could do (and with this much slush in their fund should do), is greenlight a division to go head-to-head against Tesla. The market's already been validated, and there is likely very little Tesla could do to keep Apple out. Apple could buy the automaker (or auto parts suppliers) of their choice to shorten their learning curve.

Now if we get a spinning rainbow ball on the door when you hit unlock on the remote, I'll take what I said back.
It is really time for a big push in the United States to get Internet Access declared a Public Utility.
I've been using DDG for a few years now. I recommend it to anyone who will listen, and really hope they continue to grow. It's been fascinating to watch Google copy their zero-click results.
Yeah, fair enough. I think that is the worst case situation, because people won't pay enough attention (so to allow it the pilot has to be good enough to anyway work/license/stand up to liability alone).
You are conflating "illegal" with "immoral", which is perhaps the most dangerous and most common political fallacy today.

Laws can be changed, sometimes arbitrarily or to serve corrupt interests. If your morality changes with the laws your politicians impose upon you then you are little more than a serf.
Have any of those libraries been audited so far? Seems like a necessary step for widespread js crypto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner
seen a lot of these, but this is actually interesting for a change... not just a copy of something we did 15 years ago on ancient hardware.

the simulation using renderbuffers and float textures is cool - although the method used is ancient unexciting technology (see the water effect in winamp avs which uses the same trick in software 15 years ago) it makes sense from the webdev perspective of 'javascript is damned slow' - infact probably far too slow to do even attempt to do this CPU side.

the caustics are much more interesting though - firstly because i didn't know the trick already or re-invent it during my career or even know about the OpenGL ES extension that makes it practical (which is very very old on Desktop and very generally useful).

its always cool to see some raytracing logic applied with some cleverness applied to get some more mileage out of it at real time...
After living in Stuttgart for the last 5 years, I can tell that these stereotypes describe some Germans perfectly well but the important thing here is those account for less than 1% of the population.

The remaining 99%? Those are these very friendly people who have this amazing ability to be relaxed and efficient at the same time.
HubSpot and Happier alum Yoav Shapira joins Jana to help fight poverty
Don't forget that there are multiple "most liveable cities", according to different reports.

Melbourne ranked world's most liveable city - again

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/melbourne-ranked-wo...
I think that one can be concerned about privacy enough to choose to use a service which does not log queries, without thinking that this choice makes them immune to surveillance by state actors.
'horse laughing' is an hilarious concept. I had noticed this in the international students at my university, how the japanese would always cover their mouths. Curious habit.
I can only imagine the nightmare of manually selecting subreddits for each languages though!
Thinking about what is technically possible has been very limiting for me. The value proposition of Firefox OS is that apps will run on all phones, unlike the current iOS vs. Java schism.

Of course it is likely to have other issues, but don't limit yourself to saying what is possible... think about the cost to actually deploy that possibility.
If that was Microsoft's evil plan, surely they would have released a so called "Windows 7."

What's next, ditching Internet Explorer 6?
For those wondering how much it costs to get your private pilot's license...

You'll need to study and pass a written examine so you'll have to either purchase self-study books or take a ground school class. (This is relatively cheap, a few hundred dollars.)

You need to log 40 hours of flight training time. Depending on locale, anticipate paying $100-$150 per hour for a flight instructor and $100-$150 per hour for plane rental and fuel. So that's $200-$300 an hour times 40 hours so a ballpark estimation is $8000 to $12000 MINIMUM. Depending how quickly you get to flying solo (with your instructor on the ground) and how well you do will determine if your flight instructor will sign off after the minimum 40 hours.

EDIT: You'll need to pay for the examine and I forgot, you'll need to get an "FAA physical" and an okay from a physician which you'll also have to pay for (unless you can get your health insurance to pay for it as a yearly physical examine).
Facebook can only grow ad revenue by purchasing it's competitors[who ironically swore to never be Facebook] now. WhatsApp has a large pile of users to make money from before they jump ship after Facebook is done alienating them all.
Whatsapp vs Viber – Who got a better deal?
Don't Wait for the OCR to Come Knocking
I think the internet is back up in most parts of the country, I have some friends in Tachira and it seems that things are back to normal, for now. The govt keeps running small tests like last week when they blocked twitter images for a couple of hours and last night in Tachira.

Meanwhile, there is a complete media blackout. Local TV channels are being censored and are not informing what is going on in the country. Our only means of information is the internet, mostly twitter. This causes a lot of misinformation unfortunately.

Last night , while there were protests everywhere in Caracas and the rest of the country the president went on TV live to talk (all the channels have to stop regular programming and have to transmit whatever he is saying), the National Guard with armed government supporters went out and cracked down hard on all the protestors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmzfwqczZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxbdzBYjAug

I have friends in other areas in Caracas that had to sleep on the floor because of constant shooting from the streets up to the apartments.
It has everything to do with accuracy. Smaller targets take more time to aim; that implies your accuracy depends on how close to the optimal speed you aim.
For people to give a crap about FOSS crypto, you need the audits, and there's just not that much information out there. Audits are pricy and a great way to prematurely age a developer team, but the alternative is "looks OK" crypto code like the Debian SSL debacle.

Crypton's definitely an effort at all-cards-on-the-table corporate-sponsored FOSS, and this includes the project itself and not just the code.
Ionic is a relatively new framework that plays nicely with PhoneGap to help you produce pretty looking apps that behave similarly to native apps. It is "open source front-end framework for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5."

http://ionicframework.com/

They have some sample code:

https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-weather/

http://codepen.io/ionic/public

And a showcase of apps built using their framework:

http://ionicframework.com/examples/showcase/
That is a bit snobbish. Nobody should have to apologize for their beverage of choice.
It's interesting to see what's involved in a security audit and how much it costs. It's nice to see this kind of information being freely given.
I'm not aware of of any aircraft costing less than the 8 figures equipped with FBW. It's a LOT of added complexity/cost for very little gain in anything that isn't either dynamically unstable (e.g. modern military aircraft) or so large that the flight controls can't be comfortably operated by hand, and is rare even in the bizjet and smaller airliner market.

On all small aircraft (and some larger older ones, DC-3s for instance), muscle is the only thing that moves the control surfaces. They're very well designed and counterweighted so that the required effort is quite minimal.
SJCL had substantial peer review during its development, but I'm not aware of a public 3rd party audit from a security firm.

Oh yeah, and before people with torches show up, let me clarify that is a Javascript based crypto product but not browser and website based crypto. The deployment target is situations where the code delivery problem is solved: HTML5 mobile apps (including phonegap / cordova), desktop apps with things like AppJS, browser extensions, etc. It's a high level secure-by-default framework for building collaborative realtime and storage applications. Javascript is a natural language for this, because the framework provides storage through an object database, and that approach is natural an convenient in Javascript. We're spending the time and money to make a secure framework now so we don't have to spend quite as much time in reinvention and security review for each new crypto application we build.
ugh, it comes down to this;

Ukraine is in dire straits, their main import is gas from russia, by way of pipelines, which are then collected and exported- they're basing their whole economy on this and it's failing... very soon there wouldn't even be a country.. so, they went to Europe and asked for aid.. Europe said "If you comply with our sanctions on becoming an EU associate (not member) then we'll give you 1billion euros."

which, on the scale of a country isn't a whole bunch of cash, and adhering to the sanctions would cost more than that in of itself.

Putin said "if you don't join the EU (as an associate, not member) then I'll give you 15 billion euros and 50% off the price of our Russias gas"

to me, that sounds like a better long term solution to get the Ukraine out of this problem, and, it sounded like that to the Ukraine government, so they signed the agreement with Putin, however, everyone has heard about the EU, and they're very hopeful they'd be able to join as a member.

the Ukraine people have this vision of free travel to other countries and it's clouding their judgment a lot.

quite a few things have been signed to admonish the protesters and protect them against legal troubles (at the EU request), but the requirement was that the protests cease.. they took the police aside, and issued a no fire order, but clear the square. They didn't even give the officers guns.

Now, people who seem to be there are causing damage and trouble, I'm not even sure they know why they're fighting now, it's certainly not for freedom or the future of their country (as a member of the EU), lets not forget that Turkey has been an EU Associate for 20 years now and seems no closer to being a member state.

So military intervention is not to be unexpected.

but you're mistaken if you think there is no logic involved in the governments actions.
What Happened to Fashion Magazines?
I've heard the exact same thing about olympic fencers.

I also experience this one firsthand every week at my club. Beginner fencers lose so many points because they think all they need to do is hit faster, react quicker. When in actuality, they're just being predictable and setup to lose by clever tactics.
When the Vikings settled Greenland over a thousand years ago they grew crops and raised cattle on it, hence the name.

I do appreciate that global warming is a fact, and that we are responsible. I also realize this is going to have severe consequences all over the world. I also don't think anything we do at this stage could slow down or stop the process, other than banning modern civilization. What we need to do is psychologically and politically prepare ourselves to mitigate the damage. This means cutting back judiciously on fossil fuel usage, without ruining the economy that we're going to need to be able to deal with the worst consequences. It means being prepared to help those countries or regions that will be worst hit. Hysterical articles about sticking our heads in the stand honestly don't really help at this stage, they just perpetuate the sense of controversy without contributing positively to the debate.
Not that we can find evidence of. SJCL is written by some of the best security people around. I have confidence in it - running in a "safe" runtime like a cordova app or extension. This is a library used by so many - it makes sense to try to crowd-fund an ongoing set of audits.
Can we stop with this "bill gates is watching your searches" nonsense? I know you're fascinating, but Brin and Gates may be concerned about many things not related your internet activity.

Corporations in data monitoring projects, OK.
Your neighbors should publish a paper, so we can fold these observations into our predictions, if they correlate with future weather while being uncorrelated with the other sources of information.

Or if it's really that accurate, sell the info to people trading orange juice and become stinkin' rich.

More likely, as you say, it's just confirmation bias. It'd be surprising if the relevant patterns were simple enough for caterpillar and tree biology to pick up on but too complex for our climatologists and meteorologists to spot in decades of PhD students looking for theses. It's not impossible, though.
The unique advantage of DDG is its privacy. If FB were to buy it, most/all DDG users would flock elsewhere, so what would e the point?
PumaScript – meta scripting programming language based on LayerD and JavaScript
That's interesting (didn't know about the whole city coverage).

The general telecom issue is also gone over well in this talk called captive audience [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R4xhwy-1oI]. It goes over the telecom industry, how it's not competitive and the current day incentives/problems.

While the underlying reason that this issue cannot easily be fixed appears to be related to a more fundamental problem with American campaign fundraising and how it creates a competing dependency that prevents any meaningful reform from moving forward. This Ted talk by Lawrence Lessig (http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...) gives a good overview of this problem.
I think there are ways around it. One would be a CO2 high energy sources like fission and fusion nuclear plants. Problem is we really need them yesterday.

Other is geoengineering the oceans to remove acid from them.

It's not hopeless, but there will be less and less simple solution as time goes by.
Yes. And the reason these fiefdoms exist is because they operate in a largely unregulated market. Companies make these agreements because they are in the company's best interests. Established market leaders don't WANT a free market. They want to set the rules themselves and in today's America they do.
I visited at christmas and it felt like people were very reserved and yes at times quite rude / snobbish. Apart from that, seemed like a nice place.
Whatsapp is incredibly lean. I believe the only have 32 engineers working for them. I can imagine Nokia has much more expensive baggage in their name
In what way do you find it barely usable? I've used it for about a year and I find the results to be great. I don't think there's been a time when I couldn't find the result I wanted with ddg but could with google.
Outrage Over Wall St. Pay, but Shrugs for Silicon Valley
I actually prefer the 2.x docs (stylewise). While the 3.x docs do look clean I just personally don't find them very appealing. I think the 2.x docs also match the new python.org much better.
WebGL /does/ pose a high security risk.

Security problems were pointed out to the WebGL guys a very long time ago and continue to be pointed out - they have not all been addressed (for whatever reasons - i don't want to imply that any of them are impossible to resolve) although extensions exist or have been proposed to resolve the more serious concerns.

This is quite well documented: http://www.khronos.org/webgl/security/

I'd be more inclined to think that Apple don't want to include WebGL for other reasons though. Their track record with technology is much less than encouraging...
Mea culpa for not reading properly and thanks for explaining it.
It's a shame more ISPs aren't doing it, I for one have not heard of anyone else but BT.
Auto-cognition occurs in states of coherence; thus as far as we are concerned the incoherent universe never exists.
I think that's another possible narrative for the mind but it's certainly not hard science. There's no concrete data showing where the mind is in our bodies or what part of the brain creates it. Psycology can't answer questions like where does the mind come from or what is experience.

It's an interesting narrative though and I'll check out those books.
Buying a messenger was only logical for fb...fb chat was not going to compete with the likes of whatsapp...if you cannot beat them, buy them :D
Be careful. It is easy to pay for an audit from a firm that doesn't have a serious cryptography practice. You would reasonably think that any software security firm would be competent in evaluating crypto, or at least crypto basics like whether you're using a sane block cipher mode or failing to authenticate your ciphertext. But it turns out that the opposite is true: the overwhelming majority of firms, including some of the best, have no crypto literacy at all. (The best firms that don't do crypto will tell you this and refer you).

We've seen some horror stories. It's hard not to get a little irritated when you're the second firm to assess a target and own it up on day 2 with a trivial CBC padding oracle.

All this means is, when you're talking to a potential auditor, ask them hard questions about cryptography. Ask them to describe some of the crypto vulnerabilities they have found on projects. If they talk about "weak keys" or "bad ciphers", they're unserious.

Zooko's team at Least Authority is a serious crypto practice. Engaging Zooko was a good call!

$1000 per auditor/day is less than you'd pay to get someone to run Nessus on your network from a normal firm. Zooko did you an _enormous_ favor. For crypto work, a rate four times as high wouldn't be out of the ordinary.