skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it remains to be seen how the autonomy works out. whatsapp collects very little data about the user. Phone number, username. No chat history and even name is optional this contrasts with FB's approach of getting all the data. I think the data collection changes would be a good test of autonomy.
This recent event started when the protestors killed a bunch of retreating cops with bullets, firebombs, and other lethal means. And then took 50 of them hostage.

In 1 years time it will turn out that everything you have been told was a lie. Just like in the last 5-6 wars.

Stop drinking the Kool-Aid.
The link above is more or less blogspam. Here is the full article it links to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24528383
Just the (lack of) package management and a sane update system would be reason enough. Want to install something? Well good luck scouring the Web for the correct, up-to-date installer; with luck, it will also contain its dependencies.

And don't get me started on "Update system? What update system?" resulting in a) outdated apps and/or b) one updater per app. Chrome has one, Adobe Flash has another, Adobe Reader has yet a different one, and Java the Hutt has a completely different one (of course they're all hogging memory).

Why MS doesn't allow integration into Windows Update is completely beyond my understanding. What year is this, 1998?
Bitcoin ATM arrives at Boston rail hub
GOV.UK social sharing buttons: the first 10 weeks
hehe, came here to thank the arch team[s], I've been smooth sailing for a few years on top of their creation.
You will never again be more ambitious than you are today.
Or control the infrastructure on which it relies.

Here in the UK we have a wholesale company (BT OpenReach) which is strictly regulated that provides all telephone lines, providers can then "rent" off those cables. This allows for a massive variety of competition and broadband packages from £5 a month.

This also allows a funnel for the govt to invest if required, say laying fibre to remote communities rather than having to rely commercial interests to, who never would.
I was more interested in his comments about the Model X. It has been a while since the announcement. I'd like to get some pricing info, either to say "Send me one" or "Uh-oh."
It says that more competition would drive prices down. Is there more competition in Korea, Denmark and The Netherlands?

I don't actually know; it'd be interesting to find out!
Google Rolling Out New Google Maps to All
http://www.shouldireadthedailymail.com/
That's because there aren't unboxed primitive values in the language. Even a local integer variable contains a pointer to the integer.

This is orthogonal to whether a container is a list or an array though.
The fix for this is to use a module. Simple. Not a problem.
Canada is not shown. If memory serves, we'd be worse off than USA.

Strange to depict Australia, but not Canada.
No clue. I'm actually inclined to start a petition to stop this deal. Too much information in the hands of one company if you ask me.

Note: as a self-described Google fanboy, I do realize that Google has all this and more of me as well, but at least they provide many useful services, haven't changed the privacy rules on me, allow data export, and keep the data to themselves.
Beyond the issues of democracy, transparency, legality, etc. The government of Venezuela has a problem of stupidity. The economic policies have created a lot of damage to the economy. They were able to do it because of the huge amounts of oil that they have. But it is becoming harder and harder to sustain it.

The big question at this point is how far are they willing to go to stay in power?
BlackBerry shares set to jump on Facebook's WhatsApp bid
Considering that oculus rift isn't the next big thing anyway?
I met Jim at Rocky Mountain Ruby a couple years ago. He was friendly, easily approachable, and had that hacker humor that is so fun. You could just tell he loved everything about Ruby, hacking, and teaching and learning from others.

He sang Ruby Coding High at that conference:

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/740-rockymtnruby2011-ruby-co...

Thanks for helping us all get on a Ruby Coding High Jim, we'll miss you.
Bullshit. If you are turning down people for "culture fit" or perceived ramp-up time, there is no shortage.
The same one that enforces taxes on the gasoline? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_States
A sort of opposite to Parkinson's law
You used lists and arrays... so you used data structures?
Appcelerator is realy (totaly) free? I like this platform but I doubt about the license.
Jim Weirich's final GitHub commit
Awesome stuff! What's considered a passable score?
Same on Symbian. WhatsApp is easily one of the top 10 best applications available on Symbian. They are still pushing out updates too.
Microsoft ditching Windows 8, plans to release Windows 9
You won't hit catastrophic backtracking problems with the types of regular expressions you need for routing.

Even if you do use some very weird expression, the worst that can happen is that you hit the backtracking limit and a route fails to match because of that. There won't be any code spinning indefinitely.
6 Steps to a Wealth of Untapped Mobile App Data
Glad I live in the UK - that graph shows why our internet is so amazing and so cheap!
The true rival to Oculus Rift is not another Oculus Rift but something completely different.

I have been following this technology and hoping for close to 30 years now and still haven't been convinced about the quality of VR googles.

We need something that goes a level deeper before we are going to be there. Something that blures the line between reality and fiction not just visually but emotionally. Maybe a drug you need to take with it.

Who knows.

All I know is that we are not there yet and to really talk about competitors with only granually better specs seems a tad premature.
Considering what has happened in the last 12 years of global conflict, and the type of truth that has been reveled after-the-fact, it's amazing how many ignorant and absolutely biased people this thread has, all proclaiming the same old "we must support the peace-loving freedom fighters" and "Putin is evil" cliché.
And a fun way of playing with the notion of fixed points, to boot!
Ha ha, comedy.
Will Doctors Finally Accept Technology? Yes. Here’s How.
> I've had untracked files straight up deleted because I didn't include them in my stash.

Do you recall the actual circumstances? That shouldn't happen in the normal course of things...
For me, a relative path in a require statement signifies that the required code is a part of the application itself.

Consider:

require('foo');

Versus:

require('./foo');

If I find that a module is becoming popular, I may turn it into an npm module by moving it to it's own folder and adding a package.json, then using npm's bundledDependencies property to inform npm that it lives locally.

(edit: Note that I've shifted my perspective on the module when this happens. The shift is from "This code is in a separate module to keep my application organized" to "This code is in a separate module because it has some logical independence from the application.")

If the module needed even more independence, I'd move it to it's own git repo and create an internal mirror of the npm repo so that it can be discovered internally, and unbundle it from my app. (I could see this happening especially with larger teams, or teams that embrace the "module all the things" philosophy.)

And of course, there's always the possibility of moving the module out to the public npm repos and hosting it there.

I've never had require with relative paths of more than two or three "double dots". (Note to self: Look up what those things are called formally.)
how many times have you stashed, and in what stages of development, and when you try to apply them later, will they be in order and will they work on the codebase as it has changed? also, do you even remember you stashed, and is there a log longer than 1 line?

stash is a quick hack, and is useful as a quick hack, but commits just work better.
I had this similar problem, but I solved it in a different way by creating a module outside of the node_modules folder, and putting a symlink in the node_modules folder. Read here to see how I broke this down http://winder.ws/blog/2013/10/15/structuring-local-node-modu...
Because it would be a nightmare to maintain.
> artificial consciousness, or creativity, or desire, or whatever you want to call it. I am quite confident that we’ll be able to make computer programs that perform specific complex tasks very well. But how do we make a computer program that decides what it wants to do? How do we make a computer decide to care on its own about learning to drive a car? Or write a novel?

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

We cannot decide what we want to do--we can only decide how best to fulfill our wants; a person learns to drive a car because we want the freedom, social approval, and other stuff that comes with that.

Natural selection gave us our base-level desires, that all other desires spring from; and it was able to do that because it's an optimization process. A functional AI's desires will come from some sort of optimization process; the only question is what that process will be optimizing.
I was very curious to see a post on the Ynot project http://ynot.cs.harvard.edu/ on HN but this make more sense.
That is because the weather is a chaotic system. It is governed by the mathematics of complex dynamics.

Predictions diminish in accuracy with increasing time because the number of inputs rapidly approaches infinity, and each one of them can turn out to be determinative of the overall behaviour of the system.

It should be no surprise to any scientifically literate person that a weather forecast issued in October has no validity by January. Any resemblance to reality is purely accounted for by chance.

This is not amenable to the Mr. Fix-It mentality that inevitably shows up in these discussions. There is good reason to believe that weather prediction will never improve, no matter what the scientific and technological developments, because the future of a chaotic system is mathematically intractable and genuinely unknowable.

The same argument applies to climate science. I'm sorry to bring you the very bad news that we live in a chaotic universe, not a deterministic one. Get over it. Wear a helmet.

Edit: The mysterious part is that the scientists at the so-called Climate Prediction Center would issue a 3-month forecast. What part of complex dynamics did they not understand? Sometimes an expert is just a guy with slides.
No; it has more to do with the way that US cities are very spread out, how right of way must be established on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis, and as a distant third the lobbying / political power of the telecoms.

Nothing is really stopping new entrants from joining the market -- other than the fact that deploying a broadband network in the US is really, really expensive. In Europe or Asia you can much more easily obtain a license to run cable across a wide area encompassing a whole city; in the US those rights are split between dozens of different municipalities, some of which don't have the resources to approve requests.

Additionally, US telecom regulation requires that if you're going to cover a city, you have to cover the WHOLE city; or at least you can't discriminate based on income. This is why Verizon has slowed FiOS deployments to new developments only -- it's a way to be able to only roll FiOS out to wealthy customers. People in the ghetto don't buy broadband, but if you want to roll out in a US city today, you have to make it available to them anyway.
What are you comparing them to?
In the Netherlands, cable providers are essentially monopolists in their areas. On ADSL and fiber (where that is available), however, there's about 15 competitors or so. So, seems like it does.
Old Arctic Ice Is Disappearing, and Taking the Rest of the Ice With It
You can use a lexer, yes - but any fast lexer implementation in a high-level language will actually use the very same technique described here. Generating a character-comparison + goto based FSM works great in C, but has bad performance in PHP (and other dynamic languages).

There's a common misconception that regular expressions are slow, but in many cases they offer much better performance than a manual implementation with lots of strpos etc. In the end PCRE does the same thing, but in C and using a JIT compiler. Apart from very simple cases you don't have a chance to keep up with that using PHP code.
Canada is between Austria and Hungary on the graph.
Canada is four spots above (cheaper) than Australia in the graph.
Chicago police develop real ‘Minority Report’ computer to predict crimes
Don't forget reset and checkout.

Loads of fun.
This is Tile
That predicting behavior at larger scales is easier than predicting it at small scales is a principle you'll encounter repeatedly in the physical science and engineering disciplines. In the physical sciences, models are often top-down, as opposed to in computing where they are almost always bottom-up. In fluid dynamics, for example, the behavior air in a turbulent flow is chaotic at the small scale. Yet, we can still design airplane wings because we have pretty good approximate models for how such flows behave at larger scales. Or to use a physics example: it's easy to predict where a baseball will land, but very complicated to predict where an electron will be in a molecule.
Should your company consider Dropbox for Business?
SecDroid: hardening the android kernel
> The taxpayers will still be paying the premiums.

If the police pay their own premiums directly, we'll have to raise their salaries; so the taxpayers will still be paying them.

But, there will be an independent entity with a financial interest in identifying officers likely to commit crimes and abuses; instead of a subdepartment of the police itself with conflicted interests. Ideally, abusive police officers will not be able to afford to be police officers.
Did anyone else chuckle at the title including "Path"?
You know Hitler was also democratically elected, and do you know the Elections committee in Venezuela is practically ruled by the Government?, and did you know elections in Venezuela are electronically counted? and did you know that we all asked for the votes to be recounted manually and the boxes disappeared under government custody? And anyone who takes out all news channels and communication sources can pretty much be called a dictator. So read a bit more inform yourself and then you can make an accurate statement. Nothing personal, I'm just tired of people not knowing what's really happening and creating their own opinions because they "liked" Chavez because he was against Bush, used as a propaganda while selling a big chunk of Venezuela's oil to the US.Just saying. Anyway the discussion is if you take down news channels for no reasons and start blocking internet access to information sources you are a dictator, period. Protesters are demanding freedom of speech as they killed for the same reason.
'Googles and Facebooks' are only a subset of software.
US support for regime change in Venezuela is a mistake
Prediction centers might not be able to tell the exact date and place of a storm that far out, but they can at least tell if a season is going to be bad well ahead of time.

Edit: It says this right in the article: climate forecasters focus on things that change more slowly, such as temperatures of the land and oceans... they try to say whether a given three-month period will be wetter, drier, hotter, or colder than average.
Musk vision + Apple's $100B in cash = iOS integrated mass market cars?
Google applied for a patent on "Storing encrypted objects"
It's not like you're writing the regular expressions and lookup tables per hand. You write the routes in whatever format you deem nice and it's automatically translated from there ;)
Is interesting how low tech can be used to get better penetration than high tech...
> 2. Cell tower antennas are simple dipoles, not directional antennas.

> Cell tower antennas are vertically polarized dipoles

> The fact that the vast majority of cell tower antennas are simple dipoles -- it's the basis of the system

You stated three times that cell tower antennas are simple dipoles. That's the problem. They're not simple dipoles. 20 or 30 years ago they absolutely were. Then a lot of users joined the system and the carriers all rolled out directional antennas in all but the most rural of places.

I'm trying to make sure that you understand that this is the point I'm arguing.

I fully agree that a 1/4 wave dipole is an omni. I fully agree that pCell probably uses omnis (at least initially). I fully agree that many years ago the cellular system used omnis.

Where I don't agree is the idea that the current cellular system uses omnis. By and large, anywhere suburban or urban, and even many rural base stations all use directional antennas. I've provided tons of links showing that the carriers use directional antennas to further break up the large cells that existed when they put all the towers up (and used omnis) into smaller cells today which can support more users.

> I proved my case, or weren't you paying attention?

Just asserting that some statement is true doesn't make it so. I've provided plenty of evidence that carriers today use multiple directional antennas to service extra customers from their existing towers. "Directional antenna" doesn't necessarily mean a 5 degree beam width, an antenna can have a 30 or 60 or 90 or 180 degree beam width and still be directional. The towers used to be in the middle of the hexagonal cells, now they're at the place where three hexagons meet.

Here is a patent by Nortel for a six-sector system in 2004.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6745051.html

You'll notice the familiar triangle shape holding the antennas and that there are a total of 12 antennas.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6745051-0-large.jpg

What does that look an awful lot like? To me it looks exactly like the middle antenna array in this picture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Cell_Phon...

I don't know how to make it any clearer than that.
Global Forest Watch is providing near-real-time deforestation monitoring
That's really nice of you. Not many people would think of doing that.
If you're a developer, try to package your own things for the distros you care about. And accept patches that fix packaging issues. Think about how much easier your ops friends, and the continuous integration systems and similar will have it if all they have to do is run an "apt get" or "port install" to get a fully built version of your code.

Things that help:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package

https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.creating-portf...

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/creating.html
Correction:

> He's very well spoken, intelligent and surprisingly compelling individual _fraudster_.

Mega wasn't exactly the first time he's been in trouble [1]. The MCI / AT&T calling card fraud was a lot of money. The Letsbuyit.com fraud wasn't small fry. He's a fraudster through and through. The only difference between his actions with Megaupload and the previous frauds was that this time he was defrauding media companies and not the man on the street. The man on the street was on his side, mainly because he was enabling them to get free content.

The English Wikipedia page also misses out on another rather nasty part of his history, namely [2][3]:

> And he copied all data he found, and brought the captures to Germany’s most hated intellectual property lawyer, Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth. Who sued the hackers on behalf of the copyright owners and allegedly paid Schmitz per bust.

So yeah, he's a tool. He fucked over his fellow crackers for money.

On a side note (just in case you falsely think I'm some kind of RIAA / MPAA lover), I also think that the same media companies that are screwing over their customers using copyright law are also a bunch of fraudsters, but sadly they are doing that screwing within a legal framework that they have lobbied congress to impose. More fool congress and more fool the voter who voted for those jokers.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Criminal_investigati...

- http://eclamus.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/megaupload/

- http://cd.textfiles.com/thegreatunsorted/texts/bbs_legal_inf...
I wonder which regulations in the UK allow for it to be so cheap. Where I live in Belfast, our only high speed internet option is Virgin, so it might as well be a monopoly as far as we're concerned, and yet we only pay the equivalent of about $30 a month for internet and +200 channels.

Maybe part of the tv license fee is going towards infrastructure costs?
the problem is the world is chaotic: any approximation, no matter how small, will cause divergence very quickly. (This is actually the main problem with the simulation: how did they get the exact initial conditions and physical constants?).
This looks nice and seems to be a decent solution to setting a consistent vertical rhythm, but doesn't seem to really use any Sass features, and the old OOCSS-style layout helpers leave a bad taste in my mouth. Seems easier to extend placeholders rather than use those classes all over the place in your markup. Sure, you CAN do something like this:

<div class="h2 left p2 mr2 bold white bg-blue rounded">.oh</div>

but do you really want to?
A great article on Ukraine here:

http://alternative-right.blogspot.jp/2014/01/the-great-hate-...

Basically, lack of national identity has made it a pawn between the Americanized EU and the Eurasian Russians.

As a result, it's fragmenting from within.
Boyfriend proposes to girlfriend with an academic paper
Aka bubble
The automation argument is biased, it's a culture shock, Windows scripting => VB.

- can do a fair share of things in it

- is probably a little step above bash, sure the language has its defects but well bash too

- many MS programs are COM objects, meaning you can dig into and glue them with it

The issue here is that Microsoft is not giving customization and automation to users as a first class feature, I believe you have to get into the MSDN world and way of things to start understanding how windows works and is tooled. The shell could be improved but again it's a culture issue, to MS, coding is done in a GUI IDE. People wrote a better cmd.exe (its on github) and of course there's powershell which is said to be very powerfull (which I believe too).
Apple could learn a couple of things from MOJANG
A massive variety of crap, mostly. The only thing that gets close to well connected countries in Europe is BT's Infinity. The rest are just pathetic ADSL offers or throttled-to-hell cable offers (Virgin, now UPC).
unless we start factoring in quantum entanglement
LinkedIn opens its blog publishing platform to everyone
I'm devestated to hear this. I met Jim at Scot Ruby 2012. A sweet, bright, kind and funny man. RIP.
Bit worse than that, in that the telco monopoly starts at the Federal level.

But your point is well taken: claiming the actions of government established monopolies (actually duopolies when you're lucky) are a failure of the free market, and calling on these same governments "to prevent [the] monopolies [they created in the first place] from forming and ensure that there is enough competition" when same governments seem to be entirely happy with the results is ... well, I don't think we live in the same reality.

A bit more enlightened a government would at least have drawn a line at what these monopolies can do, i.e. keep them from competing with Netflix et. al., but that would be very problematic with cable companies.