skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you meant "doesn't", it's explained in the next section, the Zero-Delay Problem.

edit: The frequency equation solved for time, using the adjusted values from the table: https://www.google.com/search?q=1%2F%281%2F1-1%2F1.04%29
Whenever I read these pieces, I always think that the establishment is getting worried. Whilst there are good points to be made, such inflammatory and sensational headlines make me think "Now why are they so upset about this?" - and unfortunately I often feel that it's because they feel threatened someone is walking on their patch.
It's a pity Apple didn't opensource or at release for other platforms Facetime and iMesssages. Both are really very well integrated Audio/Video/Texting apps that work and look better than a third-party tool like Whatsapp
It's fascinating seeing it progress (albeit from afar), true cathedral scale engineering.
> I hate to break it to you, but this is not going to keep you safe from a state-level adversary.

Assuming it's not being built as a honeypot by a state-level adversary, it's also going to attract attention to you. Want to avoid surveillance -- as much as practical act like someone who isn't worried about surveillance.

BTW: "Buy someone a beer" -- True Detective episode 6 reference?
To some extent it just requires more sweat. That's how the elite who figured it out the first time originally learned. Very little of hard science is revealed knowledge like (most) religious ed.

The problem with "gonna have to work harder" is a side marketing presentation of "it'll be faster and cheaper" in direct competition.

I think most students don't learn from direct interaction with teachers, anyway. My first uni calc course had about one kilostudents in an auditorium. Most recently I got one of 1100 meaningless certificates from a comp sci MOOC where a busy post in the discussion forum had maybe 100 reads and 10 posts. The other 90%+ who got certs ignored the forums. Unsure how many signed up and participated to some level but didn't get a meaningless cert. I got nothing out of the forums and mostly hit wikipedia / mathworld / google in general with my questions. About 90% of my questions were quickly answered by the textbook before I tried slower online research. Slower because the text was written much better than the average blog post on the topic, lots of slogging thru junk on line.
It does, you get 2 years' worth of subscription to various services.
Don't let them "do their stuff". Have double blind randomised controlled studies (or as close as you can get) to test various teaching methods. The. Implement the good methods.

This has not been done because people have a built in desire for "fairness" and splitting a country or state into two groups means one group is getting a worse education. (Even though we don't know before the experiment starts which group that is)
Maybe is going after Line and Viber, not Skype.
If you can get a copy of software requirements it comes with good examples. If i have the luxury i create visual mockups of everything as that is easiest for clients to understand (I use balsamiq mockups). Once done with the requirements I get the client to go through them to either sign off on them or to send through changes. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0790145385512.do
Yes, I'm aware. I posted this because GRUBHUB, not GITHUB is filing for an IPO.
Don't forget Clojure, birthyear 2007.
Proxy list isn't reverse proxy
I saw that people don't understand the term proxy list and reverse proxy and I wanted to be clear about that.
If anyone has improvements please let me know.
MtGox isn't exactly FDIC(or whatever Japan's equiv) insured. What are you going to sue for? Who told you it was okay to buy these digital coins? I love Bitcoin, but I'm not denying the fact that it's essentially gambling[1] and I accept full personal responsibility for losing my own funds. Trusting any of these unregulated exchanges is part of the gamble. If the law did try to say MtGox has liability, I wonder how that'd effect the other exchanges out there.

The only thing anyone can do right now is pray - http://i.imgur.com/nTFj3zs.png

1. Actually, it's worse than gambling since I don't think "legit" Casinos can legally just disappear over night causing you to lose funds that you haven't even gambled with yet. There is absolutely zero protection in the wild-west of bitcoin right now.
No, it said GRUBHUB. Why would it say Github?
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I mean, yeah, I'm sure these were all embarrassing at the time, but keeping in mind that newspapers are published every single day, you're talking about an error rate that's extremely low, relatively speaking.

I'm actually not seeing how any of these examples would have been helped by content-first design. Having the content first is just a different approach with its own unique set of issues (namely that you'll be changing the content 700 times during the design process, which is actually a bit nightmarish when you're passing data around). I wouldn't call it better, though.
I'm still trying to understand where the frequency is stored? Is it a value that can be embedded into the gif?
I think those are all perfectly fair questions however I would take the answers you get with a grain of salt. I wouldn't expect an employer to admit they're 6 weeks away from going under at a job interview.

Startups are risky and a lot of times you are convincing people (including yourself) that it is going to work. So startup employers kinda have to be optimistic and positive, otherwise everybody would be freaking out and fearing for their job.

Also - without having any idea what startup you are talking about - the odds are against you that the company will make it. That's just the reality of startup life.
I don't know, Phil Zimmermann, Jon Callas et al are hardly known for bad crypto.

Full disclosure: I work for Silent Circle and it's pretty damn secure. It's also open-source: https://github.com/SilentCircle
> IMO that's just compensating for the inadequacy of tools by making code harder to follow.

Thats pretty much how I would describe the 80 character rule for old terminals. I find the occasional long lines can make things more readable. It certainly helps in locating the bit of code you are looking for when you can recognise it's shape.
Who's your 'us'?

I'm coding in Ruby full-time for some months now and it's the most friendly language I've encountered, everything feels natural.
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I would really like to see a speed comparison between Python's operator-overloaded arithmetic and Julia's custom number types.

What I mean by that is the relative slowdown going from native Python to overloaded Python versus native Julia to overloaded Julia.
While I do think that alternative fusion paths should be better funded, cranks aside, I don't think that it's the fault of ITER that it's the most promising and best developed and so the best funded one. The entire field is ridiculously underfunded for what it can offer and we shouldn't be having to risk it all on one or two projects.
"Why didn't they replace traditional classroom education using the same criteria you're applying to MOOCs?"

For the same basic reason that the computers of the 1980s didn't replace newspapers the way computers of the 2010s are; too hard to use, too expensive, not enough availability. The tech for editing a course may have existed but it wasn't wide-spread and easy, so there was not a feedback loop of improvement going on. Imagine being the teacher in 1980; you've recorded your lectures, you sent them away to be "edited", three months after your course was recorded they come back, you sample a couple of them just to see how they came out (you certainly aren't going to watch them all), and that's it. Even if you find an error, you're going to have to shrug your shoulders and at most issue a paper errata; you certainly aren't capable of going back and fixing it yourself, nor is anybody else going to pay for the skilled labor necessary to do so. For a feedback loop to occur there's a certain base level of ease that has to exist.

Only now do we have a world in which an instructor can give some bit of instruction, get a question from a student about something, and simply click "edit" to go back and fix whatever weakness in the original instruction the student's question reveals almost as quickly as they could answer the question in the first place. Run something like Physics 101 through that process over the course of 4 or 5 years and you'd quite likely end up with the best possible Physics 101-type course that could be developed. (The next step after that is fundamental rewrites of how we teach physics at all, but that will take longer.)

And indeed I'd suggest that we're still in the very early phases of that, too; it's going to get easier and more widespread. Once we start building educational resources over time instead of firing them like one-shot ammunition, the improvement feedback loop is all but inevitable.
> Both use the same underlying technology (XMPP) and both know how to use the protocol, but it's still very hard to pull off at this scale once you allow multiple devices to login with the same account.

Since when does Skype use XMPP? AFAIK, it uses a closed protocol. It appears that Whatsapp does indeed use XMPP under the hood, though.

As for Skype, it's absolutely terrible at handling multiple devices. It would get much better if the app phoned home when a given message arrived on a Skype client with a focused window, in order to prevent/cancel already existing alerts on other devices.
Teams I've been a part of are 3/4 (3 successes, 1 failure) on total rewrites over my career. The failure was entirely my fault as a developer not knowing my own limits (coding, design, security, devops, business reqs, managing up can't happen (at least for me) in the same 60 hours a week). It still almost succeeded on strength of the design and ability of my amazing coworkers to aggressively simplify and consolidate all the things.

Rewrites fall into two categories: essential to business and doomed to fail. If it's essential that the business execute on a rewrite, it will happen or the business will fail. If it's not essential, it very well might be the reason the business fails (siphoning away talent and squandering time when a refactor or benign maintenance would suffice). Precisely because massive rewrites are so risky, they are undertaken by the foolish (myself firmly in this camp). The heuristic under which they might succeed is bare necessity.
But iOS isn't running on a real computer that has a either a large battery or a mains power source, it's running on a small device with a battery that is expected by users to last at least a day.

iOS' current backgrounding APIs strike a fairly acceptable balance between functional background tasks and battery life. Let's say if Apple took the reigns off background in iOS, we'd see some app developers ravage the battery and see users having terrible device experience.
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I think the problem with a device like this is that the kind of person who would be interested to use this just may be precisely the kind of person that the NSA would like to keep tabs on, just in case. Enough so, that an NSA worried about the Snowden leaks could theoretically come up with this idea as a way to corral folks trying to escape the "conventional" channels. Particularly with an ex-Navy Seal as CEO (no longer trusts the US government?), what's to say that there isn't some other vulnerability built into the core of this device. “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you”. ― Joseph Heller
It was quite common for a re-sent packet to be dropped, and we saw several cases where the original packet and 4 or 5 re-sends of that packet would all be dropped. We were re-sending so many packets, we were starting to exceed the bandwidth of the modem, and then the latency would start to climb, and all hell would break loose.

That is exactly why TCP has the "slow start" protocol. I am sympathetic to their problems, though. I understand that the implementations of TCP they had access to had way too much latency, and that back then, there probably wasn't much tuning one could do on the outside. What they did is a clever hack (message n has a copy of n-1) that takes advantage of the fact that they don't have to send much data in total.
Gifs don't have a constant FPS. You can specify with some precision how long they should display each frame.
Yeah mate at this stage I would work out a timeline for the next six months and if this project can't fit in you're better off getting rid of it. It sucks for everyone involved, but if things are going to carry on the same for the next 6 months you might as well end it sooner rather than later.
No rational consumer is going to trust them going forward but new consumers who might not know the history of MtGox might not know any better.
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I think Nokia's target market for these unAndroids is not existing Android users at all, but rather all those people who currently have a low-end Nokia. (There are literally billions of Nokia dumbphones in use around the world.)

Those users don't go into the shop thinking "I want stock Android" because they have no idea what that would even be. Rather they go by a trusted brand and the availability of well-known apps and games. If the price is right, Nokia's unAndroid may actually serve this market quite well.
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I've also experienced this. Recently I interviewed at a big tech company and when I received the original e-mail it said "Hello NAME" instead of my first name.

I asked if it was recruiter error or programmer error and never got a response.
I don't agree that "the smartass" is the worst of 5. I'd propose a 6th one: legacy technology proponent. How many times there was a moment of decision what stack to use for a new project and there was always this one guy going "How about we use LAMP with XYZ PHP framework? There are a lot of 'coders' around we can hire for that and they will be cheaper than ruby/python/scala/etc guys".
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I just had a quick look at that grammar article. I imagine when people are describing something technical / scientific / difficult to comprehend, it will take more words.
The more interesting part of OLPC's history, is that not only did the OLPC never quite get there on price, but it was pushing the 'wrong' platform. What the for-profit industry ultimately delivered to that end of the market, that has seemingly been a far bigger hit than $100 laptops, was something completely different and fundamentally more well-matched to users with no legacy computing experience/needs. [1]

It's entirely possible that a $25 smartphone will still be junk [2] until well after some other platform is created, polished and delivered to those users.

[1] Touch-based phones and tablets

[2] that is, flawed-enough that feature-phones and used phones are preferable to the experience provided by a 'new' $25 smartphone.
I've been all of these, probably a couple of them only today...
Frankly, I would be surprised if this was not in Google's ToS from the start, considering that Google's core business model is mining of big data. I suspect there wouldn't be an option to turn it off, not even by paying extra.
No. I am just moaning on the Internet.

To be clear, I am occasionally frustrated by the Chicken and Egg nature of configuration, when there is always another layer of abstraction to start with. So how do I deploy my saltstack servers so that I can pass them the config so that they can ...

a recent example - you start a script / daemon running with a arg pointing to a config file. But that config file might fail and I cannot log that it failed cos the log location is in the config file. There are half a dozen solutions but it just annoys me.
It's a good thing neither of those platforms support HTML and JS.
I'd love to see a Mozilla phone work in the market and I might buy one, but I'm skeptical about the $25 price point for a phone that's based on a web browser.

At the very least you need a battery that lets you actually use that browser for more than 15 minutes. That's about $10. Now there's $15 left for a touch display and a chipset and all the rest of it. That's very hard to imagine.
Had no idea Ruby was THAT old. Congrats. The one language I need to pickup one day.
I'm not an expert in internet security or crypto. Some of the comments below raise some interesting points both defending the intent (and implementation) of it and pointing out the flaws. However, as an unsophisticated person interested in my data security, this sounds absolutely awful. Hopefully more clarity on this emerges.
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Who knows when Mt Gox failed to be solvent? It could have been a really long time ago. A ponzi scheme can go on indefinitely as long as deposits exceed withdrawals. It seems that the BTC "bug" shook things up, and much like any financial crises they were suddenly exposed.
Except experience so far hasn't borne that out; FFOS has been pretty low performing on low performing hardware. The web was not made to be a lightweight platform, and any attempts to make it be one are going to be long struggles.
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Does anyone with a lot of knowledge about this have any idea on whether or not Mt. Gox will return? I've got a small amount of BTC in there (so small that it isn't an issue to lose). However, I'd prefer to move it to another exchange than just punt it.
The attitude towards vaccine safety isn't "most scientists think it's safe," it's "extensive research has shown that the societal benefits of this vaccine outweigh the potential risks". In this article, it's clear that the infected weren't "endangered by the vaccine." The reason why it mentioned that the children were vaccinated against polio was to show that the outbreak was likely a different virus, not to say that the vaccination in any way caused the infection.
Why a top-slider? The side-slider seems to give so much more real-estate for keys. Is it just the portrait display of the screen you want, or do you actually prefer typing on the top-slider keyboard?

Personally, I find the on-screen keyboard fine for the ham-fisted one-handed typing of short messages, but I want the maximum width and real keys IFF I have enough to type to justify switching to two-handed typing. So the side-slider seems like the better form-factor.
That's right. The Graphic Control Extension blocks preceding each frame let you specify a "delay" in hundreths of a second.

More info here: http://www.matthewflickinger.com/lab/whatsinagif/animation_a...

And more info on the zero-delay problem here: http://nullsleep.tumblr.com/post/16524517190/animated-gif-mi...
The number of people harmed by the vaccine is much lower than the number harmed by an infection.

Vaccines are ineffective if even a small percentage opt out.
I saw a padlock for sale with the packaging in English, French, and Spanish. Unfortunately they left Lorem Ipsum in place of some of the translations. This would be harder to spot than most non-replaced placeholders, even if someone is proofreading. (Latin is in the same Romance language family as English and French.)

Photo at http://www.righto.com/2009/11/lorem-ipsue-when-international...
Rather this Nokia X is (will / should be) replacing touchscreen Asha entirely on Nokia's low-end smartphones.

I have one of the new Asha touchscreen phones, the Asha 501. It's a quite pretty little device with some excellent UI ideas... But the whole is marred by the limitations and poor performance of the Series 40 + Java ME software platform.
How does this solve the rooted baseband problem?
The compatibility with Android apps mitigates this to some extent.
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No -- An attitude of "someone on HN says 'vaccines may not always be safe'" is not real science.

Unless you want to provide any actual studies to back up your claim, you're just spouting the sort of pseudoscience that gets children killed.

While it's true that some very small percent of the population can have an allergic reaction to some vaccines, the risk of your child dying from, say, polio is much much higher than the risk of him/her dying from the vaccine.
I've talked to Silent Circle at conferences and what not. It is not like they have some crypto noob working on their project...They have Phil Zimmerman.

But, knowing nothing about them, when I asked them ``How does your protocol compare to TextSecure's Axolotl?'' the response was ``We have Phil Zimmerman''. So....I'm still a bit put off by them.

Some of their code is already open-sourced here.
https://github.com/SilentCircle
Just tried Xs at MWC ... not impressed.
For anyone wondering how to dump gif loop time.

curl -s http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/frequency/turnsignal1.gif |
giftext | grep DelayTime | cut -d':' -f 2 | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s/100}'

The results seem to correspond with authors table.
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I have a very small amount of Bitcoin in Mt. Gox. If it never returns, it won't have a material effect on me. However, I'd obviously prefer to send it to another exchange. If anyone has new information on whether they'll ever come back online, I'd be really interested.
Hardware android buttons? What is this, 2010?
Ruby was first released in 1995, development started in 1993. So, both numbers are right. "Ruby's birthday" is traditionally the start of development. The most interesting info is: Ruby and Python are both not influenced by Java.

An easy answer to the question: "Why didn't they just steal that from Java?"
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It was on the morning news here this morning, so there's not a media blackout, if that's what you are implying.
It seems like you're saying "we should all use encryption as much as possible so it becomes the background". It also seems like you don't think you're saying that.
A very recent example: The newsletter announcing the blackphone (discussed here as well).

Upper left corner says:

Use this area to offer a short teaser of your email's content. Text here will be shown in the preview area of some email clients".

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1194203/Screenshot_2014-...

Oops :)
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This is a valuable observation.
Note that this is not due to polio, and as such any argument that it's caused by the polio vaccine (a flawed argument to begin with, as the live-attenuated vaccine is no longer in routine use in the U.S.) is entirely spurious.

Polio-like paralysis can be caused by a number of viruses, including non-polio enteroviruses, and these do cause disease regularly - not quite at this scale, but also not astonishingly rare.
I'm surprised the Pittsburgh scored so well. I have a friend who is buying houses to flip to rentals, and he says that houses stay on the market for less than a week. He suspects it's because of people moving into the area due to the popularity of Marcellus shale fracking. I expect that both of those would push prices up. Every week, I see tons of nice subdivisions being built like there's no tomorrow.
Click the show code button at the bottom. They did dump the values (but they wrote their own gif parser...).
>Also, poker is not gambling, at least not the way I play.

Yes, it is. No matter how you play.

I question how "professional" you are if you don't even understand this basic concept of advantage gambling.
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