skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
argh people here are so negative. You get a lot of the content you consume over the web. You can stream videos over the web and that is more convenient that using DVDs. you get "facts" from wikipedia and similar resources and thats easier than picking dead tree encyclopedia. This is about convenience. When games start being playable on browsers you won't need a local install or different ports for different platforms. You will need just a browser. It won't matter if you're on windows, mac or linux. It will just work. That means reduced cost for the studio. That means less support calls. That means easier setup.

That will also mean that people will be able to experience with less mainstream stuff. Sharing stuff on the web doesn't require Apple, Google, whatever company approval. It becomes easier to create content and users have less resistance to opening a web page when compared to installing a game. Also its safer since JS language is pretty safe regarding exploits and viruses and general malware when compared with something built with native code on your machine.
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Of course they do! asm.js is a collection of everything in Javascript that optimizes on the current hardware. It's not the least bit dynamic, i.e. it is not Javascript.
Actually, my interpretation (which admittedly is based off of limited knowledge of hardware, the Linux kernel, and operating systems in general) was that the baseband processor itself doesn't have a kernel driver, per se, because it's software doesn't run within the Linux kernel on the main CPU; rather it runs on the baseband processor, and presumably communicates with the kernel via some bus. It is my understanding that the alleged "backdoor" is based on the fact that the kernel allows the baseband processor to access the device's filesystem over this bus, via the libsamsung-ipc component. Please do correct me if I'm missing something here.

Now, if that's correct, then this is in fact significant, because the baseband processor would not otherwise have such access to the filesystem (since it's not, as I understand it, running in the kernel as a driver).

All that being said, the entire thing hinges upon what really goes on in the baseband processor? There are certainly legitimate engineering uses for such filesystem access (as pointed out elsewhere in these comments), so is there really a corresponding backdoor in the modem to allow an attacker full filesystem access on Galaxy devices?

We may never know...
Circa.io does it nicely in an app form, and storify is a crowd sourced platform for doing such stories.
Do you have any before and after examples? Could only find the 'after' version on your website.
You're right, kansface. But I'm not a U.S. citizen, so political action isn't really a practical option. Also, it is arguably wrong to interfere in the political machinations of a foreign democratic country, no matter how irrationally that other country is careening.

While you're right about binaries, there is nothing impractical about compiling things (cf ports tree).

Open Source is something that works now, today, here. It's not a great solution -- see above -- but like democracy, it might be the best we've got. (Or in this case, got left.)
Man, I kinda want to bring back "kith".
That is exactly what I wanted to point out. Oftentimes such privatization is buying short time benefits from the future. In my opinion, Britain has sold to much of its assets and is carrying a huge burden today.
I developed a couple of small demo games and one huge one (3-month project) with HTML5 and browser behavior is often lacking performance-wise, especially on Linux and mobile devices. I decided to limit myself to mouse controls only and slower games like turn based strategies or similar.

I have plans to make a faster 2D paced game this year and I'll go back to desktop and SDL for it. Especially since the SDL author joined Valve in 2012 and development pace has picked up again. Looking forward to run in on my Linux Desktop, Windows, Mac and a Steam Machine. I'm not sure I want to go any more cross-platform than that. Especially since mobile devices are polluted with low quality nickel-and-diming games.

I like your efforts though, keep it up.
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Oops—did not wake up wanting to slap you :) My thought was more along the lines of "if you're not aware that this is a problem, here's a list of big/obvious headlines to pick from, or just walk away with the sense that there is an active conversation about the issue"
There are a few interesting proposals that I've heard over the years, but to answer your question truthfully, no. I've grown to accept that this isn't a situation I can resolve, only a situation I can hope to survive.

I view the current situation as not unlike being locked in a hotel room. In the main room is a hungry tiger. In the bathroom, is a pissed off cobra. You're locked in there so you have to pick your poison, but the last thing you want to do is mistake "the worst choice, but better than the alternative" with a satisfactory situation. I don't have a better suggestion than democracies, but that sure as hell doesn't mean that I trust democracies. I'll sleep with the cobra (with one eye open), but I sure as hell won't praise the merits of sleeping with a cobra just because that tiger looks hungry.
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I like nimrod because it has a sane syntax. I can write a function declaration in one line of nimrod that would be 6 lines of c++. I also like Nimrod's focus on static dispatch and easy to use generics.

Rust makes me uneasy because the whole lifetime tracking adds a lot of complexity and I fear it may make some programs harder to write or some libraries harder to use. Also I think that garbage collection, if fast (which nimrod's is very much so) is the right way to go in some situations. I don't actually want to go and spend time freeing a bunch of strings right after I use them.
The only reason I would be hesitant to do that would be the baggage that the term "scrum" has with so many good people. If someone hears me talking about scrum/agile/whatever and I remind them of the last snake oil infused zealot they worked with, I have immediately lost some credibility.
Ah Betabrand. I still don't understand why there's a huge market for people who want to dress humorously.

They've somehow managed to make terrible a feature by labeling it funny. There's a difference between laughing with, and laughing at. Betabrand is on the wrong side of that line.
Pure PR material about women's fashion makes it to the frontpage, now that's news
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Razer needs to do the right thing and make Blades that are less gamer-friendly and more business-friendly. If you can tame the battery life with a more sane graphics card, you could give Apple a serious run for its money.
I think you'd have to analyze all of the hardware you use, which seems impossible given the sheer quantity of hardware in use.
You're welcome to fork it! http://www.github.com/cameron/squirt. Would love to see such an implementation
So like I said in another comment, it would be the state-by-another-name that would sending someone to arrest me for paying someone to write code on my computer.
It sounds like you’re running at least Disconnect and Ghostery at the same time. You can’t do these comparisons with multiple filtering extensions running at the same time and get apples-to-apples results because if one extension blocks a request, other extensions don’t see the request (the install order [browser dependent] determines which extension has first crack at blocking).

With just Disconnect running (OP), I get this list (similar to AjithAntony):

facebook.com, plus.google.com, reddit.com, www.google.com, apis.google.com, twitter.com, google-analytics.com, livefyre.com, facebook.net, scorecardresearch.com, moatads.com, linkedin.com, doubleclick.net, fonts.googleapis.com, googleusercontent.com, gstatic.com, googletagservices.com, quantserve.com, youtube.com, ytimg.com, googlesyndication.com, 2mdn.net, visualrevenue.com, imrworldwide.com, conviva.com, lphbs.com, googleadservices.com, accounts.google.com, typekit.net, ru4.com, clicktale.net, bkrtx.com, fyre.co, theplatform.com, stumbleupon.com, securestudies.com, network-auth.com
Nimrod's syntax is quite similar to scala (and Pascal!).
Haskell can be really fast but fast Haskell and easy/safe Haskell tend not to overlap as much as one would like
He doesn't know if there's merit to the claim that the offending comment was libelous. The offending comment said kisstrust was a "scam" when they apparently meant that the kisstrust offer simply added no value to a tool that is already available to consumers for less cost. It appears he does know/believe, however, that there is no merit to the claim that MMM is responsible for the content of a comment in his forums.
Too much wind. Tauntaun was also only temporary as he set up a shelter.
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Just to be clear...

The first part of this post is correct. Except that after receiving the legal threat, the blog owner DID remove the offending forum thread.

But then the blog owner created a new thread describing the legal threat (can't be libelous to describe a business tactic they've actually employed, can it?), which has led to much additional discussion and bad press.

Oh, and there's apparently also a wikipedia editing war going on between the internet and the company PR person. Any guesses on how that one will end?

-new user, followed link from MMM blog to get here.
Why is it considered acceptable to just cut off contact after a phone interview or an onsite interview?

If you get an onsite interview or phone interview, they should at least have the decency for a form letter "Thanks for applying, but we chose someone else." (especially after an on-site interview)
I'm a sophomore and a very capable programmer. Physics is beautiful, but I don't expect to be getting paid to lose my head in the clouds anytime soon. Much easier to secure employment doing something in the realm of software development
No I understand that, but the point remains, if you got rid of payday loans, you'd leave a lot of people with no options. It's not like they can walk into a bank and get a line of credit.
I think its an issue of discounting the return by probability, and being able to internalize positive externalities. You can spend $10 billion trying to cure cancer, but how much do you have to get in return for the risk that you won't? And if you need to make a 50x return in the successful case to justify the failure risk, how will you do it while society is demonizing you for withholding cancer cures from dying people?
So, if you look at the four main browser vendors... Well, two of the four browser vendors, you will find that browser vendors would like to extend the reach of the browser.

Not sure how that is surprising.

The argument for wanting to target all of the platforms seems nice. Except the major tooling companies that want to target multiple platforms have already learned how. Seeing games come out on PC, Xbox, and Playstation is proof enough of that.

So, again, what does this buy that the tooling does not already support? Especially if you simply design things such that they can be cross compiled with C.
I built a web framework & control panel (early stages) using Lua + Nginx (http://github.com/Fizzadar/Luawa & http://github.com/Oxygem/Oxypanel). Although both are pretty basic currently I think Lua has huge potential when it comes to high performance web frameworks.
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"If my venture becomes successful down the road then maybe I'll inquire about the .com again and have more leverage to negotiate."

If you do that, you'll find yourself with a lot LESS leverage. What's to stop the owner of the .com from saying "Now that you've established a brand on that name, the price is four times higher"?
Actually it would work well in the NY Times 'flowing image/text/video' style. But other than that it doesn't really say anything that anyone in doesn't already know. Releasing energy in one part of a fault moves the next point further along the fault.
Not necessarily. Temperature determines which way heat energy flows, it says nothing about how fast it flows. I can hold my hand in an oven at 500 degrees with no problem because the transfer is very slow. Briefly touching a much cooler 150 degree piece of metal would give me a nasty burn, because of how quickly the heat transfers.
>Pigeons usually do not have fast-spinning blades attached to them

BRB attaching circular saw to pigeon
> Force-operated

If it's force-operated, how did Han use Lukes's to slice open the tauntaun on Hoth?
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Have they ever thought of using carbon fibre props, you can 3D print CF now
I would say Apple is more artist friendly than business friendly, and that's a perfect place for these high end Razor Blade machines to give them a run for.
>This primarily involves framing political or economic risks as "opportunities", omitting damaging facts/analyses, and exclusively quoting wealthy/powerful people.

This seems a bit disingenuous and sleazy, depending on who exactly is consuming this content.
Did you really contribute to the discussion with this reply? It seems more like valueless and arrogant sarcasm which happened to be more upvoted than any of the sane replies I got. Wonderful stuff. I tried to have a decent discussion but it turned into an angry hatefest. Notice I never attacked anyone, and all my replies were intended only to further the discussion or to address specific points in replies or raise issues I had with what others were saying. But you go, you go on the attack, your community is right there behind you.
> I am unsure how to map your reply to my concept of HyperDex's event loop (and C API).

I just generalized about "thread safety" and async programming. So it was nothing specific to your particular code.
But if you work 25/8, then I have to, too, to stand any chance in zero sum games with you.
So, men are achievers based on their what they do in their field. Women on the other hand still have to be able to model and look sexy despite of their achievements.

Objectifying women yet again, is all I see here.
You are not missing anything. However you have so much Samsung code running in privileged mode on these devices, that picking this issue out and calling it a "backdoor" (implying malice) is an especially nasty PR tactic. This leads to classifying legitimate engineering decisions as something of an evil nature.
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I'm pretty sure I'm one of the "growth hacking" guys in this story.

Personally, I don't see this as an accurate description of what happened. We were seriously considering sendwithus and were looking at how to integrate their product. We talked a few times (maybe 4 times?) and definitely saw the value of what they were doing and where they were going.

We also were very transparent about the features we needed to move forward and they gave us a fair time range for when they could deliver them. Originally, we were comfortable with the timeline. Of course, you sometimes want things to be built yesterday and we happened to come across Vero which had all the requested functionality already built. That's what caused the switch.

Hope that clarifies things and honestly, I'm disappointed by the above comment. Anyone who's built something from nothing knows the hustle required and sometimes you have to risk annoying people to prove there's value in what you're doing. There are many examples of this. Here's the most recent one I've seen: HotelTonight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EER3rdWXbNk).
> Setting up a dichotomy between top-down heirarchial capitalism and top-down heirarchial statism implicitly ignores any possible middle paths.

Arguably, "top-down heirarchical capitalism" and "top-down heirarchical statism" aren't polar opposites, they're more adjacent neighbors -- there's a reason that many non-Leninist Marxist call Soviet-style Communism "state capitalism".
> I mean could you ever imagine a fashion line modelling male PhD students?

Yes, I very well could imagine this. Geek chic is very much a thing and this would probably play just fine.

I think about this the opposite way from you: Why should having a PhD change the pressures one faces around fashionability and body image? Are you suggesting that people with PhDs have earned the right to be exempt from social pressure by virtue of succeeding in a graduate program?

Choosing some arbitrary and largely fashion-orthogonal dimension to slice up the population seems like a very reasonable way to try and advertise fashion to a wider audience. If you are decrying that the media is pigeonholing women as being more fashion-sensitive, or that they are cherry-picking some expected body type out of their chosen demographic, then that is a separate and perhaps valid issue. But I don't read this as having any bearing on the value of a PhD, except as a way to market to an audience that cares about intelligence.
Responsiveness of the controls needs work, but the game was just frustrating enough. I died 19 times. Not nearly as brutal as super meat boy :P
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To actually use your data you have to decrypt it somewhere...
I feel quite old and stupid that I clicked on this expecting shave technology.
Ultimately though, if you don't have GC, you _must_ deal with lifetimes, wheather or not the compiler helps you with them.
I really like the specs and looks of this. Trouble is, I really don't need another computer in my life. I've already got four desktops, and three tablets, one of which is a Surface Pro.

But, that screen and those specs are very appealing.

Plus, as someone who was just short of addicted—okay, addicted—to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I did not know there was a new Wolfenstein game coming up. Also excited to find out more about that.
If you don't see a problem that needs solving, then don't make a product or service.

Perhaps you could offer something that doesn't solve a problem, but instead offers something nice that didn't exist before. Writing, art, comedy, and other things fall under that umbrella (one can make money off of these, though you have to be good).

Trying to find a problem in need of a solution just so you can develop a solution is nearly always a recipe for future failure and disappointment.
The worst issue with most PowerPoint decks that I'm asked to review isn't so much with the design as the fact that the author has attempted to write a small novel on each slide.

How does the company cope with that issue? Suggest cuts?
To me, this is an example of the value HN can offer - getting constructive criticism from people with experience. I for one definitely encourage this.
Oh, this opened my eyes on the fact that a woman stays woman no matter how much education she's got.
Does the Force require lucidity in order to operate?
The luxury of being a man is that you can be rich enough (or smart enough, etc) that it doesn't matter if you're attractive. I'm not just talking about potential dating partners. Just compare the comments people make about Hilary Clinton's looks versus any male politician. Being attractive is a nice bonus for a man, but our society treats it as an absolute requirement for a woman.
For distribution and always updating content is where the benefit is (much like an appstore). Flash gaming was huge before mobile for the same reason, simple to play.

For the consumer it should be no different except they have an easy url to get to it, maybe saves are a url and there is a bit more security in theory if it is through a plugin that is widely used or tool that is widely used (asm.js).

Really this has tried to get going multiple times and really should have. Flash games were huge, Unity web games are coming up. Shockwave games back in 2000ish started it. Being open this is even better because maybe we can see WebGL gaming take off on mobile. 3d games in the browser have changed over time. Quakelive is going desktop client because browsers changing or removing NPAPI for PPAPI (http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?34313) so maybe this is a good time to go the asm.js/emscripten route as plugin support is getting disrupted.
This video you've linked shows many general and philosophical statements but really not that many concrete examples... I stopped before the end because i got a bit fed up with general sentences like "complexity is the ennemy". From what i've read about the astonishing number of scala features, i am more than ready to believe him, but i would really need more examples...
It doesn't appear that random guys on the internet are having much trouble stealing blockchain-based currency. I'm not sure why you think the NSA couldn't do it too.
These seem to fit your description pretty well: http://www.asus.com/zenbook/ .
Looks beautiful. How long does it run on battery? The specs are nice, but if you can't really be mobile you may as well get a desktop.
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Clueless. Just clueless. None of these benefits are tied to the crap browser platform that's been foisted on us. The stewards of the browser did a terrible job of designing it, as proven by shoddy hacks like asm.js. Did you know that it took WebGL to get them to introduce typed arrays? They weren't smart enough to see the usefulness of this, they had to bumble into it. Same with async HTTP requests. So woopty-doo you've caught up to where the JVM was over a decade ago. Semantic HTML has been destroyed by this mindset also.
That sounds exactly like a government to me
No, it would be the state-by-exactly-that-name enforcing whatever the rule was, which quite likely wouldn't be by arresting you for paying someone to write code on your computer, as that wouldn't actually address the issue with property relationship that Marxism is directed at (whereas redistributing the economic gains from that work would address that issue.)
On phones where the IPC driver is running as root, then it can access any file on the device. On phones where it is running as the user, then it can access any file owned by the user. There's a chart.
This is actually a very very interesting laptop where my only question is: Will it run Linux without too much trouble?

I have a Lenovo W530, but I have an inkling that the future of the Thinkpad is very grim for my work use cases. Laptops like the Razer Blade would be my next potential go-to if it can run Linux without much fuss.
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