skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also used Xamarin to develop for both Android and iOS, and I found it to be a good experience. The tools deliver what they promise, in my opinion. Built application look and feel like full native apps.

I don't want to repeat the comments made by others, but one other other thing that impressed me was being able to compile c# code into a portable class library dll on windows, then just copy the binary to a macbook and link it into my iOS app project. Very cool code reuse.

Not knowing ObjC made getting started on iOS harder than it could have been because examples tend to be in ObjC - although Xamarin have some useful snippets and recipes on their site. Android was easy because of the similarity between Java and C#. You still need to learn the platform APIs, obviously.

Its been some time since I felt so positive about a new piece of developer-orientated technology. Definitely recommended.
I don't know that Facebook requires a phone number, but yes definitely anyone that has given it out has given them that direct link.
it´s really strange indeed. I guess they´ll finally find it and we´ll know what happened, and how much of what we know now is true or accurate.
Thanks; I will read up on the proper definition. I had been using it to imply 'meaning' (more or less), from Semantics which wiki says is the 'study of meaning'.

'unclear' is a better choice. And less pretentious too, than 'semantic'.
Home Office made by Pure CSS
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Tried it here and it worked, both on Arch Linux with OCaml 4.01.0 and a clean Ubuntu/12.04 with OCaml 3.12.1:

$ ocaml graphics.cma test.ml

Debian splits OCaml into two packages: ocaml-nox (no X) and ocaml (everything). Make sure you're not using the nox version, and make sure you have an X server available (i.e. you're not running it on a headless server or something).

Still, "fatal I/O error" is a terrible error message.
Absolutely nothing.

It's Totalitarianism, nothing more or less.
Finding debris doesn't require an active search. There are a lot of boats out there on the ocean (I'm actually on one even as I write this) and this incident has gotten a tremendous amount of publicity. If the plane crashed on the water I would think that a fishing boat would have found a seat cushion or something by now.
Botched star navigation? Smoke covered windscreen? Unable to fashion a compass from a paperclip and cup of water?

Might be easier to believe the asteroid strike theory...
> This is the nature of proprietary formats.

Indeed. When you choose to save your work in a not-public format, you are decidîng not to care about its lifespan: complaining later is just useless, unfortunately.
Yeah, that's my major worry too.

I am 95% sure that I never sent them a passport scan. I remember getting as far as scanning it into my computer before my "what-the-fuck-am-I-about-to-do-ometer" went haywire. But it was a long time ago and I can't be 100% sure that I didn't send it to them. I'd really like some way of finding out.

The only email I ever got from them was a "thanks for registering, please confirm your email address" email, so I think that means I never took it past that point (there's no "thanks for verifying your identity" email).
A Startlingly Simple Theory About the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
Already in the US - came beginning of March.
And we all know that they are using this data only to fight terrorism.

They would never use it to give their own industry insider information.

</sarcasm>
You should really put more effort to get Rust work smooth on Windows withouth counting on volunteers.

Think of MySQL vs Postgres adoption. I belive that at the certain moment the primary reason that all Apache/PHP stack devs were choosing MySQL over Postgres was that MySQL was very easy installable on Windows (all these LAMP/WAMP packages that were creating ready-to-use dev environoment).
i think if you have great github,stackoverflow profil , the people and the great company wil be interesting in your services , there is a lot of website to offer remote job like weworkremotly or freelancers .i think it depends in your skills
How does it perform in bad weather?
Definitely better than buying an age-old iPad 2. It ought to be significantly cheaper than the cheapest iPad Air though,otherwise it wouldn't make much sense. Although, if they're priced really close, people might just force themselves to buy the iPad Air (similar to what happened with the iPhone 5c and 5s.)
To me this looks like it's based on the principle that the pilot is always in control of the aircraft as much as possible, to allow recovering from unusual failures.

Just as communications equipment can be turned off if they pose a fire risk, it should be possible to vent the plane (after descending to a breathable altitude) if the system fails and the cabin begins to overpressurise. It's probably worse than depressurising since it could the plane to explode...
Google wants to let Android and iOS gamers play together
> A simple and obvious example would be an infinite runner game where the winning input is a certain rhythm of spacebar presses, and a musical rhythm game that requires the same rhythm of spacebar presses.

Sounds like BIT.TRIP Runner.
If I've learnt nothing else over the last 25 years, I've at least learnt that 99.99% of analysts couldn't find their arse if you not only gave them a map but stapled the map to their hands, their hands to their arse, and pointed at it shouting "IT'S THERE! THERE! THERE!"

I wish I could get paid to spout nonsense all day long with no repercussions on the accuracy.
While yes,I am completely against the usage of booth babes (they don't work anyways[1]) But... I kinda feel weird about just blaming the industry as if it was a human-trafficking mafia. Booth babes aren't slaves you know... they CHOSE to work in that role. So they have a share of the blame, no?

PS: Not saying all women are to blame! But you smart intellectual ladies gotta agree that they contribute to the problem (just as the people who employ them)

[1] techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/booth-babes-dont-convert/
> Can we "downgrade" that app back to something that works, which we already had before, via the app store or otherwise?

Yes, if you plan ahead. Keep the .ipa files, those can be loaded onto the phone via iTunes.

If you've upgraded iOS, you can also downgrade that. It's a pain, you need to get the .ipsw file and store some sort of activation code.

Is this more or less of a pain than on the desktop? Well, if you want to downgrade an app on the desktop, you'll need to keep the old installer around. Same thing with an OS, you'll need to wipe and reinstall everything from the old OS installer.

It's more unexpected on iOS, because generally you never need to deal with installers, but I don't think it's more painful. It's just more painful by contrast, since upgrading is so nice on iOS.
High margins breed competition. Competition breeds innovation. Whoever is on the top of the hill at this moment is irrelevant.

If you think eBay has no competition, or there's no innovation happening in the auction space, well then you haven't even been reading the news!

eBay proved the market. That's a really big deal.
Net Neutrality: Dangerous Loopholes Remain After Key Vote in EU
> "[LinkedIn] does not sanction the creation or use of fake LinkedIn profiles or the exploitation of its platform for the purposes alleged in this report."

If I understand things correctly, it's not claimed that GHCQ made fake profiles or exploited their platform. It's possible that whoever made the statement didn't really understand MITM, but this kind of reads like another one of the usual carefully worded non-denials.

Full paragraph in the article:

When contacted, LinkedIn stated that the company takes the privacy and security of its members "very seriously" and "does not sanction the creation or use of fake LinkedIn profiles or the exploitation of its platform for the purposes alleged in this report." "To be clear," the company continued, "LinkedIn would not authorize such activity for any purpose." The company stated it "was not notified of the alleged activity."
ideabile - is a Italian word to say doable.
"None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that." ... but I'm not promising we won't!
> If

And if not? Maybe they just all want to hire real hackers (however you define real). Maybe they want to hire people who have been programming since their early teens, which most women and blacks haven't been (or so it seems). I'm trying to tell you that where I am is not because I'm white, but because I sacrificed a lot in order to become a good programmer. My belief is that there is not discrimination, the employers and VCs just want the best, which usually happen to be white males. You seem to see things differently.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secur... lists those that firefox currently trusts.

How many of them are not amenable to some government somewhere? 0.

And how many would GCHQ have to compromise to get deniable MITM? 1.
Nice buy.

Microsoft, buy Unity next and you are set for the next 5 years.
I have in plan to do a better optimization for the mobile, and I will with the time, but for now I just need to show other technologies, and find a job.

Sorry if your mobile experience was frustrated.
Using heavy javascript computation in low performant mobiles, isn't the same as playing Playstation 4 games on a Playstation 3?

You will need to go Playstation 3 native for performance, otherwise, you will not be able to do much computation.
"Any problem in computer science
can be solved with another level of indirection."
I'm not denying its illegality but morally it's less wrong.
Needs a 2011 tag
You really think the government should force eBay to give their crown jewels to their competitors?

You know a company is made of people right?

Look, you can always foster competition in an industry. But I would personally stop short of enslaving people to produce a product for their competitors.
This was posted in 2011. Zynga is barely relevant anymore.
A founder's visa should be opened up to a class of people. In this beta testing case, it would be open to a class of people who get selected with YC or are interested in YC. That's a very limited view from a governance perspective. The only ones who should have such power are USCIS and Consulate Officers. USCIS should work with incubators for the judging criteria. There should be another criteria for start ups who want to go without a sponsoring incubator as well.

In addition, not sure what the visa status will be during the three month funding cycles. That alone limits a lot of options. A F-1 student or a H1B employee cannot create a start up and apply to YC even though they are in US because they can't leave their status for 3 months.
What does fair use have to do with patents?
As outlined in the NSA recruitment audio, the term "adversary" includes everyone - not just terrorists. There is nobody who is not considered to be an "adversary", so that includes commercial rivals too.
Almost more international == just a little less international
> I never understand those people in bars who get into fights with others who say something they deem offensive. What a waste of time. Sure you might change the view of 1 in a 100, but that's 100 shitty nights out you've had. What's the point?

If they back down, they'll look weak. Looking weak can be a survival issue for some people, (or more commonly seems to be felt like one even when it's not,) especially if they don't have much faith in the rules of fair play.
CA's can issue or lose intermediate certificates that they shouldn't. These have been detected at least 3 times when these technically valid but never before seen certificate chains are used for google.com/yahoo.com/microsoft.com etc.

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/enhancin...
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/detecting-certificate-autho...
http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/root-ca-polic...
I

- don't use Chrome (and won't change that)

- don't own an iOS device (and won't get one)

Netflix doesn't exist here for all I can tell and all alternatives are utterly broken. I haven't even looked at Popcorn Time for now (to avoid 'Ah, you just want to defend your decision' arguments), but there is no way to watch movies or tv series here¹. None.

The best potential option: Buy DVDs or similar media. They usually tend to come with just a bit of sillyness (really? unskippable parts?) and include the original audio most of the time. That means that you wait aeons to get your hand on the content though and you generate garbage. Because .. usually I watch a movie/series once.

1: With my requirements being: Original version (not dubbed), more or less recent (i.e. not gazillion years behind the US, just because) and accessible on my devices (can be streamed to my xmbc setup for example).
Imagine how the world would be if people like MP where not like MP.
Does that mean that K syntax could grow on me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)

For this old C programmer, Python proved to have the most friendly syntax.
I write Ember applications using CoffeeScript plus ES6 module extensions, and everything gets transpiled down to JavaScript. And yet, I find it pretty easy to debug the generated code: It looks more-or-less like what I wrote, it's nicely indented, and there's just a little extra boilerplate here and there.

Do you have any reason to believe that the Traceur compiler generates unreadable output with Angular?
> - the otherwise unbelievable delays and pure misinformation by the Malaysian government. Stalling for time.

Except that this is exactly how the Malaysian government usually operates. I have lived there for a year and can tell you that the Malaysian government is incompetent. Also they are used to talking to the local media which they control (and who is also incompetent).

> the fact that they did not publicly do background checks on all passengers until recently. They already know who the hijacker is. Now that there is pressure because of elapsed time and that people are seeing holes in the story, they need to be seen to be doing something.

See above.
If what he's saying here is true, then Facebook would have had no reason to spend all that money acquiring Whatsapp.
So when we will see new page for the project build by community?
It's easy for us to judge now. But if you read this article when it came out, you wouldn't be so sure. This is the reason why not many analysts publish reports that are contrary to "common" opinion. Because if everyone is wrong, then it's fine, but if it's just that analyst - that's not good for them. We should appreciate that this analyst tried to have a critical point of view.
Of course no one saw it coming. Especially the media.

But "Will Fail"? Please. That stands as a terrible headline, no matter what.
>I don't understand why anyone would feel that the "Google Chef" scenario was a problem

This feels like classism to me. I think they'd have the same issue with a support worker or even QA making the same payday, no matter what their contribution was. Being compensated for taking risks is "for people like them".
Or just pirate it - using a VPN is against Netflix' TOS, so since you'll be in the wrong either way, there's no reason for doing it the expensive way.

I like what Netflix does, but as long as region locks exist (not Netflix' fault, of course) there won't be a service that's both good and legal.
Addy launches Trak: Delightful delivery management
Why Haskell is important for research
> networkx is Python 3 compatible, by the way.

So it is. I'm not sure why I couldn't find that six months ago while I was looking.

Also, I don't mean to imply that people should be discouraged from using Python 3. Like I said, I want to use it myself, and would be if I hadn't ran into problems.
> Develop in Visual Studio using Xamarin for iOS and Android while writing in C#, now the incremental cost to also developing for WinPhone is much, much lower

You are counting the cost delta between writing C# for iOS and Android, something that is not that common, and also writing for Windows Phone. Most teams I know of prefer to write their code using the native toolkits. For them, writing in C# would be an extra cost. Few see writing equivalent code in Objective-C and Java as prohibitive because it's very common to host the bulk of the functionality on servers and only run UI code on the mobile client. UI code has traditionally been non-portable.

For those who are already writing their mobile apps in C# for whatever reason, porting to Windows Phone is already easier than porting from Objective-C or Java.
The Legal Limbo of Lyft, Uber, and NYC's Dollar Vans
My pet peeve with Bundler (and Rubygems) is the explosion in stat calls resulting from having to look in a larger and larger set of directories for each loaded Gem as your Gemfile grows.

For one of my larger Ruby apps I resorted to saving a copy of $LOAD_PATH before initializing Bundler, and then using some hacks to reset $LOAD_PATH to the basic load path + the results of grep'ing the "post Bundler" load path for each of the relevant gems and its dependencies, so that each require only worked on the minimal required $LOAD_PATH. The result cut down the number of stat calls from 100k+ on startup to <20k without any other changes, and cut tens of seconds of the startup time....

The stuff I did is a giant hack, but frankly Bundler needs serious work there - for almost all Ruby code I've worked on, poor load path handling in Rubygems and Bundler accounts for 90%+ of startup time.
If you want to validate a bearer token, multiple backends in different datacenters need to share a datastore that replicates at least somewhat fast. If you use HMAC-Signed URLS you just need to replicate the API keys that you use to calculate the token and the required guarantees are lower than for a bearer token. In principle, the method is sound - AWS uses a similar approach for signed URLs that allow access to S3 resources.
This report argues that private prisoner percentages are much higher if you include all forms of state detention[1], eg "more than half of Louisiana’s 40,000 inmates are housed in prisons run by sheriffs or private companies as part of a broader financial incentive scheme."

I don't think it's as easy as blaming the voters. The political system seems caught in a negative feedback loop, greased by lobbyist money and with no clear offramp.

[1] http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-u.s.s-g...
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Why do you think this is? I mean, assuming you think this is more the case in Australia than it is in other places.
Hey, thanks! They're there now.
provided you have whatsapp and facebook on your phone the following happens though.

1. they both know your mobile phone book.

2. they both know your imei

3. they both know your phone number(this doesn't have to be the same by the time you sign up for the other)

just no.1 is already enough to get an accurate estimate on who the person is. notice how they never said that they didn't log that information?

it's also very unlikely that they don't have access logs to their service, which usually includes ip's i.e. location, but for all we know they could be encoding carrier information in a couple of bytes during the transmission of the contact list.

edit: while the mobile ip's don't give you exact information, they still give you enough heuristics to overlap them with other services
http://www.ractivejs.org/
It's debatable how much of this we can honestly attribute to the military--

Leó Szilárd and Enrico Fermi patented the idea of a nuclear reactor in 1933. The military didn't invent it.

Christian Hülsmeyer was a German inventor and entrepreneur. He was the first to use radio waves to detect "the presence of distant metallic objects"; he got a patent for his "Telemobiloscope" in 1904. The military didn't invent it.

The first patent for using a gas turbine to power an aircraft was filed in 1921 by Frenchman Maxime Guillaume. This predates the RAF's patent by 11 years.

Richard Drew invented Scotch tape and masking tape in the 1920s. In 1927, J&J invented cloth tape for medical uses. So far no military involvement. Then in 1943, Vesta Stoudt, an ordnance factory worker, thought to add waterproof plastic to J&J's cloth tape, making the first duct tape, and that's the extent of the military involvement. Duct tape was later improved in 1960 by an HVAC engineer by making it flame resistant. Seems that the military role in developing duct tape was rather minimal, and would have been made eventually by the free market.

There are serious issues trying to pin down who invented the first gunpowder rockets and for what purpose. Seems likely gunpowder was invented by Taoist alchemists seeking an elixir for immortality, and that the very first application of gunpowder rockets was fireworks for entertainment.

Writing for the WSJ in July 2012, Gordon Crovitz questioned "Who Really Invented the Internet?" at http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044446430...
> Netflix is cheap, has a large selection, is available in several countries and its geo-block is easy to bypass with a Chrome plugin

As I said in a different comment, bypassing the geo-block is against Netflix' TOS, so is not legal either. Ideally you could say "but my money goes to the rights holder eventually, so it's better than nothing", which I think it's ok. However, given that you are still liable for watching the movie illegally, you are literally giving money to the studios and getting nothing in return: you already have the movie for free but you lack the license to watch it, and bypassing the geo-block means you are not getting that.
I actually worked at Bloomberg when this article came out (in product). While he was writing this in the news organisation, we were busy providing one of the launch apps for the iPhone under strict confidentiality. Also, 5 of my colleagues queued up for hours to buy them on the first day ... one actually bought two - one to keep as a collectors' item.
Slowly but surely re-implementing enterprise java in rails...
Fleep
I am sure one will pop up as a tor hidden service any minute now.