skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By totem I mean a symbol of belonging to a group. It seems to me that a lot of the Bitcoin community shares a vaguely similar idea of what the future of money should be and the way to achieve that is via technology, not politics. I think that's very naive, or maybe it's nothing more than just a reaction to what seems like an impossible task. Either way, I see a lot of emotion wrapped up in what's supposed to be just a digital currency. It seems like a political movement that wants nothing to do with politics.
Security is implemented. It's encrypted to the payment processor.
The end of the era of classical kernel exploitation
Why is it irresponsible and immature?

It's an interesting puzzle. Lots of people like puzzles. Trying to figure it out is good exercise for the brain. It doesn't cause any harm. So what's the problem?
If you live in Oregon, you can now take your EV to Mount Hood and charge it while you ski: http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/OIPP/pages/inn_ev-charging.as...

Granted, it's not a supercharger, but considering that something like 25 to 30 miles of your trip home consist of un-interrupted descent (i.e. regenerative descent down a mountain), it's not too bad.
I think 'icon' fits better.
The following is speculation:

If there was an electrical fire maybe it disabled the telemetry system before the last radio comm without them knowing? I don't know all the systems on the plane and what the possibility is of an electrical fire going unnoticed for ~12 minutes. That's my only guess for why the transponder was turned off before last radio comm IF we assume this article/post's point of view is correct.
Makes sense to me. Thanks for clarification.
The best way to deal with the weather is to take up a sport that is best with lots of rain. To be fair I can only think of whitewater kayaking but it is probably the best sport ever.
I'm impressed with how good Google's uptime is. I'm always shocked when one of their services is down, even though they provide bandwidth intensive services for little to no cost.
I meant offense to your team, not you. Even though I have used profilers such as NHProf or Ants quite extensively in .NET, you hardly need to use one to understand the implications of a Linq statement - particularly an IEnumerable based one. If your team doesn't understand simple concepts like iteration or projection (and allocation) then you have an uphill battle to fight regardless of the tech you choose.
This looks slick - anyone know what the pricing will be??
Couldn't a fire in the electric turn off the telemetry minutes before it gets noticed?
Basecamp is free for teachers
They are doing research in this direction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_vacuum_plasma_thruster
This is not an interview. This is a write-up, a summary or a report, of an interview. Is that a Time/US-thing?

It's a pity, I would have enjoyed a real interview with him.
I use Notability for my daily note taking but also find Note Taker HD to be excellent. I sometimes use Penultimate (an Evernote product) as somewhat of a whiteboard, but I find its palm-rejection technology has gotten poorer with recent releases.

I just use cheap styluses/ my finger for writing, as I find that tips wear our way too quickly to spend a lot of money on one. (although I would be open to the idea of a high-end stylus with a replaceable tip)
> This might be entirely superficial of me, but I always preferred Haskell over OCaml simply because OCaml required me to type ";;" after every line.

That's easily fixed: only the toplevel requires ;; (to commence evaluation of the phrases you've typed in). Just don't use it in normal code and everything will parse fine.
the great text files framework.
Thank you for posting this. Pages like that are nice for pointing out to people who don't have issues that many of us do. I think people tend to forget that most programming languages are not single-purpose and can be used in widely varying environments for significantly different purposes.
If I could give it a shot... (Good translation but it looks like you missed a sentence)

> In the case of x86 Android, Intel plans, among other things, to allow file operations to be monitored by virus scanners by way of hooks. Such hooks would allow new files to be scanned, for example, without the Anti-Malware and Operating System having to go through what were, until now, the usual paths over the filesystem.
Service to back up and archive your GitHub repos
GDC/ARM beta 1: D Programming Language with GCC backend on the ARM processor
Well, on x86 there is already SMM and it predates ACPI by years. I believe that ARM SBSA is targeted at only servers, where even HP don't restrict access to firmware updates that solve security bugs.
Yes. For most applications, malloc is fine and when you want to reduce mallocs (pushing them out of performance critical code) usually pushing stuff up the stack is the way to go. That said, in development where C is really the right answer, malloc being a bad choice (and/or entirely unavailable, as in some embedded work) is far more common than in other programming - I think it's still a minority, though.
How would you folks rate the significance of this, let's say as far as scientific discoveries / realizations go in the last 100 years? Yes, of course this is completely subjective. I would say in the top three.
The Golem article actually only writes about the hooks of the Android OS for x86 (I can't find any mention of the processor!) but it also has the example of not allowing modded Android OS at the end of it (translated via Google Translate with minor fixes for clarity attempted by me):

"The Intel manager gave an example for why such safety features, deeply anchored into the operating system are important for Android: In the Intel network only mobile devices with certain versions of Android may use all functions. The Cyanogenmod smartphone would be able to access WLAN but not receive e-mails as such a device would be a security risk."
They had it for a while, but either Silver bought it back, or it was a time-limited license. Fivethirtyeight is affiliated with ESPN now.
I find 3.4 much easier to use, personally.

I've written several production apps in it, and the unicode fixes in particular are a much easier, as well as little things like being able to do enums.

Ultimately, they really aren't all that different- I think the differences tend to be overblown somewhat on HN.

If the course/teacher you like only teaches using 2.7, learn that. You can pick up the changes from 2.7->3.4 on your own pretty easily once you know the basic language.
Of course. Would you expect anything less from popular media?
It really depends on the circles in which you move. There are parts of Scotland where Scots are practically a minority (St Andrews) and where the accent is pretty much posh English (central Edinburgh).

I've lived in Scotland for 9 years now and have a southern English accent. I spent 4.5 years as a volunteer police officer and only once ever received any racial problems. Ironically from a very posh, and drunk, German.

The company I work for makes a huge thing of recruiting mid 30s professionals from London. If you're starting a family then moving to Edinburgh is a very easy sell, especially if you've benefited from the London property boom.
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If you're part of the private beta, please share your experience with the service so far.
This is one of the Slashdot Replacement sites (the? main one) arising from the "F#^% Beta" movement. They may or may not be called SoylentNews for long, there is some drama surrounding the domain name and a founder/former co-maintainer who has sold the domain name to (who appears to be) a benevolent/benefactor called matt_ from the userbase.
Well it is an innovative technology/platform that ranks up there with HTTP, html, tcp/ip, usenet, bittorent

Nothing as interesting has come out since 90s,
all we had since are "social networks" and "flappy bird" sigh
I'm glad that the author is picking up a new functional programming language, but choosing OCaml over Haskell because of support for the Javascript implementations strikes me as choosing a BMW over a Mercedes[0] because of the number of cupholders it has.

If you don't have a particular goal in mind (ie, "I work at Jane Street and need to be compatible with our existing code"), there are a number of other factors in the OCaml vs. Haskell discussion that are far more important.

> JS is the only realistic way to write web apps

Javascript is the only realistic way to write the front-end of webapps. But that doesn't mean you're wedded to it for your backend technology. And I don't think either OCaml or Haskell have sufficiently advanced DOM bindings, etc. that I'd recommend using either one for client-side work in the browser.

[0] I'm not sure if this is a flamewar topic for car nerds - my point is to pick two high-end luxury cars that are both well-respected and each have their own merits.
What is it with the ad-hominem attacks today? I am probably a sloppy thinker and possibly a very bad one, but luckily I've received some very good education, and in this particular case I didn't even need to think at all. I simply informed readers that by modern definitions of sexism, absence of women from places of influence equals sexism (at least somewhere in society if not at a particular workplace). I am certainly not invested in this... oh, wait, actually, you're right, I am – I'm a feminist (or, at least, I'd like to be) and I want to live and work in a more egalitarian society. If you take any issue with this thinking, I'm kindly pointing you to the last 50 years of research in history, sociology and anthropology and the relevant researchers. Take it up with them (but don't tell them they're emotional as they'll take offense because, you know, they're emotional).

And, again, I'm sorry for my sloppy thinking, but I believe that "consider whether there is discrimination against Down Syndrome sufferers amongst tenured faculty on math departments" is not a counterexample because pertinent disability most certainly doesn't fall under any definition of sexism/racism and other unfair discrimination (same goes for quadriplegics in the NBA). Pitting disability against sexism as a counterexample appeared to me to be a brow-raising comparison. This fallacy is called reductio ad absurdum or a straw man.

If you'd like, I can come up with a better counterpoint (or so it would seem to my feeble mind, which I actually had to exercise for this): white players in the NBA. However, that, too, would not fall under the modern definition for racism, as racism (like sexism) is "prejudice + power", and I don't think anyone suggests white men lack power or influence in American sports.

And if I was sloppy by not qualifying the term "a well defined group of people" to exclude disability, forgive me, I thought it was patently clear from the context, namely a discussion on women. And please don't try to counter with discrimination against those who don't know programming or village idiots, because the definition excludes that kind of "discrimination", too, and I hope that's clear enough without me quoting vast amounts of research verbatim.
FOBO (YC S11) – Typescript, Web – Efficient market for local used goods
We’re a small team of developers rethinking the way people buy and sell things locally. We're building a product in a multi-billion dollar market, and are well on our way to profitability ($1M run-rate after only 6 weeks).

We're built on Parse, with a native iOS client, and use Haskell, typescript and coffeescript on the backend. We're looking for talented individuals with experience or interest in this stack. Client-side web will be our most immediate engineering hire, so experience with Backbone, ember, etc., preferred.

This is a key technical hire, with significant equity and lots of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder in their next role.

FOBO has raised $1.6M from a number of top-tier investors such as YC, Kevin Rose, Dave Morin, Joshua Schachter, Chris Sacca, Tim Ferris, Index, Greylock, et al., based in San Francisco's mission district. If you'd like to hear more please send your github profile or something you've built to jobs@fobo.net, or visit us at http://www.fobo.net
IRCv3 Specification Drama
For me its about being represented slightly more than we currently are, with the London centric politics of Great Britain.

One arse in charge of 6 million is 10x more democratic than one arse in charge of 60 million.
I think you're right, icon is a better choice.
Only if I can convince my friends to use it.
How To Test Code that uses HTTP APIs
Unfortunately within that GitHub issue, it didn't include the discussion from
the official #ircv3 channel: http://pastebin.com/Jm1vSWLu

This discussion really shows the unprofessionalism involved by certain individuals: threats to sabotage the project, the threat of attacking fellow members. These kinds of bullying activities should be exposed.
A friend-of-a-friend has the "science religion"---he seems to try to claim that what we "know" now is the closest to absolute truth that we could possibly get, and would therefore make the claim from the article with a straight face. (He seems unfazed by comments that some new discovery tomorrow might invalidate what we "know" now and seems to think that what we would learn would simply be more absolutely true.)

Me, I'm of the opposite philosophy and understand that everything I think I know now is probably wrong. It's just slightly not-as-wrong as last week.
You really think they have to sustain downtime in order to update some software?
If you're in Scotland, you already know it exists and would automatically be looking locally. I see the London meetup as "poaching" people to come to Scotland.

I'm moving to work in Scotland myself very soon. I've got a weird range of reactions from people here in the south of England; people are sort of suprised to learn that Scotland has electricity let alone a tech industry.

The most effective recruiting strategy would be to ask people what they're currently paying to live in London and how tiny a flat it is, then show them the corresponding 3 bedroom house / Georgian townhouse they could get for the same money.
A rise in productivity around the globe incoming.
Reddit.com/r/adventures is a good one. Also check out explorersweb.com and explorersconnect.com
love this tool. We use it a lot @musixmatch
Nah, deep fried Pizza used to be what In got as a kid before the chip shops got proper pizza ovens. Just soaked up the oil...
Cue the "strange yellow object seen in sky" headlines tomorrow :-)

Edinburgh seems to be doing really well for startups this past few years, beyond the retail banks and life/pensions players, which is great to see. Glasgow has some big financials that seem to disproportionately dominate the job market - not a bad thing, lots of interesting and (in places) deep technical work to be had, but obviously it's not to everyone's taste culturally.
Just thinking about how I use onenote. Getting stuff into Onenote via an API is much more useful than getting stuff out of it via API.
For me Scala has been the not-quite-as-good-as-haskell-but-more-industrially-acceptable language. I'd be very interested to see a more neutral comparison of functional languages for compile-to-JS, because if anything Haskell seems more popular for that - I hadn't heard anything about compiling OCaml to JS before this.
And yet they're doing a completely awful job of it.

They spent a week searching the wrong ocean for the plane. They had the thing on radar showing definitively that it was nowhere near the initial search area. They had satellite data showing it continued flying for hours after the supposed last contact.

I imagine the experts are not to blame here. But whoever is managing them is doing a terrible job of it.

Yeah, this amateur speculation is not useful. But at least it's not actively harmful. How much time and money was wasted searching the Gulf of Thailand before these clowns finally admitted that it was evident the plane wasn't anywhere near there? How much time was lost that could have been used to search places where the plane might actually be?

Decrying amateur speculation on the internet is silly. People are going to waste time regardless. Would you rather they do mental exercises or just look at cat memes? If you want to get upset at somebody related to MH370, there are far better targets.
The above was early morning crankiness but I really wasn't talking about that, I was talking about the other failures.
Considering the first half: your are playing their game, isn't it? (something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEv1L4MCHj8)
"The problems that Nethack is having are basically self-inflicted. They opted to use setjmp and longjmp to emulate exceptions. So they don't have a good way of cleaning up things they malloc'ed. setjmp and longjmp are basically a way of implementing a cross-function "goto". it's just as bad as it sounds. Not to mention, they use a lot of functions like sprintf that have basically been banned by everyone else in the world. Hopefully they're not using gets()..."

Not that I'd actually recommend it without significantly more investigation, but it's occurred to me that one could probably build a usable and reasonably safe framework around setjmp and longjmp where when you setjmp you create a context with which you can register cleanup actions (possibly coupled with a region allocator) to be run when something longjmps. I'm not actually sure the kind of constraints that would motivate this, though, without a clearer picture of what the code would look like.
The Future of Gamification in TV
I think the article brings up some important points that everyone in the TV and Brand world needs to be aware of if they aren't already. I wrote it :)
Such short news he brought them, too!

"It's 5σ at .2"

His wife, also a theoretical physicist - blank stare "Discovery?" - immediately melts into a hug.

What a great thing, to be able to see the human side, makes you all warm and fuzzy for human progress.
I think this is a lousy defense of Bitcoin. I cringe whenever I read "oh it's new technology of course people will be scared!" or worse yet, "you must be jealous because you didn't get in on the ground floor." I think it's a really cool technology but the economics don't make a lot of sense. There are a few major issues I see:

-What problem does it solve? Many claim that it's a more efficient way to transfer money, but after paying high spreads & fees on illiquid exchanges or a place like coinbase, it doesn't look so good. International wires are expensive but paying 30 bps each way in exchange fees plus enormous spread concessions to trade even relatively small amounts like $1mm USD are much more expensive.

-What backs it other than speculation? Scarcity itself does not imply value. I don't see a significant "bitcoin economy" out there. Yes, you can buy things with them, but most of these things are priced in dollars. Sellers are accepting bitcoins only because they can sell them for USD, EUR, etc. to speculators. They have no particular attachment to bitcoins themselves and could just as easily accept another crypto currency provided speculators were active enough in the market. How many people are paid a salary or renting an apartment for a fixed amount of BTC per month?

-Many bad actors in the market with little regulation. There have been numerous scams and untrustworthy exchanges out there. It's like taking a trip back to the depression-era bucket shops.

-Consumer unfriendly: the average "man on the street" can't secure his wallet file and even many technically sharp people have been ripped off. Non-reversible transactions aren't a positive for most users and requiring traders to use an escrow service further increases costs. Network can't handle high transaction volumes and sellers need to wait for confirmations or risk fraud, so the use case of everyone buying their morning coffee with bitcoin seems shaky.

-Extreme volatility and lack of liquidity make it a poor store of value or unit of record, two things that are extremely important in a currency. Yes most government issued currencies experience inflation, but I can keep my paycheck in the bank for months or years without its value changing wildly, and I know what a loaf of bread costs in USD within a tight range.

Some of these are fixable and I see some growth potential in micropayments or as a money transfer mechanism for people who don't have access to traditional financial institutions, but what is the general purpose use case? What can I do with bitcoin that I can't with paypal or even a bank account (many let you instantly transfer money these days for no/low fees to pay friends, landlords, etc.)?
In my (limited) experience, any company that is so obsessed with social tends to be filled with idiots.
I don't know. I still struggle to use async/await for, for example, async reading from file. It is not that easy, actually.

I have to disagree to you also on the ground that almost everything in Haskell is (and many important things in Erlang are) async without any annotations. Haskell is lazy and that alone makes many operations "asynchronous", so to say. It's run-time system is heavily threaded and employs work stealing to fit millions of green threads into several system threads.

You can write your own scheduler [1] for your purposes, if you please. As fine grained as you want it to.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/meta-par

In fact, .Net is years behind of Haskell and Erlang. Just because it borrows features from Haskell (and other languages) libraries and bolts them into language.

The difference here is that things in libraries are first-class, you can create them at run-time. That does not often apply to language constructs.
I think these may just be the limitations of it being a 1.0 release. The Windows version has all of these features.
Is this site working for anybody? It's been down all morning for me despite others seemingly able to access it.
Are the power and electronics embedded in the skin for a specific reason? I would much rather have a plug in my head and have all of the electronics and battery external.

I would want a flesh colors cap for the plug for when it's unplugged, don't want anyone trying to plug headphones into me.
It's being reported[1 - NYT] that the 107 "turn off time" is inaccurately quoted. It wasn't that the system was turned off at 107, as much as the next expected report at 137 was not received. This leaves a 30 minute window during which the system was disabled. Note also that the last voice communication was at 119, so it could have been disabled after that. We simply do not know.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/world/asia/malaysia-airlin...
You don't make any room for exercise? That's going to hurt you down the road. Your health is all you really own in life.