skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see the non-vectorized Python version with a @jit annotation. (That is, from the Numba package: http://numba.pydata.org/)
note that it does not really matter whether you are one of Orange's customers or not as they operate many of the inner and outbound backbones.
Wouldn't an easy way to find this guy be to publish an altered version of his designs and see if you get a CnD letter?
As an ex Flash developer all I can say is this: Stick with open source and find an up facing trend.

BTW fuck Adobe.
Attempts To Fix HN Comment Problems
It makes you wonder how good his reality distortion field would have been without the vast dick-mitigation cloud that bubbled around it. Jobs owes a lot of his success to some very nice people.
It is. A commentor who only makes 10 comments worth 100 points each is valued as much as a commentor that's made 100 comments valued at 10 points.
This is exactly why Whatsapp got so popular. It's just MMS with few improvements (better image/video/sound quality) and at no price (well, 0.99€/year now, but it used to be free for most of its life).

It even has the same very low barrier to entry - You don't need to explicitly add contacts, it takes everything directly from your address book, which is likely already full of your friends/people you know. Hell, you don't even need to create a new account, it validate automatically your phone number with an sms. While this is awful privacy-wise, and kill the possibility of an easy-to-setup desktop client, it makes everything really easy for everyone, especially those that use their smarthphones for most of their online tasks (which seems to be a big group growing every year).

Nothing more, nothing less.
So probably not Diodes then.

It's interesting how this is boils down to existing malware strategies but with a how to. They're probably not going to type this stuff up in a wiki anymore going forward, shift to in-person training and word-of-mouth.
But the economy doesn't want them, or is unable to utilize them under present conditions.

Capitalist corporations don't want/are unable to utilize them. Don't confuse them with the economy which is far more grandiose and inclusive than that. There are millions of ways for humans to create value for other people, most of which would be unprofitable for capitalist corporations to pursue.
Definitely, it's a shift all intelligent companies are making. Google has been relatively vocal about hiring quality people regardless of degree or quality of school i.e. ivy league.
> Is it just me or does it seem like the new cool thing to do is talk about how much of a prick Steve was and how amazing Woz is?

It's now new for me -- I've been saying it for years. After a brief exposure to Jobs in the late 1970s when Apple was a new company, I refused to work with him thereafter. I turned down a number of job offers from Apple over the years because I knew I would have to work with Jobs, or near him, or some approximation thereof. Unacceptable.

Some people found it possible to work with him, but IMHO that marked them as born narcissistic enablers.
Having done many different things I'm currently quite happy "building things to make others wealthy whilst (I) earn (bit more than) £30,000 a year". The reason I like it is because I'm surrounded by managers and other people who's job it is to run interference for me and make sure I can really focus as much as possible on what I find interesting and not be distracted by the necessities of trying to run a profitable company. All I have to do all day is hack and solve problems.
Fuck you.

Seriously - the world is not as black and white as you would want it to be... we do not need regulation of every single little aspect of our lives.

Have you fucking eaten at restaurants in SF? Try Sam Woo you asshole - that place was an SF legend; and it was one of the most disgusting places.
I work in an awesome environment where we have half a web dev team in the office and half in France and Poland. We actually prefer it that way.
Interesting article. We use Google Maps to lay out a list of Manufacturers for hardware companies (http://protoexchange.com/#!/directory)- we use Google's API + Angular.

This article might have us reconsider OpenLayer!
Link to download “fountain.mod”: http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&que...
Did anyone else think of the XKCD comic on new standards?

https://xkcd.com/927/
Two words: counterparty risk.

If GameStop goes under, I don't know where "customers who have pre-orders" end up on the line of 'creditors'.
Thanks!
No I am not currently working as a developer, I am a rcent graduate (biz/econ) and have grown tired of chasing after unicorns (technical co-founders)

I think that I would need to take some remedial CS courses to even be eligible for the Georgia Tech program now that I look at it, and will probably go the hacker school route. Not having the masters afterwards will be a drag, but I hope that it can bring me up to competent quickly!

Good luck with teaching and thanks again for the reply!
That's always a possibility, but I think most people who build his designs don't know how they work. High-quality audio reproduction isn't mysterious, but it's not trivial either. One must have a good sense of how and why amplifiers distort signals. That limits the possible candidates for a new design and assures that many will simply build a proven design they don't understand.
>You can downvote this comment all you want; it doesn't change the fact that preliminary hearings have been a basic part of US criminal jurisprudence for decades, functioning more or less exactly as described above.

Neither does it change the fact that preliminary hearings do NOT solve the problem he describes.
IE6/7 yes. I've had to support those too because they are still in use in some places. That's why I said "any of the browsers shown"...all of which are multiple generations behind IE6/7.
The Concept of Mass
Sorry for hijacking this, but can anyone that know someone at DuckDuckGo ask them to change !hn from http://hnsearch.com/ to http://hn.algolia.com/ ?

I've already contacted them with the form on their site a week or so ago, but it's still using the old search, which is not working anymore now.

Again, sorry for the hijack, but posting requests over here seems to be the fastest way to have something done.
Gladly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7225589

It was more the thread in total than any single comment, but literally, that whole page was all but invisible to search just a few days ago.
Microsoft Sweetens 'Buy a New PC' Deal for Windows XP Users with $100 Savings
The other nice thing: you could actually get lawyers to work on the grounds of "you only pay if we win" for criminal cases. This would, presumably, mean "state-provided" defense lawyers would be the best available, as opposed to whoever they can scrounge up as a public defender.

Also, presumably, the cost of good legal defense should be less than the $20,000 cost/year for incarceration.
NSA hacks the Chinese telecom giant's servers
The way the laws are these days, everybody is. Of course, so are the ones not dragged in.
I would argue that there are yet some cultural impediments to labor market efficiency in SV:

- People don't want to look like, think of themselves as, or hire those that just in it for the money. It would be incredibly crass and uncool to change jobs just for salary, it should only be about caring more about something.

- Time-consuming and unpredictable hiring processes inhibit switching. There is probably a better company for most people somewhere, you know you might switch if you could predict whether you were going to get an offer. But if takes 3 days of vacation time for all-day interviews, and you have absolutely no idea whether you would be accepted or if you will happen to know the CS trivia they'll happen to ask, and you probably won't because of the supposed false negative bias, maybe not.

Finance sector, on the other hand, has to hire super geniuses willing to work 120 hours a week because to do otherwise would be to admit that most of what they do is dumb luck, defeating the whole façade.
Turkey Moves To Block Twitter At The IP Level
Pehaps it's more that the ones that make themselves visible are like that? I've known a couple of people in that social group that were quite ethical and concerned people. They didn't spend a lot of their time drawing attention to themselves, though. Not to say the the 'quiet' ones are all like that, just that perhaps there's something in pandering to the media that correlates with the 'public, sociopath' ones.

I don't really move in those circles though, so it's not like the people I do know are necessarily representative.
Hm, I remember there was a thing called Opera Mini (8-10 years ago?). It worked in a similar way so that you could browse web using old basic cellphones.

It was quite popular in Eastern Europe where having computer with Internet access was something out of reach for a large fraction of population. I was using Nokia 3510i for that purpose :)
I don't see the how part as something worth getting into. It's also dependant on the technological advancements and makeup of society at the time change starts to happen.

It took centuries for the monetary systems to develop with many bumps a long the way. That will also need to happen in a resource managed economy.
Zuckerberg, Musk, and Kutcher Want to Build You a New Brain
Make sense, I removed the useless link on stories and polls (keep it on comments, in order to jump on the associated comment in the HN thread using an anchor). I also deployed a CSS enhancement regarding the rendering error, is it better?
>We allow multiple charges today because a person can be guilty of multiple different crimes for the same act.

There is no logical necessity that "multiple different crimes for the same act" HAVE to be tried in the same trial, which was the whole point of what he said.

>Your suggestion makes no sense. It would incentivize people to commit as many crimes simultaneously as possible, knowing that they could only ever be charged for one of them.

Again you tollaly miss not only the point, but also his suggestion completely. He doesn't say a person has to be charged with "only one" of the crimes he did, but that each crime charge should have it's own trial proceedings.
I'm a fan of Marcus' work; I would have backed this even if it was half as useful. Given how great it is, I didn't even need to worry about that. :) Looking forward to receiving mine!
> Assuming there aren't illegal anti-poaching agreements, market forces operate in SV the same way they operate in the finance sector to drive up salaries of talented employees.

Isn't the entire point of this debacle that there are anti poaching agreements, however?
How Your Data is Stored, or, The Laws of the Imaginary…
I asked for the update submitting the newbang form (https://duckduckgo.com/newbang), no reply so far. Help is really welcome :/
The Netherlands paves the way for carrier-free SIM cards
A qualified developer with basic social skills and hygiene habits should have no fear of a full time job's lack of control. Yes, we go through minor hiccups in the hiring market every decade or so, but even in those, all of my friends who were actually good had no issues if they wanted to move jobs.

Get good at development, if that's your thing. It will help you whether you do a startup or work for someone else. (It's also a lot more fun, IMO.)
"Innocent until proven guilty" is simply an admonishment given to juries because many law-and-order types assume that defendants are guilty simply because they are being tried. Legally, a person is simply "not guilty" unless and until they are proven guilty.

"Innocence" is a specific legal term which means that person is not only "not guilty" but further that there is sufficient proof that they did not commit the crime alleged.
"The idea is that you'll have an authentication server (or it could be part of your core API) which is responsible for giving users their token. Once a user has a token, they can hit any of the applications, and the application can very easily check the validity of the token before deciding what to do with the request."

Are people really trying to reinvent Kerberos just so they can use the familiar JSON?
Bet that works real well for paying bills / making online purchases
Turing's paper [PDF]: http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing....
I have a PayPal link on my site requesting donations, and for whatever reason, a lot of people donate money. That's all there really is to it. It's linked from my twitter page, so maybe generous people who enjoy reading my posts there stumble across it.
Oh. Well that's fair. You actually met him. So you can make a judgment. I'm sorry to hear that.

I just find it a bit annoying how people that never met him find it cool to dog him. I've found that among people that actually met him they either looked up to him and saw him as a bold and charismatic character or they hated him with a passion.
Absolutely. There's no reason a keyboard should be necessary to play. I'd much rather use a mouse.
If he's gone, the solution sounds like to ignore his license.
This is sort of a tangent question but is relevant to Nashorn and server side JavaScript execution. Is there a standard practice for sandboxing server side JavaScript execution?

I'm asking because my product has what I call "Smart Attributes" which are basically programmable context aware metadata. These "Smart Attributes" are designed to be attached to a Git commit, GitHub pull request, diff lines, etc. and can be programmed in JavaScript to react to what it is attached to.

In the beginning I gave the user the ability to execute their Smart Attribute scripts on the server side but I eventually removed that option because I didn't have the time to fully think it through. Basically I was paranoid about missing something that would allow them to do dangerous things on the server. This was a couple of years ago and I was using Rhino from Mozilla.

Now that Nashorn is available, I've been thinking about JavaScript server side execution again, and was wondering if there were any best practice sandboxing methods and/or libraries. If anybody knows of any good documentation or libraries for sandboxing in Nashorn, I would love to hear about it.
UK Government now provides public data free via API
This is a positive step for everyone. The present carrier practice reminds me of the awful 19th century stories about mining towns where the workers were paid in company script instead of money, and the script was only redeemable at the company store. That meant the workers could be cheated endlessly (not knowing the real value of things expressed in a universal currency) and they also couldn't simply leave (because the company wouldn't redeem their own script for money).

Today's cell phone carriers are the modern equivalent of a predatory company town at its worst. Let's hope this idea catches on.
2048: The Nihilistic Face Of Free To Play
It's strident and biased (and makes no attempt to hide either) but IMO it's quite informative. I've learned a lot about C++ from it.
It's got a built-in battery charger and can also run from a wall wart without using batteries at all. The reason the external power supply has to be AC is that it needs dual negative and positive power supply rails, which it gets from rectifying the AC and using that to charge a pair of batteries. Cheap, easy, and in theory gives decent audio performance.

If you read NwAvGuy's blog, the modifications necessary to run it off DC are pretty much exactly what he wouldn't want people to do.
It's interesting to note that Turing, Von Nueman, and Konrad Zuse all moved into studying cellular automata in their later years. Conway is famous for his game of life, but but Turings work consisted of this morphogensis thing, and Von Nueman created a self replicating automata. I don't recall what Zuse's work consisted of. Also interesting, Wolfram mentions none of their work in his book, "A New Kind of Science".
I doubt Gamestop accountants are too thrilled about having to do extra work, or potentially be accused of money laundering or running an unlicensed money transmitted business.

They can put an end to this overnight by having a simple TOC having to be signed on every preorder. In US you wouldn't want to break TOC...
Depending on which license the software uses, you might be violating the license terms. For example, the GNU GPL states:

"You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all recipients a copy of this License along with the Program."[1]

[1] https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
There are 17877 different data sets that can be accessed (at time of posting): http://data.gov.uk/data/search
> Npm has a huge number of customers

> VC has good reason to expect a useful amount of income

I'm going to be pedantic, but within reason: users != customers. I know you mentioned that they have yet to attempt to monetize, but until they try we can't make accurate predictions on their level of revenue. I think the author is trying to say VC's aren't trying to play a game of make believe when it comes to future revenue, but rather are making the investment in the community.
Next C++ Major Standard Release to Arrive in 2017
What are your thoughts/suggestions?
Git rebase loses history, then why rebase?
Thanks for answering so many questions. And thank you bodhi and rcxdude as well! I had an idea that best practices might still be an emerging topic. My unclear question about merging was indeed about conflicts, so I'm glad to hear that the merge philosophy is to be "stupid" as rcxdude said. I'll do some more research and check those links.
Android-based touchscreen router does home automation
> filtering out everyone who wasn't a born narcissistic enabler.

Do you mean that there instances where he really listened or liked/respected/etc someone because they had similar narcissistic tendencies? I was under the impression that people like him tend to hate people like themselves -- a narcissist who thinks he's the best is at greatest odds with another narcissist who thinks he's the best.
It depends on the issue At hand. If you truly understand an issue, whether there two or twelve sides to a story, you should be able to understand and explain the positions of the major players.

That doesn't mean there is no editorial slant.

What we typically hear on modern mainstream media is reprinting of PR. Regardless of agenda, there is no understanding.
Well, this is new.
This just logged me out of my Ubuntu session.
It didn't restart, I just had to log in again.
I think he jumped the shark[0] at

> Want to shop for shoes with your friends now?

No, I definitely don't want to go shoe shopping with my friends in an SMS app.

0: http://blog.codinghorror.com/has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-sha...
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I bought Threes after first hearing about 2048.

I like 2048 better but they are very different.
> It is kind of shocking to me that the state isn't liable for defendants' legal fees in the face of an acquittal. If I sue someone in civil court on frivolous grounds, they can countersue me yet no parallel exists in the criminal realm.

That's...not really true. First, plaintiffs aren't generally liable for respondents costs in a civil suit if the plaintiff loses, so the idea that the fact that prosecuting authorities aren't responsible for defendants costs whenever the defendant is acquitted in a criminal case is unexpected given the civil parallel is bizarre.

Second, while it is possible to sue someone for abusing the system in a civil case (but just because they lost alone) and be awarded legal costs, the prevention of such abuse in the criminal system is generally provided by the early parts of the criminal process (indictment or preliminary hearing) where the the prosecution is required to demonstrate probable cause before being allowed to even proceed to trial at all.

I suppose you could make a case that a prosecution that fails to pass a preliminary hearing out to bear responsibility for the defendant's reasonable legal costs incurred to that point, and that that would be parallel to the kind of protections that exist in the civil system. You might even go farther and extend this by requiring a "preliminary hearing" reviewing the indictment even in cases where an indictment is required (where the defense would have assistance of counsel at the preliminary hearing), since in practice indictment has generally become a weaker protection than a preliminary hearing, even though its intended as a stronger protection against abuse (hence, why it is required for federal felonies.)
I think being a person with what we'll call 'vision' can be extremely successful regardless of temperament. Being an asshole is somewhat both a cause and symptom of extreme success, but it only represents the easiest path to success and, what's important to add, was only part of what made Jobs a success. Certainly he wasn't so ruthless 100% of the time and the takeaway from his success should not be to emulate only or put undue focus on this part of his character.
There is no logical necessity that "multiple different crimes for the same act" HAVE to be tried in the same trial, which was the whole point of what he said.

Of course not. But in the real world, pragmatism applies. Related crimes will almost always be tried together; it is only in extremely rare circumstances where one or more charges will be tried separately from related charges.

Again you tollaly miss not only the point, but also his suggestion completely. He doesn't say a person has to be charged with "only one" of the crimes he did, but that each crime charge should have it's own trial proceedings.

This would only be possible if the defendant waived their right to a speedy trial. The flipside to allowing only one charge per trial is that a defendant's risk of criminal punishment could extend for years for the period between arraignment (the charging hearing) and judgement (the verdict), rather than weeks or months as is the case today.
Truly the most useless website in the world 
Who would ever need these kind of instructions, besides perhaps the main character of portal...
USB Wrapper protects against juice jacking
Is there any reason to switch to pocket over Instapaper?
A few comments.

1. Why is this marked "scribd"? PDF and scribd are distinct document types/presentations. Not all PDFs need to be wrapped in a scribd context to be presentable, and as it happens this one isn't, all to the good.

2. It's a shame that this PDF is just a scan of the pages of the original, but it can't be helped -- the text would be easily scannable and convertible into text, but the equations cannot be (an unsolved scanning problem at the present time).

3. Nice article, worth reading.
Apple developing its first ever android app
There is a good rule of thumb[1]: "It has never happened yet" is an insufficient safety argument when considering scenarios which are so bad that it would be unacceptable for them to happen even once. When talking about existential risks that certainly applies!

[1] I think I read it in Trevor Kletz' book "What Went Wrong?: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters".
The question is: how are they doing this?

My money is on internal BGP route announcements that blackhole twitter's IP address as this technique has been used for IP filtering in China and Pakistan and doesn't require any special equipment or overhead.
This seems like satire to me, I wouldn't read to much into it. And I think that the fact that some people are taking it seriously just proves that it's actually pretty good satire.