skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using the NDK is already such a pain in the ass (we are using pjsip in some of our apps) that I couldn't imagine why I would want to switch from C to Go, which isn't even officially supported.

And you have to consider that soon everyone will switch to the Gradle build system, which adds amazing possibilities, but also adds a lot of complexity with build types and product flavors on top of the existing complexity with the NDK.
Senegal seals borders as Guinea Ebola epidemic kills dozens
This is another great perspective on the deal, that of profit and concerns for the product.

The second point raised, making a profit on the Rift, is an interesting one and definitely one that I think is key to the future of the Rift as a great product, but I wonder if it's a move that suits Facebook at all. All of their experience is with adverts, none with consumer products, and at Facebook's size, will selling the Rift actually support the company at all?
You can call Go from C, but the process main entry point must still be Go's, since that's the only way to launch its runtime. So technically you could embed it, but then you wouldn't be able to do any allocations or running goroutines.
I am currently reading Commodore - a company on the edge. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the early days of microprocessors, the 6502, MOS Technology, Chuck Peddle, et cetera.
There are many problems. I’ll try to explain two:

> The Universal Account (TUA):

> [...]

> TUA can make a payment only in the following situations:

> [...]

> X's account balance = 0 at t. Any additional transactions outgoing from X at t are drawn from TUA.

When your wallet is empty, you can continue to make payments! Perhaps you can’t make payments directly, but pay indirectly with the other type of transactions. I suppose this works unless TUA is empty, but in this case TUA will be empty all the time. And there will be a lot of bots trying to empty it just in case.

Most of the transactions can be implemented as a strange Bitcoin/AltCoin wallet: Payment is easy. Support, Endorsement and Coupling are just a matter of sending the correct amount at the correct time. Even the balance cap can be implemented as a voluntary automatic payment. The strange part is the Inhibition transaction.

> Inhibition is a two-sided transaction over some duration t. If X inhibits Y over t, then X reduces the income or expenses of Y over t by some proportion i. By inhibiting Y, X effectively reduces the impact that Y has on the Strangecoin network by i over t by forfeiting that proportion of income and expense. To initiate the transaction, X specifies Y, t, and i, which must be approved by Y.

If Y has to approve it, I don’t understand why is there an X there. It can be a 1 side transaction where Y inhibits itself. In Inhibition is bad for Y, then it’s easier to implement using NOP, because nobody would use it.
Thanks! With it off, I do notice that whatever is making the stubble seem like it protrudes(bump? normal? parallax? Been a long time since I've even thought about this stuff) seems a bit low resolution compared to the skin texture itself, as the light rises with the hair in every single case.

Still though, I'm genuinely surprised at just how well it held up without the DOF. I would've thought it'd be much worse, but frankly it looks great. Great demo.
The Mythical 'Map Of The Internet 2.0' Is Even Better Than The First
"Published 17-Feb-2014"
Microsoft will no longer read your email without a court order
A lot of these tools on the front page today. I think a lot of them only contain 40-60% of what is required to be useful. Any password safe needs to:

- somehow work on my phone, not just because I sign into things when I'm away from my desk but also because I'm not going to manually copy all the passwords into my phone

- generate secure passwords for me when I need to enter one

- record passwords I use to help me migrate if I'm not using a safe already

- import passwords from other password safes

- support filling the passwords into the page, so that I don't have to open a terminal, decrypt, copy, paste and possibly re-encrypt

- support two factor authentication systems

This isn't a complete list, it's a minimum. It's also nice to support multiple forms of two factor auth, in case my phone gets stolen and it's nice to have a form filler too.

It's ok to be a "unix-style tool" that does one thing and one thing only, but you need to have other tools for doing every other feature that is required.
If that were true, then surely no-one would ever feel cheated in a transaction, and there would be no such word as "profiteering".
Auroracoin is solid and continue its growth
I've been using this for the last couple of months with syncing through Dropbox and it works just fine!

For quicker password access, one should try passmenu[0]. It's a dmenu-based menu with all the entries and selecting one copies password to your clipboard.

[0] https://github.com/cdown/passmenu
Did you not understand or did you have a legitimate follow-on question?
Zero-Cost Abstractions [pdf]
Value of Pi – Estimate Using Dice
It's not really that it's normally a big deal in the EU, as long as you're not intentionally and knowingly trying to profit of creating trademark confusion.

But if the other party is intent on making it as painful as possible it can get just as nasty in the EU as in the US simply by tying you up in court for years. And in this case some of the potential litigants seems to be rather delusional.
That's way overcooking the situation. Many participants at MIT had the opportunity to stop it at the point of a trespassing charge, which would have been sufficient.

What Swartz did says nothing about MIT's security operations, which are always under much more threat by malicious hackers.

Now it has evolved to where, instead of resigning, L. Rafael Reif used up Hal Abelsons credibility to save his own career. Disgusting!
Honest question: despite work-related stuff (like, for a sysadmin or whatever), in a personal scenario how many passwords do you guys have to manage so it's worth using an app for that? I only have 5 active (and other 2 old) entirely different passwords for types of usage and each have between 13-18 chars with capitals, numbers and all the shit. I just store them in my mind. What's the real/basic use case for passwords managers?
Stephen Heymann should never handle a case more critical than car theft ever again. He is like a bulldozer driver who ran over a nest full of some rare species. Never mind the limitations on liability, he should never be operating heavy equipment again.
This skin layer image is so creepy...

http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/models/ctm/head/diffuse...
Where is the part that says that “your basic income depends on your interaction with the rest of the network”?
Thanks for bringing some memories back, I had a 520 ST after my Amstrad CPC664.
Very bracing read. Thanks!
50 States, 50 Plans: 100% Renewable Energy Benefits
Yes, it looks like OP isn't presenting the whole story. The DMCA filing party would have to provide the URL (of the public/shared folder) containing the copyrighted material to dropbox for takedown. I don't think they can just request dropbox to scan private folders to check for copyrighted content.
In most cases a couple of years worth of profits from monopoly should suffice. In reality it depends on how much was spent on the initial innovation.

One tricky issue is also the lead time to market. In the synthesis example, Yamaha came out with a synth within ~2 years of licensing the patent. But in some areas (like medicine) it can be common for it to take 5-10 years for a product to come out, in which case a 5-year patent would be worthless, because it would expire before you can sell anything.
It's even in the official Debian/Ubuntu repositories for ages, so I'm not that much worried.
Tell us what would you do with this?
> In the world of multicore and GPGPUs there isn't a space for the old Amiga, except due to nostalgia.

For the old Amiga, no, other than nostalgia which is clearly what these guys are aiming for.

But there's still lots to learn from it. I still yearn for a system that consistently remains as responsive to user input as it did, for example (which it did by a meticulous eye to process priorities and decoupling "everything" into separate tasks; e.g. due to potential slow IO, the clipboard was read/written by a separate task; the console/terminal involved about half a dozen tasks etc.). I also still wish a datatypes like system would take hold, so every app could read/write every image format, including ones not year written, for example (25+ years on, and Amiga apps still gets support for new image formats - even the apps we don't have source for).

And on the Amiga, "everyone" used libraries like XPK that made transparent support for whatever compression algorithm someone preferred in any application that used it, for example (and even if they didn't, you could easily add transparent XPK compression support to your filesystem).

And the pervasiveness of AREXX ports. Even though I detest the language, the presence of AREXX ports "everywhere" was a big deal. Even more so because it was a well know features. "Everyone" knew about AREXX, whereas I've yet to see anyone I know who use OS X actually use AppleScript.

And I still "emulate" Amiga screens in the way I use workspaces on my laptop, with most apps maximized (thankfully, on Ubuntu with Unity I finally have a global menu bar again for most apps).
To be pedantic, the C64 had a 6510 processor - but that was just a 6502 with some extra I/O capabilities.

I cut my teeth on assembly programming on the 64, writing a VT100-compatible terminal emulator that ran in graphics mode to give a full 80 column display. I had also cracked the problem of printing on the IEEE bus while keeping serial comms happy using a combination of data buffering and fast interrupt handling.
They'd have to provide the URL of some public folder containing the copyrighted material, but that's probably sufficient to get every identical file taken down including ones in private folders.
A friend of mine had carpet on his bedroom walls, so when he upgraded from his ZX81 to something better, he took the circuit board out of the casing and had it stuck on the carpet wall, it looked better than having a painting on the wall.
Beta testing Pyplate, a Simple Python CMS
> Instagram and Whatsapp are really different than Oculus, though.

Indeed. They're much closer to FB's core product and hence that much more tempting to meddle with.
It's the same sort of emphasis as "insanely great", "ridiculously awesome", or "wicked cool". These are linguistic constructions that cannot be parsed correctly without cultural context.
Google’s brilliant plan to get millions to adopt its e-money system: Gmail
As far back as 1675, when western Europe was experiencing its first sugar boom, Thomas Willis, a physician and founding member of Britain’s Royal Society, noted that the urine of people afflicted with diabetes tasted “wonderfully sweet, as if it were imbued with honey or sugar.”

Just to point out, the high concentration of glucose in urine of diabetics is the result of the disease. A healthy person who just happened to eat some sugar would not have elevated glucose in urine. This of course does not rule out increased sugar consumption as a risk factor in developing type 2 diabetes (type 1 is genetic) but the article does not make it clear.
> [...] an injection of sugar into the bloodstream stimulates the same pleasure centers of the brain that respond to heroin and cocaine. All tasty foods do this to some extent—that’s why they’re tasty!—but sugar has a sharply pronounced effect. In this sense it is literally an addictive drug.

Sugar doesn't get into the blood stream. Glucose does. Glucose is the only nutrient that neurons are using in normal conditions.

Criticizing excess is fine and dandy but labeling sugar an "addictive drug" and comparing it with heroin and cocaine by way of some scientific sounding "pleasure centers" is downright insane. Makes me question the validity of the historic part I enjoyed so much...
It's espresso with sugar, dairy and syllables - still coffee.
So far this was the only unexpected log.

Messages in other ones come regularly in capabilities autodetection (the only way how to find out rendering into which render target formats is supported is to do trial frame buffer creation and check for status, which also triggers built-in warnings).

But even this one could be bogus, I already noticed out-of-order logging into console before, so even this "framebuffer incomplete" error can be still part of the autodetection.

At this point I do not know, something is not behaving as it should be on these Intel GPUs, though curiously it does work ok on my older Intel HD 3000 under Windows 7.

If you can (on Windows), you can try to enable DX11 ANGLE rendering backend in Chrome and see it it makes any difference (more capabilities are available with DX11, I use different code paths when more advanced features are present).

It's available via chrome://flags/ under "Enable D3D11" and should work in current stable Chrome 33 (though in Chrome Canary 35 it does work better).
> If you want to eat healthy just pick a balanced diet.

If people could easily do that we wouldn't be facing an epidemic of obesity. It's sort of crazy you're so willing to ignore the major point of the article and blame those have historically tried to enact change.

As far back as 1675, when western Europe was experiencing its first sugar boom, Thomas Willis, a physician and founding member of Britain’s Royal Society, noted that the urine of people afflicted with diabetes tasted “wonderfully sweet, as if it were imbued with honey or sugar.”

Tasting sick peoples urine is definitely not my idea of a dream job.
Oh right, I've never met any people doing a Master of CS though so I don't know the level. I was talking about bachelors.
Throw in spending three 8+ hour days working on an inception deck. Then do a 2 hour sprint planning meeting, spend 1.5 days working, then a 2 hour sprint review meeting.

Then throw in a pivot every 2 or 3 weeks, involving a new inception deck.
Vertical vs. Horizontal Data Scientists
Yes it is sufficient and doable but the question is will dropbox do it? How will they even identify whether I own or have the license to use the files I have in my private folder. If I just keep my purchased ebooks in a dropbox (private) folder and a public folder (belonging to someone else) containing some of the same ebooks are flagged, why should I be affected?
Mt. Gox faced questions on handling client cash long before crisis
Cirru: indentation-based grammar for programming
An amazing trip down memory lane!
I did so many things with the good old 741 many many years ago, my favourite being making a wah wah pedal from scratch, very simple design, and then I had to go for distortions and phaser effects. nice.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=549669
Bungie before Microsoft... thanks for reminding of those great game series like Marathon and Myth.
The upside of a very simple system is that it is much more simple to audit than a password store "Swiss army knife".
A more plain concern is how Zuck works with new platforms. There is the prior example of their own Facebook Platform, which took off really fast, creating a new niche with hundreds of thousands of developers, only to be crippled a few years on, alienating developers with constant shifting technologies, choking of communication channels and exclusive contracts with certain companies.

Value is created in win-win situations, when both parties benefit. If developers fear they will not get their part of the win, it's unlikely the value will be created at all.
Use pass[1] if you want to use the command line, it uses GPG to encrypt each password and git to version them. It's pretty nifty.

[1]: http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/
If they don't want to meet the same fate as MegaUpload, Dropbox are certainly going to take down all copies.
Any bigger examples of that? Now i'm curious.

Edit: I see you already named lawsuits. Checking out those online now.
SociBot-Mini: A Aobot That Can Wear Human Faces, Knows What You’re Thinking
I have 25 passwords managed by pass, all personal and not work related.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/antiphrasis
When someone posts a tweet, it shows "(twitter.com)". It would be more informative to show the twitter "(@username)" or "(twitter.com @twitterusername)".
It took me a while to recognize they were Norvig's notes. Only after I saw the spell checker code it kicked in and then I paid attention to the username in the URL. Perhaps next time it would be nice to make it clear in the title... just my 2 cents.
this link works http://www.japanintercultural.com/en/news/default.aspx?newsI...
Ouch! Thanks a lot.
Kikubari – the Japanese art of paying attention to others
On the other hand the price dropped form $15 to $1.8 in a week, just after the airdrop. (From $90 in 3/4?!) http://coinmarketcap.com/aur_7.html

> More and more stores are accepting Auroracoin and business where people are even selling and buying cars is taking place between people.

I’d like to see a link to the story of someone selling a car for Auroracoin.
Why were they that long? There could be many valid reasons to have a sprint planning that takes 4 hours. If 4 hours every 2 weeks is the only planning type meeting you have that is pretty good.
Hey Microsoft, if you want to blow my mind and have a good chuckle, implement Go into the Windows Phone NDK before Google does with Android's.
It makes me sad to read the introduction and see that their course has become only an elective now. I'm sure it was replaced by some trivial course about a new fad language.
Thumbs up for KeePass.

I use it with the great PassIFox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/passifox/) to get a nice "Fill user/password" in the contextual menu.

I also use it on my Android phone with Keepass2Android: https://keepass2android.codeplex.com/
Good points. Though it's actually not a zero sum game, it's worse than that. When you get down to it there's a very important link between the satiety/calorie ratio of food and weight gain. Sure you can talk about will power and so on, but those are higher order effects, it should be obvious that if there's a zero will power diet that frequently results in obesity and a zero will power diet which doesn't that's significantly more important than the idea that people can potentially starve themselves thin. The same sort of thing applies to wealth, for example, but nobody tells the poor to just acquire some will power and start spending less than they earn.

A lot of low fat foods end up being high in sugar and end up having lower satiety than "regular" foods. The perfect example being skim milk vs. whole milk. That's super important because it means that people can consume the same calories but still feel hungry with a "low fat" food. And then they are faced either with persistent feelings of hunger or to eat more until they feel full. Also, high sugar foods are easily converted into body fat, which just makes the problem that much worse.
The key idea of gradle is to have a rule based system that does not exclude full scripting. Compared to gradle i dont know any other buildsystem that bridges these extrems well.
FB might buy them too. It is sometimes hard to see why big companies buy smaller companies, no matter what you may hear from their "founders" or CEOs, VR is certainly a threat to FB (even if it's a long way away from what it promises)just the same whatsapp was. FB is nothing but a "website" on the "internet" for the mainstream, VR promises to render " websites" and the "internet" completely obsolete and irrelevant. zucky may say that his goal is to have a more connected world, I believe right now that his goal is more to not have the world "disconnect" Facebook and render it/him obsolete. Either that or he just likes to buy expensive toys!
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Password reuse is really bad for security. And without password reuse it is easy to see how the number of passwords explode even in moderate use.
Well in my company they will get really pissed off if anyone does more than 50h weekly.
It’s impossible to work your way through college nowadays (now with national data)
I played with it some, and besides the fact that only a few geeks were using it, the UI was terribly frustrating: it was slow, and had just enough "desktop app" functionality to put you in that mindset, but not enough to actually behave like you expected (kind of an uncanny valley sort of thing)
Ask HN: Have you ever felt like abandoning your side project?
I'm a novice developer with an year of industry experience. I don't find my day job "good enough" and for the past three months I have been working on an Android application as a side project. Along the way I've come to learn a thing or two about Android and mobile application development in general. However, after spending three months and endless hours in developing my appm I feel I've made a couple of bad choices in the app's design and implementation. I'm working on the app alone I'm not able to keep myself motivated enough to build it. I've been programming since I was fourteen and since then I've abandoned most of my side projects. Sometimes I feel its due to working alone. I'd be thankful if HN readers would share their experiences about any similar situations that they've faced, and share their anecdotes about keeping oneself motivate while working alone.
Amazon might announce a gaming controller alongside its media streamer
The latest rumors are saying that Amazon is going to launch a media streamer on Wednesday, but I don't think that's the whole story. Digging through the FCC website has revealed that Amazon has a 4" square Roku-like box on the way, not the dongle that TechCrunch reported. That box will have a remote, but that's not all. The gaming controller which first showed up in Brazil has also shown up on the FCC website, which is a good sign that it might also be launched on Wednesday.
A ZX Spectrum +3 was better that an Amiga and Atari ST in all universes.
xD
If you were a mechanical engineer whose specialty was developing new fasteners would you say the same thing about patents on fasteners?
Define a "balanced diet". For most, and in the conventional formulations, it's chock full of carbohydrates, and not much better than a "low-fat diet".
Or some ambitious prosecutors saw him as their Big Chance to do something more visible than another credit card fraud prosecution. Terminating their careers would be an appropriate outcome for the kind of ambition that kills someone like Swartz.
Details courtesy of Wikipedia: Privatized in 2005. "55% of the shares of Turk Telekom belongs to Oger Telekomünikasyon A.Ş. and 30% of the shares belongs to Undersecretariat of Treasure of Turkey. The remaining 15% of shares has been offered to the public." Oger Telekom is apparently 100% privately owned by the Hariri family.

So, still 30% state owned. As one point of reference, the German government still holds 15% directly plus 17% indirectly of Deutsche Telekom. France and Orange (nee France Telecom) are similar.
I use a different 32 chars alphanumeric password for every site I'm registered at (http://a.pomf.se/zpubyy.png), so it's easy to have 20+ passwords to remember (I have ~35 in my keepass database), which is a bit hard to do without a password manager.

I guess the use case is if you're a bit paranoid and want to use a strong/different password for everything.