skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, it's been possible for years, especially with PCL libraries gaining significant traction last year. But these announcements and improvements have made things even easier than before. And to a certain extent have made what was once somewhat a "black art" to the layman C# devs now a official development track.

Not sure why you've been downvoted for stating facts. So I +1'd.
Net neutrality law adopted by European Parliament
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Do you really want to wait for 5 hours just to figure out you've requested a wrong folder and the photos you're looking for were shot in June, not July?
Maybe these:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2014-Q1-Goals

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2014-Q2-Goals

https://wiki.mozilla.org/2014

Edit: forgot this one: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases
I thought the "install new versions automatically" checkbox simply meant that new Internet Explorer updates were installed along with automatic Windows updates, where before they were optional.

If so, aside from enterprise, there's (sadly)a significant fraction of home users that turn off automatic Windows updates because they regard them as a hassle.
Roaming charges: I predict the telecomms will be increasing their general charges to make good losses on roaming.

"Infrastructure and spectrum are expensive, and these costs need to be recouped somehow. Right now, the mobile operators are a bit stuck into low domestic data prices. So the money has to be clawed back from roaming customers instead".

The reversal of this policy will mean that the non-traveling public will subsidize travelers. Great for those voting and attending the EU Parliament among others. Not so hot for the rest.
Microsoft Courts Developers and Enterprises with Internet Explorer 11 Updates
> If anything, an indicator that Neelie Kroes is happy with the result might point to a weak law that won't help net neutrality at all.

At this point she has no choice. She can't lament the passing of a law she initiated herself. I wouldn't put too much stock into it.

> Also, as we speak, the text that didn't make it might already have been inserted in the US-EU trade agreement that is discussed behind closed doors at the moment.

Obviously, the industry is not going to give up without a fight. The price of net neutrality is eternal vigilance and all that.
INAL, but I'm sure there is a clause for compensation rather than a dollar figure. He is being paid in a different medium (stock), and the value of that is greater in dollars than the work minimum.

Bartering isn't illegal http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html, so I doubt the executive compensation schemes are.
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European Parliament votes to end roaming charges
Would the undersea Monterey Canyon have anything to do with that?

http://sanctuarysimon.org/monterey/sections/submarineCanyons...
> infinitely nerdy stuff

Since when is "in depth" and "technical" equivalent to "infinitely nerdy"? We're professionals using that kind of information for work, not nerds doing infinitely nerdy stuff.
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Not a big Wu fan, but I'm die hard hip hop fan also.

Pretty much everyone in the mainstream falls into exactly that category. Macklemore probably the exception to the rule at the moment.

Compare with the underground artists like Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Immortal Technique, Shad, Jurassic 5, Blackalicious etc.

They are worlds apart! It's such a shame that hip hop has ben positioned as an almost antithesis of intelligent music in the public eye, when it started out as music with a message (much of the underground still has that ethos). It's so bad that I usually have to justify my music choices to people who know no better "why would you listen to that shit? - nothing but bitches and ho's".
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No, that role is generally performed by the broker/bank (who don't like HFT, in general). I'm not sure I see anything wrong with that either though.

It is quite normal to take a spread in any industry - an orange seller steps between you and the farmer, for example. I would argue your broker does a lot less for you than a farmer, or high frequency market maker. HFT is generally known to shrink the spread, making trading cheaper for you than it would be without them. They still take a profit, because they take a risk.

I'd recommend reading a little about market structure - and preferably not from those with a narrative to sell.
"This vote is the EU delivering for citizens. This is what the EU is all about – getting rid of barriers to make life easier and less expensive.” At least something positive made from our Parlament! If we want a strong Europe we have to unite and share more between countries.

PS: I hope i didn't sound too patriotic :)
Too bad you missed out on Flash / Flex. At one point it was absolutely brilliant.
Would you say a dividend is less likely to be paid out after this? Assuming most of the voting shares are Google employees (management) is there reason to pay a dividend over just increasing their own salaries?

That seems simplistic because dividends are (iirc) better tax-wise than salary, but it seems having to match the dividend to non-voters might offset that? I know Google and the people I'm talking about are technically different, but they completely control Google's votes so does that really hold in practice?
This is a very good article on images hashing.
Thanks
It's not. Usually they are much worse.
To me, the argument from silence is compelling. Bit gold is not just similar to BitCoin - it is virtually identical. The only thing BitCoin has that BitGold doesn't is that concensus is formed by the holders of a majority of the computational power, rather than the majority of nodes. This is what makes BTC byzantine resilient. And the question Wei Dai asks - why would he cite b-money and not bit gold - is precisely why I'm inclined to think it is Szabo. For him to not mention Bit Gold in light of the similarity is highly suspicious indeed.
> Or just press the power button, which actually does make a lot of sense.

No it doesn't. Pressing the power button implements what the PC maker wants to implement. In many cases (especially on laptops) it's for the computer to go to sleep.
y=x^2/x and y=x aren't the same thing though. The first is undefined at x=0, the second is not. How does this break algebra?
Does it mean the existing employees who hold shares are going to get lesser value for their shares after split?
Nice. I learnt about inotifywait only a couple of days back and chose it over bazillion other watch modules in various languages. In fact I think it could be called the "Poor man's auto-anything for any language" :-) For eg. I use it to auto-recompile less files to css as follows

#!/bin/sh

while inotifywait -e modify resources/public/css/less/.less; do
lessc resources/public/css/less/.less resources/public/css/*.css;
done
Then people of US don't understand why people from other countries dislike the US and consider it meddlesome.

Also, people of US should own up their mistakes, I am very bothered by the average US person that keeps voting to the current top two parties and then complains when people from other countries are upset at them because of the US wars and intelligence interventions, if you voted to re-elect Obama, you cannot complain when people from Brazil, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Germany, etc... get upset with you.
Can someone explain why the network controls the update ?

I get why OEMs need to test/approve an update for their specific phones but what kind of role carriers play here ?
"The Inflexibility of DNS"

This problem would not exist if clients (eg. web browsers) supported SRV record lookups. The SRV fixes a missing abstraction by mapping names that users see (eg. foo.com) to actual server names (eg. webserv42.foo.com). Without SRV record lookups, web browsers must look up the bare domain, and expect to get an address, for this to work. CNAMEs were not designed to be used for this kind of situation; it's a square peg in a round hole.

This isn't due to the inflexibility of DNS; it's due to the inflexibility of clients that ignore newer advancements in the protocol.

Of course, this does mean that web hosts are stuck.
Yeah, it's wonderful, a young person talking about internet issues I care about, just listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiNH3MCFkBg

Right now I'm of course nervous for the election, and I hope that she will keep her mandate.

She's clearly got a visionary mind, and uses every opportunity to stress the need for evidence-based policy.
New EU directive on mobile phone chargers sidestepped by manufacturers
Shareholders are kind of dumb.
Its security track isn't that awesome, though.

And same is lack of differential uploads (change a single byte in a gigabyte blob, get the whole gigabyte re-uploaded).
Pretty cool. Is it possible to have the sentiments ranked by frequency?
the citations of the paper is incomplete also, in that it does not mention finney's RPOW from 2004: http://www.finney.org/~hal/rpow/

quoting from there: "Security researcher Nick Szabo has coined the term bit gold for information objects which are provably costly to create"

bitgold as it was publicly described in 2005 was different than bitcoin in that there was a market for the tokens. bitcoin uses an agreement mechanism to establish the difficulty.
The given definition only tells you what natural numbers are; it doesn't directly tell you what 0^0 is. For that, the set theoretic definition of exponentiation was provided.

That definition is not arbitrary, but is an instance of the very general definition of exponentiation given in category theory. Accordingly, A^B is the set of maps from B to A, and for non-empty finite sets, the number of such maps is the number of elements in A raised to the number of elements in B. If you extend this to cover empty and infinite sets, you get the full definition of cardinal exponentiation, which has 0^0 = 1 and has other cute things like

2^(the cardinal of the natural numbers) = the cardinal of the reals.

There are a few obviously good properties about the given definition of natural numbers (the Von-Neumann ordinals), and one of them is that the size of each natural number is, well, that natural number.

0 = {} and contains 0 elements.
1 = {0} and contains 1 element.
2 = {0,1} and contains 2 elements.
3 = {0,1,2} and contains 3 elements.

And so on. For any definition of natural numbers which has this feature, you find that when you consider their category where morphisms are all the functions between them, then again, the exponential (in the category theoretic sense) is precisely the one expected in arithmetic, and 0^0 = 1.
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It takes under 5 seconds for me to compile my project of about 5000 lines. So it's not really a problem for me yet, though I agree it would be if the waitingtime where to become any longer. Besides that, I've also been really enjoying developing in Typescript!
Jerusalem Spurring Startups as Ancient Rules Bend: Cities
While there is an executive exemption, those executives are supposed to be making not less than $455/week in salary (http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17b_executi...) . As such, a $1/year symbolic salary is likely illegal.

As http://www.laborlawtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-212858.html points out, the Department of Labor doesn't get involved if this is the only issue. (It also suggests that a company pay the $455/week to be on the safe side.)

Thus, a $1/year CEOs could sue. While most of those making $1/year receive a large non-salary compensation, and there is a special exception for "Highly Compensated Employees", those must be "paid total annual compensation of $100,000 or more (which must include at least $455 per week paid on a salary or fee basis)". Quote from http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17b_executi... .

However, regarding Zuckerberg specifically, again see http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17b_executi... :

> Under a special rule for business owners, an employee who owns at least a bona fide 20-percent equity interest in the enterprise in which employed, regardless of the type of business organization (e.g., corporation, partnership, or other), and who is actively engaged in its management, is considered a bona fide exempt executive.

According to http://whoownsfacebook.com/ , Zuckerberg owns 28.2% of FB, so is a bona fide exempt executive.
His post was a textbook example of Poe's Law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

"without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism"
thanks, but no thanks. I won't go ngen just to speed up my start-up time on my web applications.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/385841/does-it-help-to-us...
I agree, I know for a fact that Denmark has several cables going to Sweden, of course, it's the direct link from main land Europe to Sweden and Norway
> Typically you wouldn't put a logging statement inside a hot inner loop anyway, as you'll get so much output when logging is turned on that it makes the logs worthless. For heavy algorithmic-intensive stuff, you'd often just record your loop counters, key invariants, and exit conditions, and then log them all at once when the algorithm exits.

Debugging is a highly interactive art and sometimes operates inside a much faster feedback loop than that. Put those few log calls in the innermost loop, run it, scan the 20MB dump for a weird entry, fix, remove logger calls, and you're done in less time than it takes to consider which key invariants and exit conditions are worth tracking.
As an outsider to the space, your comment makes it sound like ZigBee is never a good option. Is this so? Is there a 'target market' for ZigBee?
I'd be happy to give her my vote, but I'm in the wrong country.
For who, TextSecure or the auditors? Both are possibilities, one slightly more likely than the other. Auditors hate having reports published with no major findings.
Technically JIT may run along with the execution, profile and later replace the code, i.e. start on interpreter, run a bit, compile. JITting is far more complex than "running before the code is needed", technically it can even deoptimize some code and then optimize it better.
Tear down of a cheap external USB battery
I think that's more a response to the ban on intraEU roaming charges than net neutrality...
Oh yeah, there are definitely technical advances, and they're not trivial. But they just don't compensate for the UI issues, and those are problematic.

e.g. on the interaction front, I'm not talking about technical interaction, but UI interaction - there's no reason metro apps can't run in a window nor classic apps can't run in fullscreen, even if their design won't be optimal for the non-normal UI. As is, you're forced to use two quite different UI's intermixed with one another. (Task-switching between classic+modern is problematic too).

I spend most of my time in and switching among the application I use to work/play in. I think the worst missing feature is the missing recent files/applications feature which means that ad-hoc workloads with various single-purpose tools are quite unhandy. It's not just recent files: the same thing counts for recent programs. Win7 provides taskbar (and start) pinning for your really common programs. Win8 provides start customization. But for the rest - the stuff you organically happen to use a lot for a particular task - Win8 has no alternative to the win7 recent programs.

Boot time: that's nice, but I really don't care very much - my old boot time was less than 30s, and now it's probably even less - but how often do you reboot?

I haven't noticed the multi-monitor support being better, what's the advantage?

In any case: there's no doubt that win8 has numerous technical advancements - and frankly, I like the modern interface. That makes it all the more aggravating that the UI is such a haphazard mess. The problem isn't modern - it's how they've done virtually no work in coordinating between the two UIs. If good integration is impossible, I'd even rather just have a mode-switch: render everything in classic mode, or everything in modern, regardless of what the app was really designed for.
there's a lot of 'grass is greener on the other side' in all of europe, this is probably the case here.
>> "I am very bothered by the average US person that keeps voting to the current top two parties"

It's that way the American system works. Look at the insane amounts of money those parties spend campaigning. Nobody else has a chance to compete with that. Plus the two main parties are too similar. Republicans are conservative and Democrats are centrist. They're liberal when compared with republicans but when compared with liberal parties in other countries they are far from it imo. People who are socially or fiscally liberal don't really have good representation. In the end for a lot of people it's a choice between two evils.
This is good news, I recently had to migrate off of CloudFlare because of issues with CNAME records on my root[0]. I might switch back as my site is static and could benefit from being behind CF.

[0] http://joshstrange.com/why-its-a-bad-idea-to-put-a-cname-rec...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7293512

CF CEO commenting about CNAME flattening 28 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7295215
> "The supply of IP addresses is limited"

s/IP/IPv4/
well, to those whom downvoted, I wish you can convince me, since I really want to enjoy the power of visual studio and the richness of .net libraries.
Wouldn't the blockchain be a better place to be sending people to do things like this?
if you voted to re-elect Obama, you cannot complain when people from Brazil, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Germany, etc... get upset with you.

I suppose I've got nothing to worry if I voted for Romney?</snark> I totally get the frustration, I really do. I think most of our elected leaders are crooks and liars. But this two-party stranglehold makes it really hard to change anything, and so long as they're in power they will resist and fight any change to the two-party status quo. So what can one really do?
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+1 for IntelliJ. Their support for typescript is pretty good. I actually tried Visual Studio and IntelliJ's webstorm, and descided to go with Webstorm. Also the support has improved over time, though I'm still hoping for some nice code generation support for Typescript
>There is no popular set of axioms where 1+1=2 is taken as an axiom - it is always proven.

I would love to see a proof of 1+1=2. For example in the case of elliptic curves, as far as I know addition is simply an axiom. E.g. A+A'=0=inf , where inf is the point at infinity and A' is the reflection of A.

Math is not related to nature. Try to reason your way to matrix multiplication with apples: A * B != B * A
I don't know how strong are the animosities between the old enemies in the western europe but I can assure you the hungarian government and its political class in general thrives in maintaining strong animosities against all its neighbors (excepting Austria maybe) and also they are perceived (by the neighbors) as very nationalistic and arrogant (very few of their patriotic discourses fail to recall the hungarian past glory, the dominance in the area and the injustice of the Trianon) and this leads to a lot of real tensions in the area.
You know what is web scale? WebScaleSQL is. :)

http://webscalesql.org/
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I thought the old Class B shares converted on transfer? Did the split change that, or am I misunderstanding that passing the shares to offspring would be a transfer?
Are you sure that's not because the different teams had different scopes? The iSEC audit was specifically tied to the iOS application.
"Under a special rule for business owners, an employee who owns at least a bona fide 20-percent equity interest ... is considered a bona fide exempt executive." -- the fairpay document cited by /u/sehr

(he is completely exempt from the minimum salary requirement, AND $1 IS NOT ILLEGAL)
Possible, but I would say it will rather create a much fiercer competition: Differences between domestic rates and non-domestic rates are what kept the European Telecoms market from becoming truly European. As a German, the only viable option if I am spending most my time within Germany was to go with a German carrier. Now with the removal of roaming charges, the EU becomes the domestic market and in principle I could shop around other EU countries to find the best deal. Austria for example has some really good deals, so maybe I will go with a carrier from there. And with SEPA even billing should not be an issue.

The other (intended) thing this will spur is further consolidation of the EU Telecoms market as there will suddenly be a much larger number of competing players on the market. As I said, in principle Austrian Telecoms are now for the first time directly competing for customers with Spanish Telecoms in Germany, so I guess we'll see a lot more mergers in the close future. Which might turn out to be anticompetitive in the long run, mind.
Do you want others to implement your idea as well?
> Here's a pre-schematic London tube map:

That seems...fine? It's easily readable with all the stops clearly labeled, and you can see exactly where in London they are.

It could of course be cleaned up in a modern version, but even as-is it seems quite useful.
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That's roughly what happens when TypeScript gets compiled to JavaScript, it can use the browser's GC. asm.js is used to avoid the browser's GC, either when the original code doesn't need a GC since it uses manual memory management, or it uses a different type of GC from the browser and wants to use that instead (which is effectively the same thing).
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$1 is OK -- "Under a special rule for business owners, an employee who owns at least a bona fide 20-percent equity interest ... is considered a bona fide exempt executive." -- the fairpay document cited by /u/sehr

(he is completely exempt from the minimum salary requirement, and $1 is not illegal)
Tried http://musicforprogramming.net yet? I've found it to be a great source of background music that doesn't interfere with the foreground thoughts I need to have in order to do my job ..
Our main goal is to help spread the word and see others using this technique. Implementation is not so difficult since only a hash, but if you want to contribute or implement it, sure.
You keep saying "I commission the audits". Isn't OTF the one paying for these audits? Are you taking OTF grant money? If so, aren't you required to have the audits done?
There's a similar project from 2005, based on blog posts: http://www.wefeelfine.org
I'm still trying to understand why the US keeps kicking a tiny island country. One story I've heard is that a lot of rich Cubans lost their property when Castro took over, and they spend a ton of money on politicians in the hope that the US will make sure they get their property back at some point.

If that's true, why would the US gov risk this exact article? Why not tell the rich Cubans to build a fake social network themselves?

I guess I'm still looking to understand why this relationship is the way it is.
Mh. Could you expand on that point? I know we are not supposed to discuss politics too much here, but I really see only benefits to the GPL, particularly in your case, and I wonder what are the opinions which make you say that.
Will a jury decide on a $1bn fine like they did with Toyota ?

Will a US Transport Secretary say "don't drive your GM to the dealer" and then say after the headlines that he "misspoke"? like he did with Toyota

We wait with interest to see how the one turns out with a US manufacturer.

I am of the opinion that Toyota were unfairly treated, but if GM get the same treatment I will adjust my position.