skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a native Arabic speaker, I think you're incredibly wrong about Arabic ever becoming a dominant language world-wide. There are several reasons for this.

First, Arabic itself is an incredibly fragmented language. Almost every country or region that speaks it has its own colloquial version of it which may or may not be mutually intelligible. As a Lebanese person I can understand Syrians fairly easily, Jordanians with a bit of straining and the other person speaking slightly slower than usual, Egyptians with a lot of straining and speaking slowly and Saudis not at all. Theoretically, we could communicate using the formal(written) Arabic, but most people, especially newer generations, tend to suck at that as it's a much more difficult language that's learned only in the context of school and pretty much almost never used outside, at least in Lebanon, that is. The colloquial languages are to the formal Arabic as French/Spanish/Italian are to Latin, basically.

Second, all good universities I know of in the region teach in English or French rather than Arabic. Though the trend is tipping towards English of late. This is because most of the region was put either under British or French mandate after the Ottomans were ousted during WW1. This was detrimental in many ways which I won't go into, but one of the good things that came out of it was that they established many schools and universities. In fact, most of the good ones I know were founded by French, British or American missionaries during that period.

Third, well, the internet(and media in general), English is the dominant language in media most people consume. I learned English from watching cartoons as kid. I've almost never stepped foot in an English speaking country(except for a couple of weeks in the U.S. 2 years ago) and yet I can speak, and write, with almost native proficiency.
So what I'd like to see eventually is some sort of indicator about the SSL chain itself.

I've put together a quick repo to PoC an idea that maps a chain to an html color, but I have no idea where to incorporate it into a UI.

https://github.com/Fitblip/Fingerpaint

Ideas?
Upgrading that interconnect mentioned in the original article seems like just plugging in some $10k-$20k standard hardware and connecting a single extra wire. That kind cost doesn't matter really, it seems that they're hurting their interconnects intentionally for political reasons.
I wonder if they could cut costs simply by making an agreement with a taxi company to put the camera across a few cars. Then they would need less drivers to go out and cover the gaps taxi's don't cover over the course of a year or so. It would work well for urban cities one would think. Uber should have data to give a rough idea of coverage.
On the website: "... Your image will be hosted on our site ..."

Is that even legal without opt-in or so?
Exactly. I understand the tendency for people to assume malice in every action taken by a company they don't like, but it still blows my mind when people can't realize how insane they sound while desperately searching for threads of conspiracy to tie into some evil master plan.
I bet someone could make it into a Gameshark code.
This is also a common objection, but neglects to consider the scenario with all game theoretic incentives fully. It's covered in the video I linked earlier, but for the short and direct rebuttal; http://mises.org/etexts/longanarchism.pdf page 9.
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Always a soft squishy spot for MLs. This one is particularly beautiful.
Since it's just a personal blog, I would just add it as a link in your contact info. In other words, just link to it next to where you put your github link / email / phone number.

The design is fine.
How about Taiwan? :) Would be good to have some real-impact project like this over here...
You're right, I actually didn't notice that at first. It is weird that Ramsey made a mistake like that, I happen to know the guy(we met when he used to live here) and he does speak Arabic pretty well. He's not like someone with Arab roots who just decided to do a project like that, it's actually a language he speaks.

So yeah, weird.
That only cites studies of the author herself, who analyzed a whopping two mailing lists to arrive at her sweeping and completely unbiased conclusions.
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Shouldn't it be the man who calculated? Contar is to count.
The data for deaths by US state is non-uniform:

State	Traffic Deaths (Per 100,000 Population)

________________

Wyoming	27.48

Mississippi	21.58

Arkansas	19.27

Montana	19.07

Alabama	18.01

Oklahoma	17.76

Kentucky	17.49

South Carolina	17.47

Wheras as in highly urbanized states:

___________________________

California	7.27

Illinois	7.22

Washington	6.79

New Jersey	6.32

Rhode Island	6.27

New York	6.19

Massachusetts	4.79

http://vehicle-fatalities.findthedata.org/
I think they do https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server
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Population dynamics have nothing to do with the dynamics of memes. People are just vehicles for knowledge and ideas. Just because they receive some knowledge and ideas soon after birth, it doesn't mean they have to keep them. Just like they don't have to keep their religion or their "default" sexual orientation.

The people that will control what ideas win will be the ones controlling the media, social networks and communication channels. It doesn't matter if they are just 0.1% of the general population, their ideas will mater more than the ones of the 99.9%. And considering the kinds of ideas that float in the minds of some people, like the "the war against the West will not be won on a battlefield but in the wombs of our mothers" aberration (why do people even think of "war", there is no war, just a peaceful competition among ideas that float from one mind to another, there simply is nothing to fight for, ain't this obvious to all?!), I prefer this situation!
Nice, but "Fast" - compared to what?
And in the UK on the busier stretches of motorway
About the top row showing About/Images/Videos etc.
I would like to use my vertical scroll wheel to move to the left and right instead of having to travel with my mouse all the way to the corner to hit the red arrow-button.
Performance benchmarks: http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=12&view=breakdown&suite=asm...
Interestingly, Last.fm introducing a skip limit of 6, with no way to remove the limit even for paying subscribers was what finally pushed me away from Last.fm and on to Spotify.
konsole works OK with bidi languages. Using the arrow keys to navigate left/right works oddly, but it does pritn things in the correct direction.
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Neel Krishnaswami has a paper[0] on implementing FRP with a type system which can statically disallow all the problematic constructs which typically result in time or space leaks. There is a caveat in that he hasn't proven the soundness of the implementation of the linear type system (which is used as a basis).

[0] https://www.mpi-sws.org/~neelk/simple-frp.pdf
Very nice! ... was looking for something like this for some experiments, thanks.
As I said at the time on Twitter, that turns Reader into an excellent $X million a year business. Google does not "do" $X million dollar businesses.
Someone in this thread mentioned that Volvo let anyone use their patented seat belt design. So there's at least a tiny speck of light in the end of the tunnel :)
I rarely find a site I want to subscribe to that lacks a feed.

An easy way to find RSS feeds in Firefox (this still works in FF 24 ESR, at least):

1) Click View > Toolbars > Customize

2) Find the RSS icon; drag it to someplace convenient on one of your toolbars

3) When you find a page/site to which you want to subscription but don't see a feed button, check Firefox' RSS icon. If it's activated (i.e., not greyed out), click it and subscribe.

Another solution that maybe is too obvious to mention: Search for (adjusting for your favorite search engine's syntax): rss|feed site:domainname.com
Why are you assuming that the 10 programmers are less skilled than you are. Take this scenario: You(good programmer) write 1 kloc. 10 other (equally good) programmers write 1/10 kloc but each of them is willing to work for less than 1/10 your pay!* Isn't this a possibility in free market? So may be you dont have any intrinsic value. Your value is a function of how many similarly skilled programmers are out there.
Since this applies to all trades, I guess the solution is to move to trades where the supply of "good" labour is less than your current trade. May be that is why the author's friends who moved to management get paid more.

*assume: (communication/coordination overheads) + their pay < your pay
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Thanks! Fast enough for game development >= 60fps

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Yeah i'm struggling with this aswell - I basically dropped out of the danish HS-equivelant.

I think i'm a pretty decent coder, but i have next to none experience with algorithms - Usually i'm pretty good at learning new things just by trying out and reading up on them (server management, new languages etc).

Algorithms is the one that really seems to require an education, i'm having a hard time learning that stuff on my own - But i'm giving it a go by working my way up to linear algebra on Khan Academy and reading examples on Naive Bayes etc.
Just how much heavier is Catalyst than Dancer2?
You can use a self-hosted web reader, like Tiny Tiny RSS. Best of both worlds, in my opinion.
Netscape invented the underlying code in the late 90’s, and then took away all documentation and support in 2001 after AOL bought them out.

So, what happened ?
>new concept called pinning introduced instead of styling

It's just a scene graph.
RSS was never meant to be a product. It is a format and a spec. Products are built around the spec: apps that push it, clients that pull it. It has incredible value where machines speak to each other. Much of the 'dying' was fed by the deluge of RSS-as-product based companies that thrived at that time. Those companies and products probably are dead, but RSS is not. And that is not surprising; not at least for me.
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Or the third Xbox the Xbox One...
I'm almost sure it was this, or Google Now's news alerts. They don't want people to choose when to read their news. They want the news to choose how many people read their articles. Advertising is the name of their game.
I actually use Digg (http://digg.com/reader) for my RSS needs. (Remember Digg?, right?)
I have to say that even though it is nice to write about lock free algorithms, it would be probably worth noting that this implementation is dismissing the problem of CPU caches which eventually and most likely lead to race conditions.
>A CutJS app consists of a tree of nodes, each node is pinned (transformed) against its parent and have zero, one or more image cutouts. Image cutouts comes from either image textures or Canvas drawing.

Won't SVG achieve the same thing?
I would love a world where most people can communicate with everybody regardless of "native" tongue and that would prolly lead to a new golden era of mankind in creative and humanitarian areas. Not so much in science I suppose. They already talk to each other fine. The trend certainly seems to be english taking over. Which is fine since it is such an expressive language beatutiful in ways. All other major langs will probably remain and you guys will look kind of silly only knowing the "global" language but in time latin american culture will catch up with you and spanish and potrugeese will be your second lanugages. Maby they already are?
Pinning is about positioning variables, not graph structure.
I also imagine something like IFTTT has made RSS more relevant than it's been in a long time.
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What kind of race conditions are you talking about? Something along the lines of memory access that causes the CPU caches to be purged a lot more than they normally would? Genuine question, I know little about CPU cache internals :)
They might have thought of it, but there is actually no solution to it because the non-paying person waiting for the spot isn't a player in the system they are constructing and thus can't be relied upon to react in a predictable manner.

"What might happen though is that if a car is about to leave and a non-paying car pulls up to get in, the leaving car might decide to stay a bit longer until a paying car gets first into queue."

Yeah good luck with that. I've seen near brawls break out when two or more people thought they had "dibs" on an opening spot based merely on proximity and some ill-defined rules. Introduce a money component into this and that just raises the stakes on the rage response.

If I arrived at a spot where it was clear someone was ready to leave and realized he was waiting longer for a "paying" replacement to arrive to take the public parking spot, unless I absolutely had to be somewhere immediately I would queue up behind the leaving guy and block out the paying party and wait them out just out of spite for the whole concept of this model.
Yes, it has inspired me, but CutJS renders to HTML5 Canvas to be usable in game development.
and if doesn't have a feed: page2rss.com can create one to monitor for changes.
He has put his name on two previous papers that use similar methods to link bitcoin transactions and identify entities or individuals

The first paper seemed to contain some very basic misunderstandings of how bitcoin works, such as apparently mistaking the private company Blockchain.info for the Bitcoin blockchain itself. There were also other issues claimed - I don't recall the details. Adi Shamir responded to most of these claims, though he never explained the bizarre confusion over the Blockchain itself, and I think you can find some of that discussion on Bitcointalk.org if you search.

The second paper attracted a lot of attention because it identified an address used to move a large amount of money by Satoshi Nakamoto and linked that address to the Silk Road, with the clear insinuation that Satoshi Nakamoto was intimately connected to the Silk Road. However, simply Googling the address in question showed that it belonged to Dustin Tramell, who confirmed that it was his. In reality, there was no link to Satoshi Nakamoto. Adi Shamir withdrew that claim, and attempted to downplay the issue by laying the blame for sensationalizing it on others.
Just because the solutions are not guaranteed to have a closed form in radicals doesn't mean that my statement is false. In the field of real numbers any polynomial with a degree higher than two is reducible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_polynomial#Real_and...
so you claim your engine maintains 60fps whatever the code is thrown at it right?
Tabloid used system arhitect as informer. Monitored all credit card payments
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This is great! And I love TextSecure.

But I wish it didn't send my contact list to its servers and store them in perpetuity [1]. Has it be considered to use:

1. text message history with a contact to derive a key between two contacts?

2. adding metadata to text messages to discover the sender uses TextSecure?

By (1), I mean Alice and Bob may already have exchanged several messages. I believe there is a lot of entropy in text messages. That should be leveraged during the key exchange. In addition, you'd also use WhisperSystems's servers as another channel, so the mere possession of the text history doesn't allow an attacker to guess the key.

(2) would only be useful when Alice sends her first text to Bob. She would for example hash(text_message + "I use TextSecure"), then append the encoded hash to the text and finally send it. The encoding could be white spaces for 0 and tabulations for 1. The size of the hash could be as small as 8 bits, because adding 8 trailing spaces/tabs to a text is so rare in real life. Once Bob receives the text, he can reasonably assume Alice uses TextSecure and then start the regular key exchange.

[1]: https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/
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How are you organising these feeds? Just interested because that is always my downfall. End up subscribing to loads of stuff and eventually stop reading
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While it indeed is marked as 5.7-dev, which is because it is forked from master branch which is always marked next minor version from current release one (5.6), it is very likely that it would be next major version. The changes in this refactoring are extensive and deep, and more are probably to follow. Pretty much every extension will need to be ported. This is what major versions are for.
my brother is working at a startup that was recently acquired by Ford (http://www.wired.com/2013/09/ford-aquires-livio/) - there are lots of opportunities with auto companies (especially in software).
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>I'm weary

You mean 'wary', I think, unless thinking about it is exhausting you?

Their site probably uses the same processes as this app: http://www.fourandsix.com/fourmatch/
Not whatever, but it makes game dev as easy as web dev while still almost as fast as native development. See your CPU usage while playing.
If it were to be HIPPA compliant, like Medigram, then it potentially could be useful for health practitioners as well.
Maybe it's just me but I find the hamburger menu in the top right , now that firefox has one of those themeselves in a similar place, kind of unpleasing.

I also miss all the colours and I prefer when search buttons are actual buttons instead of an icon inside the text field.
You've written scrapers for all this http://neuvc.com/labs/vcdelta/vcs.html VC pages?
I can almost feel the pain...
Well that list above are all things I kinda class as "personal notifications", so I put all those into a folder - in kouio you can view a single folder at a time, or expand it and see the unread counts against each feed (pretty sure Google's worked that way too).

Then everything else goes into various folders, with a couple top-level main feeds that I don't put into a folder at all, here's a screenshot:

http://cl.ly/VNOJ
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While in England, the delivery bots would work 2 weeks a year.
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Not likely. HHVM is Facebook's private implementation and it would require a lot of time for it to be anywhere near wide acceptance, let alone "de facto standard".

>>> an throw nearly unlimited money and engineering hours at the problem

They can, but they won't. Because it already works for them, so the amount of resources they are willing to commit to something that no longer gives any upside to them will be limited.

>>> Seems like a losing battle, but perhaps I am wrong.

There's no battle and this is not a zero sum game. HHVM will have its market and standard PHP engine will have its market.
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Agreed - fantastic news for PHP in general.

As far as Wordpress, in my experience the number of db queries is really a bigger problem than the PHP processing. A factory-default install with no plugins runs 30 queries on every home page load. With a fancy theme and a few plugins it can be over 100 queries per page! A caching plugin is pretty much essential for any Wordpress site.
I wouldn't be surprised if he hadn't even noticed the hamburger button. On a widescreen monitor the button is way too far from actual content. It really needs to be closer to the content of the page.
JIT is probably coming too, just with current way the engine built it turns out it is very hard to do JIT that makes any real-life impact. One can get magnificent benchmarks, but once you hit real-life apps, you get very low improvement. Thus a more attainable goal was chosen, but JIT may come back yet.
If you're talking about actual supply chain management and manufacturing you're probably right. There are entrenched providers in those areas you can hardly take on as a startup.

However, speaking of SAP and the likes: In any large company there are so many support functions that literally run on Excel or some cobbled together SAP atrocity the opportunities are almost limitless.
Cheers bud! Think i'll do some RSS organisation later. I like the idea of subbing to stack overflow tags - hadnt heard of that.
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This was brought up recently in the comments for "Mostly functional" programming does not work where there's also a thread on Glitch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654686
Exactly those are the misconceptions you might clear up while talking to somebody ;-)
While technically your statement is true - HHVM had zero ground some time ago and standard PHP had 100% ground, and now HHVM has some ground (which is witnessed by your use of it) so PHP has less than 100% - the substance of it - implying that HHVM is somehow fast on its way to replace PHP - does not match observed reality. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and so far none was provided. It is great to see this project gaining acceptance, but let's not get ahead of the facts and claim something that does not exist yet.
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From the article

> no one ever has to know what feeds you subscribe to.

Whoever runs the server knows you're reading that feed from their server logs.
so you mean fast like RAD , not fast like SPEED,right ? because >=60fps highly depends on the machine one is running , and the browser one is using. Saying something is fast without benchmarks is stupid. speed is something relative. Nothing is fast or slow, but faster or slower than something else. So what is your framework faster than?
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Lot of things the author mentions isn't valid for practical world. Apache (with TLS/SSL) with /dev/random is asking for trouble; meaning, client's requests will just block forever if not enough seed cannot be generated (same with TLS/SSL aware postfix).
A lot of software out there in use that require real-world RNG thus default to /dev/urandom. I am not sure whether its good or bad.

I know that on osx atleast, Yarrow kind of shields the fact that /dev/urandom and /dev/random produce non-blocking RNG.
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Google does one thing right that makes me quit DDG: put the URL next/below the title. What and where together.

90+% I don't need the Why and parsing over it to find the URL is distracting.
Google Glass is getting a real bashing right now from the tech press, but it has the potential to be transformative in healthcare.