skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right in that I'm reacting to your broad statements, made for rhetorical purposes. I'll point out though that you've changed the topic. His detractors in the 1970s, who argued that Chomsky minimized the extent of the Cambodian massacre, did not justify their "low quality arguments" (as you term them now) by saying that the implications of Chomsky being right were unthinkable.

What is "unthinkable" about the idea that there were only a few thousand murders, rather that a genocide of 1-3 million people?

I am not referring to detractors who claim he is/was an apologist for the Khmer Rouge. I am only referring to those detractors who in the 1970s argued that Chomsky was wrong in greatly discounting the information from Ponchaud's "Cambodia: Year Zero" and Barron and Paul's "Murder of a Gentle Land".
No one would ever be a police officer if police officers were liable for damages every time they were unsuccessful in protecting someone. This is perfectly reasonable.
Honestly, this title is just another link-bait (how meta). Those few dozen clicks are most likely simply people who are bored and looking for something moderately entertaining to read.
Hehehe ... and what is a belief in a higher being, that cannot be proven to exist, commonly called?

:-)
Memory corruption security bug in Linux since 2009. Can we move away from C now?
I think the point is also "this is actually critical information that is important for end users of the system to understand, not esoteric knowledge only required by developers".
While technically the same hardware, isn't it the case that the "higher end" products are the units off the production line that met a higher QA bar?

That's my understanding of how it works for CPUs. A four-core CPU with questionable functionality on the 4th core may be sold as a "3 core" CPU. Depending on how "questionable" the 4th was though, it might be possible to use it anyway.
VERY mis-leading title. This isn't from Nokia, it's from Opera.com, which operates a number of mobile app stores, including Nokia.

And it's very likely not pirating - it's uploading an app the developer already had in an Opera store to Nokia's store.

How Opera's system works is that it will automatically upload apps (the latest version it has that works against the runtime or whatever) to the new stores that appear. It used to automatically list them for download, but they got blowback from users and now you have to validate the account. Then whatever version you have in Opera's database will become available for Nokia X.

It's not a bad way to get compatible apps in a store. I understand users might be freaked out, but you can either not confirm the email or contact Opera/Nokia and decline having your app in their store. By signing Opera's ToS, they have extended distribution rights for your free apps.
It's not out of the realm of possibilities for intelligence agencies to let soldiers die rather than risk divulging their actual capabilities.

But I personally don't see much of a (self-determination-ful) way forward other than making the assumption that some public key crypto works (ie one way functions exist), and building secure systems based on it.
The NSA can probably compromise software easier than hardware. Even for open source, enterprise and telco customers will be using official builds (by which I mean officially NSA-compromised).
Or the seal maker?
Oh, I agree. It just that you can't use the specific example you gave of saying that a follower of the Muslim faith is an enemy.
Why do you want to avoid pre-materializing views? Storage issues? Concerns about not-live-enough information? Both?
I'm paranoid enough to assume they have both the keys and the layout.
Absurd Coding Projects
In general it's absolutely relevant to not just solving A problem but the RIGHT problem. People might ask for X when they really want Y.
As well, I can often have a five minute phone call to get a few questions answered. It would have taken me five minutes just to type the questions in a clear an unambiguous way, and then I would have to wait for the response.
Congrats, you've exposed the failings of human logic and ethics!
I was under the impression that this was true of Russia as well. It's certainly not universal, though.
"The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas..."

Which is Somewhat Ok, given the NSA charter.

What is the more interesting question - Is this limited to "US servers heading overseas..?"
I mean we already know that NSA intercepts Laptops, Keyboards and such routinely for special "people of interest" within the US.
Does it do the same i.e. routinely and indiscriminately bug routers even within the US?
Yet antarctic sea ice has been increasing annually and is near all-time highs (since the 1979 satellite measurements began). That doesn't really indicate warming (to me).

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomal...
It's not a rumor, I mean nvidia advertised the same chip in e.g. the GTX 680 and the Quadro K5000. The K5000 got ECC RAM and a lower clock rate, but the GPU die was the same. All the difference was in the drivers.
Awesome, thanks for the feedback. I'm looking forward to the rewarding part :)
Git-Annex is a great existing option (made by joeyhess).
https://git-annex.branchable.com/
Cider: Native Execution of iOS apps on Android
>What is the range of a ~$5K drone? Payload? Battery life? Knowing these approximate parameters would be quite useful for putting one's thinking cap on. If anyone has a good idea, with payload and without payload, that could be helpful.

The answers to your questions depend firstly on the type of drone: multicopter or fixed-wing. With a multicopter you are looking at a maximum flight time of around 30 minutes, give or take depending upon numerous variables such as the payload and specific application (for example, hovering in one place uses less power than moving around). The payload capacity of a ~$5K multicopter would be in the order of 10 - 15kg, although carrying anywhere near this weight would severely limit the flight time.

A similarly-priced fixed-wing drone could stay aloft a lot longer and also have a greater payload capacity - the downside is the inability to hover or do vertical take-off and landing.

There are of course hybrid designs, usually tilt-rotors, that attempt to get the best of both worlds.
I think the point is the end user doesn't see any of the benefits when they are using your application.
It looks very similar, but what bugs me is that the author says that the text is going to be dynamically generated, which wouldn't fit the "logo" theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
Marketing Tests – Part 2
I actually develop everything in EF first, if we need to continue the project further, i'll integrate a DDD-pattern.
If the app is going slow, i'll switch EF with Dapper. For Db hogs, i use Stored Procedures with the SqlQuery on the DataContext

Although many use nhibernate instead of EF, i have no experience with it... (it's more db agnostic though).

I'm not sure, but i wouldn't advice Linq To SQL though...
Read my comment. Not even a scammer as far as I can tell, since they got the email (and it didn't go to someone who uploaded a pirated APK to Opera with a different account name/contact info.
I thought the problem was code-signing, with Safari and only Safari authorised to use JIT.
There is also an insightful bit that atoms don't split like legos, its more like a smooth graph, which has all kinds of implications.

1) The isotopic concentrations of waste from 2 billion years ago are about the same as you'd measure if you built it and lit it up today and then in theory let it sit around for two billion years, so to a zillion decimal places nothing has changed either in fission properties or decay rates in billions of years, which is interesting.

2) There exists no natural way to "kick" decay rates higher or lower. This being 2 billion years old, it's probably suffered thru billions of years of every crazy particle and field that can happen naturally in 2 billion years, none of which had any effect. So if you think there exists a way to speed up or slow down radioactive decay, its a minimum factor of two billion "un-natural" (more than two billion times the natural background of "techno-babble" radiation, or whatever) or perhaps most likely, it doesn't exist. So it appears to a zillion decimal places under varying natural conditions that nuclear decay rates are a constant. A pity, think how cool it would be to have a star trek like "thing" that decontaminates things. Or a controllable RTG that varies its power output by varying its decay rate. Or more negatively, if you could take a sphere of Co-60 the size of a softball, and increase its decay rate by a trillion or so, that would be a most impressive bomb. Or shine a magic disruptor beam at enemy troops or democracy activists or whatever and instantly all the C14 isotope in their body cooks off at the same time, that would be interesting.
This is just flat wrong. Safari is basically at feature parity with Chrome, which isn't surprising given that they only diverged recently. I haven't to my knowledge ever had to work around differences between the two.

Indeed, Safari has had JITed JS for longer than most browsers - this is just an update.
Oracle Wins Ruling in Case Against Google Over Java
Thanks! It's a pain, but I think we can eventually (semi-)automate it.
Even if they don't have physical access to factories I'm sure there are cases where they have (spurious) network access to factories and can replace a firmware blob that goes into routers or other equipment with a slightly different one with their tweaks without anyone noticing without looking really, really hard.
Any idea wether the Intel osx driver is related to the Windows one or also completely different?
Here is the original from a year or so ago:

https://raymii.org/s/articles/Set_up_your_own_truly_secure_e...

"Then all current commercial services drop off, including SpiderOak, Bittorrent Sync and git-annex. This resulted in a clever combination of EncFS and dvcs-autosync. Because, in this day and age, you cannot trust any "cloud" provider with your unencrypted data."
If the password database is somehow stolen without the website being compromised, sure. When people manage to break into the database they almost always seem to have gotten access through an exploit that takes control of the web server, though (which makes intuitive sense if you think about it). But it turns out that the really correct way of doing authentication, a challenge response rather than the idiotic "send my password to the server, allowing bugs along the route in SSL or malicious administrators to steal the password in transit", happens to make you lose that benefit anyway, as the client has to be given the algorithm to hash and salt their way to what is then effectively the password.
"Proponents of value-based pricing" is like "believers in anthropogenic global warming" or "supporters of the theory of evolution". Be careful not to "teach the controversy".

Tarsnap is tragically underpriced, and we have years of its business track record (compared to every other well-known backup provider) to see that the strategy of delighting the kinds of people who account for their storage costs to the picodollar does not result in runaway success.

Colin does fine for himself, but that's because he pours an avalanche of competence and expertise into what he's doing. If I were him, I'd be furious that I was getting lapped by people who do a much poorer job. But probably also hesitant to accept that my own low pricing had something to do with that.
Barefoot and Braless Official Music Video
The music video Barefoot and Braless is a the brainchild of singer/songwriter Kim Yarson soon to be released on her 3rd CD Joy in July of 2014 and directed by Michael Competielle.
Kudos for highlighting one of the problems with MOOCs, which by definition sever the priceless face-to-face connection between a student and a teacher, and then exacerbate the problem by scaling into an N-thousand-to-one student-teacher ratio. But CourseNest (good luck keeping that name, you only have to worry about the Google legal team beast waking up (they own Nest)) is unlikely to make a difference, in my view. Too many middlemen, too many businesses chasing after the conversation that should be held in a physical classroom or lab or, worst case, in office hours.

This is not an economically sustainable education platform. This is a chat room. It's a feature, not a business.
High-Tech Nomad
How good is this at traversing firewalls? AFAIK, Dropbox will do some manner of HTTP trickery to allow syncing when behind overly-restrictive firewalls (so it just goes out the usually-provided web proxy), but the documentation here references forwarding ports + UPNP, so I'm guessing that doesn't apply here?
The FCC is pretending to back down from its controversial net neutrality plan
My comments actually do reflect the story. The concept is cool, I get it, and it's useful. I'm commenting on the intent of the concept as well as the post title. The intent of your resume being derived from Github means that one believes your code is your "work". Maybe I'm hung up on semantics - i can see how this would be useful for augmenting and dynamically updating the resumes for a certain group.
Why would someone want to work for you, unpaid? Is the paid job worth a 40 hour job interview distributed over 1 month? Or is it the reference they should be after?

The first step is to pitch/sell the position.
If someone would please come up with an accurate, neutral title, we'll change it.
Nevermind..

Apparently it stands for Fourth Tier LLVM. Source: https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/FTLJIT

But it would be awesome if it's faster than light.
Scientists are well aware of this. You say it as though it disproves the predictions made in the article, but you haven't said how. Particularly since the predictions take your fact into account.

http://www.livescience.com/23333-antarctic-sea-ice-global-wa...
This is a year or so old, but it still works for new customers:

http://www.rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html
I never had much luck with Sparkleshare - in particular, I got burned by it a couple times when files I placed in the shared folder never got synchronized and I was not notified of this anywhere. Get to office, and oh crap my files weren't there..
For some things, EF can be paintfull, but i'd just use SQL queries instead if it takes to long.
The Antarctic Ice Sheet Has Started to Collapse and Nothing Can Stop It
Excuse me? How is that somewhat OK? I don't give a damn about the NSA charter or even the constitution which so many people seem to bring up in hopes of justifying mass surveillance of civilians abroad - is mass spying on foreign civilians really OK at this point? Pre-emptively setting up infrastructure for surveillance without any warrants, in a sovereign state?

What about enterprise customers? Is it still "OK" if they carry out economic espionage?

Surely laws should only be considered if the situation in question relates to an american?
It's sad to see that this kind of questions gather so much attention, and other questions closer to the real world receive NONE. StackOverflow has reached his max hipster level.
You should not expect to find free labor unless you are offering a substantial opportunity of education or useful skills, which it sounds like you are not.

Either you are looking for unskilled labor, in which case you should expect to pay the going/nominal rate for unskilled laborers with computer/internet skills, or you are looking for skilled workers with above-nominal technical skills, and you should expect to pay commensurate to their skills.

It sounds like you are looking for astroturfers, honestly I would not expect your campaign to end in success.
Will the addition of this fresh water do anything to mitigate the acidification (because of dissolved CO2) in the oceans, or are we screwed here as well?
I use seafile as well - I host it on my digital ocean instance and it works very well and things sync very quickly.

best part is that it does automatic, granular snapshots of my data - I've stopped using git for things like papers because I know it's backed up in seafile.
Baby Name Predictor
I would drop the part about "if it works well it can become a paid role." This line is usually insincere.

If it's not extensive work, just pay for it. Treat your employees with respect. Unless you really are looking for cheap labor.

A month long internship with an unknown company/project is not going to be very appealing. If your project is famous and is going to look great on a resume, and you have amazing people and the intern is going to learn a lot from them, that's a different matter, but with what I see in your post, I don't think so.
Thanks, please do!
I'd say do the same thing with the "after" selector, display only the other half, hide the original character, and that should take care of that.
Gaining sea ice, losing land ice.
Visual Studio is still pretty dependent on Win32 / x86 under the hood - a lot of the UI was ported to WPF and more of the tooling, including the compiler, is being ported to C#.

So no, I think VS for Mac / Linux is still a ways off. They're moving in that direction though - wouldn't be surprised if they bought Xamarin in order to make it happen.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6391701
Ode to Flickr
The difference between webforms and MVC was huge... (no more postbacks)

But i think Microsoft is slowly finding the correct way of doing things and yes, there is a lot of influence of NodeJS (Owin) and RoR (Scaffolders). But it's easier to change between the same platform (and still using C#), then changing between web technologies.

The above user wasn't required to switch to Silverlight, some web applications in my company still use Asp.Net 1.0 and it still works (not my projects, thank god)
Ask HN: I want to contribute to an open source project. Where do I begin?
I'm a graduating CS student and I've always wanted to contribute to a cool open source project. There are languages I really like writing (python in particular) and I think contributing to an open source project would be a good way to do that. I have experience writing relatively high quality code (a couple internships at Google, etc.) but I find it difficult contributing to open source projects. I feel like the barrier to entry on most projects is too high. Any suggestions?
There is not even an assertion, no charges were ever filed against the accused in the US.
That's actually not true, the NVIDIA and ATI drivers are maintained by the vendors.
App Disaggregation’s Physical Limit: 30 apps per device
Well, crud. OK. Thanks for the warning. <hangs head/>
Open-Source Go Libraries
Well being inside the USA doesn't protect you from receiving modified equipment, it has been reported that the NSA will, for certain "Persons of interest", intercept hardware in transit and compromise it.
Why can't they just use v8 or spidermonkey? Why invest time on creating something that will be only marginally superior (maybe?) than current open source technologies?
What do you mean? First off, you're making the assumption that your highlighting library gives you results that can be trivially split per-line (e.g. no styles cross line boundaries, line boundaries are easy to find, etc). I haven't worked with web highlighting libraries so I don't know if that's true. But let's say it is. Now how do you handle the problem I called out, where the context lines are highlighted differently in both versions? You only show the context lines once in a combined diff.
So I think the problem is, the guy freaked out for no reason?

Maybe, Opera Automatically Uploads Compatible Free Android Apps to Nokia X Store?
Starting with Windows 8, Hyper-V (Microsoft's virtualization platform) is built into the OS - and one of the goals with it was to be able to virtualize different environments invisibly to the end-user.

The Hyper-V team have also been actively committing to the Linux kernel for many years now, and I'm happily running a 6-node Cassandra cluster on my Windows 8 dev machine right now using Hyper-V :)

So it's not there yet, but ground has been broken.
Realistic terrain in 130 lines of JavaScript
I would like to see GitHub offer the option of seeing side-by-side. It can be helpful if you have a mess of tiny -/+ hunks right next to each other. But combined is definitely the correct default.
They might be able to handle it with a remote view controller. An existing iOS technology that allows for a view controller that fronts an out-of-process application. This is used for the mail composer and facebook sharing.

See: http://oleb.net/blog/2012/10/remote-view-controllers-in-ios-...

(I suspect there are some constraints on how a remote view controller can be used, and they'd have to do some additional work to shunt in NSURLProtocol and all.)
I had similar issues in Safari 7.0.3 FWIW
I tried it too, but ended up replacing it with something else. It was slow as a pig, was unable to handle datasync with failures and timeouts on any reasonable amount of files (a 2000 file user) and constantly made my CPU fan hit max.

My server was a Core i7 with 12GBs of RAM, SSD backing and a more or less dedicated NAS. I tried with both SQLite and MySQL backing. MySQL was better, but still unacceptable. If that's not enough to run it for a single user, I can't imagine what it's like trying to deploy it for a full family, even less an organization.

I love the idea behind owncloud, and I admit touting it myself in my own "honeymoon phase", but in hindsight I have no problem admitting that the execution is just too poor.
Well, isn't it time to change the philosophical underpinnings of the Anglo-American sphere of influence to something more relevant in the XXI century?
They're headed there - it's not a coincidence that the new compiler (Roslyn) was announced with full Mono support and Miguel de Icaza standing next to Anders.
> Safari is basically at feature parity with Chrome

Is this a joke? IndexedDB, WebRTC, etc.?
Rethinking QA, Part II
The government also kills people with drone strikes, but that doesn't mean Google could get away with that.

Where is this public domain that you trust so much and why are they more honest that Google?
> So you basically define an entire group of people based on only the ones you've met. Even then, you admit that none of them are good. Thus, all "software engineers" are bad?

No, sorry if that's what ended up being understood (I assume you didn't read my whole comment?)

What I meant was that when I worked there, I've seen worse code coming from actual programmers than from scientists who wrote code, but didn't think of themselves as programmers. This isn't much of a surprise; it was a research lab and money were fairly tight since we were researching neither weapons nor patentable drugs. Most of it was spent on equipment and scientists. The under-paid programmers were usually under-skilled, too; brighter folks quickly left for greener pa$ture$, leaving the ones who couldn't otherwise land a job behind.
Nobody has time to do that. Ultimately you have to trust someone, thus this is more a political problem than a technical one.
So, based on these numbers...he's doing ~$25M/mo today? I know he runs his own ad system now, but presumably he would be doing as well as he was doing with Adsense or better (or he would go back to Adsense).
Search inside buildings with Google indoor maps on yor Android
I more fear of a world like DOS/W3.11-era games - that games ship their own drivers like back in the old days it was done for soundcards...
Yeah, but you'd presumably need to have open source hardware shipped to you, right? And then you'd still need to inspect the hardware / software as shipped, right? RMS was right about a lot of things, but remember that his most important ideas are still waiting on lots of other things to happen first before they become practical.