skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you say something bad about the government on Internet, you may have the risk of being kidnapped by some unknown person and thrown into some unknown mountain area. (No kidding, one of my friend had this experience.)

Would you elaborate? This is very interesting. How did they get out of that situation?
When I put in an image URL or search term, I would get:
抱歉，您需要检索的图片我们无法下载，请从本地上传图片进行检索。
百度识图测试版感谢您的使用，我们会继续努力提升效果。

Google Translate:
Sorry, you need to retrieve the pictures we could not download, please be retrieved from the local to upload pictures.
Baidu knowledge map Thank you for using the beta version, we will continue our efforts to enhance the effect.

When I tried to upload an image, it would just hang, sometimes freezing Chrome.

Eventually I got this:
http://shitu.baidu.com/i?ct=2&tn=shituresult&pn=0&rn=10&quer...

It recognized and returned other cats of a similar color, which is pretty cool. Just wish the way there was a little cleaner.

Maybe Baidu's expanded Deng's saying. Now it doesn't matter if a cat is mangy and covered in fleas, as long as it catches mice.
I'm a little ashamed to admit that this essay was what got me into programming. I found it, thought, "wow, this guy is really smart," read his Lisp essays, and, well, the rest is history.

But I've had a lot of time to think about it since. And one thing PG never really defines is what makes a nerd. The definition I've settled on is:

1)smart
2)working
3)provides no immediate value (usually this is because they are working on something too "smart" for most people to understand)

http://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/on-nerds/
I'm just surprised we're not talking about changing the PSS (Popularity Style Sheets) on A-E.

Or are we? I noticed this immediately, before even reading the pg article (OP), I saw this post and knew that it was instigating a counterpoint, only to re-brand the point in a different set of words.
Open-spec COM rocks with quad-core "little beast"
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Finally! Jef Raskin gets his due from Tog! About flippin time, too.
The video doesn't work if you use HTTPS Everywhere, neither do some of the parts of the interactive challenges.
Excellent post. We made the mistake of trying to use Chef to deal with seed node discovery in our Akka cluster and that was a terrible idea. Really wish we'd gone with the AWS SDK instead.
Ok, try picking up your phone and trying out the movement on the back of the phone that this would require. It doesn't work. If the majority of the phone is touch sensitive how are you supposed to hold it? It makes for really awkward movement of your hand and let's say you figured out how to get the scrolling down, you still have A HUGE issue of UI. The iOS experience nor its apps were made for any kind of cursor or mouse interface.

If you need to reach across the screen without taking up screen real estate, use your other hand. Or use a stylus. Problem solved.

Edit: Also not to mention that for the most part iOS does a pretty good job of letting me be pretty accurate with my bulky fingers. It's not perfect, but it's certainly not terrible.
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Literacy is not the same thing as the ability and interest necessary to write a novel.
It will be open source soon =)
It will be open source, and will have SDKs, soon.
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We're still working that out. What do you think is fair?
My hand is in contact with the touchpad on my laptop almost constantly, but this rarely causes any unintended interaction.
It seems incapable of the lowest response times, which it seems like Google has. Forking a new process to handle a request incurs overhead. In my experience nginx, which keeps several worker processes open and processes requests asynchronously is much faster.
"LucidTouch: A See-Through Mobile Device" by
Daniel Wigdor, Clifton Forlines, Patrick Baudisch, John Barnwell, Chia Shen. Published at UIST 2007.

paper: http://www.cliftonforlines.com/papers/2007_wigdor_lucidtouch...

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbMQ7urAvuc
I suspect that Apple, Samsung, etc. have thought of this, so why aren't they doing it? (After all, the PS Vita has had a back touchpad for a while.) The first thing that comes to mind is that people hold their phones with the back. Accidental clicks would be very difficult to avoid. In contrast, the PS Vita is larger, held with both hands and has non-touchpad areas of the back where you can grip it, as I understand.

I'd still like to see someone try it.
Look at the pages indexed in google: https://www.google.pt/search?q=inurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.lear...

Now look at the source with ctrl+u. (example url: view-source:http://www.learn-angular.org/#!/lessons/binding-css-classes)

Now you know why he needs server side rendering (:

Anyway I never tried angular, and this tutorial made me try it. Is explains very very well how to get started, that's true.
Gluten intolerance could really mean FODMAPS
Image based icons will similarly fail for people who don't enable images in their browser. In other news, this is a much faster way to load and display icons at appropriate resolutions for the 99.99% of the interest who can view fonts.
I disagree. I believe everyone could learn to code if we taught it from around the age of six or seven. We can read and do basic math can't we?
I've recently personally dealt with this. The consequences of the experiment have been immense, but I'll spare the details.

These hacker schools are looking for knowledge workers. The higher ranks will be more associated with the centers of codebases/workflows/builds/systems. Some of us manage way more information than even the common person is willing to talk about. Nerds can withstand complexity, and [that] is what people know.

The culture becomes, regardless of intelligence, [that person who manages such-and-such complex thing]. If the person is smart, it helps.
The biggest joke is: probably a lot of these bullies out of PGs past ended up in low-paying jobs, being jobless or worse. All while PG moves and makes billions of dollars.

Smart kids usually get the payback for their sufferings later on. Or, to rephrase, karma's a bitch.
> sometimes, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter.

As a graduate student in mathematics, I have been told to dress down and make my talks more difficult to follow (particularly for job talks; they say it's a bad sign if anyone in the room is still following by the end).
Same although it causes me problems frequently because I also use a mouse. In fact sometimes when typing I'll every so gently brush the pad and jump somewhere else and start overwriting things.
I actually find the scroll motion to be very easy to perform using my index finger. However, I do agree there are issues to consider when it comes to usability. You definitely want to prevent unintended gestures and clicks/taps. So for one thing, the back touch doesn't necessarily have to be "on" all the time. It may be a mode that you enter under certain circumstances. And perhaps more advanced gesturing algorithms are needed to filter out intended from undintended gestures - maybe giving more weight to the size of the touch area, so that you palm resting on the back doesn't register as an event.

I don't pretend to have the answers to all these issues, but something tells me that smartphones can do much better than the current state of the art when it comes to game controls, to pointing at precise location, etc. And it goes without saying that this won't work with the existing mobile OSs as-is.
Since we have pretty awesome pictures of our own planet, it's clearly not meaning any planet. I guess it's true that "alien" could have referred to any other planet than Earth, but that wouldn't really be "planet hunting". But yeah, they should have written "exoplanet".
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Your laptop is several times bigger than your phone so it's not as big as an issue. We are talking about a device that's smaller than your hand.
A liquid container designed to keep its contents cool as long as possible? Sounds like a the job for a dewar flask. I've left drinks out in this overnight and they were still cold in the morning:

https://shop.funraniumlabs.com/products/665ml-fmj-textured-v...
"Nature and Ideology: Natural Garden Design in the Twentieth Century"

http://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/doaks-online-pub...
Consider that direct-to-consumer marketing of pharmaceuticals was allowed in the US in 1997. Is it so surprising that the new drug pipeline started drying up a few years later?

Currently, marketing budgets dwarf R&D budgets at the large pharma companies, so I don't expect the situation to improve any time soon.
But it is the ability to read and (for the most part) understand that novel, which is important. There are definitely more books (and things in general) being written in the age of literacy than there was before.
How are people at Google trying to screw up your life? Are you talking about the (seemingly bi-directional) hostility on Hacker News that seemed common a year ago or something more?

You mentioned that you sued and won some cases for tortious interference (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7645843) - was that against Google employees? Can you share some details?
for scrolling maybe

for gaming, most likely uncomfortable
users are used to using thumbs to play rather than using their index fingers

i rather be waiting for those kind of panel-less screen
A minimum wage is a minimum price on labour, its quite similar to a minimum price on chips and the market will respond in the same way
hes getting at the fact that laptops are trained to ignore input from your palm and only only respond to your fingers... a smartphone could also ignore certain inputs that are obviously not meant to be used.
Google Translate has had offline support for a while.

http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-worlds-langu...
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To give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not merely trolling: what handset(s) did you use?
The short answer for why dinosaurs got so large is because they could. That might seem a flippant answer but they had much less constraints than most animals left living today:

Air sacs not only allowed more efficient breathing but were also within skeletal structure, allowing for light weight strength. They also laid lots of small eggs so less reproductive investment per chick. Small heads on long necks with a sturdy body allowed long range eating without moving. With small heads and no chewing the disadvantages of long necks are well handled. For much more depth I encourage reading:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/25/dinosaur-...

<speculative As a non-expert my own guess would be some kind of food-weight advantage feedback cycle. The larger ones were not just more protected from predation but with longer reach came wider access to edible plant material. However, the larger sauropod size, coupled with no chewing and low grade of food (and probably not stones users) required larger and larger (fermenting?) stomachs to get enough energy to support their size. (not directly related but, reasoning from whales they might have even been cancer resistant. And if you consider that their size strongly suggests a 'cold blooded' like metabolism, then given their size, sauropods could well have lived a couple hundred years) />
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The biggest joke is: probably a lot of these bullies out of PGs past ended up in low-paying jobs, being jobless or worse. All while PG moves and makes billions of dollars.

If your only abilities are to be a mean, stupid asshole... then well, you'll be lucky to get a job flipping burger patties. Everything other requires intelligence and knowledge, which most of those bullies just had left behind.

Smart kids usually get the payback for their sufferings later on. Or, to rephrase, karma's a bitch.
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Thanks! The SDK has some "quirks" (and isn't especially Scala-friendly) but I reckon it's ultimately pretty powerful. My main gripe is the lack of real-world examples in the docs - hence my desire to write this up.
If you're going after net revenue, well then young tech startup founders are idols.

Millions and more millions of cash, more than your average rock band...
To clarify some of these points further:

- As mentioned elsewhere in the discussion, the algorithm does have an impact on some elliptic curve-based cryptosystems, but it is an indirect one. The attack is against the discrete logarithm problem in small characteristic finite fields; that isn't a security concern for the elliptic curve DLP (even over fields of small characteristic), except in the special case when ECDLP reduces to finite field DLP. That reduction is called the Menezes-Okamoto-Vanstone attack, and only applies to a restricted class of elliptic curves: so-called "pairing-friendly" curves, which are used in pairing-based crypto.

- In particular, the attack has no impact on even small characteristic NIST curves, or basically on any curve used for "traditional" (as opposed to "pairing-based") elliptic curve cryptosystems, including ECDH, ECDSA, ECIES, etc.

- On the other hand, the paper is a huge deal for people interested in the implementation of pairing-based crypto / cryptographic bilinear groups, because small characteristic fields (mainly supersingular curves over GF(3^m)) were the preferred approach for implementation in hardware, and even in software if you wanted symmetric pairings. Joux's original L(1/4) paper meant that people had to take a closer look at the trade-off between characteristic 3 and large characteristic in hardware (and it was also very important as the most significant algorithmic advance on the DLP since GNFS), but it wasn't quite "apocalyptic". This paper, on the other hand, has a quasi-polynomial attack, which means pairing-based crypto in small characteristic is dead (and more generally, symmetric pairings have become very unattractive).

- Whether this affects "real-world crypto" depends on were you set the limits of the real world.　SSL connections and credit cards are unaffected, sure, but there are limited deployments of things like group signatures that have to take a close look at the math used in their implementation.

- The first preprint did appear publicly last summer, so it's true that this is not fresh news to the community, although I think it's great that this result gets some publicity beyond academic circles (and IMHO it fully deserves its best paper award).
If by that you mean T-Mobile, sure.

The US has actually been on the leading edge of LTE deployment. Compare the map [1] to [2]. Then take a look back at 2012 to see how far along the US was even in 2012 (relatively far) [3] [4]. Then check out a more recent look (less than a year ago) [5].

And that's not counting WiMax, for whatever it's worth.

[1] http://lazure2.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/gsa-map-worldwide...
[2] http://www.4g.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/GSA_LTE_MAP.jpg
[3] http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/special-reports/lte-cover...
[4] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/111512-lte-4g-264316.h... ("The U.S. is one of the fastest-growing 4G markets in the world, thanks to aggressive LTE deployments by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless")
[5] http://gigaom.com/2013/09/20/mapping-out-the-worlds-lte-cove...
I think you're extremely optimistic with that cost estimate. The total cost of the James Webb space telescope will likely end up around $10B... and that's a 6m or something infrared imager in LEO.

For a space-based interferometer mission, eLISA is a non-optical interferometer (for gravitatinal waves) with 1e6 km arms with a budgeted cost of 1.3B Euro. An interferometer needs to control spacing by a fraction of a wavelength, but for gravitational waves that's like 1e9 m. Optical light is 1e-7m. That's 18 orders of magnitude higher precision over a proposed 3 orders of magnitude larger baseline.

I think it's fair to say the cost of such a mission would be "out of this world", because we have no idea how to build it, and it's not the launch cost to LEO that's the problem.
I have a Vita, but the only game I've played that uses it is Tearaway. This game doesn't use it for precision navigation or selection, so it's hard to say how well a rear touchpad would work for that. Tearaway employs the rear touchpad for tapping to jump and pushing objects around. For that, it's surprisingly effective and adds a fun--if gimmicky--element to the gameplay. The Vita is quite a bit larger than most smartphones, and I could see problems with differing hand sizes requiring people to adjust their grips to use its entire surface--probably not as much of a problem on a phone. The Vita is played two-handed. I think a one-handed grip while using the rear touchpad on a smartphone would be more difficult as your finger's range of motion is limited. The OP article seems to anticipate this by focusing on small gestures rather than ones that would take your finger across a large surface.

On a tangent [Tearaway Spoiler Alert]...when beginning the game, Tearaway asks you to select your skin tone from a few presets. Knowing nothing about the game at that point, I thought that was really strange. I recall thinking, "I don't really care whether my character has my skin tone...and it's really odd that they'd presume that I would." But it turns out, that's not what the skin tone selection was for. In Tearaway, you use the rear touchpad to punch your fingers through the paper backdrops of the game to manipulate things. The first time I did this and they showed "my" fingers in the game, I was startled for a split second and then laughed out loud. Screenshot of the effect:
http://media.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/files/2013/11...

It's more magical live as your virtual in-game fingers track the position and angle (angle presumably by extrapolating based upon the current finger position and average hand size/grip) of your actual fingers surprisingly well.
Test-driving a Node.js API
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Is this what you have in mind? https://github.com/Jonovono/C
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you serious? have been to certain colleges with division 1 football or basketball teams?
I see that's probably what it is, thanks for the info. I will probably just need to download them.
Saturn's moon Pan: Cassini image of the rings and moon.
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Wait, wait ... So they were asking for 30K, got 70K and that let them hitch a ride on a NASA rocket and have a satellite deployed. This seems oddly affordable. What am I missing?
to add to your point, if we are not considering other factors, North Dakota at $7.25 has the lowest unemployment rate in the US.
We changed the title to say "exoplanet" instead of "alien planet".
How to catch a fraudster – using 'big data' Benford and the power of maths
I don't think that being smart intrinsically makes people hate you in school. There were plenty of people in my school who were smart(including me) that weren't considered nerds or bullied. In fact, the kids who were bullied for being "nerds" at my school weren't even smart. More likely, they either had awful social skills and dressed and acted weird. Or, they had some weird hobby like playing card games during lunch in highschool. And lets not forget, if you're a school with a bunch of smart kids, you can make friends with them, so nerds aren't smart people, they are really just socially handicapped people.
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Yes, that's really where i am: there's nothing (apparently) like that and I would have to build it myself in maybe something like zoho creator... but it would definitely take (me) a while. Especially if I want to add notes between testers, email notifications and the like.

I wouldn't be too bothered by time tracking etc, but I would like at any given status to know where a product is, what's on each testers pipeline and so on.
Seeing how I figured out how to index angularjs pages for searching myself in one evening I imagine it won't be too long before google improves on this.
> Don't try it yourself, use us.

I get it, what I'm saying is, if you're a multi-billion dollar internet company whose business it is to manage hundred of millions of users, you should keep security in-house, and get it right instead of outsourcing it to a start-up.
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If, for example, I call up a pizzeria and ask whether they offer delivery, both common sense and common “usage,” […] would prevent them from answering: ‘No, we do not offer delivery–but if you order a pizza from us, we’ll bake it for you and then bring it to your house.’ The logical response to this would be something on the order of, ‘so, you do offer delivery.’ But our pizza-man may continue to deny the obvious and explain, paraphrasing the FCC and the Court: ‘No, even though we bring the pizza to your house, we are not actually “offering” you delivery, because the delivery that we provide to our end users is “part and parcel” of our pizzeria-pizza-at-home service and is “integral to its other capabilities.”’
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exactly, you can't control how you were born, but there is plenty you can control. This includes how you smell, how your teeth are, and what your hair looks like. Trust me, just getting these down will put you above most people.

edit: also, how you dress.
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> But you can already see that my son is a geek (well, what might "save" him socially is that he's tall and athletic)

You can tell how tall a boy who is 6.5 years old is going to be as a teenager/adult?
Someone very acutely pointed put that NASA is less about space exploration and it's more about employment. If you reverse these priorities back, you get SpaceX.
Arguably I would could WiMax though, even though I might be the only one who does.
I guess this is self promotion but it seems relevant.

I probably should have posted this early but I've been working on a library/framework for making party games with lots more than 4 players.

Players use their smartphone as the controller but all look at the same TV to play the games.

I've only had a couple of "larger" sessions so far but have had 17 player space wars and 14 player bomberman like. Going to try for 30 to 40 players in a few days.

http://greggman.github.io/HappyFunTimes/
I imagine this is what Commander Data would listen to when he has to take the subway.
I doubt they can enforce it. I just feel bad circumventing the steps they've already taken.
LibreSSL at BSDCan
"Harry Potter is representative of British schools" - it kind of is representative of exclusive old boarding schools though.
New crypto is scary and unproven, until it's not.
https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html#snakeoil
I imagine you yelling this statement with conviction...in a room full of people extremely confused about why you always blame the CEO for everything.
And no Wikipedia.
> Could we please stop call CSS a language

If you're going to be pedantic, be pedantic right. CSS is indeed a language, even if it's arguably[1] not a programming one.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-com...
The Notion Ink Adam tablet, from a year or two ago was going to have this feature.
Sensus (http://sensusxp.com/) is working on something similar as an external case for the iPhone. Dislaimer: I have a dev kit.
> and that's a 6m or something infrared imager in LEO.

James Webb Space Telescope won't be in LEO, they'll fly it to the L2 Lagrange point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Orbi...
You should blame both. They feed off of each other.