skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding clients sucks. This makes it easier for iOS developers.
I thought that was an interesting comment, I did wonder originally if this could be something like that, but didn't follow up.

So now I took the time to try to go around this by rearranging the calls, and all of a sudden results make more sense:

http://jsperf.com/makekey-concat-vs-join/10

Results:

1. Firefox 29 makeKeyConcat / makeKeyConcatObj = ~440 Mops/s

2. Firefox 29 makeKeyCodepoint / makeKeyCodepointObj = ~64 Mops/s

3. Chrome 34 makeKeyCodepoint / makeKeyCodepointObj = ~5.7 Mops/s

4. Chrome 34 makeKeyConcat / makeKeyConcatObj = = ~2.2 Mops/s
Verisign still uses RC4 in its certificates. While most of the trusted certificates have moved to SHA-1 and SHA-2, Verisign still uses RC4 in some places.
Sometimes contests are just harmless fun. This contest is about finding suitable people jobs, not harvesting work for free, as you imply.
WikiLeaks: We will reveal the country being mass recorded in 72 hours
Have redflags and checklists taken over investing? Conversation with a VC.
Nobody but Microsoft and perhaps the US government has access to all the Windows source code, and nobody outside of Microsoft has the ability to build a runnable Windows.
There was an interesting article about Microsoft's use of a similar mechanism written by one of their developers. He wrote that it encouraged people to seek out incompetent teams to work with as within these teams they were guaranteed to shine. Thus, clever people did not want to work with clever people, as it would reflect poorly on their evaluations, regardless of the team's actual performance. As I understand it, Microsoft have dropped the use of these mechanisms, for this and other reasons.
Chrome 35 launches with more developer control over touch input, new JS features
An open letter to members of the New Jersey District Court, FBI, and DOJ
Price is too high, it'll never sell in the volume they expect to get (unless their expectations are quite low).
Ahhh gotta love that never-ending list of apps to build.
And some state governments force it on the local governments (see NC and TWC versus Wilson, NC).
There are no sockets. All memory is identity mapped. It is ring-0-only. All tasks on all cores can access all memory freely and directly at all times.

STdOut is not even serialzed. You print $SP,"<1>",BI=11$ as text and you pass it binary graphic data. It dispays on the command line.

60fps a callback routine is called to redraw each windown. All windows are redrawn.

There is a reason they make GPUs. It's a hundred times faster.
NASA Set to Launch the First 3D Printer to the Space Station
when I was a kid I couldn't understand how people liked chocolate ice-cream. I was always amazed by my sister's tendency for chocolate. To me the taste was awful, while vanilla was awesome.

Genes... :-)
MintPalBuddy: beautiful iOS app for crypto currency (MintPal exchange)
Fan of i3 as well. People talk about tmux and I just shrug; it's built in!
Brian from Weave here. We're the other app mentioned in the earlier techcrunch article and in the comments:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/01/brian-ma-weave/

Glad to see other entrepreneurs innovating in the space.

@syed123 - looking forward to trying LetsLunch mobile.

@JimmaDaRustia - we're on both iOS and Android if you wanna give us a shot.
I honestly have not seen a company larger than ~25 people where that was true. Can you give an example?
"expensive and explosive"? BS

Point me to car batteries that have exploded. And the raw materials for lithium batteries are cheap too, so they aren't going to be undercut much.

Weight is an important part of cars. Using 3x heavier batteries isn't going to go big. They could be useful for trains or stationary though.
4th generation of consoles uses as much energy in standby mode as playing games
yes a redesign, better UX and mobile app work is going on in our laboratory :-)
I will write a blogpost soon on growth hacks.
Wrote some of psychological aspects of running startups on my blog http://SyedShuttari.com
That's the smallest group of developers who are using a mainstream OS.
Same here. Although I still think it's a bit overpriced, being able to leverage a bunch of existing software and hardware products in a highly portable format is a big win.
Mixpanel down, possibly hacked
displays an un-styled Unhandled Exception.

An unhandled exception was thrown by the application.
Ctrl- Shift - Esc

It puts you straight into processes tab and can be done with one hand.
Unrelated to the actual article content, but what kind of website autoplays two videos when loading the page?! One is annoying enough, but to have two videos start simultaneous doesn't even make sense. That is a terrible user experience.
Yeah. The idea is just to do something you think is awesome first because that's the hard part.
Municipal governments should threaten to regulate last-mile ISPs like power companies unless they agree to let competitors use their cables. Virginia requires that competing power companies be allowed to use power lines, why not fiber as well?
Funny I just started to learn Clojure 2 days ago and dropped it because I lost interest in it.

I always wanted to join some AI competition and this might actually be fun.

The sad part is, there are no game rules. Yes he explained them a little bit in the blog but it was way too broad.

Also there is no tutorial on how to get started anywhere. I am assuming I need this https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat
It seems that geeks are less excited about Oculus in general since the acquisition thing.
> But the best way to have a future is to be part of a team that values progress over politics, ideas over territory and initiative over decorum.

I am not being too cynical in thinking that this doesn't exist? I mean this is the core of how teams interact. Politics is reality. So is territory. Fuck decorum, though.
I have a huge library of PDFs that I prefer to read on a fast tablet (where I can annotate and so on). This is a big plus for me.
Yes, the same reason why Google can't avoid making its apps for iOS: "Monopoly". Windows holds a monopoly in the desktop and there is no way Google can't ignore that. Now with the announcement of "Universal apps" by MS, where you write for one windows device and easily port it over for the rest, wonder if things will change.
Lead cells have worse cold-temperature performance than lithium; at least, all cells that EV conversions have used (golf cart/AGM/VRLA versus LiFePO4/LiCo).
Unofficial Kinect one docs say 20ms depth sensor latency, this is same as 50fps vision camera so no lag there. They also say 60ms for tracking versus 90ms of original Kinect. Problem is original kinect did >100ms at minimum, and topped at 500ms

http://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/imda/sites/www.nrl.navy.mil.itd....

We experienced maximum latencies of nearly 500 ms

M$ will cease to be a thing when Microsoft stops dropping Billion dollars on every problem (kinect pr, original xbox pr, surface writeof)
Meta, but if you're going to write an article named "X considered harmful", then X really has to be as least as harmful as GOTO's prevalence was in 1968. This article is about a little thing that's current between now and now+3y, and that doesn't really hurt anybody when done wrong. Coding a script tag the wrong way is not going to stop the software engineering industry from making fundamental improvements.
Netflix would lose, they have competitors and Comcast (and potentially, in the future, ComcastTWC) has too many customers. Increasing the costs to all of them would result in the loss of too many customers before the dust settled.
This is surprisingly clean and well-commented. Good work!

Jens Gustedt's P99 is a similar resource: http://p99.gforge.inria.fr/p99-html/index.html

Can anyone else speak to whether he is interpreting 6.10.3.4 of the C11 standard correctly?
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf
EBay Shifts to Water-Cooled Doors to Tame High-Density Loads
this is awesome. now I hide secret information in a seemingly innocent image. no one would want to use AES to decrypt it if the image looks fine.
Do you have AdBlock or the like?
10 Avoidable Mistakes First-Time Entrepreneurs Make Repeatedly
Not all peering, just peering at certain key sites (12 specific sites).
> Comcast (or another ISP) are pretty much the only choice. Customers don't have another option

If an entire town is angry, their city councilors will very quickly utilize eminent domain on the fiber in the ground and sell it to a competitor.
First suggestion (since it looks like y'all were inspired by Hipchat) would be to improve on the chatting UI. For example, randomize the colors of each persons messages. Tesla is blue, JP Morgan is Orange, etc... because when you gotta catch up on a group chat its hard to differentiate many different members. Color would help.
Hey Maikklein, did you start playing? We built a mini-tutorial into the level itself, along with documentation and API details. We also have a rules tab on the ladder page that describes how the tournament works in broad strokes. If you still have questions, drop us a line at team@codecombat.com
Is there an API you can use to submit code and get back simulation results and stats?
Only if you think basic UI functionality and a few decades of muscle memory x a few tens of millions of people is "superficial", that is.

It doesn't matter how awesome the changes under the hood are if it's painful to use. And I'd argue that the unwarranted attempt to shoehorn a (mediocre by itself) touch UI into a desktop, poorly, ranks as "painful", never mind the knock-on effects with certain configurations (laptop touchpads interpreting normal mouse movement as swipe gestures for example).
They should really just buy cygwin and make it the default shell keeping powershell as optional. It's time for MS to acknowledge they need to catch up and be a little bit more interoperable with power users from other oses.

cygiwn is one of the first thing i install when I bring up a new windows box.
Dell XPS 13: 13.3" @ 1920x1080 = 166 PPI

Asus Zenbook Prime: 13.3" @ 1920x1080 = 166 PPI

Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga: 12.5" @ 1920x1080 = 176 PPI

Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro: 13.3" @ 3200x1800 = 276 PPI
I have to agree with you about the Black Arrow - here in the museum in Liverpool is one of the Black Knight rockets which were the test vehicles the Black Arrow was based on. I think the design of the Black Knight is even more fantastical, it intrigued ever me since I went to the museum as a child.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Black_Kni...
We're not using Google Spreadsheets as the model. Famo.us is open-source, which means an Opera user like yourself has the opportunity to make sure that your browser is not neglected.

We only work better on Webkit over other browsers because Webkit has the most mature implementation of the W3C APIs upon which we rely. We do not not rely on special vendor-specific features that are only implemented in Chrome or Safari.

If something doesn't work properly in some browsers, like Internet Explorer thus far, then that is because that browser has yet to implement the features upon which we depend or has yet to implement it correctly. We'll work to account for variability between implementations, but at the end of the day that's how things get done.

Native toolkits are battle-tested because they have had the luxury of time. There is nothing inherent about the web that excludes it from the opportunity of also being battle tested.

Our plan is not to have custom one-off UI components, but to actually mature what we're building into something that rivals what is done in native land. What better way long term is there for the open-source world to hedge risk against closed platforms than to move those native features to the web and perfect them.

"For things that are absolutely essential, like scrolling or
entering data, please use components I can trust."

On most sites I use, entering is only vaguely based on the native components with several layers of improvements achieved via HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

"I suppose it's only fitting that web devs would try, though to
be honest I hoped that impulse had ended with the death of
Flash."

Why would you hope that? Famo.us isn't the same as Flash in that it's open-source. The world now has a viable path to a solution that belongs to all of us on all platforms instead of being the domain of one company.

The only difference between the native components you keep on a pedestal and what we're building with the help of the community is time and polish.

Perform a mind experiment here: fast forward 1-2 years and just assume we are at parity with the native controls you prefer today. Given that what we're building is open and extensible to new unforeseen use cases, is that really a set-back or a leap forward in terms of what it enables us to explore as a community? The only thing standing between us and that future is time and effort.
> which was likely buried due to having 'Snowden' in the title

Can you be more specific?
He/she is referring to dynamically adjusting the characters size (its line wrap) when resizing the window. You can even resize the command prompt to fullscreen but the lines wrap to 105 characters by default.
As a company "we" don't have passwords for our company infrastructure, individual users may have passwords for their accounts but those aren't secret/ as important. Its not practical to deploy PKI to and expect ~100K users to use it. As for communal accounts they're almost all for paying for services offered in-house by a group other than yours.
A Week with Google Glass
Thanks for this list. We'll work on this. Also, if you're open-source inclined, we would appreciate pull requests as well. :)
Valve? :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_p...
http://updates.jalopnik.com/post/34669789863/more-than-a-doz...
http://www.businessinsider.com/february-1st-toronto-tesla-fi...

Need more?

Lithium is one of the most expensive battery classes too... do I really need a source on this one. A Tesla battery costs 20k for a reason.

Weight is important for cars, but most cars already have lead-acid batteries. Furthermore batteries aren't a large portion of vehicle weight.

The reason lithium is used for electric cars is energy density. This is not a problem for hybrids.
Skinny wormholes could send messages through time
You're confusing encryption algorithms (RC4) and hash algorithms (SHA-1 and SHA-2). Certificates do not use an encryption algorithm nor do they influence your choice of encryption algorithm.
That's a great idea! I'll add it to my todo list.

Right now, there isn't a nice and well documented way to do this as we haven't ever had demand for an API like that. You can reverse engineer the POST for the code ranking to submit your code and the GET for the leaderboard information.
This VC doesn’t get it
DConf 2014 livestreaming Wed 9AM PST, taking online questions
Thank you for recommending Gitcrypt! I have been trying to remember the name because we have a couple of Git repos that need protecting. We need to encrypt them but I don't want it to be a big hassle to the developers that need to work with them.
ARCTIC
Arc"tic, a. Etym: [OE. artik, OF. artique, F. arctique, L. arcticus,
fr. Gr. ursus bear, Skr.

Defn: Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation
called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle,
region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.

Note: The arctic circle is a lesser circle, parallel to the equator,
23� 28' from the north pole. This and the antarctic circle are called
the polar circles, and between these and the poles lie the frigid
zones. See Zone.
Very cool, thanks for revisiting the best practices of yesteryear!

Quick test in FF: seems it blocks either way, but at least schedules the fetch in the async=true case http://i.imgur.com/AmNjhgz.png
The thing is, if you actually look at how those programs work, they're still actually running cmd.exe and then wrapping that. This leads to all kinds of weirdness...sometimes resizes don't work quite right, color support is iffy and requires yet another wrapper, etc. It's better than nothing, but it's a FAR cry from something like konsole or even generic tabbed xterm.
I've worked on quite a few enterprise systems that took screen-caps on their own for error reports. As long as you test the hell out of the bootstrapping code that does all of that handling, it's a great way to take the user out of the loop.
Please provide a source on this, as this is directly opposite to what the article states, and dis-proven by millions of cars starting in freezing weather.
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After mentioning the usual "Betteridge's Law" implications, my answer is "if they do, then the company should account for the time it takes and set release dates and such appropriately." Support is not something that can be just added to responsibilities without consequences.
Ah, didn't mean to condescend to people, we've actually met with quite a few great developers who just aren't good at marketing themselves or who aren't aware of the opportunities in the field. People on HN might not fall into that category for sure, but we feel really good about matching good developers with great companies.

Screening is definitely a motive for us, but it's entirely opt in and we don't bother people who don't respond (or ask us to remove them entirely). We're developers and understand the issue with LinkedIn spam.

Contests are risky for sure, which is why we spoke with some friends/advisers/lawyers about it before launching. There is a critical difference between randomly won prizes and games of contest (legal term). After discussing it, we thought it was worth the risk.
Following in line with this thought, I've actually plugged in my iPhone (non-jailbroken), downloaded the sqlite database onto my computer, and was able to see all the messages and URLs of photos sent. Even photos marked as "secret" (the apps Snapchat-like feature of deleting and hiding photos).
So what can we do about this as Americans?
I'm not sure.

A large part of the Android tablets sold are low end models with bad screens, used for Point of Sale (in taxis etc) or minimal web browsing. Not generally used much per day. (Afaik, statistics for web site access generally support that.)
Digital suffrage: Voting on the Bitcoin Blockchain
They've still yet to make a profit.
Putting two objects on a scale is pretty much the most literal way to compare them. You're being far too generous in your interpretation here.
Took a quick look, the flight API seems to be well developed with a lot of demo apps.

On the hotels front, the biggest limitation is still that you can only search by city or area and doesn't appear to support searching via an array of hotel IDs to support custom sort orders, etc.
I didn't get an ad either. With my search order being Github, twitter, photos, linkedin.
I've previously interned at one of the mentioned Cable Companies, and I see both sides.

The solution is to make it 'capitalistic'. Change all of our internet contracts from Unlimited (up to 'x' GB/month), to a simple $/gb cost.

It would be in the ISPs best interest to provide their customers the fastest internet connection as possible. E.g, if a customer can stream a 4k video vs SD then the ISP would make more money per unit time.

Think of it this way, if comcast charges $0.25/GB, and a netflix SD show is say 1GB and HD is 4GB, then comcast
grosses $1 for HD and $.25 for SD for the same customer streaming request.

Over time its likely the price per GB would decrease, just like it has for cellular.

On a more evil side, this would also stop chord cutters. Pirating content is no longer 'free', and Netflix would cost significantly more than $10/month ($10/month + 'x'GB * $/GB).

As for what rates to expect, if comcast charges in ATL $30-55 for 300GB, that'd be about $.10/GB to $.20/GB. As for speed tiers in a $/gb system, your guess is as good as mine.
What specifically was wrong in the article this thread is about?
Why not just run Linux in a Hyper-V machine? Hyper-v is type 1.
Right, but that relationship, especially as applies to support and subscription, is not transitive.
THIS.

Im fine with legacy RC4 when you need to support 10 year old phones or wii, but its ridiculous when YT, or Occulus requires broken crypto. Occulus uses RC4 on their order page, meaning personal data and financial information.

https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=5...

support.oculusvr.com has all modern crypto enabled, its like they specifically crippled financial side of website.

Does NSA send national security letters demanding downgrade to RC4?
One of my favorite works of literature is the preamble to A Dictionary of the English Language, by one of the first lexicographers, Samuel Johnson. Perhaps I'm so fond of it because I can beat his prose over the head of prescriptivists and Francophones in an argument, but whatever the reason, I find it beautiful and captivating.

Here's a passage (joined from two paragraphs) describing the futility of prescribing language or fixing it with a work as diminutive as his dictionary:

When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from
century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a
thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who
being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words
and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his
language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to
change sublunary nature, or clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and
affectation.

With this hope, however, academies have been instituted, to guard the avenues
of their languages, to retain fugitives, and repulse intruders; but their
vigilance and activity have hitherto been vain; sounds are too volatile and
subtile for legal restraints; to enchain syllables, and to lash the wind, are
equally the undertakings of pride, unwilling to measure its desires by its
strength.

I suppose early lexicographers had to become a master of language themselves - or persuade themselves it was so. If they didn't, how could they presuppose to describe the entirety of their language in such a tome?

The full text of the preface can be found here: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html
Why are you impersonating noIlidge?
This comment does not deserve to be downvoted. It's thoughtful and asks a legit question.

All: when you see substantive, civil comments in faded-out territory, please give them a corrective upvote.
Spotify Soundtrack your brand
Show HN: API to add bad words to English texts
Oh, then it was my fault! I didn't even think to press the play button because I haven't written any code yet.

Now I am seeing the interactive tutorial. Thanks
Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs Term Sheet for listing companies
Youtube to buy Twitch for $1B
What Twitter Would Really Gain From Buying SoundCloud
Multiple Language Support
Use GPG-encrypted email and decentralized services that won't put people like Levison in jeopardy on behalf of one of their users.
Gumroad is great for getting started. The only annoying thing I don't like about gumroad is that they don't give you many options for removing the header image or default call to action text on payment pages. Otherwise, it's a fast and clean way to accept payments without hassling with SSL, stripe, etc.
But not before the ISP lobbies the state legislature to decree that cities can't annex fiber.
Modified Simpsons quote
This article, which simply confirms what many speculated took place with Lavabit, makes my blood boil. I don't know what is worse: this specific technology instance, or the idea that similar instances have existed for some time.

Either way i find then entire paradigm infuriating and undermining to our supposed liberties.
I run Linux Mint on my laptops at home and my work laptop. Considering switching to Debian on one of my home ones to try plain Debian.
Here's the regkey that controls this setting: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978570.aspx

Should be fairly easy to script deploying that to all your machines.