skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like it to default to "Most Recent" without new comments bumping it up to the top. Facebook always switches it back to "Top Stories" for me for whatever reason... it's frustrating. There's so many posts that only make sense at a given time and reading them later is just confusing. I can't even tell you how many times I thought I was missing a Flyers game. I've found myself on twitter A LOT more nowadays due to "Top Stories".
Well, with all the griping about the Glass from this guy, he should have known that this is purely a prototype. The goal was not to be perfect but put the Glass in the wild.

Yes it will run hot, or take tilted pictures, etc. But that's the point. And really, this rant actually helps Google more than it hurts them.
It is for this reason that I'm a fan of the masses being armed. Without weapons, they can never revolt. True, one could manufacture weapons, but a good side arm and long riffle go a long way.

I see violence as a sad, but necessary thing. The history of man is one of warring between to groups. Once the rich/super rich become so powerful that they basically enslave the rest of us, there has to be a war. There is no society in the world that hasn't had a war of some kind.

It is true that one could, in theory, use non cooperation to dismantle the existing apparatus of state. The difficulty lies in the fact that the "refuse" are already disenfranchised. In the techno world of the future, they are not needed on any level. They are not consumers, therefore no one should care. Without a good portion of the elite siding with them, their non-conformism won't help. Even with India, the government of England and its citizenry were tired of empire anyway. India wasn't worth the effort to them. It is unlikely that we'll see the same from the elite anytime soon. They are on the uptick now.

Oddly Marx is right. There will be a class war. A new synthesis will be struct. In the mean time, sadly, people will die or be wounded. The best thing to do is prepare for it and try to mitigate it.
I also wonder when is Apple going to update Safari with WebRTC support. It's something many users could really benefit from.
What screening? WebGL is used on... the web. That's the beauty of it.
Would it be possible to use Facebook's API to build a more relevant news feed for ourselves ?
upvoted for being a proper human being
I wish "Ok Google" was always waiting - Instead you have to initiate it.

It's pretty awesome when you've dirty hands and can't touch the phone, but you need to turn it on, and unlock it first.
Work as a senior software developer in New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley or London for 10 years.
Seconding targeted search. If google knows so much about me, why do they send me to stuff they should know I'd never want to read?
>Im Gegensatz zu anderen FTTH Angeboten, die auf Layer-2 Plattformen von städtischen Werken basieren, benutzt Fiber7 eine komplett eigene Internet-Infrastruktur. (https://www.fiber7.ch/fiber7-verfugbarkeit/)

I think you misread that he misread that. It translates to this:

"Contrary to other fiber-to-the-home offers, which are based on Layer-2 platforms by the municipal works, fiber7 uses an infrastructure all its own.".

That strongly implies they use different fibers.
Where in London are you and which provider are you with? Pretty much all cabinets in London now support FTTC so it should be pretty easy to get 80/20 and plenty of ISPs are offering unlimited FTTC for around £20/month. You might want to consider switching.
The title is misleading. It should read, "There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014."

This blogger spotted a talk at WWDC 2014 on WebGL. He speculates this means there's a forthcoming release of Safari with WebGL enabled by default, thus predicting Apple is embracing WebGL.

But we don't actually know that.
You know how p2p systems can be more effective? By not being p2p systems, and instead being centralized. It's not some kind of natural progression, it's an evolutionary process. Centralization gives you control, reactivity, and all kinds of good things. Decentralization makes you resilient during destructive upheavals that kill centralized competitors. We're gonna end up with a lot of both.
The click through rate on QR codes is terrible. The two biggest mobile OSes don't have a qr reader installed, ordinary people don't know to download the reader and decode them, and even people with QR readers don't bother to open the app when they can just type the address.

Besides, most QR codes just point to a bit.ly URL anyway (It's a cheap way to track QR usage separately from direct traffic).
Pollution: Four wheels may be better than two
with side loading and permission over reach

a non-jailbroken iPhone

You don't think it's a little unfair to compare a sideloaded (thus, compromised) Android phone with a non-compromised, non-jailbroken iPhone?
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How to protect your personal data from the next hack attack like eBay
I feel like this totally defeats the purpose of facebook and he should just switch to email... but I'm glad he was able to hack at it to get it how he likes.
I omitted to mention the European Parliament for the very reason that it is democratic and is not relevant to my point. The European Commission, a key part of the EU is not elected by the people of Europe, hence it's members cannot be removed directly by the people of Europe and hence the EU as it currently stands is inherently undemocratic.

Given the lessons to be learned from the history of Europe, I find this surprising and concerning.
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As somebody who's been in a situation similar to this (fortunately they never got as far as pulling the knife because I stopped traffic), I still find it hard to blame people who don't help - you need to know where to draw the line in help, and it's a very blurry line. Your personal experiences are sadly biased; more than one helpful person has ended up dead because they were out of their depth [1][2][3]. As you say, such is life.

[1] http://blog.er24.co.za/2010/11/young-man-killed-in-good-sama...

[2] http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/good-samaritan-brutal...

[3] http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/sowetan/archive/2007/10/25/warn...
The local direct measurement IS altitude above sea level. The problem is that they weren't using the same reference points.
> Basically all public utilities in Zurich are city owned and operated. And while it may appear weird in other parts of the world, people here actually love their public utilities. This probably has to do with really high service quality being quite reasonably priced. But I digress.

Here in the states, our public utilities are more often than not of poor quality for the price. For example, I lived in Atlanta, GA for many years. Much of its sewer system dates to the rebuilding of the city after the Civil War. It's in violation of federal environmental laws, and when it rains too much it overflows and dumps untreated sewage into the local river.

I'm not sure why municipal services are so bad in the states versus in parts of Europe. After all, there's no private water/sewer company lobbying to blame for the water/sewer system in Atlanta (or Chicago or D.C. or the numerous U.S. cities with similar problems). I suspect it has to do with the locus of power vis-a-vis urban and suburban voters in the U.S. versus Europe. That is to say, most U.S. metro areas take the form of poorer central cities supported by wealthier suburbs, at least to a greater degree than I think is true in Europe.[1] Thus, there is less concentrated political will, as well as less money, to spent on infrastructure within cities.

Regardless of the reasons, I think many people in the U.S. are justifiably skeptical of public utilities. I personally would very much trust the city of Zurich to build my internet infrastructure. I wouldn't so much trust Atlanta, or Wilmington, or Philadelphia, or Baltimore . . . maybe Chicago or New York City. I say this as someone who has lived or worked in these cities, and relied on the municipal infrastructure more than the vast majority of Americans (because I take public transit and don't like to drive).

[1] For example: Atlanta has a core city only a little bit larger than Zurich proper (though only 1/3 as dense), but has a metro area 3x as large as the Zurich metro area. The vast majority of the wealthy voters in Atlanta live in the surrounding suburbs. Thus, funding for road construction to get these folks to and from work in the city takes priority over funding for services used by people who reside in the city.
> Parsedown is certainly very fast, but I wouldn't call it "extensible".

Parsedown is extensible and it already has been extended. There's a well working extension of Parsedown that adds support for Markdown Extra. It's called Parsedown Extra. It can be found at https://github.com/erusev/parsedown-extra
China is not, technically, a superpower. Not in the way Russia and the US were during the cold war, or the way the US remains.
Grousing about oligarchs, special interests, and the political system as a whole is unproductive and misguided. After all, patent reform has already passed with huge bipartisan support in the House of Representatives.

Instead, you should focus on the politician most responsible for blocking patent reform - Harry Reid, and the power he wields as Senate Majority Leader. He might not be up for re-election until 2016, but your donations and votes can help remove him from his position as majority leader in November.
Don't mnap (scan) my ports. My 80 is here. (?)

Your current user has the minimal privileges. Attempts to go further will be reported. (?)

And please don't be a jerk. your P.S. is little B.S. comment.

I wish her luck.
last.fm doesn't scrobble your life, it only hooks into your music player not your microphone and camera.
actually, a shortcut to the message queue (https://www.facebook.com/messages/) has the same effect to me...
Google: "attacker sues victim" [0]

Google: "victim sues rescuer" [1]

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=attacker+sues+victim

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=victim+sues+rescuer
The added benefit of using Google's URL shortener with Twitter is that you can send those links by DM while others are blocked.
I remember a time when this would have generated discussion on how cool it is or what technology they're using to accomplish it

Right, but as you yourself stated in your first paragraph, this isn't new. This kind of tech has been available for TV shows via Shazam for some time. Inevitably conversation will turn to privacy because that's the only new thing here.
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Hmm tinyarrows can link to itself too:
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I said after 5,000 games your results will begin to closely depict your winrate, not that it would 100% be correct. Variance can easily cause a winning player to have a breakeven stretch.

On top of that, you seem to be suggesting that the variance in my ROI is somehow attributed to an inherent "luck" factor of poker while ignoring the fact that the sample size ranges from micro stakes up to high stakes poker. My winrate is obviously going to vary between stakes because poker is a game of skill and the higher the limit, the more skilled the player pool.

FYI, it's also quite annoying to throw wikipedia pages explaining common psychological biases at me when you've already stated that you are basing most of your conclusions on "assumptions" since you aren't well acquainted with the subject matter. I'm well aware of everything you're warning me about but you also seem biased against poker. I've shown you a sample of over 50,000 tournaments. That's over 1.5 MILLION hands of poker. It blows my mind that you seem to be keen on ignoring empirical evidence and mathematical analysis here, but if you want to ignore that, so be it.

But, yes, indeed, good luck to you as well.
> 2 joysticks

You must be talking about Karate Champ. STILL a fun game when played against someone else!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_Champ
one fax machine alone...
That is not a solved question. There is a lot of evidence that democracy is deeply flawed, but there is no evidence for a better way of organising nations. Indeed there is plenty of evidence that when you take democracy away from people, you get popular uprisings, civil disobedience and ultimately, violence. Given that, democracy should be our first port of call.

Research into more effective forms of governance should continue to be persued.
Actually no, Gradle is Ant + dependency management + reusable code (plugins) with a convention-over-configuration philosophy, using Groovy instead of XML. So no, Gradle is not just Ant. But god is it slow, I agree to that.
Arguably, such a solution would make Javascript JITing safe, too.
I plan to develop in Golang, but as it seems they have Go 1.1 version.
you can use this chrome extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...

to implement this css code
http://stylebot.me/styles/5808
Is there any concern over there about the misleading rhetoric around this, i.e., that it just happened, not that it happened in 2011?
Hmm I feel sorry to say that but... self-proclaimed by 2 activists 7th of April 2014...

The title is way miss-leading and should have said 11-story building "Trying to become" ...

Closer to the original articles title!
I think the whole issue is that Facebook prioritizes the "addictive" nature of the feed. That is, their number 1 metric is clicking, so they have a very very narrow idea of what "engagement" means. But, as far as i see it, that is unavoidable...
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"As an interesting historical side note: the engineers who developed the Java runtime for hiptop would later join Google and lead the Android kernel engineering team; and develop Dalvik, the Java language runtime for Android."

I'm pretty sure that's less a historical side-note and more an invitation for Sun to subpoena you to testify the next time Google says their version of Java was a clean-room implementation.
Side-loading and non-jailbroken are the defaults. Google is warning everyone to only download from the Play Store but few pay attention and everyone wants something for free.
It sort of sounds like 1 side did the opposite of what they were supposed to when they started the work, laying it out above a measure instead of below (or the other way around).

If they really were so precisely wrong, whatever reference they used seems pretty sensible to use.
I wish this was possible, but ~80% of my friends are reachable almost exclusively through facebook. I too use facebook only for the chat because of this.
Defense Intelligence Agency assessment of damage done by Snowden leaks
That's an interesting idea- it probably would be, yes.
I think you totally sidestepped his argument though.

If everything everywhere is being recorded by someone, such as memory recording or a blind persons implants, who are you to say you can't be included?

They're not invading your privacy, your home.. they're in a shared world, which is just as much theirs as it is yours. You two share it. So do you have the right to say he cannot remember it?

Sure, it's slightly different than these days of a person with a camera, but it's an extended concept. One that is important to think about, imo.

Days will change in the near future, being recorded won't feel special. With so many devices, so many recordings.. it just won't matter. You'll have to invent some type of scrambler if you still care, when that day hits.
> Everyone I've ever talked to was 100% certain it was simply because they didn't want anyone by-passing the app store for games and other immersive content they would then have no control over.

This never made sense to me as an explanation, if only because for a very long time iOS had a far more sophisticated browser than Android; Android only really reached feature parity with Chrome for Android, and for years iOS was a much better platform for webapps. If they were so protective of the app store, they would hardly have put so much effort into best-in-class modern web support; offline web apps are in principle as much a threat to the app store as webgl stuff.
all I can say is, thanks you to my elementary school for running a gifted and talented program, and for the nearby university letting me use their internet access (this was in the era of 1200 baud modems). Everything I get to do today is because those things enabled me to learn on my own.

Anyway, I don't know that reading at a high level at a young age really is a good predictor for future success (measured in impact, rather than, say, dollars).
But does that even justify the police brutality though? He didn't want to leave without his friend (who was supporting the girl while she was getting up when the police pulled him off).

No, the police is definitely in the wrong here.
xDSL-prices are still quite high here, at least in Gèneve.

I'm not 100% sure if Swisscom has a monopoly as I have only lived here since January but here are Swisscom's price list for xDSL (rough calculation from CHF to EUR):

5/0,5 Mbit: 30 euro

10/1 Mbit: 40 euro

20/2 Mbit: 55 euro

For these connections you also have to pay for a fixed telephone line (hello Swisscom, this is the 21-century, not the 19:th!) which costs 20 euro per month.

(Source: http://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/internet/internet-at-h...)

Back in Finland I got a 50/10Mbit connection for 40 euros which included IPTV.
What could a 3 year old possibly have to focus on that they need to take amphetamines?
> runtime bounds checking

In practice this is quite rare because of iterators, which do not need to do bounds checking. In the rare case in which you need to use indexes, you can always opt out of the safety without the use of a compile-time switch, exactly like the choice between C++'s "operator[]" and ".at()". The only difference is that the default is safe, and the unsafe version requires you to jump through the "unsafe{}" hoop, unlike C++.

Also, with MPX on Skylake even the bounds checking may well become zero-cost.

> symbol mangling

How does symbol mangling make your program go slower?

> exception handling frames

Also enabled by default in C++, and you can turn it off just as in C++. LLVM will also optimize it out if you don't use it and use LTO. On most architectures exception handling is zero-cost via table-driven unwinding (although it can inhibit optimizations).

> split-stacks (this may have changed?))

They're gone.

> this was and still is my complaint about it, the one way to fix it is death by a thousand knobs that modify functionality but by then it's not even the same language.

Nothing needs to be fixed, as none of the things you mention are an issue.

> Also the recent change adding -ffuntion-sections -fdata-sections (a hack imo) shows that the language or the implementation has an issue.

Why? Rust's compilation model is exactly the same as C++ "unity builds" (which are becoming the norm in large projects).
Yep! That's a great solution for a lot of sites.
"Anyone with a working brain can realize for all the shit we are in now, barring a world shattering catastrophe we are better now than 50 or 100 or 500 or 2000 years ago."

50 is pretty debatable, if you live in the U.S. Some argue real wage growth stopped in the 1970s.

http://socialevolutionforum.com/2013/04/04/the-end-of-prospe...

"The post-1978 stagnation of real wages for both less skilled and for typical workers is a big part of the explanation of why economic inequality has been growing in the United States since the 1970s."

That's 36 years ago. Going back another 14 years to 1964, wages were still growing, and prosperity was much more broadly shared than today. As a society, we are all much fatter now, probably exercise much less on average, and growth in life expectancy seems to have leveled off. We probably work more hours, especially on a per family basis. A lot of technological progress has been devoted towards entertainment, and it's debatable how much happier that has actually made us.

I'm sure there are some things that have improved, it's just not as clear cut as you make it out to be.
Serenity. I was so skeptical of the concept of a western-with-spaceships that I didn't try it until years after it aired, and so was able to watch it all in the proper order.

Experiences like that have made me truly interested in how you can really evaluate this stuff. People praise The Wire. I didn't like what I saw of it. Is it worth my time to keep watching it to see if my opinion changes? I don't have time to do that with everything, so there has to be an initial filter. How do you decide?

I tend to err heavily on the side of caution here. I'm happy not having any TV to watch, but I hate wasting hours on something bad. I'd rather miss out on something good if it comes down to it.
I wouldn't call it a weird interface.

I would call it the one of the most confusing and idiotic interfaces I've used in a while. Or perhaps I'm stupid? That's how the website made me feel.
I remember a time when this would have generated discussion on how cool it is or what technology they're using to accomplish it, but instead, it's PRIVACY PRIVACY PRIVACY

I had song identification on a candybar phone something like 6+ years ago. Why should I say the feature are cool and how the tech interesting? It's not anymore. I had those conversations years ago. Is the fact it got added to facebook's interface even slightly interesting? There is a very narrow window of posts where I care to tell people I was watching The Simpsons, but am not going to type anything about The Simpsons in the post. It's like location data, who cares where I am? Nobody but facebook, unless I'm traveling and say something about the travel, in which case it also doesn't matter the post is geotagged.

So should we sit around and coo about how great it is that a social network I barely use anymore integrated known tech I don't care to receive from them? Is that how you responded when facebook announced that they would provide email service? No, because it's a boring solved problem from a boring company just trying to gather more data on users. Google already did it, and better. Maybe there is an interesting article to be found somewhere in there about implementation or scaling it, that's it.

Of course the conversation is on privacy because the tech savvy are starting to realize just how much they've lost. And it doesn't sit well that it's been stolen in ways hidden from them and/or they been have been told to sit down, and accept. So I find it entirely expected that people are jumpy around another encroachment, even for something benign. Time and time again someone spills the beans on a benign use case that got leveraged for access. Sure you may find it poorly articulated, off target or needlessly reactionary. It doesn't mean there isn't an important underlying point.
Well, for certain definitions of "working" it did. I remember not so fondly trying to do emergency work with SSH over GPRS back in the day, with incredible lag and connection freezes every couple of minutes. Perhaps they figured out how to make TCP/IP work _properly_ over such connections.
Austin is currently in the process of expanding one of its major roadways to include 2 new toll lanes.

Drivers in a hurry can pony up a toll to skip traffic, but public buses can make use of the lanes as well.

More info: http://www.texastribune.org/2013/11/29/in-austin-toll-lanes-...
WebRTC's still in draft and expected to change a fair bit; Apple rarely implements draft standards unless they're draft standards it made (Canvas etc)
I could get some help with front end web development. In exchange, I could help in maths. The deal would be: you are available to answer my dumb questions in css, html or jquery, and I am available to answer your dumb questions about maths (linear algebra, bit of number theory, analysis, probability and statistics).

I guess it would be a good fit for a competent web developer who for some reasons wants to learn maths (I am about the opposite). My email is in my profile if someone is interested.