skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're right to be, casual sexism in a tech review is not ok (not that it would be anywhere), and seems extremely unprofessional.
China Cuts Off McKinsey, Other U.S. Consultants
Jayden from the Karate Kid is part of the wave of Jaydens (and -dens in general).
Why exactly should we believe anything google says ?

It's unverifiable and they don't exactly have a clean record. I wouldn't take their word for it, specifically for something privacy related.
It's not sexism. There's nothing gender-specific about it.

EDIT: As an aside, I've been refreshing the page frequently and the dynamics of which comments are rapidly going gray and back to black are very interesting. Not to mention the order of comments on this page. Clearly there's some strong opinions here. I feel like an analysis of post voting frequency and vote type could be performed and would be very insightful.
To understand Beats you need to understand Lady Gaga
actual architects might rightfully slay you, though.
The Fallacy of Tiny Modules
As far as I know encryption wasn't removed in 7.2, just disabled via error messages. You could just fork it given the new license and reenable encryption, right?
> Question: let's say an anomaly occurs, and it has to land using the chutes .. on land. How's that going to feel?

The seats look to be suspended well above the floor. That gives you the ability to smooth out the pretty large instantaneous acceleration from hitting the ground faster than intended. I imagine you won't be reusing that particular Dragon again, but the astronauts should be fine.
This is very good, though this thread is a bit old and deep. Your italicized part ("Again, I think this can be attributed to you taking a more abstract approach to what you are saying, but choosing to use concrete names, such as Perl, and doing so in the comments of an article about a new Perl release.") made me laugh :)

You are possibly right, though I was just making an off-hand remark and only just clarified when prompted explicitly. I think the 90 words / 4 lines I wrote originally were fine, and if someone asks for clarification no reason not to include it. In general I don't think an article on a new version of Perl is a bad place for such thoughts.

I like your comments, especially, on domain specific languages, though as mentioned the thread is a bit old and deep to continue here. I couldn't find an email but if you reply with one I'm happy to discuss. Your tenhundredwordsofscience is a really good example of how it gets awkward not to use specialist vocabulary. I like your analogy with chemists, physicists, lawyers, engineers, and architects. The former two especially use specialist symbols that are impenetrable to total laypersons. anyway if you have an email I'll respond to your good points.
Sure, the Celtics too. The Celtics, Bulls, Lakers, and for the moment the Heat all have national followings. The Lakers and Celtics because of their dynasties, the Heat for their current success, and the Bulls because of their Jordan dynasty and because WGN broadcast their games nationally during that era.
NSA Contractors share classified projects on Linkedin and Indeed
There was a feature article in The Atlantic recently that explored some of this recent history. Unpleasant stuff: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case...
People aren't complaining about the idea of removing private information.

They are complaining that you are just removing it from google. The info is still there!

And not only that, it's only removed from google.co.{eu*} google.com will still have it.

Which makes it as stupid of a law as the one about cookies: Make it look like you are helping privacy while actually doing nothing of any value.

Anyone from the EU who wants the full scoop about someone will just use the US google site, making this a completely pointless exercise.
You can't audit BitLocker, its source is not available. That's a huge difference.
You don't have anything to spy on, except your magazine subscriptions, credit card purchases, phone records, public library records, etc.
Google is pre-empting the coming Silicon Valley shakedown by civil rights groups.
Ok, I see, I dind't phrase it carefully enough - sorry. I meant what happend in Europe, not in the U.S.

Here's my very very very unhealty simplifictation of how the lack of public funding of public services and the events in europe are related.

underfunded schools > public spending in general > fiscal quote > "washington" > elections > cultural reflexes > "socialism" > libertarianism/Reagan > Europe > cold war > socialism > WW II
The Lakers have a ton of championships that have gotten them a MASSIVE following and they're in the largest market in the country. The Heat are nowhere remotely close to being as valuable. This isn't a matter of talent, it's a matter of history, brand loyalty, advertising, and all the money that comes with that.
> The law isn't about squelching free speech, it's just trying to keep this information from being so easily available.

You're just mincing words here. There are profound speech arguments to be made when someone is coerced or threatened for publishing _facts_. It is the same nanny-state crap that Europe invokes when it criminalizes offending people, and they have an army of people like you to jump on their bandwagon.

The ruling is technologically illiterate. It fails to appreciate the growing ability for anyone to access and index public information as time goes on. It fails to appreciate its jurisdiction and effectiveness. It fails to make sound rational justification that separates the role of a newspaper from a news aggregator.

Most important of all, it gives the government an enormously broad -- and practically limitless -- ability to remove the expression and dissemination of information based on purely subjective and even temporal characteristics. Europe's freedom of expression laws are a joke with endless carve-outs for "public stability" and "offense" which will only become increasingly useful tools to regulate and censor legitimate public discourse.

Too bad for you, these laws won't work and when they fail it will be embarrassing. In the short term, enjoy the further rot of economic growth in the region due to compliance costs of this and other ridiculous judgments.
You'll note this is the privacy that Eric Schmidt already enjoys, or at least believes he should enjoy, whether it's using lawyers to get one his many mistresses' blog yanked from the internet [1], or when he tried to get his political donations pulled from google search:

Mr. Schmidt, Google’s outspoken chief who will be replaced by Mr. Page on
Monday, has made public gaffes when speaking about privacy. Mr. Levy reveals
that he has made gaffes inside the company, too. Mr. Schmidt asked that
Google remove from the search engine information about a political donation
he had made. Sheryl Sandberg, a Google executive who is now Facebook’s chief
operating officer, told him that was unacceptable. [2]

And of course, there is always his infamous suggestion that people should change their name when they turn eighteen, in part to avoid google reporting every dumb thing they did as a child.

It's hard to say whether he's a sociopath or an entitled asshole, so I suggest compromise: he's an entitled sociopathic asshole.

[1] http://gawker.com/5477611/googles-ceo-demanded-his-mistress-...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/business/01author.html?_r=...
>I'm bothered by the usage of "whore of babylon". I feel like that sort of language doesn't belong in a review like this.

If you're complaining about obscenity, you should know that that was a reference to the Bible, of all things.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/audiophone/id704052103?mt=8&...

Audiophone looks nice from the screenshots? iOS7 unlike the rest of them.
Where do I go to buy me some Plumpy'nut? Serious question.
I would bet that malicious websites advertised in google ads are more common because they require less efforts and because I had to deal several times the aftermath of people clicking the first link in a google search for the flash plugin which turned out to be a google ad for a malicious website serving malware infected flash installer.
Why reinvent the wheel?

If all you need is monitoring a single end-point, then just signup to a Pingdom free account. Very reliable monitoring and 20 SMS notifications per month (no caps on email notifications) https://www.pingdom.com/free/

And if you need to monitor more than one system, then go for Pingdom "Starter" for only £6.99/month https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/

IMO that's fairly cheap and avoid yet another system to maintain..
"If the new path is shorter than the other, then information can travel along it at a speed less than c, but still take less time than light going the long way."

If light can go through that wormhole, too, it technically wouldn't be FTL at all, would it? Otherwise, we already have FTL travel: point a laser at a mirror on the moon, step a meter aside, and wait for the light to finally get there.
But.., but.., what about our rights???
/retard
My name is Sebastian, which was extremely popular in Germany in the early 80s (not once was I the only Sebastian in the classroom). In the USA people would now imagine a small child when hearing my name. It's very interesting how different popular names are in different countries.
PIC32MX microcontroller running BASIC out of the box
> But people think they're safe once the can't find it via Google because Google is all they know.

But the same is probably true for the average person looking for it. A small Employer might look trough a few results to see if can find something about a applicant, but he is not going to do some big reasearch.
Looks great. Does the name come from Hebrew? It means small coins, like pennies.
The least they will need to stuff in there are the life support systems (food,air,etc) to deal with delays/emergencies
In Scandinavia too - I believe it is more common there than in Germany. It comes from the Greek "Petros" - the same origin as Peter.
I've used Octane, which is a GPU-only renderer. Unfortunately, it is VRAM-per-GPU bound. In other words, you cannot render any scene larger than the usable VRAM per GPU. High end video cards with lots of VRAM also tend to have more than one GPU, so the VRAM-per-GPU figure is actually (total VRAM)/(total GPUs), with slightly less than that actually available for the scene.

I've also experimented a bit with Lux which has a hybrid CPU/GPU mode. However I've found it isn't necessarily any faster than CPU only on my system (which has a lot of CPU cores) and it isn't as stable.

AFAIK, there are no video cards currently available with more than 6GB per GPU, since something like a nVidia Titan Z with 12GB has to share that between 2 GPUs.

It's conceivable that as GPU rendering becomes more commonplace we'll start to see manufacturers loading more and more RAM only high end cards, possibly at the expense of compute units if power consumption is a problem. After all, a render farm with many separate cards is just as fast as one card with more compute units, but VRAM per GPU is currently a hard limit that will affect anyone rendering very large, complex scenes.
Could you point me to alternatives that are more up-to-date?
> Web browsers can be a problem. You may want to choose Internet Explorer rather than Chrome, since Microsoft has clearly done more work to support high-PPI configs. However, note that IE ditches the ClearType sub-pixel antialiasing scheme and snap-to-grid GDI font rendering in favor of simple greyscale antialiasing. As a result, the effective text resolution with IE at high PPIs isn't a huge leap from other browsers with ClearType on conventional displays. [emphasis mine]

Umm.. I know Firefox is not fashionable these days but ignoring it completely seems bit odd, especially if both Chrome and IE produce suboptimal results.

Also can't you these days force compatibility bitmap-scaling for applications like Fraps that apparently do not work correctly with HiDPI? Sure it is one extra step that ideally shouldn't be necessary, but it is not like you need to live with broken UIs.
You pay a QA to read outgoing emails to customers and they don't even click links?

Are you hiring?
Yes, second tier team. For the vast majority of that franchise's existence, they have been synonymous with failure. They will never be as popular as the other team in that city, and they don't even pull in half the revenue the Lakers do. Given the team's negative history, not even considering the recent debacle that forced the sale of the team, they'd do well to come up with another brand that could have greater resonance with the local and national audience. They're almost certain to do a complete brand redesign anyway.

http://www.forbes.com/nba-valuations/list/
Right, but both of these would mean relying commercially on other experimental-hypothetical projects.
Does anyone know what the thinking behind the ability to sustain the crew for several days is? Is this just a step on the way to being able to sustain a crew for lunar/Mars flights or does it have any immediate utility?
Me too. I've met her when she came to Melbourne to play the Aussie Millions several times as well.

On TV she often plays a loveable dumb blonde character. Yet she has/had a blog online somewhere (I'm looking now, cannot find it again) that is well worth reading - she writes like someone who is particularly well read. She is highly intelligent and funny, I wish she had kept it up.

Oh, and she's stunning irrespective of her age. What a wonderful lady.
Can anyone explain what these numbers really mean? How can they possiby be so low?

The only thing I can imagine is that it measures sum(max(clientSpeed,NetflixSpeed))/n , where NetflixSpeed is only about 4Mbps. That would make this a ranking of what isp has the lowest amount of users with really shitty WiFi, or users watching netflix on slow smartphones. I doubt there are many ISP's with offer a connection of less than 4Mbps between their backbone and Netflix.

Either way, it's good to see my ISP ranking the second highest worldwide.
$649 in US (without sales tax)

$721 in Sweden (without VAT, http://www.prisjakt.nu/produkt.php?p=2596044)

$836 in UK (without VAT, http://pricespy.co.uk/product.php?p=2596044)
I was all set to agree with you and criticize OP for being overly sensitive; but yeah, the writer was less making a biblical reference than calling a young woman a slut. Uncalled for.
It's by Jonathan Amos, who generally knows his stuff and whose articles are usually well above most bbc tech articles in quality. It's an unfortunately worded paragraph I'd say.
Ask HN: How do you justify Google’s SEO policy of not allowing paid links?
You own a website, I own a website. I pay you $100 to show your visitors a link to my website.

=BAD

You own a website, I own a website, I pay $100 to Google who decides when to show my ad on your website and keep $60 for itself.

=GOOD

How do you justify Google’s SEO policy of not allowing paid links.
I'd no idea she'd written a book. Thanks Ben! As I said her blog was great, I read the entire thing in a single sitting.

Edit. Other sister. Still, I'll give it a look. Talented family you have there.
Per student spending at K-12 public schools is $13k.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66

Also, per student spending is substantially evened out in some areas. For example, every public school in NYC has the same per student spending. More importantly, there is almost no correlation between per student spending and educational outcomes. Some of the states with the worst performing public schools also have higher spending. Moreover, many of the states that have higher revenue and higher public school spending also have higher costs of living. If you take the 5 highest and 5 lowest ranked US state public school systems and adjust their spending by the relative cost of living then order them from highest to lowest you end up with this list: 5th, 47th, 49th, 48th, 4th, 50th, 46th, 2nd, 1st. Spending is an easy issue to focus on, but it's not the right issue, and fixing it won't fix outcomes.

Fixing education is a complicated problem, imagining that we can fix it by just throwing money at it is, frankly, lazy. It's like a disengaged father sending his child to the most expensive private school without understanding anything about their child's educational desires or needs.

The problem with the system is that it's bureaucracy bound and married to perverse incentives. We need to fix the incentives, to do so within the existing system is a monumental task.
Crashing .NETs JIT in 40 LOC
For an A in Philanthropy Class, Give Away $50,000
At least have the intellectual honesty to call it "crony capitalism". Implying that there is any relation to the free market or the "invisible hand" is ridiculous.
Business Startups Competition 2014 Winner Announced...
Your information is wildly inaccurate. Take a 30' black screen vs one with a single white pixel and someone can tell the difference from across a football field if it's dark enough. Do the same thing with one white pixel vs 2 next to each other and you can't tell the difference. The important point is screens showing normal video have aliasing effects so under some situations with unedited video you get differences such as flickering at fairly long distances. Edit: Basicly if you have 480p and 720p video having a 720p monitor is worse than a 720x4 monitor at fairly long distances.

Toss in compression artifacts and you want a screen at least 4x the resolution as your showing in that chart.
> Can anyone explain what these numbers really mean? How can they possiby be so low?

If you click on any details page (either the global chart or country full results) and scroll to the page bottom you get an explanatory text:

> These ratings reflect the average performance of all Netflix streams on each ISPs network from Nov. 2012 through Sept. 2013 and average performance during prime time starting in Oct. 2013. The average is well below the peak performance due to many factors including the variety of encodes we use to deliver the TV shows and movies we carry as well as home Wi-Fi and the variety of devices our members use. Those factors cancel out when comparing across ISPs, so these relative rankings are a good indicator of the consistent performance typically experienced across all users on an ISP network.
"whore of babylon" has a specific connotation that doesn't really seem to apply to Miley Cyrus. Either the author thinks Cyrus is the herald of the antichrist, or he's trying to use a biblical expression to make his naming and shaming seem clever.
If calling a woman a "whore" (which is a gendered slur in itself[0]) is not sexism, what, to your mind, is?

[0] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=whore count the women depicted, count the men depicted.
I wondered what language it was written in and found out after a little research: http://processing.org/
If something goes wrong with the precision manoeuvres on the way to the ISS, you can get long delays while the orbit is adjusted:
http://www.space.com/20030-spacex-dragon-space-capsule-probl...
I kinda wish they showed off a toilet :P
Hey, here's a surprise: the law also applies to the website itself.

Just because the person who brought the suit targeted Google first (which is not strange, given that Google collects and re-publishes that information in a way that makes it immeasurably more accessible and "public" than the original publication) doesn't make the everybody else exempt.

The only valid debate her is if Google significantly adds to the damage, or if Google's search engine is just a neutral utility. I would say the answer to that is pretty f-ing obvious. That ship has sailed a long time ago.

Today, Google's search results and interface are so thoroughly manipulated (not just for profit but also for political/ideological reasons) that it counts as a curated publication.

The fact that Google uses algorithms instead of humans for most of that curation doesn't absolve them from responsibility for the result.
Adding Guerilla Render to your list in the animation space... http://www.guerillarender.com
Both Bill Gates' approach and Zuckerberg's have the same fundamental issue, though - they're using their money to push their own half-baked political ideas about what would make schools better, despite a spectacular lack of evidence they works. (Gates is slightly more efficient in how he does it, making his donations conditional on the government paying most of the cost of his planned reforms, but that's it.)
I loved playing around with this kind of water simulation when I was younger, the basic principle behind it is very simple. Spent many hours optimizing C++ and OpenGL code.

I still haven't figured out though how to stop wave reflection at the edges though...
The thing about Bill Gates is that he's applying his brain, his time _and_ his money to the problems. Just throwing money at them, depressingly, seems to have little effect.
Great explanation: Canvas Rotating and Scaling Images Around a Particular Point
Who cares? Congratulations on ripping someone off, I guess?
You can't blame Europe for America's Red Scare. That's wholly their own choice. And "socialism" ala Western Europe is totally different to communism ala the Soviet Union, so when Americans conflate the two that is their own choice, also. (And why would Western Europe be setting a bad example with their 'socialism', anyway?)

America had it relatively swell after WWII. Things went so well for so long that they thought that the American Way was indestructible. Again, how is that 'Europes" fault?
It may officially be government-run, but more and more local goverments have been letting CEOs pay to reshape the school system based on how they run their companies. It seems quite reasonable to suggest these schools are run reflects American capitalism.
Ask HN: Matasano Crypto Challenge
Used to be available here : http://matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/ is no more :(
Firefox does not handle high DPI screens. It renders fonts at a fixed 96dpi and your only option is to crank up the devPixelsPerPx pref, which is akin to page zoom.

The bug has been reported multiple times. It always ends up being closed as wontfix, which is just burying the head in the sand. My laptop is 210dpi, and I guess we'll just go up from here.

One instance of the bug:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512522
The Miley comment is totally unprofessional and unnecessary.
Except Microsoft, for all their protest about backdoors from this project, have actually changed fundamental design aspects of their products, like Skype, Hotmail, Outlook.com, and SkyDrive, in order to enable wholesale spying while advertising 'encryption'.

You wouldn't trust the drunk driver who's crashed his last few vehicles to borrow your car. The intelligence agencies own Microsoft, as far as users are concerned, and when cryptosystems have to be crippled for their priorities, we can't expect them to hold up to other attacks.
Privacy is only very tangentially linked to what you say, this is also related to what you did, or even what happened to you in a passive way.

Let's say that 20 years ago your family was murdered under your eyes by an axe-wielding maniac when you were 4 years old.
Now as a potential employer, I type your name on Google and the first result is an article from 20 years ago. Maybe I am prejudiced but I wonder if you would be a pretty stable employee, and as a result, I bin your CV.

This has nothing to do with being able to "state" something but this is really a privacy issue.
More details about 1.7 Terabyte Firebird SQL database
Sounds like they got some one-off or short term extra funding. So the reponsibility may lay on the elected officials & voters that decided the schools could only be afforded cash injections instead of more expensive sustainable improvements that would require funding level increases?
Wlmessage is a Wayland equivalent of xmessage for X11
Microsoft's IE team working on supporting HTTP/2, Web Audio, more