skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Saying that the internet loves something is similar to saying that "information wants to be free" or that a certain material is "hydrophobic". None of these things are "sentient" and so can't have opinions, desires, or fears, right? Well, maybe but what gives us "sentient" beings opinions, desires, fears, etc? I reckon it's just some kind of emergent phenomena. Well, the internet's "love" of cat photos is similar to this. Probably.
Hm. It guessed Finnish, Greek and Russian for my native language (German in reality) and a South African/Singaporean/New Zealand accent, where I have no idea how that could have happened – certainly not because I spent any amount of time in these countries (I didn’t) or consumed primarily content originating in these countries (also not the case, maybe apart from LotR…).

Finnish, Greek and Russian also don’t appear to have any connection to other Germanic languages…
Yeah, that one was rather fishy.

It guessed correctly that I was Australian.
LinkedIn censors politically sensitive content in China
I was delighted to run across this today. I've seen Linux in Javascript before, but this is an impressively fast implementation. A few of the highlights:

* Framebuffer (and SCUMMVM: Monkey Island runs)

* C compiler

* Graphical browser and network support (via Websockets to a droplet)

* asm.js core (I get around 60 MIPS on my laptop)
Qiscus is whatsapp for work and it just got better
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MH370 latest: Undersea sound detected; Sailor reports seeing flight on fire
Hm, curious. What would be tell-tale signs of a native German speaker? :)
Yeah. And don't get me started on all those construction and elevator companies that skip 4th and 13th floors. Brrr.
Hm, impressive. Nothing for iOs right? Android might not be as polished, but gets all the cool stuff.
Didn't Congress just pass a law that makes it illegal to get brain cancer from your cell phone?
For anyone looking into free DynDNS alternatives: I have tested several of the established alternatives without success. I then looked into some of the newcomers and ended up choosing http://duckdns.org. The setup was super easy and the service has been absolutely reliable so far.
Personally, I see nothing from Rust in it (except what Rust took from other languages, like ML).
I cannot see abv.bg and mail.bg
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Curves can also look like that if we look at them at the wrong scale, so maybe it's too soon to jump to conclusions.

There are more questions to ask: how many people have heard about gittip? If they're not donating yet, would they reconsider if they read this post ("social confirmation")? How about if you served them other specific calls to action? How many more haven't heard of gittip yet? Are those two orders of magnitude in there?
It's never too late to learn programming
Things to watch for:

1) businesses making employees clock in when it's busy, and clock out but stay on the premises when it's not busy. Thus, the business has workers available but only has to pay them for some of the time those workers are there.

2) "zero hour contracts". http://acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4468

Other things the UK has done is increase the amount someone needs to earn before they start paying income tax; reduce the lower rates of income tax; provide "working tax credit" to some people, etc.

I have no idea how the US tax system works so I don't know if that could be done or would work with voters. ("Supporting business to employ people on fair wages" maybe?)
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Lot of Indians are still using Orkut.
I also did a similar one in Python for duckdns.org:
https://gist.github.com/shaunpud/0d72f2d23a4ddd0fbab6
Yeah, it told me my dialect is Singaporean and that I'm a native English speaker. Both off the mark, I started learning English when I was 8 and I've only lived a year in London when I was 26.
BEAST is a design bug, insecure use of CBC mode. CRIME is a side channel attack, but the side channel that leaks information (compressed cleartext size) is not related to the language used, but again to the design of the algorithm.

The basic idea is that implementation-related side-channel attacks, such as timing and power draw, are very hard to exploit remotely. I guess you could write a JavaScript implementation of AES that is so bad that key-dependent multimillisecond jitter can be measured remotely. But it's almost impossible to do it by mistake.

The real problems of JavaScript are it's highly malleable runtime that offers no guarantees, everything is writable. So you need to improve browser support before you can write JavaScript crypto, that's why this is a great project: Google has the ability to change Chrome into a secure end-to-end platform, should they want that.
Because they can. Because it's fun and challenging to do so. Because bragging rights.
Note that as of late both Apple and Microsoft are making moves towards "the OS is free" for certain markets. I hear tell that Microsoft are even paying OEMs to put Windows on phones.
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Actually the people pushing the he got off on a technicality will be police sycophants, talk radio tends to drive for ratings but quite a few hosts across the country are not blind friends of the police, far from it. Warrant less searches are never looked upon favorably, let alone no knock warrants, and finally the war on drugs isn't the most supported topic.

what you do have though is a very organized group out there whose job is to support the actions of the police regardless of how distasteful some may fine it, they will vilify the victim and perpetrators of crime to distract from abuses of police power. This of course leads to political pressure and chest thumping from hard on crime (at any cost) candidates.
Although courts/ITC might not grant a stay depending on IPR, CBM etc., there have been some cases if the litigation hasnt gone too far, a stay could/have been granted in some of cases. Would this tip the scales towards the defendant slightly, given that the specific patents would be known?
This is great! I've really enjoyed using the appear.in web client...I do like the zero configuration aspect, but more importantly it performs dramatically better than Skype or Google Hangouts, in terms of both CPU usage and video quality over a busy connection.

I've had many days where Hangouts was essentially unusable...stuttering, pixelated, and glitchy, but switching to an appear.in room worked nearly flawlessly, even with a group of several people. Looking forward to being able to use it on mobile!
> (Most prominent: not to limit the future chances of the children).

Did they specify a reason? There is quite a lot of good schools there IIRC.
Sadly the author does not explain what he does when manipulating the leo nodes, and it makes it difficult to follow what haopens, which made me abandon the screencasts
Cancelling an async HTTP request Task sends TCP RESET packet
For a zombie themed escape, check out:

http://roomescapeadventures.com/
There's a niche for a website that does a bunch of sub-500 LOC javascript examples of tiny bits of computer graphics, to give a very brief introduction and demonstration of the math, and which then chains them together for some other software.
These are the hardest. See, when a company or project is dead on arrival there is not much to do, you bury it, do a post-mortem and move on.

If a company is successful then you ride the wave as far and as long as your stamina will let you and then you hopefully pocket a nice chunk of cash.

But when you're in the middle, too big to die, too small to succeed it gets very hard. Killing it off feels completely wrong, pushing it feels like you are adding to the opportunity cost with a relatively small chance chance of eventual success. It's a very practical illustration of the sunk-cost fallacy in all its gruesome glory.

Personally I hope that gittip will continue to grow and that the team will stick with it. They serve a very important role, pioneers in uncharted territory. And even if a lot of those pioneers ended up dead in creeks with arrows in their backs they pointed the way, showed what works and what does not. And they still have a sufficiently large shot at success if they stick with it. But if they'd pull the plug I would not fault them.

Let's hope there will be a 3rd instalment of this article, where gittip grew steadily for the 3rd year in a row and it became profitable. That would be the best way to see this go.
Hey, i am not an MBA, but working on my start up, i feel there is a NEED for some formal business training. I mean there are so many businees things I am trying to figure out and i feel I can't be the only one doing this. They must have come up with formal standardized processes for this now. And i am sure they teach you all that stuff during an MBA
A tale of data re-use: How we make chess puzzles from lichess.org game database
Found a post by one of the developers describing the decision in some detail: http://www.brightjourney.com/q/okcupid-write-web-server

They've also open sourced their server: https://github.com/okws/okws
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher:

"The IMSI catcher masquerades as a base station and logs the IMSI numbers of all the mobile stations in the area, as they attempt to attach to the IMSI-catcher. It allows forcing the mobile phone connected to it to use no call encryption (i.e., it is forced into A5/0 mode), making the call data easy to intercept and convert to audio."

If it is possible for an Android/iOS app to detect when a GSM call is initiated without encryption then it should be possible to warn the user. Does anyone know if the encryption level is available to the OS, or is it restricted to the baseband processor?
Jono Bacon was responsible for that kind of Metal As A Service in Canonical - he's moved on to the X-Prize now, you should try there ;-)
Ask HN: Single page CMS without PHP etc
Hi

I am looking for a single page CMS ideally only using HTML5 / CSS / Javascript and a local flat file.

The single webpage will contain a list of names and contact numbers etc in a table.

I want an edit button on the page that allows anyone to update the content within the page e.g if someone joins or leaves the company they can update their contact details.

I have found a lot of PHP / MYSQL based single page CMS out there, but wondering if there was something was just HTML / CSS and Javascript based?

Just looking for something really really simple!

Thanks
So if it doesn't list English in the top three native language guesses, does that mean my English is very ungrammatical, or merely that it's ungrammatical in a particular way? All three languages were Scandinavian but I have no connection there.

The NY Times had a similar quiz that attempted to predict your region and, IIRC, predicted mine fairly closely. I didn't get such accurate results this time so I'm wondering if my grammar is slipping ...
I agree that spying on your citizens should be illegal and any organisations doing it should stop.

But then GCHQ has a big bunch of data that they rarely access under (we're told) strict controls. So, I'm less bothered by the gathering of that data than other people. I would be angry if GCHQ started grepping it for stuff that isn't nationally important.
Android's New Logo
Any chance of getting access to the diagram you mention?
For Designers: How to build a the websites you design with minimal code
Swift is a little complex.

Does it compile to Object-C?
"The dinner with your fiancee or the meeting? I do these kinds of decisions every single day." - what decision?! If you scheduled something with someone to a certain hour and then you have other appointments, if the person does not arrive on time is not your fault and you've got to move on to the next appointment!

Taking the example of CocaKoala: you schedule a meeting, that is supposed to last 1h, to 4pm. So the meeting would take place from 4pm to 5pm. Then you'd schedule to have dinner with your fiancée at 6pm. Well, has the meeting supposedly finished at 5pm, you can get on time to this dinner. BUT if the person you're meeting with decides to only show up ate 6pm, all your later appointments will be ruined! I would never wait 2h for someone, especially if I have other appointments. And if you hope that someone will wait for you all that time either that person is too much patient with you or doesn't have anything else to do...

Btw if you make an arrangement, it's your responsibility to show up on time! Is not about how busy you or the other person are, is about respect!!

Best regards ;)
Yes, the schools are fine. But not as good as in the countries surrounding it, and since moving within europe is cheap and relatively easy why not go for one of the best. I've yet to meet a parent that did not want to give their children the most opportunity possible. Combined with the limited opportunity in the local economy, the fact that the quality of life is still far behind nearby countries I really don't fault them.

It's a pity for the former sovblock countries, they still experience a lot of brain-drain due to causes like these and that likely will continue for a long time. Those wounds inflicted by 5 decades of mis-management are quite serious and healing them will take a long time. Possibly a multiple of how long it took to inflict them in the first place. And the further east you go the worse it gets.
Licensing is specified in the language specification document:

> No licenses, express or implied, are granted with respect to any of the technology described in this document. Apple retains all intellectual property rights associated with the technology described in this document. This document is intended to assist application developers to develop applications only for Apple-branded products.

It is pretty closed, if you ask me. Legally binding a language to a specific brand of product is a new low.
As a Brit:

"go with my gut" rather than "guts", and I'd probably phrase it as "...try to go with my gut more next time".

"Oftentimes" sounds unnatural, not wrong but archaic; "Often" sounds more natural there.

"mental lexicon" is singular, but you've said "a lot more of them"; should probably be "a lot more of it". The opening of that sentence sounds a bit clipped; I might say "I believe the mental lexicon..." though that doesn't sound perfect either.

"writings" definitely sounds wrong for a collection of posts here; when you're talking about "the writings of x" it implies something more formal. I probably would've said "posts" or the like, but "writing" fits.
Robbie Williamson, the man at the head of the responsible division of Canonical has documented how Cobbler and Puppet were used in the early days and how experiences there lead to MaaS being developed.

https://ubuhulk.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/canonicals-office-o...
The thing is that it's crucial for us to have people like RMS. Even if their main projects aren't as successful as their pragmatic "competition", the society as a whole benefits from them being a hard-core idealists. They're the ones who keep reminding us about the values we otherwise would have forgotten (or at least we wouldn't have thought about them as much).

I've had a similar discussion with my wife just last night. She's a landscape architect and deals a lot with people who's purpose in life is to save existing trees and plant new ones. She complained that they're so over the top in their actions that they're often doing more harm than good (to the cause). It's similar in other niches - animal rights activists do some nasty things to fur coat owners, etc.

I believe that these traits (a strong belief in something and overzealous approach) are most often inseparable. We can either have these people care a lot and spread the word by doing things the way we don't agree with or don't have anybody who gives a shit.

I don't agree with Stallman on many issues and I'm eternally grateful to him for what he's done. I don't agree with tree huggers because they make other people laugh at the whole thing. But I'm grateful, because without them nobody would care. Same with animal rights fighters, same with GitTip folks.

Thank you, Chad Whitacre, the World is a tiny bit better because of you.
Wow, the blind-spot test on that Wikipedia page just blew my mind.

There were situations in traffic when I was driving a car and simply did not see cyclists or pedestrians coming. At the time I was aware that one of my eyes were obstructed by the rear-view mirror on the windshield, but that did not explain why I did not see them coming with the other eye.

I wonder why are people not alerted about this when taking the test for the drivers license.
I like js, but not swift.
Show HN: Gmelius, Gmail the way you want it
Ascii-movie: Matrix
Why do you need to use Uint8Array and not just a normal array?
Interesting all around, for discussion of a technique I haven't been fully aware of before. The mention of the depiction of lettered documents caused me some pensive ruminations on the fine detail involved in painting typefaces.
There's performance, then there's programmer speed. I don't have to read disassembled bytecodes to be sure I'm getting 64 bit integer arithmetic. I don't have to do goofy things to write mutating code in performance critical loops.

Go is faster than Clojure plus nginx running my algorithms. What's more, the Go server actually got faster after turning on TLS. I suspect it retires bad connections more efficiently.
It's interesting how much LARP ideas are beginning to diffuse into general culture. Lastly I was talking to someone who basically organized themed mini-LARPs for corporate teams. Since these are audiences who generally aren't familiar with the medium, they're always amazed.

I think as our natural environment continues to become safer and more virtualized, these immersive adventures and ARGs will become more popular and mainstream.
It does exhibit emergent behaviors that are arguably lifelike. Mostly its still human driven, like the worlds biggest Ouija board(1). It will get lots more interesting when it becomes mostly machines interacting (and effecting the physical world) thanks to the IoT.

(1) And it seems to have spelled out "I can haz".
They were in much the same boat as I was back then: whatever you could install out of the box was simply too slow. Inefficiency would have caused us to die on hosting costs so we had to build our own webserver and so on. It's gotten a lot easier over the last decade and a half to build a performant website.

If Ok-Cupid were started today I highly doubt they would do that the same way. But given when they did start it I figure they literally did not have a choice.
I agree, it's not funny. The fact that they are trying to expand further with such financing "Bloomberg reports that mutual fund giant Fidelity is competing to lead a round of financing for startup car service Uber Technologies" coupled with this incident, should impel Uber to have the right compliance measures in place, as they are scaling, to ensure all users feel safe when using the service.
Good that we have cleared that up. So, after that, could anyone explain to me how Washington can keep making all those laws and far-reaching descisions about our lives? Isn't it just a collection of buildings?
If there's anything I could read/watch to learn more about this, I'd love to do so. Is anyone aware of such a thing?
fyi. Show HN's have historically followed the pattern of being self-posts describing the product/background with links posted in the comments.

(based on what I recall seeing rather than crunching the data)
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you cannot, in one calculation, use the number of employees in all non-McD owned restaurants plus the number of employees in McD, and the profit of only McD itself. i hope i don't need to explain why that is wrong. as for the number of 761,000, you seem to be right to put "employees" in quotes, even the site you link to does not call them employees. the site i linked to provides both figures.

"I assume prices currently are set at levels that roughly maximize the firm's profits." -- again, you simply assume. and you forget to consider an important factor in determining where the point of maximum profits is - the costs of production. which have now, with the hiking of minimum wage, changed. so, even if they were in this theoretically perfect point of maximum profit (which is an ideal, and thus incredible to be achieved to say the least), they would automatically be out of it after the min wage is introduced, and would be forced to change prices to return to it. but this is all idealized talk, for such a point to exist we must assume a perfectly linearly elastic market. i would like to see proof of that.
I did this a couple weeks ago. The puzzles are a bit contrived but it is challenging and fun.
What's wrong with this link? It says Firefox (v29.0) is not supported and if I chose to ignore that, an error occurs.
Author here. Although the software contained in the base is indeed relatively easy to install, you'd be surprised how often people struggle installing Python and its packages on Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows!

The initial reason I created DST was that I'm currently writing a book called Data Science at the Command Line. Installing the command-line tools discussed in this book is unfortunately not straightforward. I wanted to offer potential readers a Vagrant box (with a shell provisioner) that installs these command-line tools. Similar to what Matthew Russell has done for his book Mining the Social Web [1]. This blog post [2] provides some more explanation and compares four different solutions.

The software packages that you mention sure are exciting! If there is an author or teacher that wants to teach these to her readers or students, then we should create a bundle (i.e., Ansible playbook) for them!

[1] https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Ed...
[2] http://jeroenjanssens.com/2013/12/07/lean-mean-data-science-...
If workers are so desperate that they can't not work, then putting them out of a job by making it illegal to work for low wages is especially cruel.

If you doubt that the minimum wage causes unemployment, how do you explain that the countries in Europe with a national minimum wage law have such consistently higher unemployment rates than the countries in Europe without one?
No, it's Dyn's and No-IP's thing.
Perhaps the Welsh emigrated here more prevalently than anywhere else (excluding the Welsh-speaking enclave of Patagonia!)

Anyhow, its guesses:

Nationalities: 1 Aus 2 NZ 3 Welsh
Native Language: 1 English 2 Dutch 3 Swedish

I'm not sure where the germanic influence is supposed to have come from. The only foreign languages I've studied have been Latin, French and Spanish.
We grow attached to our tools. I built a full screen editor somewhere in the 80's, used it until 2005 or so, when I really could no longer justify (to myself) the effort required of keeping it going. I still type 'e filename' or will use its weird set of control keys when I'm not paying attention. And it's almost 9 years now since I stopped using it. So I suspect you'll be back with emacs before the first day is out. But please do look at leo, it has some interesting ideas embedded in it and there may be ways to get emacs to adopt some of those.

Leo is the best implementation of the literate programming method that I've come across to date, and the first time when it all clicked for me.
Appears to be unrelated from the Data Science Toolkit virtual machine image which frontpaged yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7835097
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