skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boomers and Gen X would have said the same if they were asked in their 20s as well. People, and their ideals, change with age. Most of those "hippies" from the 60s are running the country now.
Even with -r,

/*.*

only matches files and directories in / that have a period in their name. So it would skip over /usr, /home, etc.
They have 40% of the headphone market. Obviously those 40% don't agree, don't know or don't care how horrible Beats headphones actually are. That 40% is all that matters - and it's what makes the company worth $3 Billion.

You can make the best headphones in the World but if another company controls 40% of the market - they are the one that's going to get bought for billions of dollars, not you.
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2. We see no indicator of account compromise; current usage is consistent with past usage.

I'm calling BS. This site was disabled repeatedly for exceeding bandwidth today. I find it hard to believe traffic is as usual.
please ...
>>After examining all the facts, I think it's most likely they just didn't want to develop it anymore:

So they decided to end things with such an extremely juvenile behavior devaluating the years they have invested in this project even if not recently?

Unless the responsible one fell into clinical depression it's a pretty strange reason.
I grew up in Lenoir, where this farm is located. I never knew it existed. Incidentally, Lenoir is also the location of one of Google's data centers. The main industry in Lenoir was furniture manufacturing for a long time but most of that dried up in the 90s. I'm glad to see businesses investing there again.
Chrome for a past few days was crashing I dunno why, but I know it's pdfs :(
Mighty Apple erases market with cash. lol
Just hit the goal, still rising fast.
I agree, but only up to a point. Of course, it'll help you loads in specific scenarios, but in many more you'll be able to get what you want by simply hacking around the parts of the operating system that gives you those issues in the first place. As one example, I remember one person describing to me how some of the banks had set their computers to give their user mode programs the ability to perform I/O directly by adding the appropriate memory locations of the network ports to their virtual memory. It destroys the protection, but massively improves performance.

Most modern operating systems can in general be tuned or hacked to essentially get out of your way whenever you don't need them. You'd have to have a very specific use case to justify the creation of a whole operating system specifically to run your language - and an amazing business case.

Importantly, in the actual real life use cases they're not talking about providing an operating system for actual hardware that has better performance (there'd be so much expense on application support) - they're talking about providing an operating system that targets a VM model. This is a major thing - it shows (to me at least) that they're using the OS model for the purposes of additional security as opposed to anything else (especially since it's Galois who have done lots of it).
1. The actual design and production isn't done by Beats. It's done by a partner company, that isn't being bought. Beats is a promotional and marketing company. They aren't a particularly amazing one, but they have done ok. Certainly not innovative enough to want Apple to aquihire them.

2. The service has a tiny userbase, and doesn't have any technology apple does not.

Apple will be producing the headphones now and Apple will be building the streaming service. So, IMHO, this is a brand purchase, plain and simple. There's nothing else left. Tim Cook was dissembling because he didn't want to admit he just bought the rights to a name.
The performance of unaligned SIMD loads and stores on modern hardware
Not quite, though. The page says "The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP." We can infer that the two are connected, but it would be equally valid to say "The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Snowden interviewed with NBC."

The reason I make this distinction is because continuing from a cautious/paranoid perspective, the DMS might not say "WARNING! Dead Man's Switch Activated! If you are reading this, I may have been compromised, and am no longer available to maintain TrueCrypt." It's possible that the landing page simply references a relatively innocuous event in the cyber security world to plausibly discontinue the software. The best evidence I have for this is the fact that TrueCrypt didn't shut down precisely when XP support was dropped. (In fact, according to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/end-of-sup... official support ended in April, not May like the landing page states.)
Unless that was meant as a joke, that seems like a non sequitur. Popular media, professional athletics, and politics altogether capture only a very tiny fraction of the population.
I personally believe that gay people should be allowed the same exact rights as straight people. (Marriage, Adoption, Tax Status, etc...) That being said, I don't believe what happened to the Mozilla CEO was right. The amount of intolerance that was shown towards him was equally as bad as his own intolerance, perhaps worse.

I personally once thought that we should ban gay marriage. As I grew up and gained more understanding about homosexuality my view totally changed. I think we definitely have to give people the chance to change. I would guess that most of the people here on HackerNews grew up thinking that homosexuality was a choice and some sort of perversion. However, I would bet that most of us have changed our views as we have either accepted who we are or have had friends that were gay help our understanding grow.

As far as Dr Dre, I had never listened to his music or really followed him in the news. I would probably error on the side of a lot of the other comments, that we should give him a break because it appears that he has changed. My two cents.
One threat that is getting bigger in the Bay Area, is the ever increased concentration and dependence on start ups. Most of whom are not living of anything remotely resembling cash flow.

The tech eco system itself is one thing, and largely populated by people who can afford a bit of a hit. But nowadays, everything is priced and organized around ever more millionaires being minted in tech every day, and the spending these generate. Take even some of that away, say by making money less artificially cheap, and there is potential for plenty of pain and dislocation across the area.

Much like Finance in NYC, the tech boom/bubble is driving costs so high in the Bay Area, that the only remaining jobs are either in tech, or jobs providing highly paid, localized and personalized services to tech workers able to afford paying thousands to have their toenails clipped, lips kissed and walls decorated with Van Goghs. Leaving those providing the latter, highly vulnerable to any slowdown in the increasingly monocultural spigot from which almost all funds here now flow.
I don't think anyone can realistically argue that physical appearances do not modify how others will judge or interact with you.

Going out a bit on a whim here, but if we accept that a) beauty has a substantial subjective element b) standards of beauty are modifiable/learned c) that people can derive an advantage through their status of being beautiful (ie, that all things being equal, in a choice between two identical candidates except that one is judged more beautiful than the other, that the more beautiful one will tend to be favored) and d) that North American and European norms of beauty are still rooted deeply in being white (which is fairly reasonable, and not their fault), then you can see where problems kick in.

It's honestly really shitty. I could rant on about your example re: looking the part of leadership material. But I won't cause... it'll be rambling and awkward. Suffice to say that we're in this really awkward in between phase, trapped between a history of clear white majority, and a future of clear heterogenerality - and worse, it's a transition taking place unevenly in nearly every respect.
I’m Aryeh Selekman, the product manager on Facebook’s optional audio recognition feature. I wanted to chime in here around some misunderstandings around how this feature works.

The feature is completely optional. You get to choose whether you want to turn it on or not. If you do turn it on, you can always turn it off at any time and your Facebook experience will not change.

If you do turn it on, the feature never listens to or stores your conversations. Here’s what happens after you turn the feature on. The app converts the sound into an audio fingerprint on your phone. This fingerprint is sent to Facebook's servers to try and match it against our database of known music and TV fingerprints. We do not store fingerprints from your device for any amount of time. These fingerprints can never be reversed into the original audio.

You will always get to choose whether you want to post about what you’re listening to or watching. Facebook will never automatically post about what you’re listening to.

In turn, if we don’t find a match, we log that we failed. We don’t store the fingerprint.

I hope this clears up a lot of common questions around the feature.
At my company we've implemented a Bayesian A/B test in order to minimize the amount of time a test has to run.

http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2013/02/tech-bayesian-instant-...
obligatory on nonconformity, status and dressing in particular - "Office Space"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BjGA7Qs75g
Maybe Im just old, but HN seems pervaded with this kind of 'right on' ness, or competitive self righteousness, i don't even know what to call it. Sort of a che guevera hat wearing teenager kind of flavour. Makes my eyes roll.

If you're young you probably don't know what I mean.

No over analysis of this reply please, my eyes might not come down again if I keep doing it. :)
I have the key stored in my local keychain:

E3BA73CAF0D6B1E0
C5F4 BAC4 A7B2 2DB8 B8F8 5538 E3BA 73CA F0D6 B1E0

Checks out.
Clustering redis to maximize uptime and scale
just because you benefited from the current system doesn't mean that everyone else can or even wants to. (just playing devils advocate).

Things are going to change very soon. I've yet to meet anyone in a currently stable industry that I couldn't replace with a robot in the next 20-30 years.

Hell, programming has gotten SO tremendously easy now that _almost_ anyone can do it. We're quickly approaching an age where learning how to code is the equivalent of knowing how to read.

So once we've automated everything. and everyone knows how to program things. Where do we go?
>'Google and other major tech companies have been the target of increasing pressure to hire more women and minorities...'

Time for me to add a profile pic on LinkedIn?

Seriously now...

I'm not sure what, if anything, to make of this. I expected the numbers to be low, but not that low. I've personally felt discriminated against throughout life and at times witnessed direct evidence of it.

Thing is, the objective requirements for candidates to build and run bleeding edge infrastructure in a highly competitive market is quite a bit different from say renting an apartment.

This leads me to imagine that the applicable pool will be much smaller and Google will not be inclined to pass on qualified candidates.

That said, ‘Google’ doesn't hire people, people do and unless the process has changed - any single person can exclude any candidate. It would be interesting to know what proportion of minority candidates who come on-site are hired versus the field - not conclusive, but certainly interesting.

If I had guess I’d think that discrimination is producing this, but it’s not happening at Google - it’s happening all over. A million small slights and denied opportunities (in this generation or those prior) that see people who might otherwise have the capacity never gain the necessary experience, exposure, relationships or plain confidence that could surface them to the top.

Personally, I had never entertained the possibility that I could work for them until they called me - it was eye-opening that someone could see a possibility in me that I’d refused to see myself. Interestingly, both times I've been contacted by SV companies (Google included) the recruiters were minorities themselves.

We’ll see.
And for the record I'm absolutely with you on not being able to trust the current establishments with my money.

We can easily change that with computers and diplomatic voting... and much MUCH better transparency.
It does appear that the authors have removed the advertising clause in this latest license version. Also the section on commercial licensing, some mentions of registered trademarks, and all specific references to the truecrypt.org domain, including email addresses.

However it's unclear if this change is only for Truecrypt 7.2 or can be applied retrospectively to previous versions. As the authors have deleted sizeable portions of the encryption code in this final version, such ambiguity could be problematic.
I would also suggest switching from chi-square to the g-test.

If you look at the history, I believe that you'll find that Pearson originally came up with the g-test as an approximation to an exact test, and then found the chi-square as an easier to compute alternative. This mattered back in the days of pencil and paper, but there is no excuse today to use the worse technique.

I'm going to avoid long discussions about the advisability of taking multiple looks at results with a classical statistical test. But see my incomplete series at http://elem.com/~btilly/ab-testing-multiple-looks/index.html for some of the considerations.

I never got into Bayesian statistics in there. In general they depend on the existence of a prior distribution. Careful treatments will talk about this. Sloppy ones assume one, don't talk about the one that they assume, and then quote results without letting you know about this important assumption. As long as you accept that assumption, they work well. But sometimes can be confusing to explain. (Until people "get" it. Then it can become irritating getting them to STOP explaining it!)

If you want to discuss these issues more, my email is my name at gmail.com.
Just put a good example WITH the doc. Thats.. how its done :)
Hehe, that had me chuckle. I'm sorry you got downvoted, that must be by people that either did not go to the article or that don't have a clue what APL looks like in practice.
Fashion runs as a top-down economy. Most of the high-end designers are the ones driving innovation, and other designers/large corps soon imitate these styles a few years later for lower prices.
Sorry when you say native versus Java what do you mean? As far as I was concerned all native apps are java?
That's a good idea. Anonymous notes on a downvote. Hope to keep seeing you post on here. Gainesville seems like a million years ago and it was a great time.
The real question is how much does that level of granularity really matter?
Suppose that the author received a secret order from a secret court that required the author keep secret the secrecy of the secret order from the secret court. Furthermore, the author was secretly required to turn over his secret signing key to a secret third party.
If you were the author, what would you do? Consider your options.
One is that you could issue an update with a warning that the program is no longer secure. Even though the program really is, at this moment, secure. The only source code changes are to insert the warnings. But what the warnings are warning you about, but cannot just come out and say, is that the program will not be secure in the future because a third party now has the keys to sign authentic new insecure versions.
This wouldn't be unlike Lavabit shutting down. The author is choosing to fall on his sword for the good of everyone.
I was just looking at the rubymotion licences [0]. does anyone know if you will get future releases with the licence? do you only get them for one year?

[0] http://sites.fastspring.com/hipbyte/product/rubymotion
I don't follow. Either that, or I don't agree. Not sure which.

I'm perfectly happy having multiple languages that are suited to different needs. Sure, I've been lured before by "one language to rule them all" style attempts at breaking this idea. I have been burned more than I've been helped by these forays. And I say this as a strong fan of lisp. A language basically designed to internalize other languages. For lunch.

(Of course, I think these are not really incompatible. When writing lisp, I've found that you are so constrained in the syntax of lisp, that eventually it almost disappears and you start seeing the language of what it is you are doing, instead.)

That said, I think the problem comes down to orthogonal changes. Simply put, when you have a language that is specifically used for one thing, effort can be placed into making sure it does that very well, at the expense of other things it could be used to do. Contrast with the languages that are designed to do anything, where you quickly find that in order to really get what you want, you have to write in very different idioms for different goals. Essentially finding that the same language is not.

Would be akin to using a band saw to make an intricately carved figurine. Sure, it is doable, but probably more effort than it is worth for a person. "Right" tools for the right job and all of that.
here is your not-so-cheap flying car that is probably not available yet: http://www.gizmag.com/flying-jet-car/32287/
I appreciate this and your response. I think I was having a bad day at the time. Regardless, I agree that my comment was unhelpful and didn't add to the discussion.
> The apps, written by various persons, are running on a computer that belongs to the user. The operating system keeps control of the computer -- the user's computer -- in the user's hands, and keeps it from being "taken over" by the apps.

I wonder if this can be mitigated - at least in some cases - with more disciplined and limited tools/apps.

To my knowledge, there are few programming languages that have purposefully restricted their expressiveness in order to increase how much can be proved about them. Given that "all" of them are as expressive as a programming language can be in the physical world (at least according to researchers' current knowledge), there are no non-trivial properties that can be proven about them, in the general case. In that sense, it inspires a wild-west approach - the OS can not know anything with certainty about an arbitrary app it has not run yet. So its only option - for an arbitrary program - is to try to run it and try to shield itself from whatever mischief it might do at runtime. Given this inherent and general uncertainty, creating heuristics for programming language/machine code analysis might not be high up on the priority list (if at all).

But if expressiveness is limited, there are more properties that can be definitely decided before running the program. Maybe it is possible to prove that a program will never try to access memory outside of whatever is assigned to it? This might be too difficult (in practice) to prove for a low-level language. But there certainly are languages that won't let you access memory outside of its process - java, for example, will throw an exception when the index is out of bounds. For example, languages like java could provide a proof to the OS that it will never try to access memory that it does not own? Then maybe the OS could eliminate whatever checks for illegal access of memory, since it has a proof that that kind of thing will not happen.
"I'm not sure that creating useless work just to make sure consumption is propped up makes sense.".

That's not what was suggested. What Gates suggested is to move away from income tax, in order to encourage employment. The employment would still be useful, it would just be less costly due to reduced income tax. His mention of robots replacing jobs is part of that argument, to balance out areas where the economics of jobs vs automation may tip in the future.

He suggested a progressive consumption tax as a replacement, but I'm not sure how to make a consumption tax progressive in a practical way, except to exempt basic foods for example.
well beats didnt own the music streaming service entirely, it was a joint venture. So i'm curious how that worked into the deal.
> You cannot buy a laptop not running Windows, unless you go Apple (a very small percentage of laptops sold, and high-end only).

Or ChromeOS. Or more traditional Linux (a number of vendors sell them). Last I checked (though I haven't for a while) you could even get OS-free laptops on NewEgg.
um... we're all looking at the site due to the change. We all used bandwidth.
Grey area.

I have a very distinct style that is my own. It is done on purpose and I have been known to be late for things because it took me too long to choose what to wear. The style doesn't really conform to anything.

So while I'm not being nonconforming to be nonconforming, I am also particular about what I wear. The only times when my dress is purely a matter of convenience/laziness is when I'm at home or working out.
>The "steve" test seems to guide everything else they build

Where did you get this from?
I doubt that but like everything else better tools will make this process more efficient...
I heartily endorse your concern, but I still donated.
the new software really is orders of magnitude better.
This doesn't use Github pages isn't it? The title kind of misled me.
This is borderline crazy, though. The OS can have a lot of overhead, true. More likely, asking your computer to do a ton of different things is the actual overhead that is killing you.

That is, not only is "getting rid of the OS" likely impractical, you are likely to see vast improvements by simply reducing the amount of tasks a given computer is being asked to do. The gains from eliminating the OS, specifically, probably pale to the gains from just not doing as many varied things in the first place.
> does anyone know if you will get future releases with the licence?

Yes.

> do you only get them for one year?

Yes, though license renewal costs $100, not $200.
You can overdress in a way that still makes it super obvious you're not being "dressy". Unconventional accessories are always a good pick.

Like, you can be wearing the nicest of tuxedo pants with the nicest of button-down shirts, but adding just the right hat or scarf magically turns it into a casual outfit.
It does work just like the video although it is not perfect. They said on Reddit that they are going to keep pushing software updates to improve the tracking.
Coke Designs a Friendly Bottle That Can Only Be Opened by Another Bottle
i just wanted to say thanks to the truecrypt devs for a decade of largely unthanked and criticised work that, as far as i can tell, has been impressively reliable.

[kinda disappointed that, despite arriving so late to this thread, no-one seems to have said this.]
Be careful with your terms there, communism and associated structures are rife with problems, ideal in theory only and all but impossible to implement using real-life humans.

I think we should start by re-evaluating capitalism (at some point in the next 500 years or so when we run out of steam on the current system), and then see what needs fixing rather than to throw caution to the wind and have a re-run of the 20th century.
Amusingly, they modified the license to remove the advertising clause that was causing trouble. The author seems really awesome the way they are handling this, wish they weren't stopping. It may be out of their hands, however: NSA, law suit, whatever.
age diversity would be interesting as well
Well, PD is also that if both refuse to cooperate, the result is also negative. It just turns out that there were different penalties for the same crimes.
Past performance does not equate to future growth.
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