skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm not talking about OpenGL and using the ndk but creating Android activities"

I'm not really sure what you mean. Any program for Android which is 100% C code is going to be using the NDK in most cases. Including ones creating an activity natively ( http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NativeAct... ).
HTTP/1.1 just got a major update
This entire conversation is bizarre. Just because something was done by black people doesn't give it 'racial connotations.' It's not a racial slur, or some cliche based on qualities ascribed to black people by white ones. It's something black people did, which rose to popularity (in exaggerated form) for a period of time amongst whites.

I understand sometimes how navigating discussion about race feels like walking through a minefield to white people.
Which rights would it violate? (specifically, those that have been enumerated in the US or NJ constitution, or have been affirmed by a court).
The original project at Facebook was called High-Performance PHP and given the acronym HPHP. Some clever soul then decided that HPHP should be pronounced HipHop. I guess HippyVM is just following in that trend.
I didn't watch the video, just the screenshots. I would seem that this device uses EEG like sensors to measure muscle activity and map it back to the activated fingers. Nearly the same as the thalmic device.
Cables aren't that expensive to lay down when you have upwards of $40bn in the bank.
Fair enough, but in the linked article the example would not meet even your test of "Look like cars and function like cars"...because the thing is basically a luge-position with an aero-fairing. This was the starting point of my comment--its not a "car" really in any sense--because it fails the technical/legal/regulatory (not obvious) in addition to the practical/function (more obvious).
No, a table gives no feedback whatsoever in the manner that he's referring to at least. When you hit a key on a keyboard the key sinks into the board, you have a positive 'strike'. If you miss the key slightly then it feels different and you'll know before the wrong letter appears - this is what is meant by a feedback loop.
If operating a taxi was $250k cheaper (the price of a medallion in SF) you get Uber's results.

Most of uber's "advantages" stem from the fact taxi medallions get leased for about $1k/month that uber's contracted drivers don't pay.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/technology/internet-giants...

Is a perfect dupe to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7860987

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/technology/internet-giants...
One day the call instruction will cross cache line boundary, the two cache lines will propogate to other cores' instruction caches with a delay, some thread will try to execute partially changed call instruction, and some senior programmer will get mad trying to debug it, a la "look, I swap these two lines and it gets to work" (b/c the call instruction does not cross cache line anymore)
Behind the scenes of The Price is Right
It is probably true. Cheaper taxi services would cause ppl who drove drunk for financial reasons to hire an uber car.

Tbh, I am surprised no city ties liquor licenses to taxi services. (E.g. sell an open container, have a contract with a taxi company to drive people home)
> Its about time computers started fitting humans and not the other way round.

This is a really interesting argument and has got me thinking. I have to say that I agree with your sentiment. The problem is that I think we've entered into a kind of feedback loop; a compounding problem as you described it.

Technology and intelligence have allowed us to rapidly accelerate our fitness while simultaneously and subtly forcing us to become increasingly dependent upon them for continued advancement. In short, tech informs the ways in which we progress and, in the interest of further progress, our new (less human?) norms inform the progression of tech.

I think there are examples of this all over the place: infants expressing confusion at a screen that is not touch sensitive, memes and texting idioms seeping into spoken conversation, or people asking their device to call someone and intentionally mispronouncing the name the same way the device does so that it "understands."

But I also disagree that tech can start fitting humans in the sense you describe, because I simply don't think that's possible anymore.

There's a post on the front page right now discussing self-experimentation with black widow bites, a comment from which [0] strikes me as relevant to the argument I'm about to make. To quote, "[humans]...are pretty weak creatures all things considered." A lot of cutting edge tech today is focused on AR and mobility. That's because, as the quoted comment notes, humans are weak; a weakness which also extends to our senses. Touch seems so fundamentally human, yet a computerized sensor can tell us so much more than a fingertip about a surface. It sounds terrible when I write it, but there it is: information is powerful (addicting?).

It's impossible for us to conceive the kinds of situations humanity will face in the future, but after a certain point the limitations of the human body will have to be addressed. Right now that means computers.

So, I suppose what I'm saying is that, imho, computers actually are fitting "humans," it's just that they are fitting what we have, will and must continue to become rather than what we once were. And that's probably a good bad thing (rather than bad bad) in the long run.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7860997
The missing element from this explanation (or maybe I missed it?) is that dispatch_once uses atomic instructions (cmpxchg, to be exact), to ensure that even if multiple threads attempt to create the singleton, only one succeeds. The fast path for reads only kicks in after everything else has been tidied up.

Another way to do this kind of thing on Linux is to use ELF TLS to have a thread-local variable identifying if the expensive operation has been completed. If the TLS is not there, you can take a mutex and fall back to the slow path.
It's like Bruce Schneier said: Espionage vs Surveillance. One isn't bothersome at all to me (there's a reason why the NSA exists) but one of them is. Yes, the media breathlessly and indiscriminately complain about both, but the needs of the 24-hour news treadmill are not an excuse to ignore the NSA's growing role in surveillance and pretend that it isn't an issue.

There's a reason why we don't replace the police forces across the USA with undeployed units from the US Army, even though it would dramatically cut costs and probably wouldn't have any immediate terrible effects. Similarly, there's a reason why you should care that the NSA is expanding their jurisdiction. In fact, their loud protests that (contrary to released evidence) they are doing nothing of the sort should be evidence enough that it's a troubling direction for them to be moving in.

> the heightened focus on privacy tech and policy, it's boring

That's your complaint? You know what else is boring? Health care policy, campaign finance reform, gerrymeandering, lobbying, and every other major administrative pathology of our society. You are correct that these things are boring but they are also the most important things to care about and to try to get other people to care about.

> The NSA did bring it on itself though by allowing this stuff to leak out, which is the only difference between it and other nations' intelligence bodies.

That, ~~~SCALE~~~, the extent to which they exert overt and underhanded influence over our political system, the extent to which they impose a chilling effect by expanding into US law enforcement, and the extent to which they can use secret courts and gag orders to order you to do god knows what.
This article really fails to answer the question its headline poses.
weird - i got the same thing from a catapiller - i had no idea this was really a thing!
Disclaimer: My piece had nothing to do with race nor cakewalks, I have no idea what they have to do with anything, and you are replying to a deleted comment below....
You might want to consider all the incentives you'd be creating there....
Another possible symptom is a merge conflict.

Programmer A makes a change that adds a list of things out of one thing and checks in. Programmer B checked out the "one thing" version and made an update to it. They check in, and they now need to deal with a merge conflict into a list of things that they now need to expend mental energy understanding. Mistakes get made.
Django has a middleware: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/clickjacking/

However, it is not turned on by default on old versions (<1.6) I believe, but latest versions should be fine: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/middleware... .
How Do I Copy Blu-ray DVD
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How to destroy your Python program
Similarly one of my cats let out an almighty howl last week, and when I went to investigate I saw a spider sitting next to his paw -- my conclusion he had been bitten by the spider.

By capturing it I was able to look up the species to tell if I needed to rush him to the vet.

See: http://www.spiders.us/species/filter/california/ (also useful for human bites, I'm sure) Obviously change the state for yours.

Turned out spider was harmless, cat was fine!
> So in 2013 for Google or anyone to be caught unaware or call this "brilliant" is really overstating things.

It is significant because large companies like Google are beginning to view their relationship with agencies like the NSA as adversarial instead of cooperative. Your comparison of AT&T and Google illustrates how this has begun to change in the last decade or so.
With an on-screen keyboard, you get visual feedback seeing your fingers land relative to the keys, even if you don't give tactile feedback. With this, all you see is whether you got the letter right.
Why don't Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. invent their own new forms of encryption, and build a whole solution from software to hardware? At their scale, throwing a billion at a problem like this would be irrelevant.
Agree and disagree. The Show HN posts rank very high on my personal scale of "interesting stuff".

I'm not sure I would agree with them being the only thing on the front page, though. There's a lot of other interesting stuff here as well.
"And note that supervision and isolated processes can be
emulated in other langauges to a certain extent. Just
spawn OS processes. Use IPC."

Applied in the past couple years to the web browser domain - Chrome / Safari do this for each tab and some of the plugins.
That's true but irrelevant. Giant 150+ person body shops do win most of the work, but they don't win the best work; the best work is bought for people who can't afford to blow a release cycle because a scanner jockey screwed up.

If the State of Utah Public Pension Department's Gigantic Software Consulting Vendor wants to farm out those 900-page mainframe-style J2EE shitshows to [GIANT SECURITY VENDOR], I'm just fine with that.

Nobody in this field is big enough to deliver all the work. Software security is delivery-constrained. You can be selective about your clients. Be happy about that, and don't worry about the shitty projects body shops are selling.
Why this never made it on to the frontpage?
So it's a SenseBoard from 2001?

http://www.keyglove.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/senseboar...
> and the extent to which they impose a chilling effect by expanding into US law enforcement.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm curious.
$60 billion. Google could lay down a semi-global fiber network of their own if they wanted to.
You'll certainly get a lot of different opinions when it comes to static sit generators. This site[1] may help you make up your mind.

[1] http://www.staticgen.com/
You can write your plugin for the back end to dump it. It defaults to graphite which would be familiar enough I think.
Forwarded and a permanent re-direct are nice changes. This is a welcome change.

It will likely be awhile before widespread adoption, but to see a standard move forward in such a seemingly small, but considerable way is great.

Kudos to those involved. I can't imagine it was an easy feat.
Hundreds of tanks deployed NATO to Russia's borders | 6-7 June 2014 
Hundreds of tanks deployed NATO to Russia's borders | 6-7 June 2014
And I just finished implementing 2616 in a toy server of mine. Sigh. C'est la vie.

I'm glad this new spec apparently resolves a lot of ambiguities. I hated reading 2616 and some specs it depended on (email, URI, etc).
Seemly Marmalade SDK create android apps without using NDK...

Seemly what it do is compile a valid ARM code using arm abi (not even the linux abi), and then there is a component that do use android OS stuff to load in the memory the code you compiled for arm abi...

Funky stuff. And patended. (Marmalade website make VERY CLEAR that their "Secret sauce" is their loaders, that are also very much patended...)
Computers are fitting humans, thats why they are now a thin slate you can easily carry around.

And there is a feedback when you touch a glass surface, it's just it doesn't give you a non-visual clue that you have pressed a letter and that you have grown accustomed to.

I don't think that's a dealbreaker for the generation that is growing with tablets. I certainly don't see my teeneage cousins or nephews/nieces worried at all about using keyboards. If they have them around they might use them but they type fast on the screens as well. Most of them no longer have a laptop or desktop anyway. I've seen them writing whole essays on the phone while lying on the bed.

Talking about lost feedback, think about what a huge step back was for our grandfathers generation to abandon handwriting and switch to pressing keys on a typewriter. I'm pretty sure we could have argue back then about how little feedback you get from a key vs. the flow of the hand and the friction of the paper when you write. And somehow we adjusted so well that most of us are probably incapable of writing a handwritten letter nowadays. We are not "less human" because of this.

We will survive.

And note I'm not trying to say that this is the new status quo and we should all accept it and move along. I'm sure we will see a lot of different approaches to solve the issue in the future. What I'm saying is that the pool of users these solutions speak to is diminishing. We see this ideas and think that they'll appeal to everybody who uses a tablet. Most likely they'll be only used by a niche market. Nothing wrong with that but definitely something to take into account when trying to launch a company around them.
It would not be wise to use Dropbox for data that sensitive. It's dangerously convenient, but it isn't safe from unauthorized viewing.
I wonder what Googlebot will make of this. There is a lot of debate already amongst search engine developers on which type of redirect to use.
I don't understand where you and I disagree. That "no" seems confusing.
And not exploiting their drivers, and having a gay-friendly employment force, and having rated drivers, and having trip itinerary transparency, and not having to cruise as much, an having visibility over where other drivers are to improve coverage...
> Cashing out by the people who understand Twitter’s prospects best is an ominous sign for the company and adds to the very long list of concerns about its future.

When you make many, many millions of dollars, you need to pay tax on it. Where do you think you get the money to pay the tax for it? You sell shares.
Certain body systems only activate certain processes when the body isn't processing food. Firstly, the gut is an immune organ. Think of it this way: this inside of the digestive system is technically outside the body. It is a continuous tube mouth to anus, and functions as an interface between the outside world and systemic circulation - both blood and lymphatic. The gut has GALT - Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissue [1]. Lymphatic tissue is an immune system organ and a waste disposal system [2].

It's important to note that all (most) fats are first absorbed by the GALT (specically Lacteals [3]), where it then takes some time to enter blood circulation - the Thorasic Duct [4] (largest lymph vessel) drains in to the Subclavian Vein [5] - so any fat soluble toxins (as in, fat soluble non-nutrients and / or outright toxic molecules) are absorbed by the GALT and removed by white blood cells. Only when this system isn't being stressed by our regular (and typically poor) food intake can the immune system attend to it's ordinary tasks of dealing with regular cellular waste products.

Aditionally, Caffeine consumption reduces immune activity [6]. Alcohol (ethanol) is a Type 1 / Group A carcinogen [7] - why doesn't alcohol packaging state this in the same way cigarette packaging does (in Australia, at least).

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut-associated_lymphoid_tissue

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphatic_system

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacteal

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_duct

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subclavian_vein

6. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567576904...

7. http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/g...

Full Disclosure: this is my field of expertise, I hold an Advanced Diploma in Clinical Nutrition from an Australian Nationally Accredit Training organisation. I have been actively studying this field for over ten years.

Edit: link to my blog http://thecurrentstandard.wordpress.com
A crawler like that should typically only do GET requests. The 308 is really mainly useful for HTTP clients doing for example a PUT or POST request on some url, and the server wants the client to repeat that exact request on for example a different server.
Google's roadblock is laudable and good,
but perhaps a bit overdue. They were
knowingly transmitting user data in
plaintext outside of their physical control.

I dunno about that.

Imagine you're the engineer reviewing the design doc for the system that does cross-colo data transfers on company owned fiber. Do you really expect to see a detailed encryption system in there? Or even any discussion? I'm not sure I'd have said yes even now, much less a year ago.

I may be a minority and sound hyperbolic in saying this, but in many ways Snowden feels like something of a "9/11" for our industry: innocent assumptions we made prior (the company-internal network is safe; no terrorist would go down with the plane) just aren't true anymore..
Early Exposure To Bacteria Protects Children From Asthma And Allergies
It's wrong, the molecules are many orders of magnitude smaller than is possible to see.

The main black widow venom is alpha-Latrotoxin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrotoxin), which is a 130 kDa protein according to wikipedia. That's large for a protein but there are bigger. Eukaryotic ribosomes are around 2500 kDa, but even they are completely invisible at 20 nm wide, and there are a thousands-millions of them per cell.
Wikipedia explains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely
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Someone would only pay taxes on the stocks if they sold it, via capital gains. If they're just being taxed on income, they can use that income to pay their taxes. Or am I misunderstanding you?
What a load of nonsense. Realms is aimed at young children and parents who don't want a complicated server setup. The large servers being targeted here are an entirely different market.
Yeah for a normal dev cycle. Security fixes do not need to follow a normal dev cycle.
Curious about the "secure" portion of your name, I looked at your site.

"There are different levels of data encryption but AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) 256-Bit Encryption is so secure that it is certified for use by the U.S. government for top-secret documents."

I realize this is usually written for the layperson, so the ambiguity of this claim is forgivable, but can you provide a more detailed explanation for how your encryption works? As you're probably aware, simply using AES does not actually provide any security.
That requires the ability to write to the executable page, which is definitely not allowed on iOS, and not necessarily allowed elsewhere either.

It also makes the assumption that a given call to `dispatch_once()` will only ever be called with the same predicate. If it selects among a set of predicates (or is given a predicate by whatever function called it), then NOPing it out would completely break the application.
You're misunderstanding how and when vested RSUs get taxed. Capital gains is the tax you pay on your profit from owning a stock (after owning it for over a year). When a company gives you shares/RSUs, that is income and you must pay income tax on that right when it vests and the company has IPO'd.

See: http://business.time.com/2013/11/07/twitter-employees-will-o...
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Can Farmed Fish Feed The World Without Destroying The Environment?
That wouldn't solve much, if anything at all, see Kerckhoffs's Principle[1]. The standard encryption algorithms perform perfectly well to the best of our knowledge, why make your own encryption algorithm and risk getting it wrong?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs's_principle
Uber and Lyft Will Defy Order From Virginia DMV To Stop Picking Up Passengers
If you mean 10^18, it's a quintillion.
Because as you said yourself it's a net gain for the economy, a good investment. By now he'll have paid back many times more in taxes than he took in those early days. Hell, one of the arguments in favor of having some kind of social welfare safety net is that it encourages people to be entrepreneurs instead of just staying with the safest job they can find.
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I had a great aunt die from a bite by a Brown Recluse. All this did was solidify my fear of spiders in general. What I remember of it (I was young when this happened) was that the bite was misdiagnosed initially as nothing serious and she was sent home with a topical ointment.

Things went downhill fast. I know that the limb that was bitten was amputated, and that by the time they figured out the cause her fate was sealed. I know they're supposed to be beneficial insects but I kill just about every one I encounter to this day.

At least the Black Widow is distinctive. It's unmistakable if you see one.
I like this, but the reality is that in the USA there isn't this fairy tale ending that NYTimes is writing.

> Telecommunications companies say they are denying requests to volunteer data not covered by existing law.

Existing law covers (and will cover) bulk collection. The USA Freedom Act, from my understanding, actually strengthens the legality of bulk collection without the pesky need to renew the PATRIOT Act every few years (collection queries can be based on devices, for instance... so you could collect based on iPhone, Android, or browser user agent).

I am happy that Google and other companies recognize it's in their interests to protect privacy. But until substantive legislation protects the public, we have no reason to celebrate.

(edited for typos)
We look forward to sharing great #unclassified content with you
I actually think this is pretty brilliant, have the hand parts hook up to some ear buds and plug them into your ears, any place your at you can practice piano.
It's Wired. What'd you expect?