skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess your next step is to emulate prototype for objects, undefined == null, and other javascript quirks?

I'm not saying that the library is a bad idea, but it seems rather strange that you need something like that. Swift should provide all this functionality in some Swift-way-of-doing-things, and it seems like you're too lazy to learn that, trying to bring familiar JS stuff instead.
HP's claim isn't rediculous if you consider that they're not developing memristor tech to replace flash storage. They want to unify mass storage drives with DRAM. You do need an O.S. that can be partially rewritten, because the system can remain in the state where you switched it off. Richard Stanley Williams is the name to Google if you want insight into their roadmap.
I have a Rex (velveteen) Rabbit. Not only are they used in cosmetics research, but they're also used for making hats. It's sad, but it's for the greater... slaughter of animals?

At least feel comfort in it might save a life. My pets brethren get chemicals used on them to see how well it defurs them, and those that don't get slaughtered like chickens and skinned.

Seriously, if you want to be haunted watch a video of how factory farmed rabbits are killed. For animals that really don't make noise, you'd be surprised they're capable of making such haunting screams. I've had a rabbit 5 years and I have dogs, and mine has yet to make more than a whimper.
Their "More FAQs" link is broken :(.

Google has a similar project: https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/en/
That's not quite how SCOTUS operates.

There's a non-binding vote in conference, and at that point the majority chooses a justice to write the draft opinion. The justice who write the opinion circulates it among the justices for recommended edits. That basically becomes the slip opinion.

Other justices can write concurring or dissenting opinions as they wish. The justices and change their mind at any point until their judgement is officially handed down. So (at least in my understanding, someone please educate me if I'm wrong) there is no vote on the majority opinion itself, but rather on the case and the general points of law.

Therefore there's no reason the other justices would feel the need to vote on revisions.

But as stated, it's well-known and well-documented that these opinions aren't finalized and what we see at first is just a draft. Frankly there's no one to blame but ourselves and the media for thinking otherwise. I don't really have any problem with this behavior - as the NYT noted the changes are noted, just not as publicly as they should be.
Defensive Patent License (DPL)
I use an HP EliteBook 8570w every day. It's an excellent developer box. It's very fast, reliable, and easy to upgrade with off the shelf components and it's a very good value. Even with 24GB of RAM and 500GB SSD drive it's cheaper than a comparable Macbook and I can add another drive and increase the memory if I want; I also made these upgrades as I needed them. It's heavy and not as attractive as a Macbook or other aluminum framed notebooks (HP has those too though).
Yea, but someone in that position probably shouldn't be buying any new car.
Great! He's obviously a great advocate for Haskell at Facebook.
Still doesn't: "Network error! Please reach out at sayhi@circleci.com. Thanks!"
I wonder how they will determine who they want to provide coverage to? Especially as there is no oversight or transparency as they are saying they will not publish the names of who they cover (which makes sense from a technical perspective)

From their participation criteria it looks like anti-abortion groups, certain 'white supremacist' movements and even the Westboro Baptist Church would all qualify for Project Galileo. Will CloudFlare offer protection to them?

The project also seems to have an international focus, so I wonder whether entities that are anti-democracy in the Middle East that the West has been fighting against politically (even militarily) would also qualify? (I removed the names of some of those entities because I don't want to get into a discussion as to who is pro/anti democracy in the ME, etc)

Personally, I think it's awesome that CloudFlare are offering this but it will be curious to see if there's any editorialization.

I'd love to see CloudFlare elaborate on the criteria from the FAQ "It acts in the public interest, broadly defined." as that creates massive ambiguity.
Funny how the companies with the best engineering also tend to be those with the best business ethics. Kudos to Tesla for being once again disruptive and innovative in the risk-averse and ailing automotive industry.
World Cup: A first kick worth watching - paraplegic wearing exoskeleton suit
Amazon PRIME Music: Streaming Music
Your argument might be stronger if it suggested a source of authority for Congress to pass such a law.
What's almost certainly reassuring about this is that this is a sign too much attention has been coming on this issue. AKA The general public is beginning to give a shit.
There was a video camera. I assume it will be posted somewhere; I didn't ask.
The article mentions various large telcom and mobile companies like Orange and Verizon but I find it hard to see such a thing as a good fit.
I think it partly an ethical thing. Patents doesn't (most of the time) benefit society, they only create monopolies (which are about as helpful as those in many socialist countries, i.e. not very much).

I think Musk cares more about advancing electric cars than suing and squeeze profits out of patent monopolies.
Stop motion fighting animation made with woollen puppets
Ah, the audio solution is clever!

As far as optical, RC aircraft peeps use something like this tachometer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OJ4fx5wwlU
I identify strongly with vast swaths of your post, which reaffirms my plans to begin some medication management within the month. (My psych provider was a bit concerned about my blood pressure, so he/she had me visit a PCP who wants to monitor my blood pressure for a month before he signs off on proceeding with stimulant medication, or I'd be on it now).

For me, I was diagnosed when I was in 4th grade, but my mother didn't want to medicate. I was able to more or less cope a little bit while school and such gave me structure - I was able to cope as long as school provided me with strong structure. But as soon as all that structure started to dissolve I began to struggle quite a bit, and three years ago any structure provided by others all but dissipated.

Thanks for sharing.
No company is going to use a Tesla-patented technology without that guarantee.

Lots of people are saying this, but I don't understand it. My understanding (IANAL) is that when the CEO publishes something like this on the company's official web site, it becomes completely impossible for the company to win any future patent suits due to promissory estoppel.

Musk has effectively stuffed all of the company's patents into his office shredder. Good for him.

(Edit: He has also intentionally lowered the market value of the company by a certain amount, which is interesting.)
I was reading the other day that Windows doesn't really support most of C99, is restrict part of that or not?
Welcome to the US surveillance state.
Firefox: ignore autocomplete="off" when offering to save passwords
There's a lot of nonsense here.

An important factor is that differences are objective, but disorders are to an extent subjective and socially relative.

I.e. 20 years ago I was a guy with ADHD who was having trouble concentrating on school. Now I'm a successful creative with hit products on the market. Yes, I've definitely developed new skills and damped down bad habits, but part of my success has been to choose a playing field where I have the advantage.

Finally, I should say that there's no silver bullet (not even turning off the "idiot box", etc.). For me, it's been a slow accumulation of skills, weeding out of bad habits, picking my battles, and fixing sleep problems.

An ADHD diagnosis can be helpful initially in that it connects you with a body of things to try out. I think it's important to move beyond that label, eventually, but it's a gradual process.
A World Cup Primer
This is not a iron-clad rule—just look at FIRST Robotics, which has managed to maintain a very strong sense of inter-team collaboration even in a competitive environment. Just because something isn't often done doesn't mean it can't be: the rules just need to be right.
Why the fuck is this on HN? As much as I loathe Paypal, half-ass instructions for committing bank & wire fraud isn't exactly something we should be promoting.

Flagged.
Also helps with search, and it will often save time to let people in general skim a transcript instead of watching a video to see if really covers the subject they need to know about.
The large size of the components and connectors was a unrecognized virtue -- you didn't need a microscope and surface-mount soldering station to throw something together. All you needed was the prototyping card, and some wire-wrap IC sockets.
the creeping non-progressivism of technology employers

I think a lot of that is due to the particular management styles and personalities of Ballmer and Bezos. They have had an extremely deep influence on the tech culture of the Seattle area, by virtue of leading two of the most dominant tech industry companies in the region (and, well, entire world). These guys are not engineers trying to encourage organic innovation, R&D, agile development and progressive employment policies, nope. They are ruthless, iron-fisted, monopoly-seekers, and the culture of their companies (which it seems almost everyone in tech in Seattle works for or used to work for) reflects that.
This concern is why we specifically worked with third party organizations to make the call on what "content" qualifies as politically or artistically important. As for the Westboro Baptist Church, that's actually a specific case we discussed internally. My answer in an article covering the launch:

http://recode.net/2014/06/12/internet-security-firm-offers-f...
This is to provide helper methods that swift does provide for array or dictionary types. If you do find all of these implemented in the language please share.
Carrier's hypothesis is interesting and well argued, but only time will tell if it stands up to further scrutiny. This is the scientific process. Yong, on the other hand, is just defending his own preconceptions. While I agree with him that the established theory of changing diet/changing dentition is very well supported, Carrier's theory doesn't necessarily contradict it. Both of these theories could have shaped the faces of our ancestors and, eventually, us.

I would love to see models testing how well the skulls of different human ancestors and humans themselves stand up to blunt blows, both head-on and oblique ones. It's possible that the skulls of modern humans, despite being more gracile, might perform surprisingly well thanks to the force-spreading properties of our parabolic dental arcades. i.e. If you hit a human in the side of the jaw you're hitting a self-buttressing arc of bone and teeth. If you hit the U-shaped jaw of an australopithecine on the side, you're hitting a straight wall.
World Cup exoskeleton kickoff: Background tech on how it works
Is there any reason this was posted as a reply to my comment?
Pretty sure the labels are giving Spotify sweetheart licensing deals right now to boost a business in which they're a stakeholder, but once they're not invested in the business they have every incentive to put the screws to the new owner by jacking up licensing fees. I've heard that Hulu is the same kind of deal.
Visual Studio ships only with a C++ compiler. That doesn't mean you cannot use other C compilers on Windows.

Still, there seems to be something similar since VS2005. »__restrict is similar to restrict from the C99 spec, but __restrict can be used in C++ or C programs.«: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/5ft82fed.aspx
That's kinda stallman's position, however, he still insists on his talks using GNU/Linux, even if you want to ask questions about the general Linux ecosystem, such as embedded development, or android, which have few to no GNU components.
Ugh, yes, I should have said "MSVC++," or "Microsoft." Thank you.
I think your post needs a use case qualifier.

[For some server work] Linux is the lowest common denominator, in 2014 it's barely where these were in 1994...

What's the status of nvidia graphics support on all of those systems? Or laptop suspend support?
> "As a government contractor, our solutions are regulated and their use is restricted"

he said, struggling valiantly to keep a straight face.
Ask HN: Help finding python profiling article
Hi I remember reading a blog post someone posted here a year or two ago, about someone profiling his python code and rewriting it to be a lot faster. It had a lot of details of what was done and the reasoning behind it. Does anyone happen to know what it was?
Leo happened ;)
How would you determine whether the cause of them not dying was 'the shape of their foot', and not any of thousands of other features you could arbitrarily pick, such as 'the balance of their skeleton', or 'their gait', or 'the thickness of their skull' or 'the responsiveness of their reflexes'?
Where do you see the broken link? The one in the lower right of the page points here:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/sections/200505480
How Effective is Internet Advertising?
Professional fighting should select for fighters more adapted to giving and taking punches similarly to species-wide evolution. Comparing the best fighters to the average human should reveal physical differences that make the fighters better at giving and taking punches.

Those differences should have similarities to the ones that are claimed to have naturally occurred in prehistoric man.
Besides others mentioned, Sim Daltonism is a good OS X app for testing how an app or page's color choices will look with various forms of color blindness.

Color Oracle is a cross-platform app for the same purpose, though I haven't used it much, yet: http://colororacle.org It seems rather good in my limited testing.

Colour Contrast Analyzer is a Windows/Mac app for testing whether text/background contrast is sufficient. This is a matter of both color and brightness - a color combination that looks fine for a normally-sighted user may he completely unreadable for others for a variety of reason. (Part of why everyone's suggesting designers avoid the gray-on-gray or light-gray-on-white design hipster crap.)
Too bad companies aren't people and can't have morals... oh except they're run by people, so that just means the CEOs running these companies are greedy unprincipled douchebags.
Nitpick - Ali wasn't at Pixar @ the time of the IPO, though I'm sure he was instrumental during the Disney acquisition.
Nice! We need to have better UX around getting connected to underlying IRC networks. How doe this compare to Subway [1]?

[1]: https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway
They have had their own version for years in http://www.xbox.com/music.
Very Serious Superbugs in Imported Seafood
Snapchat accurately models communication
what do you think has changed in the past 5 years? Eg the slides mention SHA3 as a future option, now it is finalized and afaik usable.

Not much has changed. I still think SHA3 is worth considering 5-10 years into the future; five years ago I was concerned about the implications of MD5 and SHA1 breaks on SHA2, but the lack of recent progress makes me happier with staying on SHA2 while SHA3 gets more analysis.

do you think it would be reasonable to add exception for "DON’T: Try to use a hash function as a symmetric signature." rule?

I mentioned this in the talk; even with SHA3 you need to be careful, since a simple "append and hash" would result in MAC("key", "data") == MAC("keyd", "ata"), which breaks the MAC assumptions. Yes, you can use SHA3 as a MAC, but make sure you know what you're doing.

ECC seems to be on the rise (or is it just my perception?). Do you think a revised slide set would include something more about elliptic curves?

ECC is getting more popular; not necessarily for the right reasons, though. (The big drivers seem to be "bitcoin uses this" and "the most common way of using this provides forward perfect secrecy".) That said, as mathematicians continue to attack ECC systems, I am gradually becoming more comfortable; the 2025 version of this talk might recommend using them, but for now I don't think it makes sense to change my recommendation (except for situations like bitcoin which specifically need ECC's advantages).
Seems like a pretty sensational article. Using open-source technology is not an attempt to "destroy Windows," and I wouldn't classify memristors as "new technology," since they've been around since 2008 [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
Looks really nice - especially the part where multiple networks are in the very first screenshot!

How are you handling persistence tho? Straight up in-memory storage?
Microsoft already has their own version: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/music/music-pass
I really wish Mozilla had just abandoned this 'repackage apps in APKs' project.

I understand why they are doing it but I think in the end it is really bad for end-user security on Android.

People are advised everywhere to not enable 'Install from untrusted sources' for very good reasons: Android is plagued by an insane amount of malware. And now we confuse them by saying that "our security model" is great and that it is all ok.

But it is not ok. It is half the story. Even if our apps are safe, we make it a little easier for that malware to get on a device.

And nobody will just temporarily enable 'install from untrusted sources'. Once allowed, people are most likely never looking at it again.

I am not saying that the Google Play store is free of Malware. It is not. But I do think that malicious apps are then at least contained and controlled. With the option for untrusted sources enabled, apps can come from any place. Email, web, other apps, etc.

It puts users at risk.

It is a step backward in Android security.
There are 3 ski resorts each less than 2 hour drive from Seattle. They get plenty of snow.
TLDR: "for non-brand keywords we fi nd that new and infrequent users are positively influenced by ads but that more frequent users whose purchasing behavior is not influenced by ads account for most of the advertising expenses, resulting in average returns that are negative."
Job boards are passive. Instead, research London companies that received funding the past 12-24 months. List 10 targets that look interesting. Then reach out out to them individually. You'll find the 'hidden opportunities' in those conversations.

Here's a source for ideas> http://techcitynews.com/section/news/
Ah, not anymore it appears. It was 404ing a few minutes ago.
I've never used a piece of software from HP that I've thought was of any quality. We use several of their enterprise development tools where I work, due to an ancient contract and some political contrivances, and nobody is happy with them.

And don't even get me started on their printer ride-alongs. It's just a printer, HP. I don't need 10 programs to use it.
Have you tried asking yourself why Bret would not want to open source his demos? Can you think of any other reasons that don't pre-suppose he is "arrogant"?
Oh, the old comparison of Windows NT and VMS. I never thought that was fair by a long shot. Are there some actual real evidence of NT/VMS similarities other than some of the original team members?

EDIT: So you "really don't like Microsoft much". Maybe that's all I need to hear.
A new post on digitalmusicnews.com points to Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.

"Now, according to more sources talking to Digital Music News, Microsoft, Google and ‘possibly Amazon’ are all entertaining the idea of buying Spotify, though $10 billion could be considered an aggressive ask."[1]

[1] http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/06/12/microso...
He doesn't know how to write even simple mathematics.

Umm...
Startup and the press
Mark a Milian, a reporter for Bloomberg, tells you about the tips and tricks on the topic of startup and the press relation.
It shouldn't matter douchebag.
Let’s Get This Straight: Yes, there is a better search engine [1998]
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If I call a function that is running unsafe { } inside of it, do I know? Because I really want to know.

Pretty much every function is going to be transitively running unsafe code, since the core libraries use it to implement the base primitives.
This is link bait. HP is just doing what we used to do until the 90's, making an OS tied to the hardware to optimize things. They have done this before.

Banks are still heavily run off of mainframes and IBM Power servers that aren't standard x86 running Windows or GNU/Linux.

This isn't a plan to destroy Windows, I expect most of the market that would be interested in "the machine" is currently running a mainframe or some unix variant/clone right now.
I don't want a "brand new operating system based on Linux". I just want it to be Linux.

When companies say stuff like this it usually just means their gonna help themselves to all of the great free stuff everyone contributed and then make their machine a thorn in the community's side with all kinds of binary blob drivers that only work with one kernel/release.
You are entitled to your opinions, no matter how wrong they are. ;-)
It's anti-GPL. Remember, a large target audience of HN are entrepreneurs, who want to use open source components in their closed-source applications that they're selling. (A)GPL prevents them from doing this, (not selling, but keeping it closed source, which many see as being important to selling) so they get pissed.
Or maybe the government and Harris know the product can be easily defeated if the public gets a few technical details about how it works.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon Entertaining $10 Billion Spotify Purchase…
Using splines would look nicer. The main reason we're using straight segments is because it's simpler. The underlying lines are made up of straight segments, and it's simpler to move a position along a straight line (a point and vector) than to interpolate a spline in the shader. Adding complexity might be a performance concern. It would be great to try using splines at some point!

Complex text is complex. A bunch of characters may be resolved into a single joined visual glyph, but it is probably made up of smaller, overlapping glyphs from the font. Each of these individual glyphs would slide along the line separately. This results in defects of course

The challenge is finding the right balance of doing things right and performance/implementation effort.
I don't mean to rush to the aid pf PayPal's customer service, but I can think of all sorts of reason that a company would want you to talk to a human being before closing a business account. Especially when that company is one of the largest targets of online fraud.
In fact, Microsoft was one of the first major players in the streaming subscription market. Before Google Play Music Pass, before Spotify, there was the Zune Pass. It was a sweeter deal back then, $10/mo for all you can eat and you got $10 in credit for songs every month that you could keep even after you cancelled your subscription. Basically pre-pay for 10 songs every month and you get the entire streaming catalog.

Rhapsody was the only competitor at the time that I knew of. The Zune Pass service didn't really catch on because, well... you needed a Zune.
Will kickstarter approve its iOS app competitor project?
See also https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/13871
Google already has Google Play Music All Access Pass Super Long Microsoft-Style Name that's a halfway decent service.
so did anyone try it ?
Give us the Windows 8 Start menu and no one will get hurt
Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7884376
I think Colin has a hard row to hoe with this argument, given how often HMAC implementations cough up timing vulnerabilities. Even if you're stuck with GCM, GCM has the advantage of having mercifully few implementations. Everyone writes their own HMAC verifiers (badly).